Archive for the ‘Focus’ Category


Who Is Steering Your Ship?

Full Speed Ahead It’s funny the way things work out sometimes. There are all kinds of stories about how some character spends their whole life running away from something only to find it was what they needed all along. They just needed to see it in a fresh light. Or the familiar story of somebody [...]

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The Road, The Inn, And The Flowers Along The Way

Will That Be Cash Or Charge? So the other day I was down at the gardening shop. It’s a pretty new shop, and they have some nice displays out in front, so I’d been meaning to go in and check it out. I pass by it a couple of times a week on my way [...]

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See The Ball… Be The Ball…

Cinderella Story Once there were these two guys playing golf. They had been friends for a long time, and always got together at least twice a month to play around. Neither of them were any good, they both never shot under a hundred, but that didn’t bother them. They just enjoyed hitting the balls around [...]

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Visualize Yourself To Victory

How To Change The Playing Field In Your Favor I remember once, a long time ago, way back when I was in Junior High school, I was playing golf with a couple of friends after school. There was one hole that I always had trouble with. The first 80 yards or so, you had to [...]

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Lunar or Solar?

Change Perspective The other day I was talking to one of my neighbors, one of them that I don’t talk to very often. It seems that there is a local festival happening this weekend, and she was trying to explain its significance. Something to do with the lunar New Year. Every year the lunar New [...]

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What Is Your Motivating Strategy?

Push or Pull? Once I was driving to Vegas with a couple of buddies. I was driving, and they were goofing around. They accidentally had knocked off my rear view mirror, so my friend decided he would hold the rear view mirror and check to see if anybody was behind us. Luckily we were in [...]

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The Long And Storied History Of The Turtle And The Ostrich

Symbiosis Once there were these two friends, a turtle and an ostrich. Now, people aren’t aware of the close relationship between turtles and ostriches, because they don’t go around advertising their mutual endeavors. They are the kind of people that like to quietly get things done behind the scenes without drawing too much attention to [...]

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They Are Everywhere – And They Know Who You Are

Where Are They Hiding? I had a friend once that never learned how to ride a bicycle until he was in high school. He never explained why, but I suspect his parents were a bit on the goofy side. They were in this strange religious, or maybe even cult, I’m not sure. Now that I [...]

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The More Clearly You Define Your Destination, The Quicker You’ll Get There

Do You Know Where You Are Going? I remember once me and a friend of mine decided to go hitchhiking. Neither of us had ever hitchhiked before, and we thought it would be fun to go camping that way. We both lived in the dorms, and our college was about fifteen miles away from the [...]

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Beware Of Mind Poison

How To Inoculate Yourself Against Manipulation There was once a pretty interesting promotion an airline had a few years back. This was before September 11, and there were fewer restrictions. Also this was only a domestic airline, so they didn’t have to worry about any international laws. Here’s what the promotion was. You showed up [...]

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