All posts in category Self Development

What questions do you ask yourself about other people in your life?

Like the Law of Attraction, what we get from our relationships with others is what we focus on. This is a lesson I have learned this week from Complaint Free Relationships: How to Positively Transform Your Personal, Work, and Love Relationships by Will Bowen. What does that mean exactly? Bowen explains ‘focus’ as the type [...]

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Complaint Free Relationships

This week I’ve been reading Complaint Free Relationships: How to Positively Transform Your Personal, Work, and Love Relationships by Will Bowen. After a few years of marriage I have been wanting to make some improvements in communication and I have been finding it hard going without a good role model. The usual advice from other [...]

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Goal achievement: recognising and breaking through obstacles that are standing in my way

Looking after my endocrine system Reducing my weight back to normal after gaining 3kg Completing four weeks of C25K Creating a balcony garden This is the first time in a while where I’ve set goals to focus for a full 30 days. I have been allowing myself to be scattered and start a lot of [...]

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Balcony garden, lost 1.6kg of my extra 3kg so far, completed two weeks of C25K and had some self-discoveries about anxiety

Looking after my endocrine system Reducing my weight back to normal after gaining 3kg Completing four weeks of C25K Creating a balcony garden Well I haven’t been posting the last few days because I’ve had some other priorities come up, but now I can play catch up and share how I’m going with my 30 [...]

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What you can do about groupthink

Insights from Iconoclast: A Neuroscientist Reveals How to Think Differently by Gregory Berns Ph.D. I have been reading this week about how rare it is for people to make individual decisions and how this can strongly affect judgment when people form committees. A psychologist named Asch performed an experiment which showed that humans have a [...]

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Increase your creativity!

Insights from Iconoclast: A Neuroscientist Reveals How to Think Differently by Gregory Berns Ph.D. Breakthrough creative ideas, insights and groundbreaking solutions to troublesome problems come from sparks of imagination rather than from logical persistence. Iconoclastic people, those who do what ‘cannot be done’, find that their best ideas come when they are doing something completely [...]

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Iconoclast Personality Profile

I just started reading Iconoclast: A Neuroscientist Reveals How to Think Differently by Gregory Berns Ph.D. The first chapter describes what an iconoclast is and a basic overview of how someone becomes one and why successful iconoclasts are real life paradoxes. It is quite interesting, because I can understand why the personality is so rare, [...]

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Teach what you want to learn

I have been working on adding all the Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) for my online book Fast Track Your Success and Happiness which I originally wrote when I was 22. Its funny reading back on it to be honest, because some of what I wrote makes me laugh now that I’m a little older, but [...]

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Donald Trump Attempts to Teach You How to Think Like a Billionaire

Trump: Think like a Billionaire – Everything You Need to Know About Success, Real Estate, and Life Donald J. Trump with Merideth Melver ISBN 0-345-48140-2 I was thinking that being able to think like a billionaire might be an interesting skill to have, and so when I passed by a local bookshop last week and [...]

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Book Review: Refuse to Choose! A revolutionary program for doing everything that you love

Refuse to Choose! A revolutionary program for doing everything that you love Barbara Sher, 2006 ISBN: 1-59486-303-2 After recently reading Margaret Lobenstine’s The Renaissance Soul: Life Design for People with Too Many Passions to Pick Just One, I was expecting Refuse to Choose! A revolutionary program for doing everything that you love to be much [...]

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