What Accomplishment Junkies and Overachievers can Learn from Huckleberry Finn
If you’re addicted to adventure, challenge, and achievement, or even if you aren’t, you’ll love my article published at The American Chronicle.
December 23, 2007
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Have YOU Made Your New Year’s Resolutions?
New Year’s Reolutions: many of us make them, and many of us fail to complete them?
Why is this? What can we do to enhance our chances of affecting the change we desire?
December 23, 2007
Beware of Personal Development Scams
Reality Shifter has published a great post titled: “Don’t Fall For These Personal Development Scams”.
December 23, 2007
What are the Best Ways to Slow Down to Catch Up with Life?
“Banish the Sunday Night Blues!” Listen in, call in, and enjoy a lively discussion about slowing down to enjoy life.
You can do that this Sunday, December 23rd, at 10:00 PM Eastern. I’ll be a guest of Kristen Hallows on her Blog Talk Radio show Job You Desire.
December 21, 2007
What is Your Calming Down Ritual?
What do you do when you’re tired, irritable, and need to relax?
December 19, 2007
Our Overpacked, Overburdened, and Overwhelmed Lives
The irony is that the more we try to cram into our already overpacked lives, the morescattered and fragmented our lives become. And when that happens, we lose sight of what’s most important to us. We are let down, disappointed, confused, unfulfilled.
December 19, 2007
Happiness: It’s What One Emphasizes That Counts
One of my favorite quotes is Carlos Castaneda’s:
“The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.”
I love this quote because it reminds me of how hard I used to work, just because I believed that working that hard would make me happy. It didn’t, and I think that if work was going to make me happy, eighty to one hundred hours a week should have done it.
December 18, 2007
Accomplishing Your Goals: Should You Write a Personal Mission Statement?
Businesses have mission statements, so, if you write a personal mission statement will that help you to succeed? There is a post about writing personal
December 17, 2007
Awareness: How You Live is Who You Are
I’m always amazed at what people say about themselves sometimes, and how that really contrasts with what they do. What’s the quote? Something about what you do speaks so loudly I cannot hear what you say.
That sentiment means so much to me, because I know that in spite of wanting to be generous, patient, compassionate, and thoughtful, I am often selfish, impatient, intolerant and closed-minded.
December 17, 2007
Are ‘Smart’ and ‘Spiritual’ Mutually Exclusive?
There sometimes seems to be a backlash in our culture against people who value their spiritual lives and try to improve their spiritual state. In effect, the idea seems to be that smart people aren’t spiritual; that people who are spiritual are somehow stupid enough to be “gulled” into believing something that obviously can’t be true. I really have a problem with this outlook for four reasons:
December 13, 2007
How to Live a Sweet Life
Sweet Life:
In Harmony. Balanced. Mental and emotional stability and serenity.
Free of discord. No contradictions. No inconsistencies between the beliefs and values one holds and one’s actions.
Want to live a sweet life? Find out exactly how to do it in my post
December 12, 2007
Fitter, Happier, More Productive
Where we once felt purposeful, focused, and fueled with passion… these days, we’re apt to be idealistic but scattered, connected but alone. Our lives are brimming over, and yet we’re empty inside.
December 12, 2007
10 Reasons Why Change Fails
The main obstacle that gets in the way of most people changing how they want to change is that they cannot determine exactly how to
December 11, 2007
Personal Development: Moving Outside Your Comfort Zone
When we talk about “comfort zones” in self-help, we’re not talking about the temperatures between 67 and 75, or wherever the comfort zone on your thermostat lies. But that comfort zone is a good starting place, actually.
December 11, 2007
6 Ways for Effecting Change in Your Life
We all deal with change, well or poorly, every day. The challenge for most of is not so much that we have change to deal with, but how well we manage it. Managing change well means less stress, less work, and more time to feel content, joyful, and fulfilled.
December 10, 2007
Learning About Happiness from Students
“Happiness is all about everyday, normal activities, psychologists have argued, but do we intuitively understand what strategies increase happiness or not?”
December 9, 2007
The Perfect Personal Development Gift for the Holidays
Today, my gift to you is a gift suggestion for those folks who live, eat, and breathe personal development, and/or for those hoping to achieve their New Year’s resolutions in 2008.
December 8, 2007
Six Days for a Fifteen Hour Trip?
What’s important about this little story is not the actual drive from one location to another, or the details of what she’s going to do on that trip, where she’ll stay, what she’ll see or how she’ll spend her time.
What I think is important is the willingness to take a little longer to reach a destination, and to really explore the world while doing so.
December 7, 2007
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