From the monthly archives:

December 2008

17 Guest-Posts You Don’t Want to Miss

By Mary Jaksch In response to requests from readers, I would like to offer you a list of 17 guest posts I wrote. Why Leo Babauta of Zen Habits Gave Me His Blog Resilience: The Key to Surviving Anything Are You Sabotaging Your Plan to Exercise More? Know Your Strength for More Success: Are You [...]

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What is Natural Spirituality?

By Mary Jaksch Let me ask you, are you a spiritual person? Or not? I think that everyone is a spiritual person. Because spirituality is a natural human attribute. It’s a gift that comes with being human. Spiritual traditions fail to acknowledge that we all have natural spirituality. As most of you know, I’m a [...]

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Financial Crisis: The Greatest Gift in a Generation

A guest post by Kent Thune, author of The Financial Philosopher blog You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give. ~ Kahlil Gibran Isn’t it amazing what happens when money and material wealth are taken away? This post was inspired by Mary’s [...]

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The Lost Art of Giving

Photo by Shereen M By Mary Jaksch The season of giving is upon us. We know about the benefits of giving to the one who receives. They feel appreciated, loved, understood and so on. But what about the benefits of giving to the one who gives? The other day, I had an interesting experience at [...]

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10 Questions That Will Change Your Life: SWOT Analysis Part #2

A SWOT matrix is a framework for analyzing our strengths and weaknesses, and the opportunities and threats we face. In the first article of this series, I discussed the two top SWOT quadrants, Strengths and Weaknesses. This second part of the series focuses on the two bottom quadrants, Opportunities and Threats. Destiny is shaped by [...]

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