Posts by Steve Pavlina
How to Control Your Own Schedule
Sometimes people use their job as their blanket excuse for not being in control of their schedule. “Oh… I can’t because I have a job,” is the main reason people give for not being able to do 30-day trials, experience extended travel, and do immersive deep dives. However, during periods without a job, these same people often switch…
Read MoreHow to Raise Your Financial Vibration
In this article, I’ll share some practical tips for raising your financial vibration and expanding your financial comfort zone. If you dislike the term vibration, don’t worry about it — it’s arbitrary anyway. Feel free to substitute other words like acuity, prowess, intelligence, or even results. Over time we tend to fall into financial patterns that generate a fairly narrow…
Read MoreHow to Tip From Scarcity to Abundance
Many people struggle to shift from a scarcity-based lifestyle to an abundance-based lifestyle. In this article, I’ll share some of the shifts that people have experienced shortly before they reach their abundance tipping point, with the intention of helping you reach your own abundance tipping point sooner. Reclaim Your Dignity When people are in scarcity,…
Read MoreDo a Full Day’s Work in 90 Minutes
The typical American office worker only does about 90 minutes of real work per workday. The rest of each workday is largely spent on distractions like reading the news, Web surfing, socializing with coworkers, snacking, taking coffee breaks, shuffling papers around, processing irrelevant emails, needless delay tactics, playing games, and daydreaming. Moreover, American office workers…
Read MoreWhat Fake Progress Looks Like
One of the big traps in life is believing you’re making progress when there’s no actual evidence of it. It’s easy to keep learning and studying new ideas, methods, and techniques that don’t improve your results — while convincing yourself that you must be making progress simply because you’ve invested a lot of time and…
Read MoreEarning $10,000 Per Month
Some people wonder about this $10,000 per month figure. How could it be possible for them, especially when no one in their line of work makes that much money? Since this is a goal I’ve achieved and maintained for many years (and in different fields), let me share some simple realities about earning $10,000 or more per month.…
Read MoreBusiness is a Social Game
If you want to be an effective entrepreneur, I’d say you should have at least 10 good friends who are already successful entrepreneurs. If that sounds like a lot to you, I’d say that something is very wrong with your mindset. Few entrepreneurs succeed in isolation. Business is a social game. I’d estimate that about…
Read MoreHow to Get Your Life Back
In yesterday’s essay I shared with you some of the strategies I used to complete a 4 year college degree in just 3 semesters. Today I’m going to show you my strategies to recover wasted time and get your life back. Let’s begin… Triage ruthlessly Get rid of everything that wastes your time. Use the trash can liberally. Apply the…
Read MoreHow One Entrepreneur Finished a 4 Year College Degree In 3 Semesters
When going to college many years ago, I decided to challenge myself and see if I could graduate in only three semesters, taking the same classes that people would normally take over a four-year period. This article explains in detail all the time management techniques I used to successfully pull this off. In order to…
Read MoreSpeed Up!
On my first attempt at college, I tried going at normal student speed. I found my classes boring and uninspiring. The goal of graduating in four years seemed distant and too much out of my control. The whole experience was pretty depressing, despite the fact that I was attending the number one school in the…
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