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Relationships 301
Have you learned to be happy when indefinitely alone and independent? Only then can you draw an uncompromising line of expectations and have the patience that leads to quality relationships. — Sakfucius
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Improve Weekly
Do you really believe that you are indispensable and irreplaceable where you work today? The only security within your own control is to continuously improve yourself. — Sakfucius
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Any Given Day
Even when you have done everything right, luck can play a role on any day. Don’t lose your enthusiasm or drive when things outside of your control go against you. — Sakfucius
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Aliens
Why do all our Hollywood aliens have two eyes, one nose, one mouth, and communicate with sound waves? — Sakfucius
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Happy Spouse 101
Everyone wants attention, affection, and respect. Do you really listen to your spouse and respect their thoughts, opinions, and dreams? Everything starts with listening. — Sakfucius
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Communication
Since the most successful people are usually great at effective communication, what are you doing to improve? Hint: Listening is top of the list. — Sakfucius
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Optimist Plus
Optimists who confront reality with patient determined action, drive nearly all meaningful change. Have you chosen to be an optimist? — Sakfucius
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Guard Prime Time
What have you planned for your prime time, two best hours today? Real progress requires investing your best time wisely, not ceding it to others’ petty urgencies. — Sakfucius
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Left Behind
AI is about to change our world. Will you be left behind or will you embrace it to become better at everything you do? — Sakfucius
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Fun
What do you plan and do just to have a little fun? When is the last time you had fun? — Sakfucius
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Friendship
Friendship requires really listening and empathizing with each other. Two people just taking turns talking about their own stuff rarely lasts. — Sakfucius
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The Monthly Quit
What’s the one thing can you quit that would reclaim a lot of time, but not damage your longterm outlook? — Sakfucius
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Work Ethic
What’s your work ethic, because it matters a lot? — Sakfucius
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Lies
Does lying actually get you ahead, and is it worth the price you will pay someday? The more often you get away with lying, the deeper the bad habit’s roots grow, until the day when you lose someone’s trust forever. —,Sakfucius
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Risky
Many of the people who think trying something is risky don’t realize doing nothing is risky too. — Sakfucius
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Seek Perspective
How thoroughly do you seek to understand another’s perspective before you tell him that he is wrong? — Sakfucius
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Expertise
Do you readily admit that you are not an expert on a topic? There’s a trap in reading some Google, ChatGPT, Quora, Medium, and CNN — and suddenly preaching your expertise. — Sakfucius
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Creativity
You can’t be creative if you are afraid of being wrong. When is the last time you were wrong? — Sakfucius
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Coverup
Do you own your mistakes or do you cover them up and blame others? Only when you take ownership, you grow as a person. — Sakfucius
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Generous with Credit
How often do you celebrate and give credit to someone else? When is the last time that you took the initiative? — Sakfucius
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Better Meetings
What if you always asked the quiet participants for their thoughts during a meeting? — Sakfucius
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Meetings Improved
What if included a simple agenda to your meeting invites? What if you always sent a recap too? — Sakfucius
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Unsolicited
Do you give unsolicited advice? How often have you met a person who wanted to be critiqued, unless they asked? — Sakfucius
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Distractions
If you want to achieve great things, get rid of every distraction while you work, especially your smartphone. — Sakfucius
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Proactive
What would happen if you wholeheartedly decided that you love change? What happens when you are all in while everyone else resists change?. — Sakfucius
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Control and Stress
Ask yourself if today’s challenge is within your circles of control or influence. Don’t torpedo your attitude and efforts by focusing on aspects you can’t control or the past. — Sakfucius
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Careful Expectations
The wise set high but make-able goals. When your expectations are too high, you are setting your sites on the valley of despair and disappointment. — Sakfucius
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Better
Strive to be better than you were yesterday, rather than compare yourself to others. It’s the path that works while maintaining your positivity. — Sakfucius
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One or the Other
You can invest time making the life you design or you will eventually spend time dealing with the hand life deals you. — Sakfucius
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Overnight Success
Do you really think most overnight successes didn’t burn the midnight oil? Don’t daydream your primetime away. — Sakfucius
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Kids
Let kids figure out a lot of their own problems. Better to ask questions than to zoom in with a solution. — Sakfucius
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Excuses
Don’t make excuses because they are the silent killers of your dreams. — Sakfucius
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Magic
Work and action are where the magic happens. — Sakfucius
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Discipline
Are you disciplined or motivated? It is much better to be disciplined. — Sakfucius
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Start
Getting started comes before getting motivated, not the other way around. — Sakfucius
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Impactful
For your email to make an impact, invest time to make it more concise. — Sakfucius
