How to Attract The Most Awesome People Into Your Life

Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Vlad Dolezal from Fun Life Development. Let me tell you the story of a rabbit called Rabbit. It was a sunny spring day, and Rabbit was outside, playing with other young rabbits. He was still growing up and discovering the world at this point. All of a [...]

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Keep Learning and Helping – Let Go Of Regret

[If you're reading this via email or RSS, you may have to click through to watch the short video.] One of the beauties of maturing is that you learn new ways to contribute to others. In my own case, I often regret that I couldn’t help people in the past the way I can today. [...]

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A Breakthrough For This Vet On Veteran’s Day

[If you're reading this via RSS or email, you may need to click through to watch this video.] I’ve recently had some personal breakthroughs when it comes to talking about my military experience. I figure Veteran’s Day is a great day for a vet to talk about such things, so here you go. Thank you [...]

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The Two Dynamics of Change

We often hear two seemingly contradictory statements from change agents: A series of small steps is the best way to get something done. You can’t cross a chasm in two small steps. Both are true, but neither are sufficient at fully capturing reality. There are two dynamics of change that we have to consider. The [...]

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There Will Always Be Challenges

I was walking with my mom up to Sherrard Point this last weekend. She’s now 64, and it’s getting harder and harder for her to walk up mountains. Or stairs, for that matter. She’s always been a fiery one, though, and even though we had to take longer, she was determined that she would do [...]

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How to Build Mental Bridges

Editor’s Note: This is a guest post from Karl Staib of Work Happy Now. Listening to public radio always gets my creative juices flowing. I live in Austin and the public radio station always plays little clips from interviews of random people around Austin. This one woman described her experience of growing up in Dallas [...]

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Change: It’s All in What You Reach For

Editor’s Note: This is a guest post from Ken Robert. For almost two decades, whenever I felt uncomfortable, I’d reach for a cigarette. I was addicted to the nicotine, but I was just as hooked on the smoke’s ability to swiftly suffocate my stray, unwanted feelings. Part of me simply didn’t want to deal. What’s [...]

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You’re Damn Right It Sucks

On a particularly frustrating day on an excessively screwed-up mission, I got some bad news from higher headquarters that we needed to change routes and go back through the potentially IED-laden roads we just came through. The way I got handed the information was so casual that it stung – it was clear that the [...]

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Why We Need More Reflection on Enough

Earlier today, I tweeted the following statement: Been thinking a lot about what “Enough” means for my life and biz. If I don’t know where there is, how can I get there? The reactions to this statement were interesting. One reaction was that asking someone to be, have, or do less than they can is [...]

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