Category Archives: Personal development

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 … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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Personal Development for Smart People

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 … Continue reading

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How To to Defeat the Urge to Do Useless Tasks

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. … Continue reading

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A Year of Change

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 … Continue reading

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Why do we resist it?

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 … Continue reading

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Take control of your inner boss

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 … Continue reading

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The Manifestation Wheel

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 … Continue reading

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Three books by Robin Sharma

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 … Continue reading

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Keep a daily journal

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 … Continue reading

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