Category: Career Success
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Daily Deliberation: 8 July 2020
Are you open to feedback? I mean are you really willing to hear what others have to say? Most of us (if not all) will say we are…until someone tells us something we do not want to hear. Throughout my Air Force career, I have told people that if they asked for my opinion, I…
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Daily Deliberation: 6 July 2020
The Navy SEALs coined an ideal that we do not rise to the situation; rather, we fall to the level of our training. Basically, we do not get magic super powers when we are faced with a challenge. Instead, we rely on our preparation. Whenever I have planned out a certain event, it never went…
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Daily Deliberation: 5 July 2020
I never understood why I would prefer to talk about doing great things as opposed to actually doing them. “I am going to get back in shape, starting tomorrow.” Or some other worthy goal. It is easier to just talk about it now, but it is much more difficult to deal with the regret of…
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Daily Deliberation: 2 July 2020
We are horrible managers of our own time. Case and point, we have no problem staying up just five or ten minutes longer to do something seemingly useless like scroll our phones or watch a fidget spinner infomercial. Then we fight the alarm clock the next morning because we are too tired to wake up.…
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Daily Deliberation: 29 June 2020
Why are the things that make us better so hard to do? Getting a gym routine in motion, changing our diet, stop chugging sodas, read more, etc. take major amounts of will power even though we know they are the right things to do. Making decisions as a leader often are very difficult too. Even…
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Daily Deliberation: 27 June 2020
When I saw this quote, I had a flashback to my childhood and heard my dad saying this to me. He didn’t use this direct quote, but he did teach me that if you are not going to put in the effort to do it the right way, don’t do it. Sometimes we get to…
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Daily Deliberation: 26 June 2020
I remember hearing a version of this as a child. Growing up in martial arts, we were not allowed to use words like can’t or impossible. We were constantly challenged to find the solution. When fighting for your life, there is no room for impossible or defeat. Most of the situations we face are not…
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Daily Deliberation: 23 June 2020
Have you ever noticed how much you plan to do tomorrow? I know for me, tomorrow is the day I am going to work out harder. Tomorrow I am going to read more. Tomorrow I will do a cool project with the kids. Tomorrow I will <insert yours here>. I think if we were honest…
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Daily Deliberation: 20 June 2020
We look at failure as such a negative thing. We are so afraid of its negative stigma, we never even try sometimes. Many suffer from a failure to launch because of this fear. Although, if we keep doing the same thing and failing at it over and over again, that makes us insane not a…
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Daily Deliberation: 18 June 2020
I always used to approach school as a checklist. Finish this history report and move on. Algebra II, Check. These were stepping stones on my path to freedom as a graduate. In many ways college was similar. It wasn’t until after I finished that I discovered a different view on education. Each time we learn…
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