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How Bad Do You Want It?
Today’s Strategic Reflection Post in two sentences: In selling, our job is to diagnose the problem, recommend the solution, master our sales process and ask for the business; the client’s job is to decide whether to buy. If we measure our performance only by whether they say yes or no, we may be judging ourselves…
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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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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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Routine can be a double-edged sword
On the one hand, it creates rhythm… steadiness… trust with yourself. It’s how things get done when motivation dwindles. It’s how we move forward without renegotiating every decision from scratch. Routine builds muscle memory for progress. But when routine goes unquestioned… What once supported momentum can quietly become a blindfold. You keep doing the thing…
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What Happens When Nostalgia Masquerades as Wisdom?
Nostalgia is seductive. It feels warm. Familiar. Safe. It wraps itself in memory and tells a comforting story about who we used to be, what once worked, and how things should feel again if we could just get back there. But nostalgia is not neutral.And it is definitely not strategy. In business, nostalgia often masquerades…
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Why a Tired Mind Calls Progress Failure
There are days when nothing is actually wrong, yet everything feels off.Days when even the smallest task feels heavier than it should. Days when the mind, already stretched thin, starts whispering that nothing is working. Beneath that reaction is this: A tired mind distorting reality.A fearful mind misreading signals. And both of them turning ordinary…
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You can’t F*ck with the tea leaves
Have you ever thought that you figured out all the necessary steps toward the change you seek? Have you ever rolled out your plan and then have it immediately backfire, or blow up in your face? Often in life, however we imagine the future to be, is not quite how it turns out in reality.…
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Beware of the Illusion of Progress
Merrill’s Marauders (named after Frank Merrill) was a United States Army long range penetration special operations jungle warfare unit, which fought in the China-Burma-India Theater of Operations, or CBI, during World War II. Charlton Ogburn, Jr. (15 March 1911, Atlanta, Georgia – 19 October 1998, Beaufort, South Carolina) was a journalist and author of memoirs…
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The Painful Reality of the Shortcut
Posted this quote by Mark Twain on my Facebook page yesterday The secret of getting ahead is getting started I even decided to use it as my header on this site. It’s an exceedingly simple truth yet we spend most of our time ignoring “the start” – searching for THE SHORTCUT. Before we begin we…
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