Focus: Long-time friend Adrian Ling has posted a short, highly insightful article at his EasyBizTools blog titled “3 Simple Rules for 2009.”
Probably millions of words have been written about focus, but Adrian has made it really easy for you. Follow these rules and you’ll automatically be more effective in business this year.
And yes, Adrian Ling [...]

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 [...]

Time management… it’s one of the most widely taught techniques in business. There are a bazillion books on the subject — I once owned at least a dozen of them, but never had enough real interest to read any of them all the way through. (So I gave ‘em away during my last move.)
In today’s [...]

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 [...]

It’s the year end, and most of us are starting to look at the coming year and all of its potential for making changes. We’re thinking about goals, resolutions and objectives.
Did you have goals or resolutions in 2007? If so, you may have missed some of them. And if you did, here’s a suggestion for [...]

Making decisions seems to be a sticking point for most people. The higher the stakes involved, the harder it becomes to choose an action. Simply put, most of us treat decisions as stopping points rather than turning points.
And the bigger the decision, the bigger the stop. But why?
Again, it’s simple. We fear making mistakes. Sooner [...]

There are a lot of ways to motivate yourself, and Anthony Robbins is well known for his mastery of the subject. Posted today at his blog, Easy Motivational Strategies, he provides a list of things you can do to keep yourself focused on forward momentum.

Recently I stumbled upon Donald Latumahina’s excellent Life Optimizer blog, and this article in particular grabbed my attention:
15 Tips to Stay Positive in Negative Situations
Though it’s not easy, it’s important to stay positive in negative situations. Latumahina recommends 15 positive things you can do so you don’t succomb to the negative that may be going [...]

Marcia Yudkin, in her widely read ezine “The Marketing Minute,” tells how only a few people taking screenwriter training ever do anything with their new skills.
When L.A. filmmaker Jeff Bollow moved to Sydney, Australia a couple of years ago, he planned to launch an independent feature film studio but couldn’t find enough commercially suitable screenplays. [...]

Remember Terry Dean? Back in the nineties, before many of us had even heard of the Internet, he was already creating a sizeable fortune online. Starting out as a pizza delivery driver, he went online and, by setting some interesting goals, built a million dollar Internet business.
If anybody knows about achievement, Terry does. In a [...]