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What to Do When Life Sucks

written by Myrko Thum at March 26, 2013 in Personal Growth — 23 Comments
Life Sucks

Sometimes things just don’t go as you’d wish them to go. One adversity after another sweeps into your life like waves on a shore coming against you. Everything seems to have come together in a little conspiracy. Life sucks.

If such a series of adversities happens, your life can get really overwhelming and questions like “Why is this happening to me?” or “What I have done to deserve this?” pop up in the mind. But those questions are not really helping, especially not in that state of overwhelm, anger, frustration or even depression…

So what can you do inside and out to cope?

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How to Keep Going Even If You Don’t Feel Like It

written by Myrko Thum at December 10, 2012 in Productivity — 4 Comments
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It’s a very common thing: You set out some nice plans and started very motivated with something that seemed so important to you at the time. But then, somehow, it wears off. The initial drive is gone, things seem to be tough again, it’s no fun anymore. And somehow it doesn’t look so interesting anymore, anyway. What happened? The simple answer: You didn’t follow through. But why?

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Give Me 5 Minutes and I’ll Give You Total Clarity

written by Myrko Thum at October 18, 2012 in Personal Growth — 6 Comments
Clarity: A clear mind

For me personally clarity is one of these qualities I constantly strive for. And if you are anything like me you know that a clear mind is not only the best tool you can have to work with, but also the basis for living a balanced, conscious life. Clarity comes when we think simple, yet intelligent and powerful, and are aware of what is really important to us and let go of all the rest. To reach total clarity in your mind you can use different techniques.

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Are You Asking the Right Questions?

written by Myrko Thum at September 26, 2012 in Personal Growth — 4 Comments
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Asking the right question could be the critical thing you are missing on your own journey of personal growth. I’m constantly astonished about the kind of breakthrough in thinking that asking the right questions can have. The process of thinking is often the process of asking and answering questions in our head. Especially when you do self-reflection, asking questions is the method to get clarity and to make personal progress.

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How to Get Clarity When it Comes to Making Life-Changing Decisions

written by Myrko Thum at September 15, 2012 in Personal Growth — 4 Comments
How to Get Clarity

I recently got an email from a reader about the difficulties when it comes to go after your passion and to make life-changing decisions. When we want to make changes in our life I think the most important thing is to get clarity of what exactly we want. Read how we can get clearer and where we can get the ressources to make the change stick.

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Unproductive? 5 Deadly Sins of Productivity (And How to Resolve Them)

written by Myrko Thum at September 4, 2012 in Productivity — 3 Comments
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When it comes to doing the important things in our life it can be mind-boggling how unproductive our behavior can become. It’s also amazing how many good reasons we can find to avoid the obvious task. We need to build awareness of why we are doing this and then find a way of breaking this unproductive habit.

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Simplify! The Simplicity Guide to Live a Simple Life

written by Myrko Thum at May 30, 2012 in Productivity — 8 Comments
Simplicity. Simplify to Live a Simple Life!

Simplicity is all about essence. And purpose. It is what is left when we intelligently take away all that is not necessary. So how can we simplify our life? In this “Guide to Live a Simple Life” you’ll read how to live purposeful, successful and fulfilled and yet simple.

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