Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win, By fearing to attempt. William Shakespeare 1564 – 1616 What will be your greatest achievement in life? Take a moment and think about all the potential and possible answers, all the things you could do. Reflect on what you will be known and remembered for accomplishing. Will your greatest achievement be a world record in some competitive activity? Will your accomplishment come through your job, your children or your efforts to improve the world? When I ask this question of most people, the answers typically fall …
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In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919 I was recently working with a businesswoman in the New Orleans area; she’s been having problems adapting to all the changes occurring in her industry. Her business imports products from Europe and sells them throughout the US. Well, the Chinese have started making competing products that are higher in quality and lower in cost. So her company is in a very bad position. …
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To him who is in fear everything rustles. Sophocles c. 495 – 406 B.C. Sian Beilock and Thomas Carr, psychologists who specialize in studying how stress affects performance, recently reported on an experiment involving college students taking math exams. When the students were told the exam was just for practice, they scored 10% higher than when they took an equivalent exam and were told their test scores would be used as part of a competition for cash prizes. The social stress of competing for cash prizes directly affected the students’ performance on the exams. Daniel Goleman, author of Social Intelligence, …
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