10 Free Gifts That Can Change Your Life

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It’s gift giving time again and you have probably spent hours at the shopping centers, malls, and online stores buying gifts for everyone on your list. But what about yourself? After all this hard work, you deserve a gift or two for you. Well you are in luck. I have compiled a list of 10 [...]

3 Low Cost Personal Development Gifts

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It’s the gift giving time of year again and many shoppers are out at the malls or outlet centers fighting the crowds and spending lots of money. But what do you buy the person on your list who is interested in personal development? What do you give that aspiring leader or ladder climbing job hunter? [...]

What I learned From My Second 5K Run

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This last Saturday, I participated in my second 5K run. This time around I was excited to sign up. The night time event was sponsored by San Diego Crime Stoppers, and had lots of people participating from different local law enforcement agencies. I learned three important things from the event. 1. Preparation: I prepared for [...]

Top Three Movies For Success

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Last week I ran into a post by Mary DeMuth where she described a simple test to help you find your one true thing, where your greatest passion aligns with the worlds greatest need. While I’m not sure if the exercise goes this far, it is a lot of fun and very insightful. All you [...]

Can We Learn Faster?

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That is the question that the new book by Daniel Coyle, entitled The Talent Code aims to answer. I downloaded the book from Audible yesterday and the first chapter is already fascinating. The main study of the book is based on a road trip he took to what he calls “talent hotbeds”, places where great [...]

Personal Development: The Prospect Theory

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I read an interesting theory the other day in an investment guide by Jason Kelly. He sites a 1979 study by Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky that looked at the following scenario… Subjects were told to choose between these two prospects… Prospect 1: A 100 percent chance of losing $3000Prospect 2: An 80 percent chance [...]