Identifying three or four significant events in your life that taught you something about yourself or shaped the person you are, identifying the tension in each experience and how you dealt with it and how each episode shaped your belief, and then telling your stories to others can help to strengthen your skill in:

 
 
 
 
 
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Finding someone you can make a commitment to about reaching a goal and then asking that person to regularly inquire about your progress, and offering to do the same for him or her, can help to…

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By challenging sexist institutional arrangements and investing time and energy to battle the forces that would repeal Title IX regulations designed to create parity for women’s sports, Julie Foudy…

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By finding ways to move ever closer to achieving simultaneous four-way wins—actions that benefit work, home, community, and self, all at once—such as volunteering for the United Way early in his…

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Listing the names of the three to five people who matter most to you in each domain of your life, describing one thing that you can do to provide some kind of help for some or all of these people or…

Transferring skills or talents from one area of your life to another by first identifying your talents and then applying them in new areas, thereby enhancing the initial competency and enabling you to…

When Tom Tierney, at the peak of his powers as CEO, chose to leave in the prime of his career and launch a small non-profit start-up he demonstrated the skill of:

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Identifying the important roles you play in each area of your life, thinking about the type of person you wish to become in each of those roles, and then identifying the one or two main features of…