https://www.facebook.com/david.taylorklaus/videos/10156841027617687/ Episode #113 — To be you, let you go. Once upon a time I was young, I was single, and I had black hair. OK ... that was a long time ago. But how different would my life be if I still approached the world as I once was. Don't get me wrong, I'm…
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https://www.facebook.com/david.taylorklaus/videos/10156821229842687/ Episode #112 — Take a breath. Bruce Springsteen was once asked if he ever got stage fright. Without hesitation, he said "Never." He went on to say that he knows it's time to perform when his palms get a little sweaty, his heart races a bit, and he gets a little short of breath.…
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https://www.facebook.com/david.taylorklaus/videos/10156800586292687/ Episode #111 — Here's to not knowing! Right now, we simply don't know. We don't know how long these challenging times will last. We don't know how we, our families, our friends, our business, or how our economy will be impacted. Nope. Nothing. As leaders (and in times of uncertainty we are ALL leaders,…
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https://www.facebook.com/david.taylorklaus/videos/10156776607447687/ Episode #110 — Comfort makes for magic! The chance to be myself. Though that's what I longed for, I held back so much of who I was, who I am, for SOOO many years. I was afraid of being judged, or misunderstood, or mischaracterized, or rejected. All it took to open the floodgates was…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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https://www.facebook.com/david.taylorklaus/videos/10156695558587687/ Mindset Mondays with DTK - Ep #106 — Life looks fabulous on Facebook. In 2005, my company had just celebrated its 10th anniversary. I'd been married for 13 years to a woman I'd loved since we were pre-teens. We had the big house, three kids in private school, two dogs. And everything looked fantastic…
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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…
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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…
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