About Prolific Living
Prolific Living is living life on your own terms – not on terms dictated – lovingly no doubt – by your parents or children or friends or even society at large. I am passionate about this because I struggled with doing this in my own life for far too long and it is my compelling drive to share those lessons and empower you to indeed live your life on your terms. Every day.
I talk about being fearless and fabulous, about being your own master rather than a constant victim of circumstance. I talk about doing what you love and escaping the unhappy rat race without giving up – and in fact, creating wealth and abundance on your own terms.
I share with you a way of living that stimulates your mind instead of dulling it and breaks boundaries rather than stops at the limits.
I talk about cultivating smart habits and empowering your ideas into actions. I relentlessly share with you the sources of true motivation that help you tap into your greatness in my book.
I make the idea of world travel, entrepreneurship, meditation and health accessible to you. I empower you to crush your daily fears and excuses and create space and possibility in your thoughts and plans.
It is about re-defining altogether what is possible in your life but first:
You need to be willing.
You need to be open.
You need to believe.
Smart Habits for Rich Living can then pave the path for you.
I show you why health habits fuel your motivation and prove it to you with firsthand experience. I focus on killer communication skills and awesome relationship building with everything in your life, your friends, your clients, but specially with yourself.
I show you how the powers of yoga and meditation can transcend age, sex, class, profession and size. I impart the appreciation of the classics to highlight the amazing application of timeless literature in daily life. I share savvy tips on technology, writing, listening, blogging and life. I give you what I call the essence of a prolific lifestyle and help you create your own version of it. I ask you deep questions and take a stance on issues. I give you my opinion and listen to yours.
Here, you will tap into your own source of boundless motivation one smart habit at a time.
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In January 2012, I am launching the Create your Exit Blueprint course that helps professionals in unhappy jobs to create a smart exit strategy out of those jobs and a step-by-step guide to enable them to find meaningful work and fulfilling careers. Find out more here and don’t settle for a lousy job, ever. Wake up those dreams and give them a chance.
A Word about the me, you say?
My name is Farnoosh – it is Persian or Iranian, same thing really. I created Prolific Living, a space that started with me and now thrives with the readers and the growing community. I have a deep passion around smart habits that create rich living and a tireless intent in sharing it. With you. Right here. Right now.
With skills and passions in the far ends of spectrum, I have come to believe this one thing: the fusion of opposites makes life rich and fulfilling and smart habits make it sustainable. So I advocate both meditation and entrepreneurship. I share habits about both travel and the routine and ritual of home. I talk about both the classics and savvy business books. I tell you what I learned from years of not following my dreams and not listening to my inner voice. I share my tips and thoughts on yoga, photography, public speaking, relationship building, networking, world travel, and the experience of a decade plus career at a Fortune 500 company. I give you helpful, useful, and practical stuff here.
On April 15th, 2011, I walked away from a lot of money and security because I could no longer tolerate doing what I didn’t love (well, among other things). I escaped the corporate world once and for all.
At some point you realize that the time is now or never. Hence I started my love affair with entrepreneurship, come what may!
“The lust for comfort kills the passions of the soul.”, writes Khalil Gibran, one of my most favorite poets of all time.
I was done killing my passions. Or worse, my time. Now I am going to make sure you don’t kill yours and no matter what, you can and must do what you love and live for every day.
“Interesting” tidbits? Hmmm. I rise around 4:30am during the week most of the year to go to a grueling exercise routine. I love my loose-leaf Oolong tea. I get invigorated standing on my forearms (pincha mayurasana) or on my head (sirsasana) – doesn’t everyone? I dream of – oh no wait, I plan on – moving to Maui someday to be near the whales and sea turtles, and I can gaze at a da Vinci painting for hours.
But most of all, I would never again give up my dreams for a false sense of security and comfort and I hope to enable you to do the same for you.
Care to take this conversation further or start a new one? See how we can work together.
