Mastermind groups are fantastic. I’m in two of them, and the opportunity to hang out with a fantastic group of bright, intelligent established or up and coming people from all around the world and bounce ideas off of them and help each other on a weekly or fortnightly basis is just invaluable. And it constantly…
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Internet Marketer Frank Kern recounts an interesting exercise where he ‘thought differently’ by figuring out what his ideal life would look like – and how his life transformed as a result! Here Frank runs through the results of the exercise for him: And here Frank runs through how to perform the exercise yourself: You can…
I think by now most people with access to a TV or the internet have seen the ‘overnight success’ of Susan Boyle from Britain’s Got Talent when she entered the competition with a performance of “I Dreamed A Dream” from Les Miserables. For those who haven’t seen it, the video of the performance is available on…
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I was talking to Andrew O’Brien, director of Organisations That Matter recently at an event about how he and his partner ran 8 marathon races together in 8 countries in 8 weeks earlier this year. That’s a pretty impressive effort in itself. It turned out afterwards that he had run the last 6 marathons with…
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I have recently been reading Ken Fisher’s book The Ten Roads to Riches and enjoying and learning a thing or two from it. Ken should know a thing or two about riches: as founder and chairman of Fisher Investments, he manages around $45 Billion of other people’s assets – and gets to talk to a lot…
Over the Christmas break, I had the chance to read Malcolm Gladwell’s latest book, Outliers: The Story of Success. In a nutshell, Gladwell argues that extreme individual success – the success of people who are “outliers” in terms of performance and outcomes – is not due to levels of IQ or what specifically they are…
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As is traditional for this time of year, many of us are beginning to review our past year and to set goals and resolutions for the year ahead. I have written previously on a tool for goal setting and for tracking progress towards goals, which I called the Personal Balanced Scorecard, which contains a method…
A while back I developed a tool for personal growth and motivation based around developing a balanced set of criteria for personal growth and performance that I called a Personal Balanced Scorecard (PBSC). I decided I’d put it out here now on the internet under a Creative Commons license (i.e. you can use it and…
Priscilla Palmer has been collating a list of blogs that write on the topic of personal development. So far the list has reached over 200 bloggers, and it’s still growing. It’s well worth checking out – there are some great blogs listed there!
Zen Habits recently posted an interesting article on getting motivated, getting out of a slump. The 16 action steps were: (the text below is from ZenHabits, edited for length and so that I am not blatantly copying absolutely everything! 😉 ) Focus on One Goal . . . if you are trying to do two…
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