The Ultimate Personal Growth Guide: 100 Best Posts

By Mary Jaksch

Every moment we get a new opportunity to make new decisions and change how we live our life. Here is a selection of the best 100 self-development posts that will inspire you to grow and flourish. They are grouped under the following headings: personal transformation, business and career, happiness, relationship and family, creativity, leadership, spirituality, health and fitness, minimalism, and productivity. (Click on each link, and a short intro will pop up. In order to read the full post, click on the link at the bottom of the popup which says, ‘Continue on to….’)

Personal transformation

1. How to Find Your Passion for Anything
2. 100 Ways to Develop Your Mind
3. The Only Way to Become Amazingly Great at Something
4. The Slow Secret: How to Make Lasting Changes in Your Life
5. The World Needs You to Do What You Love
6. Overcome Shyness
7. Limiting Yourself: The Key to Success
8. How to Develop Intelligence at Any Age
9. Triple Your Rate of Failure and You Might Succeed
10. How to Improve at Anything
11. 30 Practical Tips to Make Yourself Indispensable to Others
12. The Truth About Visualization and Goal Achievement
13. The Life Purpose Lie
14. A Short Collection of Unconventional Ideas
    

    Business and Career

15. 10 Answers You Should Know Before Your Job Interview
16. 20 Tips that Got Me an IT Promotion
17. How to Start Freelancing Without Quitting Your Job
18. How to Lose Your Fear of Being Fired
19. How to Motivate Others
20. How to Make Lots of Money During a Recession
21. Man’s (Career) Search for Meaning
22. 3 Areas You Must Invest in During a Recession
23. Fear of Flying: Facing the Fear of Success
24. 10 Questions to Ask Yourself About Your Job
25. Dead Man Working
26. Scaling Simplicity-Driven Entrepreneurship
27. Why I hope the Free Brigade is Wrong
28. The Business of Forgiveness
29. The Best Decline Letter of All-Time: Edmund Wilson
30. A 12 Step Strategy to Refit Your Blog to the Social Web in 2010
    

    Happiness

31. Why It’s Important to “Identify the Problem” (It’s Harder than It Sounds).
32. The Biggest Myth — It’s Selfish To Try to Be Happier.
33. How to Find Authentic Happiness
34. Happiness and positive thinking…good for you and good for your health
35. The 7 Habits of Highly Happy People
36. How to be Happier With What You Have
37. 10 Instant Tips to be Happier Now
38. The Only Guide to Happiness You’ll Ever Need
39. Income Distribution Versus Happiness
    

    Relationship and Family

40. 5 Tips for Getting a Little Kid to Take No For an Answer
41. Match Makers Intuition
42. How to Instill the Love of Reading in Your Child or Yourself
43. How to Inspire Kids to Save the World
44. What are Kids Doing on Facebook, MySpace, and Other Social Networking Sites?
45. 5 Strategies to Manage Your Family Chores Permanently
46. 10 Qualities of Tea-cup Parenting: Are Your Kids Too Fragile?
47. 50 Ways to be Romantic
48. Things to Consider Before Getting Married
49. Understanding Family Relationship Problems
50. Home Fires – I Will Carry You
51. Your Ideal Family: How to Make it a Reality
    

    Creativity

52. Story-Based Design
53. How to Touch Your Creative Soul: A Zen Perspective
54. 50 Questions that Will Free Your Mind
55. How to Write Remarkably Creative Content
56. Feeling Stuck? Try This
57. Unleash Your Energy: 5 Ways to Recharge Your Mind, Spirit, and Productivity
58. Re-Potting with Resources: What Would You Make?
59. The Little but Useful Guide to Creativity
    

    Leadership

60. Interception of Entropy
61. 6 Key Lessons in Life from a 140-Year Old Man
62. Leadership and the Magnetic Draw of Authenticity
63. Challenging Convention
64. The Joy of Quitting
65. Nine Leadership Development Strategies
66. Six Social Media Trends in 2010
67. Stephen Covey on His Morning Routine, Blogs, Technology, GTD and The Secret
    

    Spirituality

68. Sitting Quietly, Doing Something
69. What is Natural Spirituality?
70. Survive and Thrive: How to Transform Anxiety into Inspiration
71. How to Start Meditating: 10 Important Tips
72. For the Time Being
73. The Courage to Live Consciously
74. Living a Life of Integrity
    

    Health and Fitness

75. How to Build Muscle Mass Guide
76. 100 Beginner Running Tips
77. Why Healthy Nutrition is Important – and Why Not
78. How Many Calories Do You Need to Eat Per Day?
79. A Single Principle to Declutter Your Health
80. The 7 Essential Rules to Optimum Health Weight Loss
81. 7 Steps to Sustainable Healthy Eating Habits
82. Relax Like a Pro: 5 Steps to Hacking Your Sleep
83. How to Lose 20 lbs. of Fat in 30 Days… Without Doing Any Exercise
    

    Minimalism

84. How to Let Go of Possessions
85. 7 Quick Meals that are Faster Than Pizza Delivery
86. The Simple Life
87. El Bocadillo: The Definitive Minimalist Sandwich
88. Creating a Minimalist Workspace
89. The Minimalist Pinciple: Omit Needless Things
90. Living on a Small Footprint
91. 10 Unclutting Things to do Every Day
92. Minimalist Fun: The 100 Things Challenge
93. A Guide to Self-Reliance Minimalism
    

Productivity



94. Scoring 100% in Time Management
95. 33 Rules to Boost Your Productivity
96. Priorities
97. What Matters Now
98. Polyphasic Sleep
99. 10 Benefits of Rising Early and How to do It.
100. Productivity and Organizing Insights Found in Lean Systems

Which post inspired you most? What did you learn that is helpful? Please share in the comments.

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