The Emotional Audit and how it can Help you Enrich your Life
by How to enrich your life by reviewing and expanding your emotional range Recently, I was reading Giant Steps by Anthony Robbins, and there was an interesting exercise …
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Six powerful strategies to generate new ideas
The best way to get a good idea is to get a lot of ideas — Linus Pauling Something that I have noticed while I …
Horseshoes and hand grenades as an approach to starting a career
One of my elementary school teachers often said that close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades. He said this whenever a student would answer …
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What the heck is an anti-library and why would you want one?
I was first introduced to the anti-library through Nassim Taleb’s work, the Black Swan. In fact, he was introduced to the concept through writer Umberto …
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A big mistake at work and the lessons I learned
Back in university, shortly after graduating, I worked for a summer as an orientations coordinator. Orientations, for a lot of universities, is huge and is …
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Interesting parallels between cooking and creativity
One of my secret ways to get inspired whenever I am in a creative rut is to crack open a cook book. It doesn’t really …
Prompts and questions to help you journal better
It has been several years of on and off journaling, but recently, I finished my first notebook full of notes. As I looked through, I …
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Three ways to improve your listening skills
Among my friends, I’m known as a good listener. But whenever my friends said that, I often wondered what it is that I did that …