The Demise of Childhood Education – From Singing, Dancing, Drawing and Playing to Composition, Calculus, Quantum Physics and Geology

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An Imbalance Shift in Childhood Education

My wife is coming back to school from giving an early childhood education to our two little ones. She is an artist who had signed up as an art teacher six years ago. Unfortunately or fortunately, she was hijacked by me one year into her teaching contract. From a passionate art teacher she became a passionate lover and  mummy for the last 4 years.

Now that our children are fast approaching the next phase of childhood education, she is able to again contemplate coming back into the school system to complete her teaching contract. This was where we had a good discussion about which school she should go back to teach in.

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What Navigating in the Jungle can Teach you about Creating Your Life?

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Navigating and Creating your Life in the Jungle

My hand was held five inches in front of my face, yet, I could not see it. It was pitched dark. All around me, I could see nothing except the little cylum light indicator of my compass. There was some uncomfortable and quite chattering behind me as I led my company through the uncompromising jungles of Brunei. Navigating and creating your life in the jungle is a whole new ball game.

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What Can Quitting Teach? 6 Lessons from a Major Failure

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I recently confronted myself with the ideas of quitting again. It started when I joined a discussion thread online in a blog regarding succeeding in blogging. Many of the bloggers were trying to figure out why do so many bloggers quit the game?

Many reasons for quitting were suggested. These range from the choosing of the wrong niche to the vision of making it quick. A fairly high percentage of bloggers are basically lazy who do not want to put in the hard work.

All this talk about quitting led me back to a time in my life where I QUIT.

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Paddles, Portages and Pings on Leadership Traits

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This is another fantastic guest post from my good friend, Shahrill of Nuquest on leadership traits. He is certainly someone who has contributed many leadership articles to this site.

Adventures out at Sea and Some Leadership Traits

I never knew that a sea adventure could reveal so much leadership traits. After five long days of a very intensive workshop in Kuala Lumpur sometime last year, a group of us – my two other consultants and myself , decided to go for a “canoeing” adventure in Selangor river in Kuala Kubu Bahru. In the process we had resurfaced some of the best leadership traits for us to learn.

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20 Ways to Build Healthy Relationships in the Family

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Today’s Wednesday post on relationship/emotional development talks about some practical ways to build healthy relationships in the family.

The Keys to Healthy Relationships in the Family

Psychologists and family counselors have found in their research and work that sound and healthy relationships in a family are a direct result of common activities, ownership and appreciation of each other. A family that is able to engage in activities that touches on all three of these three key domains inevitably stays together.

Here are 20 practical ways that you can use to build healthy relationships with your family. In doing so, your family and you will have so much more fun.

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10 Healthy Habits that Will Energize you Immediately

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In today’s post on physical development, we will be examining 10 Healthy Habits that Will Energize you Immediately.

Building Healthy Habits is the Secret to Good Physical Health

I am often asked as a Physical Education teacher, “What is good health?”, “How can we build good health?”, “What are healthy habits to adopt?” and son. It seems that good health is everywhere but many people have not a clue about how they can build healthy habits for good health effectively and safely.

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10 Key Characteristics for Success

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Defining the Characteristics of Success

Characteristics of successIn investigating some of the characteristics of success, many people have tracked the lives a wide range of people. From Olympic champions like Mike Spitz, to Nobel laureates like Muhammad Yunus, to billionaire business moguls like Sir Richard Branson; these outstanding successes of our times all possess certain characteristics of success.

If someone were to ask for the formula of success, it is definitely sound advice to say that to achieve success, all we have to do is replicate the characteristics of success. Here then are ten key characteristics of success that all successful people possess consciously or unconsciously.

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The Importance of a Personal Development Plan

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Start Your Personal Development Plan Today!

When I was writing this post on the importance of a personal development plan, this quote rings loudly to me.

“If you want to awaken all of humanity, then awaken all of yourself.
If you want to eliminate the suffering in the world,
then eliminate all that is dark and negative in yourself.
Truly, the greatest gift you have to give is that of
your own self-transformation.”

- Lao Tzu

The power of making a difference in the lives of others starts with us. Only through the deliberate efforts of a personal development plan will we be able to become more effective in helping solve some of the world’s greatest issues.

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The 7 Link Challenge on Blogging

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My Blogging Journey

BloggingMy blogging journey started three months ago. Prior to that, I had two experimental blogs. I call them experimental because I was still finding my feed with regards to blogging. Plus, I ended up realizing that the subjects for those two blogs were not exactly something I was passionate about deep inside.

That experimentation lasted about two years with little results. In that two years plus, my thinking became more refined and my passion became more obvious. I realized that I was really very excited and capable about personal development. That was when Life Architects was born.

