All posts in category Scanner Personality/ Renaissance Soul

Book Review: Refuse to Choose! A revolutionary program for doing everything that you love

Refuse to Choose! A revolutionary program for doing everything that you love Barbara Sher, 2006 ISBN: 1-59486-303-2 After recently reading Margaret Lobenstine’s The Renaissance Soul: Life Design for People with Too Many Passions to Pick Just One, I was expecting Refuse to Choose! A revolutionary program for doing everything that you love to be much [...]

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How to get boring jobs done

While I’m still on the topic of Scanners and Renaissance Souls, it’s time to cover the issue of boredom. Being excited by many different things has a corollary effect of experiencing insane boredom when you’re not doing the things you feel passionate about. But while you can fill up your time with varied and interesting [...]

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How to finish any project you start

Insights from Refuse to Choose! A revolutionary program for doing everything that you love – Barbara Sher Chapter Eight: I never finish anything This chapter of Barbara’s book looks at what it means to finish a project and provides some unconventional strategies for finishing everything you start. Scanners in particular have a lot of difficulty [...]

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Too busy to do what you love?

I have been reading Refuse to Choose!: A Revolutionary Program for Doing Everything That You Love by Barbara Sher this week and last night I was up reading the chapter titled Too busy to do what I love. I didn’t even realise it applied to me until I was a few pages in, and then [...]

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Book Review: The Renaissance Soul: Life Design for People with Too Many Passions to Pick Just One

The Renaissance Soul: Life Design for People with Too Many Passions to Pick Just One Margaret Lobenstine, 2006 ISBN: 978-0-7679-2088-9 I had a job interview with a computer programming company yesterday, and one of the questions was “so, what computer programming projects do you do when you get home from work?” I explained that I [...]

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How to succeed when you want to do everything

I received another insight while reading The Renaissance Soul: Life Design for People with Too Many Passions to Pick Just One by Margaret Lobenstine over the past few days. I am enjoying this book – I really enjoy a book that makes me think. Anyway, to the description of this insight! Well first I’ll explain [...]

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The Scanner Personality

Insights from I could do anything if I only knew what it was – Barbara Sher Chapter Six: I Want Too Many Things; I’m All Over The Map I’ve been carrying in the back of my mind an idea put forward by Stephen Covey in First Things First, if you’re aiming to reach the top [...]

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