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- Become more adaptable
- Integrate adaptability, resilience, and yes, vulnerability into your life
- Consider alternatives to the way you think now.
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2025
- How to Change the Culture to Solve More of Our Real Problems (Part 2)
- How Would You Act if You Optimized for Uncertainty to Gain More Resilience?
- How Can We Tell the Difference Between Real Leadership and Leadership Theater?
- How Can You Manage Your Feelings to Start a New Chapter?
- How Can You Tell It’s Time to Commit to a New Path?
- How Do You Know When a Selfish or Generous Decision is Best?
- How Can We Change Our Bias for Action to Gathering More Information?
- How Do You Know When You’re No Longer On Top of Your Game?
- When Do You Choose to Move From Risk Awareness to Contingency Planning?
- How Do Rules or Structure Help You Decide Which Decisions to Make?
2024
- Which Essential Questions Will Help You Start Next Year Right?
- How to Pivot When Too Few People Want What You Have to Offer
- How Often Do You Change How You Act Based on New Information?
- How Do the Names We Call Each Other Matter?
- When Does a Level Playing Field Make Sense & When Should We Create It?
- How Can We Be Committed to Principles, But Not Attached to Positions?
- What Responsibilities Do We Owe People In or Out of Our Boundaries?
- How Can We Postpone Old (Age) Thinking and Create New Ideas?
- When and How Should We Build Community to Connect With Each Other?
- Three Secrets to Make “Always Be Changing” Our Personal Focus
- Whose Expectations Do You Choose to Satisfy and When?
- How Can We Combine Our Feelings of Urgency and Calm to Be Most Effective?
2023
- How Comfortable Can You Be With Your Changing Role, Especially in a Social Setting?
- When Do You Make Assumptions About Other People’s Abilities?
- How Can We Learn to Look Forward to a New and Possibly Unknown State?
- How Satisfied Are You With What’s on Your Permanent Record?
- When Is It Time to Set Aside Your Current Dreams and Start Over?
- How Can You Use the Compounding Effect to Achieve What You Want?
- How Do You Prepare to Work Hard and Be Effective?
- How Can You Use What’s Remarkable About You to Create an Even Better Life?
- Let’s Change the Question from What We Want to Be to the Lives We Want to Have
- How Many Layers Do You Add to Manage Risks?
- How Can We Remain Relevant When New Technology Threatens Our Jobs and Lives?
- When Do You Assist, Support, or Inflict Help?
2022
- Great Minds: When Do We Gain from Thinking Alike or Differently?
- How Can We Learn to Belong to New Communities?
- When Do You Realize It’s Time to Expand Your Horizons?
- How Can You Learn from Your History to Succeed Now?
- How Can You Know When Your “Best” Days Are Behind You So You Can Evolve?
- How Can We Embrace Complexity—and Stop Trying to Avoid It?
- How Much Confidence Do You Need to Start?
- What If Ambiguity Was a Good Thing?
- How Can You Go Meta to Solve a Problem When You’re Stuck?
- Three Ways to Show Others the Value of Your Adaptability and Resilience
- How Much Balance Do We Need to Excel and Succeed?
- How Do You Manage Your Energy?
2021
- Three Questions to Become More Adaptable and Resilient in the Future
- What Games Do You Create to Succeed in Life and Work?
- Why Is “You Got This” So Evil?
- How Do We Plan for Both Cascading Effects and Catastrophic Success?
- Where Do You Choose to Draw Your Boundaries?
- Which Kind of Power Do You Need to Avoid Triangulation?
- CAL Newsletter: How Can You Use Optimism to Achieve Your Goals?
- Do You Need to Focus or Harness Your Energy?
- What Do You Want to Accomplish so You Don’t Create Regrets?
- How Can You Be Even More True to Yourself?
2020
- When Do You Choose to Continue or Stop?
- When Do You Choose to Rebel or Comply?
- Want to Choose Again? Reflect to Create New Options
- Three Possibilities to Imagine Our Future
- Three Secrets to Exercise Your Resilience
- Three Tips to Help Us Now & in the Future
- Three Secrets for Making “The Game” Possible
- When Is the Right Time to Solve This Problem?
- Are You Responsible To or For?
- Three Options for Your Next Year’s Watchword
2019
- CAL Tip #15: Define Your Purpose, Your Why
- CAL Tip #14: Bring Your Sense of Humor Out of the Basement
- CAL Tip #13: Build Stamina Through Perseverance
- CAL Tip #12: Create & Use Experiments
- CAL Tip #11: Focus on Results for Change
- CAL Tip #10: Build Your Support System
- CAL Tip #9: Discuss the Un-Discussable
2018
2017
- CAL Tip #6: Practice Asking for Help
- CAL Tip #5: Seek Some Feedback
- CAL Tip #4: Start Small
- CAL Tip #3: Acknowledge Your Changes
- CAL Tip #2: See Your Reality
- First Tip Newsletter is Up
- CAL Tip #1: What is Adaptability and Why That Matters
2016
2015
- Create an Adaptable Life, Vol 4 #4: What Questions Do You Have?
- How Do You Flex?
- Create an Adaptable Life: Vol 4, #3: How Do You Flex?
- What’s the Worst Thing That Can Happen?
- Create an Adaptable Life Vol 4 #1: Seeing Your Reality