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What you see is not necessarily what you get. We know this is true in advertising, in politics, perhaps even that new-hire who started on Monday. Are we fooling ourselves to think that it's not true of us, too? Tags:  Mathis, Integrity, Honesty

It's one thing to get fired up about something at a conference or training seminar. It's another thing to sustain that excitement once you're back in the “valley” of everyday workplace challenges. How, then, can we find the motivation we need to not only establish and start pursuing worthwhile goals, but also to sustain the effort? Tags:  Gratitude, Thankful, Tamasy

Our productivity and ultimately our success, depends largely on timing. We know from our own experience that we are smarter, faster and more creative in some parts of the day than others. Confirming these conclusions, Russell Foster, a neuroscientist, claims, “The performance change between the daily high point and the daily low point can be equivalent to the effect on performance of drinking the legal limit of alcohol.” That may seem like a startling comparison, but it is probably very accurate for assessing when we can do our best work. Tags:  Timing, Creativity, Boxx

There is a certain wonder and imagination you can only find in art, and it’s something we as Christians have often struggled to embrace. Yet God designed us to create - and that extends even to the work we do every day. Tags:  Creativity, Art, Duncan