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An Optimal Balance to Your Life

by Stephen Mills October 2, 2009
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One of the biggest mistakes people make in trying to balance everything they do in their lives is trying to do it all perfectly. You feel that no matter how much time you devote to your job, your kids, or yourself that it still isn’t enough. Sorry, but you can’t be the perfect partner, perfect parent, perfect friend, perfect employee, and perfect self all at the same time. If you try it, you will fail.

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Trying Harder Isn’t Always The Answer

by Stephen Mills September 17, 2009

Why doesn’t the fly try another approach, something dramatically different? How did it get so locked in on the idea that this particular route, and determined effort, offer the most promise for success? What logic is there in continuing, until death, to seek a breakthrough with ‘more of the same’?

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You Cannot Choose the Wrong Path

by Stephen Mills September 14, 2009
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In a broad range of adult choices under the right conditions, when you come to a point where you make a decision to take one path vs. another, I’m suggesting that there is no wrong choice. When you are deciding whether or not to change careers, whether to continue a relationship or start a new one, whether to start a business, retire, take up a new hobby, become a world-traveler, or a million other choices; whatever you choose is not wrong, even in hindsight.

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The Power of Small Things

by Stephen Mills September 13, 2009

“I am done with great things and big things, great institutions and big success, and I am for those tiny, invisible molecular moral forces that work from individual to individual, creeping through the crannies of the world like so many rootlets, or like the capillary oozing of water, yet which if you give them time, will rend the hardest monuments of man’s pride.” –William James

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How To Be Free, Happy, and Successful – Part I

by Stephen Mills September 9, 2009

This article contains a collection of bits of wisdom on freedom, happiness, success, and a few other topics. Be Extraordinary Being extraordinary is something that anyone can do no matter what it is you do.  You don’t have to be in any particular job or circumstance to be extraordinary and make a difference in your [...]

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Pushing Past The Dip

by Stephen Mills August 10, 2009
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Seth Godin wrote a wonderful little book called The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit (and When to Stick). The premise of this book is that on the way to being the best, there is an initial period of quick progress, learning, and excitement. This is followed by a dip that eliminates almost everyone from the race. The dip is a long slow slog through a difficult period that precedes the breakthrough to the top. The dip is hell and it creates scarcity because virtually everyone quits. The scarcity is what creates value for those who can get through it.

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Top 99 Personal Development Principles from the Greatest Gurus of All Time

by Stephen Mills July 19, 2009
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I read my first personal-development book over 30 years ago. Since that time I’ve read hundreds more. I bet I’ve read 10,000 blog articles in the last few years. This article contains the top 99 principles from the greatest personal-development gurus in the world. These are the ideas I felt worthy of being passed on to you. These are the life-changing ideas you can’t live without. This is a lifetime of collected guru wisdom distilled into a single blog article.

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Hold Your Goals Loosely

by Stephen Mills June 10, 2009
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For all of these reasons, I think it is important to hold your goals loosely. You need a general direction, but you don’t need to be rigid. Allow for flexibility and discovery along the way. Allow yourself to change your mind as you gain new information. Delight in the process and not in the result.

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Identify the Essential and Eliminate the Rest

by Stephen Mills June 2, 2009
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This is the getting things done philosophy of Leo Babauta.  I have found it to be a fantastic way to move forward in a massive way.  This goes against my perfectionist, do-a-million-things-at-once, ADD nature and so it was very hard for me to accomplish.  But if you can pull it off, it’s life changing.  Recently, [...]

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Blow the Lid Off Yourself by Thinking Big

by Stephen Mills May 23, 2009
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“It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement; and who at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.” — Theodore Roosevelt

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