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5 A-Grade Personal Development Bloggers

August 27, 2007 | 4 Comments


Priscilla Palmer is a personal development blogger and life coach who has come up with a brilliant idea. She has put together a list of her 5 favourite personal development bloggers. Priscilla is looking for your feedback. She would like to know who your favourite personal development bloggers are.

This sounded like fun so I put together my A-Grade List of Personal Development Bloggers:

1) StevePavlina.com – Steve is sometimes funny, very technical at times but all around provides for solid content on personal growth.

2) Edward Mills @ evolvingtimes.com – Edward specializes on writing articles on the Law of Attraction and he is a Law of Attraction Coach. Something connected for me when I visited his site. His articles are good and he has a stream of other links which lead to great articles on the Law of Attraction.

3) Aaron Potts @ todayisthatday.com – Aaron’s site is diverse because he covers a wide spectrum of different topics related to personal growth. In my experience Aaron is know to acknowledge you if you leave him a comment which I think provides for a powerful online community.

4) PriscillaPalmer.com – I’ve just recently touched on a few of Priscilla’s articles but I’ve got a good vibe. She is also a life coach and her content is good.

5) Brian Lee @ geniustypes.com- Brian covers a lot of different topics on personal growth. More recently he has been running a lot posts on passive and residual income. A nice website to explore.

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Jun

19

5 More Lessons From A Part Time Blogger

June 19, 2007 | 4 Comments


I was so inspired by some of the feedback that I got from my last post that I’ve put together 5 additional lessons that I’ve learned from blogging part time.

Here they are in short order.

Lesson # 6 – The Tortoise & The Hare

I’m sure that you’ve all heard of this story. In the end the tortoise is the one who wins the race. The moral of the story is ‘Slow and Steady Wins the Race’. This is a great way to describe how blogging works. My perception is that most people jump into blogging and are looking for the quick – get rich – road to riches – happily ever after scenario. Unfortunately, this is not how blogging works. Blogging is a process. The only way that this process works is by being consistent. Being consistent means posting valuable content on a consistent basis. I regularly post every week or sometimes twice a week if I’ve been inspired. If there is one thing that I’ve learned in the past 12 weeks it’s that consistency is key.

Lesson # 7 – Teacher, teach!

Another thought that occurred to me over the weekend was that blogging is really about teaching. What I am really doing is using an online publishing medium to teach others what I’ve learned, to share my ideas and inspire others. If you’re not teaching when you write, then what are you really doing? Dictating? Rambling? Think about it.

People are genuinely interested in learning so remember this while you write. Almost everyone these days has access to the internet and I believe that it’s the teachers who will have greatest impact on society as a whole. It’s the teachers who communicate with others in a way that gets their message across.

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Jun

18

Top 5 Lessons From a Part Time Blogger

June 18, 2007 | 7 Comments


It’s already been three months since I first started blogging and I’ve learned quite a bit. I currently work full time as an engineer and I blog part time on the side. I’ve made a few mistakes since I started blogging and have put together my top 5 lessons from being a part time blogger.

The reason I put this together is because I’ve had a few friends ask me about blogging and how to get started. I also know that these friends already have a full plate and will probably need to blog part time, just like me. I figured that the best way for my friends (or anyone) to get started quickly is by learning from someone who has made some mistakes. So let’s stop wasting time, here we go!

Lesson #1: Focus Pocus

My focus was in the wrong place. I was so focused on my full time job that my blog became something of the past. The thoughts about my full time job became my most dominant thoughts. I even started to have these weird dreams about my full time job. This is where things started to shift. Since I was no longer actively thinking about blogging I started to loose my focus. It’s not an easy thing to start blogging part time and also remain engaged in some full time work. There’s an art to actively working projects part time and still keeping your focus. In my case, I had been unconsciously re-directing my thinking without even realizing it. Let me explain.

As my focus changed unconsciously, things started to change at work. The phones rang more often, emails were coming in more frequently and I was just busier than usual. This is the sort of stuff that comes up when I get busy.

At first I didn’t think much of it until a few days later. I was still getting those extra phone calls and frequent emails, the office was busy. Soon phone calls were turning into annoyances and emails were irritating to say the least. Let’s just say that I wasn’t having a good time.

At the end of the day I’d come home feeling frustrated and exhausted. I wasn’t having fun anymore and when it came to writing my blog, I didn’t feel motivated. My ideas and creativity weren’t flowing like they used to. I tried several things. I tried to get some extra sleep, but even with a good 8 hours of snooze time, I still felt brutle.

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