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Multi-task for mediocrity - or - Focus for excellence. That's the choice.
The Thinking Behind The Tweet Can this common sense [backed by brain science] withstand the urgencies of your day? Focus & concentration bring excellence…
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Money- it can build quality character...but only if it is earned with effort, over time.
The Thinking Behind The Tweet Money is an illustration of Value. Money is an extrinsic reward...something we give and get in exchange for other things and…
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If you think you are too busy then you are thinking wrong.
The Thinking Behind The Tweet I favour abundance thinking over scarcity mindsets. If I decide I think "I'm too busy" then I have selected a scarcity mindset…
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You don't see yourself the way others see you. Need proof? Look in a mirror. See - you already got it backwards.
The Thinking Behind The Tweet When we invented mirrors we invented a useful tool...mirrors allow us to do wonderful things like checking out our new suit and…
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Some things are urgent; some things are important: very few things are both urgent and important.
The Thinking Behind The Tweet The vast majority of important things are not urgent and so they can be postponed. And, quite a bit of the time, that's exactly…
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Power of Will & Spontaneous Creativity...aren't they the wonderful, bi-polar highlights of our human condition!
The Thinking Behind The Tweet Power of Will - a much-praised attribute and process of character ( willpower ). Creativity & Spontaneity - humour, music, art…
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Expanding Good Habits: that is Life's Major Construction.
The Thinking Behind The Tweet Our Habits define us. Our Good Habits will be viewed positively by other people...assuming the other people are thoughtful and…
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Fear is powerful. It is able to close our eyes and ears...and, sometimes, even our mouths.
The Thinking Behind The Tweet It is interesting to observe, of all our faculties, our mouths are often the last to give in.
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Money- it can build confidence & quality character...but only if it is earned with effort, over time.
The Thinking Behind The Tweet Money is an illustration of Value . Money is an extrinsic reward...something we give and get in exchange for other things and…
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It's better when business solutions are less complicated than their problems.
The Thinking Behind The Tweet If you cannot get your people to do what needs to be done, you are not alone. And, perhaps you are not in good company. Or…
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Small stuff is like a sponge. If you sweat over it long enough it becomes so big & heavy it drags you under.
The Thinking Behind The Tweet When fear of failure prevails, it causes people to sweat the small stuff. Fear of Failure...one of the 6 Fears identified by…
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Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.
The Thinking Behind the Tweet I read that somewhere, many years ago. An interesting mind-picture. A metaphor true to our anxieties. We should avoid the…
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Baby steps of action pave the path to unshakable self-confidence.
The Thinking Behind The Tweet We learn from our experiences. This learning grows experience by experience, piece by piece. And the more repetition of…
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Our habits take us either toward or away from our goals.
The Thinking Behind The Tweet Your choices, whether intentional or not, become your habits. Pervasive habits are like governors ...some good and some bad…
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Should you celebrate your Good Habits more often?
The Thinking Behind The Tweet People Only Do 3 Things: Good Habits, Bad Habits, & New Things. Urged on by well-meaning friends, not-so-well-meaning foes, and…
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Focusing on people's strengths helps them feel more engaged & motivated, which leads to increased profit.
The Thinking Behind The Tweet How does that lead to more profit? If you can help people feel more engaged and motivated about their work, then: they are…
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If you want to change the world then spend 20 minutes a day working on self-understanding.
The Thinking Behind The Tweet The question was asked at the HBR LInkedIn group..." How can we change society? Just give one step which you feel will change…
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Biting your tongue just before it expresses something quite right but nonetheless doomed to be poorly received – that’s a good thing.
The Thinking Behind The Tweet You can choose to adjust your personality so it is more pleasing and less annoying. Sometimes, the choice involves biting your…
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Do the right little things right.
The Thinking Behind The Tweet " If it's worth doing then it's worth doing right. " That's what our mothers and fathers taught us. Good advice. “ Go to the…
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The optimist probably are just as wrong as the pessimists...but optimists have more fun.
The Thinking Behind the Tweet Just don’t let optimism get outside the bounds of realism.
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Perfectionist: someone who takes great pains…and gives them to others.
The Thinking Behind the Sales Tweet Perfectionists have trouble finishing. That becomes a problem when others rely on them. Leo Tolstoy "If you look for…
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The thicker the explanation the less absorbent the message.
The Thinking Behind The Tweet If that explanation you're hearing just don't make no sense and the explanations that follow make even less sense... methinks…
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Focus on the goal and move beyond the obstacles; Move beyond the obstacles and focus on the goal.
The Thinking Behind The Tweet There's an interesting relationship between goals and problems : if we focus on problems, we can bet side-tracked and stall out…
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We can alter our emotions. We can, for example, reduce the emotion of anger from high to low.
The Thinking Behind The Tweet In his 1918 classic, ' The Greatest Thing In The World ', Henry Drummond wrote, " Hence it is not enough to deal with Temper…
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Emotions wrap themselves tightly around thoughts about pain from loss...squeezing logic out. Work to loosen their grip.
The Thinking Behind The Tweet The emotions and feelings around loss weigh in heavier than the emotions and feelings around gain. Psychologists' experiments…
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Keep your chin up...especially when things are a pain in the neck.
The Thinking Behind The Tweet Of course, take this much more figuratively than literally.
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...the parasites live where the great have little secret sores."
The Thinking Behind The Tweet According to history or legend, when the great Henry Ford was caught in a very compromising situation he said, " Never…
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It's easy to make a significant change: just tell everyone you have developed an electricity intolerance.
The Thinking Behind The Tweet Sure, change is tough. But you gotta look on the bright side: if you don't like that last suggestion - when the urge to change…
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Hope is a waking dream much craved by people.
The Thinking Behind The Tweet Aristotle said, "Hope is a waking dream." People want hope; people follow dreams. *** Regardless, Hope stands in the shadow of…
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High self-esteem increases one's appetite for risk; appetite stimulates initiative; initiative stimulates action.
The Thinking Behind The Tweet If we work at maintaining high-enough-but-not-excessive self-esteem then we automatically build personal initiative. We also…