October 9, 2008 – 10:44 am
As I mention in Lightworker I woke up one morning and had two words ringing in my head. The first one, ochoa, is Basque and means wolf. That did not ring any bell back then but today it makes sense. I came across Finding Your Howl over at ChangeThis.
To find our howl we have to [...]
PickTheBrain has an interesting post by Kent Thune about Is There Really Such a Thing as ‘Self Improvement’?. It starts like this:
Can the self be improved? What is the self, anyway? Does the currently popular “self-help movement” really help us or is it a paradoxical diversion from our true self?
The post at PickTheBrain brings up [...]
Success Soul has An Interview with Leo Babauta on Simplicity, Clarity, Happiness and Success. Shilpan asked:
What is the single most important advice for my readers to use simplicity for their personal development?
I like Leo’s answer and his definiton of simplicity:
Simplicity is, at its core, just choosing the essential over the non-essential. It’s a way to [...]
Freelance Folders posts about What To Do When You Feel Invisible.
Zen Habits has a guest post by Mary Jaksch from Goodlife Zen about How to Establish New Habits the No-Sweat Way. It is about how Kaizen can help us to establish new habits. Kaizen is something I have in my own blogging (and action) idea [...]
Browsing around among blogs I came across Transforming Stress Into Personal Power and read about Jean and her basic philosophy.
Stay curious and open to life. No matter what happens keep learning and growing. Find what you love to do and find a way to share it with others.
This is a lot like my own philosophy, [...]
Nick Cernis has a post over at Put Things Off titled The Challenge: Read One Book a Week. I love reading but it goes up and down, I do not stick to any regular reading pace. The challenge is interesting and it can be done.
Nick gives 5 tips to become a regular reader:
1. Learn to [...]
I have finished a really interesting book titled The Manifestation Wheel: A Practical Process for Creating Miracles written by Alan Seale.
The Manifestation Wheel is made up of eight “houses” or steps: intention, peace, energy, guidance, empowerment, action, surrender, and legacy. Through these eight houses, the Manifestation Wheel offers a process that helps readers create the [...]
I came across Learn More, Study Less where you can buy a 200+ pages eBook but there is also a short free preview. I got curious and have read the short version.
Scott Young describes a concept called Holistic Learning which means putting knowledge in context. Instead of stuffing your brain with information you create a [...]
Last night I watched Alfie on DVD. Great music but the movie is so so, Alfie is shallow and does not learn from his mistakes. In one part of the movie Alfie has regrets and walks along the beach talking with an older man. Alfie is asked “What’s gonna happen to the rest of your [...]
March 11, 2008 – 12:43 am
I came across a blog called Sri Chinmoy Inspiration which is a blog on Self improvement written by Tejvan Pettinger and where I found several interesting posts.
The post about How to distinguish between love and emotional dependence is great, I like this part:
True love means loving people for who they are, not trying to channel [...]