Alex Blackwell provides quality content at his blog The Next 45 Years. I’ve written a guest post for Alex and read his blog regularly.

Alex just completed a redesign of his blog, including a blogroll. Here’s The Next 45 Years blogroll:

• Goal Setting College
• I Will Change Your Life
• LifeHacker
• Pick The Brain
• Powerfull Living
• Slow Down Fast
• Steve Pavlina
• Synergy Institute
• Think Simple Now
• Today Is That Day
• Urban Monk
• We The Change
• Zen Habits

Thanks Alex. I’m honored to be included in such good company.

A nationwide survey was conducted to find out what people were thinking would help them achieve their business goals in 2008. At the top of the list was achieving a work-life balance. Many of us spend way too much time with our noses to the grindstone and not pursuing our passions. Whatever it is, we need to let go and stay on top of things. Read the entire post at small business trends. Read Post

There are four steps you can take, every day, to help bring fulfillment into your life, achieve happiness and help you attain success. Though it may seem impossible, taking these four steps will actually help set you up to achieve these goals and, even more importantly, will help you become a better person and define your own legacy to those around you.

Learn more - check out my post at Dumb Little Man:

Four Steps To Achieve Happiness, Fulfillment and Success in Your Life

All comments welcomed.

Do you think there is a balance between wanting more and knowing that we have everything we need? I do and you can read all about it in my post, how do we know when we have enough at dumb little man. Read Post

How do you motivate yourself? Some ways to motivate yourself are by realizing that motivation is optional, believing that if you get going you are more likely to get motivated, and open up your mind. Suit up and show up for life and keep a positive attitude; to increase your self motivation remind yourself, the next time you feel unmotivated, that it doesn’t matter that you aren’t feeling like doing it, get up and do the next right thing, and find three positive things about whatever it is that you are working on and use them for motivation. Read Post

A sweet life has harmony where there is balance for the mental and emotional stability and it is free of the inconsistencies of what we value and our actions; a post at I Will Change Your Life. Read Post

Dumb Little Man posted a sure-fire strategy to avoid making yourself look foolish at a holiday party. Read Post

PsyBlog has a post entitled Do We Know What Makes Us Happy? The main point of this post is that strategies that people use to increase their happiness actually work. Read Post