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 [...]

A quick heads-up — a delightful new self help website has just been opened called Self Help Collective. It’s by my friend Steve M. Nash, an unassuming guy who likes to have fun with everything he does (meaning he’s not all puffed up with self importance). And this new website reflects his personality perfectly.
Furthermore, Steve [...]

In this age of manic communicating and hyper-activity, we hear many of our success gurus advising us to “take massive action.”
Yes, that can be good advice… but what kind of action? Unfortunately, many of us get it wrong… then spend most of our waking hours in reactive, low-quality activities aimed at simply trying to [...]

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 [...]

My offbeat sale (the Hacking Revenge Celebration Sale) is now easing into its last day of fun.
If this were a regular sale, right about now all the “marketing gurus” would have me pouring on the pressure, piling on additional bonuses, and bludgeoning you with a river of urgent, last-minute emails to order, order, order before [...]

A reader recently told me:
I don’t want to change anything… except the results I’m getting
She went on to say, “I don’t dislike myself or have any areas I particularly want to change. I just want some of the things that happen in my life to be different.”
What she doesn’t get [...]

Ever lose your temper? Hey, it happens sometimes, you know. We’re all human, right?
But even though it can seem impossible sometimes to rein in your tongue and control the things you say to others (and to yourself), there are those who learn to do it.
Notice I say they LEARN to do it — it’s [...]