I’ve been thinking a lot about success AND the journey getting there. One idea that I keep coming back to is: how can I find success every day?  How can I feel like I had a successful day? Win every day? We all know about big wins, but I want to really feel success regardless of […]
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I got a number of emails from my meditation LIFEies from last week. The biggest question was about what kind of meditation I am doing. So here is a follow-up. I spent the last two years absorbing a book by John Yates called The Mind Illuminated. If you are into meditation, this is the manual.Â
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I never knew about The Diderot Effect. Did you?  The Diderot Effect says that obtaining a new possession often creates a spiral of consumption which leads you to acquire more new things. This leads to buying things that we never needed to feel happy or fulfilled. I have seen that happen….to me. We have this
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While hiking earlier this year, I met two attorneys. I came home and sent them LinkedIn invitations. Both are great people to know. How did I meet them? They were wearing Duke hats and I asked if they had kids going to Duke. It was a simple question and 30 minutes later, we figured out
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We are smack dab in the digital age. So, I have been trying out a few different ways to take notes over the past few years. I am a compulsive note taker, and take notes on my phone, laptop and iPad, and old fashion notepads. I take so many notes, that I had small notepads (4
Habits can make your life better…way better. Below is an article on the science of new habits and what you can do. As you know, I am a huge believer in habits. If you want more, check out Atomic Habits by James Clear — it’s a must read. Here are a few of the suggestions
Today’s LIFEies includes a few snippets from some of the greats. These are the people whose advice has stayed with me over the years. I remember Zig Zigler getting down on one knee pointing at the audience and saying, “You can get anything you want in life, IF you just help enough other people get
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Does this sound like you: I ALWAYS have work to do. Lots of it.  I’ll NEVER be done with everything. AND there are some things I just can’t seem to get started! Here are a few ideas to get started and beat procrastination: OBC  (my acronym for Objective Based Conversations)—What are the top three things that need to happen right
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Even if you don’t like this week’s article, this week’s LIFEies proves one point: You CAN find anything you want on the internet to prove your point. 🙂 Below is an article about why leaders should back their car in Batman style. I have been doing this, to the chagrin of my wife and kids,
In 2017, I read the book Extreme Leadership for the first time. Author Jocko Willink writes about how to get your first win of the day as soon as you wake up. When the alarm goes off, you have a choice – do you win or not? I got my first win as soon as
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