PD 004: Personal Awareness Group

Concepts of emotional health and effective interpersonal behavior. Lecture and group discussion will guide students on how to effectively deal with life situations and improve student success.

Focuses on specific strategies for achieving academic and personal success. Students come to understand motivation and learn how to identify and overcome self-defeating behaviors.

Limitation on Enrollment: Eligibility for EOPS/CARE Program required EOPS/CARE only. Orientation to acquaint students with campus, college procedures and policies, as well as programs. Graded Credit/No Credit.

Students clarify their educational objectives and develop the skills necessary to reach them. Topics include time management, reading and study skills, goal-setting, career planning, and communication skills.

Introduction to the campus and its resources for adults returning to school. Topics include study skills, time management and coping with the transition to being a student again. Graded Pass/No Pass.

Provides an overview of the American higher education system as well as an orientation to the college and its student support services. Students learn about cultural patterns and adjustment issues, US classroom culture and college resources that are available to provide ongoing academic support.

Introduction to the campus and its resources for first-time to college ESL students. Topics include study skills, time management, coping with the transition to being a student in the United States, and an introduction to SBCC educational programs.

Students assess interests, values, skills and personality traits, and learn skills to link up careers and college majors. Topics include career assessment, decision-making, researching careers and majors.

Designed to empower students to achieve academic and personal success. Strategies and success factors for single parent students. Addresses the need for developing good study habits, time management skills, and support systems. Students learn to identify and understand self-esteem and self-defeating behavior; develop strategies for change; and emphasize attitudes beneficial to achieving optimum academic performance.

Comprehensive approach to career planning. Exploration of interests, personality traits and values through career assessment inventories. Topics include choosing a major, educational planning, value clarification, skills analysis, decision-making and goal-setting. Job search skills include researching occupational information, on-site interviews, interviewing and resume writing.

Students develop the skills necessary to effectively manage their time, develop and set realistic goals, and improve their ability to overcome issues that cause procrastination.

Development of peer education skills around healthy lifestyle choices, with emphasis on the effects of alcohol and other drugs, HIV prevention, sexual health, relationships, self-esteem and stress management. Designed to enable students to participate in formal or informal campus, community or personal peer education and prevention programs. National Bacchus and Gamma Peer Education Certificate optional.

Learn and integrate effective coping strategies to promote self-awareness, personal wellness, academic success, and model these strategies, including managing symptoms of stress and other psychological conditions.

Concentration is critical in this digital age of multi-tasking. Stabilizing the mind and re-training it to focus attention and be aware of awareness can lead students towards clearer thinking, enhanced learning, satisfaction, creativity, more sustained balance, and mastery.

Mandatory course for all student-athletes participating in intercollegiate sports for the first time at SBCC. Students learn critical information on athletic eligibility and NCAA transfer requirements, and develop a long-term educational plan. Includes skills necessary for college success: time management, study skills and test-taking strategies.

Students clarify their educational objectives and develop the skills necessary to attain them. Topics include time management, reading and study skills, goal-setting health occupations, career planning, and communication skills.

Introduction to academic planning, leading to the completion of a comprehensive Student Education Plan (SEP). Students learn to incorporate the major design elements of an SEP by utilizing resources and educational planning software to identify educational requirements and appropriately balance a course schedule.

Introduction to educational planning which leads to the completion of a long-term Student Education Plan (SEP). F1 visa students will learn to incorporate the major design elements of an SEP by utilizing resources that identify educational requirements and appropriately balance a course schedule.

Introduction to educational planning which leads to the completion of a comprehensive Student Education Plan (SEP). STEM students will learn to incorporate major design elements of an SEP by utilizing resources that identify educational requirements and appropriately balance a course schedule.

Self-paced, individualized career planning course to include career assessment and testing, career counseling, independent career research. Students prepare a personal portfolio that includes short-term and future educational career plans and goals; and activities designed to achieve these goals. Course available through Internet assignments or through independent research conducted at the Career Center, with some class meetings required.

Individualized course to help students find better patterns for success in mathematics.

Designed to help new/first-time students understand the role of college, and to develop skills that promote academic persistence and personal adjustment.

This course focuses on the assessment of individuals strengths, interests, values, personality and abilities in the context of career and education planning. Students will improve decision making skills by exploring their own decision making styles and applying specific decision making models to their career planning process.

This class is designed to help students develop and implement a strategic career and job search plan. Students will learn about sources of occupational information and how to utilize this information in the career planning and job search process.

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Video Summary:Anyone committed to building an amazing life will benefit from a personal development plan. Creating one, however, needs to be a customized design, based on your own personal needs and goals. It's not something you can copy from your friend or colleague. If you do, it won't meet your specific needs. Spend time figuring out what your needs are, and what you hope to accomplish. That information will pay off handsomely so you don't chase down blind alleys that get you nowhere productive.

Once you know what you're looking for, with a stunning array of material and programs available, use every resource at you disposal to narrow the search to what's best for you. Tap into free resources first, until you identify the experts to best direct your path. Gather the lay of the land, and where you hope to arrive.

Minimize time and energy zappers and addictions. Replace destructive habits with constructive ones.

Identify a life purpose, if you don't already have one, that speaks to the center of your being. Only then will you have the commitment to pursue your self-improvement plan.

Keep track of your progress, so you can review and realize the journey you've made.

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Overview: This guide provides a comprehensive 7-step process to create a customized personal development plan to help you actualize more of your true potential.

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I leaped into the personal development world with a copy of Tony Robbins Personal Power program. You know, the one from those late night infomercials?

I was 18, and this audio program made a measurable difference in my outlook and behavior.

From that moment onward, I was hooked by personal development. I jumped into whatever interested me.

I hopped from seminar to seminar, from book to book. Investing every possible moment I had, I covered a lot of ground in my first five years.

Reflecting almost 25 years on my personal growth journey, I now see I was missing several vital ingredients essential for long-term, healthy development.

In this guide, I will share with you lessons learned and provide a roadmap for crafting a simple yet powerful Personal Development Plan.

When you dont have a vision, a plan, or a goal, where does your attention go?

For most people, attention goes to entertainment and distraction. Sight, sound, and motion captivate our brains.

Television shows, films, video games, and social media hook the primitive parts of our brain.

If youre an overachiever who defines yourself by external accomplishments and status, your attention likely gets fixated on more work, higher productivity, and making more money.

The primary question when creating a Personal Development Plan is: Where am I going to place my attention and awareness?

When entertainment, distraction, and workaholism consume our attention, something doesnt feel right within us. We may not identify it, but parts of us arent happy with this agenda.

We may not identify it, but parts of us arent happy with this agenda.

To have a full and meaningful life requires us to open to more dimensions of ourselves.

And a Personal Development Plan can help us do just that.

But most people dont know whats available. I wasnt aware of the optionswhen I started my journey. Youthful enthusiasm and naivete guided those early years.

