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Good
afternoon <$firstname$>,
As
promised last week, today I want to introduce you to a brilliant
man whose work I discovered only a short while ago : Steve
Pavlina, in his own words, is perhaps the most intensely
growth-oriented individual you will ever meet.
But
first a big Thank You for the overwhelming response to my
new COMPASS broadcast
last Friday - many of you have renewed their subscriptions
to receive my eNewsletter at an additional address, others
just confirmed so they could download my article BEGINNING
OF A JOURNEY as their Thank You gift.
A
special note of gratitude goes to all of you who have forwarded
COMPASS to friends last week - quite a number of new subscribers
have appeared on my mailing list. It is very encouraging
to see how many people are genuinely interested in improving
their lives.
And
this is exactly where Steve Pavlina comes in - when I read
his first article about two months ago I couldn't believe
my luck : I had discovered a goldmine ! His style is exploratory,
clear, to the point and always brings home an important
aspect of how life really works.
The
goal of his
website with the subtitle Personal Development
for Smart People is to help you achieve outstanding
effectiveness while maintaining internal balance, where
your thoughts, feelings, actions, and skills are all working
together to create the life you truly desire. What could
be more descriptive and inspiring ?
Most
of his articles are not exactly short, but they are always
exhaustive - never exhausting; I immediately identified
with his viewpoints and experiences, which is gratifying
when you suspect that some of your own opinions stray
quite a bit from the social norm.
What
Steve says about Dealing
With Tragedy and Loss, for example, echos precisely
what I wrote about in my article GRIEF when my father died
in 2004.
One
of his more broadly based articles is The
Meaning of Life : How shall we Live? What I liked
very much is that the first thing he does there is explore
what past civilisations knew about this topic - "Let's
Ask the Old Greeeks About It". I am doing something
very similar with an article about Hercules I am writing
at the moment.
Right
now I am reading a book called "Ask
and It Is Given" by Esther and Jerry Hicks
with the subtitle 'Learning to Manifest Your Desires' -
Steve says this is the book the film 'The
Secret' is based on, which he has seen recently.
I am still trying to find a copy on DVD here in Cape Town.
The Foreword to the book is by Wayne Dyer, who is among
my all-time favourite authors : his work has been instrumental
in my own personal growth.
Frankly, I could go on and on about the absolute wealth
of information on self development that can be found on
Steve Pavlina's site, with direct links to hundreds of his
articles, but I don't want to make this posting too long.
Decide for yourself and join me in also bookmarking
his blog in your browser - personally, I am RSS-feeding
it into My Yahoo! homepage so that I can check on his contributions
easily every day. If you are reading COMPASS, you are certainly
among the smart people Steve Pavlina is addressing.
Until
next time, all the best from :
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9
June 2006
"A
mind once stretched
by a new idea
never regains its
original dimensions."
Oliver Wendell Holmes
1841 - 1935
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