Articles

Body and health

25 Ways to Get your Ayurveda on (6 minute read)
7 Sneaky Reasons we get Sabotaged by a Low Mood (plus the Solutions) (4 minute read)
Why we need to Calm Down to Wake Up – the Nervousness/Awareness link (6 minute read)
9 Unconventional Ways to Improve Energy Levels (7 minute read)
An Unorthodox Approach to Weight Loss (13 minute read)
Yoga Cheat Sheet (7 minute read)
What the Hey, Whey? The Case For Plant-Based Protein Supplements (13 minute read)
The Benefit to Being Strategically Inefficient (it’s N.E.A.T) (5 minute read)
How to Exercise for Optimal Health and Longevity – a Guide (14 minute read)
150 of the Best Self-Quantification Tools (Apps, Sites and Trackers) (12 minute read)
Can Bone Broth Really Lower Your Anxiety (and Make You More Attractive)? (8-minute read)
How to get a Bad Ass ‘Biome – a Practical Guide to Activating your Gut Microbiota (15 minute read)
Why Kefir Is NOT The New Kale (It’s Better!) (9 minute read)
Using Superfoods for Self-Improvement – a Guide to Eating the Most Dynamic Foods on the Planet (13 minute read)
Sunshine, Vitamin D and Sunscreen – What You Need to Know (11 minute read)
20 Ideas for Maximizing your Healthspan (Lessons from AACL 2015) (14 minute read)
A How-To Guide to the Perfect Nap [Infographic] (12 minute read)
An Integrative Guide to Growing Younger (a whopping 36 minute read! Evidentially growing younger is a time-consuming business)
The Essential Guide to Nutritional Supplements – the Extras (19 minute read)
The Essential Guide to Nutritional Supplements – the Basics (19 minute read)
Detoxing – What’s The Deal? (9 minute read)
9 Unconventional Ways to Improve Energy Levels (7 minute read)
9 Inspiring Health Transformations (And The Common Thread Linking Them All) (9 minute read)
The Real Reason Going from Fat to Fabulous Supercharged My Love Life (It Wasn’t the Biceps) (7 minute read)
Hanger Management (7 minute read)
Are you getting enough Vitamins of the Air? The lowdown on Ions, Air Ionizers and Salt Lamps (7 minute read)
Why D-Mannose is the only natural remedy for bladder infections you’ll ever need (I promise) (7 minute read)
Healthy Meat-Eating (a Guide for Carnivores) (12 minute read)
What is Healthy Alcohol Consumption? (Infographic) (13 minute read)
Natural Solutions for 12 Common Conditions (15 minute read)
Is Your Sandwich Making You Stupid? – with Max Lugavere (21 minute read)
The Idiot’s Guide to Smarter Coffee Drinking (12 minute read)
The 8 Real Reasons You’re Tired (Including that you’re Miserable) (10 minute read)
150 of the Best Self-Quantification Tools (Apps, Sites and Trackers) (12 minute read)

Creativity

When to Seriously Consider Starting a Blog (7 Blogging Benefits) (7 minute read)
A Complete Guide to Developing your Creativity and Creative Thinking (9 minute read)

Emotional skills

How to Put your Feelings into Words, and Express your Emotions (6 minute read)
How to Process your Emotions (7 minute read)
How we Crack our Addictions to Procrastination, Negative thinking & Critical Self-Talk (8 minute read)
Handling Shame – a Shift in Focus (5 minute read)
Some Mindfulness Practices for Managing Uncertainty (5 minute read)
How to Develop Greater Self-Control (7 minute read)
How to Stop being so Oversensitive (4 minute read)
Can Switchwords Really Help us Hack our Subconscious Mind? (8 minute read)
Some thoughts on Guilt, Gratitude & Forgiveness (5 minute read)

