Posts Tagged with "learning"
The 4 Basic Needs of Communication
Is there anyone out there who does what you do? Or do you think you are absolutely unique! On the one hand every action is unique, but that’s the Zen view on things. Most people don’t see life this way and find that in one way or another we’re all just copies of each other. [...]
Continue reading...The Sleeper must awaken
Monday, October 5, 2009
Last Friday I had a quick 6 tweet chat with Cath Duncan from Mineyourresources about the concepts of learning, change and discomfort. It put me on a train of thought that also brought to mind a quote I posted earlier from Leito Atreides (yes, Dune): Without change something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The [...]
Continue reading...Embrace failure, it’s your best friend in life
Friday, July 10, 2009
Cath Duncan from mineyourresources.com made a comment a while back on one of my blogposts (What all the “get rich” Blogs don’t tell you) I’d going to have a closer look at today: I totally agree that action is what makes the difference in results – even imperfect action. In improv storytelling they have the [...]
Continue reading...Truly learning or just reinforcing current beliefs
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Yesterday a tweet came along in my screen I really would like to share with you: Amazing how often when we think we’re learning, we’re really not. We’re just seeking evidence to reinforce our current beliefs – Jonathan Mead I would like to follow this quote with another one that I’ve taken from someone I [...]
Continue reading...My blogchallenge: a weekly update 2
Saturday, May 2, 2009
The weekly update is here again and by just looking at the numbers it hasen’t been a great week: Average number of pageviews over this week: 70 Number of subscribers to my RSS feed: 21 (very nice!) Where the traffic is coming from: Again it’s mostly from problogger but twitter is pitching is as are the [...]
Continue reading...My blogchallenge: a weekly update
Saturday, April 25, 2009
As some of my readers already know I’m working on a challenge to get my blog to grow big enough so that I can reclaim my domain. Big enough is defined here as >500 pageviews a day for seven consecutive days or >300 subscribers to my RSS feed. There already have been several occasions where [...]
Continue reading...Reclaim your dreams: an eBook review
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
A few days ago Jonathan Mead (Illuminated mind) tweeted who would like to review his new eBook on their blog. I took the chance and tweeted back that I would like to do a review. Lo and behold, the eBook was in my email a few days later and I read it “cover to cover” [...]
Continue reading...Meditation, what are your thoughts?
Monday, April 20, 2009
About a year ago I started out with zazen, a type of sitting meditation to get my mind back under control. My mind was all over the place most of the time and I couldn’t focus on anything much longer than a kid with ADD on a sugar high. I was constantly drifting away in [...]
Continue reading...3 month to a successful blog: 16 building blocks
Saturday, April 18, 2009
…Day in day out he stared at the statistics of his little blog, he had a dream, get his blog big enough to claim his place among the great blogs out there. Perhaps even cast a shadow over them and become the best of his niche. One day he would get there, he was convinced. [...]
Continue reading...7 steps to enduring change, the basics of beginning
Friday, April 17, 2009
Change is all around us and there are a lot of people writing about this subject. But what is the essence of change? In this post I would like to write about something I learned in my eduction as an exercise therapist. It’s about making a change in your life that will last. Not a simple overnight venture [...]
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