44 Essential Personal Development Posts from ’08
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December 30th, 2008 / 
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2008 has been by far the best year of my life. I have hundreds of stories to tell, tons of new friends and I’m rounding up the experience of a life-time over here in South Africa. I started PluginID around 6 months into 2008 and it’s amazing how quickly time goes by when you work hard and enjoy the journey. It honestly feels like yesterday when I registered the domain.
Since being heavily doused in the ‘Personal Development‘ niche, I’ve came across some amazing people, blogs and content. To end of the year with PluginID readers, I wanted to share some of the best content I’ve read in the last 12 months based on a number of different topics.
I know some of these sites won’t like to be labeled with the term ‘Personal Development’ so take each site for what you will. However, labeled or not, the following blogs have consistently produced brilliant content and I’ve picked out some of my favorites to highlight below.
Without further ado, here are the 44 Essential Personal Development Posts from 2008…
Health
How to Get in Lean Shape with Little or No Equipment – ZenHabits
Beginner’s Guide to Meditation – PluginID
How to Lose 20lbs of Fat in 30 Days (Without Any Exercise) – Four-Hour Workweek
Beginner’s Guide to Yoga – Ririan Project
7 Reasons Why Trusting Yourself Will Improve Your Health – Billionaire Woman
Identity
120 Ways to Boost Your Brain Power – Litemind
How to Be a Man – Steve Pavlina
Success by Elimination: Removing Self-Limiting Beliefs – PluginID
10 Ways to Instantly Build Self-Confidence – Pick the Brain
5 Ways to Plug Into Your Identity – PluginID
How to Make the Mind Go Quiet, Permanently – You Are Truly Loved
How to Love Yourself in 17 Ways – Attraction Mind Map
Income
20 Ways to Trim Your Budget And Survive the Hard Times Ahead – My SuperCharged Life
How to Thrive During Uncertain Times – 6 Figure Career Management
How to Ask for and Get a Raise Like a Man – The Art of Manliness
5 Expenses to Cut Right Now if You’re in Debt – Consumerist
40 Ways to Make Money on the Internet – Dumb Little Man
20+ Free Passive Income Resources – Life Optimizer
How to Automate Your Online Income (Series) – Life Reboot
Recent Layoffs & Job Losses: What to Do – Yes to Me
7 Spiritual Habits to Aquire Greater Wealth – We the Change
Life
30 Fundamentals of a Wonderful Life – The Change Blog
9 Ways to Develop Your Intelligence at Any Age – Goodlife Zen
16 Things I Wish They Had Taught Me in School – Positivity Blog
Be Who You Were Born to Be – Marc & Angel
54 Inspirational Quotes to Jumpstart Your Day – Alex Shalman
Michael Jordan’s Top 10 Secrets to Reaching the Top – Dumb Little Man
33 of Life’s Most Powerful Lessons – Illuminated Mind
99 Powerful Questions to Ask to Turbocharge Your Life – Marelisa
Mark Twain’s 3 Thoughts on Topics You’d Rather Not Discuss – Success Soul
The World is How You Choose to See It – Life Should Feel Good
How to Balance Life Effortlessly – Avani Mehta
Productivity
How to Gain Clarity in Your Life In One Day – ThinkSimpleNow
The Ultimate Guide to Motivation: How to Achieve Any Goal – ZenHabits
15 Time Boxing Strategies to Get Things Done – Litemind
The Art of Spending Minutes to Save Hours – Marc & Angel
21 Surefire Ways to Stay Motivated – Steve Olson
7 Ways to Grow the Action Habit – Pick the Brain
Inbox Heaven: The Ultimate Email Setup – Put Things Off
Social
20 Ways to Attack Shyness – ThinkSimpleNow
How to Become a Great Public Speaker – Dumb Little Man
How to Improve Your Social Skills – Positivity Blog
Why Are Women So Strange and Men So Weird? – Tellin it Like it Is
How to Give and Receive Advice (With Minimal Casualties) – Hunter Nuttall
Update: My friend Alex recently put together a post which collected ‘43 Memorable Posts from the Blogosphere‘. This wasn’t a motivation for my post but I’m all for sharing great content.
