Author Archives: Michael

Happiness in a Recession

By Michael | Published: March 16, 2009
Over the past few months I’ve fallen back into the habit of reading the news. It’s all recession, economic meltdown and toxic debt all the time. It doesn’t help that I work of a bank. A bank that failed last year, was taken over by the FDIC, and then sold to a mega-bank. For the [...]
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Progress Report

By Michael | Published: April 15, 2008
It’s been over a week since my last post. I’ve been keeping very busy. I’ve also been neglecting my writing. In addition to this blog I keep a personal journal which I haven’t written in for a while. I will definitely try to write more frequently. I find it’s a very helpful tool for though [...]
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45 Hire a Personal Coach

By Michael | Published: April 7, 2008
This is something I never honestly considered doing before. I know life coaches have become popular over the last few years but I never really knew what it was all about. Are these the people who come into your house and help you organize your closets? Or are they more like therapists who listen to [...]
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1 Take 100% Responsibility for Your Life

By Michael | Published: April 5, 2008
The first principle in the book “The Success Principles” by Jack Canfield is the one on which everything else is built. This principle tells us to act as if we have power over everything in our lives. If we believe that everything in our life is our own responsibility then there are no more excuses [...]
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Part I of Organizing Life—Clutter

By Michael | Published: April 1, 2008
The more disorganized life is the more stress you feel. I’m not sure if that’s a universal truth but it sure is true for me. Clutter, not knowing where things are, mixing junk with important papers, having multiple copies of files on the computer, or a closet full of clothes that you don’t wear. It [...]
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5 Big Goals for 2008

By Michael | Published: March 31, 2008
This journey I’m now starting I refer to as my New Life. All of 2006 and 2007 are The Bad Years and everything before that is my Old Life. Some of what I lost during the Bad Years I plan on regaining this year.  I’m writing this list in the present tense for a reason. [...]
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64 Empower Yourself By Empowering Others

By Michael | Published: March 29, 2008
A couple of months ago I saw the move “The Secret” completely by accident (hmm, could it have been The Secret at work?). The movie was interesting. It did concentrate a bit too much on materialistic goals but it definitely held my interest. The Secret is The Law of Attraction; they tell you this in [...]
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Taking Inventory

By Michael | Published: March 29, 2008
Before I get too far along it makes sense to take an inventory of my tools. Perhaps by listing my strengths I’ll get some ideas of which way to go. I am intelligent I am good with computers (both Mac and PC) Hmm, it’s difficult to examine oneself this way. We’re not really trained to be aware of [...]
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Simply My Life

By Michael | Published: March 27, 2008
My path is undefined. I am a hiker lost in a dark forest. I follow the trail through the woods without any particular destination in mind. “You’ll know it when you see it,” I keep telling myself. Perhaps it’s just through those trees ahead. It looks sunny over there. I set up camp for a [...]
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