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Critical, Creative, Intuitive Thinking: All You’ll Ever Need in Life
Looking to impress that special someone? Need to build a new cabinet under the kitchen sink? Need to make a career change? It’s a bedtime story you need? Have to make an important political decision? Got an exam you’ve got to pass? On and on and on it goes. All begins in thought. Everything under [...]
Self Improvement Tip: Be Bigger Than Your Problems: If You’re Offended, it’s Mostly Your Fault
I once asked my students what they would do if someone said that they were stupid. Most said they would be outraged, some said they would take the matter into their own hands, literally. A few said that they would do nothing. I asked why. Some said they didn’t want a confrontation that it wasn’t [...]
Time Management: It’s More About Managing Self Than Time
OK, you’ve got your work day all scheduled out to the last minute. You’ve gotten rid of distractions. Now it’s just matter of getting to work and getting it done. Right? If you said yes, think again. “Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work” Peter Drucker, management expert “It’s not [...]
Tapping into Your Own, Unique Self-Help Guru: How to Make the Universe Work for You
Or How to Find the Airport when You’re Lost and Don’t Have Time to Stop and Ask for Directions One day, I was rushing to get my wife to the airport on time. Since it was an international flight, the general rule-according to my wife-is to get there three hours before the flight’s scheduled departure [...]
Determining Your SuccessTypes Learning Style Type is Critical to Your Achievement
I know I sound like a broken record, but here is more critical self-understanding few high school or college students achieve or at least to the level needed for greater if not greatest achievement. For not having a thorough understanding of one’s talents, abilities, gifts, weaknesses, learning style, intelligence type(s), SuccessType, and more, how can [...]
No Fear: Overcoming Fear One Fright at a Time
You’ve seen the “No Fear” clothing stickers on cars helping to coach those who want to overcome if not ignore fear. But to ignore it or to say it doesn’t exist is only healthy if you are aware of it, its purpose and need, for understanding fear and how it’s used in our lives is [...]
How Smart You Are is Based on How You Are Smart
You desire to optimize your chance for success. What do you do? To do so involves several steps. First, we discovered that to optimize one’s chance for learning is important: “Learning About Learning: The Best State of Mind in 10 Conditions” (pub. 4/21/2010). The next step is to learn how you learn or learn best. [...]
Career Coaching: Losing Your Job is Not So Unlikely In Today’s Age of Turbulence
We live in a world of capitalistic creative destruction. The very nature of capitalism relies on competition and coming up with the latest, greatest, best product and or service going. Or that which makes previous products and services obsolete. How long has this been going on? Much longer than the title of this article implies. [...]
No Amount of Education Reform Addresses Deeper Issues
A point to consider when talking education reform is that to the greatest degree it comes down to money. There are over 15,000 individually run school districts. Some rich. Some poor. And others in-between. Those districts of the well-to-do benefit the schools in which they live more than those of the not-so-affluent. This should be [...]
A High School Education is Necessary, But Has This Opinion Ever Been Confirmed?
First, to set the stage, let’s start by saying that most believe education to be critical. Education here meaning high school since it is compulsory and everyone is required to attend. But specifically the content of the “education” spoken to by the majority is quite different from what is essential to survive in today’s competitive [...]
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