Your External Locus of Control

January 1, 1970

Whether you are job searching, leading a business, or focused on a personal project...

Do you believe your successes or setbacks are of “your own making”?

Or rather feel that you are not in control of most of what you experience?

I have my own bias ... and this is what I do to keep myself on check...

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