Today is the last day of 2007. It has been a great year for Life Optimizer, thanks to all of you, the readers. It is your support and participation that allows this blog to have the growth it witnesses. Looking…
Just a quick note: my article entitled 20 Questions to Help You Reflect the Past Year has gone live at lifehack. It gives you 20 questions to assess your progress in the four facets of prosperity: material, spiritual, physical, and…
2007 has been a great year for my reading experience. I read a lot of books, more than I did in 2006, and they give me the value I need to improve my life. While I always learn something from…
We always need new insights to move forward in life, and Think Week is a great way to get them. Let me share how I come to this conclusion. This past week I barely had time to write since my…
Note: This is a guest post by Albert Foong from UrbanMonk.Net. What is the biggest obstacle most people face in achieving personal mastery? Your mind; your thoughts. When you master your mind, everything else begins to fall into place. But…
Last month I wrote the post How to Live Your Books and Not Just Read Them. There I introduced the idea of “most important books” (MIBs) which says that you should treat some very important books differently to get maximum…
Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure. William Saroyan Failure is certain on the way to success. There is no way we can succeed without experiencing failure here and there. But failure could have either one…
Personal branding is essential if you want to succeed in life. Why? Because you need to win people’s attention to succeed and personal branding is the way to get it. Authors need to win the attention of potential readers to…
I’m currently reading the book Fire Them Up! by Carmine Gallo (disclosure: I received a free copy of the book). One of the chapters talks about the importance of vision and how to have a vision with impact: For a…
I trust that everything happens for a reason, even when we’re not wise enough to see it. Oprah Winfrey I believe this quote has an important truth we should remember. Life would be difficult if we think that things just…