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In November, I introduced the newsletter. I use and love Aweber for this. That means emails from me on more smart stuff to do with your life and ways to solve nagging problems and creating space so you can hear yourself think and let yourself grow. Call me selfish but I wanted to build a closer relationship with my devoted readers!
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I share the things that enrich my life and enable me to do what I love by infusing passion with profit. I believe that imparting these smart habits – a mix of ridiculous inspiration and practical approach – can enrich your life.
- You will find enduring and original content in ~300 archives or guest posts.
- You will always have clean, clear, polished and high-quality writing.
- You will have a reply to your every comment.
- You will hear my true opinion, void of censorship and without apology. (Just read to have or not to have children)
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I give you the Empower Your Writing Manifesto as a token of appreciation for getting on the list. 8211 words, 5 Mind Maps, and packed with Smart Habits, Killer Tips and Useful Actions. (You cannot resist it and you know it!)
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Tap into True Motivation in your Life
You do not need motivation to achieve goals or get around to those unfinished tasks. All you need are the right systems and tools in place. Motivation would be nice but is hardly necessary.
But forget goals for a minute and consider this:
Motivation moves you beyond your goals and enables you to achieve your greatness.
Motivation enables you to live your purpose.
Motivation unlocks your fullest potentials.
You with True Motivation:
~ When you have true motivation of this scale with the right foundation to sustain it over time, everything else becomes trivial.
~ When you tap into your own natural source of motivation, it will feed on itself and the everyday minutiae falls to the side
~ When you feel this way, nothing at all can stop you from living your life’s purpose.
I tell you how I did this and how you can do it in this book.
Become a Fearless Traveler
In April 2011, I launched the Fear-Crushing Travel Guide, to enable you to become a fearless traveler. Because at some point in your life, you need to stop talking about travel and start doing the travel. All of it. The time is now or never.
Enough already with the fears. It is a time for you to live the travel dream. Yes, I mean you. Whoever you may be. It IS possible!
Overcome Fatigue and Lack of Energy in 10 Minutes
It is no fun going through the day, lagging behind, fighting fatigue, feeling sleepy and tired, when you could energize your body in a matter of minutes. And the summer afternoons can be very long when you are working!
My friends and readers always ask me:
How do you stay so invigorated and excited all day long?
What do you do to keep your energy going so strong?
Do you wish for vitality and life buzzing through your body all day?
Trust me, I have had my fair share of struggle with low energy but not any more and it was time to share all of that with you. Check out the all-video-based 10 Minute Daily Invigorator.
If you love it half as much as the users of these videos, you are in love. Not to mention invigorated and energized.
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A Word about Photos and Images:
All photos, images and graphics on this blog are created by and belong solely to me. I hold full Copyright unless specifically otherwise noted. I cite the source or add a disclaimer on all other occasions. Contact me first please if you should be interested in using any of the images for any purpose.
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Commenting around here:
Bloggers love to get comments. Have you noticed? You meet a new blogger and two minutes into conversation, you are promising to read that post and leave a comment. Anyway, I love comments just as much as the next blogger but please heed the advice below when it comes to commenting at Prolific Living:
- I do not moderate so comments are immediately published unless they find their way to the spam folder. I always check spam folder so do not worry; if your comment does not appear right away, it will soon.
- Do not use the comment section to promote your own agenda, your products, your services or your blog. Instead, contribute to the conversation and enrich the dialogue. Ask any questions or give feedback or share your opinion please.
- I will correct major flaws in your spelling – or choose not to publish if I cannot decipher horribly poor use of English.
- I will remove hyperlinks within the comment unless they actually contribute to the blog post.
- I will neither tolerate nor publish a commenter attacking other readers, using offensive or crass language or any other poor such behavior. Disagree but do it professionally and be civil.
- Thank you for commenting – I love you for it. And I reply to every single comment. That is a promise.
Thank You to my Loyal Readers:
There are some things you cannot say too many times. Thank you is one of them.
I learn from you. I take inspiration from you, and I renew my cup of motivation with your every visit. Thank you for reading the blog and most of all, for embracing and living a prolific life.
All my best,
Farnoosh
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