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Mindfulness can help us… follow the original commandment of self-improvement, straight from the Oracle of Delphi in ancient Greece: Know thyself.
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Emotional agility means having any number of troubling thoughts or emotions and still managing to act in a way that serves how you most want to live.
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A malleable sense of self is a cornerstone of emotional agility.
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The curse of comfort – defaulting to the familiar and accessible… can lead to mistakes that waste our time and keep us from getting where we want to go – sometimes literally.
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Effortful learning means mindful engagement that continues to expand the boundaries and increase the sophistication of one’s knowledge and experience.
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The most agile and adaptive response to an unattainable goal is goal adjustment, which entails both disengaging… and then re-engaging in an alternative.
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Tweaking your job, also known as job crafting, involves looking creatively at your work circumstances and finding ways to reconfigure your situation to make it more engaging and fulfilling.
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By simply letting our children know that we see them in full, clearly and without judgment, we signal that we accept and validate their emotional experience.
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Appoint yourself the agent of your own life and take ownership of your own development, career, creative spirit, work, and connections.
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If word leaks out that your organization seems to be led by mean-spirited jerks, the damage to its reputation can drive away potential employees and shake investor confidence.
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