Life In Balance

How wide is your crack?

Paul Goodchild — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 03:00:04 +0000

Your "crack" is the space within which you evaluate events/stimuli in your life and respond as you see appropriate. If you don't have, or are not conscious of, this space in your mind, you are living an automated, robotic existence.

How to become a popular writer and improve your sex life

Paul Goodchild — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 04:43:55 +0000

How can we improve our writing? How can we become popular writers? Well there's a couple of simple approaches you can take, the first one being the absolutely most obvious. And then there's the question of whether being a writer improves your sex life...

How to reclaim your time with Google Reader!

Paul Goodchild — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 03:00:00 +0000

I'm not the most productive person in the world sometimes, but I hate wasting my life and doing things repetitively if there's a better, more efficient way to do it. I have set out a 5-step how-to (once you do steps 1 and 2 one-time it's only 3 steps!) to reduce the time spent going to different websites to check for content and instead use the free Google Reader.

Is youth the secret to happiness?

Paul Goodchild — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 07:42:07 +0000

There seems to be a secret kept by our youth that so many of us seem to have forgotten. They are happy, careful and joyful, why not us grown-ups? Do we have to "grow up" and be responsible? Does it work for all of us? If not, then should we be teaching the same principles to our children...?

Your money or your time: Put your life on a ledger

Paul Goodchild — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 02:00:01 +0000

A ledger is the name given to a type of book upon which transactions, typically financial, are recorded. So how do you record your life's transactions? Well it's actually quite straight forward.

Are you being specific about what you want?

Paul Goodchild — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 06:12:25 +0000

Do you know what you want now? Where do you want to be, what do you want to be doing? You will never achieve them satisfactorily unless you take a few minutes to get very specific about them. It's easy to do, and here's how...

Un-comfort zones point to our true fears

Paul Goodchild — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 16:57:53 +0000

Very often what we think we are afraid of isn't the actual cause of our anxieties, but rather it is just a trigger for much more deep-rooted fears we hold.

Coffee free living – a follow up

Paul Goodchild — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 11:25:02 +0000

A follow up article to outline some of the effects and withdrawal symptoms that going on a caffeine-free diet has brought about.

Are you in control of your coffee addiction?

Paul Goodchild — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 12:13:18 +0000

Do you need a coffee in the morning before you're functional? Is your day not complete without it? Then you're probably addicted, but breaking this habit is easy!

Hooked on prostitution

Paul Goodchild — Thu, 27 May 2010 13:02:59 +0000

Traveling in Southeast Asia presents you with a very distinct sex-tourism industry. Prostitution is rampant, but what drives these girls to this lifestyle choice? Is it all down to poverty? Are they trafficked? Turns out they're not, so why do they do it?