Archive for the ‘Personal Development’ Category
Saturday, March 20th, 2010
“Tears are a gift from God. They express what words cannot.”
It’s always challenging describing in words the PSI Heroic Leadership Seminar, aka “Heroic”. Just trying to put the experience into words brings tears to my eyes right now. Difficult as it is, it’s important for me that I share my ...
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Monday, September 14th, 2009
"When we fail to plan, we plan to fail. "
Planning is a skill I've been improving for many years. There's always room for improvement here.
This article from John Maxwell gives us a good balance of planning, somewhere in between not planning at all (puro impromptu) and scientific planning where each ...
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Friday, April 24th, 2009
I'm taking a two-day Leadership Training course through my company.
It's an excellent opportunity for me and my classmates. Learned a lot in day 1 and shall learn a lot more in day 2.
[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="336" caption="Developing the Leader Within You - by John Maxwell"][/caption]
Our facilitator is Alex Castillo, an ...
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Friday, March 6th, 2009
Here's an article clipping I got via our corporate newsletter. It's about asking questions that empower. I'm keeping it here to remind me to ask these questions ... first and foremost, ask them to myself ;-)
Excerpts from Real Leaders Ask
(Harvard Business Review, Written by Judith A. Ross)
The most effective and ...
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Tuesday, October 14th, 2008
I am reading the first chapter of Steve Pavlina’s book “Personal Development for Smart People” where he speaks of the first fundamental principle of personal growth: Truth.
If I were to sum up the chapter, I’d state in my own words that the more readily we accept the truth, the better ...
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Friday, August 29th, 2008
I've been learning a lot by reading Steve Pavlina's blog. Now I look forward to reading his book!
Steve Pavlina's Personal Development for Smart People I bought three copies via Amazon.com . I figured I will have a personal copy, a copy to lend to family and friends, ...
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Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
Steve Pavlina has a podcast about how to achieve your goals faster.
One way is to plot out all of the "to do's" that lead to your goals and do them quickly.
There's another approach that will help and it's in the "mind" level, the way we think.
Explained ...
Steve has many examples ...
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Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
Interview with Jack Canfield's associates, that is :-)
I subscribed to Jack Canfield's newsletter when I started listening to his Audio book "The Success Principles".
In the newsletter two weeks ago, Jack announced the pilot of their coaching program. I thought to myself, "It's going to be expensive". But taking from one ...
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