http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog Personal Development for Smart People Sat, 04 Jul 2009 00:33:31 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en How do you feel about people who are very successful? What's your attitude toward the movers and shakers in your field? Do you admire and respect them? Do you speak highly of them? Or are you suspicious of them? Do you criticize or attack them? What's the true role of these people in ... http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2009/07/how-to-become-more-successful/ Recently the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) released a new report on how climate change is already affecting the United States, plus predictions for the next 100 years based on different scenarios. If you care to read the report, you can find it online at www.globalchange.gov/usimpacts. This group is comprised ... http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2009/06/climate-change/ There was a recent discussion in our forums about the contrast between playing an online computer game (MMORPG) and, over a period of weeks or months, acquiring a substantial amount of gold for your character (avatar) versus experiencing the opposite situation of financial scarcity in real life. The question posed was: ... http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2009/06/your-wealthy-avatar/ I'm happy to announce that I'll be doing a 3-day public workshop here in Las Vegas on October 2-4, 2009 (Fri-Sun), and I invite you to attend. This event will be held in a very nice meeting room at Harrah's Hotel, right in the middle of the Las Vegas Strip. This ... http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2009/06/3-day-las-vegas-workshop-oct-2-4/ Since December 2008 I've been attending monthly raw potlucks here in Las Vegas. Erin and I hosted one at our house a few months ago, and we'll be hosting another one in August. Typically 20-25 people will attend (I've seen as many as 35), so these potlucks are a nice ... http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2009/06/how-to-make-a-raw-fruit-pie/ What exactly is an event? An event is something that happens at a given place and time. An event is essentially a point or interval in space-time. Place and time are both relative concepts. To define a place, you need a reference location. Places are defined by relationships, such as by coordinates (relative ... http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2009/06/events-perception-truth-and-subjective-reality/ Last night I watched a Dr. Wayne Dyer DVD called The Shift (originally titled Ambition to Meaning), which I found very moving and inspiring. In this video Dr. Dyer points out that the solutions that work in the morning of our lives will eventually cease to work in the afternoon of ... http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2009/06/the-afternoon-of-life/ A common complaint I hear from teens is that they're being raised by parents who aren't as smart as they are. Suffice it to say there are a lot of people in the world who just aren't very bright, and there's no IQ test required to raise kids. I did not ... http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2009/06/smarter-than-your-parents/ Some very successful people advocate writing and re-writing your goals every day. Others say it's good enough to read them once a day. The basic idea is to keep refreshing your goals in your mind, so you think about them often. If you don't employ such a practice, it's easy to ... http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2009/05/keep-your-goals-in-front-of-you/ Earlier this year I bought an Amazon Kindle reading device, and I want to share my impressions of it so far. I ordered the original Kindle in January, but I was informed it was backordered and wouldn't ship for 2 months. A month or so later, Amazon informed me that they were ... http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2009/05/amazon-kindle-review/