Archive | July, 2007
The Most Important Tip Of All

The Most Important Tip Of All

Tips. Tips for finding your dream job. Tips for eating well. Tips for becoming a better writer. Tips for improving your life. Everywhere I look on the Internet, I see lists of tips! What’s going on???

The answer is simple: people love reading tips. Because people love reading tips, bloggers write articles with tips. Its all about supply and demand (my old Economics 101 tutor would be so proud!). All these tips are useless though if you don’t practice the most important tip of all…..

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Personal Stories of Change Blog Carnival: Edition 2

Welcome to the Second Edition of my Personal Stories of Change blog carnival. I was overwhelmed with the number of stories I received this time around. What I love about organizing this carnival is that I receive stories on a variety of topics that I normally wouldn’t read. After all, their are so many ideas and experiences that can change a person’s life.

The following stories were my favorites:

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12 More Daily Habits

12 More Daily Habits

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.” -Aristotle

My article 24 Daily Habits has been an amazing success, so I thought I would follow it up with another 12 Daily Habits that I try (I’m not perfect!) to do and that you may consider incorporating into your life.

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8 Ways to Make Routine Tasks Interesting

8 Ways to Make Routine Tasks Interesting

Driving a car….. after the initial period of learning and the excitement of getting your licence it becomes a fairly routine activity. As part of my move to Canada, I am now having to get used to driving on the wrong (ie right) hand side of the road. Its not too hard to adjust, but it is necessary to pay extra attention so I don’t suddenly find myself on course for a head-on collision.

I don’t suggest people start driving on the opposite side of the road to what they should, so here are 8 other ways to spice up seemingly routine activities:

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The Trash Talking Epidemic

The Trash Talking Epidemic

“Great minds talk about ideas, average minds talk about events, and small minds talk about people.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

I love the Eleanor Roosevelt quote above. It really captures the feeling I had the other day in the checkout line at the supermarket when I was surrounded by numerous celebrity magazines. I’m sick of such rags. I don’t care who is in rehab. I don’t care who is out of rehab. I don’t care who is skinny. And I really don’t care who is fat.

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2 Crazy Weeks

2 Crazy Weeks

Well….. its been a bit quiet here lately. My life has been pretty crazy though. A summary of the last 2 weeks:

Busiest week of the year at my (ex-) job due to end of financial year

Packing up our things and moving out of our place in Australia

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Personal Stories of Change Blog Carnival: Edition 1

Welcome to the first edition of my ‘Personal Stories of Change’ Blog Carnival. I received a lot of submissions which was great, although many had nothing personal about them. The following are my favourite of the personal stories of change submissions I received:

Steve Pavlina presents…

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