You Can’t Cook with an Empty Pot

Sgt. Florine Nevins, Fort Monroe Culinary Team, stirs a pot of mushrooms during the field cooking category of the U.S. Army Culinary Arts Competition March 8.  The field cooking competition requires teams to prepare meals in a restaurant-like setting (photo by T. Anthony Bell).

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This is a post about observing and removing specific obstacles that keep you from putting together and using a recipe for your success. I will use the metaphor of an empty pot.

Let’s assume you have not made all the money, had enough quality relationships, invented a solution, travelled all the places you desire,

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9 Ways to Turn Adversity to Your Advantage

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Adversity is like standing before a grave. It can make you come alive or it can bury you. This post is about learning ways to use adversity to come alive. 

These are steps I have used, taught, and seen distinct success in turning adversity into a springboard to create value. Do know that dealing with adversity

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Preparing for Lean Times | prepare

This post is about preparing your mental and emotional health for lean times by taking full advantage of the good times.

There is a story about a young dreamer named Joseph. He was the great grandson of pretty gutsy guy named Abraham. While there is a lot that can be said of their story, there is not enough

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Choice in Crisis

 

Response to events that take place with mental and emotional impacts is the opportunity to use one of the greatest leverages we have to protect ourselves. That leverage is called choice.

 

Habitual Mechanism Response During times in which our public and private worlds experience upheaval we find ourselves pushed and pulled in different directions. We manage and fight

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Turn Your Thinking Around | thoughts

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The greatest asset we have is our ability to think and decide how we will react or respond to an outside influence.

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