Tag: support
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Do the work, books as support
Seth Godin posted a list of books to help with motivation and getting things done http://www.squidoo.com/a-diet-for-your-mind. One has stood out for me and I spent a whole £6 and bought it: Do the Work by Steven Pressfield. Short, brief and to the point it helps you get that project done. Do the Work by Steven Pressfield […]
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Jack Kornfield, supportive writing
Jack Kornfield’s writing has been a huge support for me over the years. He discusses Buddhism through western filters. I have read the Wise Heart and A Path With Heart. I am reading Bringing home the Dharma and plan to read as many more as I can. I will leave with you a quotation that […]
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New year resolutions’ help from Tony Robbins
In terms of support and motivation, this Tony Robbins video is huge so I am reposting it here. I included it originally in my New Life, New Year post but worried that someone who could find it useful would miss it.
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Geoff, the Buddha and me (and my phd)
I don’t write too often (ever?) about the PhD I started and didn’t finish. It was an awful time. It was the most ego- and spirit-crushing time of my life for which in a way I’m very grateful because it made and makes all other bad times feel like a temporary breeze. Almost a zephyr […]
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First week done, how did I do?
I did ok for my first week of resolute living. I have posted every day even if I haven’t remembered to write down one good thing for each of them. I haven’t run much apart from a hundred metres or so up a hill to get to the supermarket but that isn’t what I meant […]
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Osho, a resource for support
In the 1960s, Jown Bowlby outlined the approach to human development that he called attachment theory. He helped us recognise that from the day we’re born, our brains are biologically designed to respond to the care and kindness of others. This transformed parenting to support the emotional needs of babies and toddlers as they grow […]
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How the baby went from mine to ours
For a few days in January I thought that I had lost my unique selling point of being a single mother doing it alone and making all my own decisions. I chose the baby’s name, where we lived, what religion, what activities, what school the baby attended etc. It was all mine. My baby, my […]
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