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Wow Glen, you’ve put together quite a powerhouse list here! Looks like a powerful group of posts to read through. Thank you for including one of my articles in the collection alongside these fine folks. =)
You are welcome Ariel, keep up the good work!
This is fantastic bunch of resources! I am honored that you included my article on surviving hard times. I’ve read several of these, but there are some that slipped by me. This is a great way to wrap up 2008!
Thanks Jeff, I look forward to your 2009 content!
Glad that 2008 was such an awesome year for you. Thanks for the link love.
You are welcome Shaun, keep up the good work!
This is an excellent list Glenn, thank you for including me. I see a couple of blogs I haven’t visited before; I’ll visit them as soon as I get back from the gym. Happy New Year!
Thank you for the mention. I find it amusing that my post scored “income” category — I’d like to think I’m doing good for my goal to unify spiritual growth and worldly success.
Happy New Year to you and your readers, here is to our increasing prosperity and joy!
What a wonderful way to wrap up 2008! There seems to be a lot of terrific posts here. Thanks for including one of mine. BTW, I’m looking forward to reading your ebook How to Make Friends, as soon as I can set aside some time for it.
Hi Hunter,
I’m currently working on updating it so you might want to wait a while
Hi Glen,
There are some great articles listed here. Thanks for mentioning both The Change Blog and Pick The Brain!
Peter
Hi Glen
That’s a great list
Thank you for mentioning my post on thriving through uncertainty alongside such great articles and boggers
best wishes for 2009
Sital
Howdy Glen,
This is an ultimate list you have here to end 2008 with, good job! Love the life articles that doesn’t even have to pertain to business, nice find!
Wow Glen this is an awesome list. Thank you so much for mentioning my article. I think this was a great way to wind down 2008, and will certainly have some good reading to catch up on!
You are welcome Nathalie, I have quite a bit of reading to do myself
Glen,
Guess I have some reading to do. I missed a hell of a lot of these!
This is a great list! Thanks for putting it together. I’ve read a couple of these but not near enough so I guess I’ve got my reading cut out for me this weekend.
Hehe, you are welcome Lena!
Great post Glen. I’ll be sure to check out these articles, some of the titles look like interesting reads.
I wonder where the inspiration came to you to write up a post like this Glen. Hmmm
The inspiration? It just came from my head to be completely honest, I often do similar style posts in the internet marketing niche on my other blog. I take it you wrote something like this recently?
If so, I didn’t steal any ideas, I started writing this literally 2 minutes after I thought of doing it
I found it curious that I had a post titled ’43 posts from the blogosphere’ to end 2008 with and a week later here was 44 personal development posts on PluginID. I had a laugh that the number was 44 and it seemed quite coincidental. I just found it amusing.
I’ve just checked back to your site now and remember reading it. 100% definitely not an inspiration for my post. I just wanted to round up all my bookmarks in one place, it is coincidental that it ended up at 44.
I don’t think any of the links are the same. That is just what happens when there are millions of blogs out there, people are going to post similar content.
Great list. I’m impressed by how well you follow the blogosphere. That’s a legitimate accomplishment in its own right.
I read the, “How to Be a Man” post by Steve thanks to your list. I was pretty much blown away by it. Thanks for sharing.
This is quite a list you’ve compiled Glen. Even though some of these sites are new to me, there is still quite a bit of reading to catch up on. Glad to hear you’re enjoying your life’s journey. The best to you in 2009.
Thanks for the great list. Twittered!
Hey bud, great list!!
Please do consider my site when you make an updated list
AJ Kumar
Great list of articles!
Thanks for putting it together.
-Dustin