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Overachieving

Stop Taking Yourself So Seriously: Bathroom Talent Show

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If you have overachiever tendencies as I do, you probably suffer from “taking yourself too seriously” syndrome. For most of your life, your identity has been based upon judgments of success or failure, and what you’ve produced. You often project an air … Read more

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The Bee: Overcoming Challenges

bee trapped inside window

Birds and bees can teach us about much more than sex. Honeybees are amazing creatures, with impressive organizational and navigational capabilities. However, like humans, they sometimes get stumped. When I came downstairs to fix lunch today, I heard a loud … Read more

Categories Career Coaching, Happiness & Fulfillment, Overachieving, Sustainable Leadership

Lessons for Recovering Overachievers & Perfectionists, from an Infant

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Four years ago today, I experienced one of the scariest and most exciting nights of my life. A three-month-old infant girl arrived at our house. I was scared out of my mind. My ex-partner and I had agreed to try foster … Read more

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Reframing Failure: Success is a Continuum, Not a Dichotomy

Success Kid meme

The more things you try in life, the more you must learn about dealing with failure. If you never fail, it probably means that you’re not trying anything difficult. When you don’t accomplish everything you’d like, positive thinking can be difficult. Recovering from failure may … Read more

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It’s Risky to Assume You’re Smarter than Another

Each life path yields different wisdom

Each of us holds a piece of the much larger puzzle. There are so many different types of wisdom and intelligence. Related to this, acknowledging that someone else may have much to teach us does not mean that we’re less … Read more

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