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Alvin - who has written 458 posts on Life Coaches Blog.

Alvin has been a personal development coach and is the founder of Life Coaches Blog. He now writes full-time and keeps a personal blog at 21 Dragons.

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Moving Towards Wisdom, Beauty & Strength

Tuesday, December 16, 2008

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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 decided [...]

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Lessons for Personal Development Bloggers

Saturday, November 22, 2008

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Earlier this year I had an idea: why not ask personal development bloggers for advice on personal development blogging, compile them into an ebook and give it out for free? I don’t know about you, but that sounds like a swell idea to me Unfortunately, that idea never materialized as I became caught up in [...]

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Personal Atrophy for Foolish People

Tuesday, November 18, 2008

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In Personal Development for Smart People (see my book review here), Steve Pavlina lists the three core principles of personal development as Truth, Love and Power. When you combine the principles, you get the secondary principles of personal development; Truth combined with Love gives you Oneness, Love and Power combine to give you Courage and [...]

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About Eating & Habits

Thursday, November 6, 2008

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Steve Pavlina wrote this after having nothing but juice for the last ten days: With each passing day, I can see more clearly how cooked food is used as a drug to create a certain kind of feeling in our bodies. We keep eating it because we’re addicted to it, not because it’s healthy for us. [...]

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Life Coaches Blog Pledges All Profits to Conservation International

Sunday, October 19, 2008

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3 months ago I wrote that all ads on Life Coaches Blog were off, due to a new contract at work that stated I had to share part of my profits with the company if I were to do outside work. That was all fine and good, but if I was to be honest with myself, [...]

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Anthony Robbins’ The Power of Crisis

Sunday, October 19, 2008

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The times they are a changin’. I don’t know about you, but I feel a little uncertainty during these times, when the papers are full of doom and gloom. To help, life coach extraordinaire Anthony Robbins has launched The Power of Crisis, a website about real people overcoming and transforming challenges. There’s a lot of good advice [...]

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Comments Are Off For A Week

Friday, October 3, 2008

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I’m going to be away for a week or thereabouts, and in the meantime comments will be off. You can still leave one, but it’ll be waiting in my approval list before it gets published. Otherwise you’ll be seeing Viagra spam all here! Have a good week!

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Book Review: Personal Development for Smart People

Monday, September 29, 2008

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When the King of Personal Development Blogging Steve Pavlina announced he was writing a book that promised to reveal the core underlying principles behind all personal growth, you can bet I got pretty excited. I’ve always been curious about the whys behind what we human beings do, and I was curious about what Steve had [...]

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Book Review: Roasting in Hell’s Kitchen

Sunday, September 28, 2008

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Most of us know chef Gordon Ramsay from his TV appearances; giving hell to contestants on Hell’s Kitchen or roasting restaurateurs on Kitchen Nightmares. Watching either show is a stark example of schadenfreude – German for ‘enjoyment taken from the misfortune of someone else’ – it’s painful sometimes but you can’t tear yourself away. Ever since [...]

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Introducing Karen Parsons

Friday, September 19, 2008

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After this great run of posts by guest blogger Carey Powell, I’m very pleased to introduce Karen Parsons, President of Successful Solutions Life Coaching who will be sharing a beautiful true story with us next week. Be sure to read it!

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