Author: Dr. Jim Taylor

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YouTube Channel: Prime Business Alert!: Change: Why and How

I just uploaded my latest Prime Business Alert! video newsletter, Change: Why and How:

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YouTube Channel: Prime Family Alert!: Raise Good Decision Makers

I’ve just uploaded my latest Prime Family Alert! video newsletter, Raise Good Decision Makers:

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YouTube Channel: Prime Sport Alert!: Motivation to Succeed

I just uploaded my latest Prime Sport Alert! video newsletter, Motivation to Succeed:

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Parenting: What I Love about the Tiger Mom

If you look at the title of my recent blog post about Amy Chua, What Chinese-American Mothers to Wrong (and Right), and the title of this piece, you may be thinking that I have Multiple Personality Disorder, excoriating her one day and expressing my affection for her the next. I have since thought more about […]

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YouTube Channel: Prime Business Alert!: Prime Business Challenge

I’ve just uploaded my latest Prime Business Alert! video newsletter, Prime Business Challenge:

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Ski Racing: Demystifying Ski Racing Psychology

Whenever I talk to racers and coaches, I ask them what aspect of ski racing seems to have the greatest impact on how they perform. Almost unanimously they say the mental part. I then ask how much time they devote to their mental preparation and their answer is almost always little or no time. Despite […]

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YouTube Channel: Prime Sport Alert!: Prime Sport Profiling

I’ve just uploaded my latest Prime Sport Alert! video newsletter, Prime Sport Profiling:

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Parenting: What Chinese-American Mothers do Wrong (and Right)

Have you read the article on wsj.com by Amy Chua, a Chinese-American mother (and law professor at Yale)? If not, you probably don’t have children. It is a must-read! I was both mesmerized and appalled by the article; like driving past a horrific car accident and wondering whether anyone survived. I realize that her article […]

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YouTube Channel: Prime Family Alert!: The Lost Art of Play

I’ve just uploaded my latest Prime Family Alert! video newsletter, The Lost Art of Play:

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Business: Are You a Stress Victim or Stress Master?

Stress is a truly unpleasant, potentially harmful, and decidedly unavoidable part of life in the business world; it just comes with the territory of climbing the corporate ladder. Yet, whether stress interferes with or facilitates your efforts in that climb depends on how well you understand it, your attitude toward it, and the tools you […]

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