When I was a young man, the thought of shaking hands with people nearly paralyzed me with anxiety. Because I have one finger on my right hand, I anticipated they would respond negatively. In my anxiety, I visualized people being visibly startled when they saw my hands, and I replayed this mental recording over and [...]
1. Seek Knowledge Identify something you’d like to learn and also something you feel you should learn. Make a contract with yourself to start this week. If the “should-know” category is labor-intensive or unpleasant, consider rewarding yourself by alternating the difficult and pleasurable learning sessions. 2. Build Friendships Name five people who are important to [...]
All of us have heard the motivational phrase “Playing to Win.” While I believe in approaching our lives and work with this philosophy, what happens when you don’t win? How do we stay encouraged and engaged? It seems to me that as we “Play to Win” we can also “Play to Learn.” Playing to win [...]
“It’s not what you know, it’s who you know” – and what they know. With about five billion people on the planet, that’s a lot of possibilities. Someone came up with the idea of “six degrees of separation,” suggesting that everyone on earth can now connect with any other specific individual in a meaningful way [...]
I once knew a man named Dave Martin who boasted that he could always find a parking spot, no matter how difficult the situation. I watched him, and by golly, he invariably did! He confided that he’d paid a psychic to enhance this ability. Had he actually acquired some supernatural or extrasensory power? Or was [...]
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