If your objective is to:

• Incite action: describe how a successful action was completed in the past and its steps.
• Tell people about yourself, feature genuine, humanizing struggles, failures, and wins.
• Convey values, tap into familiar emotions and si...

It all comes down to the stories you tell yourself when you feel overwhelmed or fail.

If you work too much and don’t have time for fun, do you tell yourself that people demand too much from you? Or, do you tell yourself you don’t prioritize your own time well enough?

We increasingly find it difficult to focus on the hear and now without checking our phones. We seem to go through life in a state of "continual partial attention." We're there but not aware of where we put our attention.

While modern technology has its advantages, our atte...