Value and Task thinking, each have their place and are absolutely necessary. Can they each live in the same mind?

Reflecting on the roads we walk and how long they can take. Sometimes it's good to see where you are going, and sometimes its frustrating to not be there already. But that's the part that makes excellence come alive.

Here is a little tool that I use in my career development class that I thought might be interesting given recent conversations about individuality and unique personality make-ups

Victory is no time to let up. Sprint ahead while the coast is clear and make use of the power of momentum.

Projection is a valuable tool and also a horrible trap. I wanted to share my own experiences with it good and bad, and how to work with it.

All people are different, and how we get along with them is unique to each person. There is advantage in knowing how easy it is to have others in your life, and how easy it is for others to have you in theirs.

As the saying goes ... some days you eat the bear, and some days the bear eats you. The response to failure is one of the factors that separates excellence from the "also-ran".

Not all aspects of our Self are helpful, but some are life saving allies. We should probably know which is which. Another perspective for introspection.

"Let's Move On" are words that prevent excellence from being realized. There are times that we need to use them, to temporarily set aside things for immediate value delivery, but that doesn't set absolve us from the responsibility for going back and reconciling it in the future.

It's one thing to know something, it is entirely another to integrate it into your life so that it becomes part of you. That is how knowledge becomes powerful.