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By Bob Kaelin
I’ll never forget my very first sales call fresh out of college.
I was working for a pharmaceutical company and my job was to service pharmacies. I had been given a territory that hadn’t been serviced for months.
I prepared to call on the ad manager for a particularly large chain. I had done all [...]

By Daria Davidson
“We all get to live with the rewards and the consequences of our decisions.”
I have said that simple phrase thousands of times over the last 25 years.
Spending 20 years as an emergency room physician gave me a chance to see, up close and very personal, the truth [...]

Ever wonder how to get more happiness out of your life? Watch this video and learn how using your strengths in the right way can fill your life with more bliss.

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By Bob Kaelin
As a high school wrestler, I felt destined to become a professional athlete.
But a severe knee injury altered that perceived destiny. Rather than sit out the season and visit a doctor, I decided to continue on and see a doctor over the summer.
After another injury, I was forced to visit a doctor. [...]

If you were diagnosed with cancer and given months to live, how would it change your life? What would suddenly become most important to you?
Watch this video to learn from a person for whom this was a reality.

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By Greg Fullerton
So back in the days when I weighed 340…
“Oh, here he goes again on his ‘big’ days.”
I was in Panama City, Florida doing a training and I had some time to kill.
I was walking along the beach and I saw a guy parasailing. I had the crazy thought that I should try [...]

By Carl Woolston
“I hold it true that thoughts are things;
They’re endowed with bodies and breath and wings;
And that we send them forth to fill
The world with good results, or ill.
That which we call our secret thought
Speeds forth to earth’s remotest spot,
Leaving its blessings or its woes
Like tracks behind it as it goes.
We build our future, [...]

“I can only do so much” is a lame excuse for not doing anything. Watch this video to to gain confidence that your small, everyday actions truly matter.

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Do you know the roots of and reasons for your fears?
Paul Slovic, a psychologist at the University of Oregon, has spent decades studying how we decide what’s risky and what isn’t.
His studies have shown that how risky something actually is has almost nothing to do with how risky we think it is.
Slovic has [...]

Speaking of time, make the time to watch this excellent 10-minute video. It’s well worth your time.
Professor Philip Zimbardo explains the six “time zones” we each live from and conveys how our individual perspectives of time affect our work, health and well-being.
This has implications for education, business, raising children — virtually every aspect of [...]