I went on a pilgrimage the first weekend of June 2011.
A pilgrimage is generally defined as a journey in search of great moral or spiritual significance. It is often a path followed by devout and deeply religious people and I am, well, not religious but nonetheless, on a pilgrimage, I went. [Read more…] about The World Domination Summit in Portland – My Pilgrimage
How often do you completely change the way you do something?
Actually, forget completely. How about partially? Even minimally?
Sometimes, you lose your grip on momentum for those smart habits and ingenious ways of living you had so meticulously planned.
And often times, it is not for lack of trying.
Because plans do not always follow the brilliant paths paved in your mind. Inconvenient as all get out but a fact of life.
You draw up the perfectly logical plan, fine-tune your motivation and re-fuel your inspiration to just the right level. You are ready to go. You know exactly what you want. You know exactly where you are headed. You have the right tools. You took the right classes. You listened to the right people. You adopted the new way of doing things and no one is going to stop you. [Read more…] about Shake Up Your Routine
The incredible response to my last post has seriously thrown off my focus and made it nearly impossible to move on. I have written and re-written several drafts of fresh new posts – highlights from travels to Switzerland and Berlin, visits to authentic tea shops and seeing the breath-taking 3000-year old Nefertiti bust – only to set every draft aside unfinished. I took the weekend off and spent it in Seattle to refresh my thoughts and clear my mind, to absolutely no avail! It has taken all my emotional energy to consume and respond in kind to the out pour of my reader feedback on a subject that no doubt struck a chord with more than a few of us.
I haven’t the words to thank you for sharing your stories, offering your insights, asking me the tough questions and leaving the choice with resounding confidence in my hands.
The only thing that felt right following 40,000 plus words of conversation in 206 comments was to follow with a thank you. [Read more…] about Top 65 Quotes on Making the Choice about Children
I did not imagine Blogworld Expo would have this profound effect on me. I was entirely too unprepared for it!
This gathering made this powerful yet virtual community come alive in ways that surpassed the best of my expectations. I am simply dumbfounded from it all! I put faces to names (and Twitter IDs!), voices and gestures to still photos of my friends and peers and fellow bloggers, and in the span of just under 4 days, I watched us form new bonds and reaffirm existing relationships and develop a stronger, tighter and truer sense of belonging to our beautiful community.
It is easy to root for your community of choice, I know – I have watched people do it all my life, yet I have never understood it. I have never been a part of a community which knows no bounds in helping others succeed and no shame in admitting that it does not know all the answers and no limit in its desire to learn, to grow, and to indefinitely pursue the best version of itself yet.
Bloggers understand that success is not a zero-sum game [Read more…] about Blogworld Series: The Splendor of Community
It is the standard definition of success when you set out goals to accomplish – and turn around to do just the same. For Blogworld 2010, I more than achieved all my goals, so fortunate was I to meet the perfect people who pushed me in the directions I meant to go before leaving the conference. Funny enough, a sense of Personal Success was shoved aside – it even became slightly irrelevant – when true winners showed up and in one quick minute, stole the spotlight and all my attention along with them. These winners were Inspiration, Community, and Knowledge. Inspiration from listening to the fantastic speakers, Community from being in the company of amazing bloggers and friends, and Knowledge from the educational sessions.
The next 3 posts are dedicated to all of you who made my first Blogworld so incredibly memorable and special, those of you who could not make it and were sorely missed, and to the rest of my beloved readers who – while having no interest in blogging – read Prolific Living for inspiration and tips to apply to their own lives. [Read more…] about Blogworld Series: The Inspiration in 76 Quotes
I am Farnoosh, the founder of Prolific Living. So glad you are here. My mission is to empower you to unblock your creative genius to live your dream life.
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