Have you ever heard the phrase “inch wide, mile deep” with respect to picking an area of focus for your education, career, website, business, etc? The idea here is that you should narrow your focus and concentrate on becoming highly skilled in one particular subfield. Then you’ll be able to carve out a space within your industry where you’re competent…
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Neurological imbalances can show up as psychological, behavioral, and motivational problems. If we try to treat these problems at the psychological or behavioral levels, however, we can’t effectively cure them because the problems have physical causes, such as a buildup of toxicity in the brain. by Steve Pavlina, from stevepavlina.com It’s my opinion that a wide swath of personal development…
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Many times when people get stuck working on some aspect of their personal growth, it’s because they’ve defined their core problem in a way that it can’t really be solved. by Steve Pavlina, from stevepavlina.com One of the most common forms of this is when someone defines their problem as a mental or psychological one. I see this all the…
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by Steve Pavlina, from stevepavlina.com Today I finished typing up my detailed plan for this quarter, which is about 10 pages long. I revise my goals and plans roughly every 90 days, and I find that although this can be tedious (usually 10-15 hours of tiresome work), it’s an essential tool for me, not just for running a business but…
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by Steve Pavlina, from stevepavlina.com Many people find it really challenging to finish a 30-day trial when wanting to build a new habit or explore a new lifestyle possibility, such as eating vegan or getting up at 5am. People often give up after a few days, lacking the discipline (or so it seems) to follow through on such commitments.…
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Do you ever feel like you’ve lost control of your life and that you’re spending too much time dealing with someone else’s agenda for you? by Steve Pavlina, from stevepavlina.com Last year I read an interesting book called The Revenge of Analog: Real Things and Why They Matter, which is about a resurgence in analog technologies such as vinyl records…
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Do you ever feel you should be further along on your goals and projects, given how much time you’ve been spending in your workspace? by Steve Pavlina from stevepavlina.com To enter a state of high productivity, we know that it’s important to avoid distractions and really concentrate deeply on a task or project. You want to enter the…
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Knowing when to quit is a skill that can be learned. by Travis Bradberry from entrepreneur.com Most of us grew up hearing the mantra “Don’t be a quitter,” and we’ve internalized it to the point where we feel guilty even if we don’t finish a book that’s boring us to death. Our parents weren’t entirely wrong in saying that persistence…
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Success that brings joy requires enough money and abundant love. by Sherrie Campbell from entrepreneur.com Joy is our personal right. We each have this one amazing, but brief chance to build lives we love. If we don’t deeply believe we deserve happiness, that we deserve abundance, and to live unrestricted, we end up living lives of mediocrity. Happiness runs deeper…
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Are you chasing after the right kind of wealth? by Rhett Power from success.com Which would you rather be—financially wealthy or emotionally wealthy? You might not realize it, but having mental strength—or an acute awareness of the power behind your emotions and how best to use them and act on them—is much more worthwhile than having a cushy bank account.…
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