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What Will You Do With Your 30,000 Days? – Part 2

“I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it’s not the answer.” —Jim Carrey Last week, we unpacked the first 10,000 days and specifically looked at the idea of The Dream, an orientating direction to...

What Will You Do With Your 30,000 Days? – Part 1

“But one doesn't expect out of life what one has already learned that it cannot give, but rather one begins to see more and more clearly that life is only a kind of sowing time, and the harvest is not here.” Vincent Van Gogh Life itself as a concept has a scale of...

The opposite of “between a rock and a hard place”

Choosing between great and great isn't easy “The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.  F Scott Fitzgerald When considering the scope of time and...

80% of people live 100 miles from home

And how the Romcom Sweet Home Alabama explains why Photo by Lukas Kloeppel on Pexels.com Holiday travel is unsufferable. No matter the mode, the airports are crowded and the highways are full. Memorial Day weekend might possibly be the lone time of the...

Your Fifth Strategic Goal Isn’t That Important

There is tremendous power in curating your goal list Photo by Suzy Hazelwood on Pexels.com Several years ago I was at an event for a non-profit's leadership team, board members and most engaged volunteers. In the course of the keynote speaker’s remarks, he asked...