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eBook review: Your Life in Balance at EffTD

Mike Vardy at EffTD has posted a review of my eBook Your Life in Balance. Thanks Mike!

July 15, 2008

The Causes and Cures of Procrastination

Do you live by the old adage of putting off doing today what you can do tomorrow? Do you find yourself doing the easy things

July 15, 2008

Where Do You Want To Hang Out? Being Alive, Awake, and Aware

One of my favorite expressions for how I like to live my life is “alive, awake, aware… and in awe.” It’s funny though. I wasn’t

July 14, 2008

Learn to Meditate

Most of us lead hectic lives as we balance our work with personal obligations. We may be stressed out juggling all of this and need

July 12, 2008

Does Guilt Have a Message for You?

Do you live in a perpetual state of guilt? Are you someone who, no matter how many right things you do today, there will always

July 11, 2008

A Question for Slow Down FAST Readers: Was college the “time of your life”?

My son brought home 9 of his college friends to visit with us for the 4th of July Holiday. We spent the afternoon of the

July 9, 2008

How to Use Creativity to Carve Out Your Niche in Life

From my post Using Creativity to Carve Out Your Niche in Life at Pick The Brain: Creativity can be the act of bringing something new

July 9, 2008

Separate Your Needs from Your Desires

From my article How to Separate Your Needs from Your Desires at The Positivity Blog: In life, there are those things we need, and those

July 8, 2008

The Secret to Getting Everything You Want: Just Ask!

In their amazing book The Aladdin Factor, bestselling authors Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen claim that the secret to getting everything you want is

July 8, 2008

Exercise Can Make You Happy & Healthy

If you thought exercise was merely a necessary evil to keep your body slim and healthy, you’re missing some essential elements of what exercise is

July 5, 2008

Cheap Treats: No- and Low-Cost Ways to Give Yourself a Boost

Life is full of ups and downs. There are times that call for a little something special – nothing big, nothing earth shattering. Just a

July 4, 2008

What – you’re not having a midlife crisis?

Is middle age a time of crisis or control? Joe Brown, a 45-year old husband, father, and successful businessman, wakes up one morning to ask,

July 2, 2008

From Greedy to Grateful – Appreciating What You Have

I’m not implying that you’re greedy, but most of us expect a lot out of life and often forget to be grateful for what we

July 1, 2008

How To Kick a Bad Habit

Most of us realize what a bad habit is. We know that smoking, overeating, skipping meals, biting fingernails, and tapping fingers are annoying bad habits,

June 26, 2008

Keep It Simple – Van Morrison Style

Van Morrison has released a new album entitled Keep it Simple that happens to be in line with my own values, and with the Slow

June 23, 2008

You’re Only As Young As You Feel: How to Stay Young at Heart

I don’t remember who said “age is only a state of mind,” but I truly believe that. We know getting older is inevitable, but aging

June 21, 2008

The Puzzle of Your Life

People think that life is a puzzle to be solved. They believe that there are specific solutions to all of life’s problems. They get into

June 20, 2008

What Does Your Digital Footprint Say About You?

If the recent news has been any indicator, we are becoming an increasingly digitized and virtualized culture, with one glaring and fatal flaw: our inability

June 19, 2008