Which is Better: Avoid or Enjoy?
There is a vast difference between seeking positive and avoiding negative. It is very difficult to generate positive by avoiding negative. We all want and …
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Three to Four Things
If we choose 3-4 projects to make significant progress on this week and if we, each day, choose 3-4 things to accomplish that day, we …
Focusing on What’s Wrong?
Focusing on what’s wrong feels bad. And it is helpful as long as we continue on to what we want instead and what’s right already. Otherwise, …
Cast A Narrow Net
We may think that casting a wide net is best. That is, we look for jobs, clients, employees, markets, and other opportunities in as many …
Too Much Bad to Feel Good?
How can I raise my buzz? How can I go about feeling good when circumstances are this bad? –Everyone Your results match how you feel. But …
The Economics of Moving Others
Focusing on what is wrong with another has the ugly effect, more often than not, of perpetuating whatever is wrong. (If you don’t believe this, …
Bad News, Good News, Best News
The bad news is that we are pretty much the sole source of any lack of success we experience, anywhere. <<sigh>> The good news is …
Some Call This Leadership
We can wait around for it. We can bemoan how the people in charge aren’t doing anything about it. We can fight to make everybody …
Anchored Away
The extent to which you spend your quiet time (heck, even your noisy time) with your thoughts and words focused on what is, was, or …
Turn to Focus
The suggestion is, “Feel good. Then act.” And that knot in your gut, that tension between your shoulders or up your neck, that jittery, bothersome, …