This week I decided to try something new for the Sunday’s speedlinking. I asked my Twitter followers to submit their best personal development article.
This Week’s Articles
Beginner’s Guide To Being Decisive by Avani-Mehta
Are You Listening To Your Self-Talk? by Jenny Mannion
Position Yourself To Be Passionate by Stanley Bronstein
How To Use Your Brain To Lose Weight by [...]
This week I decided to try something new for the Sunday’s speedlinking. I asked my Twitter followers to submit their best personal development article.
This Week’s Articles
Beginner’s Guide To Being Decisive by Avani-Mehta
Are You Listening To Your Self-Talk? by Jenny Mannion
Position Yourself To Be Passionate by Stanley Bronstein
How To Use Your Brain To Lose Weight by [...]
Here are some articles around the web that I think you will enjoy. The common denominator? They’re written by me or about me. I don’t want you guys missing out on the news.
By the way, I’m now actively using twitter, and in about a month when I get the new iPhone I will connect [...]
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Today it’s labor’s party day here in Finland and I am going to have some fun. I’ve got trivium in my ghettoblaster and cool beer waiting in fridge.. Instead of longer article I provide you few good links to other great metal music blogs. So, here we go. Check out these posts..
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Here are this week’s goodies from around the web:
Happiness: The Group Writing Project
Inspired Money Maker
Blog by Tyna
Kelvin Goh
Three new happiness projects this week. The numbers are really adding up!
If you haven’t participated yet, and would like to do so then get the instructions from Happiness: The Group Writing Project. To see the entire list of [...]
Here are this week’s goodies from around the web:
Happiness: The Group Writing Project
Vera Nadine
I never grew up
Way To Go Godot
Mori Therapy
Four more happiness projects this week. All unique and awesome. That’s a total of 62 participants in the group writing project, as well as the original 34 interviews on this site.
If you haven’t participated [...]
We have Twitter Specials today and a total of seven articles caught my eyes, let's have a read at what's going on recently with Twitter and why there are a group of people talking about it. SEJ is holdng a guest blog project with prizes worth $9,000! Don't forget i am holding my very own guest post project with another 7 more winners to chose from, after 7 have already walked away with prizes!Twitter Specials5 Ways to Find More Friends on Twitter - ReadWriteWebComcast, Twitter And The Chicken - TechCrunchTwitter: Why It’s So Great And How To Effectively Use It - lostartofbloggingFive Reasons Twitter is an Essential Social Media Tool - SearchengineguideTwitter Connected Employees: Useful or a Liability? - BruceclayDear Twitter Spammers: You're Doing it Wrong - seocracyTracking Your Twitt
Here are this week’s goodies from around the web:
Happiness: The Group Writing Project
Plain Talk
In Spiros
This week we have two new happiness projects. As long as we get even new entry I will keep updating. When we’ve reached our happiness quota, I’ll stop the weekly updates.
If you haven’t participated yet, and would like to do so [...]
Here are this week’s goodies from around the web.
Happiness: The Group Writing Project
Jeanne May
Daily Booz
Change Your Tree
Yondrix
Liz Hubpages
Mikefolan
Wide Open Wallet
Increasing Velocity
Abundance Highway
Robert of Flimjo
Websites People Read
The happiness project is really heating up this week with 11 new entries. Go ahead and check them out. If you haven’t participated yet, and would like to do so [...]
Here are this week’s goodies from around the web.
Happiness: The Group Writing Project
Stacey- Create Balance
Stephanie Coviak
Better Organized
Brucisms
Jungleswife
Anca MegaVegaLicious
Kacper Wrzesniewski
Seven new participants this week, check them out. You can participate in the Happiness Project, get the pleasure of answering these questions, as well as 2 links back to your site. For details visit Happiness: The Group [...]
Here are this week’s goodies from around the web.
Happiness: The Group Writing Project
Deal Money
Butterfly Media
Punto Fape
Debo Hobo
Toro’s Mall
Inruad
Guidance For The Motivated
Four new participants this week, check them out. You can participate in the Happiness Project, get the pleasure of answering these questions, as well as 2 links back to your site. For details visit Happiness: [...]
Here are this week’s goodies from around the web.
Happiness: The Group Writing Project
Step Lightly
A Question of Perspective
Know The Ledge
Life By Design
Four new participants this week, check them out. You can participate in the Happiness Project, get the pleasure of answering these questions, as well as 2 links back to your site. For details visit Happiness: [...]
A few news items that helped me to smile even amidst the gloominess caused by the stock market crash:With the stocks crashing all over the world, each person/organization had their own reaction... Our Finance Minister P Chidambaram tried to assure the market of the Indian growth story... US Fed cut its interest rate... Financial experts advised the investors not to panic... But the cops from Ahmedabad had the most interesting reaction... Their reaction to stock market crash: Secure Ahmedabad's largest lake... Wanted to know why, read 'Market Crash: Cops secure Ahmedabad's largest lake'Someone living in India is used to hear frequent press statements from opposition party leaders demanding the resignation of the ruling party on matters of little public interest. But this one is the icing on
Here are some things I thought you'd find interesting:
Clarke wrote about how you can build a custom WordPress theme with no design skills. This ties in with my recent post on why updating a basic theme is a good thing.
