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INTENTIONAL IMPROVEMENT

If I had my druthers, all teammates would be working on some plan to get better at their jobs all the time. No exceptions. Here’s why. When you aren’t intentional about getting better, you will likely be drifting backward. Every day without addressing a plan to improve creates a gap further from your team’s best […]

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DEFINING THE DIRECTION YOU WANT TO GO

β€œCourage is the difference between dreaming of the life you want and living the life of your dreams.” – Edwin McManus Are you putting something on the line today? Reading something new? Trying to reach a goal? Learning a new skill? Traveling a different path? We get stuck in the same ol’ same ol’ sometimes. […]

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GOING WITH THE β€˜FLOW’

I reacquainted myself this week with Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s thoughts onΒ Flow. He describes flow as the mental state of intense focus you experience when you are completely absorbed in a challenging but doable task. Flow happens when you are totally engaged in an activity you excel at, have unlimited energy for, and makes time pass quickly. […]

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A RECIPE FOR RESILIENCE IN THE FACE OF ADVERSITY

It’s hard to get juiced up about pro basketball in the middle of football season and the baseball playoffs, but when the basketball season opened on Wednesday night, October 17, 2017, the Boston Celtics’ new star, Gordon Hayward, broke his leg in a gruesome manner, facing a long rehabilitation, and being out for the season. […]

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