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On Living Life
21 Mar 2023

On Living Life

by dfurtwengler | posted in: Confidence, counterintuitive thinking | 0

“That’s the thing about life. You actually have to spend time living it. Or else what the hell did any of it really matter?” This was spoken by Amos Decker, David Baldacci’s main character in his book, Long Shadows (opens … Continued

confidence, living, living life
Getting To Know Yourself
14 Mar 2023

Getting To Know Yourself

by dfurtwengler | posted in: Confidence, counterintuitive thinking | 2

How well do you know yourself? Be honest. Was your response to that question a knee-jerk reaction or was it the result of having spent time thinking about your values and behaviors? My experience has been that I can’t really … Continued

awareness, confidence, know yourself, self-awareness
Move Past Fear
7 Mar 2023

Move Past Fear

by dfurtwengler | posted in: Confidence, counterintuitive thinking | 0

The successful among us aren’t exempt from fear; they move past their fear. Typically one of three things enable them to do so: passion, challenge or emotional awareness. Let’s explore each of these in more detail. Passion When asked if … Continued

confidence, fear, overcoming fear
Control Is An Illusion
28 Feb 2023

Control Is An Illusion

by dfurtwengler | posted in: Uncategorized | 2

If you’re someone who desires control, my heart goes out to you; control is an illusion. We cannot control anything other than our own behavior. That’s true whether we’re trying to control situations or others’ behavior. Situations We can’t control … Continued

confidence, control, influence
Visualization ➠ Result
21 Feb 2023

Visualization ➠ Result

by dfurtwengler | posted in: Confidence, counterintuitive thinking | 2

  During a conversation with my dear friend, Deanna Phelps (opens in a new link), co-founder of the Hadron Group, Inc. in St. Louis, I gained awareness of how the time frame between visualization and result changes depending upon whether … Continued

confidence, conscious, result, results, subconscious, visualization
Is Confidence Comfortable?
14 Feb 2023

Is Confidence Comfortable?

by dfurtwengler | posted in: Confidence, counterintuitive thinking | 0

In order to answer the question: Is Confidence Comfortable?, we need to define comfortable. While we all know what comfortable feels like, most of us (me included) would find it difficult to come up with a definition without referring to … Continued

comfort, comfortable, confidence
It’s Not Luck
7 Feb 2023

It’s Not Luck

by dfurtwengler | posted in: Confidence, counterintuitive thinking | 0

What we often attribute to luck is not luck at all; it’s the result of passion, persistence and perseverance of work done years earlier. Here are a couple of personal examples to illustrate this point. Examples Years ago I was … Continued

confidence, luck, not luck, passion, perseverance, persistence, serendipitous, serendipity
Misleading
31 Jan 2023

Misleading

by dfurtwengler | posted in: Confidence, counterintuitive thinking | 0

In his book, Intellectuals and Society (opens in a new link), Thomas Sowell (opens in a new link) demonstrates how frequently we are fed misleading information on a daily basis. While he doesn’t ascribe any malicious motives to those who … Continued

confidence, critical thinking, misleading, misleading information, Thomas Sowell
Vitality
24 Jan 2023

Vitality

by dfurtwengler | posted in: Confidence, counterintuitive thinking | 0

Vitality is ageless…if you its source. I’m certain that you’ve known people you’d consider elderly who don’t appear to be as old as their chronology. You’ve also known people who seem much older than their years. Many of us might … Continued

ageless, aging, confidence, vitality
Choice: Why? or Why not?
17 Jan 2023

Choice: Why? or Why not?

by dfurtwengler | posted in: Confidence, counterintuitive thinking | 0

When faced with a choice, what’s your natural approach: do you see the reasons why to move forward or the reasons why not to move ahead?  One of the things I find interesting is how differently people react to choices … Continued

choice, choices, confidence, decision making, why, why not

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