Articles And Series
Part 2. Being Clear About What I Want In the first part of this post on what I want I covered what I think are the five dimensions of our lives (the physical, emotional, mental, spiritual and social) and pointed out that we could be confused about what we want. Which leads to the question [...]
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To read Part One of this post, which is about paying attention to what we find annoying click here. Part Two: Why We Find Things Annoying We find things annoying for different reasons. Sometimes they frustrate our needs. Sometimes they are harmful to us. Sometimes they don’t fit with our plans. I think different responses [...]
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You can read part one of this interview here. In this part of the interview Tony and I talk about: The balance between business life and personal life, Having an online persona, Being embarrassed about our early efforts at blogging, What the place of goals is in living, and, The importance (or not) of money. [...]
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This post, due to hassles getting it transcribed, has been a long time coming. Apologies for the delay. In this first part Tony and I talk about living authentically and how this affects his approach to business. This includes: our image of sales people, our self image, listening, about mixing self-development and business on one [...]
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Lyman Reed blogs at Self Development for the Real World. I’d be hard pressed to think of a better name for a self development blog. The interview, when I typed it, was 11 A4 pages – so I’ve broken up into three parts. In this part we talk about: Critiquing self development and why we [...]
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Lyman Reed blogs at Self Development for the Real World. I’d be hard pressed to think of a better name for a self development blog. The interview, when I typed it, was 11 A4 pages – so I’ve broken up into three parts. In this part we talk about: What authenticity is The difficult relationship [...]
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Lyman Reed blogs at Self Development for the Real World. I’d be hard pressed to think of a better name for a self development blog. The interview, when I typed it, was 11 A4 pages – so I’ve broken up into three parts. In this part we talk about: The Law of Attraction Lyman’s upbringing [...]
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He who has a why to live can bear with almost any how – Nietzsche. When it comes to meaning I feel that I need to nail my colours to the mast. It is a big topic and sometimes a very controversial one. For me it implicates the core of who we are – which [...]
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I have a guest post on the Psychology, Philosophy and Real Life blog. It is called After the Breakthrough Comes the Work of Consolidation. Breakthroughs get our attention – they are gripping at the time and memorable in retrospect. But they aren’t a major part of our time – we spend most of the time [...]
Overemphasis on Thinking Our western culture I think overestimates the importance of thinking. For instance, our schooling (which I refuse to call education) is almost entirely focused on thinking. In Australia of late there is a push of the ‘back to basics’ variety – the basics being reading, writing and ‘rithmatic. The basics are not [...]
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