Personal Development

Me, Myself, And I: Great Connections Start Within

Editor’s Note: This is a continuation of our core conversation on “Great Connections Lead to Great Ideas.” Yesterday, Mark Silver wrote about the power of surrendering to wherever the talking is coming from. In today’s post, Andrea Lee reminds us that great connections start within. *** In a discussion about connections, conversation and great ideas, [...]

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Surrender to Wherever the Talking is Coming From

Editor’s Note: This is a continuation of our core conversation on “Great Connections Lead to Great Ideas.” Yesterday, Les McKeown gave us the introvert’s guide to making great connections, and today, Mark Silver is encouraging us to surrender to wherever the talking is coming from. Now you’ll see why I love Mark as much as [...]

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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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Build Something You’re Proud Of

[If you're reading this via email or RSS, you may need to click through to watch the video.] Watching what everyone else is doing keeps you reacting to what you think is going on rather than what’s important – building something you’re proud of. I hope this video gives you the about face you need [...]

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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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