Posts Tagged with "personal development"

What To Do When You Don’t Know The Way

Monday, September 27, 2010

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As you might have noticed, I haven’t been blogging much lately. Less than a blogpost a week even, which somehow feels very wrong. The big problem is that I can’t find anything to write about these days. So let me just enlighten you on how life is at the moment. It’s a bit of a [...]

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The Great Clashing of Closed Minds

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

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The most common type of mind is the closed mind. Or so it seems… “I’d better spend the money before it’s gone” This weekend I had a small social get-together with the in-laws and their social circle. My girlfriend was celebrating her birthday and I can tell you, she has an open mind, which seems [...]

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Failure is here to stay, so what’s next?

Sunday, November 1, 2009

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Failure is a part of every day life for without it we wouldn't be learning at all. Failure is level zero so to speak, it's where we start from, we have nothing, no achievements, no successes. From this starting point we embark on a journey to get where we want to be. Without exception this is "better", "successful", "loved" or perhaps "being worthy in the eyes of others". Nobody goes forth in life trying to be miserable after all, we all have our golden dreams.

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The one Essential skill you need to learn

Thursday, August 20, 2009

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In my view there is one single skill that’s at the basis of all other skills and that’s truly essential to personal development. Although it’s very important few people ever master it. I would even goes as far as to say that without this one skill -although mastering it isn’t necessary- it is impossible to [...]

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The ultimate in personal development: help others develop

Tuesday, August 4, 2009

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I’ve quoted this one before but it’s actually a huge reason for me to have this blog: To learn: read To know: write To master: teach There is only so much you can do for yourself by reading self-help books, blogs on personal development and other sources. Most people who realize this quickly become bloggers [...]

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Embrace failure, it’s your best friend in life

Friday, July 10, 2009

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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 [...]

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Zen and the art of blogging

Tuesday, April 28, 2009

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This blog has been running now for about six weeks and it’s time for me to tell you why I chose to blog, what I want from it and what’s in it for you. It’s a bit of a lengthy post, but I want to let you know who I am and what I’m aiming [...]

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