Personal Development for Smart People^TM

After seeing my results over the past 16 months, my wife was inspired to start her own web site and blog. She recently launched ErinPavlina.com. Her site just has a few articles right now, but with the time she’s been putting into it, I don’t think it will be long before she has an abundance […]

StevePavlina.com Personal Development for Smart People podcast #10
Guest podcaster: Erin Pavlina
This podcast addresses the fascinating subject of lucid dreaming, which is the ability to retain full conscious awareness while you dream. And best of all, this one is conducted by my wife Erin, who first taught me how to have lucid dreams when […]

One of the most difficult matters to confront with respect to family relationships is that you don’t control the entire relationship yourself. Whether the relationship thrives or withers isn’t up to you alone. As the saying goes, it takes two to tango.
When major family relationship problems are encountered, it’s common to attempt a […]

A common criticism of positive thinking is that it’s self-delusion.  Images of Saturday Night Live’s Daily Affirmations with Stuart Smalley come to mind:  “I’m good enough, I’m smart enough, and doggone it, people like me!”
I happen to think this criticism is perfectly valid.  I don’t do daily affirmations or recommend them to others because I think they’re a waste […]

I recently read the book Goal-Free Living by Stephen Shapiro.  The main reason I read it is that I’m a big believer in the benefits of setting goals, and the title of this book obviously suggests a different approach.  When my wife asked me why I was reading such a book, I told her, “I’m reading it because […]

Since posting my 2005 traffic figures recently, I’ve received many questions about how I was able to start this web site from scratch and build its traffic to over 700,000 visitors per month (Jan 2006 projection) in about 15 months — without spending any money on marketing or promotion.  Building a high-traffic web site was my intention […]

I’m typing from a PC in the business center of a Bay Area hotel. It’s 2:25am, and my wife is upstairs in our room, sleeping of course. Our hotel has a 24-hour business center with free high speed internet access, which is great for polyphasic sleepers. My wife didn’t seem to like […]

Yesterday I setup an account with BlogAds to add a new advertising channel to this site. My intention is to find something to replace the Chitika ads. I was impressed with Chitika when I first started using them, especially after reading about Darren’s amazing experiences with it on Problogger.net, but since then Chitika […]

One of the most basic ways to grow as a human being is to try something new. Do something you’ve never done before.
New situations challenge us. Our brains have to work at full capacity to understand new patterns instead of just rerunning old ones. In completely new situations, we’re like fish out […]

Today is day 90 of my polyphasic sleep experiment.  It seems strange to refer to this as an experiment now, since it’s become such an ingrained habit.
This will probably be my last update on polyphasic sleep, since the last 30 days were largely uneventful as far as this experiment goes.  I don’t have much to report that I […]