What We Think
You can’t pour from an empty cup. Fill up often.
– Julie Jakopic
What We Think
You can’t pour from an empty cup. Fill up often.
– Julie Jakopic
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Get What You Want…Create Some Normal
I am too short to sit at my desk. My feet don’t touch the floor. So, I have to wear shoes with heels. Sometimes I wear stilettos. I want to practice so I can wear them after the pandemic. But mostly, I wear a pair of black Dansko clogs. For most of my life, I have...
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Get What You Want…Slow Down to Speed Up
It’s been a good few weeks with projects that make a difference. But often my work is filled with hills and valleys. Tons of work and then a lull and then slammed again. Last week I was swamped. Plus I’m supposed to be working on the book and supporting a couple of...
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Get What You Want…Get Happy
Ok. I know the anniversary of lockdown is tomorrow. But that makes this even more important. Being miserable never helped anyone or anyone around them. Success doesn’t lead to happiness; happiness leads to success. Doing more of what makes us happy matters. 1. It...
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Get What You Want…Without Guilt
As a cashew, a person of Catholic and Jewish descent, I am an expert on guilt. I spent years living guilt squared. If there was a problem, surely, I caused it. Or at least that’s how I felt. But I gave it up for Lent. Well, I have been giving it up for let every year...
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Get What You Want…Just 51%
A friend and I were talking this weekend and she asked, “are you always positive?” As if. Nope, I’m not. I’m not always sure things will work out, work out how I want, that I will succeed, or that I am right. And here’s the secret, I (and you) don’t have to be. We...
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Get What You Want…Don’t hibernate, communicate
It’s dark and cold and gloomy. It’s so tempting to hunker down under the covers and hibernate. And maybe we all deserve, and even need, a little time in hibernation. But to get what you want; you can’t just lay there. You have to move forward. That doesn’t mean...
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Get What You Want…Get Creative
You know I’m working on a book, right? And after two years of this blog, I have a ton of material. I started to read through what I’ve written to figure out what I wanted to include. And actually, I got nowhere. It was overwhelming. I had a plan to read groups of...
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Get What You Want…Don’t Wait for Motivation
Let’s face it, dreaming is important. Dreaming is fast, implementation isn’t. Implementation takes time. It takes steps. It takes planning. It takes refining plans. It takes energy. And usually, all while you are doing other things. Sometimes purpose and passion are...
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Get What You Want…See Opportunity
It's a crazy time and everything feels like it's changing but as I've said before, the goals don't have to change, the methods of achieving them do. Two weeks ago, I ran my annual Don’t Await It, Create It conference. It's usually a three-day event at a beautiful...
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Get What You Want…with Integrity
This week I have struggled with this email. What can I say about getting what you want that honors the moment and is helpful to a community of readers from across the country, across the political spectrum and at all levels of their careers? I come to this as a writer...
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Get What You Want…Don’t climb it all at once
Dreaming is fast. Doing is slow consistency. Much as we’d like it to be different, you don’t dream a dream, snap your fingers and its done. The people who make their dreams come true do it over time with consistent progress. When you climb a mountain, you don’t take a...
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Get What You Want…No Resolutions
That's right. I don't believe in them. I do believe in goals and plans. Multiple action plans. So as we close 2020 and ready for 2021, what do you want? What will it feel like when you get it? What are three to five ways to get there? If one doesn't work, you have...
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