Tag Archives: 'Personal development'

One life

One life

Today, I just wanted to share with you an inspiring poem that I came across  that I really enjoyed. I hope it speaks to you in the way it spoke to me One Life One song [...]

Place Yourself in the Presence of Greatness

Place Yourself in the Presence of Greatness

Just being in the same room as greatness inspires you to new levels of the possible. Recently on my trip to Paris I (of course) visited the Louvre and found myself for the first time in [...]

Stepping out of your comfort zone

Stepping out of your comfort zone

As I came off the call, which was a complete success and received rave reviews I thought back to my first ever teleseminar I’d run nearly 2 years ago. I was nervous, very nervous. I wasn’t [...]

A Minimalist’s Guide To Cultivating Passion

A Minimalist’s Guide To Cultivating Passion

“I did stand-up comedy for eighteen years,”  Steve Martin recalls  in his 2007 memoir, Born Standing Up. “Ten of those years were spent learning, four years were spent refining, and four were spent in wild success.” [...]

What to do when your world falls apart.  A Simple 5 step process for rapid recovery from emotional shock.

What to do when your world falls apart. A Simple 5 step process for rapid recovery from emotional shock.

When you have a setback you get a rush of thoughts and emotions, you try everything to stop them but they keep flooding in. How do you get back into the good space again? First here [...]

A Brief Guide To Life

A Brief Guide To Life

A few strong instincts and a few plain rules suffice us.’ ~Ralph Waldo Emerson Life can be ridiculously complicated, if you let it. I suggest we simplify. Thich Nhat Hanh’s quote, which I’ve stolen as this [...]

How to Summit Life’s Everyday Mountains

How to Summit Life’s Everyday Mountains

“The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.” ~Confucius Last week I sat on top of Mt. Shasta, a 14,179 foot mountain in Northern California. It was my first real summit and [...]

Branding tips for your business on and off-line

Branding tips for your business on and off-line

Much of our marketing is online now and we’re getting the hang of managing our brand across the Internet, or at least I’m sure we’d like to think so. The challenge is managing your brand on [...]

The Wastefulness of Decluttering; or How to Make Less Count for More

The Wastefulness of Decluttering; or How to Make Less Count for More

‘It is preoccupation with possession, more than anything else, that prevents men from living freely and nobly.’ ~Bertrand Russell I know there are many of you who want to declutter, or who have already gotten started [...]

The importance of enjoying the habit

The importance of enjoying the habit

I’ve written a lot about habits — it’s in the title, after all — and after all these years, and after all the questions that people have asked about forming habits, there’s one thing that seems [...]