Empowering Links: Week of 4th February
Best personal development resources for the week:
Separate needs from wants and spend less than you earn. Free Money Finance shows you how to make the most of your money.
Live your values by making them real in your calender. Matt’s become a full-time productivity coach and he gives loads of rock-solid lifehacks in his time, cutting costs, and the meaning of life post.
Think of something fun to do this weekend. And other tips for applying Gretchen’s top-secret happiness formula.
The secret to making yourself happier is to realize what’s right for you. Gretchen reflects on someone else’s very different approach to a happiness project.
Surround yourself with images of who you want to be, what you want, and your life changes to match those images and those desires. Christine Kane shows you how to make a vision board.
You only live once, and not for very long. I love Hugh’s writing, and point 9 from his StormHoek branding exercise is excellent advice for anyone.
You are worth precisely what you want. This quote by André Comte-Sponville and other great thoughts on happiness and morals at Senia’s Positive Psychology blog.
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.