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What Is Better Motivational Fuel Than Stress or Anxiety?
If you don’t want to use stress or anxiety as your primary motivational fuel, what kind of fuel would you like to use instead? What can you say about your desired fuel source for taking action and getting results? I like to think of spending a day at an amusement park as a good analogy for my ideal type of work motivation. When Rachelle and I spend a few days together at Disneyland, we always take a lot of action and have days full of fun together. We don’t need anxiety, fear, or worry to motivate us to act. We virtually never go for just one day. We typically go for 3-4 days in a row. This eliminates any f...
Source: Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog - September 29, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Steve Pavlina Tags: Lifestyle Productivity Source Type: blogs

When You ’ re Confused, Clarify Your Intentions
On yesterday’s coaching call in Conscious Growth Club – which set a new record at 5.5 hours – I often referred back to the importance of clarifying intentions. This is especially critical when you’re facing those tricky either-or decisions, both of which seem like partial matches. Clarify Your Intentions Whenever you get confused, it’s often super helpful to pause and clarify your intentions. Just declare what you actually want in a sentence or two. Express it aloud or in writing. Then let it sink in and see how your body, mind, and feelings react to it. Does your intention feel like a true e...
Source: Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog - September 28, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Steve Pavlina Tags: Abundance Creating Reality Source Type: blogs

Upgrading My Hardware Tools
As part of my garage decluttering project this summer, I refactored and upgraded my hardware tools. I thought some readers might enjoy seeing the before and after pics of this part of the project, especially since it’s easy to see the changes visually. I hadn’t personally selected or bought most of my old tools. They were almost entirely hand-me-downs from my dad and grandfather, most of them decades old. A few items I picked up at swap meets last century. The overall collection was a mishmash of ugly items with some redundancy, consisting of odds and ends that other people no longer wanted. While most of the...
Source: Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog - August 14, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Steve Pavlina Tags: Abundance Creating Reality Productivity tools Source Type: blogs

Decluttering Tips
I’ve been decluttering my garage for the past few weeks, so here are some decluttering tips I’ve figured out for processing, purging, and organizing, especially if you have a lot of old tech clutter to deal with. Approach Decluttering with Patience Just chip away at the project one item at a time, not worrying about how long it will take. It’s wise to approach such a project with great patience, allowing it to take as long as it wants to take without feeling any need to rush. I put this project off for years because I could never squeeze it into any kind of schedule. I only made significant progress when I g...
Source: Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog - July 21, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Steve Pavlina Tags: Lifestyle Productivity Source Type: blogs

Stature Builders Bonus Added
I’ve added a new bonus to the Stature course called Stature Builders. Course members will find this bonus on the Gifts page in the Stature portal. This is a collection of 15 short audios (1-3 minutes each) for ongoing character sculpting practice. The purpose of these Stature Builders is to help you continue developing and refining your character after you’ve completed the main course. These extra audios can help you with ongoing reinforcement of some key character sculpting principles and practices. Each Stature Builder invites you to do one straightforward character sculpting exercise. Some can be done w...
Source: Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog - June 8, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Steve Pavlina Source Type: blogs

Enthusiastic Consent
When you invite someone to have a shared experience together, professionally or personally, and consent is given grudgingly, this tells you that the invitation isn’t very aligned. Even if you’re ostensibly getting a yes, there are probably some unresolved objections behind that yes, so you’re getting a compromised version of a yes. This in itself is another layer of invitation for you to unpack. Do you want to move forward with the consent you received, or do you want to go for a more aligned form of consent? This isn’t a trick question. Sometimes you may be fine with the consent you received,...
Source: Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog - June 3, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Steve Pavlina Tags: Abundance Relationships Source Type: blogs

All Amplify Bonuses Now Available
The popular new Amplify course on creative flow is now 100% published, with all of the remaining bonuses available in the Amplify member portal. Amplify is a truly monumental course on creative flow that has already changed many people’s lives. It contains 30 years worth of lessons on creativity and productivity condensed into 63 bite-sized pieces. Each lesson is just 17 minutes on average. The course is very rich in heart, humor, compassion, and playfulness of spirit. It doesn’t just address the mental side of creativity. It delves deeply into the emotional side too, which is perhaps even more important ...
Source: Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog - May 24, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Steve Pavlina Source Type: blogs

Aligned Solutions
Aligning your life can be very challenging. By alignment I’m referring to harmonious interactions among your: thoughtsfeelingsframes / perspectiveslifestyleliving situationrelationshipsvaluesdesiresgoalsintentionsworkfinanceshealthbodyfamilyfriendshipssocial lifepersonality We all have misalignments to deal with in one of more areas of life. Are you actively engaged in correcting those misalignments to create greater harmony? Or do you let misalignments fester? Misalignments have a tendency to multiply. They’re like clutter. Once we start tolerating a little bit, pretty soon we have a lot more to deal ...
Source: Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog - May 24, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Steve Pavlina Tags: Productivity Relationships Values Source Type: blogs

