Eden Journal — Life lessons on the path to paradise

RAOKA – Wisdom

July 7, 2010

This month’s ROAKA theme is Wisdom. I sat down a couple of times to write on this topic, and just couldn’t get anything to flow. It took me a few days of trying and then it finally occurred to me; I already have a post related to wisdom. I think my higher [...]

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Life Lessons – Things I’ve Learned Along my Path

July 1, 2010

Ali from Soulful Body & Mind passed along an interesting series he thought I might like. It’s a series that Abubakar Jamil is putting together. He has invited a number of personal development bloggers to participate in a series on Life Lessons. I love reading about life lessons, so I’m eager to participate.
Skimming through the [...]

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How to Create a Movement by Everett Bogue

June 28, 2010

How to Create a Movement by Everett Bogue is a simple straight-forward guide to creating a movement. Everett Bogue is the leader of a Minimalism movement at his blog Far Beyond the Stars. He is also author of The Art of Being Minimalist and Minimalist Business: How to Live and Work Anywhere. His views on [...]

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Is that the baby birds in the oil?

June 23, 2010

That’s what my four year old daughter asked as we were flipping through the channels and came across a PBS show that had some seagulls frolicking in the ocean.

“Is that the baby birds in the oil?”

It wasn’t baby bird covered in oil, but it made me sad that this question would cross the mind of [...]

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Positive People Living in a Negative World – Part 2

June 17, 2010

A few months ago I wrote a post about Positive People Living in a Negative World. It seems that every day I see more and more examples of the negativity that infests our humanity. I usually read through Yahoo News in the morning, skimming the popular new stories, and usually finding a couple of interesting [...]

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279 Days to Overnight Success by Chris Guillebeau

June 14, 2010

279 Days to Overnight Success is a guide to creating a successful blog. Chris Guillebeau mocks the overnight success marketers with the title, and explains how he grew his blog, The Art of Non-Conformity, into platform to become a full time writer and blogger in approximately 279 days.
In 279 Days to Overnight Success Chris Guillebeau [...]

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The Number One Habit of Highly Creative People

June 8, 2010

I read an interesting post after I returned from my recent vacation. It was a titled “The No. 1 Habit of Highly Creative People.” This post was by Leo Babauta of Zen Habits. The post caught my attention for two reasons. One, it reminded me of the “7 Habits of Highly Effective People,” which I [...]

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Cloud Living by Glen Allsopp

June 7, 2010

Cloud Living by Glen Allsop is one of the most popular eBooks about making money online, especially among bloggers in the personal development arena. Glen is the founder of the very popular personal development blog PluginID. He recently sold that blog and is now blogging at Viper Chill, where he focuses more on making money [...]

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Smile, It’s Contagious – Glow, It’s Infectious

June 4, 2010

As I kid, I found that people were always telling me to smile. I’ll be honest, I hated it. I was neither sad nor happy, and the expression on my face matched this. It was mostly a blank expression, or perhaps an expression of thought or contemplation. My face didn’t show a frown, yet it [...]

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How Hot Until We Cannot Survive on Earth?

June 3, 2010

Have you ever thought about the very narrow band of environmental balance required to sustain life on this planet? In the vast extremes of the cosmos, it’s a pretty narrow band. We require a very specific mixture of oxygen in the air we breathe. We require a very specific diet which luckily is readily available [...]