Personal Growth The Easy Way: Focus On Your Strengths

by admin on March 10, 2010

To achieve personal growth and never-ending self-improvement, among the multitude of options available, one of the best is to follow the advice Tom Rath provides in his excellent book “Strengths Finder.”

Greater Potential For Nurturing Strengths Than For Eradicating Deficiencies

Confirming common sense, recent research is proving that humans possess much greater potential for nurturing and growing their strengths, than for [click to continue…]

Personal Growth And Parenting

by admin on March 9, 2010

To achieve personal growth, to marry and have children is a sure bet (another sure option is to start your own business). However, the primary responsibility of a parent is to awaken the spirit of the child, and all too often the experience of the child is everything but. Indeed, many kids have their spirits broken instead.

The Sorry State Of Parenting

When measured by results and outcomes of parenting, it’s clear we have in this country and around the world outstanding and poor parents at the same time. That said, in sheer numbers, [click to continue…]

Finding Back to the Good Life

These days, as a life coach, I meet more people who were used to the good life, then something happened, and now they are wondering where it all has gone. It happens, they found out, not just to other people.
If something (bad) happened in your life, it might be not a big deal. You feel [...]

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To-Do Management, Simple, Designy, Browser-based. Finally.

Are you looking for a (free) tool to manage your to-do’s in a simple, functional, beautiful way? TeuxDeux combines simple, functional and beautiful, a recipe made in heaven. “The idea was to build a bare-bones, but visually compelling and highly usable to-do app.” Extra bonus: comes packaged in humor. As one fan puts it, “like [...]

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Give Your Speech And Change World

Connecting to the domain of personal growth and self development, Chris Brogan, professional speaker, community and social media guru and author of the New York Times bestseller “Trust Agents”, on his website has done a review of a book by Nick Morgan, “Give Your Speech, Change the World: How to Move Your Audience to Action.” [...]

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5 Easy Steps To Increase Your Response-Ability

Responsibility, responsibility – life’s full of it, enough already, give me a break! Read about it, too?! Why should I? It is important? You better believe it! Your ability to respond – responsibility – plays a  key role in shaping your life and your destiny. It is so important that all by itself it can [...]

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Life Enhancers We Can Copy From Cats

Personal growth (self development, personal development) and success often require learning. Learning can be expensive, but some of the things needed for success we can learn from cats, for free.
Stretch
Cats are so much more advanced, stretching-wise.

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How To Make Your Happiness To Suit Yourself

In life coaching, the decision making required for a breakthrough to a life of happiness is often asked about. I used to ask the question myself, after I discovered that unhappiness was destroying my life.

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Who Else Under The Age Of 100 Wants To Be An Online Success?

Success secrets, the secret of success, or even the secret key to success – we’re always looking, yet as this story shows, it can be much simpler than that. And, cooking up a successful online business requires the same ingredients as any business success.
Excuses begone!
“I’m too old!” – it is among the premier excuses for [...]

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How I Changed My Life With What’s Been Staring Me In The Face Since Birth

If you want a better life, but are willing to do more than just hope and actually create your own future, and if you like simple changes that come with big benefits, take a look at a tool, in fact, a solution that is Simple, Legal, Inexpensive, Good For You, Practical And Works Every Time

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Tale Of A Special Tiger

What has emerged about Tiger Woods in recent weeks suggests compulsive behavior on the border of addiction, brought to a halt by a crash heard around the world, and now followed by recovery, personal growth and self development. In short, what Tiger did was terrible … but media’s coverage of it is even worse. Like [...]

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Are You Dressed For Happiness?

Dressed for happiness? What is happiness, anyway? Is happiness the absence of unhappy, or is it the pursuit of happiness. Is happiness love, inspirational psycho-babble, spiritual wisdom, a topic for meditation, or a combination of all these things? Beyond the many happiness quotes and sayings, what is happiness really? (Hint: Happiness is ___________ – what [...]

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Learning Strategies: The Mapping Of Your World

Even though learning science has over time produced a wide range of learning strategies and learning techniques, the principle of mapping your world is difficult to explain. But it’s important, because your map of the world plays a key role in shaping your life, and ignoring it can cause you great harm.
Invisible To The Naked [...]

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Learning Strategies: How To Learn

You are no doubt reading this article for one of two reasons. Reason one, you feel stuck in some way – in which case you can bank on it, the Beattitude System will help you to “destuckify” – or reason two, while happily cruising along you’re proactively looking to turbo-charge your life, or some aspects [...]

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Learning Strategies: How To Get The Most Out Of Learning

Learning Is A Big Part Of Life.
All problems could be solved if only we bothered learning how to.
And if it weren’t for the fact there’s variety – without which the world would be a most boring place. Variety makes that while some are busy learning how to solve problems, others are busy learning how to [...]

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Beattitudes 3 – Time To Talk About Time

Time – it is your most fundamental resource for just about everything. Which explains why the whole world is crying out for “More time!” – particularly when “there isn’t any.” Every strategy for success – whether in sports, science, or anywhere else – sooner or later catches a case of “We

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Beattitudes 2 – Passion

Passion – the most essential ingredient for success, at least in anything truly worth living for. To go through life without passion would be like one hand clapping. It wouldn’t result in much to write home about. Without passion, why even bother? Come on, get off the fence.

