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Chris Madden's avatar

I started doing something similar to your “list of 50 people” check-ins recently, and I couldn’t agree more about how valuable it has been.

It’s so easy to slip out of touch with important people in your life today given our endless array of distractions. Even glancing at your “roster” is a friendly reminder of the footprint you leave in the world and queuing mechanism to continue nurturing these relationships.

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Sarah Stewart's avatar

Thanks for taking the time to put this together Bradley, a lot of high-performers struggle with this and it's comforting to know we're not alone! It's an A+ list of tactics.

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Ann Richardson's avatar

This was a very thoughtful piece, but I find your use of the word 'ruminating' as something bad, to be struggled with, very odd. I even double-checked the definition to see if I had been using it wrongly all my life. I consider myself to be someone who ruminates a lot and think of it as a good quality, ie thinking about something, letting it run through your mind for awhile. Reading the article further, I can see that you are hypercritical of yourself and that is the problem, but do you also ruminate in the good sense?

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Michael Groothuis's avatar

Kudos to you, Bradley, for knowing all this about yourself and coming to terms with it.

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