Category: Discipline

The path is interrupted by uncertainty. Uncertainty, threat and danger. Resolve the problem before continuing your journey. Bring a gap.

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The Positive Power of Negative Capability

Negative capability is the capacity to tolerate ambiguity and contradiction—to dwell in not-knowing—without rushing to impose logic, closure, or certainty. It’s an

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The Allure of Pseudo-Problems

Pseudo-Problems are distractions or side issues to the real challenge, but they are often less frightening. Confronting the true Goliath before us

A person's hand holding a sticky note that says "Every failure is a step to success", set against an outdoor background

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To Outplay the Field, You Must Outlearn the Field

Just as failure is rarely the result of a single cause, so too is success dependent upon good outcomes, often small ones,

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First Room on the Right

There was a point early in my life when I knew I had internal issues I needed to face, that I had

A sign with an arrow pointing to the left that says "old habits" and an arrow pointing to the right that says "change"

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All too Many Never PiP

Oh, we humans! We are not thinking creatures with emotions, we are emotional beings who (occasionally) think. One result is that we

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Resilience is a Learnable Skill Set

Folks, I do my best to plan ahead, to live smart and avoid dumb, to sidestep as many of life’s pitfalls and

A cup of coffee, a notebook, and a pen on a table. "Stop dreaming. Start doing!" is written in the notebook

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Which Do You Believe in Most: The Goal? Or the Obstacle?

What we focus on expands, thoughts held in mind attract in kind, and energy flows where attention goes. Where are your thoughts

fear

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Are You Brave?

I’m not asking about charging a machinegun nest in WWII… I’m speaking about emotional courage. Do you have the internal fortitude to

A sunny sky in the background with a chain in the foreground. The last chain link is broken and there are birds flying away from it.

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Swallowed Any Hand Grenades Lately?

Life is complex. While there is much truth in the adage, “feelings buried alive never die” there is also a place for

The words "through discipline comes freedom" written on a chalkboard. The "o" in the word "comes" is a round stopwatch.

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Calibrating Your Caring; Pacing Your Passion to Perform and Persevere

NYT recently ran an article about a golf pro with a growing history of faltering at the very end, letting tournament after

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Does Time Own You? Or Do You Control Time?

“There are two fundamental ways to approach time: Either it’s something outside of you that you cannot control, or it’s something within