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Analyze your blog for fun

Typealyzer will analyze and suggest a Jung-Myers-Briggs type. It also shows a brain activity analysis which looks cool.
Forty Plus Two was classified as INTJ - The Scientists while Zen and more was classified as ISTP - The Mechanics. I think both should be taken with a grain of salt but it shows that sticking to [...]

Using SWOT analysis for personal purposes

The image below comes from Wikipedia’s article about SWOT analysis. The article starts like this:
SWOT Analysis is a strategic planning method used to evaluate the Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats involved in a project or in a business venture.

I have used SWOT for business purposes but it turns out that SWOT can be used on [...]

Do you have a personal motto?

I came across Your Life’s Story Told in One Sentence over at Marc and Angel Hack Life. It is a very interesting and useful post that starts like this:
Constraints make us focus. They force us to zero-in on a specific purpose. The less material we have to work with, the more resourceful we must be. [...]

How To Discover Your Life Purpose

Jonathan at Illuminated Mind writes an excellent post about How to Find Your Purpose in Life. I love his explanation of purpose:
Your purpose has nothing to do with your degree, your resume, your career, or vocation. Your purpose is independent of all those things. In fact, it’s much bigger than any of those. Purpose has [...]

How to make gradual changes

Sometimes it feels too overwhelming to make radical changes. When that is the case then it works much better taking one step at a time and to change gradually.
Kaizen, which means “Continuous Improvement”– slow, incremental but constant, is a concept for that. Companies like Toyota use Kaizen to improve their production, we can use it [...]

Curly’s Law

I have posted about The Rule of One or Curly’s Law, a post at Rebel Zen reminded me about Curly and his secret of life. The secret is simple, One thing. Just one thing. You stick to that and the rest don’t mean shit. The problem of course is figuring out what your own “one [...]

Understanding Fear Of Abandonment

Séamus Anthony have two interesting posts at Living Now, How to conquer your fear of abandonment (and horses)Part one and How to conquer your fear of abandonment (and horses)Part two. It is the story about when he went trail-riding for the first time but is also about the fear of abondonment and how that affects [...]

Mission statement, visualization and pitch

Jason at JibberJobber posted about The Visualization - Where Will You Be? and Career Management Visualization - an example.
I hate your job has an interesting post about Personal Mission Statements: Way Cool where it says something well worth to remember and consider:
Do you realize that the average person spends more time planning a vacation than [...]

Link Medley Coaching

Life Coaches Blog writes about the importance of really listening, Tune In – Give the Gift of Listening.
Never the Same River Twice starts a series called Changes that stick, the first part is How to Make Lasting Changes. You find the entire series under Changes That Stick.

Link Medley Personal development

Yin vs Yang has an interesting post about How to Properly Plan For Success Today.
The Discomfort Zone writes that If you want to become more open-minded and have the flexibility of thought that some of the great problems solvers possess, start to cultivate thinking like an infant again.
Will it change you? writes about the fundamental [...]

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