Because something is urgent, because you can do it, or because you are good at doing it, doesn’t make it important or meaningful. Have you ever found yourself investing a lot of time achieving something, only to realize that it doesn’t make a big difference in your life? Like a Law student getting his diploma ...…
What are the weekly challenges? Living a life worth living doesn’t have to be complicated. There are plenty of things you can do each and every day to make your life more meaningful, without spending money or traveling to the other side of the world. Each week, you will find here a new challenge, something ...…
In this article I will talk about the key ingredients needed in order to build and maintain long lasting relationships. The below works for any kind of relationship, be it friendship or intimate ones. It is important to know how to keep these kinds of relationships healthy, as some studies show that good relationships improve ...…
What are the weekly challenges? Living a life worth living doesn’t have to be complicated. There are plenty of things you can do each and every day to make your life more meaningful, without spending money or traveling to the other side of the world. Each week, you will find here a new challenge, something ...…
In several conversations I had recently (with readers and friends) people were telling me that one of their biggest problems was ‘Procrastination‘: They know what they have to do, but they cannot resolve to do it, and they keep postponing it for a later time/date. Procrastination is clearly a major problem when it comes to fulfilling ...…
What are the weekly challenges? Living a life worth living doesn’t have to be complicated. There are plenty of things you can do each and every day to make your life more meaningful, without spending money or traveling to the other side of the world. Each week, you will find here a new challenge, something ...…
What does it mean to be alive? Do you really think that breathing is enough to qualify? What about passion, excitement and thrill? Can you remember the last time you really felt passionate about something? Did you achieve enough of your dreams so that you can now die with a smile on your face and ...…
What are the weekly challenges? Living a life worth living doesn’t have to be complicated. There are plenty of things you can do each and every day to make your life more meaningful, without spending money or traveling to the other side of the world. Each week, you will find here a new challenge, something ...…
Let’s go back in time. Way back, in fact. When you were a baby, crawling on the floor. How did you go from there to being able to walk? Did it happen all in a sudden? Of course not! It took a long time! First, you learned how to roll, so that you were able ...…
I’m saying it again and again: our brain is a piece of Art. And today I’m referring more particularly to its ability to lock onto an objective and achieve it. In many ways, it behaves like a guided missile, so I’ll continue to use that analogy through this article. The Power Of Negative Feedback Unless ...…
You Are Who You Think You Are How comes that a person who went through plastic surgery can still consider herself as not attractive after the process, even if everyone else is telling her otherwise? How comes that a person doing a diet and losing a lot of weight is going back to overweight, despite ...…
Do you trust your instincts? Many successful people attribute their success to their ability to trust their “gut feeling”. That’s great, and many of us would like to emulate that. But according to some studies, and based on a book I’ve just read (more on this in a minute), not all your instincts ought to ...…
What are the weekly challenges? Living a life worth living doesn’t have to be complicated. There are plenty of things you can do each and every day to make your life more meaningful, without spending money or traveling to the other side of the world. Each week, you will find here a new challenge, something ...…
What are the weekly challenges? Living a life worth living doesn’t have to be complicated. There are plenty of things you can do each and every day to make your life more meaningful, without spending money or traveling to the other side of the world. Each week, you will find here a new challenge, something ...…
I’m a huge believer in the power of Persistence. I’ve developed a system around it, and I strongly believe it is one of the best skills one can possess. But it seems that some readers have a misconception around Persistence, and this misconception could be the cause of big troubles. In essence, they are paralyzed, not ...…
What are the weekly challenges? Living a life worth living doesn’t have to be complicated. There are plenty of things you can do each and every day to make your life more meaningful, without spending money or traveling to the other side of the world. Each week, you will find here a new challenge, something ...…
Last week-end I went to a very nice place called WuXie, a marvelous natural environment with 5 waterfalls. And because I am currently thinking about running barefoot, I wanted to seize that opportunity to walk barefoot and get used to it. Sounds easy, right? I just have to stop walking, take off my shoes and socks, and ...…
In the last few days I’ve broken my patterns and been put off-track quite a bit. My 2 year old daughter went to the hospital last Monday and stayed there for 6 days (pneumonia), with intra-vascular and other non-enjoyable things. I stayed in a chair beside her all the time. Literally. Not the best days ...…
What are the weekly challenges? Living a life worth living doesn’t have to be complicated. There are plenty of things you can do each and every day to make your life more meaningful, without spending money or traveling to the other side of the world. Each week, you will find here a new challenge, something ...…
