Posts Tagged ‘change’

How to Bring Your Life into Line with Your Values

The world, it seems, is going downhill fast. Everyone has a take on what’s wrong: liberals over-regulating everything, conservatives decimating the principles of governance, immigrants refusing to blend in, racists bashing immigrants, poor parenting, non-family-friendly policies, corporations bound to short-term profits instead of long-term social responsibilities, activists hampering corporate innovation, and of course the Jews, always the Jews. You name it, someone’s upset by it and the negative effect it… » Continue

May 12 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: action, activism, change, green, living, value | 9 comments»

Change Your Day, Change Your Life, Change the World: A Review of “New Day Revolution” by Sam Davidson and Stephen Moseley

Be the change you want to see in the world.–Mahatma Gandhi

This quote by Gandhi gets trotted out a lot by people with nothing but the best intentions. Suitable for bumper stickers, motivational posters, and sticking to the top of blog posts, it seems custom-made for all your feel-good occasions. But what does it really mean? And what would it look and feel like to really be the… » Continue

March 17 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: activism, advice, book_review, change, hack, life | 13 comments»

Who? What? When? Where? Why? Questions to Ask BEFORE Asking “How” to Live Your Life

Do you want only simple, specific tips, or something wider and deeper?

It’s a very old journalistic cliché that stories should always contain answers to these six questions: What? Who? Where? When? How? Why? For example, a story about a murder could accomplish all of this in a single sentence: “Jones was murdered in his own home last evening by a neighbor using a shotgun in revenge for Jones’ insults… » Continue

December 31 2007 | By Adrian | Tagged: career_choice, change, decisions, life_choice, new_year_resolution, options, reflection | 5 comments»

14 Tips For Resolutions That Stick in the New Year

Statistics show that only about 15% of New Years Resolutions are kept. With an 85% failure rate, it’s no wonder that the amount of resolutions made is dropping. You wouldn’t buy a product that is defective 85% of the time, so why buy into the annual hype about resolutions? A strategy that fails over four fifths of the time is broken. The question… » Continue

December 27 2007 | By Scott H | Tagged: change, commitment, diet, exercise, goal, habit, improvement, new years resolution, Productivity | 35 comments»

How to Sell Yourself on Lifestyle Change

It’s coming up on that time of year again. You know, the time where you seriously commit to the same resolution that you seriously committed to last year… before life got in the way and it evaporated into thin air.

Depending on who you ask, up to 85% percent of all New Year’s resolutions involved some element of lifestyle change, be it weight loss, exercise, better nutrition, improved life-balance or… » Continue

December 26 2007 | By Jonathan | Tagged: change, motivation, planning, resolution, selling, success, weightloss | 19 comments»

How to Quit a Bad Habit by Answering Four Power Questions

I bet there’s a habit you’d like to quit.

Maybe you have even tried, but things haven’t worked out as you hoped. Unfortunately, the very idea of “quitting” can make things difficult for you: let’s discover why.

The forbidden fruit is always very attractive. When you were a child, do you remember how everything became more attractive after it was forbidden? Well, there’s a part of

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November 20 2007 | By Marco | Tagged: change, goals, habit, health, quitting, selfdiscipline | 38 comments»

How thousands have learned to transform their lives

Simple ways of discovering the hidden, inner drivers that twist and control your life

When someone asks any of us to make a decision, we bring all our prejudices, opinions, likes, dislikes, fears, hopes, antagonisms, and bits of knowledge along. The human mind is like a committee—and a pretty bad tempered and cantankerous one too! Like all committees, the mind has some members who have greater clout than others. They… » Continue

September 17 2007 | By Adrian | Tagged: change, freedom, life, opportunity, transformation | 6 comments»

Three Reasons People Change Jobs

In teaching others about Managing with Aloha, I spend a good amount of time on Ho‘ohana, the value of worthwhile work, explaining how you can still work with intentional focus on certain things which are important you, even though your present job may not be the one you think of as your final career choice.

We recently considered this here at Lifehack.org in this article: Create Your Best Life

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May 10 2007 | By Rosa | Tagged: change, job-satisfaction, worklife | 9 comments»

Become a self-starter

Psychology Today posted a motivating article called “You 2.0″ that gives tips about how to radically improve your life. The following quote from Psychology Today summarizes the article nicely:
You may feel bound to your timid demeanor, your stifling job, or your rancorous relationship, but there is one realm over which you unquestionably have control: your own head. Herein, five principles of change to turn you into

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January 30 2007 | By Kyle | Tagged: attitude, career, change, motivation | 4 comments»

Change Here

After the election last week in the United States, change is a hot topic, but it isn’t political change that I have been thinking about recently. It’s how organizations and their leaders cope—or, more often, fail to cope too well—with the need for changes in business practices to promote growth and foster creativity.

It’s a truism to point out that no one can avoid change. It’s part of the reality in… » Continue

November 13 2006 | By Adrian | Tagged: breakthrough, business-fundamentalism, change, civilized-work, corporate-culture, creativity, dignity, effectiveness, Hamburger-Management, happiness, improvement, lifebalance, Management, priorities, slow-leadership, strategy, thinking, thought, trust, work, work-life, work/life-balance, worklife, workplace | 1 comment»

Why We Should Put an End to “Hamburger Management”

Hamburger Management is a shoddy, debased version of real leadership that focuses on just three things: whatever demands least, can be used fastest, and costs least. It thrives wherever organizations seek to meet unrealistic targets with insufficient resources to maximize short-term profits. Indeed, Hamburger Management is short-term by nature, and will habitually sacrifice long-term advantage and value for the immediate gratification of bosses and investors.

To force people to work long… » Continue

November 6 2006 | By Adrian | Tagged: accomplishment, anxiety, business-ethics, change, civilized-work, competition, creativity, effectiveness, Hamburger-Management, innovation, leadership, lifehacks, Management, manager, micro-management, organization, slow-leadership, strategy, stress, trust, value, work-life, work/life-balance, worklife, workplace | 3 comments»

Attaining Breakthrough

Breakthrough demands you push beyond the obvious and the conventional. It’s going places you don’t think you can reach. It’s getting to your limit — then going still further. » Continue

May 15 2006 | By Adrian | Tagged: accomplishment, achievement, breakthrough, change, development, education, goal, inspiration, learning, Management, performance, vision | 1 comment»

A Manager’s Guide to Supporting Organizational Change

Change within organisation is not easy - Management may always feel that employees tend to resist change and they feel employees are not supportive and difficult. Esther Derby talks about this exact issue and 10 lessons that she had learned:

Communicate a Compelling Reason to Change
Communicate Formally and Informally
Personalize the Message: What Does This Mean for Me?
Acknowledge the Unknowns
Surface Rumors and Fill in the Blanks
Practice What You Preach
Acknowledge and Build on

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February 9 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: change, Management | no comments»

Precious Moments

The doorway to real change isn’t open often, so the times when it is (those “teachable moments”) are too precious to waste. Here’s how to use them to the full. » Continue

January 30 2006 | By Adrian | Tagged: achievement, brainstorm, change, creativity, idea | 1 comment»