Resource Links – July ´08 (Blog Posts)
Again, our resource links article is an extension of our best picks article, which gives you the expanded list of the latest articles on personal development, effectiveness and productivity.
Browse here to find the sources we sorted through to deliver our top picks. While these are our favourite picks for July, this list is by no means exhaustive and we encourage reader feedback to make our directory even better.
Career Effectiveness Picks
All Things Workplace
“Confused” or “Conflicted” About Decisions?
Leadership: When “No” Is More Important Than “Yes”
Something for Your Work Life AND Your Love Life
Work, Expectations, And Choice
Leadership: When Managers Coach
10 Lessons For Self-Leadership
When Managers Engage In This Way, People Learn
BNET Blogs, CC Holland
Keep the Recession From Killing Productivity
Working With People You Can’t be With
Working with People You Can’t Be With Daily Report (July 31, 2008)
Matt’s Idea Blog
IdeaLab 0729: A little GTD Heresy, Willpower, Jealousy, And Straight Talk
Pimp Your Work
Management-Issues
Slow Leadership
The Easiest Way To Increase Your Success May Be To Stop Planning
An Interview With Carmine Coyote
Five Questions That Can Save You From Messing Up
What Every Leader Can Learn from — Britney Spears?
Nelson Mandela’s Eight Lessons in Leadership
Sparkpluggin
How I Organize Myself In My Craft Business: Part 1 – Paper Work
Are You Ready? Lessons At The Diner
Olympic Lessons: 5 Things We Can Learn
Work Life Balance Quotes From Famous People: Volume 1
Carnival Of Work Life Balance #5
10 Ways To Simplify Your Life
Time Back
Step Away From The Computer. What’s The Purpose Of All This Efficiency Stuff, Anyway?
Making Knowledge Work Visible: Political Edition.
Trizle
How To Accomplish Your Big Goals
How To Spend Your Workday
The Productivity Post
Do You Avoid Your Personal Life By Keeping Busy?
Water Cooler Wisdom
Don’t Quit Your Day Job: Juggle And Be Merry
Personal Effectiveness
Alex Shalman
Love – The Virtuous Human
11 Practical Ways To Jump Out Of A Lazy Rut
Obedience – The Virtuous Human
10 Simple Ways To Commit Suicide
Seven Questions You’re Afraid To Ask Yourself
Craig Harper
Creating A Better Life
Another Procrastination “Trick”
How To Know If The Law Of Attraction Is Working
In Praise Of Positive Thinking
Daily PlanIt
DavidSeah.com
Dumb Little Man
How To Beat The Stress When Working From Home
5 Simple Steps To Make Feeling Like Crap Benefit You
Four Strategies To Work Smarter, Not Harder
8 Policies For Being An Average Joe-Superman
7 Tips To Develop The Habit Of Daily Exercise
6 Arguments For Embracing Hard Work And Avoiding Laziness
10 Traits Of Losers: Are you One?
Simplify Your Life: Delete Unwanted Commitments
eDragonuv
GTD One Liners: It’s Not How You Feel About What You’re Doing, But About What You’re Not Doing…
Eric Mack On-Line
Your Brain As A Success Coach For Getting Things Done
Goodlife Zen
15 Questions That Reveal Your Ultimate Purpose In Life
Comfort, Stretch And Stress: 3 Important Principles Of Self Development
Synchronicity: How To Decode Life’s Secret Messages
Want To Make Friends And Feel Happier? Try Kindness!
Life Coaches Blog
Touching The Grays Between Black & White
What Are You Bringing To The Table?
Monotone – Recasting Vision For Your Life
LifeDev
11 Lessons To Learn From Honest Abe, The Bumbling Entrepreneur
11 Steps To Fight The ‘God Complex’
Deadline Busters: 15 Tips For Generating Ideas When You’re Drawing A Blank
Personal Development Blog
Why Sharing Knowledge Is Vital For Success
Personal Development for the Book Smart
10 Tips For Traveling Through Life I Learned From Dr. John C. Maxwell
The Positivity Blog
The Meaning Of Life
John Lennon’s Top 3 Tips For Getting What You Want In Life
How To Find Happiness The Easy Way
7 Awesome Reasons To Be Present, And How To Do It
The Top 10 Traits For Lifelong Fulfilment
7 Ways To Accelerate Your Journey To Success
The Olympic Guide To Success: 9 Simple Tips
Precision Change
How To Start Your Own Personal Development Cult: 7 Proven Success Strategies How Much Personal Power Is Enough?
priscillamcintire.com
The Value Of “Small” Success
Self Love – The Greatest Love Of All (Guest Post by Tania Kotsos)
Productive Flourishing
How To Write Effective To-Do Lists
To-Do Lists, Technology, And Simplicity
How To Remind Others Without Remembering To Do It
Routes to Self Improvement
How To Invite Positive Change In Your Life
What Is The Connection Between Positive Thinking & Language? How Does Language Reflect Positive Thinking ?
