Posts Tagged ‘life’

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»

10 HARD Ways to Make Your Life Better

Some of the most worthwhile things in life aren’t easy. One of the things I dislike most about “power of positive thinking”-style personal development philosophies (such as “The Secret”) is the implication that if you just have the right attitude and the right state of mind, the rest will just fall into place. I think it causes a lot of hurt and disappointment in people who invest their time… » Continue

March 14 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: achievement, growth, life, personal-development | 72 comments»

There’s More to Productivity Than Time Management

What does it mean to be productive? A typical definition might be something like, “Getting the most done in the least possible time.” In a workplace context, this means one and only one thing: more work. If the process for a task can be streamlined so it can be done in half the time, then you can have your employees do that task twice as many times.

In order to… » Continue

March 12 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: balance, fulfillment, life, Productivity, satisfaction, time, work | 20 comments»

6 Lessons on Making Smooth Transitions in Life

Last week I started working on my new job as a lecturer. The job is pretty flexible, but it takes quite a lot of time for preparation, especially because I’m relatively new to some subjects. Since I’m still adapting to the pace, my life was pretty disorganized. I couldn’t do my morning ritual as it should, and I didn’t even have enough time to write for my blog. It’s… » Continue

February 8 2008 | By Donald | Tagged: happiness, life, planning, work-life | 8 comments»

Avoiding Mediocrity: Do You Dare to Be Different?

Following the herd is a sure way to mediocrity.
Patti Wilson
I don’t know about you, but one of the things I’m afraid most in life is mediocrity. For me, life is too precious to be lived in mediocrity. Life is a golden opportunity, and we should use it as good as we can. Living in mediocrity means we do not use the opportunity as good as we should.

Unfortunately, many people… » Continue

November 28 2007 | By Donald | Tagged: achievement, attitude, life, success | 15 comments»

7 ways to catch your breath

If you have ever been in trouble swimming in heavy surf you will know the sensation. You get dumped by one wave and get the air knocked out of you. You struggle to the surface and take another gasp, only to be hit by the next wave. Wave after wave pushes you under and you just can’t get free. You know that you… » Continue

November 7 2007 | By Tom | Tagged: life, struggle, survival | 7 comments»

15 Tips to Restart the Exercise Habit (and How to Keep It)

It’s okay, you can finally admit it. It’s been two months since you’ve seen the inside of the gym. Getting sick, family crisis, overtime at work and school papers that needed to get finished all kept you for exercising. Now, the question is: how do you start again?

Once you have an exercise habit, it becomes automatic. You just go to the gym, there is

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November 6 2007 | By Scott H | Tagged: diet, energy, exercise, fitness, health, life | 78 comments»

How to take steady steps towards fulfilling your potential

Three steps cover most of what is needed to discover and then make full use of your potential:

Exploration of options, strengths, and weaknesses, in depth and without haste.
Patient removal of blockages.
Long-term, continuous development and learning.

The first step increases your self-awareness and gets beyond superficial judgments about strengths and weaknesses. You mustn’t simply jog along and let your automatic habits take the strain, or you’ll become narrow and parochial, priding… » Continue

November 5 2007 | By Adrian | Tagged: habit, life, potential | 7 comments»

7 Ways to Help Your Child be a Homebody

After a 10 hour road trip this past weekend, my family and I spent the balance of the weekend puttering around the house and enjoying some of the simple things in life. We have come to accept that we are content spending time at home just being a family. Here are seven simple tips for helping you and your children enjoy time at home.

Establish routine. Whether… » Continue

November 2 2007 | By Mike | Tagged: children, family, life | 8 comments»

Getting Rid of Yesterday: How to Start Your Day Fresh

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could.Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sometimes we start a day with the previous day still in mind. We think about the mistakes we made in the previous day, how things went wrong, and how we felt bad about it. No wonder it becomes difficult to focus on the current day. And since we cannot fully focus on the day… » Continue

October 30 2007 | By Donald | Tagged: attitude, effectiveness, energy, focus, happiness, life | 18 comments»

How to Be a Friend of Yourself

Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
Eleanor Roosevelt

We often focus on building relationships with others that we forget the essential first step: being friends of ourselves. That is the crucial first step if we are to have good relationships with others. How can we have good relationships with others if we don’t even have good relationship with… » Continue

October 17 2007 | By Donald | Tagged: attitude, happiness, life, relationship | 12 comments»

Next Saturday (or maybe the one after that) is “Doing Nothing Day”

Today is Columbus Day in the USA and Thanksgiving in Canada. We have commemorative days for famous people, famous events and (in many parts of the world) religious festivals. I want to suggest that you establish a special day specially for yourself: for allowing yourself time and space to be who you are—and to look a little more deeply into what you’re doing and why you’re doing it.

You can… » Continue

October 8 2007 | By Adrian | Tagged: focus, life, lifebalance, Lifestyle | 9 comments»

Do you suffer from bad luck?

Here’s how to improve your fortune

Are you one of those people who are always suffering setbacks? Does little ever seem to go right for you? Are you dogged by constant instances of sheer bad luck? Do you sometimes feel that the universe is out to get you?

Let me let you into a secret: your luck is no worse—and no better—than anyone else’s. It just feels that way. Better, still… » Continue

October 1 2007 | By Adrian | Tagged: control, life, loser, luck, success | 33 comments»

The magic ingredient for a fulfilling life is . . .

“Now hast thou but one bare hour to live,
And then thou must be damned perpetually.
Stand still, you ever-moving spheres of heaven,
That time may cease, and midnight never come.”
Christopher Marlowe: Doctor Faustus

You’re on the beach of your dreams, under a sunset that flares with every color you can call to mind, plus a few you can’t even name. You’re listening to music that sets your body and soul tingling with… » Continue

September 24 2007 | By Adrian | Tagged: enjoyment, happiness, life, Lifestyle, living | 9 comments»

Solutions for 10 MORE Annoying Modern Day Problems

A few months ago, I wrote about Solutions for 7 Annoying Modern Day Problems. With modern life comes convenience, but also new problems. Here are 10 more solutions for 10 more annoying problems.

1. Need a Reliable Contractor?