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Live Life to the Fullest Through Personal Growth
When talking about productivity, we often talk about how to do things efficiently to save time. While doing things efficiently could save you time in the short term, you may still lose time in the long term. The reason is that you lose more time not by how you do things but by what you don’t do. Not doing things efficiently could cost you hours or days, but not doing things at all could cost you months or years.
Why does it happen? Why don’t people do what is right to do? There are three reasons for that:
- They don’t know what is right to do.
- They know what is right to do but underestimate its importance.
- They know it’s important but procrastinate doing it.
In this post I will focus on the first and second reasons. For the third reason you can read defeating procrastination habit or my review of The Now Habit.
Abundance is, in large part, an attitude.
Sue Patton Thoele
Living an abundant life is everyone’s dream. We all want to live a prosperous life where we can be happy and fulfilled. While it may seem difficult for some people, in reality we already have what it takes to live an abundant life. As the quote above says, the most important ingredient for abundance is attitude and your attitude is something you can control.
With that in mind, here are nine tips to help you live an abundant life:
1. Have abundance mentality
Abundance mentality says that there is enough for everyone, so someone else’s gain is not your loss. This is the opposite of scarcity mentality which says that there is only a fixed amount of reward so someone else’s gain is your loss.
By having abundance mentality, you won’t feel envy when someone else succeeds. You know that you can have your own success.
Making money is a significant part of our life. People spend 40 hours or more of their time a week to make money. For that reason, it’s essential to have the right perspective when it comes to making money. Otherwise we may focus on the wrong things and end up at the wrong place.
I’ve been thinking about this subject for a while and I’ve come to a perspective that I’m about to share with you. This perspective helps me connect making money to a greater purpose and makes it more fulfilling.
The Goals of Making Money
Why do people make money? What do they try to achieve? I believe there are two levels of goals in making money: a lower one and a higher one.
Recently I’ve been thinking about the Theme of the Month that we have here and I decide to no longer use it. The reason is because in my current situation I believe I can write better with flexible topics. I’m not in a position where I can do deep research on a topic (which is what I originally intended to do with Theme of the Month). Instead, I usually get unexpected ideas on different topics. So I think I can write higher quality posts if I’m not limited by a theme.
I still accept guest posts though. Please see Guest Posting Guidelines for more information about it.
Let’s now look at what happened in October.
Best Posts
There were nine posts published in October. The most visited posts were:
As you might know, I’m passionate about personal growth. That’s why I was excited when I heard about a new book entitled Personal Development for Smart People: The Conscious Pursuit of Personal Growth by Steve Pavlina. It’s a book that aims to find universal patterns and principles behind personal growth that can be applied to all aspects of our life. 
As the author put it:
I set out to find the common pattern behind all successful growth efforts, to identify a complete set of core principles that would be universally applicable.
The principles must be something that can be applied to your health as well as your relationships, your career as well as your finance.
Does the book succeed? Let’s see. Read the complete article »
Note: This is a guest post by Winston Cole of Plan My Cruise Vacation
A sense of humor can help you overlook the unattractive, tolerate the unpleasant, cope with the unexpected, and smile through the unbeatable
Moshe Waldoks
My sense of humor helped me survive
When I immigrated to the United States in 1992 it was very tough for me. I had left a very lucrative job in my home, left behind my wife and two young children. The US then was going through a recession period similar to what we are experiencing now. I could not find work in my field. I sent out countless job applications without success. I took the advice of a family friend who suggested I look for work in the teaching field. Me teach?
It was Alberta Flanders who said that “Sometimes only a change of view point is needed to convert a tiresome duty into an interesting opportunity.” Instead of thinking about quitting and never to look back, you can look at a difficult and stressful situation and laugh. Ask yourself “Is this an obstacle or an opportunity?” Why not see yourself as one of the crazy few who stay to take a second go at this? Think of Mahatma Gandhi who said “If I had no sense of humor I should long ago have committed suicide.”