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Life lessons

30 Life Lessons from Author, Seth Godin (9 minute read)
Advice to my Younger Self (4 minute read)
Unlocking a Meaningful Life in 4 Proven Steps (a Closer look) (7 minute read)
7 Ways to Avoid the Common Life Regrets (9 minute read)
How to have a Meaningful Life (15 Things to say Yes to) (9 minute read)
The 3 Kinds of People to Take Advice from (5 minute read)
5 Steps to a more Balanced Life (4 minute read)
How to Apply Absurdism Philosophy, and Improve Your Life (6 minute read)

Mindfulness, meditation and yoga

The 10 Stages of Meditation, according to Culadasa (9 minute read)
Using the ‘Near Enemies’ Wisdom – An Insightful Concept from Buddhism (4 minute read)
How to Better Manage Desire through Practicing Detachment (5 minute read)
3 Signs you’re Finally Taming your Monkey Mind (4 minute read)
3 Things I Learned from the Minimalism Documentary (4 minute read)
A Guide to Handling Change Effectively (3 minute read)
What happened during my 100 hour yoga challenge (5 minute read)
How, When and Why to use the ‘Beginner’s Mind’ Practice (5 minute read)

Motivation and productivity

How to Stay Motivated and Accomplish Anything (7 minute read)
How to Eat a Frog: 21 Techniques to Increase Productivity (7 minute read)
How to Stop Kidding Yourself and Get Stuff Done (5 minute read)
Why Self-Experimenting is Sexy (3 Health Experiments You Need to Try Now) (5 minute read)
Why I Eat the Same Meals, Have Few Friends and Use Evernote for Everything (8 minute read)
3 Rules of Deep Work, according to Author Cal Newport (9 minute read)
How to Change Habits – a Step-by-Step Guide (13 minute read)
How to Set Goals and Actually Achieve Them (6 minute read)
How to Get More Love and Money (6 minute read)
15 Times You Became Your Own Hero (5 minute read)
70 Twitter Accounts That Make Us Healthier, Happier And More Productive (11 minute read)
16 Ways to Think Smarter (10 minute read)
The Rewards of being Loyal to Something (Anything) (4 minute read)

Must-know models

How to Get the Most from Myers Briggs (Some Do’s and Don’t’s) (9 minute read)
Does Lasting Happiness really Lie in Using our Signature Strengths? (6 minute read)
(How ‘Sparketypes’ can help you know what you are doing with your life (1 minute read)
How to Keep your Good Life Buckets Overflowing (30 things) (7 minute read)

Playing with perception

5 Energy Experiments that Prove Reality Really is Malleable (5 minute read)
How Successful People Self-Steward – a Crash Course in Creative Visualization (8 minute read)
How to Slow Down Time Perception (and Stop Being so Afraid to Die) (5 minute read)

Personal growth essentials

How to Define your Values using a Values Clarification Exercise (10 minute read)
How to Practice ‘Responsibility’ and Why that’s even Important (6 minute read)
A Busy Person’s Guide to Overcoming Limiting Beliefs (12 minute read, ironically)
How to Love and Like Yourself (8 minute read)
How to Accept Yourself as You Are (5 minute read)
How to Become a Happier Introvert (10 minute read)
How to Find your Passion & Purpose (12 minute read)
How to be Alone and be Alright with it (the dying art of Solitude) (6 minute read)
The Remarkable Benefits of having Breath Awareness (5 minute read)
How to Cultivate a Healthy Competitive Instinct (9 minute read)
How to Develop your Strengths and Be your Best Self (14 minute read)
How to Realize your Intuitive Abilities, as an Intuitive Learner (14 minute read)
12 of the most Powerful Personal Qualities (and How to Develop them) (8 minute read)
How and Why to Develop a Pervasively Grateful Mindset (10 minute read)
A Realistic Guide to Building Courage in Life (7 minute read)
Do you Have a Growth Mindset yet? (6 minute read)
5 Lessons in Generating Inner Magnetism (5 minute read)
How to Have Confidence and Believe in Yourself, All the Way Down (7 minute read)
How to Value yourself Highly in Life (or ‘Have Self-Esteem’) (5 minute read)

