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Are you driving your goals or are conditions driving you?
Some attachments don’t look like attachments at all. They look like discipline, growth or self care… a healthy desire for quiet, space… a perfectly mapped out day envisioned… lists complete, categorized and prioritized. Let this day begin. And then life steps in. Nothing catastrophic but your schedule shifts, the timing is off, the atmosphere isn’t…
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Life Cannot Be Postponed While Realizing a Vision
Yesterday I wrote about daily evolution as the steady closing of the gap between what we know and how we live. About alignment not as an event, but as a practice that compounds quietly. Today the angle is different, because even disciplined evolution can become another form of postponement if we are not careful. There…
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How to Let Go of ‘Singing for your Supper’
The phrase ‘singing for your supper’, is older than the modern workplace and far older than LinkedIn ambition. In medieval towns, wandering minstrels arrived with no contract and no guarantee of welcome. If they wanted to eat, they performed. A song bought a bowl of stew. A story earned bread and butter. The arrangement was…
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The Much Overlooked Discipline of Taking a Break
We talk a lot about discipline as if it only lives in grit, in late nights, in pushing past limits and proving something to the version of ourselves that keeps score. But there is another discipline, quieter and far less glamorous, that almost never makes the motivational posters. The discipline of stepping away. The discipline…
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How Do You Design Your Day?
Most people design their day around habits they’ve been told are “good.” Be disciplined about all of it! And when it doesn’t work, they assume the problem is them. But what if the issue isn’t discipline at all? What if it’s design? Over time, I’ve learned that people don’t fail at productivity. They fail at…
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Can You Align Your Professional and Personal Purpose?
In an Atlantic article “The New Old Age” (by David Brooks, Aug 2023), we meet people who’ve spent decades in high-powered careers — CEOs, prosecutors, doctors — suddenly confronting a sobering truth: their professional résumés no longer define them. David Brooks, shares Anne Kenner’s story — a former federal prosecutor who walked into Stanford’s Distinguished…
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Why do some Employees Tune Out at Work?
I came across an article in Inc. recently by Kit Eaton: “How to Fight Clock Botching, the Latest Threat to Productivity” (published August 13, 2025). Up until then, I’d never heard the phrase clock botching before. I know of clock watching. I’ve done it. You’ve done it. That’s the “please-let-this-day-end” routine where the only thing…
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How Do We Leverage Humor in Trinidad and Tobago to Our Advantage?
One thing we have in abundance in Trinidad and Tobago is humor. We could be facing hardship, bureaucracy, blackout, or bacchanal—and somehow we still find the punchline. “Ting to cry for, we laugh.” It’s not just a saying—it’s our national coping strategy. But here’s the question for us as leaders, entrepreneurs, and solo professionals: Are…
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The Hidden Costs of “I’ll do it” Leadership
Every time a leader says “I’ll just do it,” a little bit of clarity, trust, and team momentum quietly slips away. The Upper Limit Problem, a concept introduced by Gay Hendricks, refers to a subconscious self-sabotaging behavior that occurs when individuals approach a level of success, happiness, or abundance that exceeds their comfort zone. This often leads…
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Clarity BEFORE Execution. Structure BEFORE Speed
High-stakes decisions deserve disciplined thinking
You don’t need to move faster.
You need to reduce unnecessary risk.
When your decision affects income, reputation, or stability,
pause with structure before you act.
Giselle Hudson | Pre-Decision Advisory for Leaders Under Pressure 