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"One's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions."—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., American poet and philosopher. The above quote is one of my favorites. In this New Year, how can you extend it to your performance? Make a decision to stretch yourself beyond your ordinary productive limits! We Americans are famous for our productivity; we regularly exceed our previous peaks. This has become particularly true since the beginning of the electronics revolution, and continued even during the Great Recession of 2008. In part, this may be because we've learned to stretch our abilities to new dimensions—since for a while there, we had no choice. But just as even the finest Spring has its cool or wet spells, not everyone regularly increases his or her … [Read more...]