Performance versus Fulfillment
Are you a performance driven or a fulfillment driven individual? Do you compete or do you live? Do you struggle each day or do you enjoy every second? Whenever I ask those questions I’m getting the most intriguing answers. But each and every answer reinforce the fact that people are extremely motivated by performance. Fulfillment [...]
The Secret from My 3rd Grade
When I was a kid I was very relaxed. And I mean in school. I never worried too much about it, yet I managed to get the highest grades in my class. Even my teachers were aware about my apparent passivity and they “blamed†my success on my natural skills: a fantastic memory, they said. [...]
Alter Your Jacket – The Program
Today is a big day for my friend Steven Aitchison. He’s launching his long awaited self improvement program called “Alter Your Jacketâ€. But before diving too much into the program details, let me rewind a bit and tell you more about this guy, Steven. I first met him more than a year ago, when I [...]
Self Imposed Limits and How To Overcome Them
This is a guest post by Srinivas Rao, @skooloflife. Everything that you know how to do today and you do effortlessly is something that you once didn’t know how to do. You weren’t born knowing how to walk, talk, or speak. You learned all of those things and the notion of limitations probably never existed [...]
Why Less Is More
I’ve been playing a lot lately with these concepts: less, more and the thing in between (usually called balance). Why do we need more? And more of what? Why sometimes we tend to value balance, while otherwise we tend to lean towards one of the ends? And, most of all, why sometimes less is good? [...]
7 Magical Ways to Use Curiosity as a Personal Development Tool
This is a guest post by Makenzie Kelly, @makenziekelly. “Judge a man by his questions rather than answersâ€, Voltaire Some say curiosity killed the cat. I say what doesn’t kill the cat, makes it stronger! Curiosity has been classified as a nice-to-have attribute of a person; it definitely hasn’t been a reinforced attribute by our [...]
5 Tips For Incorporating Exercise Into Your Life
This is a guest post by Greg Blencoe, @gregblencoe In his recent post “How To Invest In Yourself (And Why)â€, Dragos discussed the importance of exercising regularly. I couldn’t agree more. I have been exercising in some form or another since I was five or six years old. I played on countless sports teams growing [...]
The Day You’ll Start To Like Yourself
Yes, to like. Not to love, we don’t go there. At least not in this post. This post is not going to be heavy, profound and “really touching†stuff. This is going to be light stuff. Easy going. You know, when you just like somebody and want to hang out. Have a beer, chit chat, [...]
How to Reach Your Dreams through Willpower
I think I finally understand this quote by Marianne Williamson: “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate – our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.” When I discovered my guest post on Mike King’s blog, Learnthis.ca, received over 1,000 hits on StumbleUpon on the day of its publication, I was [...]
Mariner Promo Code – May Edition
I don’t know about you, but May 1st was one of the nicest days of my childhood. Being raised in a communist country, may 1st was one of the days in which you could take a break from the propaganda and enjoy simple life (usually outside the city, in the wild). Of course, if you [...]
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