10 Tips to Enjoy a Minimalist Mindful Vacation

How to Resist Over-Planning and Stay Stress-Free As one of the biggest over-planners I know: throwing together a largely unplanned vacation is way outside of my comfort zone. Regardless, I was determined to do something new. I wanted to avoid my usual obsessively detailed tendencies and go for a minimalist mindful vacation! The trick is:…

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Three Simple Habits To Guarantee Innovation Every Day

Three Simple Habits To Guarantee Innovation Every Day In our hectic daily lives, there’s not much room for innovation. Through trial and error as well as using some good old-fashioned common sense, I have found three simple habits to guarantee innovation every day. As a professional development coach, it’s important that I find space for…

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How to Live a Life of Significance: Make Every Day Your Masterpiece

How to Live a Life of Significance: Make Every Day Your Masterpiece Article Originally Published on Forbes John Maxwell says “If you want to live a life of significance, you will have to give up some things. The pathway of possibility is filled with trade-offs.” I will admit that this is probably one of the most difficult…

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How to Make Every Day Your Masterpiece

How to Make Every Day Your Masterpiece Ever wonder how some successful people are able to accomplish so much? Some appear to be mysteriously blessed with time to suit their purposes while the rest of us are gasping for breath just trying to get through the day. There are no mysteries to be solved. No…

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How to Achieve 25% More Free Time by Doing 1 Thing

The internet is full of advice on how to maximize your personal productivity and get more free time. With a wealth of information at our fingertips and zillions of articles about how to improve one’s lifestyle, the question is: why aren’t these tips helping? The thing is; if you are like most people: short on…

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3 Steps to Tackle Endless Task Lists: From ‘To Do’ to DONE

How’s that ‘To Do’ List working for you? If you are like me: The List was a monster that seemed to only grow! It felt like no matter what I accomplished, the ‘To Do’ List didn’t seem any shorter. At the end of each work day I would feel defeated and frustrated without a sense…

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Holiday Survival Kit – How to Keep Sanity and Perspective

Is it just me or did life perform some strange time-warp between Thanksgiving and Christmas? I’ll be lucky to get my tree up before Dec. 25th! Life moves incredibly fast these days and with the economic bumps and crazy politics our society has experienced, we may not always feel like we have enough or that…

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Maximize Productivity in 1 Step

The internet is full of “5 Steps to Success” and “10 Things to be More Productive” articles … a few of which I wrote. With a wealth of information at our fingertips and zillions of articles about how to improve one’s lifestyle, the question is: why aren’t these tips helping? The thing is; if you…

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Top Tips to Invest in Yourself Wisely

The other day I was taking a little time to myself to read and reflect as a part of my personal development plan and it struck me, as I was sitting on my balcony reading, how important this time is. Taking time and investing in yourself is critical to your mental balance, well-being, achieving your…

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