February 21, 2009 – 9:08 am
Over at Micro Persuasion is an interesting guest post, Leo Babauta on the Tao of Marketing. Leao writes about his own marketing experiences connected to his site Zen Habits and his book The Power of Less. He writes about th eold way of marketing before getting into the new way.
Marketers must adopt an entirely new [...]
January 27, 2009 – 6:30 pm
Today I came across this quote:
Worry doesn’t help tomorrow’s troubles, but it does ruin today’s happiness.
It really says a lot, worry does not solve problems – it only ruins the now.
November 15, 2008 – 2:16 pm
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. [...]
October 23, 2008 – 7:42 am
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 [...]
October 19, 2008 – 10:23 am
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 [...]
October 9, 2008 – 7:58 am
There is an interesting e-book over at ChangeThis, I Am The Walrus: Lessons In Personal Branding from The Beatles. The e-book is built around a Beatles record, giving lessons in personal branding along the way.
The authors post about the e-book at their blog, ChangeThis Manifesto “I Am The Walrus” Released!.
The possibility of finding and spreading [...]
September 11, 2008 – 7:14 am
Jonathan Mead is one of my favourite bloggers. He has a guest post at Zen Habits about 7 Essentials For Living Your Fullest Potential.
As a coach I use the tag line Unlocking your potential. It is your life, make the most of it!. Jonathan’s post is highly relevant, potential is a fussy term. Jonathan writes [...]
September 6, 2008 – 6:02 pm
When browsing around over at Rebel Zen I came across Curly’s law. It is from the movie City Slickers. Jack Palance plays Curly (which gives him an Oscar for best supporting actor) and Billy Crystal plays Mitch.
Curly: Do you know what the secret of life is?
Curly: This. [holds up one finger]
Mitch: Your finger?
Curly: One thing. [...]
August 22, 2008 – 7:49 pm
I got this lovely text in a Yahoo Group I belong to. Original author is unknown, the text was posted by Ann.
PLANT THREE ROWS OF PEAS:
1. Peace of mind
2. Peace of heart
3. Peace of soul
PLANT FOUR ROWS OF SQUASH:
1. Squash gossip
2. Squash indifference
3. Squash grumbling
4. Squash selfishness
PLANT FOUR ROWS OF LETTUCE:
1. Lettuce be faithful
2. Lettuce [...]
August 17, 2008 – 5:00 pm
Mary Jaksch who blogs at Goodlife Zen has published an e-book titled From Tragedy to Triumph – Winning through a life crisis. Her book is about the five steps to healing:
1. Acceptance.
2. Presence.
3. Action.
4. Forgiveness.
5. Integration.
The book is very well written and includes text about people who have used this method and came out stronger. [...]