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About the Author: Speaker and consultant, Barry Maher provides "real world tactics and reality-based motivation" for increasing personal productivity AND job satisfaction. This article is adapted from his book, "Filling the Glass: The Skeptic's Guide to Positive Thinking in Business" which Today's Librarian honored as "[One of] The Seven Essential Popular Business Books." Sign up for his free email newsletter at
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A little imagination can do wonders for changing the scale and putting things into perspective. Here are four simple visualizations I’ve found to be particularly effective for me in providing insight into the things I actually value as opposed to the things I sometimes think I value or the things I often act like I [...]
The strategy I call, “changing the scale” should be about gaining perspective, getting a better look a reality, not obscuring it. Too frequently using an inappropriate scale can hide the reality behind a situation. Mass murderer Joseph Stalin knew this well. “When one man dies, it is a tragedy,” Stalin said. “When thousands die it [...]
