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15 Beautiful, Inspirational Wallpapers For Your Desktop

Attitude or Altitude Wallpaper

Some of you might know from my articles that I used to run a popular network of desktop enhancement sites back in 1999-early 2000s. At that time I designed wallpapers, winamp skins and ICQ skins on a wide range of themes. Today, I thought I would make some inspirational wallpapers for you guys. :D These wallpapers include inspirational quotes

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7 Tips To Tackle Naysayers in Your Life

Stand up against the Naysayers

Are there any naysayers in your life? Someone who is perhaps discouraging you from pursuing your goals and dreams? Someone who thinks that you are joking and says it’s impossible when you share about your grand plans for your future? Someone who sabotages your efforts when you…

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Life Without Facebook: An Update

Goodbye

It’s been a week since I’ve nuked my Facebook account, and everything’s going great so far. In case you’ve missed my earlier post on why I deleted Facebook, read it here first: Deleting Facebook From My Life. Like I mentioned in my first post, I’m not a standard Facebook user (with almost 5,000 friends in my personal account and 2 fan pages…

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How To Discover Your Ideal Career: Your Message and Your Medium

Message in Bottle

This is part of the Passion & Career series. Passion or Money? How To Discover Your Ideal Career: Your Message and Your Medium Overcome Fear Of Loss And Pursue Your Dreams Pursuing Your Passion With No Money Passion Paycheck A Guide To Pursue Your Passion With Success: 14 Essential Steps (bonus article in Personal Excellence Book, Volume 2) Successful Businesses Interview Series Million Dollar Tip Series (Originally…

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Raw Recipe: Summer Fresh Salad

Summer Fresh Salad

(Originally written and published on Jan 25, 2011) I’ve recently fully switched to a raw food diet (raw = fruits, vegetables and nuts), a move that was expedited thanks toLive a Healthier Life in 21 Days challenge. It’s been 10 days so far on the raw diet and I’ve been having a lot of fun preparing my meals. Today I want to share one of my…

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Deleting Facebook From My Life

Goodbye

It’s official – I’ve deleted my Facebook profile and Facebook pages. I’m removing Facebook from my life from today onwards. At the point of deletion, my personal profile had almost 5,000 friends (5,000 friends is the limit) and my 2 pages had 3,300+ likes (Personal-Excellence) and 200 likes (TSOPE). This came after a long period of being…

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How To Work Out Whenever and Wherever You Want

Workout

Lately in 21DHL I’ve been sharing a fitness tidbit I uncovered a few weeks ago. Running used to be my main fitness regime. I’ve a park next to my house where I jog, usually in the evenings, sometimes in the early mornings. Next to running, was swimming (there’s a pool next to my house). These were convenient sports…

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How To Deal With Energy Vampires: 8 Simple Tips

Energy Vampire

Have you ever faced negative people before? If you are regularly exposed to a fair diversity of people, chances are you probably encountered at least a few negative people, with 1 or 2 really negative ones. How do you feel after your encounters with them? Negative people tend to leave others around them drained, tired and lethargic. …

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101 Most Inspiring Quotes of All Time, Volume 4

Leaf

Having shared over 300 of my top inspiring quotes in the first 3 part series, today I’d like to bring the fourth installment of “101 Most Inspiring Quotes of All Time”. I’ve added many new quotes to the existing sections, as well as added new sections featuring quotes on ‘Learning & Growth”, “Responsibility”, “Gratitude & Kindness”, ‘Friendship”, “Leadership”, and “Helping Others”. Enjoy! :D

“The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can’t read them.” ~ Mark Twain

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10 Powerful and Inspiring Graduation Speeches You Don’t Want To Miss

Graduation Speech

Commencement speeches have become outlets for sharing some of the most important life lessons ever. After listening to Steve Jobs‘ Stanford speech, I was inspired to round up the best graduation speeches so all of you…

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Please Help Nominate Personal Excellence in Weblog Awards 2011!

Weblog Awards 2011

Hi everyone! It’s now the start of the year, which means it’s time for the annual weblog awards! What is the Weblog Awards? It’s an award to recognize the best of the best weblogs online. Started since 2001, it has since grown to be the longest-running and one of the largest awards for weblogs. Please Nominate Personal Excellence If you’ve ever found Personal Excellence helpful in…

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