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Aug 03

Episode 180: Complaining does not work as a strategy. We all have finite time and energy. Any time we spend whining is unlikely to help us achieve our goals. And it won’t make us happier.

By David Taylor-Klaus Mindset Mondays

https://youtu.be/iHFkHtCdmOc Mindset Mondays with DTK - Ep #180 — Time Is Infinite. Possibilities Are Infinite. The intentional, heartfelt words of a dying always carry more weight. At Carnegie Mellon University, professors are invited to contemplate — and deliver — a "last lecture" … to think deeply about what matters to them, and then give a…

Jul 27

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Episode 179: How does it help … to make troubles heavier by bemoaning them?

By David Taylor-Klaus Mindset Mondays

https://youtu.be/KflNNROQ-Cc Mindset Mondays with DTK - Ep #179 — Clear Better. Clear Faster. There's an energy management technique I learned many years ago called "BMW." Nope. Nothing to do with the car company. BMW = Bitch, moan, whine. Left to my own devices, I used to rattling on in a negative way about whatever challenge…

Jul 20

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Episode 178: Transformation comes not by adding things on but by removing what didn’t belong in the first place.

By David Taylor-Klaus Mindset Mondays

https://youtu.be/eGoZi82uP9Y Mindset Mondays with DTK - Ep #178 — The Purge I watched a workshop Stefan Mumaw delivered for a room full of creatives. He's the Creative Director and Director of Narrative Strategy for First Person and the topic of one of the exercises was innovation. When asked to create the "ultimate desk,' each team…

Jul 13

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Episode 177: Expand your vision. Narrow your focus.

By David Taylor-Klaus Mindset Mondays

https://youtu.be/GXAVZZDREwE Mindset Mondays with DTK - Ep #177 — Wide Then Narrow In the past, whenever I got overwhelmed, my default was to go into heavy "DO mode." I'd go heads down, hunker down, plow forward... work harder. On the surface, that seemed to be effective … but it wasn't. My friend Parissa Behnia draws…

Jul 06

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Episode 176: We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

By David Taylor-Klaus Mindset Mondays

https://youtu.be/E8luzQIJyaA Mindset Mondays with DTK - Ep #176 — This One is "Musty"! OK. I know! I'm not a fan of "must" … It's one of the "shouldy" words: should, must, need to, have to, ought to … they ALL have an external locus of influence, of direction, of power. They diminish our ability to…

Jul 03

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The SuccessGrid Podcast

By David Taylor-Klaus As Seen On

Fantastic interview with Hussein Taleb of SuccessGrid Podcast. We delved into a ton of topics including; What is the REWIRE Framework? How to empower yourself in your world and now in other peoples’ dimensions? How do you sabotage yourself and how to prevent it? How to create conditions for success and things going to the…

Jun 29

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Episode 175: Our environment shapes us, choose wisely your surroundings and the people in it.

By David Taylor-Klaus Mindset Mondays

https://youtu.be/Mc-1HDcdXGQ Mindset Mondays with DTK - Ep #175 — Cultural Architecture Time. Energy. Effort. Attention. Those are the only four currencies that matter … our only four True Currencies. I use #TrueCurrency because they are precious, they are exhaustible, and they are completely under our individual control. You have 100% agency over how you invest…

Jun 22

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Episode 174: What is ordinary to you is amazing to others.

By David Taylor-Klaus Mindset Mondays

https://youtu.be/s6MkxXdIG4s Mindset Mondays with DTK - Ep #174 — Mastery Is Unpacking the Unconscious. Earlier this week I co-led a workshop with another amazing coach, Rusty Gaillard. Co-creating with him was the first time we had ever collaborated and this event was the first time we led together. All of it went fabulously (and the…

Jun 15

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Episode 173: Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

By David Taylor-Klaus Mindset Mondays

https://youtu.be/56n0WSqm5_E Mindset Mondays with DTK - Ep #173 — Either/Or? Or Both? Yes, "success" had a different meaning for each of us. By default, most of those definitions are colored by the world around us, by social constructs, by external markers. For me, success is an internal measure. When I look for an external measure,…

Jun 15

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Boss Uncaged Podcast

By David Taylor-Klaus As Seen On

“I keep three words at the top of my screen. It says REAL, NOT "RIGHT." I think to translate that for the rest of the world, that's not inside my head. But, man, it doesn't have to be RIGHT, and there's a reason the word RIGHT is in quotes. It doesn't have to be RIGHT.…