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Episode 051: Life is like a play: it’s not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.

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https://www.facebook.com/david.taylorklaus/videos/10155780308607687/ Mindset Mondays with DTK - Ep #051 - Choose excellence! My youngest son, a high-school senior, is evidently quite the Stoic. He started off our morning by asking me “Why does this consciousness have to have a flesh vessel?” There are so many things I could have said ... the best I could muster…
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Episode 049: Vision is not enough. It must be combined with venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps; we must also step up the stairs.

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https://www.facebook.com/david.taylorklaus/videos/10155750897332687/ Mindset Mondays with DTK - Ep #049 - Stop talking. Start walking. One of my 2nd grade teachers called me "The Mouth of the South." (It may have actually been written on a report card!) That was a well-deserved nickname, I assure you. I could, and still can, talk a good game. In fact,…
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Episode 047: The problem human beings face is not that we aim too high and fail, but that we aim too low and succeed.

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https://www.facebook.com/david.taylorklaus/videos/10155723003337687/ Mindset Mondays with DTK - Ep #047 - Get goal-setting "just right" ... For me, there is a zen to setting goals. Do you set them accessibly low, impossibly high, or artfully in balance? Regardless of the answer, the underlying motivation is important, because, as Michelangelo pointed out: "The problem human beings face is…
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Episode 045: [One] who has committed a mistake and doesn’t correct it is committing another mistake.

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https://www.facebook.com/david.taylorklaus/videos/10155693983912687/ Mindset Mondays with DTK - Ep #045 - Don't compound the damage! I can't say that I love making mistakes. In fact, I don't love making them. Yes, I do get that mistakes are the fertile ground of learning so I'm OK with making them ... especially while holding to my goal to "Make…
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Episode 043: Becoming is better than being.

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https://www.facebook.com/david.taylorklaus/videos/10155666205012687/ Mindset Mondays with DTK - Ep #043 - I am a work in progress! Back in 7th grade, I was fascinated with Paraclesus' idea of the homunculus: "a microscopic but fully formed human being from which a fetus was formerly believed to develop." Motivated in part by the humor of the 440 year old,…
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Episode 042: Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

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https://www.facebook.com/david.taylorklaus/videos/10155659211707687/ Mindset Mondays with DTK - Ep #042 - Life, the Universe, & Everything. If you believe Douglas Adams in "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy," the answer to life, the universe, and everything is 42. What if it was even simpler than that? I choose to believe George Bernard Shaw's approach: "Life isn't about…
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