Today is the last day of 2007. It has been a great year for Life Optimizer, thanks to all of you, the readers. It is your support and participation that allows this blog to have the growth it witnesses.
Looking at the stat, at January 1 this year there were only eight (!) subscribers (when this [...]

Just a quick note: my article entitled 20 Questions to Help You Reflect the Past Year has gone live at lifehack. It gives you 20 questions to assess your progress in the four facets of prosperity: material, spiritual, physical, and social. I think it’s a timely read since it’s now the perfect time to reflect [...]

2007 has been a great year for my reading experience. I read a lot of books, more than I did in 2006, and they give me the value I need to improve my life. While I always learn something from each book, there are some books which stand out in their usefulness. [...]

We always need new insights to move forward in life, and Think Week is a great way to get them. Let me share how I come to this conclusion.
This past week I barely had time to write since my family came to have vacation and I accompanied them. It was a lot of fun, but [...]

Note: This is a guest post by Albert Foong from UrbanMonk.Net. I’d like to thank him for writing this post.
What is the biggest obstacle most people face in achieving personal mastery?
Your mind; your thoughts. When you master your mind, everything else begins to fall into place.
But the moment we look at our mind, [...]

Last month I wrote the post How to Live Your Books and Not Just Read Them. There I introduced the idea of “most important books” (MIBs) which says that you should treat some very important books differently to get maximum benefit. Reader Ann M. Mione took the idea and created a [...]