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Do you have a personal motto?

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. [...]

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 independent of all those things. In fact, it’s much bigger than any of those. Purpose has [...]

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 rest don’t mean shit. The problem of course is figuring out what your own “one [...]

Mission statement, visualization and pitch

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 [...]

How to ensure that you are the best possible version of yourself

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 [...]

The Rule of One or Curly’s Law

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. [...]

The Garden of Your Daily Living

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 [...]

The Eight Irresistible Principles of Fun

I got the link in my daily Forward Steps message and I really love these eight principles.

Stop Hiding Who You Really Are
Start Being Intensely Selfish
Stop Following the Rules
Start Scaring Yourself
Stop Taking It All So Damn Seriously
Start Getting Rid of the Crap
Stop Being Busy
Start Something

Now go and watch the movie over at The Eight Irresistible Principles [...]

Opportunity favors the prepared mind

This is the tag line for BlackRock, an investment company. It is also food for thoughts, being prepared and having alternatives at hand makes life easier. The more we consider our options, the more open we are to see and grab opportunities when they turn up.

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