Flourishing

Work-Life Balance – Waking Up To The Real Problem (Part I)

Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Michael Van Osch of ThinkTankMen.com. “Work-life Balance. Work-life balance. Work-life balance.” You hear about it a lot. And given some recent stats that show only 20% of Americans are passionate about what they do for a living, it’s hardly surprising that work-life balance is a major topic [...]

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A Different Past Would’ve Changed You – So What?

We’re just coming back from our fourth Lift Off Retreat – more on that later, as I’ll keep my tradition of doing the post-Lift Off wrap-up as a video post – and, for something special and different, we asked Tim Berry to join us and talk about the more personal side of business building. Tim [...]

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How Is Your Perfectionism Feeding You?

Are you grappling with perfectionism? Rather than addressing the symptoms of perfectionism, let’s talk about one of its roots. There are others, but I’ll focus on one today. Take a second to think about the story you tell yourself about being a perfectionist and pouring excess effort into completing something. Is it that if you [...]

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Eyes Forward

When you’re looking at a successful entrepreneur, remember that you’re looking at someone who has made a lot of mistakes in their time. They’ve bought the crap. They’ve bought into the crap. They’ve gambled. And lost. They’ve groped in the darkness and stubbed their toes a few times. They’ve reworked, reiterated, reframed, restarted, and revised. [...]

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Prove Them Right

It’s natural to lean on proving people wrong as a motivation to show up and do the work. They always said you couldn’t do it. They always said it couldn’t be done. They always said you were naive. You’ll show them. You’ll do it. This makes the world your enemy. This makes everything hard. No [...]

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Cultivate Your Truth, Cultivate Yourself

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One of the reasons it’s important to speak and share your own truth is that it allows you to really hear and feel it in your bones. By “your truth,” I just mean what is, for you, right now. You’ll see. The counterintuitive truth of speaking your truth is that it’s usually not the [...]

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You’re Not The Center Of The Universe

You’re not the center of the universe. I know that may sound harsh, but it’s a powerful insight once you accept it. That email you’re not getting a reply to? It’s not necessarily about what you wrote, but what the recipient is going through. That business you’re not getting? It’s not necessarily about whether or [...]

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When It’s Okay To Use People

Act that you use humanity, whether in your person or in another, always at the same time as an end, never merely as a means.- Immanuel Kant You’re using me right now. You’ve been using people all of your life. And, in most cases, that’s okay. The quote above is a translation of Immanuel Kant’s [...]

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Are You the Root of Your Own Resistance?

Be careful about how much power you give to the concept of “Resistance.” I appreciate how Steven Pressfield writes about it and uses it, but an overuse sets up the situation in which anytime we don’t want to do something, it’s Resistance at fault. Understanding Resistance as an external force obscures the fact that we, [...]

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