More personal growth essentials

A Guide to Practicing ‘Acceptance’ (12 minute read)
How Practicing Mindfulness Changes Your life (in Non-Vague Terms) (10 minute read)
How to Manage the Negative Aspects of your Ego, in Clear Terms (11 minute read)
How to Deal with ‘the Shadow’ (11-minute read)
The Truth about “Having Boundaries” (6 minute read)
7 Practices that Improve your Personal Power in any Situation (8 minute read)
7 Habits of Awesome, Authentic People (7 minute read)
How to Make a Consistently Great First Impression (6 minute read)

Psychological theory

How to Figure out your Primary Psychological Defense Mechanism (8 minute read)
8 Things You Need to Know about the Graves Model (or Spiral Dynamics theory) (9 minute read)
5 ways to tell if you’re a ‘Highly Sensitive Person’ (4 minute read)
A Guide to the 7 Feminine Archetypes (7 minute read)
A 101 on the Big Five personality theory (4 minute read)
5 Terms that Help you Understand and Manage Anxiety and Anxious Thoughts (5 minute read)
10 Things you Need to Know about Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) (5 minute read)
5 Things You Might Need to Teach Yourself if You Had a Narcissistic Parent (7 minute read)

Random personal pontifications

I’ve Arrived (4 minute read)
Fuck Yes (Enough) (an unusually sweary 8 minutes)
‘Is it Friday yet?’ (5 minute read)
‘Now I Know Why You Did That’ (4 minute read)
Save Yourself (the World will take Care of Itself) (3 minute read)
‘I Just Haven’t Met the Right Person’ (5 minute read)
‘Just Do The Next Right Thing’ (4 minute read)
‘I’m Not Sure Why I’m Telling You This’ (5 minute read)
‘How Do You Feel About Me?’ (3 minute read)
‘I don’t know whether I should be doing this’ (4 minute read)
‘Why Am I Here?’ (3 minute read)

Relationships and communication

A Short Guide to ‘Transference’ (5 minute read)
What’s ‘Nonviolent Communication’? (11 minute read)
How to Deal with Jealousy (6 minute read)
A Guide to the 4 Love Styles (12 minute read)
What Your Confrontation Style and Criticism-Handling Tell Me About You (a controversial 7 minute read)
14 Things You Need to Know about Adult Attachment Theory (8 minute read)
How to Stop being Mr or Miss Independent (and be Interdependent, Instead) (6 minute read)
The Four Fearsome Hurdles in Relationships (and Life) (4 minute read)
6 Practices for Honoring Heartache and Leaning into Loneliness (6 minute read)
How to Keep the Intimacy in your Long Term Relationship (5 minute read)
How to deal with Infidelity in a Relationship (18 minute read)
7 Ways to Stay in Love (4 minute read)
How I apply Personality Psychology in my Relationship (4 minute read)
Your Romantic Chemistry isn’t Mysterious, it’s Accountable (5 minute read)
How to Get over a Rejection (5 minute read)
Overcoming Modern Dating Challenges that are Unique to Gens X and Y (8 minute read)
The Truth about Infatuation (and How to Get over Infatuation) (4 minute read)
How to Fall Out of Love with Someone (10 Tips) (5 minute read)
40 things I’d tell my 20-year-old self about Love (6 minute read)
On Finding your Tribe (the Real Friends with Benefits) (6 minute read)