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Advice To Kids Whose Parents Don’t Believe In The Law Of Attraction – By A Kid (Who Is Also A Parent)

As a kid you probably know about the Law of Attraction, but parents tend to get busy and forget about stuff. If your parents have forgotten about the Law of Attraction, here’s my advice: tell them about this little story of mine -  absolutely real and authentic, on that I give my word – and [...]

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Beattitudes 1 – Overview

Welcome to the “beattitude” series of videos. “beattitude” is all about growth – growth in your personal life (health, relationships, finances, emotional, spiritual), growth in your business and growth in blogging (just in case you happen to be a blogger, too).
What is growth? First and foremost, growth is what happens when what is preventing it [...]

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Passionate People Do It With Shining Eyes

Benjamin Zander has two infectious passions: classical music, and helping us all realize our untapped love for it – and by extension, our untapped love for all new possibilities, new experiences, new connections. “My job is to awaken possibility in other people.” Give yourself the twenty minutes of this video and you’ll find, to your [...]

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7 Steps To Stop OverThinking And Start Doing

First off, let it be clear, there’s strictly nothing wrong with thinking per se! In fact, thinking is the greatest thing since instinct. Many things are greatest since sliced bread, but thinking is the greatest thing since before we could think. Opinions differ as to when we changed from non-thinking to thinking, or whether we [...]

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This Sales Approach Helps You Avoid Unpleasant Surprises Down The Road

Blogging and personal growth are not often mentioned in a same breath with selling. For one thing, blogging and personal growth are noble while selling is very often given a bad rap. The three best reasons behind selling’s poor reputation are:

People love to buy, but they don’t appreciate being sold to.
Selling can be outright [...]

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Dare!

If a picture speaks a thousand words, a short video speaks …
how many? Find out by watching this 1 minute 28 seconds
video. Hint: more than words could.

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Green Desert (They Said It Couldn’t Be Done)

They said it couldn’t be done. Luckily – for us and for the naysayers – it did get done anyway, it does get done every day. Imagine a world where these kinds of people and projects get our attention and tax dollars. Imagine, happy tax payers. Who says it can’t be done?!

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Auditory Visual Fascination

New heights of merging the auditory with the visual! What fortitude and providence for the rest of us that the person who discovered this secret hidden room carried a video camera, filmed it and posted it on YouTube!
For full-screen viewing, click here to see the video at YouTube

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Zigzagging Into Zigzag Cafe

Zigzagging around Switzerland on a sunny afternoon, sightseeing, just had to stop at this Zig-Zag Cafe. Talk about coincidence. Or as I prefer to see it spelled, Coinci Dance. Inside someone is rolling cigarettes with, of all things, Zig-Zag rolling paper. His way of combating the steep price of cigarettes, or adding spice to his [...]

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The Secret To Learning? Unlearn!

You’re a baby boomer with more time than money. You dream of being debt-free again, and financially robust. Throughout your life you followed trends – from jeans to long hair to disco to investing in the stock market – but  now you realize it’s not about trends and fashions anymore, it’s serious business. Your money [...]

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Share And Be Your Own Shareholder

Thanks to Chris Brogan over at http://www.chrisbrogan.com/ I stumbled upon a little big video on the topic of sharing. The people at Red Hat don’t just share in an everyday kind of way, they’ve made sharing the cornerstone of their business model. With impressive results, which they happily share with – you guessed it – [...]

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Bob Dylan To Record Satellite Navigation Hit

Bob Dylan just might be fixin’ to return to the recording studio soon again – without his guitar this time. He’s contemplating satellite navigation, in talks with car companies to be the voice of their GPS systems. “I think it would be good if you’re looking for directions and you heard my voice saying something [...]

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See The World Through The Eyes Of Pequeña Pasión

Stumbled upon macro photography of, well, find out for yourself, at Avinash Kaushik’s blog, too stunningly eye-opening beautiful not to post here and thus help disseminate just a wee bit. Click on the pic above to see all 19 photos in auto-viewer, or click here to see more of Avinash’ macro photography at Flickr.

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Napoleon Hill In Person

Napoleon Hill “live” in rare footage from the early 1960’s. Shown here for it’s curiosity & documentary value more than actual content of his somewhat flat presentation.

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Birthday Reflections (A Week Later)

Reflected on my birthday some more. Had been invited to say a word or two at the birthday dinner. A week later, a flow of words mingles with the going-ons of a full-mooned night. A life in the day of a blog writer all over again, yet anew each time.
Ain’t nothing but a number, age. Riding [...]

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Are We In Control Of Our Own Decisions? & The Surprising Science Of Motivation

Are we in control of our own decisions? Behavioral economist Dan Ariely, the author of Predictably Irrational, uses classic visual illusions and his own counter-intuitive research findings to show how we’re not as rational as we think when we make decisions. (To play, click on the pic)
On the surprising science of motivation – Dan Pink [...]

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