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Personal Development Plan Sample

Personal development plan

Click on the image to zoom in. How I Structure My Personal Development Plan I‘ve got a couple of emails lately about how I structure my overall plan for my own development. Although I have a vision statement, goals, an action plan, and a to-do list, I have to admit that I didn’t really have [...]

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Stop Procrastinating by Planning “Procrastination Activities”

Stop Procrastinating

Want to stop procrastinating once and for all? Here’s a quick tip that actually works. Firstly, why do we so often fail at controlling our procrastination? There’s something we want to get done, and more often than not, we’ll allow ourselves a moment of distraction. That moment turns into hours, and by the end of [...]

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Developing Inspiration So You Can ‘Tune In’ At Will

Developing inspiration

Inspiration can be an elusive state of being. But when you’re in it – you sure know it. The feeling fills you with an abundance of creativity and the motivation to actually get the job done. Your connection with Source is free-flowing, and you seemingly exert no effort, even though your output can be through the roof. [...]

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Instant Creativity: How to Open the Floodgates on Inspiration and Good Ideas

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Here’s a simple but massively effective tip on how to put yourself into a hugely creative state. Are you ready for it? You’ll miss it if you blink Take a shower. That’s it! Instant creativity. Every morning, when I take a shower, the ideas start to flow as fast as the water. It’s a virtual [...]

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Meditation Techniques for Beginners

Meditation techniques for beginners

There are many reasons why someone would want to get into meditation. Health issues Depression Low energy or motivation Lack of spiritual connection Poor creativity Waning mental ability & cognitive skills Trouble in relationships Stress and past emotional trauma issues And for every problem, meditation seems to have the relative solution. Meditation: Improves physical health [...]

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You Are Not Your Thoughts

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I was always a relatively bright kid. And growing up, I had a rich and creative imagination and a constantly hungry curiosity for how things worked. I was artistic, articulate and intelligent (what happened, right?? ). My natural attitude was positive, and I remember beautiful periods of absolute joy, play, and bliss. It could be [...]

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New Resources Section

Jim's Resources

I’ve just created a new section on the site that details all my recommended resources. You can find it here: Jim Recommends I’m going to keep the section up to date with the things that I can recommend will make a difference in your life, to get the results you’re after. If I don’t 100% [...]

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Results-Focused Transformation vs. Striving for Goals

Results-Focused Transformation

How do you think about your goals? Do you struggle to achieve them, forcing them into existence kicking and screaming? Or perhaps get frustrated with the obstacles in your way? I’d always resisted the obstacles, fought hard for what I wanted, and had little actual success. The results were the opposite of what I wanted: failure, stress, [...]

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Why You Should Never Work for Money, and What to Do Instead

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How the Rich Think About Money The rich have a secret that they are keeping from you. If you never learn this truth, you will stay in the perpetual cycle of the poor or middle-class. If you are to ever break the cycle, and begin to grow your wealth, not only do you have to [...]

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A New Website for a New Era of Change

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The world is going through a massive transformational shift right now, and it’s my guess that it’s just getting started. I’ll post more on what I see is coming, but for now let me say that it’s going to be a tumultuous time for most people on the planet. I plan to use what I have learned [...]

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“Chunking” the Secret Key to Goal-Achievement

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Ever have trouble achieving goals? Or even setting them in the first place? It’s pretty-much a well established fact by now that those who are successful, are goal-setters. They decided what they wanted, wrote it down, and formed some kind of a plan to make it happen. Then, they worked that plan. Every damn day. [...]

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Self-Hypnosis: In 3 Easy Steps

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Self-hypnosis is one of the most effective means of promoting health and well-being, but maybe even more impressive, is that it’s an amazing means to accomplish any goal. When I was a kid, I found a Polaroid of my dad on stage performing an really impressive-looking stunt. He was suspended between two chairs, one under [...]

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Tools for Distraction-Free Writing

Distraction Free Writing

There has never been a time in history where there has been more distractions. Email, instant messages, SMS, Facetime, news reports, TV, advertising… the list is never-ending. There is no escape from these in a typical day. Now, where was I? Oh yeah! Today I wanted to share my favorite tools for writing on the [...]

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How Meditation Saved My Life

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Meditation ~ from depression to love. I had always been too impatient to try meditation. Sitting around contorted, not doing anything? Not my idea of fun. Until a few years ago, something changed my mind. I was at a point in my life where things were going downhill in every way – especially emotionally. Being [...]

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How to Unlock Your Intuition

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If you had your own personal oracle which you could ask any question and get an accurate answer with concrete plans, would you use it? Of course you would! Well, areyou using it? You do have an oracle, and it is called your intuition. Intuitive inspiration is what has guided countless successful people to the realization [...]

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Declutter your Mind and Eliminate Your Irritations

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Are there things you’d like to get done around the house, office, or yard if you only had the time? I learnt a simple technique to declutter the mind that spurred me to get things done and even inspired me to take more action in my life outside these areas. I first heard of this [...]

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How to Enhance the Effectiveness of your Vision Board

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You’re probably familiar with the concept of the Vision Board, especially if you’ve seen “The Secret” DVD or follow teachers like Jack Canfield and John Assaraf. If not, a VB is a collage of photos, magazine clippings of images pinned to a cork-board, that represents what you want to be, do and have. Perhaps you [...]

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The 7 Deadly Barriers to Personal Growth (And How to Plow Through Them)

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There are seven barriers to personal growth that have the greatest effect on your ability to change your life for the better. Once you become aware of these stumbling blocks, you’ll be in a good position to overcome them. How many do you have under control? 7. Undefined Goals Setting goals is such a fundamental [...]

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How I Created a Website, Not Knowing One Thing About the Inner Workings of the Web with Site Build It!

site build it principle

Or, How I Built my Passion into my Business [Update January 10th, 2012: I've just completed transferring this website from SBI to my own dedicated server. I still highly recommend SBI to anyone starting out with an online business for the sole reason of absolute top-quality information and training in the fundamentals. Because it's these fundamentals [...]

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The Most Effective Piece of Self Improvement Advice and How to Apply it for Instant Results

Self-improvement advice

Want to know the most effective self improvement advice that lies at the heart of all success? Here it is, and it’s the biggie. I’m going to give you the real secret to personal growth right up front. No mumbo jumbo, no products to buy, just the facts ma’am. Focus on what you want. Keep [...]

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