Knowing your values creates clarity and focus, helps you to be mindful about your choices, and empowers you to live authentically and with integrity. Your values are guiding principles that point you in the right direction like a compass. Core…
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Examine Your Mental Beliefs
Beliefs may be either spiritual or mental. Some of the biggest obstacles we encounter are the ones that we create ourselves. Our own fears, limiting beliefs, desire for the comfort zone, or distractions can prevent us from acting with agency…
Explore Your Skills
Skills are learned abilities. In this post, you will learn how to: Assess current skills Types of skills Identify skills to learn Develop skills Describe skills ASSESS current skills. Look over the Work Skills List. Do you have the top skills that…
Identify Your Strengths
People who use their strengths are more productive, engaged, and successful. Knowing your strengths can help you choose priorities, to leverage your time to make the most of them. Knowing your strengths can help you find a compatible career and…
Discover Your Heroes
Part One of Discover U in Ten Steps Since my website is called the Daily PlanIt, it might not surprise you that one of my heroes is Superman! Knowing your heroes gives you insight into your character. Getting started Grab…
Life Areas for a well balanced life
The 12 life areas in the Year of Personal Development challenge are: MIND: Mental, Career, Financial BODY: Physical, Recreation, Organization HEART: Relationships, Emotional, Social SOUL: Character, Purpose, Spirituality Consider these life areas when choosing goals, generating goal ideas or creating…
Top ten blogs on time management
Updated 6/20/11 There are many great sites dedicated to exploring ways to use time well. Here are my top favorites. For these and more, go to my del.icio.us bookmarks list. Lifehack — Daily digest and pointers on productivity, getting things…
Camp Wood
I was sixteen the summer I became a dishwasher at Camp Wood. I did not write much that summer, I was too busy living. It was only afterward that I longed to put it on paper, to try to hold…
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Being who we are and loving
A convergance of several experiences have led me to reflect again about the difficulties of love and relationships. Dr Robin L Smith spoke about her new book “Lies at the Altar” on Oprah, describing how women often lose themselves in…
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The most beautiful spot in the garden
Much of my time has been spent doing yardwork lately. It’s a good to way to connect with nature and recharge emotionally, although it can be demanding physically! I once read that to be a good gardener, you have to…
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