Tag: discipline
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MAKING MY PEACE … with learning life’s lessons while watching the Olympics
Making My Peace … with learning life’s lessons while watching the Olympics The Paris 2024 Olympic Games is not only about sport – it’s about life’s lessons. Observe what a winner does. Observe what a loser does. But not everything in sport is about winning and losing. I observed handball players fight tough…
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MAKING MY PEACE … with listening to sad songs
Making My Peace … with listening to sad songs Elton John, the English musician, sang about sad songs. Remember his 1984 Sad Songs (Say So Much)? He wrote, “If someone else is suffering enough, oh, to write it down, when every single word makes sense, then it’s easier to have those songs around.”…
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MAKING MY PEACE … with managing the chaos of creativity
Making My Peace … with managing the chaos of creativity The creative process never runs smooth. Ideas run wild, then they dry out. Motivation moves like a runaway train, then comes to a screeching halt. Routines work until the rhythm is disrupted. Certain potential successes turn out to be slow-moving sloths. Oh, the chaos…