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This is a collection of writings by the world famous author Steve Pavlina. The following topics are contained in this audio recording: BEING AN ACHIEVER, DO A FULL DAYS WORK IN 90 MINUTES, CONTROLLING YOUR OWN SCHEDULE, TRIPLE YOUR PERSONAL PRODUCTIVITY, PLEASE DON'T INTERRUPT, PRIME YOUR BRAIN FOR A PERMANENT PERFORMANCE GAIN IN A FEW MINUTES.

It’s amazing how much time and energy people waste stressing over money, reacting to financial setbacks as if money is life itself. What’s the point of playing the money game? Is it to amass a fortune? Of course not. You’re going to lose it all when you die anyway. The point is to enjoy the experience, have fun, and grow from it. The money game isn’t your enemy. It’s your teacher.

Neurological imbalances can show up as psychological, behavioral, and motivational problems. If we try to treat these problems at the psychological or behavioral levels, however, we can’t effectively cure them because the problems have physical causes, such as a buildup of toxicity in the brain.

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 are among the world’s most productive. In many other countries, even less work gets done each day. This stat hasn't changed much in decades.

This is a collection of writings by the world famous author Steve Pavlina. The following topics are contained in this audio recording: HOW TO STOP COMPLAINING, REMOVE A LIMITING BELIEF IN ABOUT 20 MINUTES, HOW TO SQUASH NEGATIVE THOUGHT PATTERNS, OVERCOMING NEWS ADDICTION, CLARITY, UPGRADING YOUR MIND.

Someone asked about the best way to handle competition. How do you ensure that your efforts will pay off instead of merely jumping into a giant pool with everyone else and being unable to stand out? My strategy for dealing with competition is the same no matter what field I work in. I’m sure you can apply it to your particular field as well, although there’s a good chance you won’t want to, since it isn’t easy.

I had already dropped TV news and newspapers, but I still had the habit of checking Yahoo News or CNN every day or two, so for 30 days I decided to drop all news sources and go totally news-free. In this audiobook I'll share what I learned from this experiment. It went well enough that I intend to remain free of the habit of daily news checking.

One of the most difficult matters to confront with respect to family relationships is that you don’t control the entire relationship yourself. Whether the relationship thrives or withers isn’t up to you alone. As the saying goes, it takes two to tango. When major family relationship problems are encountered, it’s common to attempt a control strategy. You try to get the other person to change. Sometimes this approach works, especially if your request and the other person are both reasonable. But many times it just leads to frustration.

Suppose a group of superintelligent aliens came to earth. Or suppose that humans developed some advanced A.I. that’s far beyond our mental and physical abilities. If we could somehow communicate with these beings, what might we say to them? We might be too scared to say anything. We might just run and hide. But if we could manage our fear enough to say something, we can imagine some possible scenarios.

This is a collection of writings by the world famous author Steve Pavlina. The following topics are contained in this audio recording: THE CHALLENGE OF CHOOSING THE RIGHT CAREER, BEING AN ACHIEVER, MAKE PEOPLE FEEL GOOD, SELECTING PROJECTS WISELY, TRIPLE YOUR PERSONAL PRODUCTIVITY, HOW TO BUILD A STRONG WORK ETHIC, HOW TO BEAT THE COMPETITION, PERSONAL BRANDING, WHAT ARE THE ODDS OF BECOMING A BLACK BELT?

Inside your skull is a massive supercomputer. You own it free and clear. With its 100 billion neurons, and with a typical neuron linking to 1000 to 10,000 other neurons, your highly networked brain is incredibly powerful and capable.

There's a notion that's been spread around the spiritual side of the self-help field that suggests one of our primary aims in life should be ego-less enlightenment, a state where we achieve near-perfect inner peace, where we're one with everything but attached to nothing, and where nothing in the physical world can knock us off balance.

This is a collection of writings by the world famous author Steve Pavlina. The following topics are contained in this audio recording: HOW TO TELL IF YOU HAVE A HEALTHY BRAIN, HOW TO SQUASH NEGATIVE THOUGHT PATTERNS, RECOVERY, HOW TO BUILD A STRONGER EGO, HOW TO INVITE CUDDLING WITHOUT INVITING SEX, ENJOYING RICH AND ABUNDANT RELATIONSHIPS.

One of the most important considerations when helping someone in a negative state is that you must avoid falling into negativity yourself. It makes no difference what particular circumstances negative people blame for their negative outlook. Ultimately it's still a choice rooted in free will. No matter how unconscious the person was when making the decision to sink into negativity, in this moment that person still has the power to choose otherwise. So if you decide to help such a person, your primary role is to help guide him to make a more conscious choice, one that will likely be much more empowering.

The nice thing about working on your personal growth is that when you make a concerted, dedicated effort to improve some part of your life, there's an excellent chance that you will succeed in the long run. You may have a lot of gunk to clear out in terms of limiting beliefs, and you may be starting from a disadvantaged position, but given enough time, it’s entirely possible.

If you aren't satisfied with your life today, yet you continue the same habits that got you here, you’ll still be dissatisfied next year, possibly even more so. Many habits may feel quite satisfying in the moment, but they have no long-term positive impact. They are temporary pleasures or escapes but nothing more. These habits tend to self-perpetuate automatically, but as you become more conscious and rational, you’ll discover the importance of replacing these short-sighted habits with better ones.

After a tragedy or loss, your initial reaction is unconscious and instinctive. There isn't much you can do about that except to ride it out. But the passage of time will soon reduce the intensity of those emotions, and that's when you regain enough consciousness to choose your ongoing reaction. Now you have a choice.

This is a collection of writings by the world famous author Steve Pavlina. The following topics are contained in this audio recording: 1. How to tell if you have a healthy brain, 2. Surviving superintelligence, 3. Why logic always fails you, 4. Prime your brain for a permanent performance gain in a few minutes.

This is a collection of writings by the world famous author Steve Pavlina. The following topics are contained in this audio recording: YOU CAN CHANGE TODAY, HABITS AND THE LONG VIEW, SELF DISCIPLINE, CLARITY.

I'll share the specific process I use to write articles, from initial concept to final publication, including the step-by-step details. If this topic interests you, hopefully you’ll gain some insights that will help you improve your craft of writing. I don't write the way I was taught in school, nor do I write like many people would expect. I can’t guarantee that my approach will work for you, but there’s no doubt that it works well for me. Obviously I write a lot, and I like to think I've gotten pretty good at it.