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TEDxCMU – Jonathan Fields – Turning Fear Into Fuel

23-Jun-10
By Declan

How to turn fear from a source of anxiety and paralysis into fuel for action and achievement.
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TEDxCMU – Chris Guillebeau – Fear and Permission

22-Jun-10
By Declan

Chris Guillebeau travels the world and writes for a small army of remarkable people at chrisguillebeau.com. This talk is about crocodiles, killer whales, writing your own permission slip, and changing the world.
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Embrace Failure

19-Jun-10
By Declan

It is only by accepting, or even embracing, the possibility of failure that we can achieve success.
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How Long Does it Take to Change?

06-Jun-10
By Declan

All my clients come to me in order to affect change in their life. But whether it be life coaching, conquering phobias or overcoming writer's block, the one question that everyone always asks is how long will it take.
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Writer’s Block – Causes, Symptoms and Solutions

25-May-10
By Declan

At its simplest Writer's Block is defined as "a phenomenon involving the temporary loss of ability to write." Having battled Writer's Block for 19 years I can tell you from personal experience that such a simple definition does not do the phenomenon any justice.
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Sometimes We Have to Break Things in Order Make Progress

19-May-10
By Declan

Many years ago I got caught up in the Rubik’s Cube craze of the 1980′s(The first time around). I tried again and again to solve the cube. But could only succeed in getting the top 2/3 of the cube’s colours aligned properly. I finally gave in and bought a book and discovered that with...
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How-To be Successful

31-Dec-09
By Declan

Finding your passion, your reason for existing is the key to success. You have to make your own meaning to your own life.
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Things Happen, But Don’t Matter

29-Dec-09
By Declan

It is not what happens that matters, it is how you respond that counts. Your response makes you count. So stand up and be counted.
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How To Become an Early Riser

21-Dec-09
By Declan

How To Become an Early Riser - External alarm clocks or internal habits?
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IF by Rudyard Kipling

17-Dec-09
By Declan

If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or, being lied about, don’t deal in lies, Or,...
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