Prolific Living

For the Mind

To Quit or Not to Quit Your Cushy Job

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I haven’t read Quitter by Jon Acuff and after my client mentioned it to me by sharing a passage from the book, I am pretty glad I did not see it when I was on the verge of leaving my corporate hell in May of 2011. Without reading the book, it is not fair to pass judgment but from that single passage, I’m pretty sure I won’t be reading so best not to talk so much about Quitter as to talk about what I think you should do when it comes to quitting or not quitting your cushy job. [Read more…] about To Quit or Not to Quit Your Cushy Job

Trading in Your Insecurity and Doubt for Self-Confidence: 8 Starter Tips

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Standing Tall Trees in Christchurch

There are days that I look at myself and wonder how – just how – I summoned this unabashed, undaunted, unstoppable soaring confidence to keep me the most loyal company day and night, rain or sunshine, good or bad days. How did I manage to quiet the constant chatter of those fears and insecurities and trade them in for the honesty, the inner peace and the true strength that is confidence.

If my confidence were a character in a play, it’d be Katherina, the headstrong, obdurate shrew in Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew, …. except without the taming. My confidence is wild, indomitable, obstinate, and now that I have set it free, it will not take no for an answer! [Read more…] about Trading in Your Insecurity and Doubt for Self-Confidence: 8 Starter Tips

The Power of Positive Thinking: 22 Thoughts to Change Your Life

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The Power of Positive Thinking

In my lovely Iranian culture, where the power of positive thinking and inner peace hardly makes an appearance, I grew up seeing the terrible impact of this mindset around me all the time: Some people were apparently born lucky and others, well, not so lucky.

“We are each responsible for all of our experiences.”
Louise Hay

I would hear grown ups talk about how “lucky” this person is and how sadly this other person’s life turned out. How someone ended up with their own company or rich by marriage and oh how it was always about “luck”!

It was really scary to think of myself tossed into the well of life and swished around uncontrollably as I waited with baited breath to see if life spits me out as lucky or unlucky. “Oh God, please let me be the “lucky” kind.” I would beg in my childhood prayers, “I don’t like the stuff they say about the “unlucky” ones!” [Read more…] about The Power of Positive Thinking: 22 Thoughts to Change Your Life

Elimination: Clearing the Path to Your Success

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Elimination is the greatest hidden secret to unleashing your energy and clearing the path to your success.

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It turns out, as I’ve learned through my usual string of mistakes, that adding often does not add much at all. It’s in subtracting – in removing, in eliminating – that we get closer to our real place in this world , clearer on our purpose, and closer to our own full potential of being and doing our absolute best and brightest.

In the last year, I have subtracted a lucrative corporate career that stopped serving me years ago, my beautiful long gorgeous hair that was just getting in the way of my freedom, [Read more…] about Elimination: Clearing the Path to Your Success

How to Treat Your Blog Like a Business Not a Hobby

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Business or Hobby

This page contains affiliate links to products that I absolutely love and heartily recommend. I may receive a commission for purchases made through these links.


How do you clearly send a message to the world, short of printing it on your forehead, that you are running a business as a blogger and that, as fun as it may be, you are not just in it for the fun, (unless you are of course, in which case this blog post might be handy a few months or years down the road when the idea of turning all your hard labor into a thriving business makes more sense then but no rush!)

Anyway, we all need incentives to be moved to action. Right? [Read more…] about How to Treat Your Blog Like a Business Not a Hobby

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