Entries Tagged 'Personal Development' ↓

In my Top 5 productivity tips of 2006, I wrote that mindfulness meditation can be an effective way to derail self-defeating thoughts and chip away at perfectionism.  This post over at Pick the Brain helps extend the case for meditation by pointing out the following benefits:

Improved concentration
Less worrying over trivial things
Better health
Increased knowledge of self

The […]

I don’t know how I’d survive my three-hour commute without audiobooks, and now there’s a website that should help tide me over after I get through my current stash.  LibriVox offers free audiobooks galore, so chances are you’ll find something you’ve always been meaning to read.  All their recordings are of public domain books, so […]

This 5 minute video offers some of the best advice I’ve seen for aspiring scholars, artists, writers, architects, plastic surgeons, chefs, gardeners, you name it.  Ignore the title of the video and pretend he’s talking about your chosen hobby or profession.
Basically, when we start out doing something new, we’re able to recognize that the quality […]

I just learned of a video series of Ira Glass, host of This American Life, giving advice on how to tell good stories.  Many of you know I’m a huge fan of TAL, so naturally I eat this stuff up.
Garr at Presentation Zen does a great job summarizing the videos and applies the main point […]

One of the regular topics on this site is productivity, so in the spirit of Darren Rowse’s group writing project calling for year-end reviews, I thought it would be useful to do a roundup of tips and strategies that I actually put into practice during 2006.  I’ve tried to separate the wheat from the chaff […]

I would rather get a root canal than sit through a conference where people just read their papers.  Honestly, who wants to have an academic paper read to them?  I can think of no better way to tell an audience you aren’t interested in respecting their time than to stand before them and read.
I thought […]

If you aren’t familiar with the writing of Steve Pavlina, you should be.  He’s become a kind of personal development guru of late and I have to say that his blog has been one of my favorite websites for almost a year now.  I first came across his site when I was looking for tips […]