Personal Development for Smart People^TM

Tony Robbins is offering a free 18-page workbook (downloadable PDF format) called The Power of Momentum: 7 Steps to a Fulfilling 2006 (update 3/6/06 - looks like he removed the file, as the previous link no longer works).
If you haven’t yet worked out your 2006 goals, you may find this workbook helpful in doing so. […]

How would you like to permanently boost your productivity by making some simple changes to your work area? If you’re going to spend so much time at your desk, then make sure it’s going to be a pleasant experience.
How does your workspace make you feel?
If you’re at your desk right now, take a moment […]

Patience is one of the most important qualities to develop if you care about personal growth. It’s also one of the most difficult.
Wouldn’t it be nice if after you identified a change you’d like to make, you could just snap your fingers, and the change would occur instantly? Unfortunately, it’s rarely so easy […]

Lately I’ve been trying a promising new method for managing my time. It’s similar to timeboxing, except that instead of allocating a certain amount of time for a specific activity, I divide my total work time between three different classes of activities.
Here’s how it works…
First, I define three different classes of activities based on […]

Are you normal?
I’m certainly not normal.  I was born blond-haired, blue-eyed, and colorblind.  So not only do I look different — I also see differently than “normal” people.  To make matters worse, I’m left-handed… just a cesspool of recessive genes.  Over time my lack of normalcy only grew worse when I started noticing other differences and making […]

Last night during a 20-minute midnight nap, I had a lucid dream.  This is the fourth one I’ve experienced since starting polyphasic sleep 64 days ago.  It started off as a regular dream, and then at some point I realized I was carrying a gargoyle, which seemed odd to me.
I asked myself, “What the heck […]

The Million Dollar Experiment is now up to $112,628.84 in manifested money, spread across 487 public participants. As previously mentioned this is NOT a controlled scientific experiment. It is an exploration of the intention-manifestation process.
My personal results are now at $16,540.42. Just today I received a check for $10,000. I only […]

“Spirituality vs. Intelligence” is a new article I just posted to the free articles section.
Are spirituality and intelligence at odds with each other? Must we choose to live either rationally or spiritually but not both at the same time? This article explores the perceived conflict between spirituality and intelligence and presents the possibility […]

Today is the 60th day since beginning my polyphasic sleep experiment.  It’s hard to fathom that only 60 days have passed — it feels closer to 120 days.
For the past several weeks, I’ve been receiving daily emails with questions about this experiment.  Many of those questions have already been answered in my previous polyphasic log entries for days […]

It’s amazing the lengths people go through to avoid making a simple mistake. I think the reason is that we’re so conditioned to believe that making a mistake is something bad, so we go overboard in trying to avoid making mistakes altogether — to the point of being unintelligent about it.
There are a number […]