Nicholas listed 9 reasons it's better to have your own domain like www.example.com, rather than use a free subdomain like you'd get from sites like Blogger.
Oleg has a tip on how you can increase your CPC (Cost Per Click) with advertising on your site (like AdSense). If you're getting only a couple of bucks for a ton of clicks, you'll probably benefit from his article.
For your holiday pleasure, Sire posted his info on the recent media frenzy surrounding why Santa Claus' comments landed him in court.
It’s just over a week until Christmas! How exciting? It’s around this time that most men start Christmas shopping. Here’s a few ideas for us men.
For the Geek in your life, it’s the Top 11 Geeky T-Shirts!
For those of you who love iPods, why don’t you get one? Of course, be sure not to ask for Any of These Engravings.
For the people who have everything, why not get an awesome LED Boomerang?
And finally, for cheap people, why not download some Crap Games and Burn Them To CD?
As December 12 passes by, another year is added to already old 'Superstar' of Tamilnadu - Rajinikanth. To commemorate the birthday Balaji is listing out his '10 favorite song sequences of Rajinikanth'. His Blog - http://bbthots.blogspot.com - is a Must Visit if you are a Rajini fan enthralled by the birthday of 'thalaivar'.It is not only the Indian media that could not get enough of Narenda Modi, the incumbent Chief Minister of Gujarat[rightly called by 'someone'[:)]as a merchant of death]. Even US media could not stop reporting about him amidst the intense political campaign going for the election for Presidential nominations. Read the NewYork Times reporting that 'Bloodshed in '02 Shadows Indian Politician in Race that Tests Nationalist Party'.
Laura Milligan over at Bootstrapper brings us Negative Calorie Foods: 15 Foods That Actually Burn More Calories Than They Contain. Sounds like a diets dream to me.
Bob Grant writes at love-lectures and gives us 7 things he won’t appreciate. This is general advice for women, as to which actions their man may not appreciate. Noteworthy material.
Aaron Potts over at Fitness Destinations gives us the break down of How to do effective abdominal exercises. Very detailed guide.
The Frugalist asks: Why Live Frugally? 15 Ways Frugality Makes You Happier, Healthier, and Sexier.
Ever get stuck looking for an idea? Check out creative minds for a large list of tools for creating ideas.
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It’s less than three weeks until Christmas! Here are today’s links, with a really geeky theme to it:
A Video Game Half Time Show - You crazy yanks are all the same, with your insane half time shows from sporting events. Here’s a really geeky one. We just get drunk.
Google’s Larry Page Is To Marry - Insert joke about “found what he was searching for” here.
Geeky HTML Quiz - See if you can list all of the valid HTML tags. I can manage about a third.
Ubuntu Drink - Whoopdeedoo posts about a really geeky drink. Which has rubbish wireless support.
Right, that’s your lot. I’m hungover, and going back to bed!
We’re in December, and at the risk of alienating all my readers, here’s some really controversial festive links!
Racist Sexism! Horribly right wing paper The Daily Mail posts adverts from yesteryear. How how we laugh.
Violence! It’s the Mortal Kombat Outtakes!
Fraud! Earn Millions online when you Buy My Stupid E-Book!
Alcohol! (or Lack of It) According to Punclox, beer will rise to £4 a pint!
Apologies for the short one today, I’m rather hungover. Heh heh.
Tynan at Better Than Your Boyfriend shows us how to properly give thanks to our parents. With thanksgiving just behind us, perhaps it’s time we give thanks to all the special people in our lives.
Me over at Lifehack on How To Use Compliments To Control Communication. Walking the fine line of manipulation.
Rob the Former Fat Guy points us to an anecdotal perfect beverage for weight loss. I’ve been talking about this stuff since I started writing this blog.
Tara Gidus at The Diet Dish serves us with a multitude of benefits that occur from having family meals all the time. She also mentions how to make family meals more welcoming for everyone.
Bethany Sanders of That’s Fit thinks that it may be too expensive to eat right. I think that it’s too expensive NOT to eat right. What do you think?
Search Engine Optimization Book: I’ve had thousands of visitors come in from google, searching for personal development subjects that I’ve written about. If you are
It’s a month until Christmas! Be sure to get your Christmas cards ordered. Here’s today’s links.
Awesome game of the week is Super Smash Flash, a flash game conversion of Super Smash Brothers with extra characters and addictiveness. Does anybody have any idea how to unlock extra characters though?
Awesome cartoon of the week is This one from Penny Arcade. It’s funny because it’s true - My “Top Friends” usually goes “Brothers > Guy > Sibley/Jay > Girlfriend > Home Mates/Uni Mates > Ex Girlfriends > Randoms”, but it varies as much as the New York Stock Exchange. I also feel guilt knocking people off my top friends. I can’t be the only one, can’t I?
