Tag: mindset
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Play a Bigger Game: How Leaders Can Reset Goals and Boost Energy in 2026 and beyond
Play a Bigger Game: How Leaders Can Reset Goals and Boost Energy in 2026 Can you remember the exhilaration of working toward a meaningful goal? The focus, drive, and sense of being fully alive when a big goal challenges you? Think back to the goals you’ve achieved. Leaders and professionals often feel most energized when…
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Leadership Lessons from a Overstuffed Camping Trip
So here’s the scene: we’re heading off on a camping trip to Augusta, WA. The car is packed to the hilt, the trailer is bursting at the seams, and somehow there’s still not enough space. New gas cooker? Check. Stand-Up Paddle board? Check. Fishing rods, wetsuits, Chargers… you get the picture. And then it hit…
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Boost Your Mindset and Results: The Power of a Daily Gratitude Practice
I’m always amazed at how effective this is…
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How to Use Visualization to Achieve Your Goals (Lessons from My Dad)
In this post, I reflect on a powerful lesson my father taught me about goal setting — the importance of vivid visualization. From a childhood memory on horseback in South Africa to a modern-day workshop, I share how involving all your senses makes your goals more real and achievable. You’ll also learn practical steps to…
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What Kind of Leader Do You Think You Are? And How Self-Beliefs Are Holding You Back
“You’re definitely a morning person,” someone told me recently. Funny enough, on the same day, another person insisted I was not a morning person at all. So, which is it? The truth is—it doesn’t really matter. Some days I choose to rise early; other days I love a good lie-in. This is a simple example…
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Keep Watering Your Bamboo Tree
This remarkable tree is different from most trees in that it doesn’t grow in the usual fashion. While most trees grow steadily over a period of years, the Chinese bamboo tree doesn’t break through the ground for the first four years. Then, in the fifth year, an amazing thing happens – the tree begins to…
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Scoopons, Groupons, Living Social or whatever voucher you use!
Do you use Scoopons, or Doupons, or Living social – or Groupons? Or whatever other voucher system is in your area? This morning, our bedroom and my office were turned upside down, to clear the carpet to be cleaned professionally. The guy arrives to clean them – I show him the carpets and he tells…
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