Personal Development
30 days to success
Steve Pavlina has an lifehack for creating an new habit or breaking an old one. Based on the idea of a 30-day trial period from shareware, he suggests, rather than focusing on behaviour change as a long-term fight, look at making it a “trial” for 30 days.
“Yet we often psyche ourselves out of getting started by [...]
Plan your personal development with a “To Be” list
Posted in The Simple Life
How many of you begin your week by writing a to-do list to track the things you want to accomplish over the next seven days?
How about writing a weekly ‘To Be’ list capturing the kinds of personal characteristics you would like to exhibit in the upcoming week?
A to-be list does not [...]
Personal Development from a Dog’s Perspective
The garbage collector is not stealing our stuff.
I do not need to suddenly stand straight up when I’m lying under the coffee table.
I will not roll my toys behind the fridge, behind the sofa or under the bed.
I must shake the rainwater out of my fur before entering the house.
I will [...]
Jim Rohn’s 3 Keys to Greatness
Posted in The Simple Life
In 1990 Jim Rohn recorded a 56-minute video for teenagers called “Three Keys To Greatness.” Although the focus was for teenagers, the principles easily apply to adults as well.
Sometime later he was asked to list these three keys with one to two sentence summaries for each. Here’s what he came [...]
How to stop procrastinating
This is post 10 of my series: Inside the Mind of a Procrastinator.
Over the past ten weeks, I have written a series of posts to comment on the ten points made in this article from Psychology Today. I am not a psychologist. I have no training or professional experience in this area. However, I am a [...]
5 Traits of a Successful Person
A Monday Motivator
According to the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius, these are the five traits of every successful person:
Consciousness of an honest purpose of life
A just estimate of oneself and everyone else
Frequent self-examinations
Steady obedience to what one knows to be right
Indifference to what others may think or say
These traits don’t try and tell you what success [...]
Procrastination Carries Big Costs
This is post 9 of my series: Inside the Mind of a Procrastinator.
There are big costs to procrastination. Health is one. Just over the course of a single academic term, procrastinating college students had such evidence of compromised immune systems as more colds and flu, more gastrointestinal problems. And they had insomnia. In addition, procrastination has [...]
What Kind of Thinker are You?
The BBC has an extensive Leonardo da Vinci section. Among the information is a quiz that determines what type of thinker you might be.
Having studied music at university, taught it in the school system and privately, and still actively performing with amateur groups, it’s no surprise the test finds I am a Musical Thinker.
Musical thinkers:
Tend to [...]
What kind of procrastinator are you?
This is post 8 of my series: Inside the Mind of a Procrastinator.
There’s more than one flavour of procrastination. People procrastinate for different reasons. Dr. Ferrari identifies three basic types of procrastinators:
arousal types, or thrill-seekers, who wait to the last minute for the euphoric rush.
avoiders, who may be avoiding fear of failure or even fear of [...]
6 ways to motivate towards greatness
A Monday Motivator
There is a story told about Abraham Lincoln and a friend leaving church one Sunday. Lincoln’s friend mentioned what a good sermon the minister had given.
“I just can’t agree,” Mr. Lincoln said.
“But why?” said the friend.
“It’s very simple,” said Lincoln. “He didn’t ask us to do anything great.”
I don’t know if the story is true [...]