Excuse of the week comes from England’s fantastically shoddy elimination from the Euros earlier this week. The latest blame is the Anthem Singer, who didn’t sing the right words to the Croatian National Anthem.
Present of the week is Bob-Omb ear
At Alex Shalman . com - Practical Personal Development the Sunday morning tradition is me posting links, to my favorite articles for the week, from OTHER blogs. I feel like this is a good way to bring attention to quality writing that my readers might not get a chance to see otherwise.
For this week my favorite articles are:
Alvin Soon of Life Coaches Blog is taking the time to just be. He’s going a weekend retreat to just think for a bit. This is something I’m considering doing in the weeks to come, by renting a log cabin in the Catskill mountains for a weekend. Just me, nature, and a moleskin.
Erin Doland of Unclutterer tells us about his little cleaning and organizing quirks. He’s also made me realize why my room is always a bit cleaner around midterms and finals. It’s a way to procrastinate! Shame on me
Tim Ferris the author of 4HWW always has a ton of innovative ideas. This time he talks about how he test-drives friends. He has basically developed a seri
At Alex Shalman . com - Practical Personal Development the Sunday morning tradition is me posting links, to my favorite articles for the week, from OTHER blogs. I feel like this is a good way to bring attention to quality writing that my readers might not get a chance to see otherwise.
For this week my favorite articles are:
Charles Q. Choi over at LiveScience covers some research on how Emotions Run Amok in Sleep-Deprived Brains. So, if you’re constantly depriving yourself of sleep, perhaps this would be a good time to catch some extra Zzz. [found via LifeDev
Steven Sternberg, of USAToday writes about a study that links birth control pills to artery clogging plaque. It is very rare that I take any medicine when I’m sick. I usually prefer drinking water, and plenty of rest. I always wonder what the long-term side effects of medications will be.
Researchers used ultrasound to test the carotid arteries on each side of the neck and femoral arteries in each leg. A woman’
At Alex Shalman . com - Practical Personal Development the Sunday morning tradition is me posting links, to my favorite articles for the week, from OTHER blogs. I feel like this is a good way to bring attention to quality writing that my readers might not get a chance to see otherwise.
For this week my favorite articles are:
Todd Goldfarb at We The Change thinks that “We have to get our heads around the fact that being positive is actually far more realistic than being negative.” I couldn’t agree with him more. Read about his 7 Effective Ways To Implement Positive Thinking.
Elliot Katz over at Aish.com writes about the 5 Things a Man Needs to Do in a Successful Relationship. I’m all about figuring out how things work, especially relationships with other people. I was actually blown away reading this article, because I feel like Elliot captured the fundamentals.
Tina Su from Think Simple Now, wrote about The Secret to Self Loving.
Tina says: “Most of my li
At Alex Shalman . com - Practical Personal Development the Sunday morning tradition is me posting links, to my favorite articles for the week, from OTHER blogs. I feel like this is a good way to bring attention to quality writing that my readers might not get a chance to see otherwise.
For this week my favorite articles are:
A.J. Jacobs over at Esquire wrote an interesting article titled I think your fat, which is about the benefits of living a life of radical honesty. I’m sometimes found guilty of speaking before I think, so this radical honesty is an intriguing concept!
Easton Ellsworth of BusinessBlogWire is serving up free blogging tips to anyone who e-mails him. This is part of his blogs two year anniversary. If you have a new blog, or just wondering how you can take yours to the next level, give him a shout and tell him I sent you.
Craig Childs of LifeHack.org wrote a great compilation article of environmental posts. He even mentioned our very own Environmental Wellness P
Welcome to this week’s batch of posts for Sunday Speedlinking. There are some gooduns in here, I’m pleased with this batch. I hope you are too.
First off this week is a story on the BBC that got me interested, if only for the title. Researchers have worked out how an organism has survived Eighty Million Years Without Sex. Hell, they should’ve asked me.
Next up is a rather fun game I found from Re:Retro: Anti-Pacman. Basically, it’s Pacman but you play the ghosts. It’s rather fun, and similar to my Intruder Alert Game I made a while back. It’s rather fun, and a lot better than my game.
Have a look at some of this Geeky Sewing. I love the Megaman one! What is your favourite?
There are lots of social networking sites, but what about Antisocial Networking? Here’s the first, Bugroff.
Right, that’s your lot for this week, I know I usually do 5, but what I lack in quantity I feel I’m making up in quality. Still exhaused from the holiday!
Finding it difficult to post on a regular basis at the moment feel like I have no time. Here is the 7th edition of speedlinking:
Introducing DerekBeau’s Free PPC Campaign Builder - Alternative To $497 SpeedPPC
Derek emailed me about this post he is offering a great tool for free, which helps with your PPC campaigns this is useful for anyone who uses’s PPC for their affiliate marketing. He bought the tool SpeedPPC for $497 but realised he could build a similar program in less than a day so he has and is giving it away for free!
