The PRACTICE of ADAPTING to CHANGE
Things change faster than ever before and building your capacity to adapt is essential to surviving and prospering in today’s world.
It's a truism that with proper care and attention, the [...]
Everyone knows of the Ten Commandments, so even atheists can [...]
A good friend sent me a link to a 90-minute video on becoming super productive that essentially boils down to this: focus only on the things that matter and stop doing the million other things that don’t. That’s not rocket science thankfully, it’s just separating what matters from what doesn’t, and the speaker, Darren Hardy, talks about the things that to him don’t matter—like playing golf,
About four minutes into Gladiator—my favorite Russel Crowe movie—the Roman [...]
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We live with a curious irony: everyone makes mistakes, but [...]
The biggest problem with regret is that it keeps your [...]
Most of us wrestle with regret from time to time [...]
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No one likes to think of themselves as indoctrinated, but [...]
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Last week’s post was about how we age; our choice [...]
One reason no one wants to age is that we [...]
Slavery didn’t end. But of course you know that. The [...]
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When people talk about forgiveness it's often in a religious [...]
I watched the Bruce Jenner Dianne Sawyer’s interview, not out [...]
There was a scene in “The Imitation Game” when the [...]
Failure is nature’s way of preparing you for success. And [...]
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People always seem to do or believe things that are [...]
Dictation and the technology that made it possible—short-hand—died because typing [...]
We couldn’t possibly remain conscious to every choice we have in [...]
If you've ever lived in New York city you'll be [...]
I often help my mother navigate and use very basic (to [...]
I shouted for joy when I read (actually heard on [...]
The other night I was having a drink with two [...]
In life we’re consumed by the need to avoid making mistakes. [...]
In the last few weeks of Oprah’s show, I heard [...]
That’s an almost quote from Peter Thiel, the Stanford University [...]
On April 5th, 2011 I ended a 17month affair with [...]
I haven’t posted for a while. My dad—stepdad actually—Geddes Phillips [...]
Answer: Who is Watson? Something happened on Wednesday night that [...]
Ever marvel at how fast the world is changing? Consider [...]
... cause I don't want my boat to be rocking." [...]
Your life might actually suck. Yep, how's that for some [...]
It used to be that seniority was the basis for [...]
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I would have preferred my first post of the new [...]
Let’s see ... what could I do to make it [...]