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Coaching
How can you receive coaching, at work and at home? To become better, you need self awareness, a good coach, and the willingness to change. — Sakfucius
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Targets
What a person truly wants and believes success is, changes over time. Too often, we keep chasing yesterday’s goal. Recalibrate. — Sakfucius
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Five Moves
One of the greatest skills of the wise is to think five moves ahead. — Sakfucius
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Hard Work
90% of people are allergic to working hard, but then complain when the 10% who work hard seem to get lucky. — Sakfucius
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Environment
Why work in a negative environment when you are free to find a positive one? — Sakfucius
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Five Minutes
Don’t let five bad minutes ruin your entire day. — Sakfucius
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Too Happy
If you are feeling too happy and zen, tune into any news channel — they specialize in rage and angst. — Sakfucius
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Three Times
Pay attention: If someone brags three times in the first minutes of meeting you, he is invariably all talk, little action — or in Texan ‘big hat, no cattle.’ — Sakfucius
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Enthused
Assuming all are qualified, would you rather hire an enthusiastic optimist, a doubting realist, or a moody pessimist? — Sakfucius
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Lettuce
Don’t wait long to take action on your ideas. Ideas have a shelf life like lettuce in the refrigerator — motivation wilts with time. — Sakfucius
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Permission
Millions of ideas have died untried because someone asked for his manager’s permission. — Sakfucius
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Attention
Earning someone’s undivided attention is crucial. Start with a personal story, a startling fact, a well tested joke, or a thoughtful question, followed by a crystal clear ‘why this matters to them,’ every time. — Sakfucius
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Freedom Test
How free are you? Are you free to do exactly what you want precisely when you want to do it? — Sakfucius
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Action Always
Taking pretty good action today always beats waiting for perfection. — Sakfucius
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Trustonomics
Nothing determines your career trajectory more than your ability to earn and maintain people’s trust. — Sakfucius
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Covey
Covey was right when he observed that the main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing. It’s rare, it’s hard, but it’s possible. — Sakfucius
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Life Design
Either design your life’s plan or someone else will do it for you. — Sakfucius
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Green Lights
Don’t wait for the lights to all turn green. There is never a perfect time. — Sakfucius
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Weekly Question
Did I really live this week or did I just exist? — Sakfucius
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Interviewing
Take your time and always ask the why behind each question if you want to land great recruits. Discern a person’s goals, logic, and attitude, not her history. — Sakfucius
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Jealousy
Does anything good ever come from being jealous of another’s success? — Sakfucius
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Straightforward
A complicated life is a lot less complicated if you always do the right thing. — Sakfucius
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Caring
In all relationships, it’s crucial to show that you really care. — Sakfucius
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Old vs. Age
The day you don’t have dreams or goals is the day you become old. Age has nothing to do with it. — Sakfucius
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Thoughtful Mistakes
We all make regrettable mistakes, but some people don’t learn the lessons and repeat them. — Sakfucius
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Firewall
Don’t let outside opinions infect your attitude. Only you choose your reaction so stay true to yourself. — Sakfucius
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Sacrifice
Exceedingly few succeed without sacrifice. Do what it takes. — Sakfucius
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Attitude
Few things are completely within our control, but attitude is the one where you alone decide. — Sakfucius
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No Chance
You have no chance if you don’t believe in yourself. — Sakfucius
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Perspective Change
Are you looking for problems or are you looking for opportunities? Approaching each day with the latter attitude will change your life. — Sakfucius
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Will They Miss You
If you went alway today, why would they miss you? If your company went away, why would they miss you, or would they? — Sakfucius
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Leaders and Troops
Every leader is confirmed or rejected from below. Being given the position from above doesn’t mean a person passes the test. — Sakfucius
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Too Many Options
We all want options, but too many options often means a person doesn’t commit fully to their current pursuit. Home run success requires 100% commitment. — Sakfucius
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Relationship Icebergs
The dangerous icebergs that sink personal relationships are diverging goals, growth, and interests. Change is inevitable. — Sakfucius
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Concise
Being concise is more important than being comprehensive. — Sakfucius
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Gratitude PhD
Gratitude is much easier when things are going well. Those who are grateful when times look dark are those who have found the key to happiness. — Sakfucius
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Focused Charisma
Being charismatic starts with finding what’s interesting and important for someone, reflecting it back, and then keeping the cycle going for the entire time you are with them. — Sakfucius
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Trying Anew
Have you learned a new sport, a new language, a new art in the last few years? Substantial striving is the key to staying young. — Sakfucius
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Road Rage
Road rage comes from an expectation that traffic will be light and drivers will be both competent and kind. Reset your expectations. — Sakfucius