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Welcome to the articles page on Sources of Insight. Here you will find articles with a focus on mind, body, emotions, career, financial, relationships, and fun. Under each topic, a sampling of top articles are listed with a link to the archives for more on that particular topic.
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Career
- 101 of the Greatest Insights and Actions for Work and Life
- 6 Personality and Work Environment Types
- Career Growth and Finding Your Way Forward
- Passion Does not Exist in the Job, It Exists in Us
- Proven Practices for Individual Contributors
- Rapid Growth Fields and Your Career Success
- The 20 Percent Spike
- Meaningful Work is Hard
- Think In Terms of an Hourly Rate
- Thinking About Career Paths
- All Career >>
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Emotional-Intelligence
- Action Signals: Use Negative Emotions as a Call to Action
- Argue Your Way to Optimism
- Change Rumination or Pessimism to Defeat Depression
- Don’t Sip from the Stream of Polluted Thoughts
- How to Read Poetry to Expand Your Heart
- Life Leaves a Mark
- Positive Intelligence and PQ
- Positive Thinking vs. Positive Action
- Test Your Can’ts
- Those Moments When You are Most Alive/a>
- All Emotional-Intelligence >>
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Fitness
- 9 Ways to Add 12 Years to Your Life
- 10 Years Younger
- Blue Zones: The Healthiest Places on the Planet
- Breathe With Skill to Dramatically Improve Your Health
- Exercising Your Body Makes You Smarter
- Larks, Owls and Hummingbirds
- Lessons Learned from Bruce Lee
- Use Stress to Be Your Best
- What is the Zone
- All Fitness >>
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Happiness
- Enjoy the Struggle
- Happiness Quotes
- Keys for Skilled Happiness
- The Two Flavors of Happiness
- Low Frustration Tolerance
- Positive Intelligence and PQ
- Positive Thinking vs. Positive Action
- Synthetic Happiness
- When It’s Cold Shiver. When It’s Hot Sweat
- Those Moments When You are Most Alive
- Whiteboard Notes on Happiness
- All Happiness >>
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Interpersonal-Skills
- 12 Practices for Improving Likeability
- Apologize with Skill
- Concession is Rhetorical Judo
- Dialogue Debate and Discuss
- Five Conflict Management Styles at a Glance
- Know and Share Yourself Enough
- Poor Communication isn’t the Source of Most Conflicts
- The Iceberg of Conflict: A Lens for Conflict Management
- The Art of Mental Judo
- What’s Their Story
- Win the Heart the Mind Follows
- All Interpersonal-Skills >>
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Leadership
- 3 Stories Leaders Need to Tell
- 10 Ways to Hold People Accountable
- A Leaders is the Trustee of the Intangibles
- Author a Distinctive Story
- Balance Connection and Conviction
- Boldness Has Genius, Magic, and Power in It
- Leadership Checklist
- Leadership Styles and Development Levels
- Guide Your Path with Vision, Values, and Goals
- What Executives at Microsoft Taught Me
- All on Leadership >>
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Lessons-Learned
- 10 Lessons Learned in Comedy by Craig Shoemaker
- Lessons Learned from Bill Gates
- Lessons Learned from Bruce Lee
- Lessons Learned from Dad
- Lessons Learned from Guy Kawasaki
- Lessons Learned from John Wooden
- Lessons Learned from Mom
- Lessons Learned from Seth Godin
- Lessons Learned from Steve Jobs
- Marie Forleo on Lessons in Life
- All Lessons-Learned >>
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Life
- How Will You Measure Your Life
- How To Figure Out What You Really Want
- Ikigai: The Reason for Which You Wake Up in the Morning
- Life Frame
- Life Leaves a Mark
- My Top 10 Lessons in Life
- Program Manager Skills for Life
- The Business of Life
- The Good Life
- Skills to Pay the Bills and Lead a Better Life
- What 16 Movies Teach Us About Life and Leadership
- All Life >>
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Motivation
- 13 Motivation Techniques
- 13 Negative Motivation Patterns
- 25 Inspirational Movies
- 101 Ways to Motivate Yourself and Others
- Four Sources of Strength
- Find Your Drive: The Keys to Motivation
- It’s Not Motivation
- McClelland’s Motivational Model
- Three D’s for Motivation – Direction, Decision, and Dedication
- Why Do We Procrastinate?
- All Motivation >>
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Personal-Development
- 3 Keys to Lasting Change
- 10 Keys to Changing a Habit
- 10 Ways to Go from Good to Great
- 10 Ways to Know Thyself
- Build a Personal Knowledge Base of Success Stories, Insight, and Action to Improve Your Success
- Emulate the Great
- Finding Your Values
- Improvement Frame
- Know Your Rules to Be Successful
- The Change Frame
- You’re the Average of the 10 People You Spend Time With
- All Personal-Development >>
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Productivity
- 30 Day Improvement Sprints
- How To Pave a Path Forward
- Monthly Planning with Agile Results
- Monday Vision, Daily Outcomes, Friday Reflection
- My Three Wins
- Productivity Personas
- Rituals for Results
- Tickler List of the Mind
- Use Three Stories to Drive Your Day
- What’s Worth Doing Today?
- Why Use Routines?
- Write Things Down
- All Productivity >>
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Strengths
- Choose Your Jobs Based on Strengths
- Feel Strong All Week Long
- Find Your Strengths Among Your Team
- How To Find Your Strengths
- Specialization is Nature’s Strategy for Winning
- Strengths and Talents
- Strength and Weakness
- The Language of Strengths
- What’s Your One-Liner Super Hero Power?
- Why Strengths?
- All Strengths >>
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Thinking Skills
- 3 Thinking Techniques to Improve Your Intellectual Horsepower
- 10 Distorted Thinking Patterns
- Five-Minute Thinks
- Five Thinking Styles
- Focus with Skill
- How To Have a Beautiful Mind
- How To Read Faster
- How To Use Six Thinking Hats to Improve Your Thinking
- Think of Yourself as a Thinker
- All Thinking Skills >>
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Time-Management
- 30 Day Boot Camp for Time Management
- Agile Results for Time Management
- Carve Out Time for What’s Important
- Fix Time, Flex Scope
- How To Use Timeboxing for Getting Results
- The Secret of Time Management
- Time Changes What’s Important
- There is No Shortage of Time
- Time is the Limiting Factor
- Timeboxes, Rhythm, and Incremental Value
- All Time-Management >>
