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Overcoming Obstacles 2008-12-08 23:20:01 As I’ve written about on here and Twittered about more than a few times, I’ve been through some serious health issues over the last month and a half. It’s actually been a long string of semi-related things - ear infection, sinus infection, TMJ, a very strong allergic reaction to Bactrim, a virus that threw a [...]
11 Ways to Cure Someday Syndrome 2008-12-08 23:11:23 Someday Syndrome
: not doing what you want to because you don’t know what it is, because you’re procrastinating about it, or because you have too much stuff getting in your way.
Everyone suffers from Someday Syndrome at some point in their lives, often catching it repeatedly. For me, most recently, I’d been saying that I really [...] Read more:Someday
The Essential Time-Saving Guide for Busy People 2008-12-08 23:00:43 Image by Kuzeytac via Flickr
Your lives are always busy, I’m sure, but the holidays always seem to add even more craziness to everyone’s schedule. Christmas parties with family, friends and co-workers, gift shopping, decorating, Christmas pageants, caroling, bell-ringing, snow shoveling (unless you live on Guam like I do), making cookies, baking turkeys, and all the [...] Read more:Essential
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How to Believe You Can Do Anything 2008-12-05 23:15:18 by Brian Kim
The phrase “You can do it if you just believe” has become so watered down to the point that people just roll their eyes when they hear it. They’ve tried it and it just doesn’t work for them.
Here are just a few quotes on the subject.
“To succeed, we must first believe that we [...]
Fostering High-Quality Connections 2008-12-05 23:03:41 Image via getentrepreneurial.com
You’ve sweated to prepare a grant report, working hard to make the case that your largest foundation backer should continue providing support. Your nonprofit desperately needs the grant renewal, but this time around, the competition is unusually stiff. You’ve put in late nights. Lots of coffee. You can’t help but feel nervous as [...] Read more:Quality
Investing in Yourself: Self-Confidence 2008-12-04 23:29:33 Image via Wikipedia
As I sit down to write about the value of investing in your own self-confidence, I keep picturing one of my closest friends. She’s got a lot going for her, but she often finds reasons to think that she’s a bad and/or unworthy person and she often doesn’t have the self-confidence to step [...] Read more:Confidence
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Investing in Yourself: Personal Growth 2008-12-04 23:23:32 Image by janusz l via Flickr
This entry focuses in on the idea of personal growth - becoming a better person with a greater understanding of yourself as well as the world and people around you. Doing so not only increases the comfort you feel with yourself, but it also helps with relating to others in [...] Read more:Growth
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Internal and External Signals 2008-12-04 23:14:49 Image via Wikipedia
Over Thanksgiving and the following weekend, my wife and children and I went back to our home town to visit our families. There were many nice meals, some long and lazy afternoons spent together visiting and playing games, and lots of getting in touch with people we hadn’t seen in years.
One of the [...] Read more:External
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How to Make Work Feel Effortless 2008-12-03 22:05:40 Sometimes work can be a drag. You get caught up in trying to be more productive and suddenly your life turns into a series of to-do lists. You gauge your measure of success by how much you accomplish. You even determine how happy you allow yourself to be by how much you’ve gotten done in [...] Read more:Effortless
Why Discovering Your Obsession Can Lead to Your Greatness 2008-12-02 21:47:22 Image via Wikipedia
In 1999, I was stocking frozen food at a San Francisco Health Food Store and chatting with my friend Dan Moore, a painter and bicycle messenger (and now square dance enthusiast!). I was bemoaning my lack of success with writing and dance. There in the freezer aisle, in our padded gloves and box [...] Read more:Obsession
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