What is your technical background/history? When I was 10 years old, I was introduced to Apple II BASIC programming via an after school program.  I instantly loved it and never looked back.  A few years later, my parents bought an Atari 800 computer with a disk drive, and I quickly claimed it as my own.  I subscribed to [...]

StevePavlina.com was launched on Oct 1st, 2004.  By April 2005 it was averaging $4.12/day in income.  Now it brings in over $200/day $1000/day (updated as of 10/29/06).  I didn’t spend a dime on marketing or promotion.  In fact, I started this site with just $9 to register the domain name, and everything was bootstrapped from there.  Would you like to know [...]

When I started this site 16 months ago, my goal was to help people with their personal development.  And based on the thousands of pieces feedback I’ve received since then, that expectation is certainly being realized.  However, what I wasn’t fully prepared for was the massive amount of personal growth I would experience as a result [...]

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 [...]

Quantum Biocommunication Technology is a relatively new blog I discovered a few weeks ago, and it has quickly become one of my favorite reads. This blog serves to bridge the gap between quantum physics and human consciousness, and I think it would be of great interest to anyone who wishes to dive more deeply into the [...]

Podcasting is something I’ve been looking into lately, especially at the urgings of several readers. It was always my plan to add audio content to this site, but I wasn’t sure if podcasting would be an intelligent way to do it. I initially rejected the idea of podcasting for a variety of reasons (time, effort, [...]

I recently bought an Olympus WS-100 digital voice recorder. This particular recorder was recommended by a contributor to SpeakerNet News. I like the Olympus WS-100 for several reasons: It uses flash memory, so I don’t have to fuss with microcassettes or mini-CDs. It only weights a couple ounces and is about the size of two [...]

Here’s a very simple productivity tip that you might find helpful: crank up the speed of your mouse cursor. On Windows you can do this by clicking Start -> Control Panel -> Mouse and adjusting the speed as you see fit. Everyone has their own preferences of course, but I think the default mouse cursor [...]

Checking email too often is a significant productivity drain. Email by its very nature isn’t usually urgent unless it’s your entire job, such as answering customer support emails. Here are some tips to prevent email from taking too big a chunk out of your day. 1. Decide in advance exactly when you’ll check email. Don’t [...]

As Albert Einstein once remarked, “Computers are incredibly fast, accurate and stupid; humans are incredibly slow, inaccurate and brilliant; together they are powerful beyond imagination.” I read an interesting article about how the world of chess has changed after Deep Blue defeated World Chess Champion Gary Kasparov in 1997. But what’s interesting is not so [...]