Personal Development
Napoleon Hill on Reputation
No accurate thinker will judge another person by that which the other person’s enemies say about him. Napoleon Hill Google should post that as a disclaimer on searches on people’s names! Some of the nicest, brightest, most spiritual people I know have been the brunt of someone’s negative rants online, and unfortunately, if they...
Scott Adams Dreams of Vibrations
Dilbert creator Scott Adams is onto something here. Funny thing is…reading actually does this… Suppose you wrote a program that translated written words into vibrations. Perhaps the specific vibration would depend on the length of words, number of syllables, tone of the sentence, punctuation, and other factors. Presumably, Hemingway’s text would create different pattern of...
Napoleon Hill on Catching a Break
All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination. Napoleon Hill
Work-Life Balance?
Most adults spend around half of our waking hours in our work — far more than any other single activity. The idea of separating your “work” and your “life” is ridiculous… your work is the major part of your life. If you’re not “living” when you’re working — having fun, sharing ideas, changing the...
Think twice before you speak
“Think twice before you speak, because your words will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.” ~Napoleon Hill I’ve always thought that idea of "how you react to what I say is none of my business" was a cop-out. We are interdependent. Our words, actions and even our...
My #1 Goal for 2012
To live what I truly believe, every second of every minute of every hour of every day. Do that and all the rest will take care of itself. “To know and not to do is not to know.” ~ Wang Yangming Image: Qihuii de Hanabi
Napoleon Hill Video – Think & Grow Rich Part 1
I read Think and Grow Rich 20 years ago. I thought I understood it at the time. Through a series of serendipities, I’m now re-reading it and realizing how much I really just didn’t get it. I took it in intellectually, but I didn’t really put it into practice — make it a part...
Productivity, Focus and Purpose
Productivity = Getting things done Focus = Doing one thing Purpose = Knowing the right things to do Any of them on their own is useful, but they’re even better in combination: Productivity + Focus = Getting one thing done (but maybe not the right thing) Productivity + Purpose = Getting useful things...
Change Is Hard, But It Doesn’t Have to Be
Have you ever faced a big change you wanted to make in your life, but you just didn’t even know where to start? Or it just felt so daunting that it didn’t even feel worth starting? Most of us get ourselves into a “change is hard — big change is really hard” mentality. And...
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