How to Enhance Our Psychological Flexibility

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I have a six-year-old son who is in speech therapy. I listened in to one of his sessions this week, where he worked on his “th” sound. He tends to do an “s” sound when the “th” sound is needed. So, instead of “tooth,” often it comes out as “toose.” The whole point of speech […]

From Book: Shifting From an Inward Mindset to an Outward Mindset

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My book, Success Mindsets, is officially available in print (click here to get it at your favorite retailer). To highlight the launch of the book, I have been sharing portions of my book. This week, I share a section about a profound experience that helped me shift from an inward mindset to an outward mindset. All […]

Agility Quotient

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(Cover image credit: Ryderwear – https://www.ryderwear.com/collections/womens-leggings/) You have heard of intelligence quotient (IQ) and emotional intelligence (EQ), but have you heard of agility quotient (AQ). Ok, so agility quotient hasn’t been rigorously studied like IQ or EQ, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t have important practical implications. Agility quotient is one’s ability or capacity to […]

How to Develop More of an Outward Mindset

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If you feel like a mindset novice, before reading this article, you might find value in reading these two articles: What are Mindsets & Why are They Foundational to Our Success? Research-Backed Benefits of Possessing an Outward Mindset These articles lay the groundwork for why we need to focus on developing more of an outward […]

Research-Backed Benefits of Possessing an Outward Mindset

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If you feel like a mindset novice, before reading this article, you might find value in reading this article: What are Mindsets & Why are They Foundational to Our Success? It lays the groundwork for why I am focusing on and summarizing the benefits of an outward mindset. Inward and Outward Mindsets We possess an […]

Are Mindsets a “Secret to Success?”

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I often hear people say that mindsets are the “secret to success.” I am not sure if I buy this. Not because I don’t think mindsets are important, but because I don’t think it is a “secret” that mindsets are foundational to our success. I think most people know and understand the importance of mindsets, […]

Owning Your Mindsets: The Key to Emotional Intelligence

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Emotional intelligence is a fancy term for possessing self-awareness and other-awareness in the following ways: Interesting factoids regarding emotional intelligence (from Emotional Intelligence 2.0): Regarding the two components of emotional intelligence, I have two beliefs: For this post, I want to focus on how we can enhance our self-awareness in order to improve our emotional […]

What Your Team Must Focus on to Be Successful

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50 years ago, almost to the day I am posting this, astronaut Neil Armstrong took his historic steps on the moon. What an incredible feat…getting people on the moon. How do you get someone on the moon when no one has every been there before? I am not sure, but I do know one thing […]

Mindsets: The Key to Personal Development

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If you were to Google “how to be an effective ______________________” (fill in the blank; leader, employee, parent, follower, fisherman), you will inevitably end up with a near-endless list of articles that resemble the following: Now, if you were to click on each of those articles and identify all of the unique aspects of what […]

The Cognitive Science Behind Mindsets

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What causes one person to see challenges as things to avoid, but another person to see those same challenges as opportunities to learn and grow? What causes one person to see others as objects, but another person to see those same people as people? Our mindsets! But why? To answer this question, we need to […]

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