Monthly Archives: May 2008

Avoid penalties

By Gal Baras | Published: May 15, 2008
Motivation, as you may know, has two sides: pain and pleasure. Unfortunately, pain is a stronger motivator. At the same time, being inundated by threats creates an atmosphere of fear and stress. Who wants to live like this? One day, I was standing at the post office, waiting to be served, and in front of [...]
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Charity vs. Life Coaching

By Gal Baras | Published: May 14, 2008
I have a feeling this post will get some responses, so by all means, if you have something to say, post a comment below. As a life coach, my role is to empower people. From my point of view, every person has all the power in the world to achieve great and wonderful things, but [...]
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Is your computer (or your TV) controlling your life?

By Gal Baras | Published: May 13, 2008
Some time ago, I attended a seminar, which wasn't supposed to be about personal growth (it was meant to be rather technical), but ended up having more personal growth content than anything else. Unlike others in the room, I was pretty happy about it.
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Get a life coach

By Gal Baras | Published: May 8, 2008
In recent years, there is a booming industry of self-proclaimed personal growth gurus, who claim to be able to unparalleled impart wisdom on the masses without leaving the comfort of their home, through the Internet or the telephone or maybe from the stage. To a certain extent, this works, because many more people get information [...]
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What do you think of yourself?

By Gal Baras | Published: May 6, 2008
The thing with beliefs is that we make decisions based on them. So you might expect people to confirm their beliefs and validate them before using them to decide what to do, especially in matters of importance. Well, as scary as this may seem, they don't. Oh, and neither do you.
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Leap of Faith – How to Become Great

By Gal Baras | Published: May 2, 2008
Our modern culture is full of “get <something> quick” books, seminars, presentations, advertising and so on – get rich quick, get personal growth quick, get instant cash, get instant hair growth – we’ve all seen them everywhere. In many of them, the source presents the argument “If I can do it, so can you!”Moreover, the [...]
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