What Are You On The Hook For?

We've all screwed up. And we all put ourselves on the hook for past mistakes. Sometimes we've been on the hook for years. We freeze our progress in its tracks when we're on the hook.

There are 3 SIMPLE steps to letting yourself off the hook. This video, "How to Let Yourself Off the Hook," walks you through them.

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Mark Rothman
Find Your Own "Baseball"

Clash of the titans: I slide deftly around Catcher Craig Berman’s tag to score. Or, Catcher Craig Berman applies the tag, blocking my attempt to score. Either way, I love this picture.

Baseball’s been a part of my life since I was a little boy. When I was 3 or 4 my grandfather promised to take me to my first baseball game when I was a little older. When we studied electrical circuits in elementary school I built a board listing all the major league. When you touched the correct team and its correct league with conductive wands, a light went on. And the first thing I did when my family moved, when I was 11, was find the local little league.

Today, baseball is more than a game for me.

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Is It Real, or Is It CONTEXT?

This is a picture of my parents, Augusta and Louis Rothman, of blessed memory, taken when they were in their 20s.

In my book, Stop Playing Small: An A to Z Guide to Living Your Bigger, Better Life, I write, “Our context transforms how we perceive the reality around us.” Reality is a fact, it is true, it is verifiable. My mother passed away on Monday, November 30, 2015. My father, on Tuesday, October 17, 2017. That is reality. How I feel about my parents’ deaths depends on my context.

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