Posts Tagged ‘self-improvement’

Do You Determine your Beliefs, or Do Your Beliefs Determine You? (Part One)

Where do our Beliefs Come From Have you ever wondered why you believe what you believe? Have you ever considered where your beliefs came from? How they got there? Was it an intentional process? Did you embrace those beliefs consciously or did you just wake up one day and there they were; curiously stuck inside your head? Possibly with a big "do not remove" sign on… Continue reading

November 11 2008 | By Craig | Tagged: belief, personal-development, self-help, self-improvement | 19 comments»

Human Speed Humps

The External Saboteur Something's bugging me today. In fact this something has bugged me for a while but the last few weeks it has become increasingly obvious to me that virtually all of us face similar challenges in one area of the creating-our-best-life process; support, encouragement and understanding from others. Or the lack thereof. You've heard me speak many times about the internal saboteur and our… Continue reading

September 29 2008 | By Craig | Tagged: personal-development, self-help, self-improvement | 5 comments»

What Are the Self-Help Pitfalls?

I've worked for a couple of decades (or so!) helping people along the path towards their best life via my career in the fitness industry. Over the last five or six years, I've committed much more of my time and energy into developing a career in the big, weird world of Personal Development. It has been an interesting journey and I've learned (and continue to learn) much along the… Continue reading

August 25 2008 | By Craig | Tagged: personal-development, self-help, self-improvement | 8 comments»

Where Are the Blokes?

Today's post is not so much a personal development 'lesson' as it is a discussion and exploration into how men and women are wired; a look at something which interests me. As always, I don't have all the answers but I do have plenty of questions and thoughts. Being as I'm not a female (mostly), I may be completely off track... so feel free to enlighten me, ladies. As a scientist… Continue reading

July 18 2008 | By Craig | Tagged: gender, personal-development, self-help, self-improvement | 34 comments»

Career Change from the Inside Out

Pamela Skilling’s Escape from Corporate America and Daniel H. Pink’s The Adventures of Johnny Bunko

I just read something scary on Twitter. Jonathan Fields – entrepreneur extraordinaire (I interviewed him on Lifehack Live) – posted about a conversation he’d had with a friend who “didn't get how I could live w/ ‘stress’ of being entrepreneur and not having someone else pay me.”

It’s true… Continue reading

June 25 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: career, change, job, personal growth, self-improvement, talent | 13 comments»

A Shove with Love – A Kickstart to Change.

Stepping into reality Thought we might be a little less theoretical and philosophical, and a bit more practical today. Always nice to get out of our head and into reality. We all have behaviours and habits that we need to change and from time to time we all need a little encouragement and support, possibly a vigorous shove, to get under way. So I'm here today to give you a

June 19 2008 | By Craig | Tagged: change, habit, personal growth, personal-development, self-improvement | 31 comments»

5 Simple Steps To Be Happy — Finally

Happiness -- the often elusive, but always desired state of being. The reason why we're not always happy is simply because we aren't always present to the miracle of life. Millions of years after the creation of the Universe, and then the earth, after Homo sapien evolved out of monkeys, our sperm had to jump through hoops in order to be the one out of millions. That's one reason… Continue reading

June 2 2008 | By Alex | Tagged: happiness, self-improvement | 14 comments»

Stop Trying to Be Liked and Start Being You

I don't like you. Four words we hate to hear. For some reason, we all like to be liked. No revelation there. It's how we're wired. We hate it when people don't like us - even people we don't really know. Some of us will do almost anything to be liked. We love to please, even at the expense of our own happiness, values, beliefs and standards. We compromise ourselves… Continue reading

May 27 2008 | By Craig | Tagged: personal-development, self-help, self-improvement | 13 comments»

Are You a Comfort Junkie?

Picture this... You've decided you want to get in shape. Get a little fitter, healthier and stronger. Buff up and gain some muscle. Possibly even a six-pack. You head off to the local gym, sign on the dotted line, hand over some cash and then head straight home. You would have done a workout on the spot but it wasn't really a good time. So the following day you get up… Continue reading

May 22 2008 | By Craig | Tagged: personal-development, self-help, self-improvement | 5 comments»

How to Create a Non-Optional Mindset

Towel throwers and ball droppers People often ask me why it is that they seem to have so much trouble sticking with their commitment to changing certain behaviours and habits; doing what they need to do to create the results they want for their life. Even though they desperately want to change something about their existence, it seems that invariably there comes a time when they simply stop whatever it… Continue reading

May 19 2008 | By Craig | Tagged: motivation, personal-development, self-help, self-improvement | 14 comments»

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 reading

May 12 2008 | By Craig | Tagged: habit, personal-development, self-help, self-improvement, success | 56 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 reading

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

April 29 2008 | By Craig | Tagged: personal-development, self-help, self-improvement, travel | 7 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 reading

April 24 2008 | By Craig | Tagged: personal-development, self-help, self-improvement | 16 comments»

Show Me the Money – Or Maybe Not!

Like it or loath it, we all have a relationship with money. We don't really have a choice; it's somewhat of a necessity. Unless of course you're a skilled hunter, gatherer, farmer, living entirely off the land in your own hand-built hut, wearing animal skins and residing in some remote, exotic location. Who happens to have Internet access. Of course. Part of the human experience

Money means different things… Continue reading

April 20 2008 | By Craig | Tagged: Money, personal-development, self-improvement | 11 comments»

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