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7 Amazing Life Lessons from Ralph Waldo Emerson
Today I want to talk about Ralph Waldo Emerson. Emerson was an American philosopher, lecturer, essayist, and poet. He’s probably most known for leading the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. His work has influenced nearly every generation of thinker, writer and poet since his time.
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Some days are brutal! I know you know what I mean. We’ve all had them! I’ve had so many metaphors run through my head for how this feels. Keeping your head above water when the world is pushing you under. (I thought it sounded to much related to cash) When you feel like a bobbing [...]
There are lots of reasons for living a more minimalist life. By owning less you reduce your impact on the environment, you spend less, and you live more simply.For Henry David Thoreau, the reason for spending less boiled down to a simple formula. It…
Rejection can be tough to handle. I know because I face them often in my life.As a personal development blogger, some readers reject what I write in my articles, sometimes writing lengthy personal emails to tell me why I’m wrong. In my work as a speake…
A lot of popular time management or “life hacking” advice is aimed at making you ever more efficient. Perhaps you’re constantly reading lists of Firefox plugins, concerned that you might be missing out on some essential time-saving tool. Maybe you re…
You don’t have to be in a position of authority to be a leader. Conversely, just because you have authority doesn’t mean that people will follow you. You must be a leader to get others to follow you.There are many books on leadership. They can have lot…
I’ve got to make a confession. On November 9, 2010, my life changed. You see I was minding my own business, watching the Colbert Report, and saw Cee Lo Green pick up the microphone to finish the show by singing his hit single “Forget You” (aka …
“We are made to persist. That’s how we find out who we are.” — Tobias Wolff, WriterThe interesting thing about success is that anyone can do it. If you simply do what successful people do, you are inevitably going to be successful. Right? Well, ok, …
I remember reading somewhere that only a fraction of the work we do every day is productive work. Rest is not actual work; we just fool ourselves to believe that it is.I think that if each of one us were to take a minute and carefully think about the w…
In our modern Western world, we are all striving to be more productive – to do more, to produce more, to create more. Very often we don’t even know why we want that – we are conditioned to feel that we should push harder and we don’t question it. A…
Have you ever been right in the middle of something – a complicated email, a tricky paragraph of a report, a hunt for some vital figures – only for your concentration to be shattered?Maybe your work day seems to be a string of interruptions. Maybe …
We are all motivated by unique desires, expectations, and interests, but there are still overarching tendencies and values people possess that impact their motivation.So, when it comes to motivating others, tapping into what they need and how they want…
Albert Einstein, one of the greatest minds to ever live, chose purposefully not to even memorize his own telephone number. He obviously had enough brain capacity to memorize a short series of numbers, but still, he chose not to. He viewed memorizing t…
Does this sound familiar? You’ve cleared your calendar for a day to spend time with friends and family. No work, just quality time.But as you try to relax, an endless string of to-dos floods your mind. Soon, you’re no longer at the park with yo…
I’m pretty good at making excuses – and I expect you are too. It’s all too easy to come up with a reason not to do something if we’re feeling a bit tired or lazy.Now, we all know that we should be exercising. We’ve heard all the benefits – …
Everyday it seems that one of my friends is whining about how tied up he is in his work and household chores, and how he wished he had more than 24 hours to accomplish things. As if they were placed on Earth with some lesser amount of time than the r…
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I welcome the opportunity to work with individuals and their goals. Whether it is merely a creative pursuit, a career change, or launching your own business doesn’t really matter. All the resources and know-how needed exists in the exchange of ideas, and the client more often than not has all the answers. It’s my job as a catalyst to help access those, and sometimes a flurry of ideas I present stirs and charges the client’s imagination which creates it’s own vision effortlessly. ~ Lee Down
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