It’s been an upsetting, unsettling, chaotic and noisy week. Predictions are that it’s not letting up soon. Depending on what you pay attention to it can throw your next minute, next hour, even your next days for a loop. It’s hard to turn away from the news and know what to focus on. If your regular programming has been upended and it has here is my strongest counsel for you. Develop and keep a morning…
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No culture war diatribe here. Just some simple snippets to share. I’ll be posting these on my Instagram stories @gunthermary each day as we head into Valentine’s Day. For my blog readers, I posted them all together. You can right-click on the images to copy or save and send them in a text with a note to a loved one. These are some of my favorite authors. I don’t know about you but I need…
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It had been a painfully overwhelming week. Deep disappointment with people close and dear to me and their decisions were running through my mind. Decisions that while not mine to make would make for a path that I could only anticipate for them to be difficult and deathly. I was grateful we had enough relationship that they let me know what was going on but also keenly aware they weren’t interested in or swayed by…
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A little over a year ago, I found myself sitting in a large conference room listening to a speaker guide us through an idea that I had been thinking about and sharing with my team over the past few years: Limiting Belief. Limiting beliefs are those ideas and tapes you play in your head that stop you from growing in life. The funny thing about limiting beliefs is that once you’re aware of them you…
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Well Begun is half done Aristotle Some things in life get started for us! Like the NEW YEAR. So Happy NEW YEAR! A year full of possibility. How did the New Year begin for you? Did it begin with anticipation or anxiety? For some of us, The New Year is like a fresh book at the beginning of a school year! But for many already a mere 6 days into this fresh book the spine…
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It’s one of the most profound and difficult lessons every MBA is taught: Ignore sunk costs. Money and effort you spent yesterday should have nothing to do with decisions you make tomorrow, because each decision is a new one. Seth Godin Sunk costs have more to do with everyday decisions than we realize. It isn’t just a hard lesson for the life of a business. It’s a hard lesson for the business of life. Life…
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