If you put a frog in a pot of boiling water, it jumps out. But if you put a frog in cool water and gradually turn up the heat, the frog will boil to death without ever trying to escape. The same thing happens to people. If someone had.
[Read More]What happens when you walk in the door at night? Do you dread coming home, or are you excited? A friend of mine has a long commute. It takes him an hour and a half to get home. When he walks in the door he’s exhausted. He just wants.
[Read More]Ernest Hemingway once said, “Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.” There’s a long-held belief that average people are happier than smart people. The premise – frequently touted at Mensa meetings and Unitarian cocktail parties – is that the super smart are more likely to be.
[Read More]Do you like paying taxes? I own my own business, which means I write quarterly checks for my taxes. I confess, in the past I didn’t enjoy paying them. We have a meeting every Friday afternoon to go over the cash flow, the receivables and the projected revenues. At.
[Read More]I’m the worst waterskier in my family. My younger brother whips back and forth like a pro, hitting the outside buoys on the slalom course and leaning sideway until he’s practically parallel to the water. My Dad has been a hot shot skier since he was 8. When I.
[Read More]What if other people could read your thoughts? What if your boss knew what you were thinking during meetings? What if your spouse knew what you were daydreaming about during dinner? What if your coworkers and customers could hear your internal dialogue all day long? Guess what? They.
[Read More]What did you want to be when you grew up? A dancer, fireman, rock star? Or maybe an astronaut? When I was 10 I told my mom I wanted to be a TV preacher. Then she informed me that I’d probably have to join a church, so I gave.
[Read More]At some point in your life you have a wake-up moment. It’s that instance in time when you quit going through the motions and actually think about your life and what it all really means. My first big wake-up moment occurred at my mother’s funeral. I was 29 years.
[Read More]Almost everyone has a home office, but almost no one has a good looking one. I used to hate my home office, but several years ago I had an epiphany. I was about to order new dining room furniture. I’d spent months browsing magazines and stores and was about.
[Read More]Why do people fail? Is it because they’re lazy or incompetent? Perhaps the Universe conspires against us sometimes. We tend to think of failure as catastrophic. It’s a big scary horrible thing to be avoided at all cost. But the truth is – Failure is the ambitious person’s constant.
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