The Personal Development Blog

Everyone, sooner or later, gets old. At least physically. But this doesn’t mean that you should grow old in your head as well.

This is something that I have put a lot of thought into. I have decided never to let myself grow old. As long as I have my free will I will do everything in my power to prevent it. I think a lot of elderly people just gives in.

One of the most important thing to stay young, is to never let go of your good sense of humor. If you ever catch yourself stop laughing and joking you’re on the wrong track. I’m not saying that you can’t have a bad day. Everybody experience those once in a while. But please don’t let it last for too long.

Make yourself this promise right now: 

“I will never allow myself to grow old. I will not stop laughing, smiling and having good times. I will never stop trying to make someone else’s day better. I will feel happy and thankful (not sad) for every new birthday i get to experience. It is the inside of my head, not the amount of years I have lived, that counts.”

If you want to make money online John Chow is your guy. In a short period of time he has managed to get his blog known to everyone who is into blogging. His blog is currently, according to technorati,  among 61 most popular blogs in the world. Thousands of people visit his blog every day, and he is willing to share them with you and me. If you review his blog, he’ll link to it and send you a lot of traffic. That is pretty exiting news. A link from Chows blog will, not only give you a lot of fresh visitors. It will also improve your rankings with technorati.

I have become a regular reader of his blog. I have found that it helps me make my own blog grow. He has recently written an eBook on how to be successful at blogging. If you are serious about your own blog you should really read it. You can download it here. http://www.johnchow.com/book/make-money-online.pdf

English is not his first language, and he claims that he doesn’t even speak or write it perfectly. Still he has accomplished to get attention from all over the world. One of the keys, he says, is that he is proofreading his material 5-6 times before he hits publish.

I am also open for review exchanges. Just click the review exchange link to the top left to read the rules.

In his latest post Steve writes about 10 Weaknesses of Human Intelligence. You’ll have to read it to understand my following statements about computer intelligence.

1. Unable to understand anything but zeroes and ones.
No matter how intelligent a computer might seem, it would be a good idea to remember that it is not really intelligent in any way shape or form.

2. Unable to comfort you when you have a bad day.
Though you may actually feel comforted by using the computer in certain ways it is really not the computers intention for you to feel better.

3. Gets outdated quickly.
Computers need to be updated regularly to be acceptable for us to use. After a few years it is very likely that it will not be able to run the latest software.

4. It needs to be told what to do.
A computer can not function on its own. Someone need to tell it exactly what to do, and when to do it. It is limited by its programing.

5. No feelings.
A computer can not show emotions. It could be programmed to show something that could look like emotions, but its just zeroes and ones.

6. Limited sensory input.
Its input channels is restricted to two numbers. You guessed it: Zeroes and ones

7. No moral.
A computer can be used for anything you would like to use it for. Bank robbery, cheating, harassment and so on. It will not tell anyone what you do. There is no difference between right and wrong.

8. Unreliable hardware.
It is only a matter of time before a critical component suffers an irreparable crash. It would be a good idea to make backups of all data you do not want to loose.

9. Not able to repair it self.
If a computer get “sick” (viruses, worms etc.), it will not get well by just waiting for it. Someone has to fix it. There is no such thing as: “It’s just a cold”.

10. No soul.
A computer does have a soul, and will not join you in the afterlife. No matter how good friends you have been. If it stops working, that’s really the end for it.

Below is a list of good posts from other blogs from last week:

The Secret to the Law of Attraction is Simple - Gratitude, from Cultivate Greatness.

10 Ways to Improve Your Mind by Reading the Classics, from Pick the Brain

The Zen of Folding Laundry and Other Thoughts on Happiness, from Scott H. Young

10 Books That Shaped My Life, and 40 Others I Love, from Zen Habits

10 Tips To Start A New Habit, from Alex Shalman

In this videoclip Brian Tracy talkes about how to reach your goals. It’s simple and genius. Watch it!

If you read this through an rss-reader you can watch the video here:
http://www.personaldevelopmentbooks.net/Blog/2007/06/25/if-you-could-achieve-one-goal-in-24-hours/

I’ve been having a lot of fun researching keywords lately.  This is something that have really paid of for me. There is no reason what so ever why you can’t produce the exact same results as me. You could write an article that shows up at the #1 spot on Google in 2-14 days. 

Here is a link to a tool you can use for keyword research:
http://www.inspiredhost.com//keysearch/research.php 

What you need to do is to find low competition keywords. When you have located some keywords with a high search volume, but with few hits on google (less than 5000), you’re ready to go. Now, write an article and put some of the low competition keywords in the article text. Submit the article to www.ezinearticles.com and voila… A few days later your article should show up on the first page of google.

