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The White Hot Truth about Being Useful

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Yellow water bridge in Singapore

When a single word brings you to a dead stop in your tracks, when a quote resonates so deeply with your thoughts that time gently slows down around you, when a book speaks to you so strongly you want to devour it in one big bite, take it as a good sign! It means you are really listening to yourself as you take in your life.

Thanks to Danielle LaPorte, that loudly brilliant and awe-inspiring woman over at White Hot Truth, that happened to me yesterday when she said the word: useful. To quote her more accurately:

Bold, underline, italics, capital letter useful. [Read more…] about The White Hot Truth about Being Useful

Slow down to Get Ahead: Think before You Act

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Why do clumsy accidents happen to good people?

This morning at 5am, I am standing at the expert traveler security line (the TSA‘s fancy privilege for frequent air travelers – and of course I consider myself one but read on for the irony). One wrong move in my haste to get through the security X-rays and over the clamor of people behind me, I hear Coco, my darling MacBook Pro, fall to the ground! My heart drops way low into my belly and I am gasping for air. What in this world have I done? Thankfully, the extra cushions with which I had housed her protect her life and the heavens spare me an emotional and financial disaster this time.

Slowing Down in Montreal Canada

During an otherwise uneventful bath on a winter evening, in one swooping and regretful motion, I manage to drop my Blackberry into a tub filled with nothing but bubbles and hot water. Think “submerged” for a sensitive electronic device. Think panic and desperation and a dead smart phone. [Read more…] about Slow down to Get Ahead: Think before You Act

An Alternative to Balance: Focused Intensity

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The Problem with Balance

Seekbalance in all things you do in life. This is the well-known and often-heard universal advice to many challenges and problems in life. Experts constantly encourage us to do all things in balance. Corporate life encourages a life-work balance attitude (as though work is not part of life, but maybe that’s just semantics). Balance in our work, in our hobbies, in our careers, and in our relationships. Do you really think this is the best approach to living well? [Read more…] about An Alternative to Balance: Focused Intensity

Balancing, Breathing and Believing – Yoga With Kathryn Budig

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Crow-Begins-BaronOne look at the beautiful photograph of Kathyn Budig in a gorgeous yoga pose on the wall of a studio and I instantly knew that this workshop had my name written all over it. My name. My heart. My soul. My very core.

My yoga teacher Vickie tells me yoga is not just about the beauty and that I need to look past that to really see yoga for what it is and what it can be. One of my favorite yoga poems by Danna Faulds starts by the phrase, “yoga is not about the pose“. And the author of “Light on Yoga“, which I am making painfully slow progress in, certainly does not extol the beauty and grace of Asanas in any way, shape or form. [Read more…] about Balancing, Breathing and Believing – Yoga With Kathryn Budig

Celebrating the 100th Post with 100 Lessons about Life and Blogging

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Time-for-all-dreams

This is the  100th Blog Post on Prolific Living and I decided to celebrate this milestone with reflection and joy. In celebration, I have compiled a list of  my 100 Lessons about Life and Blogging in 2009. The theme of this experience which most resonates with me is the constant learning. And learning not limited to all things related to blogging, but all things related to life. Either blogging lessons teach me about life, or I am filled with excitement to write about life lessons on the blog. Intertwined and inseparable, they push me to explore, to grow, to experiment and to forever raise the ante on my goals and aspirations.

All of these lessons are from direct experience that I would not trade, good or not-so-good. Some of them I learned again, this time not to forget. Each of them has taught me to be a better blogger and a better person. If even a single one aspires you to be a better person, my goal is achieved and my work is done here in this post. Here is to blogging, to living fully and to you my dear readers: [Read more…] about Celebrating the 100th Post with 100 Lessons about Life and Blogging

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