Steve Pavlina - Tag - In a past life… https://archive.jtimothyking.com/tags/steve-pavlina/ Steve Pavlina - Tag - In a past life… Hugo -- gohugo.ioen-usTue, 02 Oct 2012 16:58:44 +0000 Teaser Tuesdays: Personal Development for Smart People https://archive.jtimothyking.com/2012/10/02/teaser-tuesdays-personal-development-for-smart-people/ Tue, 02 Oct 2012 16:58:44 +0000 J. Timothy King https://archive.jtimothyking.com/2012/10/02/teaser-tuesdays-personal-development-for-smart-people/

Between Jewish holidays (currently in the season of Sukkot) and family emergencies (currently preparing to take my cat to the vet), I’m reading Steve Pavlina’s book, Personal Development for Smart People: The Conscious Pursuit of Personal Growth.

I’ve been following Steve Pavlina’s blog on and off for years. His views are sometimes (what I would consider) wacky, but other-times profound, and always thought-provoking. This book is all fresh material (not recycled from his blog), but it definitely reads with his voice.

Today’s teaser, from page 7 of the Kindle Edition of Personal Development for Smart People:

]]> Wage Slave or Crazy Entrepreneur? https://archive.jtimothyking.com/2006/08/04/wage-slave-or-crazy-entrepreneur/ Fri, 04 Aug 2006 23:11:27 +0000 J. Timothy King https://archive.jtimothyking.com/2006/08/04/wage-slave-or-crazy-entrepreneur/ Eric Allam of 52 Reviews posted an interesting comment on my post “Top Ten Reasons to Remain a Wage Slave," which is a spoof off of a couple of Steve Pavlina’s “list of 10” posts. Eric linked to a post on his blog, “BusinessPundit lays out 10 misconceptions of entrepreneurship, reveals his hypocrisy," in which he rebutted criticisms Robert May of BusinessPundit.com had leveled at Steve Pavlina’s post. (Whew! I’m outta breath!)

]]> Top Ten Reasons to Remain a Wage Slave https://archive.jtimothyking.com/2006/07/27/top-ten-reasons-to-remain-a-wage-slave/ Thu, 27 Jul 2006 04:09:39 +0000 J. Timothy King https://archive.jtimothyking.com/2006/07/27/top-ten-reasons-to-remain-a-wage-slave/ Steve Pavlina’s recent posts 10 Myths About Self-Employment and 10 Reasons You Should Never Get a Job inspired me to create my own top-ten list.

]]> The Secret to Breaking Out of the Box https://archive.jtimothyking.com/2006/07/17/the-secret-to-breaking-out-of-the-box/ Mon, 17 Jul 2006 03:28:34 +0000 J. Timothy King https://archive.jtimothyking.com/2006/07/17/the-secret-to-breaking-out-of-the-box/ As part of Steve Pavlina’s Million Dollar Experiment, participants claim to have manifested over 1.5 million dollars, just by wishing for it. Are they just fooling themselves? Or is there something different they’re doing? Is there something different that successful people do that the rest avoid? I think there is, and I knew what it was. And if I had just been thinking in those terms two weeks ago, things would have gone better for me.

]]> Thirty Days to Better Software https://archive.jtimothyking.com/2006/05/10/thirty-days-to-better-software/ Wed, 10 May 2006 12:00:46 +0000 J. Timothy King https://archive.jtimothyking.com/2006/05/10/thirty-days-to-better-software/ Reflective Improvement is number 2 of Alistair Cockburns 7 properties of successful teams. Of these 7, Alistair says the top 3 are core properties for success. Reflective Improvement is so important, because it gives such a big bang for the buck.

]]> Practice Makes Perfect Professionals https://archive.jtimothyking.com/2006/04/25/practice-makes-perfect-professionals/ Tue, 25 Apr 2006 16:00:16 +0000 J. Timothy King https://archive.jtimothyking.com/2006/04/25/practice-makes-perfect-professionals/ What’s the largest number of people you’ve embarrassed yourself in front of?

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