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Posts Tagged ‘personal development

K.I.S.S PROCRASTINATION GOODBYE!

Posted by: catalystonline on: September 17, 2009

Have you heard of K.I.S.S? It’s much used in business and particularly in training, and it stands for Keep It Simple Stupid. Now I agree with ke K.I.S.S PROCRASTINATION GOODBYE! Have you heard of K.I.S.S? It’s much used in business and particularly in training, and it stands for Keep It Simple Stupid.

Now I agree with keeping it simple in principle – but calling me stupid isn’t going to help tackle procrastination

What’s The Music Of Your Life?

Posted by: catalystonline on: August 20, 2009

I was pottering round the kitchen the other day and listening idly to the local radio station when an enthusiastic presenter (aren ‘t they always) introduced a disc with the immortal line ‘This is the music of your life!!’ and yes it felt like it had several exclamation marks behind it. However, Duran Duran has never been the music or even the bum note in my life but it did get me thinking.

HOW TO IMPROVE YOUR CREATIVE ENERGY

Posted by: catalystonline on: June 17, 2009

You may be confident that you are a creative individual, but do you make the most of the space around you to support that? When I first started writing seriously for a living in the 1980’s I had a desk under the stairs rather like Harry Potter’s bedroom only a lot smaller and with no door on it. It made me focus, but there was literally no room to expand my thinking – or even my legs.

The Power of Poetry

Posted by: catalystonline on: May 15, 2009

 When you write, do you use a computer or word processor?  Most of us do, and yet when it comes to writing poetry we revert to the old fashioned pen and paper. Why? Because poetry comes from the heart and expresses the feelings beyond the rational mind – which is where we are when we [...]



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  • babs: interesting thought. I feel that this can be because of childhood where a child is made to feel inferior and of little worth. As somebody who spent m
  • babs: I agreed that music can stir memories in a big way. when I ventured on a life history course music was very much to the fore and triggered so many mem
  • catalystonline: Thanks Marc - as I spend a lot of time speaking about and coaching people to write their life story I thoroughly recommend music for massaging the mem