Entries from September 2009 ↓
September 29th, 2009 — Motivation
If you are into personal development like me you must have a mentor or two.
J.D. goes even further making everyone his mentor.
Why having a mentor? What do they do to us? And how it helps us to grow?
I like how Sr. Ken Robinson explains it in his book
The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything
. Sr. Robinson says mentors are about recognition, encouragement, facilitating, and stretching.
My mentors are my secret weapon that helps me get quickly back into the saddle when I fall, it helps me find my track and keep up with it, it helps me grow exponentially.
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September 18th, 2009 — Blogging, Physical
Bloggers’ eyes are at strains as blogging requires tons of reading. Especially it is painful for part time bloggers as they do it at night when the light is less than optimal.
The result is pretty expected – at some point bloggers prescribed to wear eyeglasses.
That is exactly what happened to me a year ago at age of 36. While almost everyone tells me the glasses suit me I admit it is a pain – physical and logistical [and financial].
William H. Bates shares practical techniques to improve eyesight in his book The Bates Method for Better Eyesight Without Glasses
. I adopted 3 of them as they seemed to me something I can stick and practice for a long period of time.
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September 14th, 2009 — Blogging, Influence Without Authority
What does it take to change the world? What does it take to change self? What does it take to make others change? These questions seem completely different. Aren’t they? At first they might. But not after reading the book Influencer: The Power to Change Anything.
In the book I learned practical and simple pattern of making change, be it little or global.
This is quite timely for me as I was recently assigned to lead a significant mindset change among my colleagues – make all others want blogging on our professional blog. Hell of assignment, huh? Here is the plan.
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