The Super Affiliate’s Guide to PPC Marketing
Great post from the big earner Zac. He has easy steps on how to start using PPC for your affiliate
How To Find Where You Rank In Search Engines
good information post from kumiko . I’ve been searching for a tool to check were I rank in the serps and every time I looked all the tools required a google api key, the shoemoney tool doesn’t so its really useful.
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At Alex Shalman . com - Practical Personal Development the Sunday morning tradition is me posting links, to my favorite articles for the week, from OTHER blogs. I feel like this is a good way to bring attention to quality writing that my readers might not get a chance to see otherwise.
For this week my favorite articles are:
Bob Walsh has a small tutorial on making a video over at lifehack. Since I will eventually be adding videos to this site, I thought it was an interesting read. Any other bloggers considering adding video footage of themselves?
Introducing the Gorilla Sandwhich, a remarkable strategy for combining form and function, into a unique product worth eating and talking about. It’s a raw food meal, all inside a hollowed out cucumber. I’m going to the whole foods market tonight to pick up my very first one!
Liz Strauss from successful bog, has another blog you might not have known about. It’s called Letting ME Be. She shares with us her definition of love,
At Alex Shalman . com - Practical Personal Development the Sunday morning tradition is me posting links, to my favorite articles for the week, from OTHER blogs. I feel like this is a good way to bring attention to quality writing that my readers might not get a chance to see otherwise.
For this week my favorite articles are:
Reader Submissions:
Peter at I will change your life takes us back to the essentials with 30 Fundamentals of a Wonderful Life.
Jean Browman, the Cheerful Monk, writes about the importance of not taking life for granted in living every, every minute.
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Today, to give you an idea, I am ticking off one of the items on my “50 Things To Do Before I Die” list: Go to the Oktoberfest. Whilst I am eating Sauerkraut and drinking the finest beers bavarians have to offer whilst staring at the bountiful bosoms of German ladies, you’ll have to make do with some Speedlinking. Sorry!
First up is Touchgraph from Problogger, that graphs out the connections to your blogs. I think this is very cool, and to the right you can see the touchgraph of this blog. Not sure what it achieves, but it sure looks pretty.
From Neatorama comes “The Boring Games Photoshop Competition“.
From Tech Digest comes this rather cool concept. What if Toasters were Transparent?
From WiiWii comes Street Fighter II for the Commodore 64. I used to have this for my C64, and it was as terrible as it looked. Still paid over £10 for it in the day, it took ages to load and two player mode was terrible.
Don’t know where I found this, but this is th
At Alex Shalman . com - Practical Personal Development the Sunday morning tradition is me posting links, to my favorite articles for the week, from OTHER blogs. I feel like this is a good way to bring attention to quality writing that my readers might not get a chance to see otherwise.
For this week my favorite articles are:
Aaron Potts unrolls a new community called Personal Development Partners. If you’re looking for like minded people, this is the place to go. In order to hype up the launch of his project, Aaron is holding a contest and giving away a handful of great prizes. To find out more about PDP and the prizes click here.
Organize-it gives us 8 ways for dealing with doubts. Since doubt and confusion is one of the biggest things that holds us back from success, it’s interesting to read about ways to combat it.
Reader Submissions:
Isabella Mori slays that sweet-talking dragon in a tale of upholding integrity and staying responsible, when it would have been easier
Hello everybody! All because I am away doesn’t mean I can’t write a couple of speedlinking posts! I have been obsessively collecting links before my travels, so these links may be a few weeks old, but they are still fab. Here you go!
From Han’s Speedlinking post is Homepage Startup, a nifty little Ajaxy thing that has your best bookmarks in front of you. Classy!
From Neatorama comes this ace Emergency Money Box. I do rather like this, and would use it. It’s much more satisfying to smash than a poreclain pig I can imagine.
I’m not sure whre I found this, but it’s cool. An Illustrated Coffee Guide gives you a guide on how to make all sorts of coffees. The ex was really into her coffee (I’m pretty much caffene intolerant), and it was like listening to her speak in a different language. Now I know what a Mocha Choca Pokemon, or whatever it is, is.
Matt Jones from Blogging Fingers shares an important tip for those who - like me - change posts after
I’m now in my new room at Sheffield University. I’ve missed some posts the last 48hours of due to me moving so with me trying to catch I’ve been reading up on whats been going on… here’s some interesting ones.
1) Money Links - 45n5 has made a new edition to the top 100 make money online blogs list. He has started his own sort of ranking system for the posts within those top100 blogs. The users of 45n5 can vote up or down any posts they feel they want to vote on and this will be another thing the blogs in the list will be assessed by! This is a great idea in my opinion and great edition to Mark’s linkbait list!
2) 5 Tips on Creating Quality Content - Some good tips from Derek on creating quality content.
3) Increase Your Google Adsense CTR by Rotating Colors - great tool come to my attention from eMonitized so you can change your google adsense colours on each refresh of your page and therefore making the ads standout more. This isn’t something
At Alex Shalman . com - Practical Personal Development the Sunday morning tradition is me posting links, to my favorite articles for the week, from OTHER blogs. I feel like this is a good way to bring attention to quality writing that my readers might not get a chance to see otherwise.
