Steve Pavlina has an interesting post on Self-Help Junkies. Basically, they’re people who spend all of their resources learning how to get better, and not actually doing anything to improve their life. Much like drug addicts, self-help junkies feed their addiction by digesting more and more feel-good material. They get sucked into the emotional high ...
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Goals
I love the idea of persistence. It’s an intriguing concept. Many times people come up short in achieving their goals because they can see the big picture, but they don’t see all the little details that go into achieving something. That’s why I’m such a proponent of GTD. GTD allows you to break down your ...
There’s a great new website out there for us creative types who struggle with actually completing our lofty goals. The Behance team creates tools to help creative types with capturing ideas and completing them, which is so often the problem. Many times people focus too much on the collecting part. It’s really really easy to ...
This post was written by Brett Kelly of Cranking Widgets Blog (feed). Brett is an excellent student of Getting Things Done, and his blog is an excellent read for anyone wanting to improve their organizational skills with our favorite little productivity method: GTD. I’m honored to have Brett share his insights on productivity with LifeDev’s ...
Oddly enough, sometimes our biggest antagonist can be ourselves when trying to succeed. Alvin Soon has a great post on how to a) recognize signs of self-sabotage and b) how to overcome it. It’s great stuff. My personal favorite of his solutions is #1: Fall in Love With Your Strengths. Everyone has strengths, whether you ...
Peep Laja emailed me about his new service called Dreaminder. It’s a simple operation, but it’s a pretty cool concept. You basically write down your dream, add your email, and a date when you want to be reminded of your dream. You’ll get an email on the date that you want to be reminded. It’s ...
