Do you ever feel like you can never find the time to pursue your dreams and live the life you want?
Would you like to eliminate all the people and activities that drain you, and replace them with positive and life-affirming ones?
Do you feel like your life is on “auto-pilot”, heading who knows where, and you’d desperately like to turn it around in a positive direction.
Would you like to live every day with purpose, knowing you’re making real progress on your goals and dreams?
If so, you need to read The Other 8 Hours: Maximize Your Free Time to Create New Wealth & Purpose, by Robert Pagliarini.
Here is an excerpt:
Your day doesn’t start when you crawl out of bed. Your day-and even your life-doesn’t really start until 5:00PM. What you’ve done with your time after 5:00PM last week, last month, and last year has determined where you are today. How you use the other 8 hours today, tomorrow, and next year will determine your future-they are your only hope to radically improve your life. Continue Reading >>>
Every Monday I send out a bonus, via email, called “Your Monday Motivator.” In it, I feature a few inspirational quotes on a particular topic related to life change, along with my personal thoughts and take-aways on the subject.
I do it because I believe everyone could use a little extra inspiration in their lives – especially on Mondays!
If you’re not a subscriber, I thought I’d give you a taste of what you missed today. You can sign up via the “Subscribe to the Life Compass Newsletter” subscription box to the right.
Here’s your Monday Motivator for today. I call this one, “The Miracle of the First Step.” Check out these quotes:
- “Whatever you’re ready for is ready for you.” – Mark Victor Hansen
- “When the student is ready, the Master will appear. – Buddhist proverb
- “Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.” – Dorothea Brande
These quotes tell us that something mysterious and magical Continue Reading >>>
For those of you who are new to Life Compass, I write on Spirituality, Faith and Ethics on Sundays. Here’s why.
Since New Year’s, I’ve been reading from The Proverbs each week with my 13 year old son, as I seek to share wisdom to help him in his journey from childhood to manhood.
No matter how many times I read from The Proverbs, I always gain fresh and new insights. Here’s a verse that particularly impacted me this week:
The world of the generous gets larger and larger: the world of the stingy gets smaller and smaller. – Proverbs 11:24 (The Message) Continue Reading >>>
Recently, I’ve noticed an increasing amount of spam comments that some people, or “spambots”, have attempted to submit to my site.
Gratefully, there’s software that weeds most of that out, so you don’t see it.
But I see it, and I sometimes get a good chuckle out of it because all of these spam comments advertise “male enhancement” products.
I’ve racked my brain trying to figure out what I may have written which would lead these spammers to think that Life Compass Blog would be a good target for “male enhancement” products.
Then it finally dawned on me. One of the topics I write about here is personal growth! Continue Reading >>>
We don’t grow into creativity, we grow out of it. Or rather, we get educated out of it. – Sir Ken Robinson, TED 2007
Sir Ken Robinson, speaking at TED 2007
Is there a relationship between creativity and personal development? It’s been on my mind recently, thanks to news stories and blog postings I’ve read about motivating creativity in poor economic times, creativity in business, and creativity and innovation.
In addition, my wife and I were just discussing how we can better foster an environment of creativity for our kids, whom we home school.
Somehow, in the last week or two, I ran across a very thought-provoking video of Sir Ken Robinson speaking at TED. I think I found it because someone tweeted it on Twitter, and I’m very glad they did! By the way, you can follow me on Twitter: @RichAvery.
In the video, Sir Ken makes the assertion that schools and businesses kill creativity. For our society to succeed at meeting it’s greatest challenges, we must embrace learning styles that nurture and foster Continue Reading >>>
In my last post, How a change in your beliefs will change your life, we talked about how our thoughts and beliefs shape the person we are, and how the results we experience in the different areas of our lives (whether good, bad or indifferent) are ultimately determined by what we believe to be true about those life areas.
I explained that if you’re not happy with the results in a certain area of your life, you need to change what you really believe about that life area. Today I want to share some ways we can do that.
1. We need to realize that our beliefs have been programmed in us over time through our life experience to this point. Sources include parents, siblings, peers, friends, etc. Many exist by default rather than by intent or design. That is why I said, last time, that we believe certain things to be true, whether they are true or not. I think it is sometimes helpful (though perhaps painful) to identify the source of the belief we want to change. Continue Reading >>>