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Morally labeling things is a one-way ticket to emotional fragility. Because moral labels are absolute and one-sided, whenever someone does something that isn’t congruent with the label, we’ll react accordingly. Here’s an example: let’s say you label “spilling coffee” as a bad thing. Because it has that label, whenever it happens, you’re going to be […]

If you set goals that you don’t have direct control over, you will fail. Here’s a delusional goal: “This quarter, we’re going to increase profits by 10%.” If that’s all you’ve written down, achieving it will be a matter of luck. Unless you’re going out picking people’s pockets, you don’t have direct control over your […]

How much money are you wasting by avoiding hiring? Are you throwing away time doing tasks that don’t return much per hour, in terms of dollars, when you could delegate them to someone else? Are you sapping your energy doing things you don’t want to do because no one else has been given that accountability? […]

If you set goals that you don’t have direct control over, you will fail. Here’s a delusional goal: “This quarter, we’re going to increase profits by 10%.” If that’s all you’ve written down, achieving it will be a matter of luck. Unless you’re going out picking people’s pockets, you don’t have direct control over your […]

Changing your attitude will change your life. Here’s how things usually happen: something awful occurs, you feel awful about it, and you go along feeling awful until you calm down, or something else happens. The emotion is a wave, and you’re just riding it. Of course, we’re never going to get rid of emotions. Nor […]