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Wise advice from Dan Millman: “Just fit in until you find out where you stand out”

by The Crazy Colombian on January 27, 2008

in Opinion, Personal Development

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One of my con­stant sources of inspi­ra­tion is best-selling author Dan Mill­man. I am start­ing to notice a pat­tern here: two of my spir­i­tual guides (Jack Lalanne and Dan Mill­man) were for­mer ath­letes, and shared their per­spec­tives on life with oth­ers in a rather pub­lic way. If you know of more characters […]

Tagged as: Essays, Life, Philosophy, Reflections, Religion, Reply to other blog post, Sustainability, Thoughts

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Aiming for excellence

by The Crazy Colombian on December 20, 2007

in Life, Opinion

 

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On Dan Millman’s blog, there was a recent entry that gen­er­ated some inter­est­ing com­men­tary (click here to see the entry and com­ments)
This is what was said that grabbed my atten­tion: “I feel the aspect of achieve­ment and suc­cess and making-something-of-oneself plays less of a role here in Europe. These are, after all, […]

Tagged as: Dan Millman, Essays, Life skills, performance, Philosophy, Reflections, Reply to other blog post, Work

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Can we fall out of love?

by The Crazy Colombian on November 23, 2007

in Life, Opinion

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When I started this blog, I wrote for myself. The blog started as a col­lec­tion of ran­dom thoughts I was hav­ing, pri­mar­ily dur­ing bor­ing busi­ness meet­ings (What? I thought this was about love!” You’re right, dear reader. Hang on there and we’ll get to it in a sec­ond)
However, […]

Tagged as: Essays, Life, Love, Philosophy, Reflections, Religion, Reply to other blog post

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Do you believe in Karma?

by The Crazy Colombian on November 21, 2007

in Life, Reflection

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Yes­ter­day I came across a blog post that related the sad story of a 76 year-old Trishaw dri­ver in Sin­ga­pore who was taunted and abused by 3 young and (obvi­ously) imma­ture men. (link to Youtube video)
In the last sen­tence of the post, the author extols us to “take a good look […]

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Meditation through prayer?

by The Crazy Colombian on November 6, 2007

in Reflection, Religion

As some of my read­ers will know, I have been increas­ingly inter­ested in the Bud­dhist tra­di­tions. Over the last 18 months, I have read a lot about this phi­los­o­phy; learned about med­i­ta­tion; and increased my med­i­ta­tion prac­tice from about 15 mins every few months, to about 1 hour every day.
Last Sun­day, I was lis­ten­ing to Radio […]

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Are you a specialist or a generalist?

by The Crazy Colombian on November 1, 2007

in Opinion, Personal Development

The Unawak­ened always rewards Speci­ficity.Only the Mas­ters enjoy Bal­anced Versatility.

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Spe­cial­i­sa­tion is highly regarded in this mod­ern world.I have dis­cussed career goals with many pro­fes­sion­als, and I am yet to find some­one who tells me “I want to develop a broad range of skills — I want to be a gen­er­al­ist”. But as the […]

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