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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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9 Keys to Building a Blog You Can Be Proud Of

12. September 2008

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I don’t claim to have all the answers on how to create a successful blog – in fact, I’d be wary of anyone who’d say he does. I don’t claim to have a wildly successful blog either, so investigate what I say. But there have been lessons along the way, running Life Coaches Blog for [...]

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Working Less to Get More Done on Life Coaches Blog

12. October 2007

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I spent yesterday thinking of the answers to Tim Ferris‘ questions from his book The 4-Hour Workweek: Which 20% of my efforts are producing 80% of my results that I need to focus more on? And which 80% of my efforts producing 20% of my results can I eliminate from my life? The 80/20 Principle, also known as [...]

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Are You Climbing Up the Wrong Personal Growth Ladder?

29. September 2007

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I was working through Chapter 7 of the book Getting Started in Personal and Executive Coaching by Stephen G. Fairley and Chris E. Stout, hoping to gain some clarity on restarting a blog. Doing the exercises in chapter 7; ‘7 Tools for Making a Great First Impression’ on creating a powerful company name and dynamic tag [...]

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Life Coaches Blog: Keeping It Real

7. September 2007

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Sometimes the best advice comes in the most unexpected way. Talking last night to my good friend Junming, who runs Haroko Studio, about Life Coaches Blog and the future directions it needs to take; he said the simplest and most amazing thing: ‘Just keep it real.’ So what’s real? I’m a 28 year old guy with [...]

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7 Things You Should Know Before You Start Blogging for Profits

6. September 2007

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After 2 years of problogging and a tidy monthly profit that continues to grow, these are the lessons I’ve learned about the business of blogging. 1) Market first, product second. When I started Life Coaches Blog, all I thought about was me; what I loved and what I wanted to talk about. But it’s not about you, [...]

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Be Willing to Change Everything in Your Life

5. September 2007

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If I could only own 3 personal development books in my life, without a doubt The Way Of The Superior Man: A Spiritual Guide to Mastering the Challenges of Woman, Work, and Sexual Desire by David Deida would be one of them (read my review here). I was re-reading it the other day and chapter 12; [...]

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What’s the ProBlogging Dream?

4. September 2007

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‘Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from her?’ ‘That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,’ said the Cat. ‘I don’t much care where…’ said Alice. ‘Then it doesn’t matter which way you go,’ said the Cat. ~ Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland. Why be a problogger at all? Before beginning anything, [...]

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Restarting a Blog

1. September 2007

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Nearly 2 years ago, I started Life Coaches Blog with nothing more than a vague idea of sharing self-improvement methods and making some money on the side, armed with the curiosity to see what happens. 2 years on and looking back, I’ve learned loads. There were times I struggled; sleeping late to finish an article and [...]

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