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By David B. Bohl
You may or may not think you live in a competitive world. But if you look around you in your personal and professional lives, you will see there is competition on many levels. Personally, you compete for resources, material goods, time, attention, and energy. Professionally, you compete for jobs, [...]

This entry was posted on October 29, 2008 and is filed under: Habits, Success - 16 Comments »

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By Peter Clemens
The number of subscribers to your blog, as measured by Feedburner, will naturally fluctuate – and not just because people are subscribing and unsubscribing (see this ProBlogger article as to why). So when in late August I noticed I had lost 1,000 subscribers in one day I wasn’t too worried [...]

This entry was posted on October 17, 2008 and is filed under: Self Awareness, Success - 21 Comments »

By Seamus Anthony
You leave no cushion unturned. You search the house until you’re in a state, roaring internally (and perhaps externally) with frustration. You waste ten minutes and a load of energy.
Eventually you give up the hunt – that important form you were filling out has disappeared into the ether. Sulking, you put the kettle [...]

This entry was posted on October 13, 2008 and is filed under: Career, Success - 26 Comments »

By David Bohl

There are no guarantees that life will turn out the way you want… but you have a better chance of it turning out how you want if you know how to design your own life.
I like the image of an architect designing a building by first laying out the blueprints. Or a writer [...]

This entry was posted on October 2, 2008 and is filed under: Success - 18 Comments »

By Peter Clemens
In 2004 I returned to Perth, Australia, after a year of traveling overseas. I returned to a city with a ridiculously strong economy. Demand from China had driven commodity prices to record highs, and the mining industry was booming. For those unfamiliar with the geography of Australia, Perth is the capital of [...]

This entry was posted on February 20, 2008 and is filed under: Life, Money, Success - 19 Comments »

Images by Shoothead, Cobalt123, Paul Watson, and Giampolo Macorig.
If you read last week’s post Well… I Have A New Job, you will be aware that I am now also working as an editor for the popular self improvement blog Pick The Brain. I was very excited when I was offered this job a month ago, [...]

This entry was posted on February 4, 2008 and is filed under: Blogging, Personal Growth, Success, Wellbeing - 28 Comments »