Posts Tagged ‘self-help’

Fifty Habits of Highly Successful People

So I thought that I might write a quick review of every self-help book ever written all right here in this one little article. Simple enough. I love the easy jobs. Surely it couldn’t be that hard, could it? I figured that maybe I could take the important lessons from every self-help book I’ve read and every life experience I’ve endured, condense all that into fifty key points and… » Continue

May 12 2008 | By Craig | Tagged: habit, personal-development, self-help, self-improvement, success | 22 comments»

The Day I Met Lance Armstrong

So there I was at seven thirty in the a.m., perched on my scooter at an intersection waiting to turn. I was sitting at the lights lost in my own thoughts when all of a sudden I became aware of a presence… no, not a poltergeist; a bloke on a mountain bike had pulled up along side me.

Three feet away.
Coulda touched him.
Game face on… waiting for the green signal.
Like an… » Continue

May 5 2008 | By Craig | Tagged: lance_armstrong, personal-development, self-help, self-improvement | 4 comments»

Learning from Big Blokes in Skirts

So here I am in gorgeous Fiji, one of the most beautiful places on earth, hanging out with possibly the nicest people on the planet. It’s like everyone in the whole country has a PhD in friendliness. Or at the very least, a Master’s degree in happiness. You know when people smile at you and they really smile; the real deal? Not one of those half-assed pathetic grimaces that we… » Continue

April 29 2008 | By Craig | Tagged: personal-development, self-help, self-improvement, travel | 6 comments»

Personal Development, Canine-Style

It must be morning; I’m hungry.
Then again, I’m always hungry, so it could really be any time.
I can hear the shower and feel the sun on my back, so I’m guessing the Boss is awake.
I lift my head off my bed and look down the passage.
I want a shower too.
Sometimes I try and get in but he won’t let me.
Boring.
He’s not so happy in the mornings any more.
He used… » Continue

April 24 2008 | By Craig | Tagged: personal-development, self-help, self-improvement | 14 comments»

Living Scared

Sometimes the answers to our problems are not nearly as complex or elusive as many of us seem to believe they are. Or as difficult as some of us make them. Sometimes our problems only exist in our head. Sometimes the journey from where we are to where we’d like to be is not nearly as terrifying as we imagine it is. In fact, it’s often kind of exhilarating and… » Continue

April 9 2008 | By Craig | Tagged: fear, personal-development, self-help, self-improvement | 15 comments»

Exploring Happiness

I know, I know; I’m either stupid or brave to even think about tackling this topic. Alright, we’ll go with stupid.

Before I start today’s chat, let me say that I know there is no ‘answer’ or consensus to this discussion. No sh*t Sherlock. I’m not stupid enough to think there might exist one universal standard or school of thought when it comes to this topic, perhaps just a bunch… » Continue

February 28 2008 | By Craig | Tagged: happiness, Lifehack, personal-development, self-help, self-improvement | 15 comments»

How to Be Happier with What You Have

“There are two ways to increase your wealth. Increase your means or decrease your wants. The best is to do both at the same time.” - Benjamin Franklin

Misery shouldn’t be the price for ambition. Somewhere I believe many people got the idea that to want more, you have to be dissatisfied with what you have now. Believing this, your choice is either to dampen your… » Continue

September 25 2007 | By Scott H | Tagged: gratitude, habits, happiness, Lifehack, self-help | 15 comments»

Five Productivity Ideas I’m Not Buying (Yet?)

The body of work on productivity, life-work balance, and personal achievement sits uncomfortably – perhaps perilously — close to the genre of “self-help”. There are good ideas out there, but there are also a lot of hacks, quacks, and worse pawning off half-baked philosophies and poorly conceived analogies as solid advice.

While none of it is all that dangerous in and of itself, I think there is… » Continue

August 17 2007 | By Dustin | Tagged: mindmap, Productivity, self-help, success | 44 comments»

Book Review: You Were Born Rich

A book review by Reg Adkins. You Were Born Rich (1997 LifeSuccess Publications), by Bob Proctor.

I read Bob Proctors landmark book some years ago, and I continue to see the message it contained proclaimed over and again by successful people (Sam Kalenuik, Grant Sylvester and many others). When I saw that the book was made available in December as a free PDF download at Insight of the Day
I… » Continue

September 28 2006 | By Reginald | Tagged: book, entrepreneurship, finance, self-help | no comments»

Can self-help really help?

Shang Lee shares his thought on self-help - you spent money on all those self-help materials - attending to seminars - are they really useful? He shares that it is not all about the materials, the most important ingredient is yourself:

… So today, you choose to pick a self-help book. You read it. You understand it. You plan to do something about it. And yet it always doesn’t work. You… » Continue

June 9 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: self-help | no comments»