Prolific Living

For the Heart

Overwhelmed with Self-Improvement? Defeat It with 5 Power Tips

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SeaShell - Empower your Goals

Twice now I have heard this feedback  – one from an email subscriber who shared it sadly as a reason for leaving my mailing list and another from my devoted client during our 1:1 coaching sessions:

“Feeling overwhelmed with self-improvement and personal development.”

Oh I can more than relate to these feelings; personal development bloggers feel this way too; if they don’t, they are not pushing the envelope hard enough. So today, I decided [Read more…] about Overwhelmed with Self-Improvement? Defeat It with 5 Power Tips

How Big Decisions of Life Emerge in an Instant

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Decisions in Maui

Big life-changing decisions should come about after agonizingly long hours of thinking and plotting, analyzing and scrutinizing, predicting and planning. People should not make decisions that change the course of their life in one day or one hour or one minute. No, not smart and savvy people like you and me and certainly not the type of decisions that reshape the future years and decades of our lives.

Except that more often than not, the biggest decisions do emerge in an instant in time. It takes one look deep in your heart to instantly know the right answer. [Read more…] about How Big Decisions of Life Emerge in an Instant

The Whispers of the Pacific Ocean

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Pacific Ocean Waves

It felt as though I was gazing at the Pacific Ocean for the first time and not the 50th time. Few things preserve the true likeness to that first time experience as well as greeting the Pacific ocean.

I had walked in the chill of Southern California morning air with clear intent to photograph the ocean, only to fall to my knees and stare in a stupor at the glorious view upon arrival. Calm and quiet waters, slow and steady waves, I felt as though I could meditate forever simply by looking at this vastness that is before me. How splendid the feeling that everything stops to matter in the grand scheme of things, if only for a few delicious minutes. I was feeling light and heavy, free and chained, loved and lost. Time was slowing down and disappearing into the magnificent morning light, into the breeze and into the crashing waves.

I was at the mercy of this overwhelming feeling and I loved it. [Read more…] about The Whispers of the Pacific Ocean

A 13th Century Persian Poem Lives On

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How beautiful to see that timeless poetry and literary classics preserve their relevance across generations. How awe-inspiring that they transcend all nationalities, religions, ethnicity and apply to our life today. How extraordinary that such wisdom usually comes to us from the sages who have suffered greatly in their life. How fortunate for us that such forethought and wisdom was not all lost at the hands of humanity and survives still today.

Ant carrying load with Sa'adi phrase [Read more…] about A 13th Century Persian Poem Lives On

Revive your Literary Side

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I have a ritual with my books – first, to come into possession of book (through some generous source as I rarely buy books), read/inhale/digest the book, write a deeply personal blog post on book, keep book on shelf (if I loved it)/donate book to library (if I didn’t love it)/give book away to anyone who would take it (if one of “those books”)! The ritual, however, was more of a love affair with my Anna Karenina gem of a volume. I bought it well over a year ago on a whim and promptly nursed it on a shelf for months. I did not dare open it for fear of not fully appreciating a masterpiece by the Russian novelist Tolstoy until one day in January, I mustered enough courage to read this opening line.

“All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”

It took me one instant to fall in love with Tolstoy and one day to fall in love with Anna K. [Read more…] about Revive your Literary Side

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