This was the report from ESPN on the Buffalo and the Cincinnati Bengals game on Monday night: “In a chilling scene, CPR was administered to Bills safety Damar Hamlin on the field for multiple minutes after he collapsed following a play in the first quarter. He received oxygen, according to the ESPN broadcast, as he […]
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Last year, we published The Well-Being Bucket List: 29 Mindful Choices for Older Adults. It is a sort of written podcast of conversations in which we explore possibilities for living that, if chosen, could better serve our well-being (and that of those around us) each day, perhaps for the rest of our lives. (We are
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Our book, The Well-Being Bucket List: 29 Mindful Choices is a sort of written podcast of twenty-nine conversations between us in which we explore possibilities for living that could better serve our well-being (and that of those around us) each day. One of our favorite conversations unpacked the meaning underlying the quotation from Pierre Teilhard
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Psychiatrist: “Do you hear any voices in your head?” Voice: “Tell her no.” Patient: “No.” There has been a theme this year about the difference between “doing” and “being.” In short form, doing as in “action,” and being as in “showing up as the authentic you.” I’ve seen opinions about the importance of our “doing”
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Co-authoring two recent books and tag teaming on leadership, coaching, and life posts with my friend and colleague Will Keiper has been a major factor in my decision not to retire from my career, just yet. I was all set to watch sports, play my guitar and laze around with family for a “living” when
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When I was a rising leader, a moment would come when the “boss” would say, “My gut says that we should [fill in the blank].” When I heard those words, I knew whatever the discussion process had been to that point, was over. Everyone else had just been taken off the hook for the decision.
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I was the shadow of the waxwing slain, By the false azure in the windowpane; I was the smudge of ashen fluff -and I- Lived on, flew on, in the reflected sky. ~Vladimir Nabokov (Pale Fire) As my talented editor, Chris Nelson, and I were selecting the short pieces of writing for my latest book,
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The documentary The Secret (The Law of Attraction) and the book by Rhonda Byrne came out in 2006. Depending upon who you talked to it was either the key to a life of awesomeness and wealth, or a high-order scam based upon the elementary mantra, “Thoughts are things!” On one measure of awesomeness and wealth
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What holds a lot of people back from money is just the fear of asking for it. This happens on many levels. Including asking for more of it. There’s fear that if you have a business or offer a service and you raise your prices—and we encounter this constantly with business owners we coach—people will
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Pay close attention whenever you are frustrated by anything. The things that are frustrating you about your business, and the things that are frustrating you about your life as a consumer, could be the very things that cause a wellspring of success. Frustration is where attention needs to be paid, rather than wishing that part
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