David Bohl
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Personalr Coach David Bohl shares the viral message "Slow Down FAST" and helps people raise the roof on all facets of their lives without risking implosion.
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Prior tornlaunching his coaching practice, David gained his life's experience and knowledge as an entrepreneur, business owner, venture capital investor, and philanthropic patron, as well as from the hierarchical world of a global investment bank.
Upon "succeeding" at each stage in his professional life, David slowly began to realize that a change was in order. It seemed that he, like most ofrnus, had bought into a seemingly impossible mandate - a relentless striving tornget further in life at almost any cost. In an effort to make up for lost time being an "absentee father," he divested himself of all of his business holdings and began his pursuit of a more enjoyable and rewarding life.
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Productivity, Efficiency, Effectiveness, and Focus - Doing The Next Right Thing
There has been an exponential explosion of information available for increasing personal productivity, so much so that it’s become known as productivity porn (or, for those active on the Net and looking to avoid spam blockers, productivity pr0n). Productivity Pr0n consists of those ...
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Exercise Can Make You Happy & Healthy
If you thought exercise was merely a necessary evil to keep your body slim and healthy, you’re missing some essential elements of what exercise is about. If you thought exercise was something you had to squeeze in between the demands of life and work because it’s supposed to be “good for you,” ...
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How To Get The Attention Of People Whom You Want To Emulate
Maybe it’s a famous wedding planner, talk show host, or a local business man or woman. Whoever it is you admire, and want to be like, has qualities that you want to possess. You may already have these qualities but just haven’t freed them from within yourself yet. Selecting someone who you look ...
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Take What You Need And Leave The Rest
You've probably heard the expression, "Take what you need and leave the rest." This sentiment is often heard in connection with meetings and with other people's opinions, in terms of taking what you can use from what is said, and leave the rest. Another take on this, from the Mind Petals blog ...
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Structured Procrastination
You probably know what procrastination is, but have you heard about "structured procrastination"? This definition, from Stanford philosophy professor John Perry, casts structured procrastination as something even "productive" people tend to do: "The list of tasks one has in mind will be ordered ...
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Workplace Unhappiness 2: Nip Those Bad Feelings in the Bud; Boost Your Subjective Well Being
In a recent discussion on my REFLECTIONS blog, we explored the concept of SWB or Subjective Well Being - your current evaluation of your unhappiness in the workplace. We determined that while many outside factors are often to blame for that "defeated" feeling that so many people experience at ...
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Trick Your Mind Into Saving Money
Most of us have been taught from a very young age by parents or grandparents that lived through the depression that the responsible thing to do is to save…. and save a lot! But living in the generation where everything is so readily available… and can be charged or financed… spending seems to ...
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Happiness Is Scientific? Who Knew?
Let's say you eat out at your favorite Chinese restaurant every Friday night. You have cashew chicken every Friday. Your spouse has a different dish almost ever week, though occasionally choosing a previous dish again, after a few weeks. Your spouse says, "You should try something different." ...
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Workplace Unhappiness 1: Isolating the Source of Your Misery
In a recent blog post entitled The Secret to Happiness, I touch upon the concept of Subjective Well Being, or SWB for short. Subjective well being refers to an individual’s current evaluation of his or her happiness. It includes: • The sense of satisfaction one feels with one’s life, both in ...
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5 Ideas For Managing Change
"Life is difficult." These words open M. Scott Peck's classic book, The Road Less Traveled. Dr. Peck might as well have said, "Life is change," because it well and truly is. We all deal with change, well or poorly, every day. The challenge for most of is not so much that we have change to deal ...
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Happiness Or Fulfillment?
We often hear someone say they're "happy and fulfilled" at a new job, with a new living situation, even as a new parent. And they surely are, or believe themselves to be, happy and fulfilled. But I wonder sometimes what we mean by these terms. Let's start with happy. Most people use the word ...
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Off the Beaten Path: How to Build A Better Vacation
Vacations, it is often said, cause nearly as much (if not more) stress as they’re supposed to alleviate. Add to that fears of global climate change, growing awareness of environmental issues associated with travel, and the aggravation and crowds that tend to converge in popular spots, and the ...
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"Be quick, but don't hurry." - John Wooden