Youthful enthusiasm and naivete guided those early years.

If you go to self-growth seminars or read books in this genre, you may only think within the confines of the illustrations these resources provide.

Before we jump in, heres a quick overview of the steps for creating your plan:

Step 1: Learn the Human Potential LandscapeStep 2: Dream and Create Your VisionStep 3: Select your Areas of FocusStep 4: Discover Your PracticesStep 5: Establish Personal Development GoalsStep 6: Set Your ScheduleStep 7: Monitor your progress

Step 1 is whats missing from most peoples approach to personal growth.

So well start our journey with a larger vision for human potential.

One thing I was missing from my personal development journey was a map of the terrain. How can you navigate through your development without a map?

Every good explorer has one. Such a map shines a much-needed light on the diverse areas of our potential.

A reliable map of human potential wasnt readily available in the early 90s.

The fields of transpersonal psychology, developmental psychology, integral theory, and neuroscience, however, were converging on an answer.

Theorist Ken Wilber played a primary role in synthesizing many fields of research into a cohesive whole.

Before we review these findings, lets define what we mean by personal development.

If you examine most people over the course of a decade, youll observe little change in their development and behavior.

Development implies a permanent change in the structure of your being including your body, brain, or consciousness.

Just because you adopt a new habit doesnt mean you have or will grow from it. If this new habit, however, changes you over time, it will facilitate your development.

Its all too easy to believe youre developing when youre not. I know I deluded myself for many years and theres evidence of this throughout personal development communities.

Reading books in this genre, for example, doesnt mean youre developing.

Personal development books might provide a roadmap for development in certain areas, but real development comes through practice and repetition.

Our behavior and the display of skills and aptitudes are where we can observe signs of permanent change.

Also, its far easier for a someone else to assess these changes than to measure them for ourselves.

Self-help implies theres something wrong with us. The self-help industry profits by subconsciously communicating these deficiencies to its unsuspecting audience.

Actual personal development is how humans realize more of their innate potential.

In an ideal environment, this process happens naturally. Because this perfect environment doesnt exist in society, the call for personal development is an individuals choice.

In my experience, Ive found it helps to take an integrated approach to your Personal Development Plan.

That is, know your menu of options so you can select from multiple areas that interest you.

To create a map for our development, we need to know the categories available to us. These classes include:

Lets look at each of these categories in more detail.

While we used to associate intelligence with IQ; we now know there are many forms of intelligence.

One popular model comes from the pioneering work of Harvard psychologist Howard Gardner and his Multiple Intelligence theory.

In Gardners model, there are nine lines of intelligence:

Logical-mathematical intelligence: logic, abstractions, reasoning, numbers and critical thinking. Thisintelligenceis associated to IQ and intellectual aptitude. This line is also referred to as cognitive intelligence as explored in Jean Piagets research.

Linguistic intelligence: words, languages, reading, writing, telling stories and memorizing words.

Intrapersonal intelligence: to know thyself including ones strengths and weaknesses, emotional triggers and motivations. Ones ability to be introspective and self-reflective.

Kinesthetic intelligence: ones ability to control ones body and ones skill in using it. Also called body intelligence or body-mind connection.

Musical intelligence: sensitivity to sounds, pitch, rhythms, tones, meter, melody, and so on.

Visual-spatial intelligence: spatial judgment and the ability to visualize and imagine with the minds eye.

Interpersonal intelligence: sensitivity to others moods, feelings, temperaments, motivations, and their ability to cooperate with others. Psychologist Daniel Goleman popularized this as Emotional Intelligence and Social Intelligence.

Naturalistic intelligence: sensitivity to ones environment; the ability to recognize flora and fauna; nurturing and relating to ones natural surroundings.

Existential intelligence: sometimes called spiritual intelligence; relates to ones understanding of themselves in relation to reality or the cosmos.

Other developmental researchers have studied the stages of growth in morals, values, worldviews, emotions, contemplation, spirituality, needs, and psycho-sexual development.

Do you see the diverse range of our potential?

InIntegral Life Practice, Ken Wilber, et al. group these streams of development into four categories:

We each have a different base level of development in each line of intelligence and an innate potential we can realize through practice.

Our environment often thwarts this potential in early childhood. As adults, our responsibility is to resume this upward march.

Skill development is a broad category that includes areas where you can show ability. You can develop skills for personal or professional reasons.

There are skills in communicating, creative problem-solving, collaborating, computer programming, bookkeeping, analyzing, persuading, negotiating, learning, presenting, goal setting, listening, managing, planning, reasoning, predicting, to name only a few.

All skills are associated with at least one line of intelligence (above). With sufficient practice and the right methods, individuals can develop any skill.

One way to get more clarity on your natural skills is to take the free VIA Character Strength survey. Your natural strengths often translate to specific skills.

In your pursuit of personal development, you may have come across the Wheel of Life.

The Wheel of Life is a tool acoach uses to illustrate the various categories of ones life, measure how an individual is doing in each area, and set goals to improve in those areas.

Your wheel might include physical health, relationships, social, financial, professional, personal growth, spiritual, creativity, fun, and emotional.

The message behind the Wheel of Life is that development occurs through conscious effort and being intentional about how you grow within these areas.

Who doesnt have behaviors they would like to change?

We all have set patterns of behavior that get entrenched by unconscious repetition.

Changing these habits requires repatterning the brain.

For lasting change to occur, we repeat the new habit or behavior over time under various circumstances.

The time necessary to install a new habit varies; research suggests it takes 66 days on average.

Why do most personal development programs fail to produce long-term results? Because these programs are one size fits all.

Research shows there is a range of psychological types. In the Enneagram system, there are nine primary types and nine levels of development within each one.

Each type has varying propensities, habitual patterns, strengths and weakness, fears and potentials.

If you want to create an effective Personal Development Plan, be sure youre aware of your psychological type. Each type has a different pathway to higher development.

As a business coachto high-performing entrepreneurs for the last two decades, Ive taken and used most (if not all) the personality tests on the market, including popular ones like DISC and Myers-Briggs.

In my opinion, the Enneagram is far more efficacious, robust, and useful.

You can take a free Enneagram test here. If you wish to take a scientifically-validated version of the test, go to the Enneagram Institute website ($12).

After you get your results, read more about your type and see if it resonates. Then, look for ways to develop your type. (On the Enneagram Institute website, they offer Personal Growth Recommendations for each type.)

If youre interested in pursuing this further, I recommend Riso and Hudsons books, The Wisdom of the Enneagram and Personality Types.

By now your mind is reeling with possibilities.

Consider what the above information means about your potential: Developing any line of intelligence gives you greater sensitivity about the world around you.

You can now process information in new and deeper ways.

Every time we grow in a line of intelligence, we perceive the world differently. (See also: The Four Stages of Learning Anything.)

