By which my friend Eleutherios assures me is the Kabbalistic (and poetic) equivalent of Steve Pavlina’s three principles of personal growth; truth (wisdom), love (beauty) and power (strength). This post has been a long time in coming, and in it I’ll explain why in order for me to move towards truth, love and power, I’ve [...]
A Moment of Cat Zen
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 [...]
For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also
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, [...]
If You’re An Akltg Graduate
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 [...]
Empowering Links: Week of 26th November
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 [...]
The Monk Talks: What Would Buddha Do If Someone Hated Him?
(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 [...]
Life Coaches Blog Now Ranked 9 Out Of 72,100,000
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 [...]