Blogs

Latest Blogs

Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog

50+ More Book Reviews
Here are 50+ more book reviews for Personal Development for Smart People. It’s been wonderful to see all the different insights people picked up from the book. I’ve been seeing the book in local bookstores. The local Barnes & Noble stores have at least a half dozen copies on their shelves. Borders doesn’t stock as many, [...]

Juice Feasting - Day 26
The past couple days have been interesting to say the least. After my spa day on Monday, I felt more relaxed, but I still felt pretty aggressive. I woke up Tuesday morning feeling hostile and belligerent. Later in the day, the anger went away, and I was left with this incredible feeling of power and energy, [...]

Juice Feasting - Day 24
Last night I went through some pretty severe emotional detox. I started feeling incredibly angry, and I had to warn my family to steer clear of me. I wished I was still training in martial arts just so I could pummel something. I listened to a Paraliminal before bed, and that helped — it relaxed [...]

My Simpler Life - Simple Living

100 Things to Be Grateful for
I am offering a printout of a gratitude list you can use. What are you thankful for this year? Here is a PDF I made that you can download and print out. On most computers right click and save to your hard drive. http://www.encouragingcoach.com/docs/thankful.pdf You can even print some out to take to [...]

Do You Need to Buy New?
We are still paying off our car that we bought new and that lost tons of value just getting off the lot. We won’t make that mistake again. We will go back to buying used cars. We are buying more things used than ever before. Why is buying used a good choice? It’s less expensive You can afford [...]

Fitting in household chores
Photo by BHollar I like to pretend that household chores don’t exist. The easiest way to do that is to fit them into other routines or spots of time. I rarely spend a full 30 minutes cleaning something. Here are ways to sneak in housework: We have a quick 5 minute household pick up in the evening [...]

Leadership Training, Personal Development, & Life Hacks

Brainstorming for Ideas : Boomerang your Way to the Best Possible Solutions
By Carol Ring Endless meetings???stalled plans???unresolved issues???poorly recycled ideas. These are just a few of the challenges prevalent in today’s workplace. If you’re tired of getting nothing but blank faces when you ask for solutions to your company’s tough issues and want to go beyond ideas that are nothing more than a tweak of an old [...]

100 Healthy Tips and Tricks for Wellness and Fitness
By Jessica Merritt Everyone wants to look and feel healthy, and there are seemingly endless easy ways to improve your health from the inside out. Whether you’re improving your diet or just getting off the couch, small steps can make a big impact. Read on to learn about 100 different ways to make make an easy, [...]

Brain Trust: 100 Ivy League Business & Entrepreneurship Courses You Can Take for Free
By Kelly Kilpatrick Just because you don???t have the deep pockets or stellar grades it takes to get into top tier schools doesn???t mean you can???t enjoy some of the same resources these establishments offer. Through open courseware programs, you can access course materials from a wide range of top universities. Whether you decide to take [...]

Change your Thoughts for true Personal Development

The Id, the Ego, the Super-ego and your goals.
A lot of people find it difficult to reach their goals and consistently give up on them, often thinking themselves a failure for giving up.?? This compounds their fears and pretty soon they are afraid to try anything new for fear of failing.?? Well, it???s time to buck the trend [...]

Interview with an expert on Binaural Beats
As you know I have been heavily into binaural beats for the last few years and have recently brought out my own products at www.binaural-zen.com and www.binaural-sleep.com I was emailed last week by someone from www.irieradio.com asking if I would like to be a guest on the Rude Awakening Show with [...]

Accepting and dealing with your character flaws
There is this saying that “We all have issues that we need to deal with.” No matter how much of a well-rounded person you think you are, you should admit to the fact that nobody is perfect and there is a particular part of your personality which probably looks weird or is annoying for others. However, [...]

Get Rich Slowly

Simplify Your Investing: An Introduction to DRIPs
This is a guest post from Sara, who writes about reaching for a life of greater simplicity and deeper meaning at On Simplicity. I’m a simple girl and I love simple solutions. That’s why I’ve fallen in love with DRIP investing — it’s about as simple as investing gets. If you’re an investor who likes to [...]

The Economics of a POW Camp
In a 1945 issue of Econimica, R. A. Radford wrote about the economic organization of a P.O.W. camp. Radford spent at least two years (the timeline isn’t clear) as a prisoner in Italy and Germany during World War II. He used his experience as the basis for a paper about “financial” transactions among his fellow [...]

The American Way of Debt
On Sunday, The New York Times published a series of articles on The Debt Trap, exploring the surge in consumer debt and the lenders who made it possible. The main article profiles a Philadelphia woman who made some bad choices, bought into the myth of easy credit, and now finds herself struggling with insurmountable debt. “I [...]

PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement

How To Turn Crisis Into Opportunity
For years, I had heard that in Chinese, the word for crisis is the same as the word for opportunity. Recently I learned that the more popular story is that the Chinese word for crisis consists of two characters: one meaning danger, and one meaning opportunity. Both stories are interesting, but neither is true. While [...]

How to Unleash Your Creativity
???I did not discover relativity by rational thinking alone.??? - Albert Einstein Image courtesy of Alicepopkorn Creativity is the vehicle by which we achieve much in life. We are often creative when we resolve business negotiations, when we solve problems, when we somehow organize a group of friends to all meet together for a night out, [...]

How Meditation Improves Your Health (Part Three)
Photo by j / f / photos If you have been following this series on the health benefits of meditation, then hopefully you have given meditation a go by now, and as you meditate and relax, you may well have asked yourself ???What is actually happening here???? What is happening is this ??? The Relaxation Response [...]

Life Optimizer

7 Winning Character Traits That Create A Lifetime Of Success
Note: This is a guest post by Shamelle Perera from The Enhance Life I am an ardent fan of the TV series The Big Idea. For the benefit of those of you who haven’t watched it, it is an interview which features a person who has made an idea they once had, a success. Most of [...]

Review: Get Applause Now
My friend Andrew Rondeau - who wrote a guest post here last week - just launched a new product called Get Applause Now. This is a package designed to improve your public speaking skill which is co-authored by Andrew and Darren LaCroix, the World Champion of Public Speaking in 2001. I’ve personally been thinking about improving [...]

Theme for October 2008 and Monthly Roundup of September 2008
We’ve been in October now and the theme for this month is Winning Attitude. Here we will discuss the attitudes we need to have to overcome challenges and difficulties in life. Now let’s look at what happened here last month. Best Posts There were 13 posts published here in September. The most visited posts were: A Guide to Finding [...]

steve-olson.com

What Does Personal Freedom Mean to You?
How does personal freedom manifest itself in your life? To some, freedom means driving a car 150 mph, to others it’s a million dollars in net worth. Not to me. To me, freedom is having enough slack in your schedule to be spontaneous. To move on a moments notice. To control your time. That’s freedom. To me, [...]

Happy Halloween!
The Loot:

Are We Cheating Our Boys Out Of An Education?
Let’s explore the dysfunction of our education system. The Last Psychiatrist writes about the lengthening of childhood and the damage it is causing our children and our society. The Last Psychiatrist specifically addresses the phenomenon of “Redshirting Kindergartners” which means starting them at 6 instead of 5. This gives them advantages in sports and in academics. [...]