Habits are patterns that run our lives. Habits take the pressure off of needing to consciously control every aspect of daily life. These patterns run in the background allowing us to focus our efforts on more important things. Our brain creates these patterns to help us run common tasks on autopilot so we don’t have […]
Personal Development Myths
Investing your time, energy and money into improving the quality of your life is probably the best thing you can do with it. Those investments begin to give you huge rewards which you can then use to help others improve their lives as well. That is the essence of personal development. Unfortunately, a lot of […]
Book A Day Challenge Complete!
For those of you who missed my initial post, I had previously decided to take on a temporary “Book A Day” challenge. I had borrowed eight books from my local library with the intention to read them all in eight days. The books totaled over 2100 pages of print. Well, it only took me seven […]
Vertical and Lateral Growth Continued…
Growth comes in two dimensions. Lateral and vertical growth. Could there possibly be a third dimension to personal growth?
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