What is Standing in Your Way?

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We all have obstacles to overcome, it’s one of the ways that we grow. Some of them just filter into our lives from external sources, and it’s our job to deal with them as they come along. That’s just a normal part of this experience we call life. Today, I want to discuss a different kind of challenge. I want to talk about the roadblocks that we put in our own way, and then avoid dealing with for various reasons. When we purposely avoid facing our self-imposed obstacles, what happens? Well, what happens in the case of a literal roadblock? [...]

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How Your Inner Dialogue directs Your Life

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As a child, I picked up the practice of saving seemingly important items. I remember admiring a box marked “Important Old Stuff” that my grandfather collected, so I began collecting tidbits of interest to myself as well. Looking back years later, I realized that my “inner dialogue” had shifted toward the habit of collecting what I saw as Important Stuff largely because of how I interpreted the meaning of my grandfather’s “Important Old Stuff” box. I had become convinced that “important things” must be somehow magical things. I’ve come to account for this childlike assumption as an example of the [...]

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Sailing on the Sea of Life

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I love to sail and once had the pleasure of spending a month on a beautiful 42 ft. sailboat in the Sea of Cortez between the east coast of Baja and the west coast of Mexico. Reflecting on that experience got me thinking about some of the similarities between literal sailing and the experience of sailing on the sea of life. In the process of living, the winds of circumstance have an unending and ever-changing influence on us. Sometimes our circumstances are like a favorable breeze that make it easier to move in our desired direction. At other times, they [...]

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Finding Inner Peace and Harmony

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Through no fault of our own, most of us lack a certain degree of awareness about who we really are. I’m not talking about the person we are on the surface. Rather, I am referring to who we are on a core level once you strip away the social programming, ego, and learned defenses. Being the adaptable creatures that we are, we learn to play peekaboo with our true self from a very young age. We adapt our behavior for various reasons as we are exposed to a variety of circumstances and situations. This is good because adaptability is an [...]

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Ramping Up the Way You Think About Setting Goals

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Here’s a fact: We all go through the process of setting goals and achieving them repeatedly during the course of a normal day. And we often do so without even thinking about it. For example, when you got up this morning, did you have something you wanted to accomplish, or did you just get up and wander around aimlessly? You had a goal, right? Maybe it didn’t seem like a goal because it was something that you do almost every day. Even if it was just your normal routine, chances are you had a goal, or a whole bunch of [...]

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How to Avoid Insanity and Stay On Course

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Exactly what do I mean by insanity? I’m referring to the now widely accepted definition of insane; doing the same thing over and over again while expecting a different result. No doubt, most of us have heard that definition and laughed.  And yet, is it possible that we are actually doing that to some degree ourselves? I recently looked back on a situation in my own life and realized that this was the problem. But first a little background When I was a teenager, I developed the habit of working out with weights three or four times a week.  That’s [...]

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How to Turn Hindsight Into Insight

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We have all heard the expression, “hindsight is 20-20,” but is that really the case? Well, it certainly can be, but only if we are paying attention to where we have been and what we have learned. Experience has the potential to be our very best teacher, and hindsight plays a vital role. Unfortunately, many people go through life just repeating the same old mistakes over and over again. They somehow miss the connection between hindsight and insight. Granted, we all make mistakes, but there are two important question for each of us to ask ourselves with regard to our [...]

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How Changing your Attitude Changes Your Reality

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Let’s talk about the internal aspect of making positive changes to your current reality. I believe that the foundation of a successful life has a lot more to do with attitude than it does with aptitude, but I’m not the only one. Surveys, studies and research consistently indicate that 85% of success in almost any endeavor will depend on attitude and only about 15% on aptitude. Yet, in most educational settings the emphasis is exactly the opposite. In fact, attitude is rarely discussed. Adding attitude to your knowledge and skill Regardless of what you do for a career, technical knowledge [...]

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