Author: Mike P. Taylor
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Why Procrastination Is Good: The Power of Seasonal Thinking
Is procrastination a bad thing? We all put off important tasks from time to time, but research has found that around 1 in 5 Americans are what can be called “chronic” procrastinators – which is anyone who continually puts off doing something until later. But is that necessarily a bad thing? Is procrastination as bad…
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How to Find Peace in the Middle of Chaos
This article was originally published at Patheos. Here’s an interesting question: As an adult with responsibilities piled on your shoulders, is it possible to have peace in the middle of all the chaos and conflict? The dictionary says that peace is the absence of conflict. It’s “freedom from disturbance”. While that sounds nice, who has…
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What to Do When You Hate Your Job
“I hate my job.” We’ve all been there. You dream about leaving the 9-5 grind behind and launching out on some great new adventure. It sounds wonderful. But here’s something you badly need to hear: Your day job could actually be the one thing that can help ensure future success in your dream job. Oftentimes…
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How to Find Balance and Sanity as a Parent Working Two Jobs
If you’ve ever had to work a full time job while trying to build your dream on the side, you know all-too-well how exhausting it can feel. It’s like you’re running on a hamster wheel with little to no progress to show. You have to work your day job to pay the bills, but you…
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How to Break Old Habits and Actually See Change
What makes people change? How can we effectively change ourselves? We all have aspects of our character that we want to improve, but how do we actually go about doing so? How do we break old habits and create new, better habits? By default, things die. Plants, buildings, our bodies – it’s all breaking down…
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How to Be a Better Listener So People Open Up to You
Have you ever heard the phrase, “you have two ears and one mouth so you can listen twice as much as you speak”? Is there truly wisdom in that saying, and if so, have you ever wondered why no one seems to be able to follow it? In a world of thinkers and talkers, there’s…
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How to Change the Culture Without Being a Butthole
How do you change people? We all want to positively impact people around us, but how do we do it? It’s an age-old question that’s probably more relevant now than any other time in recent history. Between politics, racial tension, and vaccinations, we’re experiencing more friction now than we have in a generation. We may…
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Studies Show Working Overtime Is Basically Pointless
If I asked a room full of men to raise their hand if they work more than 40 hours per week, nearly every hand would go up. If I asked them to keep their hand raised if they work more than 50 hours per week, only a small minority of the room’s hands go down.…