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Beethoven’s Counterintuitive Productivity Secret
The fourth quarter is almost here—the year’s final stretch, when projects intensify and goals push for closure. It’s the season when pressure quietly mounts and rest, though deeply needed, can feel like a luxury. Yet some of history’s greatest creators understood something we often forget: progress depends as much on deliberate rest as on effort.…
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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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How are you designed to work to achieve material success?
We have lost sight of ourselves and are fixated on discovering how to do everything OUT THERE. Self-reliance is no longer revered. It’s more – look at others, copy and hopefully achieve what they are achieving. This looks and sounds logical except, we are not them. Of course we understand that we are different. We…
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Why should you be hired, if no one understands what you do?
Most service providers have such a low level of self-belief, they will jump to answer the “why should we hire you” question as if they were on trial. If this is you, understand that the work to do is not to figure out how to answer “what do you do?” The work is to figure…
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Trust your unique expertise – you have everything you need
Feeling that we need more – more education, more information, more time, more money, more training, more experience – is a lie we tell ourselves to stay stuck because, believe it or not, this is a comfortable spot. It’s what we know. What we don’t know is what’s scary to us so we never venture…
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How do you embrace what makes you different?
We were not brought up to look for differences. We have been socialized to look for similarities…to look for ways to act the same, dress the same and want the same things. From an early age onwards our goal is to belong…never to stand out. On the school playground, I remember being teased relentlessly. I…
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the power and profitability of your business lies in asserting your uniqueness
Respect your own opinions more and those of others less, especially when it comes to your areas of expertise, to the field you have immersed yourself in. ROBERT GREENE – The Laws of Human Nature – The Law of Repression When we are young we cannot do anything other than express who we really are.…
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Do you doubt your own ability to make a difference?
Self-doubt is par for the course. We all doubt ourselves from time to time. Today however it’s worse. Why, because we now measure everything we do by likes and comments from friends – some we know well, many are just ‘friends’ on social media. A like, a reaction, becomes our external grading feature. We have…
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your sacred autobiography
Do you sometimes feel as if you know where you’re going and at other times feel so radically inadequate that you’re too embarrassed to say? Despite having done well on formal tests or perhaps performed poorly and worldly success continues to elude you – I am sure that you have already come to the realization…
Clarity BEFORE Execution. Structure BEFORE Speed
When the stakes are high, DON’T MOVE without CLARITY
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 | Business Diagnostic Specialist | Clarity before high-stakes decisions 