Riding a bike is tough. Your parents, people who love you more than anyone else in the world, slap these feeble pads all over your body, put you on this crude, rude, evil looking thing called a bike, and then set you off on your way. You don’t really know what’s going to happen or […]
Finding Purpose, Passion, and Meaning in Your Life – Care to Help?
Finding your true meaning in life, the reason your were put on the planet, your true passions – isn’t this what it’s all about? When we can go further and further into this self discovery search for our purpose and true direction, then we can finally start to do what we were meant to do. […]
Increase Brain Function By Journaling Your Thoughts?
You know… I’ve run across plenty of those “Be a Better Person / Entrepreneur” books or “professional opinions” that say it’s good to write down your thoughts into a journal or some mechanism to capture said thoughts. However, I never really took it seriously in the past and only had a pocket-journal that didn’t do […]
New Tools Library Added – Making Life Easier, One Template at a Time
Tools: devices that make doing things easier. No need to check the official dictionary definition on that one. You run through several tools every single day just go get stuff done. When’s the last time you threw together a spreadsheet or word doc that you use quite often and made it an official “hey I […]
Teamwork: The Importance of Working Together
[This is Part # 5 of a 20 Part Series to Improve Your Strengths] — Take the Strengths TEST Quote: “Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.” -Ryunosuke Satoro Definition: “working with others for a common purpose or benefit” You burn with an unquenchable desire to get stuff done, right? The fire […]
How Finding Your Jung Personality Type Changes Your Life
Some time ago, in a training seminar far, far away, between work days of ultimate boredom… I signed up for something that would change the way I look at personality analysis type quizzes. I ran into a class that would use the Myers Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI®) test, guided by a PhD facilitator, to help […]
How to Find Your Life Purpose by Being Negative
The more and more I do these “Finding your life’s purpose” or “discovery your passion in 6 easy steps” type exercises… the more and more I get focused on one conclusion: I’m tired of doing them! :) But seriously, they really are great ways to get your mind churning and keeping the squeaky, “I want […]
Integrity: Your Vision, Mission, and Values – Aligned
[This is Part # 4 of a 20 Part Series to Improve Your Strengths] — Take the Strengths TEST Quote: “It’s not what we eat but what we digest that makes us strong; not what we gain but what we save that makes us rich; not what we read but what we remember that makes […]
Curiosity: Your Unconscious Half Wants to Play
[This is Part # 3 of a 20 Part Series to Improve Your Strengths] — Take the Strengths TEST Quote: “The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure […]