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Thankful for Gratitude
Thanksgiving Day Gratitude is a strange thing to be thankful for. It’s kind of like being happy about being joyful. It seems somewhat redundant. There have been countless studies about the benefits of a gratitude practice. It is a keystone practice that can benefit all your other practices. But it’s not just about improving your…
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I Broke The Chain
For the last couple of months, I’ve been building a daily writing habit. It was a habit I formed last year in a community as I couldn’t do it independently. It led to publishing a weekly long-form blog post, not missing a week, and publishing a book! The habit fell away this year as I…
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Exploring Intense Emotions
Martin Luther King Jr. Day Intense emotions can be so enlivening, can’t they? I had a visit from an old nemesis today. It was maddening. And it brought along a familiar friend, rage! I’m going to talk around that specific infraction, as it is mostly irrelevant. And I don’t want to feed the fire. As…
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The Power of Consistency
It was 2003, and the start of my selling career. I was doing a little marketing via a basic website and pay per click advertising to find clients. My manager and a few other sales folks recommended I read Permission Marketing by Seth Godin. The book’s premise was simple: keep in touch with the people…
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Go Out Like Willie Nelson
Transitions are hard because of endings. Losing my job, leaving more questions than answers, has been a roller coaster. Mostly of the demeaning way they handled it. My efforts to put in time to end things well were contorted, and lawyers got sent after me with serious threats to my livelihood. I satisfied the requests,…
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A Reflection and A Plan
Winter Solstice Today is the day that my book Selling Without Selling Your Soul launches! I can’t believe that this thing was just an idea a year ago, and I had no intention of writing a book. It was a series of 28 blog posts based on the four stages of the hero’s journey applied…
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