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What Is the Minimum Condition Necessary for Your Purpose to Be Fulfilled?
Today’s Strategic Alignment Journal post in two sentences: We often confuse what we are accustomed to doing with what must be done, gradually adding conditions until the threshold for action becomes unnecessarily high. Asking what minimum condition is necessary for the purpose to be fulfilled can help us separate what is essential from everything we…
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Why Does Rest Have to Justify Itself?
Today’s Strategic Alignment Journal post in two sentences: We talk about rest as though it must improve our performance before it can earn a place in our lives. When productivity becomes the measure of whether time was well spent, even leisure can begin to feel like something we have to justify. I am a poster…
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Breaking the Cycle of Broken Fixes
Today’s Strategic Alignment Journal post in two sentences: When a problem keeps returning despite repeated attempts to fix it, the failure of those solutions becomes information worth examining. Before investing in another fix, it may be time to ask whether the problem has been accurately understood in the first place. When the same problem keeps…
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How to Temporarily Release Definitions to See What Is Actually There
Today’s Strategic Alignment Journal post in two sentences: Once we define a person, problem or situation, that definition can begin determining what we see and the solutions we consider. Temporarily releasing what we think we already know gives us the opportunity to look again and see what is actually there. I have never been particularly…
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How Do You Live Your Practice?
Today’s Strategic Alignment Journal post in two sentences: We can spend so much time asking where our work is taking us that we forget to pay attention to how we are actually living it. Perhaps progress is less about proving that we are getting somewhere and more about building a practice we are willing to…
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Living Tomorrow Today
Today’s Strategic Alignment Journal Post in two sentences: Our goals describe the future we hope to create, but that future is ultimately built through the ordinary choices we make every day. Six Seconds’ idea of pursuing a Noble Goal invites us to keep that larger purpose in view, because misalignment can occur when the way…
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Selling is not Convincing
Today’s Strategic Alignment Journal Post in two sentences: Selling is not about convincing people to see what you see. Real value is created when you offer clarity with confidence, let people decide what to do with it, and stop making your worth dependent on their agreement. Many of us have been taught that selling isn’t…
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Why Play Belongs in Every Well-Lived Life
Today’s Strategic Alignment Journal Post in two sentences: We carefully schedule work because we know it matters, yet we often leave play, curiosity, and renewal to chance, then wonder why they disappear. A strategically aligned life isn’t just one that protects productivity, but one that intentionally makes room for the experiences that restore the person doing the…
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The Distortion isn’t in the Tool
Today’s Strategic Alignment Journal Post in two sentences: The quality of AI’s output often reflects the quality of the thinking we bring to it, making the real issue less about the tool and more about the user. Before evaluating any tool, it is worth examining the thinking behind deciding to use it in the first…
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