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Choosing regret

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When a choice is made to live in regret, the world never seems fair.   2020 has given us plenty of opportunity for regret.  Raw and emotional decisions on safety, health, and welfare affected every business and are common conne ctions to us all that for what seems certain, no one got it all right (and maybe no one can).  Some business es stayed open, some closed.  Some leaders chose furlough, some fired.  Plastic makers shifted to make retail shields, underwear makers turned upside down made gaiters and m asks. Everyone is making hard decisions. Decisions we later learn were right, some w rong, learning moments of personal and professional growth.    When we choose to accept regret, conversations with others start with “wou ld of, could of, and should of” give us easy reason to bitch and complain, stealing energy that could be planning for our best day, our best leader.     The choice to say “I was wrong, move on”, cost nothing and frees yourself to be your best self going forward.   W
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Time, money, and grit

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A smart guy at Temple University, who, when asked for my goals, and realizing I may not reach them with the current trajectory, told me to spend more time (and money) on classes and "simply work harder", despite your roadblocks.   As a full-time active duty United States Navy Hospital Corpsman, paying for three classes that semester and stretching my time with a side business and work at a health club, I thought I was smart enough to know there was no more candle to burn on both ends.   That same guy with more experiences in life seemed to know something unknown to me.  It turns out he taught me more than just how to achieve my goals, instead a life lesson on grit. Navigating a full- time military career with a full evening and weekend class load added meaning to every one of the 1440 minutes in my day, slowly giving me an unstoppable feeling. Orthopedic students and residents (as I would suspect Physical Therapist as well), have a high level of grit and self-control.  Not sh
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Stare down fear

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Impulsive, fear, anxiety, aggression, and anger. All part of the A mygdal a Hija ck. C r eates a fight or flight, or reset or start over in our mindset in either case.   Pushing the reset button can be difficult.  A partial list of reasons (excuses?) include Too much time Too expensive Beyond capabilities The unknown consequences Yet, starting over can bring so many rewards, to name a few: More efficiencies Fewer costs Improved connections with customers Removing fixed ideas Scanning threats quickly followed by a fight or flight reaction is a negative effect of our amygdala, creating fear from overstated threats, clouding our judgment. Slow down and feed your cortex with more reliable data, and soon you stare down fear to see opportunities that others simply do not see. Robert Babb, PT, MBA.  Thinker. Leader. Speaker. Helping to raise the lids of organizations and thought leaders to higher levels
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What’s your Hollywood Boulevard

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Some may argue, but it was a privilege to walk down Hollywood boulevard one summer night several years ago with my wife and kids, taking in the unusual sights.   I did not count them, but I am told that over 2,600 brass stars make up the Walk of Fame.  Most reflect the name of Hollywood actors, while the rest are occupied by celebrities in Television, Music, and Radio Oddly, missing from the walk of fame is an English band from the British invasion era, the Kinks.  Known for their storytelling abilities and crowd-pleasing live concerts (many I attended), the Kinks wrote the lyrics in Celluloid Heroes, a story about the Hollywood boulevard.  The song speaks to the costs and consequences of the celebrity’s pursuits, with the words, “ For those who are successful , be always on your guard , because s uccess walks hand in hand with failure , a long the Hollywood Boulevard”.  True to the words in the song, the boulevard is a fifteen-block walking story of success and failur
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In the Trench or on the Bench?

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In The Trench or on The Bench? Robert Babb Apr 25 What’s your choice? A filled with a fear eight-year-old kid was playing baseball, his father begging the kid to swing the bat. Other kids would mock him and call him “Statue of Liberty” because the kid was too fearful of swinging at a pitch. One day the kid’s unsympathetic coach came over to at the plate and said, “This may be your lucky day, if you get hit by a pitch, you will get a chance to see what it’s like to be on first base.” While the kid’s teammates jumped at the opportunity to get to the plate and swing for the fences, all this kid wanted to do was sit on the bench. With his deer in the headlight look, fear paralyzed his body at the plate. Lately, we have seen something similar around us at work, home, and through the press. We are in a time or fight or flight, of getting into battle or taking a seat. Fear creates a time for us to stay (or jump) in the trenches, or a moment
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Dig in to dig out

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An addict’s head gets filled with negative dark thoughts, often not knowing how to permit replacement of the dark with some positives.  The bottom falls out, they need help.  Maybe it’s the same for most others. It’s not hard to see the news feeds of today are filled with bad news.  The bottom fell out of the good news industry about the time a Wuhan doctor sounded alerts. Today, the networks 2019 abundance of optimistic stories are replaced by competing channels filled with doomsday documentaries, one of higher shock value than the next. Today, it may make you wonder how any story of hope can ever make its way through the news editors crowded desktop filled with shock of society demise. What are we doing in our attempts to find the good news once again?  Maybe it’s up to you to find the good again; the positive news on your crowded desktop of bad.  Some say small wins. By the average eye, small wins come and go, without recognition or celebration, missing learning mo
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