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Resilience in the Eye of the Storm
News, Triggers, Uncertainty | 4 COMMENTS | November 1, 2012
As I write this, I'm sitting in a hotel room with my wife and dog. We've had no electricity at our home, and therefore no lights, heat, or hot water since Monday, and we've been told it could be another week or more before power is restored. As the temperature dropped steadily, we decided to move to a hotel and were incredibly fortunate. We could afford one, and we somehow got a room. Every hotel within 50 miles of us is now sold out.
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Tony Schwartz
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Three Keys to (Much) Better Decisions
Awareness, Triggers, Values | COMMENTS | March 21, 2012
Recently, I came across this startling statistic. Each day, we make an average of 217 food-related decisions. Is it any surprise we so often make poor choices about what we eat?
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The Secret to Dealing With Difficult People: It's About You
Emotional Needs, Triggers, Value | 10 COMMENTS | October 12, 2011
Do you have someone at work who consistently triggers you? Doesn't listen? Takes credit for work you've done? Wastes your time with trivial issues? Acts like a know-it-all? Can only talk about himself? Constantly criticizes? Our core emotional need is to feel valued and valuable. When we don't, it's deeply unsettling, a challenge to our sense of equilibrium, security, and well-being. At the most primal level, it can feel like a threat to our very survival.
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Whatever You Feel Compelled to Do, Don't
Emotional Needs, Triggers | 4 COMMENTS | May 19, 2011
Remember the last time you pushed the "send" button for an email and then instantly regretted it? Or snapped at someone in a moment of frustration? It's easy to recite the litany of all we do wrong in our lives — eat and drink too much, exercise and sleep too little, spend too much on things we don't need and run up too much debt, judge others too quickly and embrace them too conditionally, profligately consume resources and spend too much time obsessing about our own needs and too little focused on the needs of others.
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Tony Schwartz
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