How Can I Overcome My Negative Thoughts And Develop Positive Thinking?
Only A Request Of Yourself Creates Action!
Self Pursuit
To-Do List For Self-Development
Slow Down Fast
Goal Setting To Build Motivation
Turn Stress Into Success With These 10 Tips
Get Out Of Debt To Find Greater Happiness
5 Signs It’s Time To Slow Down Fast
The Art Of Letting Go
Exorcising Yourself Of Emotional Vampires
How To Use The Power Of Intention For Success
How Not To Talk Down To People
The Speed Of Life
Develop Good Habits To Achieve Your Goals
Put Your Best Face Forward
Are You Finding Positive Evidence?
Accepting Your Challenges
StevePavlina.Com
Diet And Energy
The Purpose Of Life
Habit Change Is Like Chess
Money And The Law Of Attraction
Steve-Olsen.Com
When Life Isn’t Fair–Read This
The Obstacle Between You And Happiness
Overcoming Fear – The Courage To Be Creative
Success Soul
Warren Buffett’s 7 Secrets For Living A Happy And Simple Life
9 Simple Ways To De-stress Your Life That Actually Work
6 Essential Tips To Turn Setbacks Into Success
Forrest Gump: How To Build Your Self-Confidence
Mark Twain’s Thoughts On 3 Topics You’d Rather Not Discuss
The Growing Life
Hacking Your Life vs. Hacking Your Computer, Abundance 2.0, And Dealing With Bugs
Why The Job-ification Of Your Passion Can Be The Ticket To Hating Your Life
The Happiness Project
Happiness Projects: They Really Do Work! Here’s An Example.
Happiness Interview With Guy Kawasaki
Forcing Myself To Wander, Following My Interests.
Happiness Project: What Barry Manilow Taught Me, Or, Be Willing To Be Enthusiastic.
What I Learned On My Summer Vacation — Lesson #1
What I Learned On My Summer Vacation – Lesson #2
Tools for Thought
Reclaim Time By Eliminating Habit Clutter
Eight Capture Tools For Maintaining A Clear Head
Why Lack Of Clarity Matters More Than Lack Of Time
Seven Useful Ways To Procrastinate
Reclaim Time By Unscheduling Arbitrary Tasks
Somedays, Research And Edgework: Three Strategies For Dealing With Ambiguity
Podcast: Interview With Julie Morgenstern – Part 1
ZenHabits
The Five Things You Need to Know About Finding The Work You Love
Jump-Start Your Workspace: Small Changes That Improve Focus And Shorten Your Work Day
A Marital Spark: 6 Principles For More Passion And Energy In Marriage
20 Strategies To Defeat The Urge To Do Useless Tasks
The Beginner’s Guide To Zen Habits – A Guided Tour
Notes On Life: Positive Thinking, Speeding, “Flow” In Meetings, Reading With My Kids
8 Great Anti-Hacks To Fundamentally Change Your Life
Now Do This, And The Single- Tasking Philosophy
Reclaim Your Time: 20 Great Ways To Find More Free Time
How To Connect With Humanity When You Feel All Alone
Get Rich Slowly
The Key To Getting Things Done
Use Written Goals To Pursue Your Dreams
Entrepreneurship Advice From Marc Hedlund, CEO of Wesabe
The Best Advice I Ever Got: 40 Great Money Tips
The Simple Dollar
Overcoming A Habit Of Lying To Yourself About Money
The Status Quo Bias And Switching Jobs Or Careers
Wise Bread
GTD-Related Blogs
Simply GTD with Kelly Forrister
Collecting Directly Into A Handheld
Two Reasons Why We Procrastinate
GTD Times
Life’s Second Task
Ancient Cheating And A Modern Twist
This Is Your Elephant On GTD. Any Questions?
