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One Year Ago on The Positivity Blog: October 2007

Published by Henrik Edberg October 10th, 2008 in Personal Development. 0 Comments

One Year Ago on The Positivity Blog: October 2007
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Today I’d like to go back one year. October of 2007 was a productive month here at the blog, I wrote 16 posts.

Since many of you didn’t read the blog back then or may have missed some of the articles I’d like to share five of my own favourite posts from that month. I hope you’ll find something helpful.

Have a fine weekend!

  • Just Do It! – ”I thought about Nike’s old catchphrase - “Just do it!” - that seems to pop up from time to time too. I thought: “Well, that’s easy to say, but it’s not so easy to just do”. So I concluded that it was just another catchphrase that people throw out because well, they have to say something. Now I can see that there is actually some really useful advice in that catchphrase. So what changed?”
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Get Applause Now: Learn Public Speaking from a World Champion

Published by Henrik Edberg October 7th, 2008 in Wealth & Money, Reviews, Personal Development, People Skills, Career & Work and Success. 7 Comments

Get Applause Now: Learn Public Speaking from a World Champion Note: This review contains affiliate links.

One of the most sought after improvements people seem to want in life – from what I have observed both out there and via my blog – is to improve their social skills.

The scariest and most uncomfortable part of people skills is most likely to get up on stage and speak to people.

As Jerry Seinfeld put it:

“According to most studies, people’s number one fear is public speaking. Number two is death. Death is number two. Does that sound right? This means to the average person, if you go to a funeral, you’re better off in the casket than doing the eulogy.”

My friend Andrew Rondeau has released a product today to help people out with the public speaking skills that many of us would like to improve.

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How to Take Responsibility for Your Career: 10 Valuable Tips

Published by Henrik Edberg October 6th, 2008 in Wealth & Money, Personal Development, Career & Work and Success. 2 Comments

How to Take Responsibility for Your Career: 10 Valuable Tips
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Note: This is a guest post by Hilary Jeanes of Purple Line Consulting.

How important to you is your career?

It is surprising how many people leave their careers to chance.  They seem to think that their career will just happen or that ‘the organisation’ they work for will not only decide when their next step on the career ladder is but also what it will be.  If it doesn’t happen, then the organisation is perceived to be useless or not caring or not recognising/rewarding effort or hard work.  We spend a lot of time at work, so doing something we enjoy and find rewarding (both personally and financially) makes good sense.

From my own experience, both as an employee of large organisations and as an HR professional, here are 10 tips which make it much more likely that you will achieve the career you want.

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How to Overcome Your Fear: 7 Tips from the Last 2200 Years

Published by Henrik Edberg October 3rd, 2008 in Personal Development, People Skills, Lessons I have learned from... and Success. 17 Comments

How to Overcome Your Fear: 7 Tips from the Last 2200 Years
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“Fears are educated into us, and can, if we wish, be educated out.”
Karl Augustus Menninger

“The enemy is fear. We think it is hate; but, it is fear.”
Mahatma Gandhi

What is holding you back?

Whatever you answer, it will in many cases boil down to fear in some form.

Now, fear can be useful to keep yourself alive. But many times, especially if you live a life where you have the possibility to reading these words, fear is just a big obstacle in your path.

But what can you do about fear? How can you overcome it?

In this article I’d like to explore a few of the timeless things that people have learned about that throughout the last few thousands of years.

1. Face your fear to become stronger.

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My Favourite Firefox Add-on to Increase Productivity (what’s yours?)

Published by Henrik Edberg September 30th, 2008 in Productivity, Personal Development, One simple lifehack and Career & Work. 8 Comments

My Favourite Firefox Add-on to Increase Productivity (what’s yours?)
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I don’t write a lot about applications/programs that can help you become more productive. I’m not really that much of a tech geek and loads of people know tons more about this than I do.

But one small program that I like immensely and that is a part of my daily routine is the Morning Coffee add-on for Firefox. It allows you to add your favourite websites and then when you press a button - located beside the Home button - in your browser all those websites open up in tabs.

Three reasons why I like Morning Coffee:

  • Makes it easier to be disciplined. One big problem with being productive is all those interruptions. You work and then you think “oh, I wonder if something has happened in my in-box/on Facebook/on my blog”. And then you lose focus and spend 30 minutes just surfing around aimlessly. With this add-on you can add all those email/blog/social media websites and make a habit of just checking them via you Morning Coffee button. Perhaps once in the morning and once at night. Instead of running around online 10 times a day and getting stuck in procrastination.
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