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Never the Same River Twice was featured in two carnivals this week.

What Is Adaptive Capacity? was featured in the Carnival of Small Business which was hosted by CA at Atlantic Canada’s Small Business Blog. Some of the posts I found most useful here are:

• Does your business pass the “Charlie the Plumber” test… in which Carol Bentley helps us become more picky about who we do business with.
• Nikole Gipps has resolved to do less this year (one of the best resolutions I’ve ever heard). She shares steps she’s taking in Less, Part 1: Time.
• Wanda Grindstaff asks Does Your Business Model Support Your Income Goals? This post asks some hard questions about whether the dream of owning a business is the best route to financial independence.

Having Goals Will Make You Blind! earned a place in the Doing it Differently Blog Carnival at Today is That Day. Aaron Potts started this carnival to features post about “stepping outside of the box and living our lives in ways beyond the ‘norm’!” You’ll find plenty of out of the box thinking in these posts:

• Stephen Martile’s post simply titled Change is both inspiring and useful. He suggests an exercise for getting fired up about the future and moving your life forward.
• I’m definitely still in the process of detoxing from Christmas cookies, so I really appreciate Tupelo Kenyon’s question, Is Food Your Medicine or Poison?
• No Prodigal Son is a new blog for me, but after reading Atlas Will Shrug, which talks about resistance to change in relation to environmentally-friendly technologies, I’ll be sure to stop by again.

I hope you’ll stop by both of those carnivals and visit the other entries. My thanks to the hosts for including NSRT.

My thanks to David Bohl of Slow Down Fast for including Having Goals Will Make You Blind! in this week’s Carnival of Personal Development and Happiness. David did a great job filling in for Alex Blackwell, who is taking a little break.

The carnival is filled with lots of great posts that will both teach you and help you apply your learning. Some of my favorites include:

4 Reasons to Become a Generous Giver. Matthew Paulson at American Consumer News touches on a subject that is near and dear to my heart: personal philanthropy. There a lot of emotional and financial reasons to give to charity, especially during tax time.

Lorraine Cohen at Powerful Living suggests Creating a Theme Year as an alternative to New Year’s Resolutions. Once you’ve identified a theme, she helps you through a series of questions that will increase your chances of following through on that theme.

Steven Aitchison at Change your thoughts contributed the very funny and inspiring GOYA method for Personal Development. I don’t want to give away any secrets, so I’ll just say it deals with getting started on any task.

It’s been a while since I submitted to a Blog Carnival, so I’m happy to say that my post, Recipe For a Personal Development Weekend - With Pictures is featured in this week’s Personal Development Carnival. As always, the carnival features lots of great posts. A few of my favorites were:

• Is Working Smart Really an Alternative to Working Hard? at Grad Money Matters. I’d like to think it is, but  this post makes a good argument to the contrary!
• 25 Fun Ways to Pamper Your Body and Increase Your Vitality at We the Change. Lots of good suggestions here. I haven’t been to a comedy show in a very long time, so I may have to explore that soon.
• 10 Things You Wish You Had Never Learned at The Next 45 Years. This is a pretty deep post and caused me to take a little time for self reflection. I would have to say that I wish I had never learned that daydreaming is childish.

Take some time to read through some of the rest of the carnival offerings. Also, a big thanks to Lyman for hosting the carnival despite his need for a break.

I’m very happy to say that Never the Same River Twice had posts appear in two carnivals this week, and one from last week that I foolishly missed.

Lorraine Cohen hosted the Personal Development Carnival this week at her Powerfull Living blog.

And at Creating Abundant Lifestyles, Wanda Grindstaff hosted the Success and Abundance Mindset Carnival.

Also, and I apologize to Ananga for missing this last week, the Living by Design Carnival was featured at Living by Design.

Instead of highlighting only a few of the posts this week, I strongly urge all my readers to look at the Carnivals, read through the posts, leave some comments, and maybe Stumble or Digg your favorite posts.

I’m happy to report that Never the Same River Twice was featured in this week’s Carnival of Personal Development, which was graciously hosted by Carole at the Healthy Living Lounge.

This week’s carnival features nearly 40 articles covering a broad range of personal development topics. My favorites are:

6 Tips to Generate Outstanding Ideas at Litemind. This post emphasizes that generating a large quantity of ideas will eventually lead you to quality ideas.

Grad Money Matters shares some ideas for Surviving Personal Productivity Downtime. Turn to this post on those days when you just can’t get anything started.

Tupelo Kenyon gives us Methods as Temporary Tools Instead of Lifetime Crutches. As he says,

“As we grow, mature and discover more expansive perspectives, our methods grow too. It is only natural for our tools and techniques to evolve along with us. The trouble comes when we cling to an old method that we have outgrown. We feel bogged down and then stuck when our personal development potential is being limited by an outdated method.”

This post is near and dear to my change loving heart!