How much television do you watch every day? The national figure is seven hours every day. Isn’t that astounding. Seven hours? That is the equivalent of a full time job if you include Sunday in that figure. An even more alarming statistic is that 70% of what we watch we have absolutely no interest in. […]
Time Starved Personal Development
Personal development is time consuming. Reading at least a book each week, changing habits and conditioning your mind and body definitely take a lot of time. These investments are necessary to create the long-term growth and improvement you seek. But just as it is easy for Warren Buffet to tell you to start investing your […]
Mastering Your Personal Resources
I’m a big fan of classifying and organizing abstract ideas to try and simplify them. One category I’d like to look at in this article are resources. Resources in our personal development are things that we have a discrete amount of. Unlike skills and attributes such as courage, self-discipline or confidence, resources are depleted when […]
Where Did Your Day Go?
Ever sit down at the end of the day and wonder where all the time went? Time seemed to whittle away and you don’t feel you’ve accomplished anything meaningful. Chances are you probably don’t even feel like you got a chance to relax or enjoy yourself. Don’t just sit there wondering about where your time […]
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