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Welcome to the August 12, 2008 edition of carnival of self-mastery.  My top 3 picks for the week are:

1. CG Walters presents The Words We Use Maintain Our Confinement posted at Into the Mist, saying, "Words are symbolic carriers of our intention or our nature. They are tools to share ourselves with others, personally, culturally, and spiritually. Quite often they communicate other or more than we than we specifically intend."
2. James Feudo presents Personal Power: Should you Focus on your Strengths or Strengthen your Weaknesses | Overnight Sensation posted at Overnight Sensation, saying, "This article discusses focusing on strengths versus improving weaknesses."
3. AndrewB presents Desire Without Attachment To Outcome posted at Personal Hack, saying, "Desire without attachment to outcome might sound like a paradox at first. How can you desire or want something and yet not care about whether you get it or not? While desire without attachment is an old personal development concept, I myself haven’t came across any great explanations of it, and therefore it took me a while to understand it."

Career & Work

Tip Diva presents Tip Diva | Top Ten Tips - Preparing Yourself For A Job Search posted at Tip Diva, saying, "If it’s time for a career change or you’ve recently found yourself the victim of a lay-off or firing, it’s now time to hunker down and start preparing to look for another job. Here are things you should keep in mind before starting the search"

Wally Bock presents Life is some journeys posted at Momentor.

James Feudo presents Personal Power: Should you Focus on your Strengths or Strengthen your Weaknesses | Overnight Sensation posted at Overnight Sensation, saying, "This article discusses focusing on strengths versus improving weaknesses."

Alex Smith presents Who Really Needs to Learn Self Defense posted at TBO-TECH.

Dating & Relationships

Carole Gold presents It's All About Energy posted at McKay Today, saying, "What's the secret to successful, long-lasting relationships?"

Emotional Mastery

Thorsten Bonn presents How You Can Make Today The Best Day of Your Life posted at Self Improved Life . com.

Sam presents My Life, Your Life, Life is Life. Live Your Life ! Surfer Sam posted at Surfer Sam and Friends, saying, "I’ll tell you what I wanted to tell my friend Beth, and didn’t. Don’t work so hard at life. Don’t judge yourself critically. Do not expect yourself to be a paragon of perfection. Do not blame yourself when things go wrong. Do not measure yourself against others. Trust your nature. Live peacefully. Just be"

Donald Latumahina presents Being Happy: Secrets of Happy People posted at Life Optimizer.

Richard Johnson presents Face Your Frightening Questions posted at Reaching A Better Place, saying, "This article is about the benefits of facing your frightening questions."

Dr Martin W. Russell presents Working Through A Problem posted at Dr Martin W. Russell.

Michael Miles presents Why you shouldn’t care what other people think about you posted at Effortless Wealth and Abundance.

Health & Fitness

Health Blogger presents My Plan To Get Rid Of My Excess Stomach and Lose The Pot Belly Fat posted at Health and Fitness Blog.

Alvaro Fernandez presents Neurogenesis and Brain Plasticity in Adult Brains posted at SharpBrains: Your Window into the Brain Fitness Revolution, saying, "Adults may have a tendency to get set in their ways – I’ve been doing it this way for a long time and it works, so why change? – Turns out, though, that change can be a way to keep aging brains healthy."

Joshua Seth presents Walking To Lose Weight posted at Joshua Seth Blog, saying, "In my book “The Weight Loss Hypnosis Solution” I show you how walking to lose weight can also help you enhance your mood, speed up your metabolism, and provide a wide range of benefits. I even show you how to"

Heather Johnson presents Diabetes and Exercise – What you Must Know posted at Diabetes Notes.

Money & Wealth

Card Blogger presents The Best Credit Cards posted at Credit Card Blog.

Sarah Scrafford presents Online University Lowdown: 50 Simple Driving Techniques that Will Increase Your Gas Mileage posted at Online University Lowdown.

Personal Development

AndrewB presents Desire Without Attachment To Outcome posted at Personal Hack, saying, "Desire without attachment to outcome might sound like a paradox at first. How can you desire or want something and yet not care about whether you get it or not? While desire without attachment is an old personal development concept, I myself haven’t came across any great explanations of it, and therefore it took me a while to understand it."

Wanda Grindstaff presents Going from Surviving to Thriving - A Clear Choice posted at Creating Abundant Lifestyles.

Productivity

Avani presents How to get clarity in thoughts posted at Avani-Mehta.

Kacper Wrzesniewski presents Getting Things Done with Chandler posted at KacperWrzesniewski.com, saying, "Chandler The Note-to-Self Organizer is a free GTD app running on Linux, Windows and Mac. Read the full review…"

AndrewB presents Biggest Productivity Tip posted at Personal Hack, saying, "Productivity tips are everywhere. Anywhere from productivity videos to productivity blogs to productivity books. Everyone wants to be more productive yet I rarely ever hear this big productivity tip mentioned."

Spirituality

Ella Moss presents 2008 August « Zodiac Times posted at Zodiac Times, saying, "The poem Of God and Her is deeply inspiring spiritual piece and good poetry to boot"

Metaliphe presents Quick n Dirty Tips posted at Chandra Unplugged - No nonsense, Straight-up blogging from a Life Coach, saying, "These are Chandra’s quick n dirty tips for a good life. In other words, if you had five guaranteed tips that work no matter what the situation, these would be them. Remember, understanding these points intellectually, and not integrating them on a feeling and action level, always misses the mark."

CG Walters presents The Words We Use Maintain Our Confinement posted at Into the Mist, saying, "Words are symbolic carriers of our intention or our nature. They are tools to share ourselves with others, personally, culturally, and spiritually. Quite often they communicate other or more than we than we specifically intend."

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