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What Are You Passionate About?

Let’s assume you had five minutes to give a speech. You would receive a very large sum of money if you gave a speech that the judges considered “passionate.” You choose the topic, you write the speech. You give a passionate speech, you get the money.

What would you talk about? More importantly, would what you talk about in that speech be what you’re truly passionate about, or would you try to fudge and make people think you were really excited about something you think is “important,” because you think that’s what they want to hear?

February 1, 2008

If You Don’t Do It Now, You’ll Regret It Later

I’m a relatively happy guy, but sometimes I can get pretty out of sorts. Usually that is related to something I’ve been meaning to do, or always wanted to do. Something, of course, that remains on my “to do” list, and never quite makes it to my did list.

January 31, 2008

Can We Get Better at Being Happy?

I don’t know how many articles I read on the subject of happiness last week, but, if I had to venture a guess, I’d say it was 30 or 40. The way I’d sum up the articles is, “The good news about happiness is that it seems to be a skill we can acquire and develop.”

The bad news is that most of us are not as happy as we could be.

January 28, 2008

How to Play Hard: Tips for Workaholics

by David Bohl “All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.” This proverb, made famous in the 1980 horror film The Shining, is

January 26, 2008

Who Else Wants Serenity?

It’s easy to say we want to lead a life free of stress and anxiety, but achieving it is something altogether different. In our modern world it seems that stress and anxiety are part of everyday life. How Do We Find Serenity amidst all the chaos? Find out how in my article.

January 22, 2008

Are you doing everything you can to keep your resolutions?

A few weeks ago I wrote about the importance of planning and keeping your New Year’s resolutions. Now that we are a few weeks into

January 21, 2008

Are You Living Consciously?

Most of live our whole lives, to some extent, in this half-waking, half-conscious way. More…We know what we’re doing, but we don’t think about it. We don’t stop to consider whether this is the right job for us, whether this friend is dragging us down, whether we need to spend more time on what we really love and enjoy.

January 21, 2008

7 Ingredients of Maturity

What do we mean when we say someone needs to show maturity – and even more so, are we mature in our own lives?

January 19, 2008

You Don’t Have to Yell to be Heard

Have you ever heard someone say, “You’re not hearing me?” They’re not accusing you of not listening. Presumably you are not only listening but responding to what they’re saying. The accusation is that you are not adequately processing and understanding those words and the emotions and situations underlying them.

January 18, 2008

Create Your Own Paradigm Shifts By Dumping the Negative

How do you change the way you think? It’s easy – stop thinking negatively! Ok, so maybe it isn’t easy as all that, but for many of us we have way too many ways of thinking that always involve something negative. We just know that if we do something outside the box, we are going to fail miserably at it. You see what you are doing don’t you? You are using a negative paradigm to set yourself up for failure before you even attempted to do anything!

January 16, 2008

If You Don’t Live for Today, You’ll Never Enjoy Tomorrow

Are you the type of person who is always looking towards the future because you believe that you can’t take much more of the present? The kind of person who always thinks that tomorrow will bring a relief from our problems and obstacles, so we just need to wait and they will all magically go away? Many people tend to live in the future (that is, if they aren’t living in the past!) and fail to realize the opportunities available to them in the present. They think that tomorrow will bring a wave of happiness – and that we can just hide from the problems in our lives today to make it until then.

January 14, 2008

Understanding the Role Humility Plays in Everyday Life

Do you ever wonder at one point you can consider life ‘finished’? At what point can you say you’ve truly done everything you’ve wanted? Check

January 11, 2008

Action or Inaction: Which Will You Regret More?

How many times have you heard someone saying, “I sure wish I would have…” or “If only I had taken the chance and…”. Our lives are full of decisions. And a decision we make every day is whether or not to do certain tasks. The question is which will you regret doing more – an action that you took, or an action that you didn’t take? For most us, we end up regretting the actions we didn’t take far more than we regret those that we did.

January 10, 2008

Do You Have to Love Your Job?

You don’t have to love your job to find it rewarding but you certainly need to be actively engaged in it. Read my post, you

January 9, 2008

Building a Strong Financial Foundation

Working with financial planners and lifestyle coaches, one step at a time, will help you put together a complete lifestyle package to guide you through not only your financial future, but also your lifestyle – setting up goals and milestones to help you support your personal beliefs, culture preferences and values that define who you are.

January 8, 2008

Are You Lacking Anything in Your Life?

Do you always crave “more”? More action, more adventure, more challenge, and/or more stuff? Many of us do.

Isn’t there a balance between wanting more and knowing that we have everything we need.

YES, there is. Read about it in my post

January 7, 2008

Success in 2008? It’s Achievable – And Here Is How You Can Do It!

How do you define success? Are you successful when you achieve your goals you set out in life? Or do you feel successful even when you haven’t achieved them all, but are working towards them and feel good in life? The truth is, for each one of us we have a different definition of success. There are even people out there who believe that they are never truly 100% successful in life – that it is a constant procession towards success that makes them who they are.

January 4, 2008

Are You Angry and Resentful? Try Acceptance First, then (Maybe) Forgiveness

If we find ourselves angry and resentful, it’s important to acknowledge that our anger hurts only ourselves, and we’ve inadvertently given other people the power to make us angry and resentful.

January 2, 2008

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DAVID B. BOHL

Relinquishee, Adoptee, MPE
Author, Speaker.