For this week my favorite articles are:
Laura Young, from Dragon Slayer’s Guide To Life, asks Do You Really Want To Be Happy? Is that a trick question? Sure, I want to be happy! I think I know what Laura would answer to my question, what do you get out of serving others?
Douglas Eby from Talent Development Resources, posts Alan Alda on being a nervous wreck - and liking it. In this article, Alan explains that his fear and anxiety drives him to perform better as an actor. Consider that for a moment. The fear and anxiety doesn’t hinder his performance. Instead, it pumps him up and gives him the motivation to take on roles he would otherwise pass up on.
Philip Brewer, of Wise Bread posts on H
The first Sunday Speedlinking for September! Christ, the year’s gone fast, hasn’t it? Also, it’s the first one I’ve done without a raging hangover. I went out last night and didn’t get drunk! The company was fantastic, so I didn’t need to make it interesting. Anyway, here’s your links.
First, from Punclox is this great article on Why Nightclubs Suck. After another dull night in Broadway which saw a drink poured over me after some cock pushed me into a couple smoozing on the dance floor, I’m inclined to agree. Alas, the only reason I (and I imagine a lot of people) go to nightclubs is in the vain hope that I meet the future Mrs. Wynne, even though statistically I never pull. But I digress - that article rules.
Next up from Merrick is this hilarious video. Will you go after yoga?
From my new favourite blog Worse Than Failure comes “Please Write This Down” - an error message on a court summons!
From Neatorama comes this advert f
Here’s today Sunday speedlinking, featuring.
Plugins! From Daily Blog Tips is this rather special plugin that tracks clicks. I’ve been running it for a week and there’s a few interesting things to note. I should write a post about it (general jist - Buy Adicons)
Quilts! Somebody over at Evil Mad Scientist have made a quilt to look like that classic arcade game Q*Bert. Considering that quilts are usually found on beds, and babies are usually made in bed, you wonder if the quilt - to set the scene - would change all dirty talk to “@!?#@!”?
Vista! On a Super Nintendo no less. Though it’s actually on a SNES, I am Little Red Riding Hood.
Tits! For when they talk about it in the video I linked with that word, I was bent over with laughter. From The Blog Herald and Naughty Merrick.
Hateful Asylum Seekers Giving War Veterans Property AIDS! From the Guardian comes “The Daily Mail Diet”: a story about one man living in a world where he reads nothi
4th Edition of speedlinking…. this is were I put some quick links to some good posts I’ve read over the week.
Help! I Don’t Have Anything To Post Anymore! Things To Do When Running Out Of Ideas great post by the young Carl O’Cab. I sometimes run out of ideas of what to write and I think some of the ideas in his post may help me in the future.
9 Indispensable Forums for an Internet Entrepreneur good post from Erik Karey showing 9 of the top forums to be apart of. I personally only use Digital Point because its just so big and has everything I need, but I think i’m going to check some of these other forums out too!
14 Tips You Should Bear In Mind When Designing Your Blog a lengthy post by Adnan but some really good tips when designing you blog theme. There seems to be a lot of posts about blog design recently, I think its down to both John Chow and Problogger both getting re-designs recently. I will keep Adnans post bookmarked for when I co
Speedlinking is a term to define a collection (or handful) of good posts on a particular topic, very similar to a Blog Carnival.
Here is a collection of workouts and race strategies from around the world:
From Speedendurance.com’s archives:
Clyde Hart Training Seminar Notes
Differences between 440 yards and 400 meters
Video of 1988 OG (Steve Lewis, Butch Reynolds, Danny Everett)
from Supertraining
from Lee Evans
Michael Johnson’s race strategy
Bud Winter on Tommie Smith
Bud Winter on Lee Evans
From the Internet:
Clyde Hart Classic blueprints to his 400m training
From American Track and field by Andy Friedlander, a nice 3 page scanned article
Clyde Hart: coach to Michael Johnson and Jeremy Wariner from www.sports-fitness.com
Strategies and Tactics on Running the 400 Meters By Rob Lasorsa, M-F Athletic Co.
Track Coach #102 (Winter, 1988) By William Black
The 400-meter dash training and racing, March 1996 by Michael Stevenson
by Brian MacKenzie, UK Level 4 Performance C
So I was looking for an RSS Logo for the Fair Review Blog, and look what google turned up (third image). Please explain why?
I saw this story on the BBC to make Real Ales More Friendlier For Girls. It’s ironic to consider that the last time they tried making bitter’s more female friendly, they created Lager (which is now the most popular alcoholic drink amongst men). As you could probably tell, I’m a bitter and real ale drinker. I quite like being in the minority. I look down on the Fosters and Carling drinkers of this world. If more women could appreciate it though, that’d be good. What’s your poison?
