Photos by Star Lisa and Joiseyshowaa.
Welcome to the 15th Edition of my Personal Stories of Change Blog Carnival. For those unfamiliar with this carnival, basically I aim to present a collection of self improvement articles where the writer shares a personal experience. Enjoy

Al presents Why Bad Things Happen to Good People posted at 7P [...]

Note: this guest-post was contributed by Scott Young. Images by Yvestown and Paul Watson.
I’ll admit it: I used to be a slob. Several years ago, I would have been lucky just getting my clothes in the right drawers. To-do lists, calendars and detailed systems for managing my energy and time would have seemed like a [...]

Photo: Darwin Bell.
Ahhh yes… love is in the air (or is that just the smell of my morning coffee?) Valentines Day - that day you either eagerly await, dread, or are just plain indifferent to - has rolled around again. Personally, I think it is nice to have a day where you do [...]

Photo by *beat*.

While I don’t claim to be a blogging expert, I have picked up a few tips and tricks over the past 9 months that have helped me break into the Technorati Top 10,000, push past 2,000 RSS subscribers, and find myself a job as editor on PickTheBrain. In this article I will [...]

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“When my daughter was seven years old, she asked me one day what I did at work. I told her I worked at the college - my job was to teach people how to draw. She stared at me, incredulous, and said, ‘You mean they forget?’” - Howard Ikemoto (artist and art [...]

Note: this is a guest post by David Bohl from Slow Down Fast. It is the second article in my Career Transitions Series (you can read the first one here and the original article that inspired the series here). Images are by Hugo*, Dean Forbes, and Thomas Hawk.
My Workaholic Life
My most successful habit change, by [...]