Whether it’s taking a pill, taking a shot, taking a promotion, taking a vacation, taking a risk, taking an opportunity, or even taking down a number, always research and ruminate on the side effects.
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The longer something sticks around, the more likely it is to be the real deal. The test of time is probably the most important test of all.
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It occurred to me that life is hard enough without us adding any difficulty to the equation. Here’s a question: in what areas of my life am I doing too much?
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One encounter can change the entire trajectory of your life. You are only one click, one conversation, and one chance away from your next dimension.
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Sometimes God throws us life changing opportunities, unprecedented blessings, potential breakthroughs—and we miss them.
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Nuts and bolts are designed to hold two objects together. A bolt is usually inserted into the objects you want to join and then fastened firmly with the nut. They are usually unseen and often ignored. That is, until doors come off.
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Minimum payments is not just a strategy employed by credit card issuers to maximize profit. It is also unfortunately the approach that many of use to live our lives. Many of us only give the bare minimum of our time, attention, and energy.
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Just don’t talk about, dream about, or wish about who you want to meet, where you want to go, and what you want to have.
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To say that someone’s audio doesn’t match their video is to say that they are talking a good game, but not playing one. On its face, that phrase is not a compliment. At best, it is a criticism. At worse, it is a condemnation.
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Well, one of the rediscoveries that I made last year is that it is impossible to like yourself for long if you keep on breaking your own rules.
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No matter how smart, driven, creative, resilient, or anointed you may be, you can’t achieve anything worthwhile alone. As one great preacher used to say, “anyone wrapped up in themselves is a small package.”
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We assume that what is being advertised is all that there is in stock. But I am learning that there is always more on the menu that may first appear. And since there is more on the menu that may first appear, we should never settle for the options that we see. There is usually another option.
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I am deeply stirred in my spirit to encourage someone reading this: you are so much closer than you think! You are only inches away.
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There is no drug more intoxicating than nostalgia, which according to one definition is “a wistful desire to return in thought or in fact to a former time in one's life, to one's home or homeland, or to one's family and friends; a sentimental yearning for the happiness of a former place or time.”
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In fact, you can make anything cheap look good with the right decorations. Some tinsel here, a wreath there; a light here, a candy-cane there, and even a chintzy artificial tree can be made to look far more valuable than it is.
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Attributed to legendary investor Warren Buffett, the expression Skin in the game is an expression that means to have a personal interest, risk, or investment in a decision or an outcome.
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The more deeply I researched the science, logic, and benefits of autopilot, it dawned on me that autopilot is not just a software program. It is also a philosophy.
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How much time do you spend talking or thinking about the actions, attitudes, and agendas of other people? Let me answer that question for you: probably far too much.
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Since there causal relationship between how you think (mind) and where you sit (behind), the only way to understand your position is to grasp your cognition.
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When I look at the critical events, decisive moments, and turning points of my more than half a century on this earth, names figures much more prominently than numbers.
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