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By Ali Hale
Having just started a blog with the tagline “getting more from life”, I’ve been thinking a lot about how to do this myself! A lot of personal development or change advice focuses on the longer term (especially in areas like finance or career), but here I want to look at squeezing the [...]

This entry was posted on August 7, 2009 and is filed under: Life - 11 Comments »

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By Jonathan Mead
“You’ve got your passion, you’ve got your pride
but don’t you know that only fools are satisfied?
Dream on, but don’t imagine they’ll all come true” – Billy Joel – Vienna
All right, I know that title sounds massively depressing, but I wanted to get your attention. Because I’ve got something important [...]

This entry was posted on July 8, 2009 and is filed under: Life - 23 Comments »

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By Carole Lynne
To renew and reinvent our lives we need a plan. Here it is: a seven-day process to work with over and over. This plan incorporates physical, mental and spiritual work. Use the whole seven-day process, or choose any one of the days to work with as you create the life [...]

This entry was posted on April 24, 2009 and is filed under: Change, Happiness, Life, Personal Growth - 6 Comments »

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By Dan Miranda
“True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.” -Charles Caleb Colton
When somebody says “best friend,” who is the first person to pop into your head? Is it your spouse, your next door neighbor, or even your own pet?
What if no one [...]

This entry was posted on April 17, 2009 and is filed under: Life - 17 Comments »

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By Ruth Harrison Moody
The rapid fire pace of daily life takes its toll and often fails to give us even a moment to pause, recover from, or even consider what’s going on around us. Our world is more frenetic, more overwhelming and more opportunity- laden than at any time before in [...]

This entry was posted on April 12, 2009 and is filed under: Life, Wellbeing - 15 Comments »

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By Ali Hale
Do you often feel guilty about things that you aren’t doing – or things that you are doing? Do you find yourself saying “I really should…” or “I know I’m supposed to…” or “I must…”? Are you trying to live up to someone else’s values?
There are so many pressures on us [...]

This entry was posted on April 8, 2009 and is filed under: Life, Wellbeing - 29 Comments »