“ You can increase your brain power three to fivefold simply by laughing and having fun before working on a problem. ” ~ Doug Hall ~ Last weekend, I visited 60 countries in 6 hours! Our city (Edmonton, Canada) has one of the largest international heritage festivals in the world. …
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“Great ideas start with completely unrealistic thoughts.” ~ Markus Mettler ~ Interested in sparking your creativity to generate new ideas and perspectives? Try this: mix and match current trends to create brand new, intriguing possibilities. Or match current trends with areas you are working on in your life to illuminate …
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“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” — R. Buckminster Fuller Is your world crumbling around you? Perhaps you’ve lost a job or a loved one. Perhaps you’re going through a divorce, bankruptcy or a …
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“Don’t knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn’t start a conversation if it didn’t change once in a while.” — Kin Hubbard Being a good conversationalist can make a big difference in how much we enjoy people. The more easily we can talk with others, the more rich life …
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“Ideas can come from anywhere and at any time. The problem with making mental notes is that the ink fades very rapidly.” ~ Rolf Smith ~ Sometimes we don’t have time to journal. (Or we don’t make the time to write.) If you value the benefits of journaling but have …
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“Who are we? We are the life-force power of the universe with manual dexterity and two cognitive minds and we have the power to choose moment by moment who and how we want to be in the world.” ~ Jill Bolte Taylor ~ Just how great a role does our …
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“Have a place for everything and keep the thing somewhere else. This is not advice, it is merely custom.” — Mark Twain And this custom can be very frustrating: Having insights and learnings in life and not remembering them. Being unclear about where we are going and how to get …
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“Your fears are not walls, but hurdles. Courage is not the absence of fear, but the conquering of it.” — Dan Millman Deep down inside, what are you most afraid of? Don Richard Riso and Russ Hudson have identified 9 basic fears that shape our personalities: 1. Fear of being …
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