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Persistence

Constant dripping wears off a stone – Ken Matsuzaki I just read a short piece in the current New Yorker Magazine about Tokyo resident and Cardozo Law School grad Ken Matsuzaki.  He finally passed the NYS Bar exam after taking it

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Treating the symptoms

I have had a variety of intestinal ailments for more than thirty years.  In the last two weeks, I have had some nasty symptoms.  My response has largely been in the area of treating just the symptoms and not really

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“Enjoy your achievements as well as your Plans”

“Do not distress yourself with imaginings”, “whether it is clear to you or not, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should”  Thanks Max. For a little comic relief, here is the National Lampoon version from 1962.

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Using Your Brain for a Change

Credit for today’s post title goes to a great book of the same title by NLP pioneer Richard Bandler.  Here’s a link to Amazon.  I get nothing for the referral.  Check it out because it’s good. So we left off

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Powerful Habits To Build Your Career Every Day

Here is a link to a decent article from Fast Company on building a habit of building your business.  Not just for freelancers and sole proprietors.  These are good habits for everyone.  Plus it starts with this cool quote from

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Change

“Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.” Robert F.

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Acknowledge

Acknowledge the positive changes you have made in your life. Focus on these — and on the changes in your life and expression that you are making right now — no matter how “small” or “insignificant” these changes might be.

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Confessions of a Loser

I have lost more than eighty pounds four or five times in last twenty-five years.  Reminds me of the Mark Twain quote “quitting smoking is easy, I’ve done it a thousands times”. Let me share my keys to taking it

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