I’ve written a lot about reflection in the last year and I’ll turn 31 in a few days and I figure I better put my time where my mouth is. To honor my 31 years on the planet so far, I want to offer 31 lessons I’ve been given or learned through experience and challenge you to think back on the lessons you\’ve earned.
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Everyone carries a rope. The choice you make about which end of the rope to pick up is your choice between love, hate, or indifference. Will you help others carry their rope, pick up the other side to do battle, or walk by and ignore their significance?
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This holiday season, the typical means of insults and judgments will be used to try and change people. They won\’t work. There\’s only one thing that can motivate and maintain enduring change.
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This holiday season, the typical means of insults and judgments will be used to try and change people. They won\’t work. There\’s only one thing that can motivate and maintain enduring change.
Read time: 11 minu
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Have you been angry lately? Mad that COVID took away an opportunity or even a family member? Angry with the way people have overreacted or underreacted to the pandemic and social injustice? Upset with your kids because, well, they’re just home all the time now and it’s a lot? It\’s time to check your anger and figure out what it is good for.
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Weekend Challenge #42: Gaining Control of the Emotion of Mass Destruction Read More »
The negative bias we all carry makes us more aware of the bad things in life than the good so when we don’t get our way, the default is ugly. This weekend, I hope you can start to practice the art of not getting your way. Love first. Control your thoughts and behaviors. Recognize that there is always beauty around you. Leave complaining behind.
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Weekend Challenge #41: The Art of Not Getting What You Want Read More »
A couple of weeks ago I published an article that covered three lies of the grind culture. After the blog went out, I got some fun responses from people via social media and email. Many found the three lies helpful as they navigate our culture of constant action. However, some seemed to interpret the ideas differently than I anticipated. This weekend, let\’s take a look at three truths of the grind culture (including that most of us need it more, not less).
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Weekend Challenge #40: Truths of “the Grind” Read More »
Self-improvement reading is not a goal, it is a way to reach your goals. 18.6 million self-help books were sold in the United States in 2019. Americans spent roughly $1.24 billion on self-help books and audiobooks in 2018. But how do we operate within the self-help world to make sure it does not become an idol? How do we ensure that it remains a tool for us, just like our ability to grind, but it doesn’t become the project itself?
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If most of what we stress about doesn’t deserve that stress, when we do find something that seems to have lasting impact, how do we move toward it? Here are 5 lessons I learned from a brick road constructed in 1902 in a small town in Illinois.
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Big goals are sexy. Big goals get you attention on social media. Big goals are crossing a finish line crowded with people or holding the first edition of a book you wrote. Sexy. Big. Goals. But, like all sexy things, big goals hide the real secret of success under their pretty façade.
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Weekend Challenge # 36: Crush The Small Goal and See A New Door Read More »