Tag Archive: Goal Setting
The power of being present
One of the ultimate ironies of all this personal development work that we do is that so much of it is about planning for the future, setting goals, and accomplishing them. Yet, we are also given the advice that we need to live in the moment. It almost appears as if we are being given...
5 Tips for Getting the Most out of a Personal Development Course
As I was reading a post on Steve Pavalina’s personal development forum, I noted that somebody was discussing how to get the most out of your personal development reading. When I looked it made me start thinking about why personal development is really effective for some people and why other people think it’s a complete...
The Silence Before the Storm
Earlier this morning, I was remembering a conversation with an old friend about a very, unusually quiet morning in Berkeley, CA. She said “It’s weird…this is like a silence before the storm.” That got me to thinking about life and how even in life there always seems to be a silence before the storm when...
5 Personal Development Lessons from Van Wilder
The other day when I wrote 10 ways to a prolific personal development blogger, I wrote that you should watch movies to find blog post ideas. I’ve always loved movies and somehow I always picked up some life lessons from movies, but until recently never thought about actually listening when Van Wilder said “write that...
How to Manifest Using Creative Visualization: Interview with Steve Martile
Last week I had the pleasure of interviewing personal development blogger Steven Martile from FreedomEducation. I had been reading all of his posts on visualization and his insights on visualization, so I decided to to pick his brain a bit more and see what he could share on visualization. In this interview, he shared some...
