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Do the Wrong Thing

Do the Wrong Thing For many reasons Gregg likes to work in the living room, particularly in the winter.  The dancing flames from our wood stove warm both his body and spirit. Our south-facing living...

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The Thing You Need to Do Today by Gregg Krech Do what you need to do today without a strategy or a reward. You don’t need to be told what to do or how to do it. You know that already. There is nothing...

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Regrouping for the Second Half of the Year

It’s a good time to step back, review the year so far and regroup so you can move forward in a meaningful way.  In this webinar recording, Gregg Krech, author of The Art of Taking Action: Lessons from...

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Finishing Strong: How to End the Year and Launch the New Year based on...

Finishing Strong: How to End this Year and Launch the New One based on Peak-End Theory by Gregg Krech A few years ago I wrote an essay inspired by Nobel Prize winner, Daniel Kahneman – “What Can We...

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Impatience and Intuition

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Karoshi – Manage energy not time

Karoshi – Manage Energy, not Time By Gregg Krech The Japanese have the longest life expectancy of any country in the world (2020). You’ll have to scan much further down the list to find the United...

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Three Shifts of Japanese Psychology

The Three Shifts of Japanese Psychology — Part I by Gregg Krech   The most common question I’m asked is “What is Japanese Psychology?”  Underlying that question, is a curiosity about how Japanese...

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Parking Lot Naikan

Parking Lot Naikan by Linda Anderson Krech The other day I spent some time waiting in a supermarket parking lot for Gregg, who had offered to run in and pick up a few things for us.  My job was just to...

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Being Purposeful, Being Realistic, and TAKING ACTION

Purpose comes in all sizes.  There is the small, momentary purpose which we encounter throughout the day, like when you open the closet door to find a shirt to wear as you get ready to go to work.  Or...

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Are You Disappointed with Your Progress?

Are Your Disappointed with your Progress? I think Pema Chodron has the best book titles: When Things Fall Apart The Wisdom of No Escape One of my favorites is: Start Where You Are It’s just common...

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Finishing Strong

Finish Strong This is the last day of January.  Amazing, isn’t it?  One day it’s the first day of the New Year, and suddenly (it seems) it’s the end of the first month. Have you stayed with your New...

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Do the Wrong Thing

Do the Wrong Thing For many reasons Gregg likes to work in the living room, particularly in the winter.  The dancing flames from our wood stove warm both his body and spirit. Our south-facing living...

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Do You Need More Time?

DO YOU NEED MORE TIME? by Gregg Krech How many of us have sat back in a chair, thought about everything we need to do that is undone, sighed deeply, and said, “I wish I had more time.” Of course, there...

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Five Purposeful Decisions

FIVE PURPOSEFUL DECISIONS by Linda Anderson Krech Over the course of a day, we supposedly make about 35,000 conscious decisions, most of which are made intuitively.  Think about the incredible...

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Finishing Strong: Ending the year with help from “peak-end theory”

Finishing Strong:  Ending the year with help from “peak-end theory” by Gregg Krech Do you know about Daniel Kahneman’s “Peak-End Theory”?    This theory states that our memories of events are dependent...

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Coming Together and Falling Apart — Not a Problem

Coming Together and Falling Apart – Not a Problem by Gregg Krech “We think that the point is to pass the test or overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don’t really get solved. They come...

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