Welcome to the 17th edition of The Change Carnival. It’s a bit later than I had originally planned but what can I say? It has been a hectic month….
I received A LOT of submissions this month. The following were my favorites. Enjoy!
Archive | June, 2008
How to Add a Dash of Romance to Your Weekend
Last weekend I found myself feeling romantic, but for once it wasn’t my wife who stirred these feelings. I guess I should just come out and say it: I have another great love in my life. I see this love every day, and while our meetings aren’t always memorable, every so often an occasion comes along where I am swept off my feet.
For whom do I have this great love? Lets just say the answer involves my stomach….
10 Things You Can Do to Make Today More Meaningful
According to Benjamin Wiker and Johnathan Witt, authors of A Meaningful World, “…nature is a work of genius, like a Shakespearian play is a work of genius — both are rich, deep, and complex, full of meaning at every level.”
Do you find yourself wanting for more meaningful experiences?
Sometimes the best way to get what you’re craving is to give it first. Don’t wait for someone else to make the first move or for a situation to spontaneously occur. Be liberal with, and unrestrained in, whatever you share. Create your own meaningful moments, and your life will be all the richer for it.
Kids, Wealth and Responsibility
Money means different things to different people. Some see it as a way of keeping score or measuring success. Others view money as simply a means to an end. In the pursuit of wealth, some have trampled their way to the top. Others seem to have glided there, nearly effortlessly.
In each of these extremes is a greater truth. Wealth magnifies your deeper personality traits. The thoughtful, caring person with access to financial resources will benefit him/herself AND others. But someone who only cares about keeping score will never have enough, regardless of the fortune amassed.
Warren Buffett, the famous investor and billionaire, once said that he intends to leave his children “enough money so that they would feel they could do anything, but not so much that they could do nothing.” He wanted to help his children reach their full potential, but understood that too much money, without corresponding effort, would sap their will to achieve.
How To Unleash Your Creative Genius
James M. Higgins, author of 101 Creative Problem Solving Techniques: The Handbook of New Ideas for Business,defines creativity as the process of generating something new that has value. Creative ideas run the gamut from new associations of existing ideas, elements, or concepts, to radical breakthroughs which extend the boundaries of human knowledge and create paradigm shifts. That is, you don’t necessarily have to make a quantum leap to be creative; you can begin by finding ways to improve an existing product, or by modifying a process to make it more efficient.
Creativity can mean identifying an untapped market for an existing product, finding a new solution to a problem, finding creative ways to resolve a labor dispute, and so on. In addition, creativity is not the sole domain of the arts—whether it’s painting, theatre, music, architecture, dancing, literature, and so on—but is important in any field, from medicine to business, and from engineering to economics.
3 Ways to Identify and Master the Bug of Creative Procrastination
Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday – Napoleon Hill (1883-1970) American speaker and motivational writer.
Procrastination is a term that needs no introduction. I’ve lived much of my life battling this bug, and I have come to believe that it grows from a fear of action.
Creative procrastination is a trick our mind plays to defer things we should do now until the future with an abstract goal to banish our desire.
7 Lifestyle Changes That Will Help The Environment
Over the past few years, most people I’ve spoken to have become (or already were) environmentally conscious to some degree. What often begins simply as saving money – such as reducing the amount of electricity you use – turns out to have quite a positive impact. If, however, you want to do even more; there are several things you can do. Here are just 7 lifestyle changes which will help the environment.
1. Use the car less. This is perhaps the simplest change in this list – reduce the time you spend behind the wheel. In addition to the environmental benefits of doing this, you’ll probably find that you become slightly fitter; and have more money in your pocket at the end of the week. In short, there’s no downside. How do you do this? Here are a few suggestions.
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