Posts under ‘Personal Development’

Day 6: Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. [...]

Day 2 (of the 30 days of blogging challenge): I watched the movie Parenthood starring Steve Martin as a child. I laughed and laughed at the diarrhea song. I thought it was so cute when Gil’s son Justin rushed the stage in defense of his sister in the school play. Aside from that, however, I [...]

My pressing the snooze button totally messed up this challenge. I’ve been getting up late and not going to the gym for about two weeks. There were quite a few times when I didn’t even realize I had turned the alarm off. So I’ll have to start a new challenge. It begins tomorrow. It will [...]

That’s when I finally got out of bed after hitting the snooze a few times. It took me a while to get out of the house but I did make it to the gym. I said a lot of affirmations during running. That was especially helpful when I was getting tired. Today’s Numbers Treadmill Times [...]

I’m getting inspired by Personal Development for Smart People. I’ve decided to revisit the 30 day challenge. I’ve done two so far. The first was to stop complaining for thirty days in 2006. The second was waking up at 5:00am every day for 30 days. Both of these challenges were extremely successful. The 30 days [...]

I’ve been reading Personal Development for Smart People: The Conscious Pursuit of Personal Growth by Steve Pavlina. I’m a little over a third into it. I like it so far. It’s a pretty quick read. I’m sure some would say that he’s oversimplifying some concepts but I know enough about where he’s coming from to [...]