High quality questions to help you get unstuck
What would be ideal? (I find this to be MUCH more informative than “what do you want?” or “what would make you happy?”) What one thing...
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Dependability
Dependability is a high-ranking “soft skill” that employers, colleagues and customers desire. When it comes to your career, there are...
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Desires
It’s healthy to have desires, goals, and hopes for better versions of the future. But so often we fall victim to as-soon-as syndrome,...
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Negativity bias
My music has received over 50 million streams and downloads, hundreds 5-star ratings, and the kindest reviews and compliments. Yet I can...
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This too shall pass
Life has ups and downs. Where you are right now, and how you feel about it, is much like a balance sheet. It’s just a snapshot of your...
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Motion and action
People confuse being busy with getting things done. And then we confuse getting the right things done – the things that matter. As my...
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Persuasion hack
Psychology teaches us that people will work harder to avoid a loss than they will to achieve a possible gain. A famous, successful...
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The value of rituals
One significant cause of stress is the uneasy feeling that things are out of control. Children may or may not crave structure, but it’s...
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Not my fault
You’re probably right. So many things that happen are completely out of our control. No one chooses an illness, a bad investment, or...
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Go easy on yourself
If you were to guess what one variable had the greatest effect on anxiety and depression, you might go with one of the usual suspects:...
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Best and better
Dysfunctional and self-limiting beliefs can be thrust upon us by culture and society. Some beliefs feel like obvious truths because...
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One-question self-assessment tool
Great questions may be the most powerful tool we have for honest introspection. The most transformative questions are usually simple...
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Becoming a nicer person
One thing that keeps us from being a nicer person than we would be otherwise is our tendency to judge others. Next time you catch...
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Gratitude via negative thinking
The mental subtraction method is an alternate way to elicit the feeling of gratitude. As an alternative to looking at the bright side or...
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It’s all been said
Imposter syndrome creeps up on those of us who communicate (hopefully useful) ideas publicly. Although I share advice online, I’m aware...
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“Free” and “Available”
When I worked for a Fortune 10 company, our team had mutual access to each others’ calendars. Naturally people scheduled meetings in...
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Seizing the moment
“Seize the moment” is trite and pervasive wisdom. But if we observe our thoughts we’ll find that most of the time we are future-planning...
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Making things actionable
One thing I enjoy doing is distilling complex ideas into actionable concepts. That is in fact one of the objectives of this blog. No...
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Anger is dangerous
Anger is a useful emotion if we need to physically defend ourselves. Outside of that, nothing good comes of it. Regardless of how...
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Rethinking cause and effect
The “cause vs. correlation” problem can be summarized like this: Just because A and B are related doesn’t mean that A caused B. We are...
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