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My Picks

There were many good submissions to the carnival this week, but the following three posts really caught my attention.

• Jim presents Success Finds Hard Work, Talent & Passion posted at Blueprint for Financial Prosperity. This post inspired me to keep working on my blog and other projects, even when it seems like a long road. Jim has experienced great success by following his own advice and continuing to work hard every day.
• HIB presents 10 Simple Ways to Overcome Disappointment posted at Happiness is Better. The last seven days have been pretty difficult for me and reading this post helped me brainstorm a few ways to get past the funk I’m in and continue to move forward in my chosen Compass Direction.
• Kevin Ngo presents The New Year’s Resolutions Rush posted at Motivational Tools. As I’ve written here before, New Year’s resolutions are crap. Kevin uses the analogy of looking at resolutions as a marathon, not as a sprint.

Now for the rest of the great posts this week:

Personal Development

Elliott presents Find Out Who You Really Are posted at Good Plum | Personal Develpment, Productivity & Attracting Success.

Marelisa Fabrega presents 10 Ways to Have a Zen-Like Day posted at Abundance Blog at Marelisa Online.

Broderick Allen presents Suspend Disbelief posted at Broderick Allen – Personal Growth and Enjoying Life’s Journey.

Wally Bock presents How to get better posted at Momentor.

Jeremy J. Ulmer presents Finding Work-Life Balance posted at Sales Coaching | Business Coaching | Life Coaching.

Robert presents How Come We Fail When It Comes To New Years Resolutions posted at Ways to Survive Life.

Ted presents How to Improve Your Memory posted at CampusGrotto.

Juliet du Preez presents We All Make Assumptions posted at LifeMadeGreat saying, “Even if we don’t know what assumptions we are making or what we are not noticing, it is always good to bear in mind that we are seeing the world through our perceptions and not necessarily as it really is.”

Xquisitlife presents Small steps to igniting the flame of passion within! posted at The best is yet to come! saying, “Have you ever wanted enough energy to conquer the world, or maybe just conquer your world? Here are the steps to igniting the flame of passion in your life right now!”

Great Management presents Why Traditional Goal Setting Doesn’t Work posted at Great Management saying, “If you have a $100,000,000.00 in the bank, drive the new Jaguar, look like a movie star and have a perfect health – save yourself some time and do not read this article. This article is for people, who don’t have all these things…”

Applying the Law of Attraction presents Welcoming the Law of Attraction into Your Life posted at Applying the Law of Attraction Membership Library saying, “Whenever we want to change something about our lives, we look to others for a solution. What if you were empowered to alter your course and in effect, be your own genie in a bottle…”

Erin Pavlina presents The Inner Workings of a Mastermind Group posted at Erin Pavlina – Spiritual Wisdom for Conscious People.

TJ presents Creativity takes effort posted at Upgrade Your Life!.

Felix presents Are You a Dreamer? posted at Fulfilled Dreams saying, “Dreamers have always been the saviors of the world. People, going through tough times, are feeding on the dreamers’ vision. To want means to obtain. To have aspirations means to achieve them…”

Personal Finance

David presents Decision Making 101: Step One The Way We Make Decisions posted at Personal Finance Ology saying, “Making smart decisions is the first step in building long term wealth. Learn the methodology behind making wise decisions with your money.”

KCLau presents Best of KCLau’s Money Tips 2008 posted at KCLau’s Money Tips saying, “A run down of the best KCLau’s Money Tips 2008.”

JRickG presents Financial Integrity posted at Personal DeConstruction.

FIRE Finance presents Advantages of Online Banking posted at FIRE Finance. Sam presents Misperceptions About Getting Out Of Debt posted at Personal Finance Ology saying, “The road to financial independence begins by avoiding the money traps that get us into trouble in the first place.”

retirehappy presents Retirement Assets After A Layoff posted at My Retirement Blog.

Ariel Bravy presents What Is Abundance? posted at You Are Truly Loved saying, “When we accurately define the term “abundance,” watch how life’s possibilities open up for us.”

MBB presents Best CD Rates For High Yield Certificate Of Deposits posted at Money Blue Book Finance.

Silicon Valley Blogger presents High Yield Savings Account Interest Rate Review posted at The Digerati Life saying, “We discuss interest rates and good high yield savings options, which are few and far between during this recession and low rate environment.”

Debt Free Destiny presents Marriage and Money Making it Work posted at Debt Free Destiny.

apply4-credit presents And the Credit Fraud Continues posted at Apply4-Credit.com.

Destroy Debt presents 11 Wierd Ways to Use Coca Cola and Save Money posted at Destroy Debt.

Deposit Accounts presents Understanding the Differences Between a Money Market Deposit Account and a Money Market Mutual Fund posted at Deposit Accounts.

Trisha Wagner presents What I’ve Learned About Working From Home posted at Empowering Mom Blog.

LAL presents How rich is rich? posted at LivingAlmostLarge.

