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Ignore Your Unsupportive Inner Voice

Ignore Your Unsupportive Inner Voice

Do you sometimes feel your thoughts are your worst enemy? If so, it's critical to learn to ignore your inner voice that makes decisions counter to your long-term best interest. Your inner voice makes you say "no" when "yes" would be in your long-term best interest....

Celebrate Your High Standards

Celebrate Your High Standards

Do you have high standards? If so, I hope you're proud of that fact. I have high standards for myself, as well as those with whom I work. I don't accept below par performance unless one is learning a new task. Few people excel when doing something new. So when I was...

Irritants Are Your Teachers

Irritants Are Your Teachers

Irritants Are Your Teachers You fume at the inconsiderate driver coming from your left who doesn't turn on his right turn signal, causing you to wait longer than needed to turn right into his lane. You start counting how frequently your friend uses his catch phrase,...

Turn Judgment into Curiosity

Turn Judgment into Curiosity

Turn Judgment into Curiosity What do experiencing unfamiliar cultures, and unusual behavior in one's own area have in common? You have a choice about how to react to behaviors that don't make sense to you. You can think the local women are silly (or worse) to wear...

A True Rock Star!

I drove onto the rockery's automobile scale so the staff could weigh my car before I added some flagstone pavers for my new garden paths. I carefully picked out 30 foot-sized flat stones so I could tend my plants when it's muddy. When I drove back onto the scale, a...