Nothing compares to that moment in a conversation when you are fully and completely focused on the other person – and they know it. Unless you are the other person who feels heard and understood. That power goes deep into who we are as humans. Connecting to one another in conversation. Affirming our importance in this world and to one another. This is being fully focused in conversation, and it takes practice. It’s especially difficult during remote conversations. One of the...
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In Praise of Tiny Wins.
I’d rather have 365 tiny wins than one big win. That big hairy audacious goal is better achieved with a thousand tiny steps than one gigantic leap. Why? The enormous leaps are hard to repeat. Everything needs to be just right for them to happen. They are unpredictable and mostly out of our control. The tiny little wins we achieve every day? Those will last. They last because they are within our control. With each tiny win, we build confidence. Over...
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I am human. I never thought I was superhuman, mind you. But sometimes I forget what it is to be human. That it’s normal to be imperfect and we shouldn’t beat ourselves up about it. And it’s not the failures and falls that make us human either, it’s the getting back up. It’s that power to choose the next action that is human. I’d forgotten that falling and getting back up strengthens us. Getting back up and taking the next action....
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