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COLIN BEAVAN, PhD

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Ever since I was a kid, I obsessed over the basic questions of how we should treat ourselves and each other–how should we live? Twenty-five years ago, I began my lifelong study of humanistic psychology and its therapeutic techniques. Twenty years ago saw the beginning of my dedicated practice of Zen meditation and my study of other spiritual traditions. Through all this, I maintained a passionate interest in what it means to have a just and thriving society and how to create that.

All of that comes together for me in the simple beliefs that people thrive when they: 1. Feel physically secure and safe to be who they really are; 2. Live amongst people and community they love and are loved by; 3. Can grow towards understanding their place in this universe and towards a comfort with the pattern of existence; 4. Have regular experiences of awe, absorption and play; and 5. Feel effective in using their prized skills and talents in the service of a greater good.

Thus, many of my published articles and blog posts tend to be on these subjects:

Career and work | Happiness | Purpose | Relationships | Spirituality | Environment | Social change

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Most Recent Posts


The Change-Maker’s Guide To Using “Vision Cards” To Create The Life And World You Want


A simple stack of handwritten "vision cards" that I look at and work with every day has helped me more than any other personal management tool to achieve goals in every area of my life from being a successful author to helping others to live according to their values to building an income that sustains me to living environmentally to being an effective climate change and social change activist to being a good dad. This post is about how to create and use your own set of vision cards. I hope it helps you as much as it has helped me.
Is There Hope?
How To Know Your Job As A Human
To Help Others, Give Yourself A Break!!

Best of How To Be Alive


The Change-Maker’s Guide To Using “Vision Cards” To Create The Life And World You Want


A simple stack of handwritten "vision cards" that I look at and work with every day has helped me more than any other personal management tool to achieve goals in every area of my life from being a successful author to helping others to live according to their values to building an income that sustains me to living environmentally to being an effective climate change and social change activist to being a good dad. This post is about how to create and use your own set of vision cards. I hope it helps you as much as it has helped me.
Never Be Lonely Again: Build a Great Community, Part II
Choose The Romantic Partner Who Will Make The Best Ex
The Fool’s journey


Best of No Impact Man


Ten Ways to Overcome Futility (About Life, The State of The World or Anything Else)


I’ve been saying since the No Impact Man project first started in 2007 that lasting personal happiness does not come without contributing to community and world happiness. But there are big issues that stop us from trying to contribute or that make us really frustrated when we do try. I know this because I sent out […]
Michelle’s lessons from No Impact
What you need to know
The No Impact Experiment

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