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Learning Is A Big Part Of Life. All problems could be solved if only we bothered learning how to. If it weren’t for variety - while some are busy learning how to solve problems, others are busy learning how to make them. Everybody is not interested in learning the same thing at the same time, which is a good thing! And, luckily for us all, the problem-solvers learn faster than the problem-makers. In the park I saw someone kick off the head of another flower with every other step he took. There were more flowers than steps and there will be new flowers again next year. I tell the more-flowers-than-kicks story because it illustrates the underlying principle that force always eventually succumbs to power, status quo always eventually succumbs to progress. Talking of which, I take comfort in the fact that progress is the great tendency of human kind that has survived all other tendencies combined. With gloom and doom the darlings of mainstream, I understand... details >>>

Time - it is your most fundamental resource for all things personal growth and self development, and for everything else, too. Which explains why the whole world is crying out for "More time!" - particularly when "there isn't any." Every strategy for success - whether in sports, science, or anywhere else - sooner or later catches a case of "We need more time," "Give me just a minute," "There's not enough time," "We just don't have the time (for this)," "Time is running out," "Can we have more time?" Man's Search For More Man's search for more time has resulted in an entire industry of time keeping and time management. Time "keeping"? Are reports of "more time" myth or fact? The answer is at the same time "Yes" and "No" - which can be confusing. Yes, you can experience time more. No, there is no such thing as more time. You already have all the time there is. No-one has yet figured out a way to manufacture time (or to keep it). Because... details >>>

PASSION Passion is the most essential ingredient for success in anything truly worth living for. To go through life without passion is like one hand clapping. Not much to write home about. Why bother? What exactly is passion? For starters, it's often seen in the company of love, enthusiasm, inspiration, desire and vision. Enthusiasm comes from enthused, en theos, i.e. in God. Inspiration has its origins in inspired, i.e. in the spirit. Desire's roots are "de sire," i.e. from the father. It doesn't make passion new-agey or spiritual. Rather it confirms Beethoven's words, and of course his music: "What is to reach the heart must come from above." Bottomline, definitions of passion can be found in books and libraries, but you'll never find passion there. Passion is within you, and in the now. You cannot be passionate tomorrow. By the time tomorrow comes around, it's today again. The decision to be passionate is made in the now, in a heartbeat. Sure,... details >>>

heapr: a search engine so ridiculously fast, it displays results faster than you can think. Ok, faster than you can type. Ok, so fast that to beat it, the next search engine will have to post results by the time you think about your search. The good people at heapr are serious, and so am I. Just try it. It's like 38% faster than the standard Google.com search. I am *not* kidding, it searches on keypress. One page load. Aggregation of results from Google, Twitter, Wikipedia, WolframAlpha, Flickr, and other sources. Other neat features: View Google Images alongside Flickr [at images.heapr.com]. Zippo-zero ads. Easily view YouTube, Hulu, and Vimeo videos without ever leaving the page at [at videos.heapr.com]. Download YouTube videos for free with just the click of a button. Just search for your video, and click Download. Real time tweets [at twitter.heapr.com] Or just plain Google, With search on keypress, insanely fast [at lite.heapr.com] You can get... details >>>

I used to carry four-leaf clovers in my passport. Of course, I don't believe four-leaf clovers play a role in personal growth or that they will bring you luck, but I also understand they bring you luck whether you believe or not. When customs agents noticed the presence of four-leaf clovers in my passport they would usually just give me a meaningful look, rather than speak the words, "Poor sod, lost in dreams, hoping for luck. He'll probably be waiting for luck to the end of his life. Well, as long as it doesn't hurt me. Next!" The four-leaf clovers had been gifts of my sister. I didn't know how to find four-leaf clovers myself, so my sister had always done the finding for me when I asked. When it's my my sister, the same four-leaf clovers that had been invisible a minute ago, cannot hide. When my sister is on the lookout, four-leaf clovers might as well be giant Sequoias. But we now live on different continents, so when I recently needed new passports, it was... details >>>

What do Google Analytics, an engine, Warren Buffet and directions have in common? Read on ... In case you missed it - like me, you might have had other things on your plate over the weekend - Google just very recently announced a new set of Google Analytics features. Some of the newness 'simply' turbo-charges existing capabilities. But there are also altogether new features that allow you to customize and adapt Google Analytics according to your needs, or to the needs of your company. The icing on the announcement cake is Analytics Intelligence. Google Analytics Additional data manipulation and analysis features have been added. Two new Engagement Goal types allow for measurement of user engagement and branding (you can now set thresholds for Time on Site and Pages per Visit!). You'll find vastly expanded mobile reporting, and advanced analysis features (advanced table filtering features for data analysis). As Google explains it: "... you could see... details >>>

This is the first installment of "beatattitudes" - a video series aimed at awakening the possibility in us of growth - in our personal lives, in business and career and, if you're fortunate to be a blogger also, in blogging. Join me in what promises to be an exciting journey into the world of growth - the natural state of things, if what's preventing is eliminated - and ultimately, into achieving greater dynamic in all areas of your life, with less effort. details >>>

Benjamin Zander has two infectious passions: classical music, and helping us all realize our untapped love for it - and by extension, our untapped love for all new possibilities, new experiences, new connections. "My job is to awaken possibility in other people." Give yourself the twenty minutes of this video and you'll find, for your benefit, he's a master at what he does. details >>>

Blogging and personal growth are not often mentioned in a same breath with selling. For one thing, blogging and personal growth are noble while selling is very often given a bad rap. The three best reasons behind selling’s poor reputation are: People love to buy, but they don’t appreciate being sold to. Selling can be outright dishonest, deceiving and manipulative – often is. Selling is difficult. Rather than attempt and risk failure, doing nothing (while criticizing those who do) is the preferred option for many. But refusing to attempt requires reason, if only in their own mind, hence "selling is bad." Some go as far as to declare “honest selling” an oxymoron. Customer meets engineer. “Hey, engineer, can I ask you a question?” The engineer replies, “I’m not allowed to talk to customers. We believe that honesty impedes sales.” “I think you just impeded,” the customer concludes. For one like me, blogger and entrepreneur, ... details >>>

First off, let it be clear, there’s strictly nothing wrong with thinking per se! In fact, thinking is the greatest thing since instinct. Many things are greatest since sliced bread, but thinking is the greatest thing since before we could think. Opinions differ as to when we changed from non-thinking to thinking, or whether we have in fact ever made the transition, but even the staunchest supporters of non-evolution theory agree, it must have been before sliced bread. If thinking as the greatest thing has been around for such a long time, what can we possibly do wrong with it? Well, I know some people - some of them I know personally very well :-) - who relied on thinking to improve their lives. They tried for a long time, even years, without much to show for it. They tried thinking this and that, learning new ways of thinking and spending good money in the process. All to little or no avail. The need to think about improving their lives had gathered momentum through... details >>>