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5.5 places to feed your brain

5.5 sites to feed your brain

Feeding your brain by brain_blogger @flickr

Everyone is busy … but regardless of how busy we are we all need places to head to in order to feed our brain and keep our mental faculties renewed and nourished. Everyone has different needs but I thought I would share with you five places that I recommend to feed your brain .

1. Life Coach Blog: The Discomfort Zone

This Blog is part of Tim Brownson’s overall site A Daring Adventure. Both of the hyperlinks are accurate descriptions of what Tim delivers.

His blog posts are always informative, always thought-provoking and really do challenge you to step outside your own comfort zone into the Discomfort Zone, which we all know is where the real growth occurs. Tim helps you to get going on your own daring adventure.

What I also love about Tim [but be careful, don’t let him know I said that, if you drop by his site and leave a comment  ] is his broader commitment to delivering to people who are not in a position to use his services.

2.  Tiny Buddha

This site delivers great advice in short but powerful pieces. As the name suggests these pieces are inspired by Buddhist thinking, but no matter what religious or other background you come from these pieces are thought-provoking. Even a few minutes a day contemplating the great content this delivers can make a huge difference to how you look at the world on a day-to-day basis.

3.  Indexed

Jessica Hagy uses a couple of typical diagrams over and over again, but they are NEVER the same thing.You may think that you are  familiar with Venn Diagrams and other such tools, but Jessica uses just a few words on these diagrams that often send your brain scattering thinking about the implications of what you have just observed. This site is simple but packs a powerful punch.

4. White Hot Truth

Danielle Laporte clearly demonstrates that she is a keen observer of the human condition, and she has a way with her observations that some times just bowl you over.

5. Psychotactics

It is only fair that I recommend this one with a warning! WARNING..SEAN IS ADDICTIVE.  If you visit this site and look around at Sean’s free stuff you will be struck by how it will change your thinking. Sean has a few different sites that feed off of this one (and a couple of different membership sites). The bottom line is this site is an entre into a world that contains some pretty amazing information to help you transform your business as well as becoming a part of an incredibly supportive community.

What about site 5.5?

I don’t think I need to list and describe that one…. you’re already here!

I’d love to know what sites provide your brain with the most nourishment, let me know !

When to cut them loose?

A recent comment on one of my posts talked about cutting loose the negative characters in your life.

This was a really interesting comment and one which prompted a bit of a gut reaction.

My response was that everyone deserves a compassionate response and we should only contemplate removing them from our circle of influence after we are comfortable that we have provided such a compassionate response to them.

We all have our negative times in life, for whatever reason, and we all need other people to invest their energy in us at some stage, even if we are usually full of energy ourselves and able to cope with most things in life. When we hit these periods I am sure we would all like to think that we could rely on others to provide us with a bit of a boost, without simply deciding to cut us loose.

For some people it does become clear that no matter how much we invest in them these characters are not going to change and are going to continue to be energy suckers.

It does raise an interesting question though.

What is the threshold for determining that you have done all that you can?

How do you determine that you have done all you can for the negative characters in your life? Let us know in the comments.

 

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