Empowering Links: Week of 7th January
Best personal development resources for the week:
Got a Dream? Here’s how to make it happen.
Who else wants to attract anyone, anywhere, anytime? My friend, relationship expert Kloudiia – whom I just interviewed – is giving away her first ebook 5 Secrets To Up Your Attraction Quotient absolutely free.
If you’ve caught the flu bug lately, it’ll help you to know that feeling good can help prevent getting colds (via Boing Boing).
Want to be rich? Fortune magazine outlines 10 rules for building wealth.
Gaping Void has 2 more thought-provoking manifestos; The Overachieving Woman Manifesto for women and love (but equally applies to men), and The Career Manifesto for everybody.
What happened when Gretchen made the effort to smile, smile, smile? More people smiled back and she felt happier herself.
How do you make yourself better at getting what you want? Acting Like Godot gives you a simple approach.
One of my mentors, Singapore millionaire Adam Khoo reveals how his 13 months old daughter uses the Ultimate Success Formula, how to start writing a book, and how he makes every year better than the last one in his first post for 2007.
And when I grow up, I want to write like Christine Kane in The Opposite of Effortlessness.
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.