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Are You The Creator of Your Own Life? – 28
What is life’s purpose? Is there one? And is it the same for everyone or different people have different purpose? That was the question Mariana asked and we discussed in Episode 2 of Beautiful Ghosts (YouTube and Podcast). We had different answers but in general we...
This Is What I Learnt after Assassinating Many Characters – 27
What do you do when a friend does something that bothers you? In the previous blog post I mentioned that in the first episode of the podcast Beautiful Ghosts we discussed how reflection helps with personal growth. In that episode I commented how reflection helped me...
How Conversations and Deeper Connections Led to Creating a Podcast – 26
There is no doubt that COVID-19 and the response to it has produced a lot of destruction, but it has also led to the creation of new ways of doing things. One such example is people meeting via video-conference calls instead of in person. Although meeting in person...
How to Help Others Improve by Giving Effective Feedback – 24
Would you like to help someone improve? Providing feedback, when done effectively, allows the person receiving the information to improve their performance. When done incorrectly, it may be ignored, it may be discouraging, and it can even damage the relationship...
Are We Too Addicted to Goals? – 22
More than a decade ago when I became interested in personal development, I started setting myself a series of goals. Setting goals for yourself was the mainstream advice I was getting. Not only set goals, visualise them. Every day repeat to yourself in front of the...
How to Get Your Children to Listen to You – 21
In the last blog we saw how looking after relationships first is more important than trying to achieve something. How do you create and look after those relationships? By building trust. Whenever you are collaborating and communicating with people, if you want to have...