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How To Be More Decisive

by Stephen Mills April 10, 2010

A decisive person understands all this and takes charge making most decisions quickly and with clarity. A decisive person understands the difference between decisions that really make a difference and those that don’t. A decisive person has a lot more time for the important things in their lives and a lot more peace of mind.

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Why You Should Be More Decisive

by Stephen Mills April 8, 2010

Teenagers used to have to be responsible (at least to some degree) and make some decisions for themselves. Now they have to call mommy on their cell phone and get permission or advice for everything. Employees who used to be responsible for decisions, now have to run it by their boss or their colleagues. They have to do this 24 hours a day via technology like email or cell phones, even when they or their boss is on vacation. Couples who used to make independent decisions now email, text, or call each other to discuss trivial decisions. Don’t say it isn’t so because I can hear it going on around me all the time. We are all talking to everyone about everything. Individual decision making and decisiveness have taken a big hit.

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Going Gaga Over Gurus

by Stephen Mills April 2, 2010

If you want to know what works for self improvement, it’s not complicated. You want to change, you are motivated to change, you commit to change, and you actually do something to change. What exactly you do is not as important. That’s my opinion anyway.

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The Sunk Cost Bias Mind Trap

by Stephen Mills March 16, 2010

You should be looking forward and making your decisions based upon what is before you and not what is behind you. Do you want to spend two hours watching a bad movie? Do you want to take your free show tickets that you already have and go to a show or do you want to stay home or do something else? You need to decide how you should you spend the time and money that you have now and not the time and the money you had yesterday.

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Taking a Stand For Something

by Stephen Mills March 13, 2010

Aside from the practical benefit in attracting passionate supporters, there is another and maybe more important benefit of taking a stand – your self-respect. Whenever I’m quiet about something that is important to me in the face of strong opposition, I end up feeling sick about it later. Whenever I hold back on writing something because I’m afraid it might offend someone, I lose a little respect for myself. I have just violated one of my basic principles. When I stand up for what I believe, I feel good about myself no matter what anyone else thinks.

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Defeating Inertia

by Stephen Mills March 9, 2010

The simple fact that you know you are going to be monitoring your activities by asking those two questions will make you more mindful and awake and alter your behavior. But you can take it further and ask yourself these questions before you act.

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Doing Great Work

by Stephen Mills February 27, 2010

“Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle.” — Steve Jobs

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What is Success?

by Stephen Mills January 31, 2010

Success is having the freedom and ability to do those things you truly want to do and that reflect your most deeply held values. You achieve success by eliminating the 80% to 90% of your commitments, activities, and relationships that don’t totally align with those values.

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Linchpin – A Review

by Stephen Mills January 28, 2010

“My goal is to persuade you that there is an opportunity available to you, a chance to significantly change your life for the better. Not by doing something that is easy or that you’ve been trained to do, but by understanding how the rules of our world have fundamentally changed and by taking advantage of this moment to become something the world believes is indispensable.”

–Seth Godin, from the Introduction

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How to Improve Your Willpower

by Stephen Mills December 30, 2009

“There is nothing that matters more in goal accomplishment than the ability to resist the urge to give in to little voices that tell us that it’s okay to quit when the going gets tough… The key to success with any goal is to withstand temptation and persist through discomfort.” – Caroline Adams

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