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My daughter and her 8th grade classmates had the courage to be outrageous last week by respectfully and successfully challenging their administrators on a point of principle. As is the tradition, teachers and students were asked to vote on which three classmates…
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I have spent most of my life behaving myself. Doing the conventional and achieving success in a traditional way. Not that there is anything wrong with that. In fact, it has all turned out just fine. However, the question remains whether I would have achieved even more and/or…
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Year: 2011 Fencing is a lot like business, and perhaps even life in general. I learned this yesterday at the British Youth...
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Since prehistoric times, fear has proven useful to our survival, both individually and as a species. These days, however, fear more often can hold us back from enjoying the success we are meant to achieve. With most of our fears blown out of proportion or perhaps even imagined, we must learn to keep fear in check or…
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Why do some people train hard in the gym and play hard on the court, while others go through the motions? Are those hours equally well spent? Some would ask what the point is of showing up if you aren’t going to get everything you can out of it. Others would say that at least the second person bothered to go at all.
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Day: January 3, 2011 Instead of New Year resolutions, I have decided to go with the suggestion made by Chris Brogan in his end...
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Career Advice Keeping your composure when you feel safe is easy. The question is how to regain and retain it when you are no...
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Career Advice Sports tournaments make for some interesting lessons on leadership and performance, and these apply equally to...
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Day: July 24, 2010 Recently, I have become fixated on what my role in the world should be. I find myself grappling with...
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teens I was watching Top Chef just to “hang out” with my daughter (she’s 13, so you grab those opportunities when you can), and...
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Day: July 7, 2010 A friend of mine is terribly worried that our next generation of high-achieving women may be destined for...
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control your destiny Those of us who have ever waited for someone else to select us — whether for a team, a job, or even a...
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