We are more awake than before. We have greater sensitivity to the world around us. Our possibilities are remarkable to ponder.

Now, its time to cast your vision for your future self.

Nietzsche believed it was our destiny to be Ubermensch or Superman.

An Ubermensch is an integrated or whole human being accessing his full potential.

Numerous researchers in developmental psychology have come to a similar conclusion, calling the final stage of development Integrated.

Maslow called this stage of development self-actualization and self-transcendence.

Your vision (and personal development goals) will inspire you if it is true to who you are.

Sometimes we create a vision based on what weshould want or what we hope will gain approval from others (our parents, significant others, colleagues, friends).

Such a vision will lack inspiration and will feel meaningless.

So before you cast your vision for your development, find your center and enter a state of mastery first.

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One of the best decisions you can make is to engage in continuous self-development.

We all want to enhance the quality of our lives, become better people, achieve more, and overall be better rounded individuals. Thats why we set personal development goals. Below youll discover 16 personal development goals that will make you happier and sexier.

1. Become More Confident. In his book, The Magic Lamp, Keith Ellis refers to a study conducted in 1921 by Dr. Lewis Terman of Stanford University involving over 1,500 gifted children. The study revealed that IQ is not the most important ingredient for success. Instead, Terman found that there were three factors that were much more important than intelligence in determining success. One of these factors was self-confidence (the other two were setting goals and persevering).

Your self-esteem, or your self-confidence, is basically what you think about yourself: how competent you think you are in dealing with lifes challenges, and how worthy you feel of happiness and success. One of the reasons why bolstering your self-confidence is important is because is theres a strong correlation between confidence and success.

Therefore, one of your self-development goals should be to increase your self-confidence.

2. Improve Your Body Language. Body language is nonverbal communication which involves gestures and movements. Studies have shown that the right body language can help you with all of the following:

You can read about seven ways in which body language can positively influence your life here.

3. Learn to Get Along With Others. Yesterday I was watching a TV show called Person of Interest. One of the main charactersReeseis working as a detective and his supervisor tells hims that he has to start meeting with a psychologist. During his first appointment Reese does the following:

The psychologist quickly calls him on it: He was trying to manipulate her by giving her a gift, talking to her about her interests, and simulating trust and closeness.

Im telling you this story as an illustration that there are things that you can do to create rapport with others. Of course, you should be honest and your objective shouldnt be to manipulate other people, but its always a good idea to learn ways in which you can better relate and get along with others.

4. Stop Procrastinating. Procrastination has been called the thief of time, opportunitys assassin, and the grave in which dreams are buried. Fortunately, procrastination is not a character trait, but a habit. And just as you learned the habit of procrastination, you can unlearn it. Make better use of the time that you have by overcoming procrastination.

5. Become an Early Riser. There are many benefits to becoming an early riser, including watching the sun rise, getting some early morning exercise, being able to work on a project just because its important to you before the day officially gets started, and so on. In addition, studies show that early rises are happier, healthier, and more productive than their late rising counterparts.

6. Become More Proactive. In his best-selling book The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Stephen R. Covey explains that the first habit of people who accomplish what they set out to do is that theyre proactive. Proactive people do the following:

If youre going to create the life that you want for yourself, you need to be proactive.

7. Acquire Conflict Resolution Skills. Conflict is a part of life. After all, people cant be expected to agree on everything (I once read that if two people always agree, one of them isnt necessary). The question is whether conflictwhen it ariseswill be resolved effectively or lead to discord.

Having the ability to resolve disagreements rationally and settle disputes amicably will make you happier and more successful.

8. Release the Past. Most of us are haunted by the ghosts of our past: that opportunity that we let slip by; those kids who bullied us in the playground; that love interest who left us for someone else; that professor who graded us unfairly; that parent who was constantly putting us down; and so on. In order to be happy in the present, we each need to release the ghosts of the past.

9. Read More. You may have heard that knowledge is power, and one of the best ways to acquire knowledge is by reading. In addition, researchers have found that gaining new knowledge can satisfy our need for competence, which makes us happier.

Read books that will help you to learn skills that will allow you to do better in life. Here are three examples:

10. Become More Resilient. Resilience is the ability to overcome adversity. Its the difference between facing your problems bravely and confidently, and feeling helpless and like you cant move on. Fortunately, you can learn how to bounce back from any problem or challenge stronger and smarter.

11. Manage Stress Effectively. Stress is the bodys reaction to anything that requires a response. Feeling stress can keep us alert and motivate us to pursue our goals. However, if theres too much stress this can lead to distress. Distress can cause headaches, elevated blood pressure, and chest pain. It can lead you to have problems sleeping and can even make you sick.

Knowing how to manage stress effectivelyusing good stress to learn and grow, and being able to release stress once it starts to reach a negative levelis vital for personal development.

12. Overcome Limiting Beliefs. Limiting beliefs keep us trapped in our comfort zone and prevent us from trying new things and taking risks for fear ofgetting hurt. We can have limiting beliefs about anythingmoney, success, relationships, and so on. You can even have limiting beliefs about yourself and what youre capable of.

Allowing limiting beliefs to hold you back is not sexy, and it certainly will not make you happy. Identify your limiting beliefs, overcome them, and replace them with positive beliefs that will allow you to achieve what you want from life.

13. Increase Your Willpower. Willpower is essential to your ability to accomplish anything worthwhile. It influences your health, your finances, your relationships, your professional success, and all other areas of your life. Whatever goals youve set for yourself, you need willpower in order to achieve them.

14. Become More Mindful. Being mindful helps us to recognize the abundance and the good that is already present in our lives. However, we spend a lot of time thinking about things that arent happening in the present moment: remembering the past or thinking about the future. This is called mind wandering. In addition, psychologists have found that mind wandering makes us unhappy.

An important component of happiness is learning to live in the moment; that is, becoming more mindful.

15. Learn to Make Better Decisions. Ive written several posts on this blog on how to make better decisions. Thats because the choicesor the decisions we makedetermine the quality of our lives and the outcomes that we get. Our decisions shape our lives, so the better you get at making decision, the better your life will be.

16. Work on Your Attitude. Your attitude is your state of mind. Its also the way in which you respond to situations and to other people. One of the best ways to get what you want from life is to constantly adopt the attitude that is most conducive to getting you what you want.

Live your best life by setting personal goals that make you a better person. The 16 personal development goals explained above are a good start.

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Do you know your personal strengths? A very easy question, but if I would be the interviewer in an job-interview, what would you answer? Can you name your biggest personal strengthsinstantly?

Knowing your personal strengths and weaknesses can help you a lot in choosing the right career or making good decisions. Becauseif you are able to focus what you do around your personalstrengths, you have the chance to create something remarkable, while making it look like its almost effortless for you.

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And probably not easy for everyone else. This is what you do best and where your real talents are. If you want to have a comfortable life you should focus on using those strength to the fullest, because thats where you have ancompetitiveadvantage and where you can create the most value for other people.