It’s only been out for a few weeks, and there is already a NES emulator for the iPhone
From Han comes the best video game/movie tie in. Minsweeper: The Movie
To lower the tone from Tech Digest comes Wee Sports. A high tech version of Urinal Subbuteo. Basically, you use your natural jetstream to guide a car home. It’s to prevent accidents on the
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At Alex Shalman . com - Practical Personal Development the Sunday morning tradition is me posting links, to my favorite articles for the week, from OTHER blogs. I feel like this is a good way to bring attention to quality writing that my readers might not get a chance to see otherwise.
For this week my favorite articles are:
1. Nate Whitehill shares 23 lessons in blogging that he has learned in the past 7 months. Everything you need from attracting visitors, SEO, making money and gaining RSS subscribers.
2. Tony Clark of Success from the nest shares how he gained an hour a day by ditching his productivity tools. The key here is simplifying.
3. Agentsully of Life learning today teaches us how to have the most productive week ever .
4. Gretchen of The Happiness Project shares her experience with keeping a One Sentence Journal for the past year. This is a great idea because it is habit forming. You can learn a lot about what life was like in retrospect.
Personal Development Scoop:
If y
Here is the third edition of speedlinking. I keep saying at the bottom of these posts if anyone wants to be featured in the speedlinking posts I will check your blog out but so far no contact?!
For my regular readers I apologize for not posting the last few days, I’ve been a bit busy with my job! (debt collector! someones got to do it!)
45n5 been reading this guys blog for about 2 weeks now and he’s absolutely mad a real character I think thats why I like him so much. He’s not scared to give an opinion and he shows it in this post. He’s been participating in ‘the thirty day challenge’ and he really slates it. Brilliant!
Here.org.uk this is truly a great blog for affiliate marketing. This post shows the top 8 questions Kieron gets from people starting out in affiliate marketing. some good tips here.
ProBlogger Darren from problogger summarizes some key points from some top blog posts. Showing even if you blog isn’t getting a load of traffic yo
Speedlinking is a term to define a collection or handful of good posts on a particular topic, very similar to a Blog Carnival.
Here is a collection of workouts, training tips, and technical papers from around the world that focuses on Abs or Abdominal training workouts and exercises.
From Speedendurance.com’s archives:
The Abdominal Training FAQ
AB Mania
From other archives:
Washboard abs and why they are important for runners too! from The Final Sprint
The Inner Unit: A New Frontier in Abdominal Training by PAUL CHEK
The Outer Unit by PAUL CHEK
The Function of the Mid-torso in Sport Activities by ADRIAN FACCIONI
Exercise of the Week: The Plank from FitBuff.com
Exercise of the Week: Hanging Leg Raises from FitBuff.com
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At Alex Shalman . com - Practical Personal Development the Sunday morning tradition is me posting links, to my favorite articles for the week, from OTHER blogs. I feel like this is a good way to bring attention to quality writing that my readers might not get a chance to see otherwise.
For this week my favorite articles are:
Alexander Kjerulf on The 10 Avantages to low rent living.
Freedom to leave a bad job.
Freedom to take a chance.
Freedom to do what I enjoy… and more.
Timothy Ferris on how to lose 20 lbs of fat in 30 days without doing any exercise.
Violent Acres on drastic measures to reduce debt. This ‘rich girl’ went as far as living out of her car and showering at the local gym to pay off her loans - what would you do?
LifeRemix on 100 Greats Ways To Improve Your Life. This is an interesting compilation of 100 posts - all about improving your life. Written by Leo of Zen Habits.
Personal Development Scoop:
If you’ve written, or read a personal develop
Hey guys this is my second edition for speed linking there has been some really good posts this past week or so and I’m gonna point a couple out that I thought were good:
here.org.uk - I came across this affiliate marketing site through john chows blog. This blog is written by a fellow UKer Kieron who seems to have quite a number of sites and projects. His post Easy method of gaining quality backlinks and building a database of users shows an alternative method to promote your site and get links. I found it useful and something I could look into in the future.
bloggingtips.com - Kevin over at blogging tips explains the Top 10 reasons to include the word ‘top’ and a number in your post title
someuseless.info - have a great post ‘10 effective ways to make yourself blog daily‘ that gives you some great ways in finding stuff to write about on your blog. I saved this to delicious because I think it will be a good post to go back to when you’re trying to find somthing to write ab
Hey guys this is my second edition for speed linking there has been some really good posts this past week or so and I’m gonna point a couple out that I thought were good:
here.org.uk - I came across this affiliate marketing site through john chows blog. This blog is written by a fellow UKer Kieron who seems to have quite a number of sites and projects. His post Easy method of gaining quality backlinks and building a database of users shows an alternative method to promote your site and get links. I found it useful and something I could look into in the future.
bloggingtips.com - Kevin over at blogging tips explains the Top 10 reasons to include the word ‘top’ and a number in your post title
someuseless.info - have a great post ‘10 effective ways to make yourself blog daily‘ that gives you some great ways in finding stuff to write about on your blog. I saved this to delicious because I think it will be a good post to go back to when you’re trying to find somt
A couple of short pieces of AdSense news today.
