Empowering Links: Week of 3rd December
Best personal development resources for the week:
Do you have what it takes to lead a happier life? Researchers challenge the notion that it’s a futile quest, and show that keeping a gratitude journal of your magic moments is a great method to make you happier.
But if you need to know why gratitude makes you happier and wealthier, Christine Kane has the answers for you.
Want to be even happier? Gaping Void has Douglas Karr’s manifesto on happiness, while Pam from Escape from Cubicle Nation has an inspiring work manifesto (I love it!).
If your life were a video game, would you be a level 60 heroine or a level 1 farmer? Steve Pavlina gives us tips on how to succeed in the ultimate game.
If you liked Your Brain: A Guide to Fine-Tuned Performance, you’ll love 22 Ways To Overclock Your Brain, including the geeky opener:
“I just found out that the brain is like a computer. If that’s true, then there really aren’t any stupid people. Just people running DOS.”
- Anonymous
P.S. Godot has declared 2007 the year of his great experiment where he:
…shall set huge goals for myself. They should be so huge that it would appear impossible for me to attain them through normal means.
Except that I do not intend to employ normal means. That’s where the experiment begins.
I shall use special methods that would seem magical or superstitious to those who have not heard of them before. I shall use:
1. the Law of Attraction
2. the superconscious mind;
3. the Silva Method;
4. the Seven Spiritual Laws of Success
5. self-hypnosisI will record these experiments under the label “Great Experiment”. In future, at any given time, just click and you will see the progress. I will record details about the Intention-Manifestation (IM), as well as the actual results (or lack thereof).
Fascinating, exciting and more than a tad inspiring. I look forward to seeing his success!
I agree that a key to self management is self esteem. I would offer that true life inspiration happens when you find something you love to do and make it a part of your everyday experience. Here’s an exercise:
1. Write down 10 things you love to do or that bring you the most joy. I call this the “You List”
2. Then record how many times a day you do one of the things on your list
3. Give each day of the week a rating from 1-10
4. Your best day usually comes out to be the day you do the most things on your “You List”
I can easily relate to the first part of the story, in the past I was one of those people pretending you have done something and then be very uncomfortable when someone asks more detailed questions.
It is not a good feeling and being upfront from the beginning really saves you the embarassment later.