January 7, 2025
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In School, Did You Peek the Other’s Answers?

The Main Reason The Teacher Said Stop Looking At Your Neighbor’s Paper The fastest way to ruin your life is to follow someone else’s plan. The fastest way to get your first trip to the principal’s office is to peek at your neighbor’s paper, on the desk next to you, hoping to […]
December 20, 2024
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Productivity for the Gifted Professional

An Entirely Fresh Approach for a Neurodiverse Brain When I first wrote about productivity, I did not know I was gifted. That was five years ago and many transformative, mind-blowing changes drive me back to this topic for a 2025 version and an entirely fresh approach to productivity My 2019 article still […]
July 23, 2024

Finding Joy in Togetherness: The Science of Collective Effervescence

How Synchronized Energy and Community Impact Our Health Do you believe collective effervescence is essential to your health? It is the high you experience with synchronized energy in rituals and traditions, such as the exhilaration at a sports event when everyone gasps and yells at scoring a goal. This happens at weddings […]
June 29, 2024

The Big Halftime Show Featuring You

It’s time for your July 1 performance featuring the past, present, and future July 1 is the high-impact, profound curiosity day of the year. It’s the big halftime show you’ve known about since January and it features you, exploring the past, present, and future in an intensive visualization of all three time […]
May 13, 2024

Ah Ha! Here’s Why Your Life Is Not Going As Planned

Why doesn’t high intelligence make anything work? We’re all smart here. We’re not stupid. One of the biggest hurdles for gifted people is realizing they can’t do everything. They can’t know everything. Many of us take on thinking we can make anything work! If only others would cooperate! Sound familiar? That comes […]
September 25, 2020

Fear of Missing Out (FOMO) Can Cost You $500,000

Conventional Wisdom and Better Questions What would happen if you never went to another professional convention? What happens when we choose to eliminate professional conventions from our career paths and networking habits? Do we become boring, lose relevance, and become self-absorbed? Does our Fear of Missing Out (FOMO) push us into bad […]
July 29, 2020

Proven Ways to Achieve Calmness and Unstoppable Energy

Every day we have the option to see everything as a threat or opportunity.  We have this choice all of the time.  It’s more obvious now.   It’s all we can see and feel. Today the mail from Ryan Holiday, bestselling author of Stillness Is The Key and other books about culture, the […]
June 24, 2020

What Is The #1 Reason Anyone Chooses Your Certification?

What Is The #1 Reason Anyone Chooses Your Certification?    Hint:  It’s not your test or competency model. As sick as you are of staying-in-shelter, take a moment to learn the most important business lesson of your life.  What is home?  It’s where you are safest. Now look at the profession or […]
May 30, 2020

Tracks and Traction on Your Better Chart–The Ultimate Guide for Recharting Your Business Path (Step 5)

Last installment in 5-part series on Rediscovering Your Business Model Tracks and Traction on Your Better Chart What have you learned, discovered and felt since the day you stepped into this five-week sprint in April to rechart your business path?  Did you feel confident, yet curious, about the guidance offered?  Did you […]
March 17, 2020

Spring Forward. Reset clocks, 2020 goals, then the rest of your life.

Daylight savings time comes just as we are about to look back and notice it’s been more than two months since great intentions and resolutions. Writing this article started on Sunday, right after changing many clocks and batteries we rarely think about—smoke alarms, auto key fobs, and other “wireless” necessities.  By the […]