Archive for the 'Realizing Your Potential' Category
Mentoring/coaching doesn’t just happen when you pay someone who’s more experienced than you. It can also happen among your very peers — and such a partnership can have bond and strength that few other relationships can. Let me tell you about my peer-mentoring partner, and invite you to join me in forming a new peer-mentoring [...]
November 16th, 2008 | Posted in Announcements, Ari's Personal Stories, Best Practices, Career and Your Calling, Dissecting Problems, Mission/Goal-Setting, Realizing Your Potential | 2 Comments
This is a life story of my mother. Her life is an example of how to find a need in the world only you can fulfill. It’s a glimpse of what it’s like to reach complete fulfillment - self actualization.
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Introduction: My Mother’s Calling
My mother is a missionary. Well, that’s how I describe her [...]
November 14th, 2008 | Posted in Ari's Personal Stories, Career and Your Calling, Realizing Your Potential | 12 Comments
This essay expands upon my previous entry on fear of success.
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I once had a co-worker who hated her job. Her job stress was so much, that it was hurting her body. She wore those wrist supports to nurse her injury.
Her husband made enough money, so she didn’t need to work. She had [...]
November 5th, 2008 | Posted in Good Habits, Bad Habits, Realizing Your Potential, growth | 20 Comments
We all want success, but actually many of us fear it as well. Why do we do that, and how can we break it down? Here’s one universal approach that will help you deal with a major portion of your fear of success.
One of my current challenges is to stop staying [...]
November 3rd, 2008 | Posted in Best Practices, Good Habits, Bad Habits, Realizing Your Potential, growth | 23 Comments
In this essay I’m going to share a bit of my struggles with my so-called “gifts.” A lot of us yearn to pursue our passion, yet it comes at a bit of price, it turns out. What is it, and are you willing to pay it?
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I once had a co-worker who told me that she [...]
October 30th, 2008 | Posted in Realizing Your Potential | 36 Comments
Note: this is a digest version of a longer essay. Also, refer to this post for the background information.
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We often talk about growth as not easy. Here, I’d like to share how that’s been true in my journey.
The challenge of growing is that you have to constantly reinvent yourself. I’m sure you’ve had experience where [...]
October 28th, 2008 | Posted in Realizing Your Potential, growth | 2 Comments
This is an observation I made on what it means to grow. If you think growing = getting bigger, then my take on it may surprise you. To fully appreciate this post, please refer to the post: How to Climb Up the Ladder of Healing and Growth.
In a hurry? Read the digest version.
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I know that [...]
October 28th, 2008 | Posted in Realizing Your Potential, growth | 4 Comments
Well, unfortunately I didn’t know about the Blog Action Day until today, so I didn’t have a lot of time to carefully compose my posts. So I’m going to pull out my spontaneous voice.
When I learned of the theme, two thoughts popped into my mind. They are:
1. Let’s think of solutions
True, solutions cannot [...]
October 15th, 2008 | Posted in Realizing Your Potential, Society | 17 Comments
Note: This is a digest version of a longer essay.
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Continuing my exploration of our emotional nature, I am expanding upon a system defined by Elisabeth and Jerry Hicks from their book “Ask and It Is Given.” It is called Emotional Guidance Scale.
This is an excellent tool in assessing where you are and figure out [...]
September 22nd, 2008 | Posted in Know Yourself, Realizing Your Potential, Short Posts, healing | 19 Comments
In any journey, it’s nice to have a map. Healing and growth is no exception. In this essay I employ a system of classifying your emotions, to help you see where you are in your journey and what’s next in your evolution.
In a hurry? Read the digest version.
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Elsewhere, I defined [...]
September 22nd, 2008 | Posted in Know Yourself, Realizing Your Potential, healing | 20 Comments