Personal Health

The Smarter Wallet presents Organic Food: Healthy Food Ideas For The Ordinary Shopper posted at The Smarter Wallet.

If you’ve enjoyed this week’s Carnival of Personal Development, check out next week’s edition at Simply Forties. If you’re a blogger and you want to participate, submit your personal development, health, personal finance, and self-improvement related posts at the Blog Carnival page.

Photos by Ale Paiva, Riyas Hamza, svilen mushkatov and Paul Barker.

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• Alex Blackwell of The Next 45 Years featured my post How to Create a Theory of Change in this week’s Personal Development Carnival. As always, this carnival features a lot of great content for anyone interested in self improvement.
• I’m also very honored to be included in the last Doing it Differently Blog Carnival at Aaron Pott’s Today Is That Day. Are You Working With an Old Reality? How to Change Paradigms is featured in this great collection of posts that teach you how to do things a little differently.
• Finally, I was asked by Jeniffer Karas of thethirtydayyear.com to write a guest post for her series called The Achievers. My post actually kicks off the series (how’s that for pressure!). It’s titled The Five Most Influential Forks On My Road to Happiness. I hope you’ll check it out as well as the other posts in the series.

My thanks to these great bloggers for including my content. I’m done with traveling for a while and look forward to adding more great content to this and other blogs over the next few weeks!

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Normally, a membership at Personal Development Partners costs $19.95 a month, but for a very limited time, you can purchase a lifetime membership for $57! If you aren’t familiar with PDP at all, it is a community of people who have come together to take the information they have gathered from years of study and support each other in applying it to actually improve their lives. In short, it is part group therapy, part peer coaching, and part butt-kicking!

I’ve been active at PDP for about 6 months now and I can definitely say that it is the nicest, most helpful, most success-oriented community I’ve ever participated in. Because there is a cost involved in being a member, the people who are active on the message boards are all committed to gaining positive results as well as offering genuinely useful advice.

I am certainly going to take advantage of this steal of an offer, and I hope you will too!

Other Resources
I would be a very bad blogger if I mentioned a carnival appearance and didn’t highlight some of the other outstanding posts. My personal favorites from this carnival are:

• 24 Weekly Actions for Creating Lasting Success from The Next 45 Years. Alex Blackwell gives you some very concrete steps to set up your week for serious achievement.
• Overwhelm: How to Break Your Life Down into Manageable Parts from Slow Down Fast! David B. Bohl has been putting out great posts for many months now, and this one is no exception. In this post he explains how to do some charting and time auditing to get a handle on your multitude of roles in life.
• How to Get Rid of Excuses NOW and Start Living the Kind of Life You’ve Always Wanted is from the new-to-me blog Super State. Discovering unfamiliar blogs is a great reason to peruse carnivals, by the way. Arin Vahanian encourages us to practice some mindfulness to catch ourselves in the act of making excuses and finding ways to reframe them as choices. It’s a helpful practice that I’m going to work with.

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All of the other submissions are great, but I wanted to highlight two that I think align with the interests of NSRT readers.

Are You For Real? is great question. Fortunately, David Bohl at Slow Down Fast has some answers for us – as well as many tips for becoming more authentic in your communications.

How to Find Your True Purpose is a thought provoking article by Todd Goldfarb at We The Change (I love that title!!). Hint: it’s all about being driven by your internal purpose rather than external circumstances.

I hope you’ll spend some time today reading through the carnival and the other helpful entries.

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What Is Adaptive Capacity? was featured in the Carnival of Small Business which was hosted by CA at Atlantic Canada’s Small Business Blog. Some of the posts I found most useful here are:

• Does your business pass the “Charlie the Plumber” test… in which Carol Bentley helps us become more picky about who we do business with.
• Nikole Gipps has resolved to do less this year (one of the best resolutions I’ve ever heard). She shares steps she’s taking in Less, Part 1: Time.
• Wanda Grindstaff asks Does Your Business Model Support Your Income Goals? This post asks some hard questions about whether the dream of owning a business is the best route to financial independence.

Having Goals Will Make You Blind! earned a place in the Doing it Differently Blog Carnival at Today is That Day. Aaron Potts started this carnival to features post about “stepping outside of the box and living our lives in ways beyond the ‘norm’!” You’ll find plenty of out of the box thinking in these posts:

• Stephen Martile’s post simply titled Change is both inspiring and useful. He suggests an exercise for getting fired up about the future and moving your life forward.
• I’m definitely still in the process of detoxing from Christmas cookies, so I really appreciate Tupelo Kenyon’s question, Is Food Your Medicine or Poison?
• No Prodigal Son is a new blog for me, but after reading Atlas Will Shrug, which talks about resistance to change in relation to environmentally-friendly technologies, I’ll be sure to stop by again.

I hope you’ll stop by both of those carnivals and visit the other entries. My thanks to the hosts for including NSRT.

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