Oliver’s GTD Experience: Coaching Has a Big Impact
Delegating The Desired Outcome
GTD In The Trenches With Michael Dolan
How To Make Your Goals More Measurable
Laura Stack, The Productivity Pro
Be A Productivity Role Model
How To Set Up An Effective Office Space In Your Home
Time Is Money: The Sales Professional, The Clock, And The Pocketbook
6 Ways To Balance Evening Commitments With Family Life
Three Indecisiveness Phrases, And When (Not) To Use Them – Matthew Cornell
Closing The Loops
Productivity Blogs
43Folders
On Peanut Shells And Email Archiving
Obama On Firewalling Time To Think
Carrots, Sticks, And The Paradoxes Of Motivation
Making Time To Make: Bad Correspondence
Making Time To Make: One Clear Line
Making Time To Make: The Job You Think You Have
Cultivate Greatness
Some Lessons I Wish I Had Learned Earlier in Life
Detoxify Yourself: 101 Tips To Remove The Poison From Your Body And Your Life
Genuine Curiousity
Ian’s Messy Desk
The Principle Components Of Communication
10 Skills You Need To Succeed At Almost Anything
10 Ways To Enjoy A Day Off
5 Reasons To Market Yourself Or Product With Public Speaking
Reducing Your Reading Pile: Handling Article Overload
LifeHacker
Top 10 Conversation Hacks
How Dr. Horrible’s Felicia Day Gets Things Done
Does Compensation Kill Your Motivation? [Reader Poll]
Five Best Note-Taking Tools [Hive Five]
Top 10 Printable Paper Productivity Tools
Life Optimizer
How To Find Growth Opportunities Through Side Projects
Your Happiness Is Up To You
Passion: Your Key For Achieving Success
Two Basic Relationship Problems
Lite Mind
Brainwriting Is Brainstorming On Steroids
Marc and Angel Hack Life
40 Positive Effects Of A TV Free Week
25 Sharp Cuts Of Time Saving Wisdom
The Art Of Spending Minutes To Save Hours
Nick Pagan
Multitasking Reduces Your IQ More Than Smoking Pot
The Common Problem With Planning (And Why It Makes You Feel Miserable)
Organize IT
Are You Productivity-Inclined Or Simplicity-Inclined?
9 Tips For Becoming A Better Listener
How To Make Definitive Changes To Your Habits
Persistence Unlimited
Master The A+C+@ = Success formula
Pick The Brain
Stinking Thinking: Do These 8 Patterns Of Limited Thinking Apply To You?
How To Stay Motivated Without Wax & Wane
How To Build Self-Discipline
3 Strategies For Radically Better Decision Making
Finding Bliss: How To Reverse Engineer Happiness
Why Personal Development Should Focus More On Human Relationships
Is There Really Such A Thing As ‘Self Improvement’?
Introverts And Extraverts: Can’t We Just Get Along?
Why Your Mood Is Killing Your Productivity (& What To Do About It)
Marcus Aurelius’ Six Timeless Observations On Life
Productivity In Context
Self-Help Pitfalls
Productivity Lessons From Marketing People
Three Ways To Get Better At What You Do
Strategic Actions For Achieving Your Goals
GTD Cafe: Carefree GTD
Productivity Today
Have Fun At Work? Which Activities And How They Impact Productivity
Efficiency In The Workplace – Focus Factors
Working Overtime Again? Another Dangerous Link Between Poor Time Management And Mental Health
Productivity 501
The Benefits Of Failure
Language And Learning
Scott H Young
My Rebuttal To Steve Pavlina: Getting Started Without Skill
How To Think For Yourself
The Vast, Unstatable Importance Of A Positive Attitude
Simple Productivity Blog
How To Get Ahead Of The Game
Simplicity: One Line Journals
Un-productivity: Disorganization
A Hidden Resource For Productivity And Information
Simplifying Trip Preparation
Six Tools To Enjoy Your Job Like A Zen Monk
Tools: Fun, Easy And Cheap
Stepcase Lifehacks
Selective Apathy Frees You To Care More
5 Alternatives To Time-Wasting Meetings
Don’t Quit Your Day Job: Managing Multiple Jobs At Once
What Makes Life Worth Living?
Back To Basics: Your Weekly Review
How To Take Criticism Like Donald Trump
Don’t Become A Gym Gerbil
Life Lessons You Can Learn From The Joker
10 Skills You Need To Succeed At Almost Anything
Are YOU A Survivor?
7 Portfolio Tricks That Will Land You A Job
10 Productivity Myths That Hold You Back
The Daily Saint
How Long Should You Stay At Your Current Job?
Think Simple Now
Pen Zen: Bring Clarity To Writing
Find Clarity In One Day
I’m Sorry, I Don’t Know, I Can’t …









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Great list! Thanks for including my posts on it!
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