Self Management

Blog Posts on Personal Development

Personal development for entrepreneurs is the conscious pursuit of personal growth by expanding self-awareness, learning new things, improving skills, and managing our own emotions and behaviors. As we develop as entrepreneurs and learn to manage ourselves, we gain the ability to prioritize goals, decide what must be done, and to hold ourselves accountable to complete the necessary actions. Be sure that your personal development journey doesn’t wind up in an endless search for happiness, calm, clarity, and perfection. Learn about your personal strengths and weaknesses and then use that knowledge to change your behavior accordingly. Personal development is a lifelong pursuit.

Behavior

• Are You Responding or Reacting?

Clarity

• How to Gain Clarity and Boost Your Life
• 70 Awesome Coaching Questions for Managers Using the GROW Model

Discipline

• How Bad Do You Want It? (video)
• 2014 Commencement Address – Admiral William H. McRaven (video)
• 13 Reasons Business Owners Struggle

Failure

• 11 Famous Failures that Will Inspire You to Success
• The 12 Dysfunctions of an Entrepreneur

Fear

• Jim Carrey – Inspiring Commencement Speech Maharishi University (video)

Getting Things Done

• Beginners Guide to Task Management

Habits

• James Clear The Habits Guide: How to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones
• How to Build the 25 Habits of People who are Happy, Healthy and Successful
• How to be Successful by Giving Up these Eight Habits

Happiness

• The 3 Biggest Lies We Tell Ourselves About Life, Happiness, and Success
• How To Be Happy In Today’s Crazy World: 3 Secrets From Research
• This is why successful people are unhappy in middle age — and what to do about it

Learning

• Seven Steps To Learn and Master Anything As Quickly As Possible
• How to Become World-Class at Anything

Mindset

• 7 Psychological Equations to Empower Your Business Mind
• Achieve Self-Mastery and You Will Never Settle for Less in Business
• These 7 Lessons From the Ancient Stoics Are Relevant for Entrepreneurs Today
• 13 Things You Should Give Up If You Want To Be Successful

Motivation

• Compilation of Motivational Speeches (video – 1 hour, 4 min)
• The Secret to Self-Motivation (video  22m)

Networking

• Don’t Just Network — Build Your ‘Meaningful Network’ to Maximize Your Impact

Perseverance

• Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement Speech 2005

Personal Growth

• How To Consistently Align Your Actions With What You Want In Life
• How to Unlearn Limiting Mindsets and Become the Best Version of Yourself
• The Future of Self

Procrastination

• Asian Efficiency on Productivity
• Why Procrastinators Procrastinate
• Ted Talk – Inside the Mind of a Master Procrastinator | Tim Urban (video 14m)

Productivity

• Manage Your Energy, Not Your Time
• The 10 Mindsets of Highly Productive People
• The Productivity Guide: Time Management Strategies That Work

Resilience

• How To Be Resilient: 8 Steps To Success When Life Gets Hard

Self Awareness

• The Three Levels of Self-Awareness

Skills

• 5 Essential Self Management Skills

Stress Management

• 63 Steps to Survive the Worst Moments of Your Life

Time Management

• How To Achieve Your 10-Year Plan In The Next 6 Months

Questions

• The Secret to Giving Advice that Matters

Blogs We Follow

Each of these business blogs will give you great ideas and insights on self management.

Life

• Barking Up the Wrong Tree
• Postanly

Diverse Topics

• Medium

Best of Lists

• Best of James Clear
• Best of Jonathon Fields