Personal Development Archive

  • 8 Ways to Keep Your New Year’s Resolutions

    8 Ways to Keep Your New Year’s Resolutions

    It’s been about a week since New Year’s and not to be a negative Nancy, but I bet a decent amount of people are already giving up on their resolutions. Change is hard. There are a lot of past, external, and out of our control...

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  • 2011 Resolutions

    2011 Resolutions

    I don’t normally make new years resolutions because they seem about as likely to happen as being blind folded, spun around, and hitting a bullseye on a dart board. I used to make resolutions, but I stopped when I realized they always lost momentum after...

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  • Giving Up TV-30 Day Trial

    Giving Up TV-30 Day Trial

    The Challenge: No television for 30 days. Background The other night I was laying in bed going through old episodes of Angel, and I was thinking about all the time wasted just sitting around watching TV. Not doing anything at all, except staring at an...

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  • September 30 Day Trial

    September 30 Day Trial

    I’m going to do a 30 day trial for September, but I need your help figuring out what to do. Vote below, add something else if you’d like, and/or leave a comment. Thanks! Tweet This Post

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  • How to Stop Procrastinating

    How to Stop Procrastinating

    1. Get organized-Knowing what needs to be done, in what order, and how long it will realistically take is half the battle. Writing out a game plan can help get you started because it may not seem like doing the actual work, but it IS...

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  • WordCamp NYC 2009

    WordCamp NYC 2009

    Only a few more days until WordCamp NYC and I’m so very excited. This is one of the first conferences (in my field) that I’m going to be attending and it’s two days jam packed with awesomeness. Besides being in my favorite US city (New...

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  • November Challenge

    November Challenge

    Ah, November is rolling around, and I’m getting bored.  Starting November 1st, I will be doing a new experiment, but I haven’t quite figured out what I should do yet. I need your help! So far I have come up with 4 diet challenges that...

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  • November Experiment

    November Experiment

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  • Awesome Websites to Drastically Increase (or Decrease) Productivity

    Awesome Websites to Drastically Increase (or Decrease) Productivity

    Here is a list of some of my favorite websites that increase productivity, help decrease the amount of time spent on day to day tasks, and some that are just entertaining. Functional: -www.Mint.com: Really easy online banking site. I’ve tried Microsoft Money, Quicken, and the...

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  • (famous) People I find inspiring, and why…

    (famous) People I find inspiring, and why…

    Maybe I should just shut up and smell the roses, but I’m obsessed with trying to live better, more efficiently, happier, lazier, etc. I’m not the best at it, but I love personal development. Here’s a list of people who I find inspiring and a...

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