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I’m guessing a few readers of the blog noticed there were no Friday Links yesterday.  Unfortunately, since Monday evening I’ve been sick in bed.  I’m hopefully in the recovery phase right now, but I’m still nowhere near 100%. ..
Topics: News, Personal Development

I love the word “gumption”.  I like finding words that cram a lot of ideas into a small space.  Gumption is closely related to boldness or courage, but it also relates more to enthusiasm than simply being able to overcome your fears.  I think...
Topics: bold, boldness, Courage, enthusiasm, gumption, motivation, Personal Development, social

    Last week, Steve Pavlina wrote an article entitled, “Skill”.  In it, Steve claimed, that most people under-invest in the skill-building phase.  In a rush to profit, they don’t spend enough time working on their ability to create value.I...
Topics: enthusiasm, goals, gumption, motivation, Personal Development, ready fire aim, skill, Steve Pavlina

At some point in every long project, you’ll hit a motivational rock-bottom.  A bad day, week, or month where you don’t feel like doing any work.  You’ve been writing, coding and working for months and the initial enthusiasm that got you started...
Topics: baseline, Discipline, goals, Habits, motivation, Personal Development, projects, weekly review

Last week I wrote two articles about measuring and building your persistence levels.  I started on the idea that your level of persistence is your ability to keep going without any positive feedback.  Ideally, your persistence would be unlimited, and...
Topics: commitment, experiment, goals, persistence, persistence threshold, Personal Development, separate goals & experiments, v&l growth