To Find Inspiration & Motivation Blog:
http://www.bestinspirationalquotes4u.com/blog/
Category: Motivation, Personal Development

Inspiration & Motivation Blog

Today our round-the-world blog reviews take us to Bandung City in Indonesia to the blog of Arswino Sonata. One of Arswino’s favorite activities is sharing with people and inspiring them to live a happy, motivated life of success. This young and promising blog is his means to that end.

Inspiration & Motivation - Why You Should Go

We do see a lot of blogs in the blogosphere that are set up as motivational personal development blogs. To be sure, we have seen many here, not least of all because mindset and motivation are of primary importance to our host, Sean Rasmussen. It seems that each of these blogs have a slightly different take on the secret to life’s success, and a slightly different package for its delivery. Arswino’s blog, though, is truly unique.

Inspiration & Motivation aims to inspire mainly through storytelling. Arswino Sonata has a gift for locating stories with great morals for living, and it is these that he chooses to use to best illustrate his thoughts and beliefs.

Summing Up Inspiration & Motivation

Arswino’s approach to motivational blogging is thoughtful and entertaining all at the same time. It’s an easy and enjoyable place to visit, one that makes easy, short work of inspiring your day.

Go here to check out Inspiration & Motivation Blog.

Mary Ward
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Blog Review Team
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Where to Find Irene Watson:
Blog URL: http://irenewatson.typepad.com/irenes_weblog/
Category: Personal Development

Irene Watson

“Our pretentious lives can’t go any further until we face our own past. Change is possible. Healing is possible. Growth and forgiveness are possible. It is never too late to re-write your life script - the script that has been passed down for generations. It is never too late to change your life, never too late to heal.”
These are the words of introduction provided by Irene Watson on her self-titled blog. And what powerful words they are. In a few short sentences she has both identified the problem and proposed a world of possibilities to solve them, empowering all of her readers at all stages of life to seek the change that they know will make them truly happy and fulfilled.

Irene Watson - Why You Should Go

Irene’s words are powerful because they make the best living possible for anyone, no matter your upbringing or past. Irene speaks very much from experience, experience—and subsequent consequences and results– that has now been incorporated into the lessons of her newest book, The Sitting Swing: Finding Wisdom To Know The Difference (which has been reviewed on her blog by her readers, with more information available on her official website. She says that as an “author, entrepreneur, and therapist, her life has taken her on many paths, with breakthrough results and exemplar growth, to find her authentic and true self.”

Summing Up Irene Watson

Irene Watson uses her blog to share her insight and work to bring the same level of growth and authentic realization of self to her readers. This is a place of personal exploration that also looks at the effects of the larger world around you and the role that they play in re-writing your life to its optimal level of living.

Go here to check out Irene Watson.

Mary Ward
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Blog Review Team
Do You Digg It! © 2008

Where to Find On Simplicity:
Blog URL: http://www.onsimplicity.net/
Category: Simplicity, Personal Development

On Simplicity

Sara is a girl on a mission, too—a mission to get more out of life by paring it down to the essentials. She believes in the power of simplicity, whatever that may mean to you, and in “amplifying life’s pleasures by clearing out the clutter…” Her blog is a practical guide to achieving simplicity as she learns it herself through her own personal efforts at “creating a happier, easier, more enjoyable life…”

On Simplicity - Why You Should Go

Simplicity means many things to many people, and so one of the missions of this blog is to clarify that meaning. Recognizing that the ideal of simplicity is personal, Sara offers her definition of what simplicity means and can be to her, but encourages readers to add their own for their own personal development. For Sara, though, simplicity is ” stripping everything away from our lives: assumptions, preconceptions, fears and dreams, and then keeping only the things that we truly value. It’s about being happy with enough, and finding contentment from within.”

The posts at On Simplicity vary, with all aimed at helping readers find their individual paths to simplicity and contentment; on any given day that may include how-to posts, tips and tricks, or insights and inspirations. It’s an interesting enough and effective enough mix to keep you coming back, and to have engaged a healthy community of readers and commenters.

Summing Up On Simplicity

There are few lives that couldn’t benefit from some worthwhile paring down to the simpler side of life. This is a blog that has the goods to help you do that, one that you’ll find interesting, insightful, and useful as you work towards less, and enjoy less more.

Go here to check out On Simplicity.

Mary Ward
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Blog Review Team
Do You Digg It! © 2008

Where to Find Wealth & Wisdom:
Blog URL: http://blog.wealth-and-wisdom.com/
Category: Personal Development, Wealth

Wealth & Wisdom

Wealth and wisdom go hand in hand; that is the foundation of B Smith’s Wealth & Wisdom blog. Those terms as applied to this blog mean a variety of things—wealth and wisdom are not only financial; they are also personal, emotional, professional, and much more. This is a blog that is aimed at helping you become a personal success in all parts of your life, a truly holistic approach to success and happiness, focused largely on entrepreneurship, but so applicable across the board.

