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 [...]
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 [...]
Steve Pavlina, a well known blogger, has published a book titled Personal Development for Smart People: The Conscious Pursuit of Personal Growth. I think posts at Steve’s blog are sometimes too long so I was not that interested in the book. But after reading Steve’s own sales page and some reviews (at Wisebread, Skills Toolbox [...]
ZenHabits has a great post about 20 Strategies to Defeat the Urge to Do Useless Tasks. You know most of them but this compilation is a terrific reminder.
The key and first on the list is to know what’s important. Then all we need to do is to focus on that. But since that often is [...]
Peter who runs The Change Blog and is editor at Pick The Brain has released a free e-book. The e-book includes his best articles from his own blog and Pick The Brain. The twenty selected articles are divided into five chapters:
• Inspiration and Awareness
• Remix your day
• Change
• Blogging
• Selfimprovement
The e-book is edited in a way that makes it really [...]
Jonathan Mead has a very interesting post over at PickTheBrain about Why Do We Avoid Doing What We Love?.
If we know what makes us feel alive, why do we resist it? Why do we avoid doing what we love to do?
There are some important lessons in here:
Failure is fundamental to the creative process. If you [...]
We all have an inner boss or controller. Our relation can be strained or work well depending on whether this inner boss has a style that suits us or not. The good news are that we are in charge, not the inner boss.
If we do not like the way our inner controller works then we [...]
The Manifestation Wheel is an interesting concept created by Alan Seale and partly based on the Lakota medicine wheel. It is an eight step process that takes you through the eight “houses” of the wheel. The concept is a mix of spiritual wisdom and scientific knowledge, it takes an open mind to use it. You [...]
I have read and reviewed three books by Robin Sharma. Here is a short summary and links to my reviews.
The monk who sold his Ferrari is a great book that covers much of Eastern and Western wisdom around life and success. The book is well written and the concepts are nicely fitted into a frame, [...]
I often advice other people to write things down, to get it out of the head and seeing things in perspective. Since many years I keep a private diary but I have not used writing in a more organized way for my projects and business.
Maki at Dosh Dosh writes about The Benefits of Keeping a [...]