Today we’re going to touch an important topic: Energy Management. In fact, this is critical and often overlooked. Let’s face it: even if you use a very good Time Management system and are very well organized, you won’t go very far if you have no energy when the time to act comes. This is what ...…
What are the weekly challenges? Living a life worth living doesn’t have to be complicated. There are plenty of things you can do each and every day to make your life more meaningful, without spending money or traveling to the other side of the world. Each week, you will find here a new challenge, something ...…
“First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.” ~Aristotle Knowing what you want to do is great, but it is only the first step. Today we are going to focus on ...…
What are the weekly challenges? Living a life worth living doesn’t have to be complicated. There are plenty of things you can do each and every day to make your life more meaningful, without spending money or traveling to the other side of the world. Each week, you will find here a new challenge, something ...…
When you are not growing, you are dying. This is true for all living organism on earth, including us. And the same is true for our brain cells. What does growing means in our daily life? It means learning new things, expand our knowledge and our own boundaries, becoming more of who we really are and ...…
What are the weekly challenges? Living a life worth living doesn’t have to be complicated. There are plenty of things you can do each and every day to make your life more meaningful, without spending money or traveling to the other side of the world. Each week, you will find here a new challenge, something ...…
What are the weekly challenges? Living a life worth living doesn’t have to be complicated. There are plenty of things you can do each and every day to make your life more meaningful, without spending money or traveling to the other side of the world. Each week, you will find here a new challenge, something ...…
“Don’t dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.” ~Denis Waitley Today I’m going to talk about what I call the “Daily-6“, and this technique may very well revolutionize your productivity level. And it all starts with a story… The story of ...…
What are the weekly challenges? Living a life worth living doesn’t have to be complicated. There are plenty of things you can do each and every day to make your life more meaningful, without spending money or traveling to the other side of the world. Each week, you will find here a new challenge, something ...…
For many of us, commuting is a daily reality. Whether you take the bus, the metro, the train, your car or any other mean of transport, I am sure that you would prefer to simply teleport yourself to your destination, if it was only possible. But it is not possible, and we have to live ...…
What are the weekly challenges? Living a life worth living doesn’t have to be complicated. There are plenty of things you can do each and every day to make your life more meaningful, without spending money or traveling to the other side of the world. Each week, you will find here a new challenge, something ...…
In the future, I will probably add more and more articles about Time & Energy Management. In order to start on that topic, today I will focus on one of the fundamentals of Time Management, which I call “The Big Stones Story”. This metaphor is quite famous and has been used in many books on Time Management ...…
What are the weekly challenges? Living a life worth living doesn’t have to be complicated. There are plenty of things you can do each and every day to make your life more meaningful, without spending money or traveling to the other side of the world. Each week, you will find here a new challenge, something ...…
The below is an extract from the day 65 of my “Unstoppable Home-Study Program“. It is about fear, and how to fight that beast. I think you’ll find this interesting… Fear Factor 1. The Forrest Gump Principle If you have seen that great movie, Forrest Gump, you probably remember that that guy, with an IQ ...…
What are the weekly challenges? Living a life worth living doesn’t have to be complicated. There are plenty of things you can do each and every day to make your life more meaningful, without spending money or traveling to the other side of the world. Each week, you will find here a new challenge, something ...…
What are the weekly challenges? Living a life worth living doesn’t have to be complicated. There are plenty of things you can do each and every day to make your life more meaningful, without spending money or traveling to the other side of the world. Each week, you will find here a new challenge, something ...…
What are the weekly challenges? Living a life worth living doesn’t have to be complicated. There are plenty of things you can do each and every day to make your life more meaningful, without spending money or traveling to the other side of the world. Each week, you will find here a new challenge, something ...…
In one year, you will be the exact same person as today, except for the people you meet and the books you read. I will talk about the people another time. Today we are going to focus on the ‘reading’ part. This is a sequel to my older post “Successful People Have Big Libraries“. It is ...…
What are the weekly challenges? Living a life worth living doesn’t have to be complicated. There are plenty of things you can do each and every day to make your life more meaningful, without spending money or traveling to the other side of the world. Each week, you will find here a new challenge, something ...…
All the successful people and the Personal Development gurus seem to agree on one point: doing something you love is a key to success and to fulfillment. That being said, people often confess to me that they have no idea about what they love. After so many years doing what others were asking them to ...…
What are the weekly challenges? Living a life worth living doesn’t have to be complicated. There are plenty of things you can do each and every day to make your life more meaningful, without spending money or traveling to the other side of the world. Each week, you will find here a new challenge, something ...…
