Tag Archives: Change

Downsizing will help 30 villages

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 … Continue reading

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Training for Work at Home Workers

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 … Continue reading

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How to find your passion

Please note: There is an updated and expanded version of this post. 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 … 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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Leave the door open

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 … Continue reading

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The Starfish and the Spider

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, … Continue reading

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To be a work in progress

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 … Continue reading

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How do you change your thinking?

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 … 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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