Reviews of books/courses/products

34 Personal Growth/Self-Development Books to Read ASAP (9 minute read)
5 Life-Changing Ideas from ‘A New Earth’ (5 minute read)
Joe Dispenza’s Progressive Workshop – Review (7 minute read)
32 things you’d know if you could be bothered reading the Untethered Soul (6 minute read)
8 Times Cheryl Strayed’s ‘Dear Sugar’ Column totally nailed Love and Life (8 minute read)
7 Everyday Words that Poet David Whyte Made Hauntingly Beautiful (5 minute read)
A Short and Snappy Guide to Becoming an ‘Essentialist’ (4 minute read)
Review of ‘Szen Zone: Reaching a State of Positive Change’ (feat. interview with Gary Szenderski) (10 minute read)
Do you need Nootropics-infused Coffee in your life? (a Review of Kimera Koffee) (8 minute read)
10 Reasons why I Love Four Sigmatic’s Mushroom Coffee (8 minute read)
10 Ways I Benefited from Doing the Landmark Forum (9 minute read)

Self-awareness and reflection

53 Ways to Know Yourself (5 minute read)
How to Figure out your True Motives or Intentions (7 minute read)
Overcoming Self-Deception (4 minute read)
7 Questions to Ask Yourself if You want to Stop Wasting Time (5 minute read)
Why Self-Knowledge is Hard to Come by and What to Do about It (9 minute read)
The Search for Self-Awareness (5 minute read)
20 Powerful Questions to Ask Yourself Daily (6 minute read)
7 Awesome Self-Awareness Systems that are not Myers-Briggs (8 minute read)
20 Clarity-Giving Perspectives on Life Purpose (11 minute read)
Is Facebook Making You Miserable? (a happy 6 minute read)
8 Body Language ‘Tells’ that Show you’re Bored, Anxious, or Possibly Lying (5 minute read)
How to tell if your Escapism habit become Avoidance (4 minute read)

The spiritual dimension

David Hawkins’ Map of Consciousness – Crazy, or Crazy Insightful? (9 minute read)
Do-you-even open your Chakras, bro? (How your Pain Body is Limiting your Life) (6 minute read)
From Thought to Thing – The 7 Stages of Manifestation (5 minute read)
The Art of Creating Meaningful Coincidences (a.k.a Synchronicity) (19 minute read)
This is How and Why you Benefit from Prayer (even if you’re an Atheist) (6 minute read)
The Art of Grace (3 minute read)
A Brief Tour of the 5 Kleshas according to Patanjali (6 minute read)

Travel

How to Use Travel for Personal Growth (9 minute read)

Uniquely human dilemmas

How to get out of your head without Sex, Drugs and Alcohol (some thoughts on Overthinking) (5 minute read)
Overcoming Scarcity Mindset (7 minute read)
Could you be being too Optimistic? (6 minute read)
How to Trust that ‘It’ll All Work Out’, without Being Overly Passive (6 minute read)
Overcoming Insecurity using Self-Discovery (4 minute read)
The Art of Managing Money (a Self-Awareness Approach) (13 minute read)
How to Develop a Willingness to Change (3 minute read)
Is Self-Entitled Thinking Harming your Happiness? (5 minute read)
How to Avoid taking things Personally (4 minute read)
How to get yourself through a Funk or an Existential Crisis (6 minute read)
Some thoughts on how to handle your next Existential Crisis (6 minute read)
5 Questions to Ask Yourself to Cut Through and Handle Stress (2 minute read)
Read this When you Feel F.O.M.O (Fear Of Missing Out) (6 minute read)
Should you Stay or Should you Go? (7 Questions) (5 minute read)
How to have a Sane Christmas – Thoughts on Handling Holidays-related Malaise (7 minute read)
What to do if you Lost your Faith in Humanity (4 minute read)
20 Habits that Make your (and Everybody Else’s) Life Joyless (6 minute read)
Don’t be a Jerk (10 Tactics for Taming your Inner Trump) (8 minute read)
How to Burn your Bridges with People and in Life (4 minute read)
How to Design an Amazing Future (thoughts on Setting New Years Resolutions) (5 minute read)
How Achievable is the Early Retirement Goal? (5 minute read)
What to Do when You’re feeling Irritated with People and Life (5 minute read)
How your Birth Order MIGHT Influence your Personality (4 minute read)
How to Treat Your Endless Opinions… about Every little Thing (4 minute read)