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Living Up To Our Ideals

January 7, 2009

After writing the last post I realised I’d missed out on some of what I meant to say and then Mari left a question that gave me the impetus to write this post.  

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Coping With Stress

December 10, 2008

A couple of posts ago Ruth left a comment; And in many other forms people have been essentially asking the same question. It’s the question that I’ve been trying to work out myself, since I’ve realised that it doesn’t come as easily or naturally to others.

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Is Freedom A Double Edged Sword?

July 28, 2008

I don’t always get a chance to reply to comments, but I always read them as they come in. As you are reading what I have written, I’m working on the next installment. I’m developing new materials, planning ahead and going about my normal working and family life.

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What Are You Missing?

June 11, 2008

I’m sure you are probably missing some of the most valuable insights from this blog. You see I write a post with my views and you probably read it within a day or so. But for days after, people are joining in the conversation and bringing in their experiences, different perspectives and insights. So someone [...]

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Take The Jungian Personality Test

May 28, 2008

Probably the biggest fear I notice in people who are trying to deal with some emotional pain is the fear that there’s something wrong with them.  That they are somehow abnormal.  I think that this comes about from a deeply embedded idea in our culture that some people are better than others. We go to [...]

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Practising Happiness: Why Is It So Hard To Live What We Know?

May 23, 2008

This post about practicing happiness is the second point raised in Brian’s questions. The question of how to apply what you know. I talked a while back about the 10,000 hour principle. The idea that to become a true expert at something takes 10,000 hours of practice. That’s true in every area of life.

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Integrity And Character

April 10, 2008

I’ve been in this field for a fairly long time now.  And so I’ve seen a lot of people and how they got on over time.  Recently I noticed a distinct difference between two groups. The first were people of strong integrity and character.  By this I mean that they strove to find solutions that [...]

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Why Meditating Will Make You Happier Than Succeeding

April 2, 2008

This is Part 3 of a 3 part series.  (Part 1 – More Doesn’t Lead To Happier, Part 2 – Happiness And Political Correctness) When I was young and we were going on holiday my Dad would put our suitcases etc on the roof rack.  And he would strap them down securely with those elasticated [...]

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Stop Reading And Start Thinking. The Problem With Self Help.

March 5, 2008

I guess I live in the self-help genre. I don’t like a lot of what I see there though. There’s a lot of nonsense and hot air. There’s seems to be a lot of falseness. My main beef with it though is that people buy into it from emotional insecurity and become more insecure the [...]

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What Are You Great At?

February 28, 2008

This post is a follow up to Jenny’s comments about bettering myself. Perhaps the major barrier that holds people back is feeling unworthy. There are many forms of it, but it’s what a lot of issues boil down to.

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