Category: Getting Personal
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Redefining Failure
“Living Safely is Dangerous” Nietzsche What is your relationship to success and failure? I have been reflecting these recent weeks about how I respond to “failure” – when things do not turn out as I hoped or wished. The video below shares my thinking about a better way of approaching failure in our lives. How…
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On this Saint Patrick’s Day…
Happy Saint Patrick’s day. There is an old Irish toast that I find poetic and moving. I’m sharing it here today on the occasion of Saint Patrick’s day. It is all the more touching given that we have travelled few roads and met few distant friends in the last 12 months due to the Covid…
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Dealing with Coronavirus/COVID-19 Quarantine in Barcelona
Happy Saint Patrick’s Day We are living quarantine in Spain for the last 3 days. This is a strange Saint Patrick’s day… no rivers greeen… no parades. I am at home with family in quarantine. How are things where you are? Stay safe and stay sane… Would love to hear from you on how you…
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The 3 Excuses
“You can’t free anybody else and you can’t serve anybody else unless you free yourself” Nelson Mandela You are not an accident. You are a singular piece in the giant jigsaw puzzle that is this world. This jigsaw puzzle is not a 50 piece puzzle, nor a 250 piece puzzle… it is a 7 billion piece…
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Self Awareness: The Big 5 Personality Traits
Great leaders have high levels of self awareness. One element of self awareness is a good understanding of how human beings differ in terms of personality. The big 5 personality traits can be remembered with the acronym OCEAN. OCEAN Trait descriptions and impact on job performance. Openness, inventive/curious vs. consistent/cautious; Openness is positively related to proactivity at the…
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What are your Strategic Recipes? (for meeting the 6 Human Emotional Needs)
“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom” Aristotle There are few things more important than understanding your own personal strategic recipes for enjoying a positive, fulfilling experience of your own life. What is a Strategic Recipe. Let’s start with what constitutes a “strategy”. “A Strategy is a system of producing a consistent result”. Tony Robbins…
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Finding Balance between Ambition and Peace of Mind, External vs Internal Success
“If someone followed your life and took 24 hours of film of everything you do for a day and they edited that into a one-hour documentary… the editor could decide to make you look like the worst villain ever or the greatest hero ever… it depends on which parts of your day he puts into…
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The Simplest Definition of Success
I have worried for too much of my life about whether I am a success or not. This video shares the simplest and most empowering definition of success that I have found. It comes from Pema Chodron. It is a wonderful reflection for me about how I am living my life. Am I learning to…
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Highly Effective People – Habit #7 “Sharpen the Saw”
This week’s video is about Steven Covey’s 7th Habit of Highly Effective People: Sharpen the Saw. Life is a marathon, not a sprint. Burning yourself out is no service to anyone. Running your car without changing the oil will destroy the engine. Running at 100% all day and all night will destroy your own personal…
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Fear of an Ordinary Life, Part 2
I ran out of battery on my iphone this afternoon while sitting in starbucks. I was waiting for 2 people. I had to stay. It was good that I ran out of battery, because I ended up looking at Tibidabo mountain for 30 minutes and thinking about life. I was thinking about my post on…