Over at the official AdSense blog they’ve announced that there’s a new feature just been added to AdSense that will help them serve up more relevant ads for password protected areas of your blog. For example if you have a members only area you can now tell the AdSense crawler/bot how to access these areas so that it can assess what content is on them.
How do you access this new feature?
“just check out Site Authentication in your account and follow the instructions on the page. Please note that you will only have access to this feature if you’ve updated your AdSense login to a Google Account. We appreciate your patience as we roll out this feature to additional publishers.”
In other AdSense news - Self Made Minds reports that they’ve been approached by AdSense to be a part of a test for ‘AdSense for Mobile’ to allow publishes to monetize their sites for mobile devices.
Remember, these are more for my benefit than yours.
First up from Heidi Go Seek is “Simpsonize Me”, a cool little flash applet that turns a digital photo of yourself into a Simpsons Character. Or should that be it takes a digital photo of yourself, does a few little changes, and you pick up the pieces. neverthertheless, as you can imagine, it’s hugely popular, but here’s a quick Rhys that I have managed to do.First the original.
And now the Simpsonized.
Pretty good eh? Why not post one on your blog? If you do, please let me know, I’d love to see them!
From Pimpmypagerank comes “Simple English Wikipedia”. At first I thought “oh great, a wikipedia for children, retards and chavs”. But you can add me to that list. Not because I’m stupid, but because it’s funny. For example, I was expecting a “When a Daddy and a Mummy love each other very much” for this article (possibly NSFW), but fuck it (no pun inten
At Alex Shalman . com - Practical Personal Development the Sunday morning tradition is me posting links, to my favorite articles for the week, from OTHER blogs. I feel like this is a good way to bring attention to quality writing that my readers might not get a chance to see otherwise.
For this week my favorite articles are:
John Place shares his technique to memorize anything. It’s easy to implement, low risk to try, and most importantly it’s practical for memorizing information-heavy material.
Melody Brooke answers the age old relationship question ‘Why Won’t You Listen To Me?’. Just in time for our ‘How Can I Get Through To You‘ post. The key is compassion.
Brian Kim asks us to get in the habit of changing our approach. Before you quit, it is important to remember that there’s always another way to solve the problem. You can read more about this approach in Brian’s book, The Hidden Secrets in Think and Grow Rich.
Kirsten Harrel
Happy Sunday everybody! Here’s today’s Speedlinks.
Kyle posted a while ago about Deja Vu, an online browser emulator, specifically for the older browsers. It’s quite cool to see how browsers that cannot handle CSS appear. Kyle’s post inspired me to check out what my blog looked like on the first computer I ever went online with, the Atari ST. Unfortunately, I couldn’t go on the internet directly with the emulator, but I took an offline snapshot of the main page of this blog. The results were interesting. First there was garbledom as it imports the CSS into the page, and the other problem was that the images didn’t display images didn’t display. Other than that though it displayed the text almost as it should (a few special characters were missing), so if you’re viewing this site on an Atari ST. Welcome! For those who are not, but want to find out more on this fabulous machine, follow this domain name hack http://atari.st/
A story on the
Ivan Ivoras wrote an article that presents new features that will be included in FreeBSD 7. If you want to give it a try before it’s released you can download a snapshot cd image or you can try his FreeBSD 7 live CD snapshot
It seems like the next version of Mac OSX is going to get ZFS, well it shouldn’t be hard now that it was ported works on FreeBSD 7 snapshots and MacOSX has FreeBSD at it’s roots.
Leopard is also going to get Dtrace from Sun but they’ll call it Xray
Want to try OpenSolaris but you like Ubuntu too much? Get Nexenta, an operating system that uses OpenSolaris kernel and Debian/Ubuntu. It looks and feels just like Ubuntu, has more then 12000 packages in the APT repository and you can take advantage of some features that don’t exist in Linux ( yet ? ) like ZFS
It seems Solaris features (mostly ZFS ) make a lot of buzz these days. I wonder when ( if ever ) will Linux include ZFS in the kernel. I know there is a ZFS implementaion for L
I was reading ProBlogger today, I very big blog that makes A LOT of money. He suggests that giving some link love to the community is a good thing and also can give value to own blog. So I’ve made a collection of posts that I’ve read through various blogs that I think are informative:
Mr Gary Lee - Last week Gary announced he is giving a away a new apple iPhone which are currently like hot cakes over in the USA. In order to apply for entry you need to write a short blurb on your blog about his blog and his new site. I haven’t personally joined this competition because the iPhone wont work on any of the UK networks so it would be a waste of time me getting it!
Smart Wealthy Rich - Jon is a guy who doesn’t like taking money for reviewing other blogs or companies because he just isn’t into that. I think this guy is 1 in a million bloggers that would turn down cash on the morale he doesn’t like posting reviews on his blog!
Jamie Harrop - Jamie talks abou
As a little new feature for this blog, I am going to do a “Sunday Speedlinking”. Basically, these blog posts and stories have interested me in the last week, and - whilst they don’t deserve a full entry - they do deserve a little mention. Here we go.
