Reading Time: < 1 minuteYou can make major changes in your life with minor changes in your thinking and behavior. To understand how this works, consider the three Rs model: “Reality plus response equals result.” Say that one of your colleagues criticises your work (that’s reality). Your response creates a particular result. If you ask your colleague why he […]
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Reading Time: 2 minutesThink about the last time you were angry? If you’re like most, it probably went something like this… That’s not right, how can they do that? You begin thinking about it. It makes you angry. You feel slighted, irritated and mad. Your heart rate rises, you begin feeling an impulse to yell or argue; you
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Reading Time: 2 minutesThis is something I’ve been thinking about a lot lately, so I feel prepared to tackle it. Here we go! What makes my life valuable, in a basic sense, is the same thing that makes every life valuable: that we are such enigmatic creatures, full of thoughts and emotions, participating in interesting journies full of
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Reading Time: 4 minutes“Necessity may be the mother of invention, but dissatisfaction is the father of most breakthroughs.” Stuck in the Mud In Russia, people tell a story about a poor farmer who was on his way to the market with produce to sell. He needed to arrive before his vegetables spoiled, but his handcart’s wheels got stuck
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Reading Time: 2 minutesThe “Eeyore Syndrome” is named after the famously sad little donkey, Eeyore, in the popular Winnie-the-Pooh children’s books. Eeyore walked around with his head hanging down, feeling sorry for himself. Those suffering the Eeyore Syndrome expect the worst and find shifting their attitude difficult. A lack of confidence fuels this pessimism. Positively Persevering Laughter relieves
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Reading Time: 3 minutesWilliam Shakespeare once said, “Time is very slow for those who want, very fast for those who are scared, very long for those who are sad and very short for those who celebrate but for those who love, time is eternal”. The Value of 86,400 seconds Everyday 86,400 seconds are deposited into your life account.
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Reading Time: 2 minutesIn the contemporary world, to be excellent, we have to change, change continually and be able to change quickly. It isn’t enough just to endure. Because external circumstances have shifted so much in recent decades, we may have seen many organizations try to change – and fail. Most organisations are not designed to change, but
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Reading Time: 2 minutes“Never waste the opportunity of a good crisis.” Whatever organization you work in, change is the one thing you can count on. But in the past, change occurred at a predictable and incremental rate. Today, it occurs much more quickly, presenting a challenge for managers. To keep up, managers must learn to be effective change
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Reading Time: 3 minutesMost people want guarantees because they fear the unknown. Some view going down an unexpected or different life or career path as failure. They assert that their fate is predetermined and that they can do little to change their unfortunate circumstances. Change requires courage; not everyone is capable of taking this leap of faith. Changing
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Reading Time: 3 minutesThe tantalizing idea of a “dream job” permeates our career advice. But what exactly is a dream job, and how do we find it in the face of an ever-changing professional landscape? This concept deserves a deeper look, for the path to fulfillment might not be as linear – or as fantastical – as we
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