Also, similar to knowing your personal values, knowing your strengths and weaknesses raises your self-awareness and gives youclarity.

When you try to find your own strength, think about what comes naturally easy for you. And dont choose attributes that you would like to have or that you admire. This is a typical trap. Especially avoid those which seem hard to do for you.

Instead choose those that are describing your core.What is so obvious that you almost doesnt notice it in you anymore, since it is like your very nature?

Here are some examples of typical peoples strengths:

Choose those that fit yourstrengthsand then compare them against each other to bring them into an order. 1 is your biggest strength and 5 (or do 10 if you like) is at the 5th place. When you compare them ask yourself: What can I do better?

My own biggest personal strength are:

I would love to read your own list in the comments below!

It can also be interesting think about a big strength you have that isrelativelyrare in most other humans. For instance strategic thinking is a relatively rare quality, while for instance confidence or creativity is not really. So when you are thinking about your career, maybe you should build your work around those personal strengths that you do possess but most other people dont. Then you can create the most value for others.

Its also important not to confuse strengths with likes. What you like to do is notnecessarily what you do best. It can be, but its not a given. Of course, for a successful career you want to combine these twoin order to overlap your strengths with your passion.

Equally important as knowing your personal strengths is knowing your personal weaknesses. Those areattributesthat you will have a hard time when doing it, its difficult for you. Thats why you should try to let people who are better than you do this.

Everybody has weaknesses. Its a natural thing, humans are not perfect. So dont beembarrassedto look at your weaknesses. It will help you to improve yourself to know them.

And here are some examples of typical peoples weaknesses:

There are probably more, so dont hesitate to use them and write them into the comments.

Here are my personal top 5 weaknesses:

So I have to work on those weaknesses in order to not make them matter too much in my life. Everybody has 1 or 2 weaknesses that you have to keep in check. If you dont they will produce negative consequences and may even disrupt your efforts while you use your personal strength.

So identify them, and if you are brave enough, write them into the comments below as well! 🙂

Thats a tough question. In general its much better to focus on using your personal strengths and try to control your weaknesses. A good business strategy can be to focus your energies on your strength only and try to outsource or delegate tasks that would bring you into your personal weaknesses.

On the other hand,facingyour weaknesses can have a lot of potential for personal growth. If you are not good at something, improving even slightly can have a nice positive impact on your overall quality of life.

An example would be if you are a lousy cook, improving your cooking skills slightly could give you benefits in everyday life. You dont have to be a master to profit from cooking. Same would be if you are not good at sports. Starting to run can be really helpful for your overall health, although you will never run a marathon or start at the olympic games.

I remember adocumentaryabout MichaelJordanwhere it said that Jordan was never good at shooting from the distance, but he improved it to a master level by constant practice. Same with his defensive game. It said He asked what are my weaknesses and how can I make those my strength?Well I would say these where no real weaknesses, they just werent his absolute strengths in the game. Still, by almost fanatic practice he improved even this part of his game. It may would have given other results if he would had to play chess against Garry Kasparov on the basketball court 😉

So knowing your personal strengths and weaknesses can give you a lot of insights in understanding and changing yourself. And it will help you to make the right decisions.

Please do the little exercise and reveal your own personal strengths and weaknesses. Write them into a comment and I might comment back on them later.

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Nobody ever wrote down a plan to be broke, fat, lazy, or stupid. Those things are what happen when you dont have a plan! Larry Winget

Before I share with you a powerful personal development plan example, I want you to fully understand why it is important to have a personal development plan.

Have you ever gone on a holiday with no or little planning?

I did, and instead of having an adventurous and spontaneous journey, I ended up being frustrated because I needed to plan everything during the journey.

It is very hard to fully enjoy the trip if you constantly need to think about where to sleep, what to eat, and where to go.

It is much easier to travel when you have at least some big picture vision and an idea of where you want to go, as well as a basic plan of the things you want to do.

Its even easier if you have a more detailed plan.

It is the same with the journey of life. Many people just live life with no or little planning, so it is no surprise when they end up being frustrated or asking themselves How did I end up here?

Thats why is important to prepare a plan in advance.

Jim Rohn said:

I find it fascinating that most people plan their vacations with better care than they plan their lives. Perhaps that is because escape is easier than change.

If you dont think and plan in advance, you can easily end up being angry, frustrated, and not satisfied with your life.

There are other benefits of having a personal development plan.

If you ever find yourself feeling lost in life, you can just look into your plan and remind yourself where you want to go. A personal development plan is your guideline for life!

By developing your future, you will get a better sense of control over your life and you will make better decisions on the way.

If you are a driver, and you want to make your journey more pleasurable, you need to know where you are going and how you will get there. Good preparation decreases the risk of things going wrong with your journey.

Its the same with a personal development plan it increases possibilities that your life will go in the right direction.

If you like the idea of having a personal development plan, you are probably asking yourself: Where to start?

A personal development plan helps you to structure your thinking. We constantly plan and think in our head, but very often we miss important details and we dont create a realistic strategy to realize that plan. Thats why many plans stay just in our dreams.

A personal development plan is a process that consists of defining what is important to you, what you want to achieve, what strengths you already have that help to achieve your goals, and what you need to improve and develop with time.

When you are developing or designing something new, thats usually not finished overnight. Thats why you need to be prepared that every important plan will take time before its realized.

To make things easier, its a good idea to have a personal development plan template.

Ive designed this personal development plan template to help you structure your thinking and create a strategic plan for achieving your goals.

If you want to achieve anything important, you need to take time to make a detailed plan.

There are some important things to consider when creating a personal development plan. Here are 9 steps that can help you to create a good personal development plan:

What is important to you? Which new skills do you want to get? Which achievements would make you happier? Do you have any unfulfilled dreams which you are now ready to accomplish? Do you want to move ahead to the next stage in your career? Do you want to get a better job?

The first step is to define goals that are really important to you. It can be something related to your career, but also something that will enrich or improve your personal life (like lose weight, start a new hobby/activity, or learn a new language).

Step 1: Write down 5-10 goals which are important for you to achieve.

Out of all goals you wrote down, which one is the most important? This is your key goal which will be your focus.

Maybe you want a career change or you want to achieve a good physical shape or acquire some new skills.

Are there any transferable skills (skills which you can transfer to different areas of life) that would be important for your success? For example, if you improve speaking skills, the result can be more confidence, better relationships and communication with others, and even business success (e.g. more successful negotiations and more sales).

The purpose of a personal development plan is to help you expand your knowledge, develop new skills, or improve important areas of life.

Step 2: Take a good look at your list and select one goal which is the most important to you and that you will work on first.

If you have a goal but dont know when you want to achieve it, chances are it will never happen.

Also, if you are planning to achieve a big project in a very short period of time, again, chances are it will not happen.

