Being Your Best Self

This time next year, will you be wiser, more thoughtful, and living a life you dream of? Or just a year older? Always take time to sharpen the saw.

Start a Five-Year Plan Now

One Easy Step to Make Your Dreams Happen

The holidays are a good time to think about what you want your life to be like five years from now. Take the most important step now: get started.

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How to Keep Pride from Becoming Your Weakness

Five Proven Strategies to Strengthen Your Relationships

Pride can be a good thing—a tool to reward growth and development. If you let it get out of hand, it will become your greatest weakness.

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Make Choices that Create Choices

You’ll Be Glad You Kept Your Options Open

To be successful, you need to keep your options open. Make choices that create more choices.

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Rethinking Productivity as a Parent

7 Secrets I Wish I’d Known (and Accepted) Sooner

Having kids is the most rewarding thing you will do in this life. It’s also going to test your productivity skills like nothing else.

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Building Relationships One Deposit at a Time

Who Would You Cross Time and Space to Help?

Relationships take time to build. The more deposits you make, the stronger the emotional bank account grows.

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Why You Need Feedback

5 Ways Another Perspective Will Help You Grow Faster

Without feedback, you’re stumbling around, going through the motions without creating real value. If you really want to grow, ask someone how you’re doing.

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It’s Okay to Sulk

Three Questions to Turn Frustration to Your Advantage

When things don’t work out as planned, it’s frustrating. It’s okay to sulk, but the sooner you get past the disappointment, the sooner you can start shaping your world again.

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Are You Steering Your Ship?

Or are you just drifting along?

Are you getting blown around, drifting wherever the wind takes you? Or are you steering your ship into the wind?

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Keep It Simple

Start with the simplest thing that could possibly work. It probably will

Go with the simplest thing that could possibly work. Only add complexity when you know you need it.

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Do More Up Front

Take the time to let results happen automatically

When you find yourself thinking “there has to be an easier way”, there probably is. You just need to pay the price to get there.

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