Personal Development for Smart People: The Conscious Pursuit of Personal Growth, by Steve Pavlina is not a manual. Unlike many self help books, it does not give you what the author thinks are step by step instructions to make money, be happy, or be healthy. What I found the book offered was a very practical foundation in a philosophy of personal development and practical guidance into how to apply that philosophy to your personal life.

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My readers, it has been a few weeks since I last posted. I know, that is not good for a blogger, but I have needed to take a break from blogging to refresh my perspective and get some ideas for blog posts.
Hopefully not many of you have abandoned me, but I just needed to get [...]

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“Don’t Panic.”
Coming into a Toastmasters club for the first time is hard. There are a lot of new people you have never met before and they want you to get in front of them and do what?
Jump ahead two weeks. You enjoyed yourself at the first meeting, you turned in your application and now what?
For [...]

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Introductions set the mood for the speaker. It gives the audience a chance to absorb some general information that might set up the speaker’s speech. Most importantly it establishes social proof of the credibility of the speaker. It might be enough to be up there speaking, but there is something psychological about someone else talking about why you are qualified to be up there. It is even more powerful if the audience knows and trusts the person giving the introduction.

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My article today comes from sitting in quite a few meetings the over the past few weeks. During that time, I have experienced something that drives me crazy; people not checking their PowerPoint slide deck before their presentation. What a show stopper!

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