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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: Self Actualisation
Open Up & Let the Light Back In
At that moment, my desire to accept and love myself just as I am came to full fruition. Not only am I good enough, I am magnificent. Laurie Sutton Today I’m thrilled (and more than a little proud) to introduce the … Continue reading
Posted in Fear Smashing, Guest Posts, Self Actualisation
Tagged art, business, Chris Guillebeau, doubt, fear, freedom, Karen Walround, Karol Gajda, Laurie Sutton, life coaching, transfomation, Water's Edge Jewelry
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Are You Owning Your Desire?
If you’re like most everybody else on the planet, there’s a gap between who you know yourself to be inside, and who you’re allowing yourself to be in the world. Between who you really are and how you’re showing up. … Continue reading
Posted in Self Actualisation
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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 Entire Life Overnight
On Friday I published a pretty personal post about my biggest failures in life. It was a response to Emilie Wapnick’s Failure Celebration Week initiative. The idea is to celebrate failure rather than shaming it, or simply reframing it as … Continue reading
Posted in Fear Smashing, Self Actualisation
Tagged career, courage, failure, lessons, music, reframing, relationships, success
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My Glorious History of Humiliating Failure
Note: This is the question. Check out the answer. Failure sucks. It’s frustrating, often gut-wrenching, potentially embarrassing and always disappointing. If you’re alive, you’ve probably failed. You probably didn’t like it. It probably seemed like a pretty shitty experience at … Continue reading
Posted in Fear Smashing, Self Actualisation
Tagged blogging, business, career, education, entrepreneurship, failure, family, humiliation, jobs, judgement, music, performance, piano, relationships, self-esteem, singing, social phobia, theatre
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The Complete List of Absolute, Unalterable, Unquestionable, Inescapable Rules of Life
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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 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