Why should we bother to care about other people? Is it okay to live just for ourselves? Is it good enough to do no harm? Is there any reason we should go out of our way to help other people?
I used to not care about people. I mean really not care. I know what it’s [...]
I’ve received several requests to write something about the apparent financial crisis in the USA, not to mention the upcoming election. Erin has received similar requests. At first I declined because so much is being written about this already, but people said they just wanted to hear my take on it, so here goes…
First off, [...]
If you’re up for some fresh content, Zen Habits just posted a monstrous new interview with me.
Leo Babauta asked really good questions, so I gave them a lot of thought. This interview is very long — nearly 7,000 words — about the length of a typical book chapter. I promise you it isn’t fluff though. [...]
Now here’s a surprise — my book Personal Development for Smart People has launched early.
The original release date was October 15th, but the book has already shipped and is available now.
You can get it at Amazon.com and in many major bookstores, including Borders, Barnes & Noble, Books a Million, and Hastings.
The major book distributors [...]
It wasn’t until this year that I realized that one of the blocks that prevented me from improving my diet was figuring out what to do with the extra energy I’d gain if the change became permanent.
For example, when I was going through my 30-day raw food diet trial earlier this year, I had a [...]
If you’re attracted to many different pursuits and can’t commit to any single one of them for your career, college major, or income source, then good for you! Leonardo da Vinci was in the same boat. He’s considered by many to be the greatest genius of all time.
The notion that you have to commit to [...]
If you really commit yourself to the idea, can you earn $1 from doing something you love?
Very often people who are stuck in the pattern of doing work they dislike will shun simple opportunities to earn small amounts of money doing something they love. They assume that if they could only earn a few bucks [...]
“Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in that grey twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.” - Theodore Roosevelt
It’s so easy for us to fall into the [...]
In case you haven’t noticed the links I splattered all over StevePavlina.com during the weekend, my new book Personal Development for Smart People: The Conscious Pursuit of Personal Growth is now available for pre-order at Amazon.com and BarnesAndNoble.com (with a discount off the cover price).
The official release date is October 15, 2008, so we still [...]
What role does skill play in the path to success? Are good intentions enough? Or do you actually need some talent?
Why So Many Bloggers Fail
I’m often asked why so many people who jumped on the blogging bandwagon failed to get good results. While the A-list bloggers enjoy soaring traffic and income, countless other blogs fall [...]
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