Of course you have goals. That’s why you’re here. Things you want to accomplish… skills you’d like to strengthen… lifestyle to expand.
As you work toward these things, it’s good to have someone you can ask for pointers, a bit of help, or maybe a friendly ear… but you don’t need the usual guru BS.
That’s why [...]

Last night was my first-ever Toastmasters meeting.
I’ve been hearing about them for years; hearing how they’ll help you present your thoughts more clearly, think on your feet and become more confident socially.
Last week, when I discovered that the local Toastmasters club meets only about a mile from where I live, I knew it was [...]

Curt Rosengren at The M.A.P. Maker blog has developed an interesting take on self improvement. (The M, A and P in the blog name, by the way, refer to Meaning, Abundance and Passion in your life.
In an article titled “Create a Better Life with 30-Day Experiments” Rosengren observes that it’s hard getting himself to do [...]

Remember how the gurus all recommend spending your time in the company of successful people so that their success mindset will rub off on you?
This is good advice, and it’s worth going out of your way to do.
But the other day I discovered that this principle also applies to another important area of your life.
Last [...]

Wendy Piersall is the owner of Sparkplugging.com, a blog that literally outgrew its first name.
A couple of years back, Wendy began a new blog, mainly as a hobby, but within three months her new “hobby” was so successful that she knew two things. First, this was turning into a profit pulling business. Second, she would [...]

Seems like we’re constantly struggling for better understanding. Understanding of ourselves; of our problems; of the people around us.
So how’s that working out for you?
While it may be comforting to have a better handle on what’s going on all about you, and awareness is almost always better than being oblivious, understanding may be seriously overrated [...]

The Clear-Your-Mind Tele-Clinic

In this, my newest class, I’ll show you strategies and techniques you can use the same day to start clearing the “stuff” from your mind and return it to its original condition — filling yourself with natural confidence, self-respect and self-esteem.
RESET is a simple, direct way to stop the junk running in the [...]

It happens fairly often. About one customer in 100 steals from me.
But I’m not alone. Virtually every person I know who sells information products says they have the same experience.
No matter how good your product, no matter how much value you pile on, about one-to-two percent of your customers will order your product, download it, [...]

It’s infuriating, right? Somebody makes a promise to you, and then they break it. Or they agree to do something but then blow it off like it doesn’t even matter.
I’m not talking about an occasional can’t-be-helped situation beyond reasonable control, like late air flights, or a wreck tying up traffic. I’m talking about serial agreement [...]

Here’s a story I think you’re going to like.
What do you do when someone you love is sliding rapidly toward death? You want the doctors to take the measures that’ll save their life, but nearly everyone else is convinced it’s hopeless, so they won’t agree to the procedure.
What DO you do?
Just shrug your [...]

I was hacked!
And I’m inviting you to help me CELEBRATE!
Sometime about February 9th, somebody hacked into one of my websites. And they replaced a perfectly good sales letter with a page of meaningless gibberish.
Remember the green flowing screens in the Matrix movie? Well, what the hackers posted on my site didn’t drizzle down the screen [...]

The email wasn’t signed, so I don’t know who sent it, but it was brief — straight to the point:
You are just another BS’er selling a book of BS. You could not possibly know anything about how luck works.
He was talking about my book, Command More Luck.
And you know, I can see how it’d by [...]

Only five more days in sunny Japan, then my wife and I will be living in Thailand. As I wrote earlier, we’ll be flying out of Osaka airport on Thursday the 14th of February.
Valentine’s Day.
And talk about synchronicity! Things have fallen in our favor again and again. The latest “coincidence” was when a [...]

Building up your own self confidence isn’t any great mystery. It isn’t even particularly difficult.
Yes, I know that when your life turns dark, and despair grabs you by the gut, it can seem like you’ll never see sunshine again. But that’s an illusion. And like most illusions in life, despair is mostly self-induced.
If you’ve been [...]

It was a simple question on a business forum run by a large U.S. bank:
I am planning an ecommerce website to retail paintball products. I’m looking for a name, but the one I came up with is already registered. So I’m stuck, which puts me back at the start. I want a memorable [...]

Here’s a fun thing to do when you’re bored. Or use it as a source of information to entertain your friends at parties.

For another very common-sense take on setting and achieving goals, take a look at Gala Darling’s irreverent fashion blog iCiNG. This blog “presents fresh opinions & views on fashion, style, aesthetics & how to live a better life,” which seems quite a useful and practical combination.
What first caught my eye was Gala’s article titled “How [...]

A lot of the folks I know are setting new goals for 2008. But others, like my friend Patricia Zulkosky, have sworn off new year’s resolutions entirely.
Patricia started 2007 by announcing she was adopting a theme for the year rather than setting goals. In other words, she’d be moving toward a direction, rather than a [...]

On February 14th, less than two months from today, my wife and I will head to the airport, board an airplane and fly away from Japan. We’re moving ourselves to Northern Thailand.
Early last week we applied for and received a “Long Stay” Thai visa, which means that we’ll be living there for the next year [...]

What two areas do you most wish you could improve?
A new Poll (Survey) begins this week. The Polls section is over on the left side near the top, in the section labeled “Polls”.
So what changes would help you live a happier, more satisfying life? Click up to two answers and let me know. Your [...]