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Find & Replace Limiting Beliefs, Part 2: Replace Old Ideas

It’s time to weed out the limiting beliefs that you discovered in part one. This is a hell of a lot harder to do than simply discovering them, but on the bright side, the instructions are simpler—this one really just requires willpower and discipline. So, it’s technically easier, but practically harder.

When you ask yourself why you’re putting so much time and energy and discipline into this, remember the benefit… » Continue

May 7 2008 | By Joel | Tagged: beliefs, introspection, personal-development | 2 comments»

Find & Replace Limiting Beliefs, Part 1: Search Techniques

Are you guilty of failing at your goals time and time again, only to ask “what’s wrong with the world?” and keep on trying to succeed with the same strategies and tactics?

It may be time for an introspective examination of yourself. When success is hard to find, it’s not always the world that’s playing hide and seek. Sometimes, the problem is within our noggins, and we’re preventing ourselves from getting… » Continue

May 5 2008 | By Joel | Tagged: beliefs, observation, reality, worldview | 10 comments»

10 Reasons Gift Certificates Make Horrible Gifts

I don’t know who came up with gift certificates, but they should receive an award for one of the best marketing jobs ever pulled on the unsuspecting public. How else can you explain how people are willing to trade money, for a less useful and more restrictive form of money at a one-to-one ratio?

For those of you who can’t think of what to buy your miserly Aunt Josie… » Continue

December 25 2007 | By Scott H | Tagged: christmas, consumerism, gifts, humor | 79 comments»

The Ten Videos to Change How You View the World

I believe that a sign of good information is that it makes you think. If reading a book, listening to a lecture or watching a video doesn’t change how you think, it probably isn’t that important. But if you encounter something that forces you to change your views, even if you don’t completely agree with it, you’ve found something valuable.

The problem is where do you find these… » Continue

October 16 2007 | By Scott H | Tagged: games, happiness, humor, inspiration, linguistics, marketing, poverty, reality, Technology, video | 95 comments»

10 Math Tricks You Probably Don’t Know

No matter how hard you try, maybe giving up maths straight after leaving high school, you inevitably end up having to solve a bleeding problem some time.

Or you enjoy the simplistic logic of maths. Either way, these 10 easy tricks to solving a few harder problems will be of use to you.

The first trick is similar to the times 10 trick where you just add a zero to… » Continue

October 1 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: math | 7 comments»

10 Ways To Prevent Creative Thinking

Are you one of those people who say they aren’t creative? How silly; everyone’s creative!

However, if you want to completely squash all creativity from your being, try these 10 mental blocks that Copyblogger assure will stop creative thinking.

Denying your own creativity is like denying you’re a human being. We’re all limitlessly creative, but only to the extent that we realize that we create our own limits with the… » Continue

September 21 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: creativity | no comments»

7 Myths Of Memory

Matthew Leitch, a psychologist from the University College London, became fed up with some myths surrounding memory and wrote these 7 myths.

You may have read a few articles about some of them, such as the 7+/-2 rule and using imagery to remember lists.

If you still think it might make sense try remembering a list of 7 things as compared with a similar list split into meaningful groups… » Continue

September 18 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: memory | 2 comments»

Great Moments In Never Giving Up

If you ever feel like you’re getting too much opposition and need some motivating words, look to this long list of quotes and anecdotes from some of the world’s most famous achievers.

After his first audition, Sidney Poitier was told by the casting director, “Why don’t you stop wasting people’s time and go out and become a dishwasher or something?” It was at that moment, recalls Poitier, that he… » Continue

September 17 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: motivation | 6 comments»

10 Overrated Business Books & What To Read Instead

BNet have thrown in their two cents on some of the more popular business reads out there. From Steven Covey’s The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People to Rich Dad, Poor Dad.

6. “The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People” by Steven Covey (Free Press, 1989)

Publisher’s blurb: “Presents a holistic, integrated, principle-centered approach for solving personal and professional problems.”

Excerpt: “The Character Ethic taught that there are basic principles of effective… » Continue

September 13 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: book, business | 6 comments»

Buy A Friend A Book Week

This October 1st to 7th is Buy A Friend A Book Week. Apparently this runs every year with the simple, karmic goal of getting people to buy their friends a good book - those friends who deserve a good book.

It’s pretty random, but a great idea. Particularly if it’s a book you know your friend will benefit from. I’m curious to know which books ‘top the list’ or whether… » Continue

September 11 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: book | 9 comments»

Ten Ways To Be Happy At Work

I took out the ‘Top’ from this ‘Top Ten’ because I think this sort of thing can be quite personal, and your happiness at work can be a result of very different things.

However, this is still an excellent list of some simple ideas that should make your work-life more pleasant.

Practice Professional Courage

If you are like most people, you don’t like conflict. And the reason why is simple. You’ve never… » Continue

September 6 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: work-life | 1 comment»

A Huge List Of Personal Development Sites

Priscilla Palmer has put together this massive list of personal development websites. As usual you can check the comments for more.

The list isn’t categorized, which is a shame, and mentions Lifehack.org as a collaborative site. It would be nice to have a list that divides sites into focus. For instance General, GTD, etc.

In any case, great list!

Personal Development List - [PriscillaPalmer]… » Continue

August 30 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: personaldevelopment, web | 8 comments»

Tools For Creating Ideas

I recently came across the CreatingMinds site and their Creative Toolbox, full of interesting ways to solve creative problems, come up with new ideas and implement your solutions.

Absence Thinking
An artist draws the spaces between things.
A market manager for a furniture wonders about product areas where customers have made no comment. She watches them using tables and notes that they leave the tables out when not using them. She invents… » Continue

August 16 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: idea | no comments»

Think Like An Entrepreneur: Effectual vs Causal Reasoning

Many people wonder what the big difference is between those who are constantly entrepreneurial and those who aren’t. A big part may be in the difference between these two kinds of thought processes.

Causal Reasoning is based on having a goal and defining what means and choices can be made. The opposite, Effectual Reasoning, involves being given the means and choices and defining what the goal is.

If you are interested… » Continue

July 30 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: entrepreneurship | 4 comments»

How To Navigate By The Stars

Not so handy working from home but quite important when hiking or sailing, navigating using the stars as your guide is both romantic and useful.

This nineties-esque tutorial will show you how to recognize a few constellations and find north just by looking up. As simple as it is, I actually find myself quietly confident about picking out a few stars now.

The Night Sky - [QuietBay]

Quick tip: It… » Continue

July 18 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: night, skills | 4 comments»

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