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Sustainable is a big word for me. Dictionary.com lists a definition as ‘capable of being continued with minimal long-term effect on the environment.’ I’ve seen it applied dozens of times in personal development, if a change isn’t sustainable it doesn’t last. Ever since 2007 started, I set my direction to be courage, and to lead a [...]

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7 Power Wounds

1) Clutter. What ever is in your space is taking up your energy, consciously or unconsciously. Think about it, what do those months of unread magazines piling up on your shelves represent? Uncompleted tasks you’ve yet to finish. If it’s still an open task, it’ll be in your mind somewhere. Stuff that you don’t need or want [...]

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80/20 Pledge: Donation to Conservation International

True to my promise to pledge 20% of whatever Life Coaches Blog makes to charity, I’ve just sent a donation to Conservation International. Environmental issues have always been dear to my heart, after all we are talking about the single most important factor to whether we human beings get to survive as a species or not. Want [...]

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How to Create a Place of Power

More and more I am coming to realize that there can be no real leadership unless there is self-leadership, and that self-leadership can be one of the hardest and loneliness things to do, which is probably why so few people do it. Like not letting anyone or anything affect you emotionally unless you let it, like [...]

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Spiderman 3 & The Hero’s Journey

Warning: Spoilers ahead! Watching Spiderman 3 reveals a part of the Hero’s Journey that is not often seen; the hero’s downfall. If you’re not familiar with the previous steps of the hero’s journey, download my free Hero’s Journey ebook. If you’re familiar with the 10 steps, you’ll know the Spiderman movies are wonderful metaphors for the hero’s [...]

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Empowering Links: Week of 6th May

The significance of you will forever remain obscure to you, but you may assume that you are fulfilling your significance if you apply yourself to converting all your experience to the highest advantage of others. One night Buckminster Fuller found himself on the edge of Lake Michigan, contemplating suicide. What he realized right on that [...]

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Why Stop Bitching When it is Therapeutic?

I was facilitating a team-building session when an interestingly hostile participant threw this spanner: “My leader is obliged to hear me bitch about things at work! It is therapeutic and allows me to work better!” Being the hard-headed fool that I am, I nodded my head in acknowledgement of her comment. Effectively attracting the spanner to fly [...]

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Book Review: Driven from Within

Driven from Within I bought this book a while back from the local Borders, but I passed it to my friend immediately after. A week or so ago he returned it to me, raving about how he re-read it right after he finished it, how inspiring it was and how it’d make me feel like a [...]

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