The Perfection of Imperfection

Posted on Feb 19, 2014 under Identity

We are all different, doing different things, living different lives, coming to this point in time, right now as you read these words from different trajectories with different backgrounds and circumstances. So why do we think we all need to do the same things, look the same way, act like everyone else and live the same lives? The obvious answer is that we don’t!

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Allegory of the Long Spoons (how to make heaven on earth)

Posted on Feb 17, 2014 under Character & Values

Have you heard of the parable of the long spoons? It goes something like this: A man was once taken on a tour of hell and was surprised by what he saw …

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Pithy Love (24 of my favorite amorous one-liners)

Posted on Feb 14, 2014 under Love & Relationships

For this Valentine’s Day, I offer you some of my most pithy thoughts on humanity’s favorite topic. Perhaps you’ll even find a nugget of wisdom buried amongst all the pith as well!

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Today is the Day (make it matter)

Posted on Feb 13, 2014 under Excellence

Today is a wholly new day unlike any previous set of 24 hours. This day will never reoccur. It will never return. It is unique unto itself. How are you going to live it?

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How to Reach Higher than You Thought You Could (4 options you never considered)

Posted on Feb 10, 2014 under Personal Development

Life has the tendency of stretching us, calling from us more than we thought we had inside. The miracle of this process is that when we stretch, we rarely return to the same dimension we were before the stretch.

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How to Procrastinate (for greater success and happiness)

Posted on Feb 4, 2014 under Productivity

Procrastination is an insidious habit that makes life more hectic, hurried and panicked. It robs us of peace, undermines excellence and degrades the joy that excellence produces. But does procrastination always undermine excellence, happiness and peace? Perhaps not.

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How to Fall Madly in Love with your Goals (personal development finally made fun!)

Posted on Jan 27, 2014 under Personal Development

Only 8% of goal-setters ever reach the goals they set. But the problem may be less an issue of will and more an issue of the kinds of goals you’re setting. Learn the best way to set the goals you will always enjoy pursuing and will more likely and easily reach.

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How to Change the World (the secret of Martin Luther King’s success )

Posted on Jan 20, 2014 under Influence

Martin Luther King led a movement not merely by virtue of his character or charisma, but because he was able to get others to catch the vision he regularly articulated. He was thereby able to convince the nation that his dream was not only worth fighting for, but was the only dream worthy of having.

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Schooled on Life by a 7-Year Old

Posted on Jan 13, 2014 under Personal Development

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3 Essential Truths Taught by my 7-Year Old Happiness Guru

Posted on Jan 6, 2014 under Happiness

My favorite Life Coach, Zen Master and Guru of Happiness has never written a book, never meditated atop a snow capped mountain and has never spoken to an audience gathered at his feet to absorb the richness of his wisdom. His name is Jacob. And he’s my son. But the truths he’s taught me has made me a better (and happier) person.

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5 Reasons Personal Development has Failed You (and how to turn it around)

Posted on Dec 30, 2013 under Personal Development

For me, personal development is all about self-respect. It’s an expression of faith in one’s own potential. But it also reflects the sense of moral responsibility I feel to improve on the raw materials God and parents gave me. In a way, it’s an expression of the seriousness with which I believe in the inherent worth and value of humanity. In fact, personal development is to humanity what sharpening is to a knife.

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Inspire Me (Now!): 10 inspirational photo quotes

Posted on Dec 23, 2013 under Personal Development

Ideas are powerful things that can take on a life of their own, digging like roots deep into our hearts and souls and branching out into the circumstances of our lives as we nourish and tend to the germinating seed of thought. Come see my top 10 favorite ideas captured in picture quotes, ready for bite-sized consumption!

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7 Assumptions Happy People Make

Posted on Dec 16, 2013 under Happiness

It’s been said that when we assume, we make an “ass” out of “u” and “me” (ass+u+me). But are we to assume nothing in life? I believe some assumptions are helpful, even essential to a happy life. Come see if you agree with these seven assumptions I make every single day.

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Teenaged Gratitude (classroom surveys yield surprising results)

Posted on Nov 25, 2013 under Happiness

When so many worry about the rising generation, inundated with sex and violence, self-indulgent, seemingly concerned too much with what doesn’t matter, impatient, disrespectful, vulgar and ungrateful, its heartening to get a glimpse into their hearts and see that our impressions of modern youth culture may not be so bad as we thought.

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The Man I Want to Be (thoughts on being a better person)

Posted on Nov 18, 2013 under Character & Values

“Who you want to be is irrelevant to who you are if who you daily choose to be is different than who you wish you were.” Who we are and who we believe we should be are not always one and the same. Your Ideal You is likely somewhat higher than your Actual You. And so we read posts like this one looking for inspiration to nudge us down that path. Come see three areas we can improve on to become better people.

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Rediscovering Willpower (what you need to know about the greatest human strength)

Posted on Nov 11, 2013 under Character & Values

Until recently, willpower seemed like the unwanted stepchild of the character family. But willpower, it turns out, is not a self-imposed prison sentence at all. It actually frees and liberates us to pursue our best selves as possible.

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How to Find 5 Extra Hours a Day (without losing sleep, skipping meals, multitasking or abandoning your family)

Posted on Nov 4, 2013 under Productivity

Do you have an extra 5 hours a day you could devote to doing what you love? If you could find 5 hours, that would translate to and extra 34 hours a week, or 136 hours most months and 1,768 hours a year. That’s a whopping 8,840 hours in just 5 years’ time and 17,680 hours in a decade you can devote to learning something, overcoming something, developing something, to creating an amazing life. If you are anything like the national average, I can offer you the gift of those 5 extra hours, free of charge.

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Three Simple Ways to Make New Friends and Improve your Social Life

Posted on Oct 28, 2013 under Love & Relationships

Guest Post by Paul Sanders: Some goals are easier than others. When it comes to meeting and making friends, it can be daunting. This article is designed to help you solve this problem and show you an effective way to draw plans and strategies to improve your social skills, meet new people, make friends, and build a rewarding social circle.

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The Power of Bad Examples

Posted on Oct 21, 2013 under Uncategorized

“Remember: No matter how bad you are, you’re not totally useless. You can still be Read More.

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How to lead a spiritual life (and avoid pseudo-spirituality)

Posted on Oct 13, 2013 under Character & Values

True spirituality cannot be developed in a vacuum. It cannot be exercised in isolation. To me, spirituality is connecting with the divine and letting that connection change us inside, so that we become something different than we were before the connection.

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