Category Archives: Discover Your Self

Vagabonding

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Michelle Clarke at Michelle Clarke Coaching quoted Rolf Pott: Vagabonding is an outlook on life...it's about using prosperity and possibility to increase your personal options instead of your personal possessions. Vagabonding is about looking for adventure in normal life, and normal life within adventure. It's an attitude, an uncommon way of looking at life, a value adjustment, that makes a person an explorer in the truest, most vivid sense of the word. Vagabonding is about time - our only real Read more [...]

Letter from a mother

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A friend of mine on Facebook tagged me in the photo below and to the letter in Spanish. Later a French translation turned up in that thread and I have found an English version. That letter strikes a cord in me, it could have been written by my mother to me. We're in that phase of life when the tables turn, she no longer manages on her own and I have to help her. Changes happened gradually and fairly slow during the last few years but lately it changed much faster. It's hard to see your mother change Read more [...]

Tiffany Shlain and Connected

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A friend on Facebook posted a link to Webby Awards Founder and Filmmaker Tiffany Shlain (see video below). Brian Solis talks with Tiffany Shlain, filmmaker and Webby Awards founder, about her latest film "Connected: An Autoblogography About Love, Death, and Technology". It's a very interesting conversation about being connected, about independence and interdependence. It's also about our choice about when to be connected and when to disconnect. Key words that I noted are engagement, connectedness, Read more [...]

Sharpen your axe

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I was going through my notes from a seminar with Steve Schiffman called "Always be closing." One thing Steve mentioned was "You must sharpen your axe!" which lead me to search for the story that goes with that phrase. I found two different ones. John, a woodcutter, worked for a Company for five years but never got a raise. The Company hired Bill and within a year he got a promotion. This caused resentment in John and he went to his Boss to talk about it. The Boss said, "You are still cutting the Read more [...]

Zen Brush

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I have bought Zen Brush and I really enjoy it. Enjoy performing zen art on your iPad or iPhone. Zen Brush is an app that allows you to easily enjoy the feeling of using an ink brush to write or to paint. It allows anyone to easily perform fluent strokes while not compromising on the fascinating texture of a real ink brush. Create works that radiate the right atmosphere by choosing the best background template from our large collection. You can even post your works easily on twitter. So far what Read more [...]

How To Get What You Want – part 1

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I am evaluating 2010 and preparing for 2011. As part of the process I have picked My 3 Words for 2011 and I'm Reinventing My Business. This blog post is about how I work on creating a foundation for the year(s) to come. The Law of Attraction In A Scary Admission Chris Brogan admits that he believes in the Law of Attraction. I believe in the teachings inside The Secret. The Secret is a book that talks about The Law of Attraction. There are several books that talk about this, and The Secret isn’t Read more [...]

My 3 Words for 2011

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About two years ago I posted Goals, guidelines and keywords with my three words for 2009: Trust, Connect and Grow. About a year ago I posted Ready for 2010 where I listed my three words: Trust, Connect and Grow. I kept the words I had selected for 2009, they were still important to me. In March 2010 I posted Three Words Become Five. I added Rhythm and Nourish to Trust, Connect and Grow. My 3 words for 2011 I go back to three words instead of five, I extend what some of my three words stand Read more [...]

Brené Brown – The Price of Invulnerability

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My previous post, Brené Brown on Connection, made me look around for more videos at You Tube and I found Brené Brown - The Price of Invulnerability. That's another great presentation by Brené Brown. TEDxKC talk synopsis: In our anxious world, we often protect ourselves by closing off parts of our lives that leave us feeling most vulnerable. Yet invulnerability has a price. When we knowingly or unknowingly numb ourselves to what we sense threatens us, we sacrifice an essential tool for navigating Read more [...]