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Smart Fail

It's OK to fail, but never to quit.

Fail is a mistake you learn from. Quit is a fail you adopt and live with.

Growing is easy. It's the 'Up' part that's hard.

Age is about time. Maturity is about choices you make on purpose.

Say what you mean and mean what you say — without being mean.

Words are the primary way we communicate meaning. Here's how to use them to connect.

Study to learn, not to succeed in school.

Success in school is the definition of short term. Here's how to study for life instead.

Is stress a friend or a foe? It depends on knowing the difference between Smart stress and Dumb stress.

We only stress over what we care about. Stress isn't all bad, but living stressed is.

Being a dad is a high calling. High demands, high impact, high cost.

Whether you had a great example to follow or need some help, here's where to start.

A real friendship is built on understanding. So understand first.

Being a good friend, and finding good friends, starts with learning to communicate well.

If your world runs on a hyper-performance paradigm, you don't have focus.

Zooming in and out of a dozen things for ten minutes each isn't focus. Here's what is.

Solitude is vital. Loneliness is destructive. They are not the same thing.

Being alone doesn't build healthy mental habits. Solitude does. Here's the difference.

Maybe the point isn't to find meaning. Maybe it's to provide it.

Cutting through the pop psychology on meaning, and measuring what you give instead of what you get.

Good things come to those who wait. But what if you're waiting for the wrong thing?

What you expect shapes what you get. Here's how to expect on purpose instead of by accident.

Change is coming. The only question is whether you're ready.

Chosen or unexpected, change arrives. Here's how to steer through it instead of getting stuck.