Your Relationship With Your Alarm Clock
If you use an alarm clock to wake up in the morning, think about relationship you’d like to create with your alarm clock. What would be the healthiest and happiest version of that relationship for you? If you were an alarm clock, what kind of relationship would you want to have with your human? For instance, maybe your alarm clock would appreciate it if you’d pat it on the head now and then and say, “Thanks for waking me up today. I appreciate you!” How would your alarm clock feel about being put across the room and kept at a distance from you? How would it feel if you groaned when it sound...
Source: Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog - May 19, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Steve Pavlina Tags: Lifestyle Productivity Relationships Source Type: blogs

Alignment and Diversity
For the annual launch of Conscious Growth Club last month, I mentioned before that I focused on alignment instead of growth. I deliberately avoided investing in obvious pathways to growth that might attract members who wouldn’t be so well aligned with CGC’s values and culture. Interestingly, CGC grew in size by about 20%, and CGC’s internal diversity increased as well. CGC has become more internationally diverse with members from 26 countries this year. It has become more diverse in terms of members of different ethnicities, colors, and cultures. And it has more LGBTQ members than ever before. One thin...
Source: Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog - May 11, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Steve Pavlina Tags: Abundance Relationships Values Source Type: blogs

Conscious Growth Club Has 108 Members for Year 5
Conscious Growth Club had its best annual launch ever last week. We now have 108 members in the club for Year 5, including Rachelle and me. That a 20% increase from last year. We only open for new members one week each year. We’ll open again for Year 6 in the last week of April 2022. From now till then, we’ll be serving and engaging with the CGCers who decided to share this journey together. I love that each year in CGC is a different experience because there’s a different mix of people each year. CGC co-creatively adapts to the people who join. I think CGC Year 5 is likely to be our most co-creativ...
Source: Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog - May 4, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Steve Pavlina Tags: Abundance Relationships Source Type: blogs

Amplify ’ s 63 Lessons Are Fully Published
All 63 audio lessons for the new Amplify course on creative flow are now fully published. So if you did one lesson per day, you could do a major deep dive into creativity over the next 9 weeks. Many people have now finished this course and found it life-changing. The recordings of all 8 weekly live Zoom calls to support the course members are published as well. I will be adding some additional bonuses to the course this month, but otherwise all the core material is fully complete. This is a super in-depth course and highly original. It has been transformational for many people so far. The feedback on it has been s...
Source: Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog - May 4, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Steve Pavlina Source Type: blogs

Today (May 1st) Is Last Day to Join CGC for 2021
Today (May 1st) is your last day to decide if you’ll join us for Year 5 in Conscious Growth Club. Presently there are 86 members from 20+ countries enrolled in CGC for Year 5 (fantastic!), and this will surely go up today. You can see the current sign-up count at the top of the CGC Invitation Page. I know that many people carefully consider this decision right up until the final hours – last year more than 25% of CGC members enrolled during the last 7 hours on May 1st. Presently we have about 10 hours to go, so you still have time to decide. I wrote a new blog post this morning to help you m...
Source: Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog - May 1, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Steve Pavlina Source Type: blogs

How to Make an Aligned Decision About Joining CGC
Today, May 1st, is the deadline for deciding whether to join Conscious Growth Club for our 5th year together. Last year on this same day, more than 25% of the people who joined or renewed CGC for Year 4 did so in the last 7 hours of the day (between 5pm and midnight Pacific time), so it wouldn’t be surprising if we see a big surge in sign-ups today. That sort of thing has happened with every launch we’ve done. For many people this is a big decision. CGC doesn’t have a monthly membership. It’s year-long experience. And there’s that $1997 price that invites people to think carefully about ...
Source: Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog - May 1, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Steve Pavlina Tags: Abundance Announcements Source Type: blogs

Conscious Growth Club Q & A Call (Video)
Today we hosted and recorded a live Q&A call for people who are interested in Conscious Growth Club, so they could ask me and other members any questions they have about it. I’m sharing the recording for the benefit of anyone who couldn’t attend the live call. I think this video will give you a clearer sense of what CGC is like inside, so you can make the right decision about whether you’d like to join us this year. Be sure to decide by the end of the day on May 1st if you want to be a member of CGC this year. This is the only week of the year during which we open CGC for new members to jo...
Source: Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog - April 29, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Steve Pavlina Tags: Announcements Video Source Type: blogs