Archive for the 'Personal development' Category

Tim Brownson has written an e-book titled Know Yourself Change Yourself. The book deals with beliefs and values and as Tim writes:
Your belief systems and values make you tick as a person.
The book looks at the difference between a belief and a value. It also deals with how to change a belief, some of them [...]

Jonathan Mead has a very interesting post over at PickTheBrain about Why Do We Avoid Doing What We Love?.
If we know what makes us feel alive, why do we resist it? Why do we avoid doing what we love to do?
There are some important lessons in here:
Failure is fundamental to the creative process. If you [...]

We all have an inner boss or controller. Our relation can be strained or work well depending on whether this inner boss has a style that suits us or not. The good news are that we are in charge, not the inner boss.
If we do not like the way our inner controller works then we [...]

The Manifestation Wheel is an interesting concept created by Alan Seale and partly based on the Lakota medicine wheel. It is an eight step process that takes you through the eight “houses” of the wheel. The concept is a mix of spiritual wisdom and scientific knowledge, it takes an open mind to use it. You [...]

I have read and reviewed three books by Robin Sharma. Here is a short summary and links to my reviews.
The monk who sold his Ferrari is a great book that covers much of Eastern and Western wisdom around life and success. The book is well written and the concepts are nicely fitted into a frame, [...]

I often advice other people to write things down, to get it out of the head and seeing things in perspective. Since many years I keep a private diary but I have not used writing in a more organized way for my projects and business.
Maki at Dosh Dosh writes about The Benefits of Keeping a [...]

I have blogged about The Medici Effect which is a great book. Now the book is available as a free download at The Medici Effect website. In the associated blog it says:
On The The Pirate’s Dilemma blog Matt Mason describes how best-selling author Paolo Coelho boosted sales in Russia by uploading a pirate copy of [...]

DailyOM today is about Outside The Comfort Zone - Things We Don’t Want To Do. It is worth remembering that the best way to solve this is by doing it.
Most of us have had the experience of tackling some dreaded task only to come out the other side feeling invigorated, filled with a new sense [...]

Maki at DoshDosh usually blogs about making money online but in The Value of Being Incomplete: What Are Your Goals for 2008? he talks about setting goals.
Goals can be useful but you mustn’t depend on them to define yourself. We are taught that if you don’t have an aim in life, you’ll end up nowhere. [...]

I know we are in the middle of December but with holidays coming up there are not that many workdays left of 2007. Which means I take a shoot at what I intend to do next year, and how.
Chris Garrett posted about The 80/20 Rule of Effort. It is about summing up 2007 and looking [...]

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