The Personal Development Blog recently posted a group writing project asking other bloggers to define personal development. If you’ve spent any time at all in the personal development blogosphere, you know that this term is very loosely defined. It can encompass things like productivity, personal finance, relationship advice, and physical health. All of these topics [...]

There are some pretty crazy sounding ideas floating around in the personal development web space. One of the craziest sounding I’ve encountered is called Emotional Freedom Techniques, or EFT for those in the know. According to Wikipedia, EFT is “a psychotherapeutic tool based on a theory that negative emotions are caused by disturbances in the [...]

This post is Part 2 of a series describing my experiences in implementing some of the ideas in The 4-Hour Workweek by Tim Ferris. You can follow along starting with Part 1, Do You Want to Work a Four Hour Workweek? In my last post, I briefly summarized The 4-Hour Workweek and described my first, [...]

So do I! Unless you’ve been living on a beach in Costa Rica and only checking your email once a decade, by now you’ve heard all kinds of crazy things about The 4-Hour Workweek. Author Tim Ferris claims to learn languages in 3 months, employ 25 Virtual Assistants all over the world, and to have [...]

When I was about 9 years old I went through an incredible growth spurt. As my mother says, I “shot up like a weed,” and grew about 4 inches in a few months. What I most remember about this time was how uncomfortable I was. My leg muscles were always tight and cramped to the [...]