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By Ali Hale
Are you great at giving advice … but bad at taking it? Often, we’re great at seeing a solution for a friend, and we can easily spot the patterns and habits that friends fall into. It’s harder to get the same perspective on our own lives.
I know that I’ll often [...]

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

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By Mark Harrison
Viktor Fankl, the Austrian psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor, wrote in Man’s Search for Meaning, ‘Between stimulus and response there is a space, and in that space lies all our freedom.’ In the most extreme conditions of privation imaginable, Frankl discovered that he was, remarkably, free to choose his response to any situation.
I [...]

This entry was posted on November 11, 2009 and is filed under: Life - 19 Comments »

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By Mr. Self Development
I can’t think of anyone who doesn’t want to significantly improve their life.  The good news is: Every moment is an opportunity to become better than we’ve been in the past.  This is a brief article on how to improve your life starting today.  I challenge you to take [...]

This entry was posted on September 3, 2009 and is filed under: Change, Happiness, Health & Fitness, Life, Wellbeing - 31 Comments »

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By Cath Duncan
We’ve all heard the phrase, “Do what you love.” The idea that we can and should do what we love doing in our work, and that we should choose experiences that make us feel good in life, was a pretty unconventional idea 20 years ago. These days, however, it’s an [...]

This entry was posted on August 28, 2009 and is filed under: Happiness, Life - 23 Comments »

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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 »