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Confetti Days

Sunday, August 7, 2011

I am sitting in the dining room at the table cutting square pieces of colored construction paper for Little Boy to glue onto a bigger sheet of paper. I, the adult, capable of analysis, soon figure out that I can stack 3 pieces of paper and with each “Snip! Snip!” generate 3 rectangular pieces for [...]

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Don’t Pretend to be Outgoing when You’re an Introvert, Instead, Focus on Why You Connect

Friday, July 29, 2011

Are you an introvert? I am. I’m energized by intense moments of solitude, not by exuberance of crowds. Once upon a time I felt bad that I was “shy”. Other people (parents!) even labeled me “arrogant” as a child because I appeared too aloof. When my mother told me this, I was maybe 5 or [...]

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How to Break Self-Sabotage Behaviors

Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Some of you live in a perpetual soap opera: you get so close to your goal that you can practically taste it on your tongue. Then, as if by clockwork, you do something that rips that possibility from underneath your feet. You are, once again, confronted by the fruits of your self-sabotaging behaviors. If you [...]

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Self-Help Authors and Perfect Lives

Monday, July 4, 2011

“Do authors of self-help books have a perfect personality and life?” (via Quora) Imagine an author who introduces himself this way: “I was born on a cool, breezy day in June, on the day I was supposed to be born and my mama told me delivery was almost painless because I came into the world [...]

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Perspective on Success Interview with Decoded Pathways

Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Chuks Onwuneme of Decoded Pathways interviewed me after reading one of my answers on Quora about success and how this changes people’s attitudes and behaviors.

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