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Are you focused on high return activities?

Are you focused on high return activities? In the past few days I’ve witnessed a failure to act on that old adage:  Everything that demands your attention doesn’t deserve your attention. When I say “witness”, I’ve observed this with clients, friends, and—yes, myself. Why is it so easy to spend an hour creating the “perfect” electronic business […]

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Have you had a teaching moment today?

Have you had a teaching moment today?

I was having lunch with a friend the other day and the subject of LeBron James came up. My friend was appalled at LeBron’s decision to go to the Miami Heat. During our discussion, he said he used the primetime event as a teaching moment about selfishness with his young son. I love the idea of extracting […]

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Putting the RATT to Rest

Sometimes you need not to think

Sometimes you need not to think. Did you read that right? Yes. Every possible angle It’s striking how often we fall prey to overthinking. To overanalyzing. To looking at a situation from every possible angle and still not making a decision. Sometimes all that thinking leads somewhere. Other times it’s just delaying the inevitable—the need […]

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It’s time to stop deflecting compliments

My clients have exciting things going on in their lives. Starting new businesses, making much-desired career changes, writing books, planning extended trips abroad, getting their finances in order, letting go of the past and creating authentic new chapters. Altogether exciting stuff! But even with amazing progress toward these goals, there’s this persistent habit of disqualifying […]

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