Alex Shalman . com - Practical Personal DevelopmenAlex Shalman . com - Practical Personal DevelopmenPersonal Development is the act of actively seeking, gathering, and utilizing information in order to enrich your life. This blog covers topics such as health, money, blogging, goal setting, time management, communication, leadership and law of attra Articles
Happiness Project: Supporters 2-16-08
2008-02-17 00:00:00 The happiness project has turned into a bit of a group writing project outside of this blog. Several of you have taken the liberty of participating by writing your very own answers to my questions, on your very own blogs. This is great because it spreads the awareness of happiness, as well as who you are, to your very own reader groups. It’s a win-win situations. On top of that, these people are automatically entered into the contest, where 5 people will win advertising on this blog. You can see the details in the happiness project introduction post. Here are the participants thus far. 1 Little Thing Stephen Smith Adam Kayce Tina - Life Balance Julie Meyer Dean Lacono Adam Donkus If you would like to participate, you are most welcome. Just write up the post, with the questions, your answers, and link back to the introduction post so people know what you’re doing. In return I’ll link to you in an individual post like this one, as well as give you a permanent spot ... More About: Project , Happiness , Supporters
Panama Trip: The Video (and Guest Post)
2008-02-16 18:00:00 A couple of weeks ago I decided to think outside the box and do something spontaneous. I flew over to Panama to hang out with the guys from Life Nomadic, and went to the best carnival I have ever been to in my life. The trip was a total blast, and something I will always remember fondly. While there, I did some camera work for Tynan and Todd, so you can see Panama from the perspective of me, the camera guy. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jTtir2djP Q You can also check out my write up of Panama if you missed it last week. As you can see I added the traveling category to this blog. That is because I’m planning on doing a decent amount of traveling. Every chance I get really. This is the perfect place to document what I learn along the way. This Wednesday I got the opportunity to write a guest post for Liz Strauss over at successful-blog. It’s titled How To Win At Blogging and Keep It Real. _____ SOBCon: It’s coming up, you don’t want to miss it, this years mo... More About: Video , Post , Trip , Guest
Happiness Project: Skellie Wag Of Anywired
2008-02-15 18:00:00 As seen by the picture, Skellie is shrouded in a cloud of mystery, which is just the way she likes it. At the same time, Skellie is one of the internets most prolific freelancers, and writes for two very popular blogs of her own. Skellie’s Anywired “is a so-current-it-still-smells-new guide to working online” and she offers ... More About: Project , Happiness
Happiness Project: Steven Aitchison Of Change Your Thoughts
2008-02-15 00:00:00 Steven Aitchison is a firm believer that if you change your thoughts, you can change your life. He is passionate about personal development, and has a strong desire to become a full-time blogger. He’s definitely on the right track for that. Steven previously released an ebook, and is working on a few other interesting writing project. ... More About: Change , Project , Thoughts , Happiness , Steven
Happiness Project: Aaron Potts Of Today Is That Day
2008-02-14 18:00:00 Aaron and I go way back, as he was one of my first blogging friends, and has showed me a great deal about networking and communication. His words still ring in my head sometimes as I decide if I will take a casual or professional tone in a conversation “you got it brother!” Aaron operates a ... More About: Project , Happiness , Today , Aaron
Happiness Project: Gretchen Rubin Of ?the? Happiness Project
2008-02-14 00:00:00 Gretchen Rubin is an author, mother, wife, and happiness expert. I dub her the Happiness Project Queen! Educated in Yale Law School, Gretchen won a writing prize, and went on to clerk for a Justice on the U.S. Supreme Court. Despite her extensive law experience, Gretchen heard her calling to be a writer. Gretchen published several ...
