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8 Growth Gap Traps

Are there tried and true principles that are always certain to help a person grow? John Maxwell says the answer is yes. He has been passionate about personal development for over fifty years, and for the first time, he teaches everything he has gleaned about what it takes to reach our potential in The 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth.

If you have dreams, goals, or aspirations, you need to grow to achieve them. But if you’re like I was –and if you’re like most people –you have one or more mistak...

Laughter: It’s Good for You, Good for Your Relationships, and Good for Society

Do men and women laugh at the same things?
Is laughter contagious?
Has anyone ever really died laughing?
Is laughing good for your health?

Laughter is an erudite, wide-ranging, witty, and long-overdue exploration of a frequently surprising subject.

More than any other profession, stand up comedy is about getting to the truth of who you are, and becoming at ease with that. Edwards discusses comedy not as one single thing but as several, district things. Comedy is an antidote to taking life to...

What Does It Take To Be Great?

In The School of Greatness, Howes shares the essential tips and habits he gathered in interviewing “the greats” on his wildly popular podcast of the same name

Greatness is not just holding a gold metal at the top of a podium

It’s about inspiring people, about sharing a message, about believing the truth in that cliché: It’s the journey, not the destination to some perceived treasure or moment of adulation. In fact, there are a million ways to be great and a million more things to be a great...

40 Percent Rule: Key To Overcoming Mental Barriers

About 99 percent of the people who start marathons in the United States finish them. That’s an astoundingly high number considering the pain and turmoil that every marathon runner faces. What each runner has in common, says Jesse Itzler, author of Living with a SEAL, is that they hit a wall where their mental resources are exhausted. At this point, sheer physical will maintains their strength —and this is the will that everyone has,but we seldom know how to tap into it.

Itzler’s way to break...

Take The Right Risks

In Disrupt Yourself, she helps you understand how the frameworks of disruptive innovation can apply to your particular path, whether you are:

a self-starter ready to make a disruptive pivot in your business a high-potential individual charting your career trajectory a manager looking to instill innovative thinking amongst your team a leader facing industry changes that make for an uncertain future

Nature favors risk takers

Starting something new means taking a risk. But in our society, th...

Why Some Of Us Don’t Have One True Calling

What do you want to be when you grow up?

Well, if you’re not sure you want to do just one thing for the rest of your life, you’re not alone. In this illuminating talk, writer and artist Emilie Wapnick describes the kind of people she calls “multipotentialites” — who have a range of interests and jobs over one lifetime. Are you one?

Developing multiple talents is an overview of some of the key aspects of personality and inner life that affect how multi-talented people make use of that complex...

The Ultimate Happiness Prescription

Happiness is something everyone desires. Yet how to find happiness–or even if we deserve to–remains a mystery. Still more mysterious is the secret to a lasting happiness that cannot be taken away. In The Ultimate Happiness Prescription, bestselling author Deepak Chopra shows us seven keys to uncover the true secrets of joy in the most difficult times.

The Ultimate Happiness

The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness. Happiness is the goal of every other goal. Most people are under th...

The Benefits of Being a Leader Are Real. But Are There Costs?

Why did we Homo Sapiens survive into modernity while others died out over time?According to Simon Sinek, author of Start With Why, the answer lies with evolution. Starting with our first tribal collectives, humans evolved acute collaboration and community skills. That sort of organization keeps us alive. But there’s a catch…

The reason we have leaders goes back to 50,000 years.

When Homo sapiens step foot on this planet there were other hominid species that existed, but we survived and they...

4 Do-It-Yourself Energy Experiments That Prove Your Thoughts Create Your Reality

E-squared is a lab manual with simple experiments that prove reality is malleable and that you shape your life with your mind. The nine experiments, each of which can be conducted with absolutely no money and very little time, demonstrate that spiritual principles are as dependable as gravity and as consistent as Newton’s laws of motion. Here are four experiments.

(1) EXPERIMENT #1: THE DUDE ABIDES PRINCIPLE: There is an invisible energy force or field of infinite possibilities.

In this exp...

Living Synchrodestiny

The Spontaneous Fulfillment of Desire contains a dramatic premise: Not only are everyday coincidences meaningful, they actually provide us with glimpses of the field of infinite possibilities that lies at the heart of all things. By gaining access to this wellspring of creation, we can literally rewrite our destinies in any way we wish.

How to move through the stages of consciousness

Synchrodestiny accelerates our ability to advance through the stages of consciousness using four approaches....