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No Ego

Posted on October 14, 2025

If you could work incredibly hard for 10 years, and sacrifice significantly, to create lasting world peace and prosperity for everyone, but you would get no credit for any of it, and die in obscurity, would you do it?

Can you do a good deed without telling anyone at some point what you did?

Can you succeed at something yet not signal your achievement, or seek recognition?

Ego can drive us forward, to achieve great things, but it can also hinder many people. Healthy sharing of your success is one thing, though demanding attention for it is another. It’s often a fine line, and if you remove your bias, sometimes you’ll be able to see it.

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Decide To Be In Awe

Posted on October 3, 2025

Decide to be in awe of the world around us. As I look around the room, I am grateful for all of the people who conceived of all the products I can see.

In addition, I am grateful for all of the people, I will never know or meet, who financed these products through R&D and manufacture. And finally, I’m grateful to all of the people who worked in the companies, the supply chains, and the delivery units, that enabled these products to surround me in this room.

Sure, I went out and bought these items, so the effort doesn’t seem that incredible. However, the whole idea of each one of these products began years before I decided it was a product I needed and was willing to spend my hard earned money on.

Just think about all the sourcing of the raw materials that went into a plug, a lamp, a painting, a wood carving, a table, a ceiling fan, bedsheets, and a pen.

When you stop and think about all of this, it is really hard not to be in awe of the world we live in.

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Are You Tracking?

Posted on October 1, 2025

To achieve your goals, you should have a plan that is written down. And if you have a plan, you should have specific milestones. Those milestones need to be checked on frequently. Sometimes this means daily and sometimes it might mean weekly.

One way to greatly increase your rate of success is to have timed, specific, milestones that you move closer to every day. Not only that, you need to be tracking them, frequently.

Track your success daily. This will help you keep your focus on your important goals.

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Listen Carefully

Posted on September 29, 2025

When having a conversation with another person, listen carefully, not casually. Listen to what the person is actually saying. Listen to the words they are using and the order of the words.

Occasionally you will need to understand the general point and other times it will be the specifics.

And when a specific question or comment is made, accept it for that which it is. Do not try to guess what they really mean, or mind read. Answer the actual question, not another question you have made up in your mind.

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Find Your Faith

Posted on September 20, 2025

What do you believe in?

Have you ever really sat down for an hour and wrestled with this? Perhaps you have very clear cut convictions. Writing out your thoughts can be very helpful.

I think there was a scene in Bull Durham where the player rhymed off everything he believed in. Can you do that?

Maybe it’s time to give it more thought. ????

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Listen To Understand

Posted on September 18, 2025

Some people, unknowingly, listen to misunderstand. They already know exactly what they think and they have no interest in understanding a different perspective.

They don’t have to agree with the different perspective, but it’s useful if they at least understand it. They already know exactly what they think and they have no interest in understanding a different perspective. They don’t have to agree with the different perspective, but it’s useful if they at least understand it.

People generally are pretty good minded. So understanding their position is helpful and shouldn’t test your boundaries very much.

Most misunderstandings, or arguments, stem from one person holding on to their position regardless of ANY evidence that may contradict that position.

Give people the opportunity to calmly state their case, provide evidence, and then you listen to understand. There is something that is bothering them and you have the capacity to understand it, so you should.

If you do, you are likely to learn something new, grow and maybe even keep a friend.

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