Archive for the 'Change in 2008' Category
Tuesday, August 5th, 2008
About seven months ago, I thought that I’d sit down for a quiet 60 minutes and try the Steve Pavlina method of determining my life’s purpose. The before I could get up the gumption to give it a go, life kinda got in the way and completely derailed my plans.
So now that things seem to be [...]
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Friday, July 4th, 2008
When you take your own advice, strange things can happen. Early this year I started the mammoth task of changing my life. I had identified the need and what I was lacking and was poised to find out my true purpose when something truly monumental happened.
I started to really analyse my life from the outside. [...]
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Wednesday, January 16th, 2008
In my continuing journey of self discovery for the new year I have so far asked some tough questions and identified the need in my life that has started this whole she-bang. And now for the hard part. What exactly am I trying to achieve?
This is the big, deep, meaning of life question. The ‘why [...]
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Monday, January 14th, 2008
A couple of days ago, I sat down and asked myself some tough questions about my work/life balance and the amount of ’stuff’ I was metaphorically carrying around with me.
The next step in my ‘Change in 2008′ process involved identifying the need and while it had sounded great when I’d written the list of steps [...]
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Thursday, January 10th, 2008
I realised some time ago that holding onto past troubles wasn’t giving me an opportunity to fully embrace the present. While it is hard to just ‘let go’, especially of things that have hurt and continue to hurt, it can be very freeing to give up on some memories that are only making you miserable.
I [...]
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Wednesday, January 9th, 2008
In order to determine what kind of changes I wanted to make for 2008, it was necessary for me to do some serious soul searching as to the problems I thought my life was facing. I had a look at some other people’s thoughts on this, sat down and looked at my life.
There were a number [...]
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Saturday, January 5th, 2008
Just five days in and my bloglines and inbox are full of articles posted everywhere on things you can do to make your 2008 bigger, better, more productive, less productive, happier, gladder, more wonderful than last year.
I’ll update this post as time goes by, but here are a few that I’ve found interesting so far:
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Friday, January 4th, 2008
The dawn of a new year always seems to be an ideal time for reflection and change. New year’s resolutions abound and so many people are making promises to themselves, most of which they will never keep.
Personally, I like new year’s resolutions. While I’m inclined to embark on a life-changing clearout of my responsibilities and [...]
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