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  • What to Do When You’ve Made Someone Angry

    Published May 03, 2013

    We’re so focused on our own challenges that it’s often hard to acknowledge the challenges of others.

  • How to Use Temptation to Strengthen Your Willpower

    Published March 29, 2013

    Maybe getting the object of our desire isn’t what we really desire. Maybe it’s the desire itself which we desire. In other words, maybe it’s more pleasurable to want things than to have them.

  • How Not to Lose a Sale

    Published March 08, 2013

    Attunement is being in synch with who's and what's around you. When you're in attunement, you're curious. You ask questions, you listen to the answers, and you empathize.

  • Nine Practices to Help You Say No

    Published March 01, 2013

    Identify what’s important to you and acknowledge what’s not. If you don’t know where you want to spend your time, you won’t know where you don’t want to spend your time. 

  • Stop Focusing on Your Performance

    Published January 31, 2013

    Living life as a performance is not only a recipe for stress and unhappiness; it also leads to mediocre performance.

  • Why You Need to Fail

    Published January 25, 2013

    Every time I ask a room of executives to list the top five moments their career took a leap forward — not just a step, but a leap — failure is always on the list.

  • How to Attend a Conference as Yourself

    Published January 18, 2013

    People will trust you if you trust yourself. And to trust yourself you have to step out from behind the curtain.

  • Your Problem Isn't Motivation

    Published January 11, 2013

    The solution to a motivation problem is the exact opposite of the solution to a follow through problem. The mind is essential to motivation. But with follow through, it’s the mind that gets in the way.

  • Consider Not Setting Goals in 2013

    Published December 21, 2012

    It's not that goals, by their nature, are bad. It's just that they come with a number of side effects that suggest you may be better off without them.

  • An 18-Minute Plan for Managing Your Day

    Published December 14, 2012

    Managing our time needs to become a ritual, too. Not simply a list or a vague sense of our priorities. That's not consistent or deliberate. It needs to be an ongoing process we follow no matter what to keep us focused on our priorities throughout the day.