There is a task you have to do. You know you have to do it. And yet, there is a little voice in your head trying to convince you that it is not that important, that you should rather do something else. Have you noticed that little voice? Maybe you don’t call it the “little ...…
What are the weekly challenges? Living a life worth living doesn’t have to be complicated. There are plenty of things you can do each and every day to make your life more meaningful, without spending money or traveling to the other side of the world. Each week, you will find here a new challenge, something ...…
In the below lines I would like to celebrate the achievement of one of my projects, and you will receive a gift in the process. Last year in June I decided that I needed to learn the Chinese characters. First of all, it will help me a lot in my daily life, as I have ...…
What are the weekly challenges? Living a life worth living doesn’t have to be complicated. There are plenty of things you can do each and every day to make your life more meaningful, without spending money or traveling to the other side of the world. Each week, you will find here a new challenge, something ...…
The law of attraction states that “like attracts like” and that “what we focus on expands“. Most people (in books, video, blogs…) tried to explain this wish tortuous theories around positive thinking or even quantum physics, making it a very controversial topic. In the below lines I will offer my own ideas about the topic, ...…
What are the weekly challenges? Living a life worth living doesn’t have to be complicated. There are plenty of things you can do each and every day to make your life more meaningful, without spending money or traveling to the other side of the world. Each week, you will find here a new challenge, something ...…
In the next few lines you will discover how few very common words are having subtle but real and bad consequences in your daily life. The words you use are of the utmost importance when it comes to achieving the life you desire. After all, you think with these words, and many of these thoughts ...…
What are the weekly challenges? Living a life worth living doesn’t have to be complicated. There are plenty of things you can do each and every day to make your life more meaningful, without spending money or traveling to the other side of the world. Each week, you will find here a new challenge, something ...…
Here is an article I wrote for Quick Online Tips: Successful Blogging Needs More Than Just Willpower Enjoy! -Laurent Vigneron Picture: © Helder Almeida – Fotolia.com…
Any meaningful project requires time, and any long-time project will require motivation to reach completion. Here you will discover 5 easy techniques you can use to boost your motivation. Technique 1: Create a reward system I don’t know about you, but I am usually a lot more motivated to learn my daily 15 Chinese characters ...…
One of my favorite video is a motivational speech that was given by a coach to his team just before a football match. It gets me energized each time I watch it. You can find it in the Best-Of-Video section. But however how inspiring it is, it lacks some concepts that are dear to my heart, so ...…
If you don’t have a bucket-list yet, it is now time for your to create one. And of course, it is not just a matter of having the list, it is more a matter of making it happen. Each month, each quarter or each year, go through your list and see what you can set ...…
Inspiration can come anytime. And honestly, it often comes when it is the less convenient for us to capture it. For most of the people I know, inspiration usually comes when they are in the shower, jogging in the park or while commuting from work. And if you don’t capture these moments of inspiration, they’re ...…
I once read a story on the Internet, a kind of tale. This story was about experience, and it really touched me. Unfortunately, despite several attempts, I never managed to find this story again. So I recreated it to be able to share it with you. Here it is… Around one century ago, somewhere in China, a man ...…
Not only I am in this movie, but I even speak! Not only I speak, but I even sing! I was even the French coach for the main male character in the movie, how good is that! You can read more about this fantastic experience under the video, but right now let’s enjoy my small ...…
The title of this post is actually a quote from Jim Rohn. Here are two other quotes, from people I hope you already heard about… “Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and ...…
Here is a short video where I talk about some goals from my list that are already achieved. From Driving a Lamborghini to riding a camel, from touching a tiger (alive) to riding an elephant, I hope this can give you some ideas for your own list… Enjoy!…
Talking with people weeks after weeks, and each time asking them questions about their week-end, it stroke me how the answer was consistently ‘as usual, nothing special‘. So much so that I decided to open up and share my feelings with one of the ones I like the most, and I would like to share ...…
While most people who have climbed Mt FUJI did it from Station 5, with Benjamin, my ‘Mt FUJI Buddy’, we decided to make it more meaningful and to start from the very bottom of the volcano,the Yoshidaguchi trail through the magnificent forest. We were afraid to meet a bear, but I was lucky enough to ...…
What you are going to learn in the following lines is VERY IMPORTANT. Without this concept, all the rest of this book will be useless. This is a very powerful concept, and understanding it might be one of the most important things in your life. Do you know the key difference between very successful people ...…
This was a challenge to myself, as I am experiencing height vertigo… so it was a test to see how I would be able to handle my fears. I was surprisingly calm all the way up to the air, but when they opened the door and all the wind came in, I experienced a sudden ...…
