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If Only I knew then What I Know Now!
‘If I could go back to high school, I would do things a lot differently.’ ‘I would be rich today if I had known how to invest five years ago.’ ‘I wish I would have started working out six months ago!’ Sound familiar? Have you ever thought anything similar to this? I think we all…
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Education Opportunities
Looking for something to expand your mind without jumping into a whole degree plan? Maybe looking for an education bullet on your next EPR? There are some sites out there that allow us to take classes from universities like Wharton, Harvard, MIT and just about any other one you can imagine for free. These allow…
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3 Lessons Learned from my Father
“You are a man now. What you do or don’t do is your choice, but you have to own the consequences of those choices.” These were the words spoken to 15-year-old me by my father almost 22 years ago. To this day, I still reflect on that moment and the many more where he offered sage…
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Bullet Writing Tips (TSgt Jeffrey Henebry)
Here is a really good bullet writing presentation and tracker courtesy of TSgt Jeffrey Henebry: bullet-writing-for-jr-enlisted-final-locked bullet-tracker
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Managing Talent
“To one he gave five talents of money, to another two talents, and to another one talent, each according to his ability…The man who had received the five talents went at once and put his money to work and gained five more. So also, the one with the two talents gained two more. But the…
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Raising Awareness: Really?
“I am raising awareness”…seems to be the rebel yell of the day. We change our profile pics on Facebook, write posts, troll political sites, share clips of news debates, etc. all in the cause of “raising awareness” for some cause or social issue. But what are we really doing? Nothing. Making noise, at best. We…
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Is Rank Required for Leadership?
A few years back I had a conversation with someone about an upcoming promotion cycle. He was telling me about how he hopes he makes the next rank so he could gain some clout in the unit. I asked him why he thought he needed rank to lead. He wasn’t able to articulate his thoughts…
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Incremental Daily Growth
I remember being an Airman in the dorms and being broke. I wasn’t frivolous with my money; I just didn’t make much as an E-1. I would list out my wants and my needs in a little journal and spend accordingly on the 1st and 15th. I also had a change jar in my wall…
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Just a Pawn?
Every one on a team must fill a unique role if it is to succeed. One of the most difficult problems of being on a team is filling a different role than what we think we deserve. It is extremely difficult to lead a team that has members conflicting over their roles. Unfortunately, this is…
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Short-Term Victories vs Long-Term Relationships
“Building bridges is what a leader does” was the advice I received somewhere along the road. This sounded like some common sense advice to me; however, it turns out that not everyone feels the same way. We have all worked with some who will do whatever they have to in order to achieve a short-term…
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