Why Resolutions Fail

January 11, 2010

This is a Guest Post by Joseph Philips of Lifelong Project Did you know that most people ditch their resolutions before January is over and many more give up on their resolutions before springtime? That’s a result based on a survey from FranklinCovey. And when we fail from a resolution we feel lousy, depressed, and [...]

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Overcoming Fear and Breaking Free from its Tyranny

January 4, 2010

Fear is a cruel tyrant and we all know it. It debilitates us and immobilizes us, by restricting our possible responses to life and thus severely limiting it. It effectively sabotages us from succeeding in reaching a goal or achieving happiness and peace of mind. Fear can make us reject an opportunity to make a [...]

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How to be a mindful parent

December 29, 2009

Mindfulness, the practice of focusing on just one thing, means to simply experience the moment while excluding worries, self-doubts and distractions. Jon Kabat-Zinn, the founder of the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society together with his wife Myla, apply the concept of mindfulness to parenting. According to Kabat-Zinn, mindfulness allows us to [...]

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Proactive resolutions for 2010

December 27, 2009

In a recent article I published on Lifescape artists I suggested that there is a psychological loophole in the way we look and talk about New Year resolutions. For starters, the word “Year” in New Year, subconsciously (and wrongfully) suggests a timeframe we are bound with. Hence, we covertly hint to ourselves that whatever we [...]

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Lifescape artists is Online!!!

December 21, 2009

I’m glad to announce the birth of a new blog – Lifescape artists!! The blog was launched yesterday by myself and friend and co-founder Srinivas Rao of The Skool of life. We started working on the idea a few weeks ago when Srini approached me with the proposal of starting up a multi-authored blog. The [...]

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Heart Driven Success

December 14, 2009

There are many factors that play a determining role in success. The most commonly identified are qualities such as passion, determination, perseverance, good planning, intuition and creativity amongst a few others. It is to be said, however, that not all success comes from the heart or leads to happiness. There is success which comes from [...]

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The little sacred rules of inner peace

December 8, 2009

No matter how different people’s goals, inclinations and social conditions might be, there is always one thing that is common to all humans – the desire for inner peace. Some might not be consciously aware of this all the time or their life experiences have completely closed their heart to this possibility. Others might think [...]

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A simple visualization technique to keep calm under pressure

December 5, 2009

This is a Guest Post by Jon Rhodes The way people react in a moment of crisis is generally a good measure of their character.  It is easy to be calm and efficient when there is no pressure on, but not so easy when the cauldron is bubbling.  The really useful and successful people in [...]

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5 ‘World views’ the world can do without

December 2, 2009

The world has been shaped and coloured by myriads of political ideologies, cultural dispositions, religious beliefs and spiritual affinities.  It is also strongly influenced by the zeitgeist or the collective spirit of the moment. Some of them have been good and perhaps even though strongly resisted or fought over at first, they were conducive to [...]

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