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7 Reasons to Contribute to Society

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Today’s Fridays’ weekly article on non-material and learning development talks about the 7 Reasons to Contribute to Society.

 

My Two Cents to Contribute to Society

Two days ago, I experienced an uplifting moment. It was a simple act of good deed on my part. On a train ride home from work, I offered my seat up to an older man. Many younger people who are much younger than me seemed oblivious to the needs to this old man. In a certain way, I have made a small difference to someone else’s life. I was able to contribute to society.

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Our Common List of Emotions in Life

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Today’s Wednesdays’ weekly article on emotional and relationship development talks about Our Common List of Emotions in Life.


 The Significance and Definition of Your List of Emotions

Our list of emotions that we experience on a daily basis rules our life. Emotions are often the underlying cause of all decision making. Learning to master our list of emotions in life will substantially improve our life. Do you know your own list of emotions in life?

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What is Health?

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In today’s post we examine the very fundamental of physical development – what is health?

What is Health? – The Global Quest for Health

What is healthWhen answering a question like “what is health?” it is important to know that the health industry today is a multi-billion dollar industry. From the gyms that cater to building better physical shapes and fitness, to the supplements that millions take, health is big money in the modern world.

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What is Personal Development?

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Do you know what is personal development?

What is personal development?Have you ever come across the subject of personal development or self help? When you are browsing your local bookstore, do you notice that there is always a section devoted to self help, personal development or inspiration. Do you wonder what is personal development?

For those of you who are new to the subject on personal development, this is the best starting point for you in your journey to a better life. For those veterans in this area of study, it should be another point of view to a very familiar and important subject.

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ANNOUNCEMENT: New Posting Schedules for Life Architects’ Personal Development

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Starting today, Life Architects will be adopting a more systematical approach to personal development for you. In order to help you learn more readily in personal development, all posts will now be released in a well defined manner to according to the Life Architects’ P.E.R.S.O.N.A.L framework of personal development. Through this, we hope to provide you with a regular feed of personal development information so that all areas of your life can be improved.

From now on, articles at Life Architects will follow the topical release of articles as below:

Saturdays to Mondays 

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If You Were To Live Your Life Again, What Would You Change?

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“If I had to live my life again, I’d make the same mistakes, only sooner.”

- Tallulah Bankhead

 

Living Life Experiencing Distress

It was a most depressing end to the day. Once again, our differences in parenting have led to those flash points again. My wife and I argued over how we should discipline our girl again today. My daughter is just one feisty little girl.

At four, she is already insisting on her rights in a forceful manner. She has developed a habit of giving us the defying look whenever we reject her requests. That really triggers me.

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How to be Happy? – Chasing the Elusive Butterfly of Happiness

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“Happiness is always a by-product.  It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular.  But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness. ”

~Robertson Davies

 

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10 Methods to Finding Purpose and Meaning of Life

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Finding Purpose and Meaning of Life

Meaning of LifeFinding our purpose and meaning of life is one of the most profound issues in our societies. No matter where you are from, there are bound to be people seeking answers to this area of their life. Purpose brings meaning to life. Finding your purpose and meaning of life can often be a very complicated process.

There is much literature out there for you to read and discover. But you would also find that many writers do not present a whole range of methods or techniques for finding purpose and meaning of life. In completing this series, I hope that you are now equipped with some of these tools to start your journey.

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How to Find the Purpose and Meaning of Life? – Method 10

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“Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.”

- William Butler Yeats

 

I hope that you have enjoyed this series on finding your purpose and meaning of life so far. As I write this series, I have also experienced great things along the way. Researching and writing these methods have also clarified my own purpose and meaning of life. By doing some of this exercises myself; I have also refined some of these methods for your use.

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Using the Law of Attraction to Speed up the Attraction Process

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“Be thankful for what you have, you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never ever have enough.”

- Oprah Winfrey

 

The Law of Attraction

Law of AttractionEveryone would love to learn how to attract their desires a lot faster using the law of attraction. First you must learn to understand the universal laws and how they work. Its’ a fact of life that our very existence depends on our understanding of how the universe works. Lack of understand leads to frustration.

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How to Find the Purpose and Meaning of Life? – Method 9

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“You were born with an inner guidance system that tells you when you are on or off purpose by the amount of joy you are experiencing. The things that bring you the greatest joy are in alignment with your purpose.”

― Jack Canfield

 

Different Methods, Different Indicators on Meaning of Life

For purpose and meaning of life, Steve Pavlina’s method and Gary Zukav’s method offers searching deep into the soul. The key indicator for Pavlina was reaching a state of emotional attachment. For Zukav, the indicator was the feelings of the soul. Today’s method has another indicator of purpose – the state of Joy.

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