Personal Growth
247 Articles & Excerpts
Making It Easy to Take It Easy
Ready for Anything: 52 Productivity Principles for Work and Life by David Allen Maximum productivity is making something happen furniture, freeways, or fun with as little effort as possible. The fact that we have effort at all, though, implies that we confront resistance and impediments when we want to get anything done.
Levels of Telling the Truth
Radical Honesty: How to Transform Your Life by Telling the Truth by Brad Blanton, Ph.D. Roles are like clothing we learned to put on to protect ourselves from the cold. When we take off the roles we have been hiding behind the naked being we are stands there - vulnerable and defenseless.
Courage, Willingness to Feel, Focus, Presence
The Hard Questions for an Authentic Life by Susan Piver Courage is the willingness to open and listen to ourselves, loved ones, enemies, strangers, even circumstance - no matter what is being said. We most often plow through our problems and issues, certain we know the answers already.
What Is No Opportunity Wasted?
No Opportunity Wasted : Creating a List for Life by Phil Keoghan, Warren Berger I am underwater and in the dark, stranded somewhere deep in the bowels of a sunken ship that lies abandoned at the bottom of the sea. At the moment, I don't know which way is up or down. Inside a watery cavern that was once this ship's ballroom, my body
What Are You All About?
Practical Intuition by Laura Day It has been said that each individual's life boils down to a single question. Your life is the living of that question, the search for its answer and personal significance.
21 Tips and Tactics to Keep You on The Path of Perseverance by Libby Gill Perseverance isn't drudgery. It's a commitment to keep moving forward toward the vision you've created of your best possible life of purpose and passion. And now you have 21 Tips and Tactics to keep you traveling hopefully!
The Journey to Divaness
I Am Diva! Every Woman's Guide to Outrageous Living by Elena Bates, Maureen O'Crean, Molly Thompson You are an extraordinary woman, how can you expect to live an ordinary life? -LOUISA MAY ALCOTT. When I was a little girl, I believed I was special. I didn't know exactly what that meant other than a certainty that I had a precious gift to give the world.
Defining Moments
Between Trapezes : Flying Into a New Life with the Greatest of Ease by Gail Blanke If you can feel the magic, you can go the distance. Disney understood how a gorgeous vision can propel us forward, how when we are laboring in the swamps and the ditches of our own lives, we can look up at the horizon and see our dream castle, our better
Part One
Letters on Life by Rainer Maria Rilke There is only a single, urgent task: to attach oneself someplace to nature, to that which is strong, striving and bright with unreserved readiness, and then to move forward in one's efforts without any calculation or guile, even when engaged in the most
The Color of Joy: Living in the Light of Abiding Happiness
Lightposts for Living: The Art of Choosing a Joyful Life by Thomas Kinkade Like a series of old-fashioned lightposts, Lightposts For Living illuminates primary, life-affirming values and shows you, with a combination of inspiration and practical advice, how to transform a hurried, stressful life into one filled with serenity
Deep Kindergarten
All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten by Robert Fulghum As I write this I am sixty-five years old. Not so old, really, but I have been around awhile. Kindergarten is a long way back there. What do I know now? The Kindergarten Credo is not kid stuff. It is not simple. It is elemental.
52 Practical and Inspiring Ways to Improve Your Life
Life Makeovers by Cheryl Richardson How often do you daydream about living a better life - a life that reflects more of you, your values and deepest desires? How many times have you come to the end of a busy week and toyed with the fantasy of packing a bag and leaving it all behind?
How to Discover What You Really Want
I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was : How to Discover What You Really Want and How to Get It by Barbara Sher This book is designed to help you find the good life. By that, I don't mean swimming pools, mansions, and private jets - unless those are really your big passions. But if you picked up a book called I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was
Introduction
Choosing Truth by Harriette Cole Choosing Truth is a book devoted to supporting the search for the deepest understanding of Truth that we can find: The answer to the age-old question, Who am I? It is a subject that I have held close to my heart for my entire life, even when I wasn't sure
The Process: Therapy, Education, and Ritual
The Hoffman Process by Tim Laurence As a method of change, the techniques you are going to be using work in a variety of ways. They provide a bridge that few others have ever been able to build or even imagined building. It's a bridge that connects the therapeutic benefits of self-inquiry
Always Ask
The Secret of Life : Commonsense Advice for the Uncommon Woman by Elizabeth Wurtzel People have the power The power to dream/to rule to wrestle the earth from fools, Patti Smith. This is the essence of life. This is the only reason to get out of bed in the morning. Every day is a new opportunity to ask more questions and see what happens
Overcoming the Myth
Courage : The Heart and Spirit of Every Woman by Sandra Ford Walston Embrace your courageous spirit! Why do some women have the courage to develop their full potential, fight injustice, embrace faith, and choose their own path? Author Sandra Ford Walston believes that courage is part of every woman's 'heart center.'
The First Decision
Nothing is Impossible by Christopher Reeve As the old saying goes, you better know what you want because you might get it and you've got to accept it. Whether you succeed or whether you encounter adversity you always have to believe in your worth as a person. That's what counts.
Everything You Need to Know I Learned In the Marines
Corps Values by Zell Miller Drunk. Dirty, disheveled and dejected, I sat crosslegged on the floor of the Gilmer County Jail in the Appalachian town of Ellijay, Georgia. It was a hot Saturday night in August of 1953.
Book Love Regained
The Little Guide to Your Well-Read Life by Steve Leveen Do you wish you had more time to read? This little guide can help you make that wish come true. It is a book for readers who want more in their lives. It will show you how to do a better job finding books you'll love, how to read more of them
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