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Mar 24

Episode 109: I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.

By David Taylor-Klaus Mindset Mondays

https://www.facebook.com/david.taylorklaus/videos/10156752454857687/ Episode 109 - Perspective check! Challenging times come in two flavors: chronic and acute. What's happening now, the upheaval due to COVID-19, is definitely acute. The change and the impact have been intense, far-reaching, and quick. But the external conditions, as real as they are, need not define your internal conditions. And that distinction…

Mar 17

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Episode 108: It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.

By David Taylor-Klaus Mindset Mondays

https://www.facebook.com/david.taylorklaus/videos/10156731177132687/ Mindset Mondays with DTK - ???????? #108 — ???????????????????????????????? ????????????????????????????????????????. For the first two decades of my professional life, my job was to have the answer. And if I didn't know the answer, I was expected to figure it out (or make it up). That means that the asset for which I was rewarded…

Mar 10

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Episode 107: Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

By David Taylor-Klaus Mindset Mondays

https://www.facebook.com/david.taylorklaus/videos/10156713805792687/ Mindset Mondays with DTK - Ep #107 — Authenticity is Countercultural. Our world is hungry for authenticity. We seek it in our friends, we seek it in our partners, we seek it in our leaders. And when we feel it missing, the hunger pangs can become unbearable. Yet despite that hunger, the homogenizing cultural…

Feb 25

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Episode 105: The world was not big enough for Alexander the Great, but a coffin was.

By David Taylor-Klaus Mindset Mondays

https://www.facebook.com/david.taylorklaus/videos/10156674882287687/ Mindset Mondays with DTK - Ep #105 — Spoiler alert: We are all equal in death. Roman poet Decimus Iūnius Iuvenālis, known in English as "Juvenal," drove this message home simply over 19 centuries ago: “The world was not big enough for Alexander the Great, but a coffin was.” Ryan Holliday recently captured it…

Feb 18

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Episode 104: No one of the three — body, mind, or soul — can live fully if either of the others is cut short of full life and expression.

By David Taylor-Klaus Mindset Mondays

https://www.facebook.com/david.taylorklaus/videos/10156660030612687/ Mindset Mondays with DTK - Ep #104 — It takes all three. Many years ago I had a client whose hobby was woodworking with a particular passion for building furniture. One specific life-lesson he took away from his hobby was that a three-legged stool never wobbles. That reminds me of another truth shared by…

Feb 11

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Episode 103: Self-sufficiency is the greatest of all wealth.

By David Taylor-Klaus Mindset Mondays

https://www.facebook.com/david.taylorklaus/videos/10156642780867687/ *** SOUND SATRTS AFTER 8 MINUTES! *** @Mindset Mondays with DTK - Ep #103 — It actually IS all about you! This week Elaine and I are in Santa Fe working on ourselves and our businesses. We spent a day exploring Presence and Leadership (and their inextricable link) at EQUUS - an amazingly spiritual…

Feb 04

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Episode 102: Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are.

By David Taylor-Klaus Mindset Mondays

https://www.facebook.com/david.taylorklaus/videos/10156623765702687/ Mindset Mondays with DTK - Ep #102 — Be Intentional About Your Attention. Many years ago a friend in the investment industry complained that every time the market shifts more that 1% he spent the rest of the day talking a number of his clients off the ledge. It wasn't the time required that…

Jan 28

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Episode 101: You are only entitled to the action, never to its fruits.

By David Taylor-Klaus Mindset Mondays

https://www.facebook.com/david.taylorklaus/videos/10156601634597687/ Mindset Mondays with DTK - Ep #101 — Doing your work is it's own reward. Yes, you're going to be unappreciated. You'll be challenged and sabotaged. You'll encounter epic failures. Your expectations will be unmet. And you will lose. Given that, how will you choose to carry on? How will you take pride in…

Jan 21

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Episode 100: When we are no longer able to change a situation – we are challenged to change ourselves.

By David Taylor-Klaus Mindset Mondays

https://www.facebook.com/david.taylorklaus/videos/10156585170882687/ Mindset Mondays with DTK - Ep #100 — Its all you. Always. I wish I had a magic wand. There are so many things I'd change if I had one (and not just the state of US Politics and the divisiveness that pervades it... although that one is high on the list)! Sadly there…