Recent Articles From EvanCarmichael.com http://www.evancarmichael.com/ http://www.evancarmichael.com/Business-Coach/2601/Lessons-From-the-Track.html http://www.evancarmichael.com/Business-Coach/2601/Lessons-From-the-Track.html What separates you from people who look like they have no shot at winning and yet they do over and over again even when the odds are against them? http://www.evancarmichael.com/Business-Coach/2601/Our-Gas-Tanks-Are-Full-But-Were-Running-On-Empty.html http://www.evancarmichael.com/Business-Coach/2601/Our-Gas-Tanks-Are-Full-But-Were-Running-On-Empty.html Lots of negative news out there. While we're running around making sure our schedules our filled with things to do we forget that our spirits are running on empty. Often it's because we are focusing our thoughts on what we are lacking, what we perceive isn't available to us when what we need to do is shift the way we see things. 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Ethics should be the litmus test against which all decisions should be measured. It should be integrated into the way we think even as individuals as we move through our lives and come up against tough choices that we each inevitably have to make in our lives. http://www.evancarmichael.com/Business-Coach/2601/What-You-Think-is-What-You-Do-and-Who-You-Are.html http://www.evancarmichael.com/Business-Coach/2601/What-You-Think-is-What-You-Do-and-Who-You-Are.html Most people when they want to figure things out or change what is going on in their lives tend to focus on the external…the doing. They say to themselves, “What do I need to be doing differently?” When the question should be, “How am I thinking about this situation?” Anything we do in the ‘external’ has its genesis in our brains…the internal. Whatever is happening outside of us in our lives is a reflection of what is going on inside of us…specifically, inside our brains. 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