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Personal Housekeeping

Start with picking up the things on the floor.   You can’t get moving when you can’t see where you’re standing.  Throw away the old habits that don’t serve you anymore.  Refile the good ideas that you might want to look at again. Now you have a little space to see...

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A Purpose Filled Life

You could amble through life, letting things occur, going with the flow.  You’re born, you exist, you die.  You could also move through life with intention – with purpose.  It doesn’t really matter what it is, although positive goals may end up working out better for...

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Features and Benefits

In marketing, features (more absorbent!) and benefits (less mess!) are widely used to describe things you can purchase.  But in life, features should always come with the disclaimer – your benefits may vary. The “stuff” we accumulate in real life doesn’t always give...

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Status Not-So Quo

In a world of change, status quo is a transient state.  As I am known to say – everything is good… until it’s not.  Meaning - don't blink, it’s not long before something changes and that’s when things get interesting. Of course, it would be nice if we could snap our...

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So, What Did You Learn?

Some people never learn… or so we say. The old adage – fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice shame on me might be amended to add – fool me three times and I probably deserved it.  Jobs, bosses, friends, relationships – we tend to trip over our own mistakes. Why is...

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Get Creative (and then get to it!)

A surprising number of people I speak with say they are not creative – maybe you’re one of them.  What they often mean when they say that, from what I can tell, is that they do not know how to do art, or make music, or some other skill that people associate with the...

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