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The Sound of Fear: Black and White

Overcoming fear in Black and White thinking

Editor’s Note: This is the third in a series of essays about the voices in our heads. Click here to read the earlier entries, the bitchy little voice and the drama queen. How do I start with this voice? There is no middle ground, no soft introduction. It isn’t even a voice you can categorize with a [...]

How to Get My Mojo Back

Defining your mission by your path

We told you guys last year that we’d be settling down for 6 months to write and earn some cash for our continuing journey around the world (and we let you pick the location). We are now halfway through our first dedicated work stint of the journey, and the hyperconcentration on a single goal is [...]

An interview with Chris Guillebeau on Fear

Chris Guillebeau's feline sidekick

Editor’s Note: As we finish writing When Fear Blinks: How to See through Your Fear, we’re interviewing people you know doing scary things. Everyone has fears, even really successful people, and learning to do things in spite of them is one element to Living the Good Life. It’s Friday the 13th. Are you happy the [...]

The Sound of Fear: The Drama Queen

The Voice of Drama

Editor’s Note: This is the second in a series of essays about the voices in our heads. Click here to read the first entry, the bitchy little voice. If the voices in our heads have personalities, then the uniform of the Drama Queen would be a vibrant orange jewelled muumuu, large glasses with smoky blue lenses [...]

The Sound of Fear: Bitchy Little Voice

Fear is like a giant gorilla in your head

Editor’s Note: Fear has many voices, and over the coming weeks we’ll be outing all of them, examining them for what they are so you can make the decision whether to listen or ignore, learn or reject, act or retreat. We’re on a mission in 2012 to help you understand how fear works so you [...]

Donna Royer crossed the finish line too soon

Donna crossing the finish line

This is not the post I expected to be writing today – or ever, for that matter. This week a friend of mine from high school and longtime reader of this blog was shot and killed by her ex-husband in Colorado, who later turned the gun on himself. Her name was Donna Royer, and I [...]

5 Strategies to Successful New Year Resolutions

Achieving new year resolutions leads to joy

Are you baffled at how you’re going to make your new year resolutions stick this year? Every year you are greeted with this gorgeous blank slate full of possibilities for your health, relationships, business, and personal goals. But you might be confused at how to go about making positive changes in your life. You know [...]

365 Days to Get Your Shit Together

Lanterns in the sky

Remember all the times you said to yourself, “I don’t have the time right now” when thinking about something you know you really need to do? Getting healthy Starting/repairing/ending a relationship Finally doing that thing you’ve always wanted to do Well, now it is actually true. Time is running out. You only have 365 days [...]

Stop apologizing for taking up space

Betsy and Graffiti in Amsterdam

How many times a day do you apologize? 5, 10, 20, 50? If you are apologizing more than a few times a week, you are either over-apologizing or a pretty big jerk. Is this you? Apologizing for bumping into people and inanimate objects. “Whoops, sorry!” (even when they bumped into you and even though “excuse me” [...]

Dream Save Do now on Kindle (plus the Kiva donation and other fun stuff)

bookstore in Thailand

Yes, you read that right:  Dream Save Do is now available on Amazon Kindle! You can now buy the Dream Save Do guide for your Kindle or read it via the Kindle App on your mobile device or computer. We received a ton of requests to do this, and I’m thankful to Warren for putting [...]