Posts Tagged ‘improvement’

Your Individual Development Plan

Where do you want to be in 5 years?

This question is one of the lynchpins of the personal development field. It’s usually followed by instructions to visualize yourself having achieved those goals, and maybe an admonishment to ask yourself if what you’re doing now will get you there.

None of this is hard. What is hard, though, is making a plan that will get you there… » Continue

April 16 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: education, growth, improvement, learning, personal_development | 15 comments»

Literary Gluttony - How to Consume More Books This Year

Over 40% of Americans claim not to have read any books in the previous year. The survey was last conducted in 2002, and noted falling reading rates from previous years. I’m sure if you’re reading through lifehack.org that you probably don’t expect reading to stop after you graduate. Yet, with such dismal statistics, how can you beat the odds and read more books this year?

Why Bother… » Continue

January 8 2008 | By Scott H | Tagged: books, improvement, learning, Lifehack, new years resolution, read, reading, speed read, students, studying | 51 comments»

What Storytellers Can Teach You About How to Learn Faster

Storytelling is a demanding craft. Not only do you have to be able to write or perform the story accurately, you need to create vivid descriptions. Boring, complex or difficult to understand metaphors can turn an imaginative journey into a lifeless plot.

You may not think of it deliberately, but learning is very similar to storytelling. You need to give yourself vivid, memorable and emotionally descriptions… » Continue

January 3 2008 | By Scott H | Tagged: brain, grades, holistic, improvement, learning, mental, metaphor, Productivity, study, thinking | 21 comments»

14 Tips For Resolutions That Stick in the New Year

Statistics show that only about 15% of New Years Resolutions are kept. With an 85% failure rate, it’s no wonder that the amount of resolutions made is dropping. You wouldn’t buy a product that is defective 85% of the time, so why buy into the annual hype about resolutions? A strategy that fails over four fifths of the time is broken. The question… » Continue

December 27 2007 | By Scott H | Tagged: change, commitment, diet, exercise, goal, habit, improvement, new years resolution, Productivity | 35 comments»

Take your Christmas back

It is well into November and the world is ramping up its Christmas hype. We are bombarded with Christmas food, Christmas gifts, Christmas expectations and Christmas pressure. This can be one of the best times of year, but many people end up overcome by stress, guilt, molten credit cards and broken relationships. It doesn’t have to be like this. With a little… » Continue

November 15 2007 | By Tom | Tagged: christmas, improvement | 14 comments»

16 Tips to Survive Brutal Criticism (and Ask for More)

“You suck.”

Everyone encounters criticism, whether it is a boss pointing out falling performance, a bad review for your book, or even self-criticism after an embarrassing slip-up. Your ability to digest that criticism and make use of it says a lot about your character. Even better is to be the kind of person who can take a sharp, verbal critique, stand up and ask for more.

People are Too… » Continue

October 25 2007 | By Scott H | Tagged: advice, Communication, criticism, evaluation, feedback, improvement, Management, suggestions | 12 comments»

10 virtually instant ways to improve your life

Many of our problems come from within our own minds. They aren’t caused by events, bad luck, or other people. We cause them through our own poor mental habits. Here are 10 habits you should set aside right away to free yourself from the many problems each one will be causing you.

Stop jumping to conclusions. There are two common ways this habit increases people’s difficulties. First, they assume that

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July 16 2007 | By Adrian | Tagged: habit, improvement, life | 148 comments»

Creating the “future you”

The goal of self-improvement is always to create a better future, whether you state that as your target or not. That’s why many of the approaches on offer make the link between behavior and results. They tell you to act in a certain way and imply that the results you want will surely follow.

There’s a problem with this way of thinking. No one can tell what events and challenges the… » Continue

May 7 2007 | By Adrian | Tagged: achievement, improvement, motivation, vision | 3 comments»

15 Things You Can Do Right Now To Help Your Career

As the Simple Dollar Explains, most career advice is geared toward “big picture” thinking. The problem with this advice is that it tends to be so long-term that it is difficult to find the motivation to start helping your career now. The Simple Dollar gives 15 tips on how to give your a career a boost starting today:

Most career advice you receive focuses on the big picture: how… » Continue

February 20 2007 | By Kyle | Tagged: business, career, improvement, Management | 6 comments»

A Guide To Writing Well

Fire and Knowledge published a very thorough article about how to improve your writing. The article traverses industries, so whether you’re a novelist or a business analyst, there is some quality information to be gained from the article. The content is very detailed and provides many tips to help you improve your writing. Some of my favorites from the list:
Be yourself. Don’t alter your voice… » Continue

February 9 2007 | By Kyle | Tagged: Communication, improvement, tips, writing | 2 comments»

15 tools every homeowner should own

If you are a new homeowner (or apartment dweller) it’s likely that you haven’t amassed a collection of tools, just yet. MSN Real Estate created a list of the 15 most basic tools that any homeowner should have. MSN also claims that you should be able to buy all these tools for under $200:

Toolbox
Hammer
Pry bar
Vise-grips
Needle-nose pliers
Screwdrivers (mixed set)
Wire cutter/stripper
Tape measure (16 foot)
Electrical tester
Reversible drill with bit set
1/2 inch

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January 29 2007 | By Kyle | Tagged: household, improvement, tools | 7 comments»

Learn how to make home repairs

As part of America Online’s recent push to promote on-line video, they launched a home improvement, do it yourself video site. All the videos included in the series are produced by America Online and hosted by Eric Stromer (upcoming host of NBC’s “Three Wishes”). The videos are easy enough for a beginner and detailed enough for an expert. Currently there are only seven categories of… » Continue

January 26 2007 | By Kyle | Tagged: DIY, household, improvement | no comments»

Change Here

After the election last week in the United States, change is a hot topic, but it isn’t political change that I have been thinking about recently. It’s how organizations and their leaders cope—or, more often, fail to cope too well—with the need for changes in business practices to promote growth and foster creativity.

It’s a truism to point out that no one can avoid change. It’s part of the reality in… » Continue

November 13 2006 | By Adrian | Tagged: breakthrough, business-fundamentalism, change, civilized-work, corporate-culture, creativity, dignity, effectiveness, Hamburger-Management, happiness, improvement, lifebalance, Management, priorities, slow-leadership, strategy, thinking, thought, trust, work, work-life, work/life-balance, worklife, workplace | 1 comment»

Improve your resume layout

Chanpory Rith at LifeClever gives 4 steps to improve your resume into more elegant. The result speaks for itself:

The facelift will not take you 10 minutes to complete, and as you see, the improvement are huge. He recommends:

Pick a better typeface
Remove extra indentations
Make it easy to skim
Apply typographic detailing

The best moves in my opinion are using gray color for text of dates and locations, and also adding horizontal rules… » Continue

October 27 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: improvement, resume | 6 comments»

Stretch Goals Matter

My son, Harold, is 7 months old (You can glimpse him at the end of a movie here). He’s mastered sitting up, and now he’s trying to figure out moving around on the ground. I’ve realized something pertinent to careers this morning based on this experience, and thought I’d share it.

(You didn’t think this was suddenly Parent Hacks, did you?)

Stretch Goals Matter

Harold was trying to reach… » Continue

August 26 2006 | By Chris | Tagged: development, goals, improvement, motivation | 3 comments»