There's plenty of upside to being a contrarian, until there isn't.

Sometimes, it's worth considering that the popular opinion - the consensus view - may very well be the right view.

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We often see success as a destination. It's not because destinations suggest we can stop when we get there.

True success isn't a destination, it's a journey - and that means addressing complacency, as I discuss in today's episode.

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We tend to think effort and graft are the most critical ingredients to doing our work well. They're not.

The fact is that there's one, far more important and foundational requirement for success, as I discuss in today's episode.

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From a young age, we're stuck on this idea that we have to get everything right, right from the start. Because you never get a second chance to make a first impression.

Truth is, in so many aspects of our lives, especially our careers, that's just patently false. As I discuss in today's episode, you can indeed have second acts.

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It's that time when we start planning our resolutions for the New Year. At the same time, there's also a sense of concern inherent in some of us - the sense that we're not really going to keep at it, given our past behaviors, so what's the point?

As I discuss in today's episode, we should do it anyway, because our false starts in the past provide the education and fuel for us to be successful in the future.

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Those words from Bruce Springsteen's The River got me thinking about this idea of singular dreams and how they define who we are and what we do.

I dive into what this potentially means and what it, perhaps, should mean for us, in today's episode.

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Sometimes, telling others - and ourselves - that we've arrived isn't a good thing.

In fact, as I discuss in today's episode, it can lead to a complacency that can derail everything that we've achieved so far. So that messaging, to others and to ourselves, is important.

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Social media provides us with a very specific idea of what "the" life is. There's no shortage of influencers who showcase how glamorous their everyday life is.

But before we get caught up, it's worth understanding that what we see is what we're shown, as I discuss in today's episode.

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