Hey Gang!  Welcome to the January 12, 2007 edition of the Carnival of Powerful Living.  As usual, there’s a ton of really great material here.  Thank you to everyone who submitted this week.  

I’ve been thinking alot about the question I asked you all last week: what are we building together with these conversations?  As we move forward, I want to spend some time answering this question in 2007.  Every week, when I post this carnival, I read every single submission first, and then I step back and imagine the world that would exist as a product of these conversations alone.  What would it be like to live in that world?  What kind of world is it that we’re building?  I find the question really interesting, and the experience of envisioning that world gives me something to work toward in my own life.  Enough of my rambling…on with the show…          

  

Being Effective

burningchrome presents The Three C’s: The Essence of Cool posted at SmartCoolRich - Consolidated Privileged Information.

oovs presents Creating Optimal Experiences in Life posted at LifeTraining - Online, saying, “Why is it that in the same experience one person can feel complete boredom, another anxiety and a third absolute elation? It really comes down to two variables: level of skill and level of challenge. When you understand how these two variables effect your experiences in life, you can then learn to create at will these optimal experiences or as some call it, flow.”

  

Communication Skills

Kirsten Harrell, Psy.D. presents The elevator pitch - your mission statement posted at Think Positive! Blog - official blog for ipopin.com.

Barry Mahfood presents The Art of Persuasion: A Series on Rhetoric posted at The Price of Rice!.

Linda Freedman presents That Bagel and Cream Cheese posted at Everyone needs therapy? Lessons from a family therapist, saying, “It’s hard to know what to say when people tell us what to do. TherapyDoc offers her version of strategic family therapy combined with assertiveness training to help budding therapist and coaches learn and teach “better” responses to controlling individuals.”

  

Joyous Living

Think Happy Thoughts Happiness Blog presents How to Be Happier posted at Miguel Trujillo, saying, “Step by step instructions about how to be happier.”

David Maister presents Down Time posted at Passion, People and Principles, saying, “What do you do when everything’s going right but somehow you’ve still lost your motivation?”

Patricia presents 10 Reasons NOT To Give Up TV, posted at Patricia.

Karen Lynch presents Optimism-It’s more Fun! posted at LivethePower.

Maria Yu presents Interactive Quotes for Daily Inspiration posted at Life.

  

Life Lessons

Daniel Brenton presents I am Grateful I am Still Alive posted at Daniel Brenton.

John Hill presents Beware The Power Of Suggestion posted at Universe Of Success.

Brian C Lee presents The Secret to Learning a Language posted at geniustypes.com.

Matthew Paulson presents Say No to Soda posted at Getting Green.

Shamelle presents Year 2007: An Invitation To Enhance Your Life posted at Enhance Life.

David Maister presents Friendship Skills - new careers podcast posted at Passion, People and Principles, saying, “The social skills that earn you the position of “trusted friend or adviser” are the same in a business situation as they are in a personal context. And the good news is that friendship skills are learnable.”

Jane Chin presents Your Crucial Key To Success posted at On Careers and Life, saying, “If you had to identify one crucial key to your success, what would it be?”

Josh Bickford presents Honesty Is Required For Improvement posted at Josh Bickford’s Reach For Magnificence, saying, “If you’re going to make changes in your life, you must be honest about the results your past thinking has afforded you.”

  

Personal Development

Craig Wilson presents autofix.com.au » The power of goal setting. posted at driver training for new drivers?.

Josh Bickford presents The World Is Bad, Why Bother? posted at Josh Bickford’s Reach For Magnificence, saying, “Thanks!”

Ellesse presents Who Else Wants To Quit His Day Job? posted at Goal Setting College.

steven aitchison presents Kaizen for personal development posted at Change your thoughts.

Alvin Soon presents 10 Questions With The Relationship Expert: Kloudiia posted at Life Coaches Blog.

Barry Mahfood presents Quantum Growth posted at The Price of Rice!.

Jason Kolb presents How to Protect Your Online Identity posted at JasonKolb.com, saying, “How to control your online identity and safeguard it so that you ultimately control it. In the process learn some pretty cool tips and tricks that make the Internet far more enjoyable to use.”

Alan presents Motivation posted at Made to Be Great.

Craig Harper presents The Science of Success. posted at Renovate your life with Craig, saying, “If people put one tenth of what they’ve read or heard about personal development into practice… things would be drastically different but the truth is, they consistently do nothing.”

Kavit Haria’s Blog presents Start With Energy posted at Kavit’s Letters, Thoughts and Musings.

  

Other Gems

lorenzo presents Channeling Inspiration posted at RealitySeeds, saying, “The Inspiration Channeling Method can be used to invoke and channel inspiration for a multitude of purposes, including creating new business ideas, speaking with customers or partners, writing inspired blog posts and articles, bringing the best contribution during work meetings, create new ideas, bring inspiration and advice to others, etc…”

Barbra Sundquist presents Joy Is Not the Same as Happiness posted at WelcomeJoy.com.

Brandon Peele presents Second 10-day Vipassana Sit posted at GT.

 

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