Articles and Resources

Vision Boarding

Vision boarding has become increasingly popular in recent years as a way to manifest one's desires and goals. This practice involves creating a phy...

Habits

How Small Changes and Habits Can Transform Your Life

Habits are the building blocks of our lives. They are the small, seemingly insignificant actions that we take each day, but they have a profound im...

Ecommerce

The Power of the Internet. How to make money online...

You can change your life through making money online. It takes some discipline and the decision to start but the internet provides numerous opportu...

Belief systems

How Our Core Values and Convictions Shape Our Lives and Decisions

Belief systems are the beliefs that shape our lives and our decisions. They are the core values and convictions that we have about ourselves and ou...

Self Discipline

The personality of success

"The only major personality trait that consistently leads to success is conscientiousness. People who test high in conscientiousness get better gr...

Habits

A note on habits from Vitaliy Katsenelson

There are three layers of thinking on changing habits:First, the most superficial layer: setting goals or focusing on results. But if you look at s...

Life Advice

The Value of Time

“The reason why one man is great and another man is living in mediocrity is simply because one understood the value of time while the other did no...

Feedback Loop Intervention

Affirmations by Scott Adams

Several years ago, in the closing pages of my otherwise humorous book titled The Dilbert Future, I told a weird little tale of how I used a techniq...

Life Advice

68 Bits of Unsolicited Advice by Kevin Kelly

It’s my birthday. I’m 68. I feel like pulling up a rocking chair and dispensing advice to the young ‘uns. Here are 68 pithy bits of unsolicited adv...

Self Discipline

Why willpower is overrated by Brian Resnick

People with a lot of self-control — people who, when they happen upon a delicious food they don’t think they should eat, seemingly grin and bear th...

Ecommerce

The Amazon Flywheel by Sam Seely

In the early 90s, while working at D.E. Shaw, Jeff Bezos incubated his initial idea for Amazon.com, a business that used the internet to offer cu...

Scientific Thinking

Applying Scientific Method to Life

What is the Scientific Method? The scientific method is an iterative process used to find truth through exploring observations and ans...

Investment

Peter Lynch Lecture on Investing

Peter Lynch managed the Magellan Fund at Fidelity Investments between 1977 averaging a 29.2% annual return, consistently more than doubling the S&a...

Goal setting

Goal Workshop and Goal Setting Template by Jim Rohn

Jim Rohn was one of the most influential thinkers of our time creating a legacy of learning to help people develop themselves and achieve ...

Leadership

Brief for personal use: Command philosophy by Major C. Parsons

A brief taken from Geddes Papers defining a theory of leadership and command that can be taken and applied to your own life outside the military. P...

Belief systems

Belief systems and their effects

Your belief system is the invisible force behind your behavior. Together with other factors such as your personality, your genetic set up and your ...

Self awareness

Self awareness and its importance by Jessie Zhu

From the ancient Greek Aphorism “know thyself” to western psychology, the topic of self-awareness has been studied by philosophers and psychologist...

Goal setting

The 14 Step Goal Setting Process by Brian Tracy

1. Decide exactly what you want in every key area of your life. Start off by Idealizing. Imagine that there are no limitations on what you can be, ...

Taking ownership

Taking Responsibility for our Future Selves

We’re going to start here by borrowing a concept from the field of economics, being, “Cost externalizing”. This is a term that describes how a busi...

Influence

Summary of "How to Win Friends and Influence People"

Read this book to have an effect on the character, development and behaviour of the people around you. Techniques in Handling People Don’t criti...

Self simulation

The Secret of Self Simulation

“A man is literally what he thinks, his character being the complete sum of all his thoughts... As he thinks, so he is; as he continues to think, ...

Self Discipline

The Eight Reasons for your Failure by Seneca

In his book, On the Shortness of Life, Seneca talks of the scarcity of our most precious resource: time. He summarises; “It is not that we have a ...

Definite chief aim

Finding Purpose and a Definite Chief Aim in Life

In 1984, Mary Retton became the first gymnast from the United States to win the all-around gold medal. A reporter asked, “How does it feel to recei...

Self Discipline

The Power of Self Government

This article is about the principle of personal leadership and the idea of self government. A man who is able to define his vision, effectively man...