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Tag Archives: success
The Daily Stoic: “What’s on Your Tombstone?”
I always enjoy finding places where two or more books I’ve read overlap. This entry from The Daily Stoic fits together nicely with Stephen Covey’s recommendation in The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People to begin with the end in … Continue reading
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Tagged accomplishment, Aleksander Solzhenitsyn, Begin with the End in Mind, consequences, costs, death, gravestone, life, Seneca, Stephen Covey, success, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, The Daily Stoic, The Daily Stoic: Whats on Your Tombstone?, tombstone
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Achievement Without Effort
One of my favorite episodes of The Twilight Zone is called “A Nice Place to Visit”. It involves a thief who is fatally shot and finds himself in a place where he gets anything and everything he wants. He doesn’t … Continue reading
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Tagged "A Nice Place to Visit", accomplishment, achievement, Achievement Without Effort, challenge, effort, struggle, success, The Twilight Zone, victory
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A Strategy Based on Stephen Covey’s Ideas
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People contains so much wisdom and so many life hacks that I regularly refer back to it. Whenever I do, I always find something good that I had forgotten or never noticed before. I’ve … Continue reading
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Tagged achievement, goals, habits, plans, Stephen Covey, success, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
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“Three Rolls and a Pretzel”
This is a short story written by Leo Tolstoy. I first read this when I was a little kid and it’s been stuck in my head ever since. I’ll share some of my thoughts on it afterward: Feeling hungry one … Continue reading
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Tagged "Three Rolls and a Pretzel", achievement, groundwork, Leo Tolstoy, pretzels, rolls, success
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Some Thoughts on Habits
Charles Duhigg’s The Power of Habit is one of the best and most practical books I’ve ever read. I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the ways habits affect our lives, both for better and for worse. I’d like to … Continue reading
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Tagged businesses, change, Charles Duhigg, failure, habits, organizations, pain, Some Thoughts on Habits, success, The Power of Habit
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Review of Outliers
Outliers is a fantastic book by Malcolm Gladwell. In the book, Gladwell looks at those who have risen to a place of prominence and offers an explanation for how they did it. He covers a number of people from different … Continue reading
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Tagged achievement, Bill Gates, China, Korean Air, Malcolm Gladwell, Mozart, Outliers, Review of Outliers, success
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Exploring My Rules: Dream Big
We’ve reached the penultimate entry in the series exploring my rules. This post fits in nicely with the previous post about taking chances. Today’s post is about what I do before that: Dream big. I’ve always dreamt and thought big, … Continue reading
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Tagged accomplishment, Exploring My Rules: Dream Big, failure, mindset, positive thinking, positivity, success, The Magic of Thinking Big, thinking
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Failure and Mistakes
In anything worth doing, there is no success without failure. Everybody who’s excelled in some area spent a lot of time making mistakes on their way up. Despite this, many people are afraid of making mistakes. A mistake isn’t the end … Continue reading
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Review of Think and Grow Rich
A few days ago, I finished reading Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill. I had heard of this book before I bought it but I didn’t know much about the author or the message. Now that I’ve finished it, … Continue reading
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Tagged business, ideas, law of attraction, mindset, money, Napoleon Hill, plan, Review of Think and Grow Rich, success, Think and Grow Rich, thoughts, visualization
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Review of How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big
Scott Adams, best known for creating the popular Dilbert comic strip, wrote a book several years ago called How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big. In the book, Adams goes through his life story and lays out the strategies … Continue reading
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Tagged Dilbert, goals, How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big, Life Hacks, Scott Adams, success, systems, talent stack
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