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Buying and Selling: What’s the Best Way to Get the Best Deal for Your Car?

CarMax advertising reads, “This is the way car buying should be.”  But is it?  CarMax offers a sell/trade service that promises an offer for your car in just a couple of minutes and once the offer is accepted and verified, it will “pay you on the spot.”  CarMax makes...

Cultivating Perseverance

I am always interested in learning more about how to meet life’s inevitable challenges with resilience and resolve. So, I was intrigued by a well-known neuroscientist’s tweet about a brain region that research has shown to be associated with the trait of mental...

“Box Breathing,” a Simple Technique to Benefit Mind and Body

How often do you think about breathing?  Human beings breathe about 22,000 times a day, but we don’t give it much attention unless we’re ill or just sprinted up a steep hill.  We leave breathing up to the medulla oblongata, located at the bottom of our brain stem. ...

Coach Cori Close: Mental Conditioning

The Mental Game in Basketball and Life I’ve written before about mental conditioning as an essential part of athletic training or preparing for competition.  And I believe it’s a tool that applies more broadly to one’s professional life whatever one’s challenges or...

To Lease or to Buy?

While leasing a car has long been a popular option for drivers looking to lower monthly payments, journalists with an eye on the automotive industry have noted that leasing hit a road bump during the pandemic years.  Today, however, thanks to shifting market...

Visualization: How Champions Prepare to Win

Excellence.  Greatness.  Peak Performance.  How does an athlete, a businessperson, or a professional in any field achieve those goals?  Recently, I watched a video on X (@BambarkarPrasad) that featured Olympic Gold Medalist Michael Phelps and Hall of Fame coach Bob...