Author Archives: Andrew Halfacre

About Andrew Halfacre

I can help you figure out what you really want and recover the motivation to go after it.

Do What You Love and Do It Often

The Holstee Manifesto

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Mirror of EADT Interview Feb 2012

This is a mirror of an interview I did last year with East Anglian Daily Times. It’s posted here in case it ever disappears from their site. You can read the original (with pictures!) using this link: Article Link on … Continue reading

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Van Gogh Decides To Learn To Draw

I cannot tell you how happy I am to have taken up drawing again. I’ve been thinking of it but always considered the thing impossible and beyond my reach. Age 27, Vincent Van Gogh decided to learn to draw, something … Continue reading

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I Really Did Mean ‘Senses’ Not ‘Emotions’

Dave Wild via Compfight Here’s my reply to a question on Lateral Action back in March about one of the techniques in the book. I’ve had a recent set of questions about it again so I thought it was worth … Continue reading

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What Job Are You Hiring Yourself To Do?

Dom Dada via Compfight Consider the last product you bought. What job were you hiring it to do for you? If you bought a dustbin/trashcan you hired it to sit there and be a secure place for your waste. When … Continue reading

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Michael Neill – The DOR Model

Scott Wills via Compfight What does seem to matter is two things: The first is clarifying your desire – getting really clear and honest with yourself about what it is that you’d most love to happen, even if you don’t … Continue reading

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You need more Art…

Alessandro Pautasso via Compfight   Art is at the heart of every civilization, of every major technological, scientific, political and philosophical breakthrough. There can be no civilization without art because there can be no civilization without culture. Humans physically cannot … Continue reading

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Two things you might love this weekend

drurydrama (Len Radin) via Compfight First, Paul Graham’s article on How To Do What You Love. To do something well you have to like it. That idea is not exactly novel. We’ve got it down to four words: “Do what … Continue reading

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You Know What You Are

Piero… via Compfight A man has only one destiny. I’ve seen too many struggle to make themselves something they aren’t. They waste precious time. Finally they go disappointed to their graves, seeing too late the futility of their lives. If … Continue reading

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That First Day Back From Holiday…

Lefteris Katsouromallis via Compfight There’s a moment between your clear-sighted, post-holiday euphoria and when the weight of your old life falls on you. A moment where you know things will be different. Of course, they rarely are. A month later, … Continue reading

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