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Questions To Trigger Your Thinking Do You Offer Multiple Motives for Decisions? Trigger Question #70 (This is for all you festive procrastinators who are still struggling to decide on the “right” gift for your significant other. Good luck.) We often defend our decisions and our actions by giving many reasons and explanations. And even excuses. But here’s the rub. If what you plan to do is clearly important, then you wouldn’t need many reasons, explanations, or excuses. Only one will do. The...
Insights To Boost Your Career and Success ’Tis the Season When Some Sellers Won’t Sell Insight #56 Once upon a time... Actually, this is a true story as then reported in the news. A visitor to London in December of a certain year spent hours looking for the latest must-have Santa toy for his son in Africa. The desired toy was not to be found at any store. But the determined father stumbled upon an out of the way store where, oh happiness, one toy remained in stock. And that was the problem....
Insights To Boost Your Career and Success Thanksgiving Before Great Expectations Insight #176 Next week, in the USA, we enter the period of giving thanks and then we jump straight into the period of great expectations. Actually, this is the correct order of things. Gratitude first, then expectation. Big or small. A common mistake we make is to withhold gratitude until we have received. We wait until we can judge whether what we have received is worthy of thanksgiving. Imagine being served by...