As you might know, I’m passionate about personal growth. That’s why I was excited when I heard about a new book entitled Personal Development for Smart People: The Conscious Pursuit of Personal Growth by Steve Pavlina. It’s a book that…
My friend Andrew Rondeau – who wrote a guest post here last week – just launched a new product called Get Applause Now. This is a package designed to improve your public speaking skill which is co-authored by Andrew and…
Since I’m in the business of creating ideas (mainly for this blog), I’m always interested in books about idea creation. Recently I found a book on this topic entitled The Medici Effect: What Elephants and Epidemics Can Teach Us About Innovation by…
After reading Dale Carnegie’s How to Stop Worrying and Start Living and writing a review about it, I was eager to read other books by Dale Carnegie. Since our theme this month is Relationships, the obvious choice is How to…
When I was looking for a book related to our monthly theme of Happiness, I found a book by Dale Carnegie entitled How to Stop Worrying and Start Living. It’s clearly related to happiness. Worrying is an opposite of being happy and learning…
Mary Jaksch, my blogging friend from Goodlife Zen, just released a new e-book entitled From Tragedy to Triumph: How to Win Through a Life Crisis. The 42 pages e-book gives us tips on how to overcome crisis in life and…
I’ve been applying Getting Things Done (GTD) (from the book Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen) for about two years now. I can witness – as many people do – that it tremendously increases my…
One of the most common pitfalls to productivity is procrastination. While being productive means accomplishing something, procrastinating is just the opposite. If we procrastinate, nothing will get done. Time will pass by without results and before long we may notice…
A few months ago, Luciano Passuello from Litemind suggested me to read the book How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci by Michael J. Gelb. Having heard about da Vinci’s reputation as one of the greatest geniuses in history, I…
I’m always eager know how influence works. What are the things that make us say “yes”? How do we comply with a request? There are two reasons why this topic is interesting to me: I want to be able to…