My thanks to David Bohl of Slow Down Fast for including Having Goals Will Make You Blind! in this week’s Carnival of Personal Development and Happiness. David did a great job filling in for Alex Blackwell, who is taking a little break.

The carnival is filled with lots of great posts that will both teach you and help you apply your learning. Some of my favorites include:

4 Reasons to Become a Generous Giver. Matthew Paulson at American Consumer News touches on a subject that is near and dear to my heart: personal philanthropy. There a lot of emotional and financial reasons to give to charity, especially during tax time.

Lorraine Cohen at Powerful Living suggests Creating a Theme Year as an alternative to New Year’s Resolutions. Once you’ve identified a theme, she helps you through a series of questions that will increase your chances of following through on that theme.

Steven Aitchison at Change your thoughts contributed the very funny and inspiring GOYA method for Personal Development. I don’t want to give away any secrets, so I’ll just say it deals with getting started on any task.

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