Archive for the 'Change' Tag
Jul
19
Link Medley business
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Freelance Folders telles us to Pay Attention! Attention to Details Will Set Your Business Apart.
WOWNDADI writes about The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Pitchers.
Moolanomy has a post titled Seven Traits of Successful People.
Freelance Switch has a post with 18 Travel Tips for International Freelancers.
Mary Jaksch from Goodlife Zen has a guest post at ProBlogger with [...]
Published on July 19, 2008
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Jul
11
Downsizing will help 30 villages
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Cnn runs a story about Sale of 1 house will help 30 villages. A family in Atlanta, Georgia, has decided to sell their house, donating half the proceeds and moving into a house half the size.
Hunger Project Vice President John Coonrod, estimating the money could affect more than 20,000 people in Ghana, said that:
This will [...]
Jul
10
Training for Work at Home Workers
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ProBlogger has a post about SparkplugU - Training for Work at Home Workers. It is about SparkplugU and their courses plus their newsletter and a free e-book.
Their courses are reasonably priced and there are some that interest me, like Introduction to Starting a Blog Network with Wendy Piersall & Easton Ellsworth.
The SparkplugU Internet Business Guide [...]
Published on July 10, 2008
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Jul
3
How to find your passion
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Coaching is often about change, a new career, better balance in life or adding something new to “spice up” life. And in those contexts we often talk about finding ones passion and following ones passion.
Mike over at ZenDonut has a really interesting post about 3 Steps To Develop Your Passion … Not Just “Find” It.
I [...]
Jun
16
Why do we resist it?
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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 [...]
Published on June 16, 2008
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Jun
7
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 [...]
May
4
Leave the door open
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At Pick The Brain is a post about The Other Side of Productivity: Coincidences, Synchronicity, and Serendipity. The post lists “Three Methods for Attracting Coincidences and Serendipity”.
Believing in the phenomenon of coincidences and serendipity does not mean that you shun work and sit cross-legged waiting for the universe to deliver your dreams to your doorstep. [...]
Apr
7
The Starfish and the Spider
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The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations is written by Ori Brafman and Rod Beckström. It is a very interesting book that compare two different kind of organizations but also mentions a hybrid or combo version, best of both.
Spiders are centralized, command and control, organizations. Historical examples are the Spanish army, [...]
Published on April 7, 2008
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Mar
21
A guest post at Zen Habits led me to Eugene Yiga of Varsity Blah. I suggest that you go and get a copy of his free eBook Work in Progress. Actually it is two books in one, Work in Progress and Before I forget. The second part is the holistic thinking I share. It is [...]
Mar
6
How do you change your thinking?
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I got this quote a while back:
The greatest discovery of my lifetime was that a person can change the circumstances of his life by changing his thoughts.
William James
Change is an important issue, both on a personal level and for society and our world. It brings another quote to my mind: “Change comes from within.”
Another quote, [...]
