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Moving Towards Wisdom, Beauty & Strength

16. December 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

22. November 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

18. November 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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Keeping the Faith in the Most Difficult Times

13. November 2008

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There lives an angel and her name is Miguelina. She is one of the most inspirational people I know. Her life is dedicated to serving others through education. She believes that the path out of poverty (including her own); an existence of few choices and few resources, is paved through learning. I would like to share with [...]

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Stress Relief Tips to Help You Get to the Root of Your Stress

10. November 2008

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The following stress relief tips are simple and practical. They will swiftly ease your stress! Step 1. Become Aware In a relaxed position, with your eyes closed, picture yourself being stressed. In your mind’s eye, go through every stress symptom that you have. Feel yourself being stressed. It is imperative that the visualization is very real with powerful [...]

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Fast and Effective Ways for Coping with Stress

7. November 2008

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Stress is a part of most people’s lives. It is a reality that we all live with. This is why we need to have different mechanisms in place for coping with stress. The challenge for most of us is actually being cognizant of when we are stressed. It is such an habitual state for us to be [...]

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About Eating & Habits

6. November 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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Maintenance: Fearlessly Living Your Dream in Real Life

15. September 2008

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You’ve met your goal – congratulations! To get to this place, you had to make many changes. Some were small, some were large, some were trivial and some were absolutely life altering. Now comes the job of maintaining those changes and keeping that goal alive in your life. You’re riding high right now, but what will happen [...]

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Get Real: In Pursuit of Your Fearless Life

11. September 2008

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How are you standing in the way of your dreams and goals? It’s time to stop telling yourself lies, stop making excuses and (gulp) take a long hard look at what role you are playing in your current situation. If you’re willing to ask yourself the hard questions now, you can save yourself from facing them as [...]

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Don’t Look Back in Anger

9. September 2008

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Some of us have been angry for so long that we’ve forgotten what it’s like not to be angry anymore. We’ve become so attached to our anger that we think it’s who we are. But it’s really no more a part of you than an old wound is, when it’s time to finish healing you just [...]

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