Three Questions to Help You Evaluate Negative Feedback

Negative feedback is always difficult to swallow in the moment. My rule of thumb is to never respond to the feedback with anything other than open ears. While it’s true that not all negative feedback is useful and may require you to take it with a grain of salt, it’s still not useful to debate […]

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Sticking With a New Healthy Habit Depends on Changing This Mindset

Starting a new healthy habit is easy. Sticking with that habit is the hard part. It’s not necessarily hard because doing the work to stick with the habit is hard, although it may be. It’s hard because most people approach healthy habits with an all or nothing mindset. This all or nothing mindset makes you […]

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How to Execute a Comeback

There is a pattern that emerges in almost all comeback stories. This pattern emerges out of the process of applying metacognition techniques. Metacognition is when you think about how you think and then use what you learn to improve your thinking. Simply stated, this means not only learning from failure, but applying what you learn […]

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