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9 Rules To Get Out of Plateaus

30. November 2006

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A month ago I was stuck in a plateau; my ideas for Life Coaches Blog posts were running dry and I couldn’t see a way out. The answer to why and what to do came in a serendipitous way. I’d installed Brian’s The Nine Rules plug-in for WordPress, it randomly displays one of the 9 [...]

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A Moment of Cat Zen

28. November 2006

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There are lots of things I envy my office cat for. His unhurried schedule for one; if he wants to sleep the day off; he sleeps the day off. His trained office of masseurs for another; all he needs to do to get a good tummy rub is meow. And you get real envious real [...]

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For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also

27. November 2006

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This is weird. I went to a friend’s beautiful wedding last Saturday, and first heard the proverb “For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.” (Mathew 6:21) On Friday night, I saw it in big bold letters on the building across from the seat I’d randomly managed to secure in the food-court, [...]

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If You’re An Akltg Graduate

27. November 2006

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I just sent a happy birthday message to a friend I haven’t seen in a long time, a graduate of the first ever Patterns of Excellence program held in Malaysia. I haven’t kept in touch with as many of my friends as I would have liked, and I want that to change. If you’re also [...]

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Empowering Links: Week of 26th November

26. November 2006

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Best personal development resources for the week: Paul reveals how with effort and inner-strength, you can be good at almost anything, all you have to do is be prepared to feel confused, scared, like an impostor, be humiliated by the insiders, bored, like it’s all too hard. Scary? Yup. Read more to find out how [...]

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The Monk Talks: What Would Buddha Do If Someone Hated Him?

22. November 2006

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(Alvin’s Note: Our dear fellow Life Coach, and passionate personal development extraodinaire, Paiboon Busayarak, has embarked on a 3 month initiation into Buddhist monkhood in his native Thailand. He just sent me this post via email sharing the conversations he’s had with his teacher. The words are his, the grammer tweaking is mine Enjoy!) What [...]

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Life Coaches Blog Now Ranked 9 Out Of 72,100,000

20. November 2006

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I should probably check my web-stats more regularly. After ages of not doing so, I logged in and saw that one of the top search terms hitting Life Coaches Blog was ‘personal development blog‘. Not knowing why, I typed ‘personal development blog’ into Google and was shocked to discover Life Coaches Blog is ranked number [...]

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Book Review: Success Built To Last

19. November 2006

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Success Built to Last: Creating a Life that Matters What Is Success Built To Last? Authors Jerry Porras (of Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies), Stewart Emery and Mark Thompson interviewed over 200 high achievers all over the world, over a ten year period and distilled their secrets into this amazing book. And [...]

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Pay Yourself First

17. November 2006

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If you won a million dollars today, would you spend it all immediately buying loads of stuff so that by this time tomorrow, it’d be all gone? I’d bet you wouldn’t, but that’s what a lot of people are doing; not with the money they win, but the money they make. I don’t often write [...]

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3 Big Reasons To Give

13. November 2006

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Why would I give away 20% of whatever I make from Life Coaches Blog? In fact, why bother to give at all? (Hint: it’s not because I’m fabulously rich!) 3 Big Reasons To Give So You Can Receive 1) Nearly every personal effectiveness coach from Anthony Robbins to Marc Allen recommend it as a method [...]

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