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4 Strategies to Break Bad Habits Jul 07, 2024

There's a Fast Company article that highlights a group of people who get a surgery called "angioplasties" – a procedure that opens up arteritis in the heart to clear out the blockage.

1.3 million peo...

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The Lebron Method: Using Cognitive Distancing to Feel and Perform Better, & Make Better Decisions Jul 07, 2024

When I was a kid, one of my favorite things to do was shoot hoops with my parents. Both of them were great basketball players, and I used to love stories about them going to college campuses in the Bo...

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How to Get “Unstuck” Jul 05, 2024

Every few months, I see an article or a Twitter thread, or a YouTube recommendation for "How to get 'unstuck.'" I don't know what it says about me that these algorithms keep shoving this advice in my ...

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The Charisma Myth: How to Become More Charismatic Jul 04, 2024

There’s a scene in the movie Wedding Crashers where Vince Vaughn sits down with a priest.

The priest approaches him in the breakfast nook, and says “Hello, son. You okay?”

Vaughn’s character, obviou...

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How to Deal With Imposter Syndrome Jul 04, 2024

What is Imposter Syndrome?

  • Imposter syndrome is a term coined by researchers from Georgia State University in 1978 that encapsulates a feeling of inadequacy, or a sense of doubt around your skill

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Coaching Tools: Motivational Interviewing Jul 04, 2024

Developed by clinical psychologist Bill Miller & Stephen Rollnick, Motivational Interviewing (MI) is “a collaborative, goal-oriented coaching style with on focus on the language of change. Designed to...

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A Different Way To Develop Confidence Jul 04, 2024

In 1979, a group of 75-year old men gathered at a retreat center. The retreat center was a little dated… by 20 years to be exact. Everything was set up as if it was the year 1959; newspapers, magazine...

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Happiness is NOT a Choice. It's a Practice. Jul 02, 2024

In the late 90’s, Springwoods Elementary School would serve “Crispy Chicken on a Bun” to their students every Thursday. (Think: a poor man’s Chick-fil-a chicken sandwich). Crispy Chicken on a Bun was ...

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You Have Plenty of Willpower. Change This Instead Jul 02, 2024

I was on the phone with one of my coaching clients the other day, and we were talking about her biggest struggle: Alcohol.

She’s in good shape. She eats clean 95% of the time, she’s sleeping well, an...

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Mountains of Success: One Step at a Time Jul 01, 2024

I’m all settled in at the airport, about to return home to Charlotte, NC after a week with my girlfriend in Salt Lake City.

Two days ago, we went out to the Timpanogos Mountains, and it was one of th...

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Social Roles: What's Better? Brown Eyes or Blue Eyes? Jun 01, 2024

In 1968, the day after Martin Luther King Jr. was killed at a Memphis hotel, Jane Elliot walked into her third-grade classroom, and was struck with an idea for an exercise for her students.

She split...

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