Archive: 2008 October 31

Personal Development is for Smart People

By Richard X. Thripp at 2008-10-31T02:33:24Z in Personal Development, with these tags: courage, fear, goals, life, love, power, relationships, truth, 2 Comments. 1,972 words.

The biggest challenge in personal development is not creating systems—it’s using them. You can know perfectly well that you need to quit your job, change religions, stop eating animals, and move to Mexico, but unless you take action, you’ll never get anywhere. In fact, as you dilly-dally, a whiny voice in your head takes over, telling you to remain complacent. You think that’s the only voice that will talk to you, so you become friends with that voice out of desperation. But it turns out that if you deny friendship with that voice, a far better, intially quieter voice …