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On Purpose

“He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche via Quotes About Purpose (430 quotes). In English, when we say we have done something ‘on purpose’ we mean we have done it volitionally.

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Deeper connections

Most of what we think of these days as making connections seems to be in the form of Social Media.  I am in that school as well, using social media such as Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook to establish my brand

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Supermoon –

OK this is a stretch topic but here goes. This weekend will be the 2013 Supermoon.  The moon will be the closest to us it will be for all of the year.  It will appear huge.  The image at right

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Please join me

I will be a guest on the radio show The Conscious Consultant Hour next Friday, June 28th at 11:00 AM EDT. here is a link.  http://www.talkingalternative.com/friday-shows/the-conscious-consultant-hour. We will be talking about the power of productivity skills to reduce stress and

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Observing – the Key to Neutrality

We get so wrapped up in things.  We feel righteous and judgmental about the many ways that ‘they’ are doing it wrong or offending us or whatever.  We direct that righteous furor at ourselves and self flagellate with guilt.  We can wear

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You’re either on the bus or off the bus

Kind of like the Yoda quote ‘do or do not there is no try’ or like ‘you can’t be a little pregnant’. That doesn’t mean we are stuck where we are and can never change.  Grace Slick sings in the

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Beyond IQ: 5 Ways To Reframe Success And Smarts | Co.Create: Creativity \ Culture \ Commerce

Beyond IQ: 5 Ways To Reframe Success And Smarts | Co.Create: Creativity \ Culture \ Commerce.   This echoes some of the concepts we have been talking about, including reframing and changing negative self talk.

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Using Your Brain for a Change

Credit for today’s post title goes to a great book of the same title by NLP pioneer Richard Bandler.  Here’s a link to Amazon.  I get nothing for the referral.  Check it out because it’s good. So we left off

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Nobody Gets a Lifetime Rehearsal

Nod to the Indigo Girls for today’s post headline. I was looking at the definition of Practice today: Practice – Definition and More from the Free Merriam-Webster Dictionary. One of the synonyms of the noun form is “dry run”.  So

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Blazing new Frontiers

I was thinking this morning about how I admire people who light out on their own and build something new.  That doesn’t have to be inventing the geodesic dome (but I did watch a YouTube video on Buckminster Fuller).  It could be

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