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The 101
It’s real simple folks: Do shit that scares you. Life gets better. This blog is about walking the walk. Join me as I face down my greatest fears through a series of personal challenges and share with you practical strategies to smash fear and own your life again. Feel like reinventing yourself? Get in touch.
Lachlan Cotter
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Category Archives: Philosophy
Four Things You Need To Know to Live an Original Life
We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents. Self Reliance—sounds like some kind of course in wilderness survival where you skin your own rabbits and chop your own firewood. And if … Continue reading
Posted in Philosophy, Self Actualisation
Tagged #trust30, Ralph Waldo Emerson, self actualization, self reliance, The Domino Project
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How To Change Your World Part 4: From Thought to Action
It’s no use waiting for your ship to come in, unless you’ve sent one out. Belgian Proverb Well, here we are. The fourth and final episode of the audacious series How to Change Your World. This is the action end … Continue reading
Posted in Philosophy, Self Actualisation
Tagged communication, inspiration, inspired action, power of thought, proverbs, resistence
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How to Change Your World, Part 3: Going With the Flow
The stream delights to lift us free, if only we dare let go. Richard Bach, Illusions Welcome back to Part 3 of the brilliant, illuminating, transcendental series: How to Change Your World. In case you haven’t noticed by now, this … Continue reading
Posted in Philosophy, Self Actualisation
Tagged faith, Illusions, meditation, resistance, Richard Bach, thought
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How to Change Your World, Part 2: Choosing To Be Free
The way to develop decisiveness is to start right where you are, with the very next question you face. Napoleon Hill This is part 2 of an epic new series on How to Change Your World. In our last exciting … Continue reading
Posted in Philosophy, Self Actualisation
Tagged affirmation, emotions, Ether Hicks, freedom, fun, happiness, Jerry Hicks, Mohandas Gandhi, Napoleon Hill, positive thinking, power of thought
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How To Find True Happiness in 2011
In daylights, in sunsets In midnights, in cups of coffee In inches, in miles, in laughter, in strife In five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes How do you measure, a year in the life? Seasons of Love, RENT This … Continue reading
Posted in Philosophy
Tagged goal setting, happiness, new years resolutions, reinvention, RENT, Seasons of Love, unreasonable goals, Zig Ziglar
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How to Change Your World, Part 1: Your First, Last and Only Power
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; the courage to change what I can; and the wisdom to know the difference. The Serenity Prayer Are you the player? Or the pawn? Just how much power … Continue reading
Mastering The Five Fears: finding freedom in the human condition
When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you. African Proverb You, dear reader, are one of the lucky ones. Of all the untold billions of intrepid souls who have trod this ancient Earth, you are among … Continue reading
Posted in Fear Smashing, Philosophy, Self Actualisation
Tagged African Proverb, condemnation, fearlessness, freedom, inadequacy, liberation, mortality, scarcity, The Five Fears, Yoda
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A lesson in trust: how to get what you want by learning to let go
The river delights to lift us free, if only we dare let go. Richard Bach It’s easy to be brave in a blog post. It’s a little more difficult in real life. I have the distinct impression of hell breaking … Continue reading
Posted in Philosophy, Self Actualisation
Tagged call of source, change, doubt, dreams, faith, instability, resistance, Richard Bach, scarcity, striving, trust
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Why failure means nothing
I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times I’ve been trusted to take the winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is … Continue reading
Posted in Fear Smashing, Philosophy
Tagged allowing, Atychiphobia, Calvin Collidge, fear of failure, intention, Michael Jordan, persistence, trust
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How to learn to love fear
Photo by Vikick’s Nature What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly. Richard Bach Survival or Stagnation? Look the word “fear” up in your lexicon of choice and you’ll likely find a definition such … Continue reading
Posted in Philosophy, Self Actualisation
Tagged ego, fear, freedom, growth, law of attraction, resistance, Richard Bach
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