Empowering Links: Week of 17th December
Best personal development resources for the week:
Christine Kane reveals the 17 Things I Know for Sure About Creativity. I love number one: creativity cures.
Kathy Sierra shares 2 golden words to make you smarter, more patient and more understanding…hmm, interesting.
I absolutely love these 2 manifestos submitted to Gaping Void: The Time Management Manifesto and the Don’t Look Back Manifesto:
Horses have been training me for a long time. Directly and indirectly, my experiences with them have shaped my life. Thoughts on dwelling on the past follow.
Riding horses over jumps is life: fast, slow, up, down, control, recklessness. Thinking about jumping on horseback, I recall the words of a riding instructor about show jumping. He said, “When you hear the jump rail get clunked by your horse’s hoof, DON’T LOOK BACK! Keep both eyes forward and focus on the next jump; you can’t fix anything back there!
We all know that a balanced life can ignite the fire within you. Senia expands on those time-tested time-management principles by asking which is your seesaw balance? And an inspirational way to overcome your doubts and make the leap when 95% of your brain says yes.
Who wants the formula for a truly great life? It’s a combination of success and fulfillment, and Jim has a chart to help you get from washed out to abundance (via 37signals).
U.S.News & World Report gives you a sneak peak into America’s best leaders (via 37signals).
And Andrew over at the Steve Pavlina forums gives a personal testimonial on how he used the power of intention to transform a sure-fail subject into a high score of 92.
I agree that a key to self management is self esteem. I would offer that true life inspiration happens when you find something you love to do and make it a part of your everyday experience. Here’s an exercise:
1. Write down 10 things you love to do or that bring you the most joy. I call this the “You List”
2. Then record how many times a day you do one of the things on your list
3. Give each day of the week a rating from 1-10
4. Your best day usually comes out to be the day you do the most things on your “You List”
I can easily relate to the first part of the story, in the past I was one of those people pretending you have done something and then be very uncomfortable when someone asks more detailed questions.
It is not a good feeling and being upfront from the beginning really saves you the embarassment later.