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  • Small Steps for Nurturing Progress in Your Personal Growth

    Small Steps for Nurturing Progress in Your Personal Growth

    In 2011, Teresa M. Amabile and Steven J. Kramer shared the results of an in-depth study in the Harvard Business Review entitled, “The Power of Small Wins.” They analyzed several thousand daily diary entries from 238 individuals to learn about their emotions, perceptions and motivations as they experienced each work day. During their analysis,…

  • Milestone Moments and the Many Mini-Moments in Between

    Milestone Moments and the Many Mini-Moments in Between

    Today represents a couple events that might be called milestone moments. The most obvious one is Columbus Day. The other milestone moment is a little more personal. It’s my fortieth birthday. I don’t’ spend a lot of time talking about my birthdays, because I find that it’s often self-serving and really not all that…

  • 7 Posts for Personal Growth from Planting Small Seeds

    7 Posts for Personal Growth from Planting Small Seeds

    You really never know what life will bring. As an oft said saying  goes, “the  tallest  and  mightiest  oak  of  the  forest began  life  as  a  small  nut  that  stood  its  ground.” Look around you and observe or realize where you are planted. Grow from there. Here’s seven posts I’ve curated to help us…