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A small boy came running to a wise man, crying. He was hurt. The wise man asked what had happened. The boy explained: he’d seen a black cat caught in a wire fence, struggling and hurting herself as she tried to break free. Feeling for her, he tried to help — carefully freeing her from the wires. But the moment she was free, she swiped her paw across his hand, …
It’s a very human habit — keeping the things we love the most tucked away, saved for “someday,” instead of actually using and enjoying them. We tell ourselves we’re preserving them, saving them for a special occasion. But everything ages. Everything loses its beauty and purpose over time if it’s never actually lived. What good is something kept too safe ever doing for you? Better to enjoy it while it’s …
Women finding an influential place for themselves at the top We talk often about how women are increasingly reaching top positions in industry, and how times are changing. That’s true — but it’s equally true that the path to those positions remains far harder for women, and not every capable, ambitious woman gets to make that climb. Before looking at the corporate side of this, I want to talk about …
A man with a net worth of $100 million doesn’t feel rich or happy — he lives with a sense of lack, because someone else is worth $200 million. A man who lands a job paying him 5,000 more than his last salary — when he’d hoped for just a 1,000 raise — feels rich, because he can now meet his wants as well as his needs, and still save …
Despite being intellectually aware, we often give in to situations that don’t feel aligned with what we want, or where we want to go. We start seeing them as failures, letting our energy sink into limiting thoughts and beliefs that shrink our efforts even further. That’s when we unconsciously slip into a victim mindset — a strange kind of comfort zone for the human mind, whether we realize it or …
