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The 2020 Navigate the Chaos calendar and book edition of the blog are both available here.
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Michael Edmondson
Nov 30, 2019
How often do you live with regret?
"To regret one's own experiences is to arrest one's own development. To deny one's own experiences is to put a lie into the
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Michael Edmondson
Nov 21, 2019
How often do you exchange reality for a role?
The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role.
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Michael Edmondson
Nov 9, 2019
How do you overcome obstacles?
“We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.”
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Michael Edmondson
Sep 22, 2019
Do you live like a superb meteor or a sleep planet?
London noted “I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.”
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Michael Edmondson
Aug 17, 2019
Are you who you want to be?
People who navigate the chaos remind themselves on a daily basis that the easiest thing in the world is for them to be themselves.
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Michael Edmondson
Aug 2, 2019
Are you mature enough to create a new self?
As the French philosopher Henri Bergson once noted "To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating onese
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Michael Edmondson
Jun 30, 2019
Are you caging any birds?
Another way to think of self-determination comes from author Frank A. Clark who noted “The most important thing that parents can teach their
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Michael Edmondson
Jun 2, 2019
What are your nine elements of life?
“The adventure of life is to learn. The purpose of life is to grow. The nature of life is to change. The challenge of life is to overcome. T
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Michael Edmondson
Mar 5, 2019
Are you clearing hurdles you set for yourself?
Fulfillment doesn’t come from clearing hurdles others set for you; it comes from clearing those you set for yourself.
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Michael Edmondson
Feb 27, 2019
Do you view your life as the train or the station?
Best-selling Brazilian author Paulo Coelho observed “Our life is a constant journey, from birth to death. The people change, our needs chang
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Michael Edmondson
Feb 4, 2019
How resilient are you?
The Kauai Longitudinal Study identified five components of a resilient life: 1)resilient individuals are active problem solvers; 2)they used
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Michael Edmondson
Jan 29, 2019
How often do you engage in self-determination?
Self-determination theory is an approach to human motivation and personality that articulates enhanced performance, persistence, and creativ
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