Best Picks for July ‘08 (Blog Posts)
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
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.
Author: Adrian Koh
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August 25th, 2008 at 10:36 pm
Thanks for the pick! Glad people enjoyed my cult-building success strategies. :)
August 26th, 2008 at 6:30 am
I’d like to say thank you as well for the pick. Good to see people still have a nice, heart-felt interest in cheating where they can.
Michael Gorsline
August 31st, 2008 at 7:46 pm
Hey Duff! Thanks for stopping by. I loved that article!