Entries Tagged as 'Personal development'

The Journey is the Reward

I thought some more about my goals with women.

There are two attitudes that both seem to lead into a dead end and both seem to contradict each other:

1. Goals. You need to set goals and work on them to reach them. The dead end is that you can never find ultimate happiness because you will want to set higher and higher goals.
2. Gratitude. You need to be thankful and grateful for the things you already have and look at everything that will come to you as a gift. The dead end is that you don’t develop yourself.

[Read more →]

Steve Pavlina: Personal Development for Smart People

Klicke hier für die deutsche Version.

Steve Pavlina is writing a very successful blog since 2004. He is engaged in different aspects of personal development and was looking for coherence and general principles in personal growth. In his recently published book he presents a very smooth and elegant result.

I really liked the book. It showed me many new and stronger perspectives about life. In this post I would like to share some of them with you.

You can find a sample chapter one of the book in pdf here.

Part I

In the first part Steve Pavlina describes his seven fundamental principles of personal development.

The core principles:

Truth
We primarily grow as human beings by discovering new truths about ourselves and our reality. First we have to face the truth and accept it as it is. We cannot solve problems if we don’t admit they are there.

[Read more →]