It’s easy to lose perspective, especially if you are too close to a situation, project, or person. Getting some distance helps you see things more clearly. When you remove yourself—in time or space—you see things differently or more objectively. So often things are not as they seem. From our viewpoint, we only see one reality. […]
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If you want to succeed in life—personally or professionally—you have to know how to move yourself forward. You can’t just do what you’ve always done. You have to do something different, something more. Think of it this way, if you just walk in place, you don’t move forward. Equate walking in place to managing your
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You were born creative. In fact, you contain a spark of Divinity, and like God, you possess both the desire to create and the ability to create. it’s possible, however, that you feel your creativity flame has gone out, and you can’t find a way to reignite it. Creativity isn’t something that dies. It’s always
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Yesterday I achieved one of my 2015 goals. I wanted to cycle to the top of a steep, one-mile long hill near my home by my birthday. Well…yesterday was my birthday, and I did it! I rode my bike all the way up that hill. However, I didn’t do it by getting on my bike
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December and January are huge goal-setting months. As the New Year approaches and settles in, like me, you may have created new targets to hit in the next 12 months. You now have a long list (or a short list) of personal and professional goals you’d like to achieve. However, it’s easy to forget an
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New Year’s Eve passed with all the usual pomp and circumstance and took our 2014 achievements and failures along with it. At midnight, a new year began and brought us a clean slate upon which we each can write our goals, plans and dreams for the next 12 months. If you actually wrote down your
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Lately I’ve been stretched to my max. I have no one to blame but myself. I’ve created numerous deadlines for myself and challenges—opportunities—all within a very short amount of time. Sometimes the stretching doesn’t feel so good. Like a teenager with growth pains, I can feel myself aching from the effort. But I know it’s
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I’m a big proponent of setting goals—and reaching them. And we all like to win—to cross that finish line once we’ve put ourselves in a competition, no matter if we compete against ourselves or against others. We want to know we have done our best and achieved that gold medal, which could be anything from
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Every day I feel like I”m being pushed to grow bigger than my former self. No one has made me grow; I started the process myself. I wanted to grow. I added the fertilizer and the water. The problem is that now I can’t stop the process. The process has begun, and I no longer
How Big, Tall and Wide are You Willing to Grow? Read More »
How often do you leave your home and go somewhere else to live for any period of time? For the second time in two years, my son and I are going off to live in New York City for seven weeks this summer. This reminds me of the Torah portion we read called Lech Lecha,
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Every day I wake up, come upstairs to my office, sit down in front of my computer, and begin working. Sometimes I manage only to accomplish a few minutes of time spent on my own projects. Other days, I spend many hours working towards my personal goals. Each day, however, my mind turns periodically from
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Most people don’t realize that through its choice of words, the Old Testament places emphasis on goal setting. In fact, it seems that God expects us to set targets for ourselves and at least to try to hit them. In other words, we are supposed to take the time to come up with resolutions or
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