When planning, you need to be realistic, specific and make good assumptions time-wise.

Rather than saying I want to be a millionaire someday, its better to make a plan to double your income this year.

How long will it take you to achieve your goal?

Once you have a realistic timeframe for your goal, its important to commit that you will really do it. Be serious about it. If you are not the one who is taking your plan seriously, nobody else will either.

Instead of focusing on problems and obstacles that could happen, think about how great you will feel when its done. You can also define how you will reward yourself when you manage to achieve your goal.

Step 3: Set a deadline.

Everyone in the world is good at something and has above average skills/strengths in some specific areas. Even if you are not a talented singer, actor, or artist, you can still be a good parent, excellent listener, or a caring person.

What are your key strengths?

If you are not sure about the answer, then ask your friends and family.

Ask them What do you think are my biggest strengths?

Maybe you will be surprised with their answers. Your key strengths are something what makes you unique and special. No one can ever take that from you.

Its very important for your confidence to be aware of your strengths.

Are you a well-organized, patient, persistent, outgoing, intelligent, brave, fast-learner, talented, open-minded?

Step 4: Once you understand what your strengths are, write down which of these strengths can help you to achieve your goal.

Your current behaviors and habits can either support or not support you to achieve your goal.

Which of yours habits or actions are threats to your goal achievement?

These are the things you need to stop doing.

For example, if your goal is to live 100 years, then you need to stop smoking, stop buying junk food, stop worrying about things, etc.

Write down at least 5 things that you commit you will stop doing.

On the other hand, there are some new actions that are opportunities for you to achieve goals much easier.

What actions can you choose to start doing that will help you to achieve your goal?

If you want to save more money, then for example you can start managing your money, you can start writing down your expenses, you can start spending less, etc.

Write down 5 things you commit to start doing.

Step 5: Create a start doing and stop doing list!

A personal development plan is a plan for how to get from the place you are now to the place where you want to be.

If you want to get something, you will need to give something in return.

For example, if your goal is to move ahead to the next stage in your career, you will have to learn new skills.

If you want to start your own business, you will have to learn about marketing, sales, entrepreneurship, finances, etc.

A Quote by Brian Tracy:

For everything you want in life, there is a price you must pay, in full and in advance. Decide what you really want and then determine the price youll have to pay to achieve it. Remember, to achieve something youve never achieved before you must do something you have never done before. You must become someone whom you have never been before. Whatever you want, youll have to pay a price measured in terms of: sacrifice, time, effort, and personal discipline. Decide what it is and start paying that price today.

In other words, to achieve something you have never achieved before, you need to develop skills you have never had before and start working on those skills as soon as possible.

Which skills or knowledge will help you to achieve your goal?

Step 6: Write down the list of the skills you need to develop, which will help you achieve your goal.

If you want to achieve a big goal, there will be many actions you will need to take.

Step 7: Write down at least 3-5 most important actions you will need to take within your defined timeframe.

Who can help you to achieve your goals faster?

For example, if you want to change your career, you can consider talking with a career adviser; if you want to lose weight, you can have a fitness coach; if you want to improve your finances, you can talk with a financial adviser

Step 8: List anyone who you can think of who would be able to help you to achieve your goal.

The best motivator to stay persistent in achieving goals is your own progress. Even if it is a little progress, it is still something.

It is important to recognize that you are moving forward and to write down things that you are doing well.

If something is not going so well, what can you do differently?

If something is not going well, that means that you need to change (or improve) the strategies you are using. By doing the same things, you will be getting the same results. If you want better results, you need to change something.

Step 9: Write down things that you need to improve and define new strategies which you will try. Your responsibility is to make things work for you.

This 9-step Personal Development Plan Template helps you to create a detailed plan for the goal that is the most important to you. You can use the same template to work on the other important goals or you can use this short version of the template to quickly plan less prioritized goals.

A personal development plan is a very powerful method to assess your life, define what is really important for you, and to start working on things that matter the most. Often in our life we are so busy with our day-to-day activities that we rarely have time for important thinking and planning.

Exercises like this can help you to get more clarity about goals that are the most important to you and to create realistic strategies for how you will achieve them.

I suggest that you create a new personal development plan every year, and there is no better time to do this than beginning of the year (January).

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Eva Lu is an ex engineer who decided to give up her successful career and dedicate her life to inspire and motivate others to find the best in themselves.She founded the Mind of a Winner website because she strongly believes that success is a skill developed by persistent people and her passion is to motivate others to become persistent enough.Her inspiration and her mentors are self-made millionaires who helped thousands of people to change their lives and who managed to build careers with their passion and vision towards doing something what they love.She also helps young entrepreneurs with business advices and encourages them not to give up on their dreams. She teaches them how to turn dreams into clear visions and ideas, and ideas into actions and results.All posts by Eva Lu

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Over the last 30+ years, thousands of people have used my personal development plan to transform their lives and build the future they want for themselves and their families.

Research has shown that fully 95% of what you do or say is determined by your habits. When I was starting out in my career, I struggled to form the habits that I knew would help me get where I wanted to go. I had to learn for myself how to develop these success-creating habits and personality traits. Once I did - my career, income, and happiness started to skyrocket faster than I thought possible.

If you have goals you want to achieve or new skills you want to develop, there are specific actions that you can start taking this moment to make those dreams happen. Below, I share the proven strategies Ive personally used to produce the results that I want in my life. By using these strategies, you can learn to do the same.

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Personal development covers activities that improve awareness and identity, develop talents and potential, build human capital and facilitate employability, enhance the quality of life and contribute to the realization of dreams and aspirations. Personal development takes place over the course of a person's entire life.[1] Not limited to self-help, the concept involves formal and informal activities for developing others in roles such as teacher, guide, counselor, manager, life coach or mentor. When personal development takes place in the context of institutions, it refers to the methods, programs, tools, techniques, and assessment systems that support human development at the individual level in organizations.[2]

Among other things, personal development may include the following activities:

Personal development can also include developing other people. This may take place through roles such as those of a teacher or mentor, either through a personal competency (such as the alleged skill of certain managers in developing the potential of employees) or through a professional service (such as providing training, assessment or coaching).

Beyond improving oneself and developing others, "personal development" labels a field of practice and research:

Any sort of developmentwhether economic, political, biological, organisational or personalrequires a framework if one wishes to know whether a change has actually occurred.[3][need quotation to verify] In the case of personal development, an individual often functions as the primary judge of improvement or of regression, but validation of objective improvement requires assessment using standard criteria. Personal-development frameworks may include:

Personal development as an industry[4] has several business relationship formats of operating. The main ways are business-to-consumer and business-to-business. However, there are two newer ways increasing in prevalence: consumer-to-business and consumer-to-consumer.

The business-to-consumer market involves selling books, courses and techniques to individuals, such as:

Some programs are delivered online and many include tools sold with a program, such as motivational books for self-help, recipes for weight-loss or technical manuals for yoga and martial-arts programs.