Happiness Project: Chris Brogan Of Conversation With A Community About Digi
2008-02-13 18:00:00 Chris Brogan uses social media and technology to build digital relationships for businesses, organizations, and individuals. He has merged his experience in technology (enterprise IT and wireless telephone) with his passion for social media, such that he?s showing organizations how to use these tools inside the firewall, as well as to build authentic conversations between ... More About: Community , Project , Happiness , Chris , Digi
Happiness Project: Tina Su Of Think Simple Now
2008-02-13 00:00:00 One day I was fortunate enough to find myself reading Think Simple Now, Tina Su’s personal development blog. I thought the content was amazing, and asked her if she would like to guest post on my blog. About a week after that interaction, I visited Tina’s blog again just to find she had 2,000 more ... More About: Project , Happiness
Happiness Project: Timothy Ferriss Of Four Hour Work Week
2008-02-12 18:00:00 Tim Ferriss is like a big kid that got everything he dreamed of. I mean that in the best way possible. The man works hard, lives for adventure, and makes things happen. He’s taught himself multiple languages, mastered tango, kick boxing, driving super sports cars, traveling the world with only 10lbs of luggage, and performed ... More About: Work , Project , Happiness , Timothy , Week
Happiness Project: Erin Pavlina Of Spiritual Wisdom For Conscious People
2008-02-12 00:00:00 Earlier today I interviewed a great man that goes by the name of Steve Pavlina. It is my understanding that behind every great man, there is a great woman. Whether or not this cliche is true, I cannot say, what I can tell you is that behind that great man, the great woman is Erin ... More About: People , Project , Happiness , Spiritual , Wisdom
Happiness Project: Steve Pavlina Of Personal Development For Smart People
2008-02-11 18:00:00 Steve Pavlina is self-described as “one of life’s runaway experiments who challenges people incessantly until they ascend to a higher level of consciousness.” Steve’s personal development blog is one of the first that I have ever read some two years ago. During this time I have read each and every one of Steve’s articles, and ... More About: Personal , People , Steve , Development , Project
Happiness Project: Week 2 Lineup
2008-02-11 12:00:00 This is the week 2 lineup of the Happiness Project series of interviews. Monday: Steve Pavlina of Personal Development for Smart People Erin Pavlina of Remember Where You Came From Tuesday: Tim Ferriss of Four Hour Work Week Tina Su of Think Simple Now Wednesday: Chris Brogan of Conversation With A Community About Digital Relationships Aaron Potts of Today is That Day Thursday: Gretchen Rubin ... More About: Lineup
Sunday?s Speedlinking 2-10-08
2008-02-10 14:44:00 In the spirit of Valentine’s Day How to Make Chocolate Covered Strawberries 9 alternatives to flowers this V-day In the spirit of links Ryan Whiteside of Helping You Get The Best in Life has an interesting trick with which he claims he can get you doing 100 push ups straight. I think it’s an interesting concept, really ... More About: Networking , Sunday
Happiness Project: Scott H. Young Of Get More Out Of Life
2008-02-09 00:00:00 Scott H. Young started his personal development site at a very early age. His objective was to answer the question ‘how does someone get more out of life?’ During his time in high school, he was a productivity monster, and finished 2nd in his class. All while building up habits of excellence, such as waking up ... More About: Life , Project , Happiness , Scott
Happiness Project: Daniel Scocco Of Dailyblogtips
2008-02-08 18:00:00 Born in Brazil, Daniel has lived and studied in several places around the world, including Italy, England and Chile. After receiving a degree in International Economics and working for a year within a multinational company, he decided to quit and pursue entrepreneurial projects on the Internet. When he is not blogging or involved with these ... More About: Project , Happiness
Happiness Project: J.d. Roth Of Get Rich Slowly
2008-02-08 00:00:00 I was born and raised in Canby, Oregon. As was my father before me. As was his father before him. After high school, I spent four years at nearby Willamette University, where I earned a psychology degree (and a minor in English lit). At Willamette, I met the remarkable Kris Gates. We ... More About: Rich , Project , Happiness , Roth
Happiness Project: Mark Frauenfelder Of Boing Boing
2008-02-07 18:00:00 I’m a writer and illustrator living in Los Angeles. I co-founded bOING bOING magazine and the Boing Boing Blog, and was an editor at Wired from 1993-1998. For three years, I wrote a monthly column for Playboy called “Living Online,” and was the co-editor of The Happy Mutant Handbook (Putnam-Berkley, 1995). I’m the design columnist for ... More About: Project , Happiness , Mark
Our Family Has Grown To 1,000 Strong
2008-02-07 13:00:00 Yesterday when I woke up I realized two things. I realized that I was still in Panama, and life is very good to me for providing me with all these opportunities. I also realized that the subscriber count on this site has reached a milestone of 1,000 readers. This means that besides the 50,000 times the ... More About: Family , Updates , Strong , Grown
