Personal Development for Smart People^TM

What limiting financial beliefs are holding you back from achieving all the wealth and abundance you deserve?
The Million Dollar Experiment has yielded a surge of emails containing stories of how participants have uncovered and broken through self-limiting financial beliefs.  Even those who haven’t manifested any money yet have told me how the simple act of focusing on attracting greater wealth […]

StevePavlina.com Personal Development for Smart People podcast #9
This podcast will give you some tips on how to kick-start your own business, especially a part-time, home-based business.
Incidentally, I know the iTunes podcast subscription for this podcast isn’t working. You can still subscribe to it, but for some reason it isn’t displaying all the previous shows. I […]

Steve @ 7

Steve:  I’m going to win the spelling contest this year.
Mom:  Yeah, right.  You didn’t even come close last year.  You don’t stand a chance.

Steve wins first place in the second grade spelling contest and collects a month of double allowance from Mom, who was happy to bet against him.
Steve @ 21
Steve visits the […]

Can humor skills be developed?  Yes, absolutely.
I’ve had a strong sense of humor since I was a child.  I would sometimes get in trouble for making witty commentary in class, causing the room to bust out laughing.  In fact, I still do this today in group situations.  But this always came to me as a natural skill […]

Is Your Genius at Work? by Dick Richards is a fantastic book about discovering your genius and your purpose and identifying a career that fits well with both.  This book was recently provided to me by the publisher, and it’s one of the few unsolicited books I received that I can enthusiastically recommend to others.  Why do I say […]

I hear this one a lot:  I want to start my own business, but my wife won’t let me because she thinks it’s too risky.
There are variations using “girlfriend” or “fiancée,” but so far I can’t recall a single instance of a woman telling me her husband/boyfriend wouldn’t let her start a business, not to mention male-male […]

“The good is the enemy of the best” is a common expression in time management. Recently I’ve been coming face-to-face with the realities of this expression.
Every day I receive emails with a variety of leads and recommendations — blog posts and online articles to check out, books to read, new online services to examine, […]

Pandora is a unique music service I recently stumbled upon. Pandora allows you to enter the name of a single song or artist, and then it generates a custom streaming music channel based around that artist. Pandora references a massive database created by the Music Genome Project to determine the properties of the […]

I was just informed that it’s now possible to listen to podcasts on Tivo. Apparently, Tivo has added a new online service called “Podcaster.”
I don’t have Tivo myself, so I can’t test it out, but here’s the page on Tivo’s site with some (very minimal) info about it:
http://www.tivo.com/4.9.11.asp
I’m not sure how to get a […]

Are you one of those people who notices the problems of the world and says one of the following:

Somebody ought to do something about that.
Where are the people that are supposed to be handling this?
Surely with all the tax dollars being spent, somebody is in charge of fixing this.
Why doesn’t somebody do something about that?

Why […]