Category: Career Success
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Daily Deliberation: 19 February 2020
We have all seen this one play out on a deployment. You are in the sandbox in a remote area of a developing country with little infrastructure. Mortar rounds are coming over the fence and you have been eating MREs for 60-days straight. Yet, somehow, you and your team make the best of it and…
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Daily Deliberation: 18 February 2020
I bet if you look back to those tough times in your lives, you will see something that came from it. When we go through a divorce, loss of a loved one, bankruptcy, injury or anything else life-changing, we think our lives are over. In a way, life as we knew it is over, but…
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Daily Deliberation: 17 February 2020
This is a true statement. How many of us ever achieve anything in a perfect straight line? I am a very focussed person when it comes to getting a task completed. I remember taking my kids to the park and being determined to get them there so they could have more time for fun. Then…
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Daily Deliberation: 16 February 2020
This is a sad but true statement in the literal sense. However, in the daily war we all fight, is death the only real end? Maybe that will be the true end of the war; however, we get to look back on our day and decide if it was a victory or a defeat. If…
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Daily Deliberation: 15 February 2020
Even though this is meant for gym rats, it is a perfect quote for us all. If something is worth doing, it is worth doing well. Too often we are not happy with our title or position and decide to just go through the motions until we are placed in a position that suits us.…
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Daily Deliberation: 14 February 2020
Those of you with small children know they are brutally honest. I admire their ability to value truth over all else. Somewhere along the way, we lose this in fear of looking mean or through concern of another’s feelings. However, those few times in our professional lives that another is honest with us truly sets…
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Daily Deliberation: 11 February 2020
Over the past couple of months, I have felt as if I had been kicked down multiple times. There were a couple of times I wanted to stay there and a few times I took my sweet ole’ time getting back up. We all go through these seasons and we have to get back up,…
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Daily Deliberation: 9 February 2020
There are those with many more years of experience than I have who seemingly know much less than me. Then there are those with fewer years who seem to be running circles around me. Why? This used to baffle me until I realized it is not how many things or events you have been through,…
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Daily Deliberation: 4 February 2020
I have been very impatient many times in my career. I knew I had the talent or skills to do the “next” thing. However, I had not yet proven myself. It took work to methodically earn the trust of my superiors and my team until they saw I was capable. By that time, I had…
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Daily Deliberation: 3 February 2020
Awhile back, I was listening to a podcast and the speaker was talking about those who want to become rich. He said we try to become rich by doing what rich people do. That will not work. We need to do what they did to become rich. We all want to be seen as an…
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