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Are You Living Vicariously Through Movie, Drama, or Game Characters? Why Shows or Games Can Sometimes Set Us Back in Growth (and How To Deal with That)

Cinema

Have you ever been addicted to watching a show or playing a game before? Have you ever thought about why you were (or are) addicted to it? Most people perceive addictions to shows or games to be a result of the enjoyment we get from watching or playing them. While this is indeed true, this is the surface-level reason. There is a reason, a deeper…

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Posted Jul 5 by | 24 Comments
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Ask Celes – How Do You Know If Your Life Purpose Is For Life (and Not Short/Medium Term)?

Ask Celes

Hi Celes, during my personal journey of discovering my life purpose I detoured through 3 Life purposes before realising my true passion, which is being a motivational speaker and a life coach. I came to this realisation because I have a vision which stretches over 30 years (hence its a life purpose/passion). My question to you is how far is your vision for your purpose…

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Posted Sep 24 by | 7 Comments
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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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Why I Do Year End Reviews (And 6 Important Questions To Ask Yourself in Your Review)

End of Year

(Written and published on Dec 22, 2010) Merry Christmas everyone! The year end is coming, and in a week’s time it’ll be 2011! Are you ready for the new year? Are you ready for a year of excitement and new challenges? Before we move on to the new year, it’s high time for all of us to do a review for the year. Regular readers…

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Posted Dec 22 by | 17 Comments
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Are You a Self-Help Junkie?

Self-Help Junkie

What do you do every time you read a self-help post? Do you reflect it back onto your life and see how it’s relevant to you? Or do you just click the “x” button and surf away to another page, forgetting what you just read?

Self-help junkies are people who indulge in self-help without action. I’ve come across a number of self-help junkies in the course of my work, which can be classified them into 3 groups. The first group is called the “Observers”. Observers read, acknowledge the concepts, see the merits, are even able to analyze and critique in the theoretical sense, but that’s where it ends.

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Posted Nov 12 by | 29 Comments
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How To Know What You Want To Do In Life

Rainbow

Hi Celes, I have no idea what I want to do. I envy those who from their early days know what they’ll be and what they’ll do. Please help. – M

Getting clarity on what to do is one of the most common questions I get from readers and clients alike. For some of my clients, they feel they are entering a period of their life where they should have clarity in what they want to do. Hence, not knowing what they want to do makes them feel frustrated.

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Posted May 21 by | 19 Comments
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My Letter To All Of You

Letter

To all of you, whether you are a new or long-time reader, there’s something I want to share with all of you. It’s a feeling that’s been brimming inside me for the past few days, and I know I can’t get on to other posts until I write about this. At this point of writing, I don’t know exactly what I’m going to write, so I’m going to just let the words flow by themselves.

The Start of My Journey

I still remember it was 2 years ago, in Oct 2008, when I left my ex-company to pursue my passion to help others grow.

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Posted Apr 13 by | 16 Comments
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Create Your Life Handbook

Life Handbook

One of the key tools I found critical in my pursuit of personal growth and living a purposeful life is creating my own life handbook. What do I mean by a life handbook? A life handbook, to put it simply, is your manual that contains anything and everything important in living your life, from your life purpose, adages, life lessons, long-term goals, short-term goals, strategies,…

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Keep Your End Objective In Mind

Dartboard

To keep your end objective in mind is crucial for conscious living. It can be divided into two phases: 1) Identify your end objective 2) Evaluate everything against your objective. 1) Identify Your End Objective Whenever you are starting a new task, activity or goal, always be clear on what your end objective is. Why are you doing this? Is it serving some larger meaning?…

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Posted Feb 20 by | 4 Comments
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Are You Sleepwalking Your Life Away? (Part 2)

Desert

This is a follow-up post to the original article Are You Sleepwalking Your Life Away? to clarify on certain key points as well as reply to the large volume of feedback from readers. Influx of traffic In all honesty, the response to the original article blew me away. I knew that the content is going strike an emotional chord with readers, but I didn’t anticipate…

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Posted Jan 14 by | 1 Comment
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Are You Sleepwalking Your Life Away?

Desert

Do you have a clear direction for your life? What life long goals and dreams do you have for your life, career, health, relationships, wealth and spirituality? Are you actively pursuing them? Or are you just keeping them stashed at the back of your mind?

Sleepwalkers – These are people who live through their lives in an unconscious state. Being conscious isn’t about being physically awake – Many people around us are physically awake, yet living unconsciously. They are not fully aware of who they are, the larger context of life they are a part of and their real purpose in life.

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Posted Jan 2 by | 53 Comments
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