I would really appreciate it if you would post your results in the comment field of this article.

Here is a list of some of the search strings that currently make my articles show up on the first page of Google:

live like die tomorrow (#1)
how millionaires go broke (#1)
live like tomorrow I will die (#1)
free personal development books (#2)
Great Authors of the past (#1)
great writers of the past (#1)
personal development free ebooks (#9)
free personal development ebooks (#6)
Don’t leave for tomorrow what you can do today (#10)

Feel free to try ou these searches and verify the rankings for yourself.

Below are some of the search strings I plan to use in upcoming articles. I will submit these articles at Ezinearticles.com. This will produce more first page rankings for my articles on Google. I will post the results as they are produced.

“ebook resale right” has 1694 monthly searches and produces 554 hits in google.

“free book review” has 2612 monthly searches and produces 883 hits in google.

“free child book” has 1079 monthly searches and produces 5370 hits in google.

“free wedding planner book” has 9587 monthly searches and produces 5250 hits in google.

“personal development seminar” has 261 monthly searches and produces 931 hits in google.

“self improvement seminar” has 141 monthly searches and produces 918 hits in google.

“how to start your own computer business” has 1196 monthly searches and produces 610 hits in google.

“web site traffic generator” has 1217 monthly searches and produces 818 hits in google.

“web site traffic ranking” has 419monthly searches and produces 658 hits in google.

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I know this is getting old… But I really think that this movie deserves a place on this blog. Therefore… Here it is.

 

 

When I first started this blog (not a very long time ago:) I wasn’t completely sure if I would be able to write posts on a daily basis. And for the first few weeks I didn’t. But after a while, when the comments started coming in and I realized that someone actually reads what I write, my writing started to pick up.

I feel some kind of a responsibility for my readers. Now I have made a pledge to myself that I will write at least one new post every weekday. That’s about 300 a year. When I sit down to write, I don’t always know what I’m going to blog about. But when I’m finished I always have a result in front of me. The quality will not always be great. But for me that’s a big part of being a blogger. Sometimes I’m satisfied with my writing, and sometimes not. But most of the time I choose to publish the post anyway. By doing that it is much easier for both the readers and myself to notice the progression of the blog. If you write a lot, the quality of your writing will improve. That’s just the way it is.

When I write posts for this blog, I often have to do some kind of research. Not only the kind of research where I read articles and blog posts. I also have to do research on me. I am learning something new about myself every day. And that is what personal development is all about. If you get to know yourself on a deeper level, you’ll become more sure of yourself.

Right now this blog is my most important tool for my own personal development.

If you are serious about your self development you too should start writing. I doesn’t have to be a blog. You can keep a personal journal that is for your eyes only. If you don’t know what to write about, you can always just sum up your day. When you have developed the habit of writing every day, it will become much easier. Write down what you like and what you don’t like. If you write down your opinions on different topics, it will also become easier to express them out loud.

If you are thinking about starting your own blog, but aren’t quite there yet, you should read Just one post by Seth Godin.

Darren Rowse at Problogger make some very good points on how to be a better writer in his post “How to Write Home Run Posts”.

Smiling and laughter are among the few things you can find in every culture on the face of the earth. That’s pretty amazing, isn’t it?

This make me think that smiling must have a very important function. The smile has been a part of the human race since the beginning. It doesn’t matter where you are from. It doesn’t matter what your native language is. We all know the meaning of a smile. Even babies smile when they are happy.

It’s not something we learn. It’s something we are born with. When you smile to another person, you may very well have changed both your own and that other persons day. Often a smile is all it takes.

Here’s what Wikiepedia says about smiling:

“In physiology, a smile is a facial expression formed by flexing the muscles most notably near both ends of the mouth. The smile can be also around the eyes. Among humans, it’s customarily an expression of pleasure, happiness…

…There is much evidence that smiling is a normal reaction to certain stimuli and occurs regardless of culture.”

Here are some good reasons why you should smile more.
- It makes you feel better about your self.
- It make others feel better about them selves.
- It make others feel better about you.
- It is fantastic as an ice-breaker.

Even a fake smile is better than no smile at all. According to a project I found, most people can’t tell the difference between a real and a fake smile. So if you feel bad, put a big fat smile on your face and make someone elses day a little better. If you do this, your day too will make a u-turn.

Here is a smile from me to you!

 

Will you leave one for me?

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