Category Archives: Personal growth

What triggers your positive emotions?

This question turned up in my Daily Forwards Step. There was also this quote: You have to find something that you love enough to be able to take risks, jump over the hurdles and break through the brick walls that … Continue reading

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Letting The Curves Take You

DailyOM today is about control, here is part of it. Trying to maintain control in this life is a bit like trying to maintain control on a roller coaster. The ride has its own logic and is going to go … Continue reading

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Walk the talk

I got a link for a movie, Walk the Talk, which makes you think. You will after the movie come to a page where they sell a book but I did not buy any, the movie gave me what I … Continue reading

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Have you got specific with your goals yet?

This question turned up in my Daily Forwards Step. There was also this quote: You seldom get what you go after unless you know in advance what you want. Maurice Switzer I am working on my goals for the next … Continue reading

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How could you simplify your life today?

This question turned up in my Daily Forwards Step. There was also this quote: Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity. Charles Mingus I intend to simplify my life in order to get … Continue reading

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Trust

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BeCause – The Power of Purpose

BECAUSE has some great quotes on their front page. “The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.” Michelangelo “Be … Continue reading

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Life, plans and opportunities

John Lennon said ” Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.” To me it does not mean to skip plans entirely, just that we need to enjoy life too. “Opportunity favors the prepared mind” is … Continue reading

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Sail away from the safe harbor

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did so. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your … Continue reading

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ChangeThis

ChangeThis is a really interesting site. They are creating a new kind of media. A form of media that uses existing tools (like PDFs, blogs and the web) to challenge the way ideas are created and spread.

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