Do you consider yourself baked or half-baked? Done or not done? A finished work or work in progress? I had a discussion with someone recently, and she mentioned what she called my incessant desire to improve, learn, grow, do things better. She asked, “Isn’t there a certain point when you accept yourself and feel okay […]
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Change. We hate it. We want it. We struggle to create it. We run away from it. And at this time of year—with the New Year fast approaching—most of us think about change a lot. I know I do. There are some things in my life I’d love to change, but I haven’t dared to
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Every year, billions of people around the world ring in the New Year by creating a list of “resolutions”—a series of items they want to acquire, goals the want to accomplish, or habits they want to instill in a quest to become “better” in one capacity or another. Yet very, very few of us accomplish
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I’m a big proponent of goal setting. It’s a better activity than setting resolutions, and you can do it at the start of the New Year, month or week, or even every morning. But most people don’t achieve their goals, and there are three reasons why. The #1 Reasons You Won’t Achieve Your Goals Achieving
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Over the years, a debate has arisen about whether or not goal setting works. I’m a firm believer in using goals to help me achieve the success I desire. So are some of the people I admire and whose advice I follow, such as Brian Tracy, Jack Canfield, Brendon Burchard, and Michael Hyatt. I’ve successfully
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On New Year’s Eve, many of us take the time to think about how we can become more successful in the New Year. Of course, success means different things to different people. No matter your definition of success, I can offer you a few tips that will help you achieve success in any endeavor and
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The Jewish New Year comes in the autumn, at a time when things are not new at all but old. Here in Northern California, everything is brown and dry from the drought. Around most of the United States. the trees are turning colors and dropping leaves. Everything is going dormant. It’s a bit like a
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With the Blue Moon rising, tonight we ring in not only the New Year, but a whole new decade. And we do so at amidst a time of change. We’ve seen climate weather, world economic changes and political and government leadership changes. In spiritual, mystical and metaphysical circles, everyone is talking about and predicting change,
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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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I’ve spent an enormous amount of time over the last week throwing away all sorts of stuff. Primarily, however, I’ve thrown away accumulated papers. I can’t believe how many papers I seem to save and collect. I have piles and files filled with papers of all sorts. Most of these papers I must have thought
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The Torah portions we read the past two weeks, Vayigash (Genesis 44:18-47:27) and Vayechi (Genesis 47:28-50:26), offer us a chance to look at our own lives over the past year and to consider how past events during the last 12 months have gotten us to the place we now stand. It also helps us to look forward
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The New Year shows up every year heralding our hopes of change. As Barak Obama’s book title states so well, each year we have the audacity to hope for change. More often than not, however, we don’t see that change. For Jews, the New Year seems to come twice a year – once with the
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