A partial list of personal development offerings on the business-to-individual market might include:

The business-to-business market also involves programs in this case ones sold to companies and to governments to assess potential, to improve effectiveness, to manage work-life balance or to prepare some entity for a new role in an organization. The goals of these programs are defined[by whom?] with the institution or by the institution and the results are assessed.[by whom?][citation needed] Universities and business schools also contract programs to external specialist firms or to individuals.[citation needed]

A partial list of business-to-business programs might include:

Some consulting firms specialize in personal development[5] but as of 2009[update] generalist firms operating in the fields of human resources, recruitment and organizational strategy have entered what they perceive as a growing market,[6] not to mention smaller firms and self-employed professionals who provide consulting, training and coaching.

Additionally, the International Alliance for Personal Development Professionals (IAPDP), an international group launched in 2015 to support professionals in the self-help and personal development industry.

Major religions such as the Abrahamic and Indian religions as well as New Age philosophies have used practices such as prayer, music, dance, singing, chanting, poetry, writing, sports and martial arts. These practices have various functions, such as health or aesthetic satisfaction, but they may also link[citation needed] to "final goals" of personal development such as discovering the meaning of life or living the good life (compare philosophy).

Michel Foucault describes in Care of the Self[7] the techniques of epimelia used in ancient Greece and Rome, which included dieting, exercise, sexual abstinence, contemplation, prayer and confessionsome of which also became important practices within different branches of Christianity.

In yoga, a discipline originating in India, possibly over 3000 years ago, personal-development techniques include meditation, rhythmic breathing, stretching and postures.

"Yi"Wushu and T'ai chi ch'uan utilise traditional Chinese techniques, including breathing and energy exercises, meditation, martial arts, as well as practices linked to traditional Chinese medicine, such as dieting, massage and acupuncture.

In Islam, which arose almost 1500 years ago in the Middle East, personal-development techniques include ritual prayer, recitation of the Qur'an, pilgrimage, fasting and tazkiyah (purification of the soul).[citation needed]

Two individual ancient philosophers: Aristotle and the Western Tradition and Confucius and the Eastern Tradition stand out as major sources [8] of what has become personal development in the 21st century, representing a Western tradition and an East Asian tradition. Elsewhere anonymous founders of schools of self-development appear endemic note the traditions of the Indian sub-continent in this regard.

Some ancient Indians aspired to "beingness, wisdom and happiness".[9]

The Greek philosopher Aristotle (384 BCE 322 BCE) influenced theories[which?] of personal development in the West. In his Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle defined personal development as a category of phronesis or practical wisdom, where the practice of virtues (arte) leads to eudaimonia,[10] commonly translated as "happiness" but more accurately understood as "human flourishing" or "living well".[11] Aristotle continues to influence the Western concept of personal development to this day[update], particularly in the economics of human development[12] and in positive psychology.[13]

In Chinese tradition, Confucius (around 551 BCE 479 BCE) founded an ongoing philosophy. His ideas continue to influence family values, education and management in China and East Asia. In his Great Learning Confucius wrote:

The ancients who wished to illustrate illustrious virtue throughout the kingdom, first ordered well their own states. Wishing to order well their states, they first regulated their families. Wishing to regulate their families, they first cultivated their persons. Wishing to cultivate their persons, they first rectified their hearts. Wishing to rectify their hearts, they first sought to be sincere in their thoughts. Wishing to be sincere in their thoughts, they first extended to the utmost their knowledge. Such extension of knowledge lay in the investigation of things.[14]

Psychology became linked to personal development in the early 20th century starting with Alfred Adler (18701937) and Carl Jung (18751961).

Adler refused to limit psychology to analysis, making the important point that aspirations look forward and do not limit themselves to unconscious drives or to childhood experiences.[15] He also originated the concepts of lifestyle (1929he defined "lifestyle" as an individual's characteristic approach to life, in facing problems) and of self image,[citation needed] a concept that influenced management under the heading of work-life balance.[clarification needed]

Carl Gustav Jung made contributions to personal development with his concept of individuation, which he saw as the drive of the individual to achieve the wholeness and balance of the Self.[16]

Daniel Levinson (19201994) developed Jung's early concept of "life stages" and included a sociological perspective. Levinson proposed that personal development come under the influencethroughout lifeof aspirations, which he called "the Dream":

Whatever the nature of his Dream, a young man has the developmental task of giving it greater definition and finding ways to live it out. It makes a great difference in his growth whether his initial life structure is consonant with and infused by the Dream, or opposed to it. If the Dream remains unconnected to his life it may simply die, and with it his sense of aliveness and purpose.[17]

Levinson's model of seven life-stages has been considerably modified[by whom?] due to sociological changes[which?] in the lifecycle.[18]

Research on success in reaching goals, as undertaken by Albert Bandura (born 1925), suggested that self-efficacy[19] best explains why people with the same level of knowledge and skills get very different results. According to Bandura self-confidence functions as a powerful predictor of success because:[20]

In 1998 Martin Seligman won election to a one-year term as President of the American Psychological Association and proposed a new focus: on healthy individuals[citation needed] rather than on pathology (he created the "positive psychology" current)

We have discovered that there is a set of human strengths that are the most likely buffers against mental illness: courage, optimism, interpersonal skill, work ethic, hope, honesty and perseverance. Much of the task of prevention will be to create a science of human strength whose mission will be to foster these virtues in young people.[21]

Personal development has been at the heart of education in the West[citation needed] in the form of the Greek philosophers;[which?] and in the East[citation needed] with Confucius. Some people[which?] emphasize personal development as a part of higher education. Wilhelm von Humboldt, who founded the University of Berlin (since 1949: Humboldt University of Berlin) in 1810, made a statement interpretable[by whom?] as referring to personal development: if there is one thing more than another which absolutely requires free activity on the part of the individual, it is precisely education, whose object it is to develop the individual.[22]

During the 1960s a large increase in the number of students on American campuses[23] led to research on the personal development needs of undergraduate students. Arthur Chickering defined seven vectors of personal development[24] for young adults during their undergraduate years:

In the UK, personal development took a central place in university policy[citation needed] in 1997 when the Dearing Report[25] declared that universities should go beyond academic teaching to provide students with personal development.[citation needed] In 2001 a Quality Assessment Agency for UK universities produced guidelines[26] for universities to enhance personal development as:

* a structured and supported process undertaken by an individual to reflect upon their own learning, performance and / or achievement and to plan for their personal, educational and career development;* objectives related explicitly to student development; to improve the capacity of students to understand what and how they are learning, and to review, plan and take responsibility for their own learning

In the 1990s, business schools began to set up specific personal-development programs for leadership and career orientation and in 1998 the European Foundation for Management Development set up the EQUIS accreditation system which specified that personal development must form part of the learning process through internships, working on team projects and going abroad for work or exchange programs.[citation needed]

The first personal development certification required for business school graduation originated in 2002 as a partnership between Metizo,[27] a personal-development consulting firm, and the Euromed Management School[28] in Marseilles: students must not only complete assignments but also demonstrate self-awareness and achievement of personal-development competencies.

