Which personal development blogs do you read?

9 years ago

I think Pavlina is one of those rare but highly successful examples in the online world. To put the success of his website into perspective, he recently closed down his forum. It had over 45,000 members, maybe a quarter of that list active, but he shut it down. Why? Because 45,000 members/visits was actually less than a days worth of traffic to his site. So to him there was little use to run the forum as an aspect of his site. Just WOW.

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CEOArob

9 years ago

Originally Posted by heavysm

I think Pavlina is one of those rare but highly successful examples in the online world. To put the success of his website into perspective, he recently closed down his forum. It had over 45,000 members, maybe a quarter of that list active, but he shut it down. Why? Because 45,000 members/visits was actually less than a days worth of traffic to his site. So to him there was little use to run the forum as an aspect of his site. Just WOW.

Yeah. I remember that another one of his reason was that he said the bandwidth from the forum was just eating up resources.

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But still, the dude is just a rockstar in the personal development world in regards to blogging. I don't necessarily agree with all of his content, but he did take his ideas and make alot of money by putting them through the medium of blogging.

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joefizz

9 years ago

Nice thread...I absolutely adore Personal Development.

My absolute favourite in this arena is 'The Daddy'... Brian Tracy

I have followed him for years...his blog is on his main page...

Llwyddiant!

Joe

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StoneP31

9 years ago

I read Early To Rise sometimes

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Techology

9 years ago

DerekSivers dot org is a great place to go. Any of Jim Rohn's videos on YouTube will do tons of good too.

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Sodaware

9 years ago

@Techology - Can't believe I left dereksivers.org off the list. His blog is excellent.

@heavysm - Steve also ran a very popular message board for game developers many years ago. He seemed to have a knack for building communities with a very high signal to noise ratio. One lesson I think everyone can learn from his blog is to write articles that will still be useful in 10 years, rather than writing reactions to current trends.

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BeauJustin

9 years ago

I found all those blogs you mentioned above by hanging out at 9rules. It's an article hub for some of the best blogs on the internet.

That's also the same place I found Comics, Quizzes, and Stories - The Oatmeal so the content is varied to say the least.

. Still tons of motivational, how-to, good living type stuff there.

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sabinavarga

9 years ago

Early to Rise is a good resource.

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heavysm 9 years ago

Timeless content may be the most difficult to write, but Pavlina proved it's the strongest you can have. Just look at some of the most popular articles he wrote X number of years ago. Some still rank very highly in google. And he doesn't backlink or promote at all. It's all natural word-of-mouth promotion. That style is probably the most difficult to execute from the countless that i have seen.
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Sodaware

9 years ago

@BeauJustin - I'd completely forgotten about 9rules too. Lots of good stuff there.

@sabinavarga - Thanks for the suggestion!

@heavysm - Steve was pretty influential in other circles when he switched to blogging about personal development, which certainly helped spread the word. Sadly I'm not as gifted with words as he is, but I always try to focus on long term value when blogging. It's difficult, but that kind of content always performs the best.

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Jason Wolfe

9 years ago

Zen Habits > *

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Chuck Sterling

9 years ago

there are 2 really good ones

1st one is marcandangel.com
2nd one is millionaireat24.com

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harry39

9 years ago

Positivley Positive
Tiny Budda
LifeHack
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Evocess

9 years ago

I really loving reading articles about personal development.
I see Steve Pavlina's blog as the best personal development blog for me.

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Nimbus 8 years ago

I've started following this one:

JollyGuru.com

Not much content yet, but what is there is great so far!
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Alexandre Valois

8 years ago

Steve Pavlina and Zen Habits are my top. 4-Hour Workweek was a staple but I lost interest when it took a turn towards rubbing shoulders with other startup biz owners rather than actual experimentation.

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mikehuff 8 years ago

Well, this oughta eat up the next hour of my time! Personal Dev stuff is awesome for motivation. At the root, basically it all says "Grow, and get your ass to work!" but we need that.
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Maya2066

8 years ago

Thanks for sharing. The Four Hour Workweek one is picking my curiosity. LOL.

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Mousumi

8 years ago

I hope you all have heard of Mark and Angel hack Life
This is the best blog on self-improvement and motivation.

Another one is Zen Pencils an innovative blog started by a young blogger

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humboldt84

8 years ago

Stevepavlina.com is a must read! I have read everything on his site so I mostly just check it once a week to see if anything is new or maybe to reread some old stuff.
48days.com/blog is Dan Miller's blog. It is full of motivational tips.
I also really enjoy Seth Godin's blog: sethgodin.typepad.com/ it is always useful material.