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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What I Believe

I believe … that we should measure our worth in lives changed rather than dollars made. we each have something to contribute to the world and it’s our life’s work to find the best ways to do it. there’s more than enough for everyone if we use our imagination to share rather than to hoard. [...]

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Why You Want to Give (and Receive) Brutally Honest Advice

Editor’s Note: This a  joint blog post by Vlad Dolezal and Ali Luke. “Does my butt look big in this?” You rely on your friends for honest advice. Sometimes brutally honest.  You might be willing to show a close friend (or a coach, or a partner) something which is very much a work-in-progress — something which [...]

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Join Us For A Twitter Block Party

I’ll be hosting a Twitter block party on Thursday, April 21st at 8pm EST. Pam Slim and Jonathan Fields will be my guest conversants and we’ll be talking about how to live a fun, creative, and thriving life. There’ll be some free prizes, too, but you’ll need to participate to win. It’s a free-to-participate event. [...]

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Watch Your (Own) Lane

Everyone knows the tactics by which I am victorious, but no one knows the strategy out of which victory is evolved.” – Sun Tzu “Watch your lane.” Spend a little time around Army teams and you’ll hear that statement. Although it has many uses, one of the most common is from the lessons you learn [...]

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The Elephant We Call Life

There’s an old Hindu story about some blind wise men that each want to experience what an elephant is. The man who feels the elephant’s tail thinks the elephant is like a rope. The man who feels the elephant’s trunk thinks it’s like a snake. The man who feels the elephant’s leg thinks it’s like [...]

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Addicted to the Pulse

So many of us are addicted to the pulse. We’re either actively engaged in monitoring all the social media hubs or we’re wondering if something’s happened there. We don’t really want to spend a lot of time on the cell phone, but we carry it around with us religiously just in case something happens. We [...]

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Bewildered And Exploring

I just read Sarah Robinson’s Bewildered and wanted to pick up the conversation here, as well. Here’s a bit of her post for context: Here’s what I see: There are a number of so-called leaders in the internet and social media space who seem to stick with what I can only call a “clique”. They [...]

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