As an academic department personal development has become[when?] a specific discipline, usually associated with business schools.[29] As an area of research, personal development draws on links to other academic disciplines:

Abraham Maslow (19081970), proposed a hierarchy of needs with self actualization at the top, defined as:[30]

the desire to become more and more what one is, to become everything that one is capable of becoming.

Since Maslow himself believed that only a small minority of people self-actualizehe estimated one percent[31]his hierarchy of needs had the consequence that organizations came to regard self-actualization or personal development as occurring at the top of the organizational pyramid, while job security and good working conditions would fulfill the needs of the mass of employees.[citation needed]

As organizations and labor markets became more global, responsibility for development shifted from the company to the individual.[clarification needed] In 1999 management thinker Peter Drucker wrote in the Harvard Business Review:

We live in an age of unprecedented opportunity: if you've got ambition and smarts, you can rise to the top of your chosen profession, regardless of where you started out. But with opportunity comes responsibility. Companies today aren't managing their employees' careers; knowledge workers must, effectively, be their own chief executive officers. It's up to you to carve out your place, to know when to change course, and to keep yourself engaged and productive during a work life that may span some 50 years.[32]

Management professors Sumantra Ghoshal of the London Business School and Christopher Bartlett of the Harvard Business School wrote in 1997 that companies must manage people individually and establish a new work contract.[33] On the one hand the company must allegedly recognize that personal development creates economic value: "market performance flows not from the omnipotent wisdom of top managers but from the initiative, creativity and skills of all employees".

On the other hand, employees should recognize that their work includes personal development and "... embrace the invigorating force of continuous learning and personal development".

The 1997 publication of Ghoshal's and Bartlett's Individualized Corporation corresponded to a change in career development from a system of predefined paths defined by companies, to a strategy defined by the individual and matched to the needs of organizations in an open landscape of possibilities.[citation needed] Another contribution to the study of career development came with the recognition that women's careers show specific personal needs and different development paths from men. The 2007 study of women's careers by Sylvia Ann Hewlett Off-Ramps and On-Ramps[34] had a major impact on the way companies view careers.[citation needed] Further work on the career as a personal development process came from study by Herminia Ibarra in her Working Identity on the relationship with career change and identity change,[35] indicating that priorities of work and lifestyle continually develop through life.

Personal development programs in companies fall into two categories: the provision of employee benefits and the fostering of development strategies.

Employee benefits have the purpose of improving satisfaction, motivation and loyalty.[citation needed] Employee surveys may help organizations find out personal-development needs, preferences and problems, and they use the results to design benefits programs.[citation needed] Typical programs in this category include:

Many such programs resemble programs that some employees might conceivably pay for themselves outside work: yoga, sports, martial arts, money-management, positive psychology, NLP, etc.[citation needed]

As an investment, personal development programs have the goal of increasing human capital or improving productivity, innovation or quality. Proponents actually see such programs not as a cost but as an investment with results linked to an organization's strategic development goals. Employees gain access to these investment-oriented programs by selection according to the value and future potential of the employee, usually defined in a talent management architecture including populations such as new hires, perceived high-potential employees, perceived key employees, sales staff, research staff and perceived future leaders.[citation needed] Organizations may also offer other (non-investment-oriented) programs to many or even all employees. Typical programs[which?] focus on career-development, personal effectiveness, teamwork, and competency-development. Personal development also forms an element in management tools such as personal development planning, assessing one's level of ability using a competency grid, or getting feedback from a 360 questionnaire filled in by colleagues at different levels in the organization.

A common criticism[36] surrounding personal development programs is that they are often treated as an arbitrary performance management tool to pay lip service to, but ultimately ignored. As such, many companies have decided to replace personal development programs with SMART Personal Development Objectives, which are regularly reviewed and updated. Personal Development Objectives help employees achieve career goals and improve overall performance.

Scholars have targeted self-help claims as misleading and incorrect. In 2005, Steve Salerno portrayed the American self-help movementhe uses the acronym SHAM: The Self-Help and Actualization Movementnot only as ineffective in achieving its goals, but also as socially harmful. 'Salerno says that 80 percent of self-help and motivational customers are repeat customers and they keep coming back whether the program worked for them or not'.[citation needed] Others similarly point out that with self-help books 'supply increases the demand...The more people read them, the more they think they need them...more like an addiction than an alliance'.[citation needed] Self-help writers have been described as working 'in the area of the ideological, the imagined, the narrativized....although a veneer of scientism permeates the[ir] work, there is also an underlying armature of moralizing'.[37]

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I got you covered! As much as I love writing about this subject, I cant take credit for everything I write. Much of my knowledge on self-development came from reading these great writers and thinkers.

Unfortunately theres no way for me to rank these bloggers objectively and accurately. The ranking here is based on their Twitter followers, but those numbers wont tell you much about the quality of their content. So dont take it as absolute in terms of quality. That being said, many of those at the top are there for good reason.

What this list lacks in ranking, however, it makes up for in quality. Ive read all these blogs, and Im a long term subscriber to a few of them. Ive bought some of their books and courses, too.

Follow these Personal Development Bloggers for Your Daily Dose of Wisdom, Inspiration, and Step-by-StepInstructions for World Domination

Ive been a fan since I read the 4-Hour Workweek and I now have his other books, 4-Hour Body and 4-Hour Chef. He thinks and sees the world differently, and that shows in his writing.

From Tim, I learned that having many options isnt always better. Sometimes, its better to eliminate them altogether so you dont waste time on petty choices like what to eat for breakfast.

Favorite posts:

Maria Popova. Photograph by Elizabeth Lippman for The New York Times

Maria Popova isnt your usual self-development blogger. She calls herself aninterestingness hunter-gatherer, and curious mind at large and thats a very fitting description considering the amount of research she does for a single post.

Brain Pickings is a collection of the lessons shes learned on creativity, intellectuality/growth, anxiety, spirituality and more. If you want to be a better note-taker, look-up her interview with Tim Ferriss.

Favorite posts:

Lori Deschene is the author ofTiny Buddhas Guide to Loving Yourself, co-founder of the Recreate Your Life Story eCourse, andcreator of Tiny Buddha, a site on simple wisdom, inspiration, relationships, and mindfulness. While many of the posts are based on Buddhisms teachings, its not exclusively about Buddhismor religion for that matter.

Favorite posts:

Hyatt is the author of Platform: Get Noticed in a Noisy World, and his personal blog is full of insightful and actionable posts on intentional leadership, productivity, publishing and more.

