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What to Say When You Don’t Know What to Say

A guest post by Madeleine Kolb of Age Myths When a terrible tragedy—such as the death of a child—strikes a friend or neighbor or co-worker, what do you do? What do you say? What if you don’t know what to say? Do you say nothing to the grieving parent? Or worse of all, do you [...]

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5 Powerful Forces That Are Keeping You From Learning

A Guest Post by Jeff Cobb of Mission to Learn Are you a lifelong learner? Given that you are reading a blog like Goodlife Zen, I’m betting that your answer to that question is a resounding ‚”Yes, of course!‚” But here’s an important follow-up question: Are you always a successful lifelong learner? Do you always [...]

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How to Be Present for Others – Without Losing Yourself

Every person we encounter shapes our life. If you think back, even the most unpleasant encounters taught us something about how to grow as a human being. And of course this is especially true of those we love. Sometimes it’s difficult to acknowledge that we constantly learn and grow through our interactions with those we love. The reason is that we are fixated on the: “If only they would…”

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The Gift of Failure: Ten Reasons Why Falling Flat on Your Face is a Good Thing

A guest post by Barrie Davenport of Live Bold and Bloom. There are no failures — just experiences and your reaction to them. ~ Tom Krause, motivational speaker, teacher and coach. I’d like to think that Tom Krause is right, failures don’t exist. They are just life events like any other. You go the grocery [...]

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7 Sources of Deep Clutter

A guest post from Tara Sophia Mohr from  Wise Living. There’s a lot of talk about clutter these days–how to clear it, reduce it, and get it under control. Most of this is about what I call “shallow clutter,” which is clutter that stems from having too much stuff, unclear priorities, and a lack of [...]

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How to Be Insanely Useful and Find Joy: the Ashoka Method

By Mary Jaksch Are you useful? It’s a strange question, because normally we think of tools as being useful. Let me ask you another way: Do you enhance the life of others? If you can say ‘yes’, then you are useful. By ‘enhance’ I mean that what you do makes someone’s life easier, and brings [...]

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How to be a Creative Thinker Without Losing Your Mind

A guest post by Hulbert Lee of FromBottomUp.com There is a certain expectation that comes with being an artist. Whether our artistry is dancing, painting, or writing, itís important that we constantly find new and different ways to produce works for other people. This can be difficult however, when there are 1000 things going on [...]

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