The Weekend Retirement Test Drive: Panama
2008-02-07 00:00:00 Sunday afternoon I landed in Panama to join the guys from Life Nomadic, and began my weekend mini-retirement (my weekend is Sunday-Wednesday this week - but that’s all part of thinking outside the box). This definitely ripped me out of my usual weekly routine and I had to make certain arrangements in order to ... More About: Retirement , Drive , Test Drive , Weekend
Happiness Project: Tynan Of Life Nomadic
2008-02-06 18:00:00 I first heard about Tynan years ago. He was one of the people written about in The Game, a book by NY Times best seller Neil Strauss. One way of describing Tynan is as eccentric, adventure seeking, entrepreneurial, vegan pickup artist who lives in Austin, Texas everywhere in the world! Tynan became a productivity monster, ... More About: Life , Project , Happiness
Happiness Project: Brian Clark Of Copyblogger
2008-02-06 00:00:00 Brian Clark is the type of guy to who thinks words mean something. This is why his metaphorical, yet concise writing always captivates us at Copyblogger. At Copyblogger, Brian’s M.O. is providing copywriting tips for online marketing success. When you ask yourself Who The Heck Is Brian Clark? This is the answer you get. Brian Clark is ... More About: Project , Happiness , Brian
Happiness Project: Liz Strauss Of Successful Blog
2008-02-05 18:00:00 Liz Strauss is the chief operating SOB (Successful and Outstanding Blog ger) of Successful-blog.com. She has the skill and talent of interacting with her reader base in a very unique and outstanding fashion. You can see how people gather around to interact with her during her Tuesday Night Comment nights. If you visit the work with Liz ... More About: Project , Happiness
Happiness Project: Leo Babauta Of Zenhabits
2008-02-04 18:00:00 We’re starting off the happiness project series of interviews with Leo Babauta. His response to my interview request was lightning fast. Also, I wanted to mention that this project was in part inspired by his Golden Goals Series in 2007. Leo blogs about productivity & organization, finance & family, simplicity, health, and happiness on Zenhabits.net. It ... More About: Project , Happiness , Habit
Happiness Project: Week 1 Lineup
2008-02-04 12:00:00 This is the week 1 lineup of the Happiness Project series of interviews. Monday: Leo Babauta of Zenhabits.net Tuesday: Liz Strauss of Successful-blog.com Brian Clark of Copyblogger.com Wednesday: Tynan of Lifenomadic.com Thursday: Mark Frauenfelder of BoingBoing.net J.D. Roth of GetRichSlowly.org Friday: Daniel Scocco of DailyBlogTips.com Scott H. Young ____ To get more info about what the Happiness Project is and isn’t, please visit the Introduction Post. To see a ... More About: Week , Lineup
Life Nomadic: Arriving In Panama
2008-02-04 02:10:00 After reading about all the fun Tynan and Todd were having with their Life Nomadic project, I decided to see what it was like for myself. The idea was brought up, and the plan was concrete all within a couple of minutes. I’m not that difficult to convince, and a fun adventure is not something ... More About: Panama , Traveling
Sunday?s Speedlinking 2-03-08
2008-02-03 12:00:00 Jose at Karme Diem interviewed me about my work ethic this week. You can check out the post here and learn a little something about me you might not have known. Leo Babauta our beloved author of Zenhabits.net, has started a second blog in which he shares with us his blogging genius. The new blog is ... More About: Networking , Sunday
Daniel Gilbert: Happiness Expert/author: Speaks At Ted
2008-02-02 17:54:00 Daniel Gilbert is on the cutting edge of happiness technology. That’s right, he is a scientist that studies happiness in a laboratory setting, and distinguishing happiness that is genuine, versus synthesized happiness. You can read more about this in his book Stumbling on Happiness . Note that during this month of February you can win ... More About: Daniel , Author , Expert
Happiness Project: Series Of Interviews With Top Bloggers: Win Over $650
2008-02-01 12:00:00 I want you to brace yourself, because I’m going to tell you what you want out of life. In fact, I’m going to tell you what all human beings want across the board. From the most selfish human, to the most selfless saint, the one thing that we share in is the desire to ... More About: Interviews , Series , Project , Happiness , Bloggers
Reaching Your Target Weight Does Not Get Any Simpler Than This
2008-01-31 16:00:00 One thing that can be said for New Year’s Resolutions is that they’re over and done with. The reason resolutions don’t work, is because we think of them as a change, rather than a transformation. A change associates something better and different with the previous worse version. It leaves you in a state of ... More About: Health , Weight , Law of Attraction , Target
The Gift Of Intuition
More articles from this author:2008-01-30 18:00:00 Editor’s Note: This post was written by Karen Lynch of Live The Power. Back in the days before GPS systems, Mapquest on the Internet and cell phones in every pocket, there were still very effective ways to determine directions and navigate a course. In the northern hemisphere, an explorer could look up into the night ... More About: Gift , Intuition 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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