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Choose Your Endings: The Secret to Unlocking Your Best Year Yet

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Hasn’t every major breakthrough in your life come on the other side of an ending? Think about it. Whether it was letting go of a job that wasn’t serving you, walking away from a relationship that held you back, or releasing a belief that kept you small—your most profound growth likely started when something else […]

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The Discipline of Surrender: Achieving More With Less Effort Through Visualization

You’re climbing a steep hill, every muscle in your body protesting the relentless effort. With the summit nowhere in sight, you dig deep, calling upon reserves you didn’t know you had. Now, imagine a different scenario. You’re on top of the hill, but this time, you’re on a bike, coasting effortlessly down the other side,

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Feel Like You’ve Hit the Wall? (Look Again)

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August 2008: Depressed. April 2014: Bleak. November 2016: Empty. September 2019: Burned out. Those are a few of the times in my life where I felt like I hit the wall. Like I had come to the end. According to Grammarist.com, “hit the wall” is a term that athletes use to mean “the point in

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When Chaos Ensues, Your Mission Leads the Way

In these challenging times, when everything that was familiar and predictable has been lost, there’s one word that’s been spoken perhaps more than any other–at least, for those of us leading teams and organizations. It’s a word that one colleague told me, “If I heard that one more time, I’m going to throw up.” Which

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Motivational Speakers Get Knocked Down, Too

It’s a little scary to write what I’m about to write. But I have to write it (for myself, and for someone else–which I’ll explain in a moment). Working in the “motivational speaker” space since 1999–and I’ve had the privilege of working with some of the best in the business–I’ve always had this feeling that

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