Favorite posts:

Leo Babuta writes about habits and living a minimalist lifestyle. Zen Habits chronicles his journey in changing bad habits like smoking and adding better ones like waking early, plus the lessons he learned along the way.

Favorite posts:

I found Penelope Trunk on Google while I was researching for an article. I forgot what it was about, but her article came up on the search results and the headline stopped me in my tracks.

I was intrigued. What would you learn about time management by hating someone? Since then, Ive loved her style of storytelling and candor in writing.

Trunks blog is full of stories and advice about life, work and starting a business.

Favorite posts:

Photo by: Stephanie Zito.

Chris Guillebeau is a travel hacker. So whats he doing here in a list of personal development bloggers? Aside from traveling the world using frequent flyer miles, hes also the author of the unconventional guide series, which are awesome guides for travelling, publishing and getting rich.

From him, I learned how to dream dreams worth chasing. He also showedme how to conduct annual reviews without going crazy.

Favorite posts:

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Marie Forleo is the host of Marie TV and author of Make Every Man Want You: How To Be So Irresistible Youll Barely Keep from Dating Yourself.

Her website is full of sassy and actionable advice for anyone wanting to build a business, focus, and overcome their limiting beliefs.

Favorite posts:

Danielle LaPorte is the author of The Fire Starter Sessions and co-creator of Your Big Beautiful Book Plan.

Yes, the site is probably geared for people who love inspirational quotes and soul-searching, but LaPortes website is much more than that. The posts are relatable, memorable and inspirational but not to the point that its too cheesy for my liking.

Favorite posts:

Me, Ramit, and a photobomber at his IWT event in Manila

Ramit Sethis writing is very direct and practical. No woo-woo inspirational but vague advice! Hes not afraid to call people out on their BS, and as a result he practically has a cult following. In email, he sounds like a scary guy (youll know what I mean if youre subscribed to his newsletter), but hes cool and approachable in person.

From Ramit, I learned that everything is negotiable. I also learned how to test (and break) my assumptions, like Who will pay me this much if other freelancers charge half of that?

Favorite posts:

On the surface, it looks like a health and fitness blog but once you read through it, youll realize that everything here is focused on physical and mental mastery.

If youre always trying to exceed your limits, physically and mentally, this site is for you.

Favorite posts:

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Roman Fitness Systems is a fitness and lifestyle website, but they also have write-ups on personal development. The site is a good resource for people looking to improve their physical appearance, that isto look thinner or put on some muscle.

Quick side note: Roman doesnt like getting included in lists like this. But Im including him here anyway because his site is a great resource forgetting results in your diet and exercise, which then leads to a better life.

Favorite posts:

Steven Handel is the man behind The Emotion Machine, an in-depth blog on psychology and self-improvement. The sites tagline is The psychology blog thats better than your local therapist, based on the posts Ive read, I think hes right. I definitely learned more from him than from my Psych 101 class.

Favorite posts:

Pick the Brain has been around for a while now. Its coverage extends to many facets of personal development, but the general themes are productivity, motivation, self-improvement/education and health.

The sites community writers are creative and often come up with a fresh angle on things, so although they talk about pretty much the same thing, the posts dont read like the rehashed stuff littering the web.

Favorite posts:

Beckers site is all about living a simple, yet rewarding, life. He emphasizes the importance of focusing onmore important pursuits and throwing away the stuff that clutter your life.

If you believe in less is more, youll probably like this site. But its not just for organization-freaks. Dig around and youll also find great articles on success, parenting, work, finances and more.

Favorite posts:

Manson writes unconventional life advice, the kind you wont like reading if youre used to getting things easy or if youre a fan of The Secret.

His blog is a realistic self-help site based on psychology and evidence through experience. Topics covered include life choices, culture, relationships and self-improvement.

Favorite posts:

Whats your risk appetite? Find out by taking Riskologys quiz.

Tervoorens blog offers strategies on life, career and adventure with a focus on increasing your risk tolerance via science-backed methods.

Honestly, I was a bit skeptical when I first heard about this blog. Increasing my risk appetite? What is this a scammy investment? But no, Riskologys content is great for people allergic to change, or stuck in their comfort zone, as it teaches you to tame your brain (and improve your life) in tiny increments.

Favorite posts:

Paid to Exist can help you the day job you hate and find freedom in working on your own terms. Mead has written tons of realistic and actionable content to help you quit your day job, grow, and build a business that can support your lifestyle.

Favorite post:

The blogs name translates to I am an idiot and also to I am Barker because Japanese people pronounce it as Baka

Dont let the name fool you. This site is anything but. My Getpocket account is filled with articles from Bakadesuyo!

I love his posts on productivity and goal setting, but he also writes cool stuff about negotiation and persuasion. Everything he writes is based on Science, or at least a good book he has read.

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Live Your Legend is dedicated to helping people find work that excites them. Its an active community of inspiring and action-oriented people helping each other find meaningful work.

Dinsmore also continuously travels the world to host local Live Your Legend meetups. So if youre tired of the glass ceiling, this blog is for you.

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Blake writes about leadership, entrepreneurship and more. The sites content is geared towards fresh graduates and millennials. Its a great source of strategies for excelling in life outside academia.

Favorite post: Have You Become a Half-Dead Adult?

Saviucs writing focuses on the hidden truths, the things we ignore yet hugely affect our lives. Read Purpose Fairy to learn more about human behavior from great thinkers like Einstein, Lao Tzu, Socrates and Victor Frankl, just a short list of Saviucs inspiration for her posts.

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Think Simple Now is a collection of real life stories from different people. Whatever youre going through, youre not alonethats their message.

With over a thousand stories from people all over the world, chances are youll find someone who went through the same troubles youre currently experiencing. You can read their stories to learn from their experience or just find solace knowing that others have walked the same path as you.

Favorite post: How to Quiet Your Mind

Its a great site for freelancers, travelers, and location independent entrepreneurs. Ogle initially put it up to keep himself accountable, but he now helps others accomplish their goals of being a location rebelwhat he calls anyone who can work or earn a living from anywhere.

If traveling while working isnt your thing, he also has posts about setting priorities, creating habits and building a business.

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With a background in Psychology, addiction and management, Atchinson set up this blog to chronicle the lessons he learned in his different jobs. He writes about waking up early, changing habits through changing your thoughts, and other aspects of personal development.

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Moodley blogs about creating change for women leaders and entrepreneurs. She believes sisterhood (community) is essential to a womans freedom, and creates communities of women supporting each others lives and businesses.

She also writes about doing more while having more fun, finding clarity and more.

Favorite post: Does your lover validate your life?

If you want to stretch your limits, go to Impossiblehq.com. Let Runyon show you how to shatter your limiting beliefs about diet, exercise and more.

Be prepared to work hard, though. Runyons method, especially Impossible Fitness, is not for sissies. If youre scared, hesitant or have serious self-doubts, thats okay because hell help you get over that, too.

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