Carnival of Self-Mastery - September 17, 2008

Career & Work

Wally Bock presents Send me a person who reads posted at Momentor.

Mike King presents Using the 5 W Questions to Improve Your Training posted at Learn This.

Emotional Mastery

Grace Young presents Grace R Young OT » Facing Reality posted at Grace R Young OT, saying, "This is about facing my physical challenges honestly"

Entrepreneurship

Welly Mulia presents Give And Create Value First, Receive Second posted at Internet Business Make Money Online With Welly Mulia.

Goal Setting & Planning

Gary presents 5 Hard Not So Tough Steps to Defining Dreams posted at StoppingYou.com Blog.

Donald Latumahina presents A Guide to Finding Your Life Purpose posted at Life Optimizer.

Health & Fitness

Alvaro Fernandez presents Your Brain At Work, by the Dana Alliance and the Conference Board posted at SharpBrains, saying, "Simple, practical strategies for incorporating brain-friendly practices into day-to-day life."

Productivity

Alaia Williams presents Productivity is not a bad thing. posted at One Organized Life Blog, saying, "Once you develop a healthy view of productivity, you will stop seeing it as a bad thing."

Social Skills

Talk Prom Dresses presents Prom Favors - Prom Keepsakes and Momentos posted at Prom Dresses, saying, "More often than not, a prom does not send its revelers home empty-handed."

Time Management

Thomas J. West presents Focus and Attention: How to Maximize the Results of Your Practice Time posted at Thomas J. West Music, saying, "Just playing your instrument for thirty minutes a day will give you limited mastery. A student must learn how to learn when it comes to any knowledge or skill they wish to acquire. There is much to learning a musical instrument as it is a very complex set of actions, reactions, and perceptions all happening in real-time during performance. The number one thing I teach every student who is learning how to practice is how to FOCUS!"

Karina presents Finding Time to Make Intentions Reality posted at Daydreams without Color.

Other

AndrewB presents Why we are Addicted to Food, Alcohol, and TV « Binge Eating Forum posted at Binge Eating Forum, saying, "What's your addiction? Your dirty secret pleasure? In this pose I discuss why we develop addictions even when we know they are bad for us."

Daniel Roach presents How to Sell Yourself, or "How to Look Like a Duck" posted at Daniel Roach.Org, saying, "You are a salesman whether you know it, believe it, want it or not. Every day you have to sell everyone you meet on everything you have to offer as a person. You have to sell new clients or customers on the fact that you are the best person to do business with. You must convince new friends that you are the right person to be friends with. Every day you are going to be selling yourself to any number of people in any number of ways, which means that if this isn’t an area of improvement that you are currently giving a lot of thought to, you may be missing out on a lot of life’s opportunities.Every day you are going to be selling yourself to any number of people in any number of ways, which means that if this isn’t an area of improvement that you are currently giving a lot of thought to, you may be missing out on a lot of life’s opportunities."

AndrewB presents How to Stop Compulsive Eating posted at Compulsive Eating, saying, "Compulsive eating is simply eating too much. It's the number one reason for being overweight and struggling to lose weight and keep it off."

jcr8392 presents Common Mortgage Terms Explained posted at Truthful Lending dot Com, saying, "This is a glossary of some of the more common, and most important mortgage terms. This list will help to familiarize you with some of the terms you should know to find the best mortgage program for your needs."

Kelly Sonora presents Measured Success: 50 Online Fitness and Nutrition Calculators posted at Nursing Colleges & Training Schools.

Applying the Law of Attraction presents Expecting the Best - and Getting It! posted at Applying the Law of Attraction Membership Library, saying, "When it comes to abundance and prosperity, expectations are vitally important. The Law of Attraction teaches us that we tend to receive exactly what we expect in life. Why is this? How do expectations work with the Law of Attraction?"

WordPress Hacker presents Auto Create Navigation Tabs for New WordPress Pages posted at WordPress Hacker, saying, "In this article I explain how you can setup your blog to automatically create main navigation links/tabs when new pages are published by using custom fields to mark those pages you want to appear in the navigation menu."

Praveen presents Stretch Out of Your Comfort Zone posted at Tao of Simplicity.

David B Bohl presents Mindhacks: 5 Ways to Increase Creativity, Productivity and Intelligence posted at Slow Down Fast Today!, saying, "“Early to bed and early to rise will make a man healthy, wealthy and wise.” Are there any proven ways to increase your brainpower? Absolutely."

Erin Pavlina presents Erin Pavlina’s Blog » Blog Archive » The Path to Purpose posted at Erin Pavlina's Blog, saying, "People ask me all the time how they can figure out their purpose, their one true path through life. I’m sure there is more than one way to get there, but let me share the method I used to finally find my way. Perhaps it will work for you too."

Bill Urell presents Improving Spiritual Awareness: 7 Steps To Increase Spiritual Awareness posted at Addiction Recovery Basics, saying, "Are you aware that there are concrete steps you can take to increase your spiriitual awareness? Read on to discover 7 actionable steps."

AndrewB presents 7 Tips on Becoming an Active Listener | Personal Productivity posted at Personal Hack, saying, "Becoming a more active listener will greatly improve your networking power. It’s amazing how most people don’t utilize the full potential of networking. This is especially true for the more analytical and technical minded like myself."

mag presents The power of auto suggestion posted at The Magenpie.com, saying, "auto suggestion"

Britannica Blog presents Fight, Flight, and the Physiology of Stress posted at Britannica Blog, saying, "From the moment danger is spotted, the brain actively sends signals to various parts of the body to activate necessary responses to either stay and fight or run away from it."

Ms. Cheevious presents Trippin' the Fifth Dimension posted at Ms. Cheevious, saying, "Ever find that you've inadvertantly entered the Twilight Zone? Have you wondered how the heck you got there, let alone what it all means, and murmuring things to yourself like "why is this incredibly jiggly, big-lipped woman stroking my hair, and hitting on me?" Join Ms. Cheevious on one such hilarious adventure!"

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