Wealth & Wisdom – Why You Should Go

B. Smith embraces Vilfredo Pareto’s 80/20 principal (whereby 80% of wealth is controlled by 20% of the population) to give readers both focus and perspective; but where others will focus on life in the 80th percentile, Smith encourages you towards bigger success—the real advice that helps you succeed as one of the wealthy, the top 20% of people that produce results. His take is inherently more action-focused, providing the useful advice that it takes to be better than average.

Summing Up Wealth & Wisdom

B. Smith has a firm understanding of what real success is, and recognizes that it goes far beyond financial achievement. His posts and the information provided on his site are thus geared to tackle success through every imaginable avenue, including communication, life balance, finance, wealth, and life lessons. It’s an in-depth look at what it really takes to be a life success, and a valuable resource for anyone who is really serious about living better than the vast majority of the world.

Go here to check out Wealth & Wisdom.

Mary Ward
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Blog Review Team
Do You Digg It! © 2008

Where to Find Work Happy Now:
Blog URL: http://www.workhappynow.com/
Category: Work, Life Coaching

Work Happy Now!

There are many sites and many experts whose intended goal is to show you how to perfect a whole-life overhaul for more happiness and more success. But that is not what Karl Staib’s Work Happy Now! blog is about. You see, Karl doesn’t believe that you have to completely overhaul your life in order to be happy or to enjoy success. After extensive research Karl has come to the conclusion that you can change your state of being and enjoy that success in your current field and position—you just have to know how to maximize your resources and experiences.

Work Happy Now! - Why You Should Go

Maximize your resources and experiences. Sound simple, doesn’t it? At it’s heart it likely is, but as humans we know that it takes more for us to adapt and change than a good, simple idea. Still, it helps to know that life improvement is possible, particularly when the target area—your job or career—consumes so much of it. And so “The Work Happy Guy” Staib has developed his blog—and an entire consulting business—around helping people find joy and fulfillment in what they are already doing. He sums up the intent of his blog quite well, saying “Maximizing your work happiness should be the theme of your working life. Happiness creates success. When you stop putting in the hours and start extracting joy from work, you’ll be successful.”

Summing Up Work Happy Now!

Very basically Karl Staib’s blog speaks to the question, “”I want more happiness. How do I get it?” It’s a simple concept but an effective and important topic, and Karl Staib confronts it head-on, detailing the small and large changes in work and perception that you can make to live happily and elicit success no matter what you do.

Go here to check out Work Happy Now!

Mary Ward
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Blog Review Team
Do You Digg It! © 2008

Where to Find The Happiness Project:
Blog URL: http://www.happiness-project.com/
Category: Personal Development, Self Improvement

The Happiness Project

Ever feel like there is just too much information out there telling you how to live well and prosper? Feeling overwhelmed by the sheer volume of information and experts all trying to show you how to finally live well and achieve life happiness? Maybe Gretchen Rubin can help. The Happiness Project is a blog where Gretchen shares insight and thoughts gleaned from her year spent studying the best and the worst of happiness and self-improvement theory. She hopes to learn from that experience to offer up the most useful of it, and some valuable insight into the less than stellar.

The Happiness Project - Why You Should Go

Unless you are ready to give up on happiness, and we certainly hope you are not, you may need some help finding the resources that truly work to help you achieve it. Gretchen Rubin, Yale-educated lawyer-turned-accomplished author, spent a year of her life “test-driving every principle, tip, theory, and scientific study I could find, whether from Aristotle or St. Therese or Martin Seligman or Oprah.” Her latest work is a compilation of her experiences in the form of a book, also named The Happiness Project which is due out from Harper Collins in 2009. In it she will “gather these rules for living and report on what works and what doesn‚Äôt.”‚ĶHas the sound of a true guide for living, doesn’t it?
Just to add credit to her name and efforts, know that Gretchen Rubin has been recognized and interviewed by the professional media, including Matt Lauer from The Today Show and Brian Lamb from Booknotes; she’s also been profiled in The New Yorker’s ‘Talk of the Town’, among many others.

Summing Up The Happiness Project

In many ways you can think of Gretchen Rubin’s blog as a sort of sneak-peak at her upcoming book. The blog is, as she describes, a memoir of the year she spent studying happiness in its many forms and reincarnations. In addition Gretchen has offered many resources, including a Happiness Library, Wednesday Tip Day, and her 12 Commandments for Living (simple, yet inspiring). The blog is chock full with material, all of it focusing on the one most important thing in life‚Ķthe personal happiness of every individual! Think what a better place the world would be if we were all happy and got along‚Ķ

Go here to check out The Happiness Project.

Mary Ward
Do You Digg It!
Blog Review Team
Do You Digg It! © 2008