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"Focus Mokus" with Joe C.
On clarity, which comes with emotional sobriety: an antidote to impulsivity, rumination, indecision and procrastination. Thom’s nutshell wisdom: Your ego has one value system,...
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Personal Agency in Emotional Sobriety
"I didn't have a choice." You're selling yourself short. Or you mean, the choice seemed obvious to you. But still, you made the choice....
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Tout Est Possible
Today’s Nutshell Wisdom: The big difference between passing judgment and exercising judgment: One focuses attention on something I do not control. The other focuses...
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Resilience Myths
Joe C. quotes Joseph Campbell: “We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life...
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Self-Supporting Holiday
For this week’s nutshell, prioritizing comfort will eventually make us very uncomfortable. We talk amends and pull some wisdom from Arthur Schopenhaur (via Joe...
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“God Doesn’t Flunk Anyone, but He Gives a Lot of Re-Tests”
On learning from our mistakes. Whether or not the mistake results in an immediate change in our behavior, learning is always taking place if...