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Monday Musings: Why So Serious?
We’re bound to face problems each day. Murphy’s law is a law for a reason. Something’s just bound to go wrong, and guess what? It’s totally ok. When something bad happens, we tend to react to it negatively. If you think about it, the negative reaction is something that comes from us. The exact same…
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Monday Musings: How to Make Important Decisions
Harness your ability to travel in time. In Daniel Pink’s The Power of Regret, he talks about a superpower only humans have – time travel. Our minds are able to go into the past, change certain decisions, then imagine what our present and future will be if we made that change. We don’t even need…
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Monday Musings: What is “Common Sense”?
“Why are you even asking? That’s just common sense!“ Have you ever heard someone say that to you? When we think about it, what is common sense, anyway? When we say “it’s common sense,” it just means “it’s simple logic.” Me: Sir, I’m about to send the report in to our CFO. Could you please…
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Monday Musings: TMI
Too Much Information. When you scroll through social media or any media for that matter, do you feel bombarded by too much information? Technology has allowed us to know everything that happens everywhere in the world at all times. There was a time when we only learned of global affairs from foreign television channels or…
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Monday Musings: Kiss the Frogs
“Before you find your prince, you need to kiss a lot of frogs.” A good friend and colleague of mine, Dr. Dido Gustilo-Villasor told me this one time when I failed to land an interview for a job. I felt confident that my credentials were enough, and that I was competent at the work I’d…
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