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Some Random Inspiration & Inspiration & Touching Quotes. Design inspiration & news. The Art of Self Loving; a Puja to Yourself. In my past I’ve had a lot of failed relationships.

The Art of Self Loving; a Puja to Yourself

I was never able to understand why these relationships failed until I took a closer look at myself. I realized that I was seeking approval and love from my partner, before I found it within myself. I was looking for something from someone else that only I could give myself. The more I realized the importance of finding validation within me, I begin to take steps to love myself more fully. Flaws and all. If we don’t have an adequate amount of self love, we’ll likely search for it somewhere outside ourselves. Love must first come from within. How can we cultivate love within us? In India, they have a practice called a puja. Here are some suggestions for making a puja to yourself: 1.

Spend some time alone with yourself. Here are a few suggestions: The Online Learning Blog from Study2U. Supposedly browsing the internet requires more brain power than watching television.

The Online Learning Blog from Study2U

Although judging from some of the websites we’ve come across that assumption is cast into doubt. Here’s some of the sites we like that might get your brain to sit up and listen. Ted A conference that started in 1984 bringing together experts in technology, entertainment and design quickly grew into so much more. The conference itself is invitation only, but the website features all the talks at the conference in high res video format. New Scientist The New Scientist website carries new articles from the magazine as well as the NS archive of over 76,000 pieces. Big Think The Big Think website is a collection of ‘global thought leaders’ who offer their thoughts and analysis on world events and other important developments.

Café Scientifque. Six Tips to Help You Remember Your Lines. Inspirational Quotes About Happiness. The 20 Greatest Motivational Quotes Of All Time. InShare9 5If you like the following post, you can get an expanded version with 50 quotes as an ebook by signing up for my newsletter in the box on the left.

The 20 Greatest Motivational Quotes Of All Time

Not only that, but you’ll get the heads up on forthcoming free books and Life Coaching specials as as well as my ebook that takes an in-depth look at goal setting. The 20 Greatest Motivational Quotes Of All Time I was playing about on Twitter the other day when I noticed an exchange about Life Coaching between two people I vaguely know. One person had made a comment (and I paraphrase) “Life Coaches are psychotherapists that can’t be bothered to finish their training” As you can imagine I had to have my say and I was told by the person in question that they managed to learn all they needed to learn about self development from reading blogs and furthermore nobody needed to hire a Life Coach. This exchange had me thinking for the millionth time, “There is no how it is, only how it is for you” 1. - StumbleUpon. Sometimes All You Need Is A Little Inspiration to Keep Rolling.

100 Ways to screw up your life & Uber tech / comms / media. 50 Ways to Waste a Life. Post written by: Marc Chernoff Email If you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never get it.

50 Ways to Waste a Life

If you don’t ask the right questions, you’ll always get the wrong answers. If you don’t take a step forward, you’re always going to be in the same place. Life is a journey full of choices. Spend time regretting the past and feeling sorry for yourself.Complain about problems and do nothing to solve them.Follow the path of least resistance and quit when the going gets tough.Ignore your passion and follow the money.Setup your lifestyle so it’s dependant on your next paycheck.Spend more than you earn and rack up lots of financial debt.Try to control everything and then worry about the things you can’t control.Focus on what you don’t want to happen.Fear the things you don’t fully understand.Let everyone else make decisions for you.

If you’re guilty of some of the bullet points above, remember, no matter how long you have traveled in the wrong direction you always have the choice to turn around. 10 Ways To Be Happy, On Purpose. “He who depends on himself will attain the greatest happiness” ~Chinese Proverb I was at a Women’s Leadership Conference about a year ago and had an “ah-ha moment”. We were all introducing ourselves and asked to share a few things to help with the process. One question left me baffled and ultimately changed my life; “What do you do to make yourself happy?”. At the time I honestly didn’t know. I had a great job, friends, and family. » The No. 1 Habit of Highly Creative People. “In order to be open to creativity, one must have the capacity for contructive use of solitude.

» The No. 1 Habit of Highly Creative People

One must overcome the fear of being alone.” ~Rollo May Post written by Leo Babauta. Creativity is a nebulous, murky topic that fascinates me endlessly — how does it work? What habits to creative people do that makes them so successful at creativity? 75 Reminders for Tough Times - StumbleUpon. Affirmations - Dream the Biggest DREAM - StumbleUpon. There is no greateror more powerful affirmation than; I INTEND TO FEEL GOOD(repeat as often as necessary!).

Affirmations - Dream the Biggest DREAM - StumbleUpon

Affirm the following each morning and each night for the next 30 days or until it becomes the truth for you. Preferable, do this just prior to sleep and just before getting out of bed in the morning. Repeat it with feeling, belief, imagination, and acceptance: - StumbleUpon.