Personal Development for Smart People^TM

Since I keep getting questions about this, here’s a quick update about my ongoing experiences eating a 100% raw food diet.
Mental benefits
The raw food diet has been going wonderfully for me. My thinking is clearer than it’s ever been. Several people have commented that I’ve written some of my best articles ever this month. I’ve [...]

Some miscellaneous updates and news to share…
Twitter
My Twitter trial is going well. There are 600+ people following me on Twitter so far (my blog obviously bestows an advantage there). I’ve shared some links as well as various minor updates.
I’m grateful for the helpful advice from fellow Twitterers (Tweeters? Twits?). For example, one person told me [...]

Changing a habit is like playing a game of chess.
In chess there’s an early game, a middle game, and an endgame. The same is true for habit change.
Many people try to change their habits by skipping straight to the endgame. They dive in and commit themselves to making the change happen right away. This is [...]

Today I set up a Twitter account at twitter.com/stevepavlina. If you aren’t familiar with Twitter, it’s a free online service where people can post very brief updates (up to 140 characters), and other people who are interested can follow and comment on those updates. Think of it like micro-blogging.
I heard about Twitter a long time [...]

It wasn’t until this year that I realized that one of the blocks that prevented me from improving my diet was figuring out what to do with the extra energy I’d gain if the change became permanent.
For example, when I was going through my 30-day raw food diet trial earlier this year, I had a [...]

Here’s my attempt to write a short post, which for me means staying under 2,000 words.
Channeling my inner Seth Godin, here we go…
What is the purpose of life?
The purpose of life is to increase your alignment with truth, love, and power.
You are here to:

Discover and accept ever deeper truths.
Learn to love more deeply [...]

One of the traps that’s easy to fall into is filling your life with too many incompatibilities — people, places, objects, circumstances, and activities that just don’t mesh with the person you are on the inside.
When your external reality is out of sync with your inner self, your inner self will resist it. This creates [...]

This morning I did a radio interview with Kaleah LaRoche and Daniel Stief of Sedona Talk Radio.
This hour-long interview is available online in their show archives if you want to listen to it.
We discussed a variety of topics including blogging, search engines, marketing a blog, monetizing a blog, personal development, authenticity, the raw food diet, and my [...]

Learning Strategies has brought back the PhotoReading discount for the remainder of July, meaning that this program is once again available to StevePavlina.com readers for a 59% discount. This is the program that teaches you how to absorb written material at a much faster rate. Today I can PhotoRead a typical personal development book in [...]

If you’re attracted to many different pursuits and can’t commit to any single one of them for your career, college major, or income source, then good for you! Leonardo da Vinci was in the same boat. He’s considered by many to be the greatest genius of all time.
The notion that you have to commit to [...]