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Personal Development Radar – Jan 31, 2007

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Hi everyone, and welcome to this week’s edition of Personal Development Radar!

Since last week, I’ve set up a separate page for the radar, which will initially be an index of all the editions of the Radar. This page is accessible from the main menu at the top of each page, and is found at the following URL: https://personaldevelopment.ie/radar.

If you have an idea or two about improving the Radar, please contact me!

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Personal Development Carnival – January 28, 2007

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Hi everyone, and welcome to the January 28, 2007 edition of the Personal Development Carnival!

It’s been a while since I hosted one, so it gives me a special pleasure to yet again list all the great articles submitted for this edition. Based on your submissions, I have also added 15 more websites to the Personal Development Sites Search, which brings the total number of sites searched to 67!

There were 43 submissions this week. On behalf of the carnival, I thank every one of you for sharing your knowledge and helping us all improve.

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Personal Development Radar – 1st Edition

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Welcome to the very first edition of Personal Development Radar!

I would like to thank everyone for your interest and support, it does help to know what you think of my suggestions. I will try my best to develop the original idea and make it into yet another one great source of useful resources for you to turn to in your personal development quest.

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Announcing Personal Development Radar

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I’ve had this idea on my mind for quite some time, and it’s finally time to get started! So please join me in celebration of yet another great feature on Personal Development Ideas – the Personal Development Radar.What is Personal Development Radar?

It is a weekly post here on Personal Development Ideas, which will feature all the new blogs, books and software on various personal development topics. I like exploring new blogs and making new friends in the community, and I discover new software for better time management and productivity almost daily. Obviously, I can’t notice everything, but lately I’ve seen a pleasant increase of emails from blog and software authors announcing their products and inviting me to give them a try. Please keep sending these emails, I’m truly grateful for you taking time to share your knowledge with me.

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Great Goal Setting Articles

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I’ve read quite a few absolutely great articles on goal setting in the past week or so, and would like to present a short list of them for your and my own future reference.

  • John Richardson has recently posted two articles on goal setting on his Success Begins Today blog:

    • Goals: Create The Gallery of Your Life – in this article you are presented with an idea of making (drawing or composing from someone else’s images and photos) ideal images of your achieved goals. Visualizing your success is a great help on its own, but when you have an image symbolizing this vision it’s even better!
    • Paint by Number Goals is a follow-up to the first article, and it gives you options of painting by numbers – there are always easier ways to reach your goals because someone has already drawn the necessary lines and all you have to do is just follow the path.
  • Scott H Young has posted an Effective Goal Setting guide, showing how aggressive goal setting could harm by forcing you to lose sight of the bigger picture. He gives advices on when you should go for more goals, and when it’s probably time for you to relax a bit.
  • I’ve picked two posts by Steve Pavlina:

    • Setting Your Primary Focus – a very useful skill to master is to learn how to identify and set your primary focus.
    • Achieving Goals By Improving Your Character – very interesting article on asking yourself questions to identify what you can improve in your character to obtain better results. As usual, Steve gives you all the necessary pointers.
  • OnlyOneMike gives you 3 reasons Why You Must Have Goals, which seem more like benefits, not reasons. If you’re looking for an extra motivation before you get started with your goal setting you should definitely read this article.
  • Glen from LifeDev thinks Goal Setting Should Be Razor Sharp: they should be clear and simple enough, yet have enough focus to be attainable.

That’s all for now. Not sure if I’m going to be updating this post or will have a separate section created for goal-setting links, but these few links should be enough for today in any case. Hope you find them useful, and if you can thing of some more – please let me know by leaving a comment.