An interesting statistic from the BNET blogs: Recession woes are causing workers to waste 44% more time at work than in 2007 (Leadership IQ, May 2008). Particularly revealing is that 21% of that wasted time was spent searching for personal development resources on the internet.  It’s no wonder then that many blogs giving career and financial advice saw increased activity both in traffic rankings and contributed comments (Alexa.com, July 2008).

While the personal development blogosphere was rife with career and financial advice, personal effectiveness blogs took the opportunity to reflect on their reason for being. The blogs of Alex Shalman, Zenhabits, Goodlife Zen and Craig Harper all posted interesting thoughts on the personal development movement, but few resonated as much as Precision Change’s tongue-in-cheek post on “How to start your own personal development cult: 7 proven success strategies.”

Here are our choices for the most popular and interesting posts in the blogosphere for the latter half of July:

Career Effectiveness Picks

All Things Workplace

“Confused” or “Conflicted” About Decisions?
An Interview with Carmine Coyote

BNET Blogs, CC Holland

Keep the Recession From Killing Productivity

Slow Leadership

Nelson Mandela’s Eight Lessons in Leadership

Personal Effectiveness Picks

Alex Shalman

Seven Questions You’re Afraid to Ask Yourself

Precision Change

How to Start Your Own Personal Development Cult: 7 Proven Success Strategies

ZenHabits.Net

8 Great Anti-Hacks to Fundamentally Change Your Life

Craig Harper

Seven Self-Help Pitfalls

Personal Productivity Picks

Stepcase Lifehack

10 Productivity Myths That Hold You Back

GTD Times

Ancient Cheating and a Modern Twist

43Folders

On Peanut Shells and Email Archiving

LifeHacker

Five Best Note-Taking Tools [Hive Five]

Stepcase Lifehacks

Don’t Quit Your Day Job: Managing Multiple Jobs At Once

Resources

These are our top July picks for the most interesting personal development articles on the web, but we invite you to browse our resource links for an extended list of articles on effectiveness. These will be published shortly to give our readers quick access to the web’s best on everything from stress management to organising and personal productivity.

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