Loving Your Idiot Zone – Steve Pavlina. The genius zone idea is popular among many friends of mine.
The idea is that we should spend more time doing what we do amazingly well, and delegate or eliminate everything else that we can. Imagine being a surgeon with a surgical team who handles everything else for you. Self-Accountability – Steve Pavlina. Using an accountability buddy to help you consistently stick with a habit or work on a goal is fine as a temporary measure to get yourself into the flow of action, but it’s also a crutch.
Ultimately you want to be accountable to yourself first and foremost, not to a buddy, team, company, organization, app, or external entity. That may sound counter-intuitive, especially if you’re accustomed to external accountability. External factors can increase your sense of accountability because you don’t want to let other people down. You want to do your part to pitch in. Goal Traps – Steve Pavlina. The end of a calendar quarter and the start of a new one is a great time to set fresh goals for the next 90-days.
In Conscious Growth Club we go through a 5-step quarterly planning process each quarter, whereby our members review their recent progress and then set and share their goals for the coming quarter. As part of this process, I host a live Zoom call to review the goals that members have set and to highlight best practices and potential pitfalls. The intention is to help members set goals they’re more likely to achieve. We just did one of those calls this morning. Goals of Being – Steve Pavlina. Many years ago one of my goals for public speaking was to design and deliver my own three-day workshop on the Las Vegas Strip.
I first achieved that goal in 2009. That was a goal of doing. How Your Mind Really Works – Steve Pavlina. How is it that your mind is capable of handling new situations you’ve never previously encountered?
How do you solve a problem you’ve never solved before? Is this just the magic of consciousness, or is there an underlying process — or algorithm — your mind uses behind the scenes to deal with the unique experiences you encounter each day? And if there is a process, how can you use it to improve your ability to think? Computers are still very inflexible at solving problems they’ve never seen, but your mind is not nearly so limited. How to Set Goals You Will Actually Achieve – Steve Pavlina. A major obstacle that prevents people from enjoyably achieving their goals is that they set their goals incorrectly to begin with.
This problem occurs because people don’t understand the nature of time well enough. When people consider a particular goal, they often worry about the time commitment: If I start my own business now, it could take years to make it profitable. I’m so overweight it could take years for me to get in shape. What Are My Strengths? – Steve Pavlina. During some recent morning runs, I’ve been listening to a series of Michael Michalowicz books: The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur, Profit First, Clockwork, and Fix This Next.
He also wrote The Pumpkin Plan – one of my all-time favorite business books. In the Toilet Paper Entrepreneur book, there are some questions about identifying your strengths and leveraging them in business. I think I know mine pretty well by now, but this stirred up my curiosity about how my blog readers and customers see my strengths and which particular strengths are most relevant for them. I also got to wondering how I could better use my strengths to make a difference for people.
My Strengths (According to Reader Feedback) – Steve Pavlina. Earlier this week I invited my blog readers and customers to share what they considered to be my strengths, and now I’ll share the results with you.
First, I appreciate the feedback. There were many different answers and perspectives, so I looked for patterns to condense the key ideas into a meaningful list. Be Patient With Yourself – Steve Pavlina. Patience is one of the most important qualities to develop if you care about personal growth.
It’s also one of the most difficult. Wouldn’t it be nice if after you identified a change you’d like to make, you could just snap your fingers, and the change would occur instantly? Unfortunately, it’s rarely so easy as that, despite what marketers tell you. Manifesting Intentions – Steve Pavlina. With respect to the intention-manifestation model of goal achievement mentioned in the previous post, like many others who’ve tried it, I have some difficulty applying it.
When I’m at my most conscious, I’m able to focus my intentions congruently, and my goals begin to manifest with relative ease. However, sometimes I sink to a lower level of awareness and succumb to those conflicting thoughts and then have to deal with their manifestations as well. Why Do Intentions Take So Long to Manifest? – Steve Pavlina. When you hold an intention to create something new in your life, such as a career change, a new relationship, or better health, at first you may see no results at all. But as you continue to hold the intention, eventually it does begin to manifest, sometimes almost miraculously.
Synchronicities occur whereby new people and circumstances come into your life to make your intention first possible, then probable, and finally real. But sometimes this process doesn’t seem to work. You hold an intention and get no measurable results. Other times the process works so slowly that you can’t be sure it’s having any effect.
Variable Paths. Objectifying Subjective Reality. Meaning of Life Series. Project Development. Tendering Values. Time Management. Polyphasic Sleep Experiment - Pavlina. Psychic Influences. The Spiritual Purpose of a Relationship – Steve Pavlina. Each relationship that you’ve had, whether short-term or long-term, can be interpreted through the lens of spiritual purpose. Why are you and your partner in each other’s lives? What are you here to do for each other spiritually? Relatability. Steve Pavlina – Personal Development for Smart People. Steve’s Blog – Steve Pavlina. Archives – Steve Pavlina. News – Steve Pavlina.
Our new Amplify course just opened two weeks ago, and so far 305 people have enrolled in it, so lots of people are now working through the lessons to upgrade their creative flow. I’ve published 18 lessons for the course since we began, and I’m continuing to design, record, and publish a new lesson each day. My goal is to build the course to at least 60 lessons, so that will take at least another 42 days (6 weeks). You’re welcome to join the course at any point and participate in the journey. Steve Pavlina blog many years. One Year of Daily Blogging: Lessons and Insights – Steve Pavlina. Today officially concludes my one-year daily blogging challenge that I committed to a little over a year ago. I started on December 24, 2019 and have published a new blog post or video every day since them. So that’s 374 days in a row if you include today’s post.
As you can verify from the blog archives, I successfully completed the challenge. I’ve been blogging every year since I started in 2004, but this is the first year that I’ve published something new every single day. This was an interesting experience, so I’ll share some thoughts about what it was like, some of which might surprise you. Habitual. Scott Young blog.