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Friday, 20th Apr 2007

My Diet of Personal Development Resources

Ok, so in my previous post I mentioned I’m pursueing personal development. I also mentioned I’ve been reading a couple of personal development blogs, I also mention that I bought a whole bunch of books recently.
Well, here’s my my personal development resource list. If you can recommend anything else, please do.

Blogs
- Steve Pavlina.com
- Life Coaches Blog
- LifeDev
- Ririan Project

Blogs (Still to get and read)
- Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies (Harper Business Essentials) - Jim Collins
- Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap… and Others Don’t - Jim Collins
- Good to Great and the Social Sectors: A Monograph to Accompany Good to Great - Jim Collins
- Endless Referrals, Third Edition - Bob Burg
- Think and Grow Rich - Napoleon Hill
- Richest Man in Babylon - George S. Clason
- The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People - Stephen R. Covey

I know those aren’t a lot of resources about personal development, but I don’t want to just read and read and read, and not actually try to integrate the concepts into my daily life.
If there is anyone actually reading this, what do you think? Is there anything better I you think I should be looking at?

Update: I actually forgot the other book I wanted to buy, was Purpose Driven Life by Rick Warren. I added it to my wishlist on Amazon, till when I finally finish reading the books I already ordered.

Thursday, 19th Apr 2007

Pursueing Personal Development

I don’t believe much in New Year’s Resolutions, I believe now is as good a time as any to change for the better.
However, there is one resolution I made around the end of last year into the new year, so I suppose you could call it a New Year’s resolution, and that is to pursue personal development.

I recognize I have a lot of thing’s I need to work on in all areas of my life and the more I learn about myself, the more I study and learn from other successful people and role models, the more I realize how much work I need to do in my life.

I’ve subscribed to a bunch of personal development related blogs, listened to a bunch of audio programs and through our VeloCITI Business Acceleration Program I went through a pretty extensive personal assessment, by Roland Cox from Aspiral.

Over the past couple months people have been recommending lot of books for me to read, mostly relating to my business life, but I’ve been so preoccupied with other stuff that I haven’t yet gotten around to reading them. So today was the day I went to Amazon and got all the highly recommended books I want read.
So, yay! I should be getting all books in about 2 weeks. :)

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