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What You See Is All There Is. Assume Less, Make Smarter Decisions
When my son was a toddler, he discovered a version of hide-and-seek, that he played with us around the house. He was hiding behind the...
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teodoratakacs
Apr 69 min read
Don't Confuse Motion with Action
“It isn't enough to think outside the box. Thinking is passive. Get used to acting outside the box.” Tim Ferriss Whenever life gets busy...
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teodoratakacs
Jan 26 min read
The Force That Moves Us Forward
Since my son came into our lives, we made it a tradition to visit my grandmother between Christmas and New Year. She lives in a small...
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teodoratakacs
Nov 18, 202312 min read
Imagine the Road Ahead. Goal Setting and the Power of Visual Boards
“One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree. ‘Which road do I take?’ she asked. ‘Where do you want to go?’...
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teodoratakacs
Aug 15, 202316 min read
We Need to Talk About Confidence
“The topic of confidence is too often neglected by serious people: we spend so much time acquiring technical skills, and so little time...
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teodoratakacs
Jun 11, 202312 min read
What Do You Do With an Idea?
“Human beings are works in progress that mistakenly think they’re finished. The person you are right now is as transient, as fleeting and...
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teodoratakacs
May 7, 202317 min read
How Are You Creative? 7 Ideas to Unlock Your Creative Energy
“If you want a good idea, start with a lot of ideas.” Linus Pauling A few months back I participated to a workshop organized by the...
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teodoratakacs
Apr 9, 20233 min read
Understand Your Core Values
Wherever you might be on your life journey, you will for sure change in the years to come. "Understand Your Core Values" is a personal...
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teodoratakacs
Mar 26, 202310 min read
Of Perfectionism and Other Demons
I didn’t know what perfectionism was when I was most struggling with it. I couldn’t see the signs, not to mention the possible ways to...
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teodoratakacs
Mar 12, 20231 min read
6 Ways to Find More Meaning in Your Life
All my life I have been struggling with a feeling of not being good enough, so I constantly chased self-improvement and learning how to...
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Mar 7, 20239 min read
What We Value and What We Do. This Daily Game of Tic-tac-toe
“One person’s trash is another person’s treasure”. Annie Duke, How to decide I have days when I wake up extra ambitious and I plan to do...
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teodoratakacs
Feb 11, 202315 min read
How I Learned to Trust My Intuition
“The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant.” Albert Einstein We are sometimes so focused on...
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teodoratakacs
Dec 23, 202214 min read
If You Want More Meaning, Start with Purpose
“He who has a why to live for can bear with almost any how.” (Friedrich Nietzsche) “Purpose provides activation energy for living.”...
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teodoratakacs
Nov 13, 20228 min read
We Need To Talk About Leadership
For a long time, I believed that leadership was about being smart, strong and confident. A good leader was someone who knew it all and...
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teodoratakacs
Oct 9, 20229 min read
10 Books That Helped Me Grow
And when I say grow, I think about becoming calmer, braver, more disciplined, compassionate, less biased, driven, creative and resilient....
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teodoratakacs
Aug 29, 20228 min read
Do You Care What You Share?
Do you ever have moments when you feel a strong impulse to share something with others and you just do it automatically? Maybe when...
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teodoratakacs
Jul 1, 202215 min read
Flirting With Our Possible Selves
I first came across this idea of flirting with possible selves, while reading Range, by David Epstein. The story of Frances Hesselbein,...
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teodoratakacs
Jun 13, 20226 min read
Be More Playful With Yourself
“Follow your dreams” is the worst advice you can give. It’s impossible to do without self-knowledge, which takes years. You discover your...
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teodoratakacs
Mar 23, 202212 min read
What's Your Superpower?
It was a Friday afternoon, and I was preparing for the last meeting of the week. I was tired and found it difficult to focus. Maria, a...
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Feb 1, 20229 min read
Did You Think It Would Be Easy?
A long time ago, someone told me a story. It was about a girl, born in a middle-class family of German origins, in a small village close...
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teodoratakacs
Dec 31, 202110 min read
Less Ego, More Shared Moments
A few years ago, I read a story that changed my perspective on death and helped me put my long-lived anxiety at the thought that I might...
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teodoratakacs
Nov 30, 202115 min read
Who We Are Is How We Spend Our Time
Most of my life I was busy doing, running from one thing to the other. It’s only a few years ago, in my mid thirties, that I also started...
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teodoratakacs
Oct 31, 202113 min read
Lost Your Motivation? Maybe That's a Good Thing
Sunday is my favorite day of the week. I get up around seven, do my morning routine, enjoy a coffee while catching up on some readings,...
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teodoratakacs
Oct 2, 20217 min read
What Are You Holding On To?
At the beginning of September I had just finished re-reading Dan Pink’s Drive and I was writing about the difference between motivation...
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