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Top 10 ‘drag you down, get in the way of making good things happen’ thoughts to eliminate from your day... Defeatist (better to be positively expectant than anticipate defeat) Cynical (chall…

My son didn't make the cut. A solid round of golf trying to qualify for the junior state championship ... 1 stroke kept him out. That night, when the disappointment started…

Occasionally, our thoughts and ideas here at InspireYourPeople.com annoy people. That may surprise you given what we create and publish. It used to surprise me, but given the large number of peop…

“I wish it wouldn’t have happened in some ways. Now I say, ‘Well, it bought us a ticket here. So be it.’” Tony Bennett | Head coach, UVA men’s basketball team (on last year…

There’s a psychological concept called The Peak-End Rule. Daniel Kahneman and Barbara Fredrickson are the best-known people behind the idea. Bottom line: We tend to judge our experience…

What you expect to happen … what you believe in your mind … can have a big impact on what actually does happen. If you’re going to try to make something good happen … if you make the decision to…

Six games. 289 missed shots. 73 turnovers. 106 personal fouls. 22 missed free throws. And they went undefeated. 6-0. Those are last year's tournament stats for the men’s college basketball…

I’m embarrassed. A few weeks ago, I realized how distracted I’d become … in my work, with people, in my mind. So, I decided to go on a fast from distraction and reboot my commitment to staying mo…