First of was a story on the BBC, about Edinburgh Council replacing the SN07 number plate because some people could find it offensive. SN07 spells “Snot”, the least offensive offensive word probably ever. Can you think of any other non offensive swear words that could be banned by the heavy handed DVLA? I suggest looking at this list for the British Car Number Plate Identifiers and watching Monty Python and The Holy Grail for inspiration for non offensive swear words. Especially The French Taunting Bit.
On the list of “Pointless Degrees”, a Degree in Northerness, where you can learn about. I’ve already suggested it to Han, who thinks that if she goes north of Watford she’d get ra
Right before I went on vacation, I read some articles that caught my attention. Since it has previously been a Sunday morning tradition to post links from OTHER blogs on this site, I will share what I read.
For this week my favorite articles are:
Aaron Potts launches Personal Development Partners. A website dedicated to networking with like minded people. It basically connects you with someone interested in a certain field of personal development, and a certain location. I’m leaving for Israel in 1 hour as I write this, so I haven’t had time to thoroughly inspect the site. When you make your profile add me as a friend, my username is AlexShalman.
Leo at Zen Habits writes a guide to cultivate compassion in your life, with 7 practices.
Morning ritual.
Empathy practice.
Commonalities practice.
Relief of suffering practice.
Act of kindness practice.
Those who mistreat us practice.
Evening routine.
J.D. at GetRichSlowly writes a guide to get out of debt. This is an old arti
For most of today I've been working on a WordPress plugin. Because I haven't had much time to work on fresh posts I thought I'd share a few links to things that caught my eye over the last few days. Check out the links below and enjoy,
What Makes Me Unsubscribe: Problogger had a great post recently conerning what exactly makes users unsubscribe from blogs. Elise offers up her own reflections on the subject with some great insights. Of particular note, something I myself am frequently guilty of - blogging about blogging. I'm certainly guilty of it ... never blog about your blog and if you're making an update post keep it to one a week.
To Aff or Not to Aff: John Chow asks whether it makes sense to label your affiliate links. I recently wrote about Affiliate Marketing on Smaller blogs and must say I think it makes sense. My personal view is this - if you're reviewing something and include an affiliate link then disclosure really isn't that important. If you're
At Alex Shalman . com - Practical Personal development the Sunday morning tradition is me posting links, to my favorite articles for the week, from OTHER blogs. I feel like this is a good way to bring attention to quality writing that my readers might not get a chance to see otherwise.
For this week my favorite articles are:
1. Leo of Zen Habits made a guest appearance at The Good Human blog last week. He wrote a very practical article titled Going Vegetarian and Vegan - A Sustainable Choice. Read and enjoy.
2. Brian Kim illustrates The High Correlation Between Sales and Self Improvement, and says that:
Sales is literally self improvement baptism by fire.
Sales forces you to become better.
It forces you to learn new information.
It forces you to apply that information.
It forces you to aim for a clear goal and to achieve it.
3. Jesper from Practical Self Development 101 has submitted an article for your viewing pleasure - Why action-focused problem solving often fails.
4. Steve Olson
At Alex Shalman . com - Practical Personal Development the Sunday morning tradition is me posting links, to my favorite articles for the week, from OTHER blogs. I feel like this is a good way to bring attention to quality writing that my readers might not get a chance to see otherwise.
For this week my favorite articles are:
New to blogging? Here is your solution. Gleb Reys presents Perfectblogger, a site containing a blogging glossary, blogging tools, blog software and of course a blog covering the buzz around… you guessed it, effective blogging.
Westegg presents a review for one of my favorite books, How to Win Friends and Influence People, by Dale Carnegie. It’s a quick to read list.
Danish Ahmed, a blind, albino, Pakistani as he defines himself has been in the personal development business for 15 years. Although I haven’t heard of him before I’ve stumbled upon an inspirational short movie of his titled The Love Movie. It’ll make you want to acknowledg
At Alex Shalman . com - Practical Personal development the Sunday morning tradition is me posting links, to my favorite articles for the week, from OTHER blogs. I feel like this is a good way to bring attention to quality writing that my readers might not get a chance to see otherwise.
For this week my favorite articles are:
Ririan writes about the 22 Ways To Overclock Your Brain, a detailed How-To on getting the most out of your cognitive abilities.
Please read this very quick article on Ten Foods You Should NEVER Eat!, these calories are absolutely obscene.
This article, by healthbolt, makes the one I was going to write about quitting soda obsolete. What Happens To Your Body If You Drink A Coke Right Now?
After looking through all the articles in my archives page I’m sure your eyes will get a bit tired. For this I suggest reading improve your vision without spending a penny for some practical tips on… improving your vision.
So what’s with this whole organic food hyp
At Alex Shalman . com - Practical Personal development the Sunday morning tradition is me posting links, to my favorite articles for the week, from OTHER blogs. I feel like this is a good way to bring attention to quality writing that my readers might not get a chance to see otherwise.
For this week my favorite articles are:
Alec Gullon started blogging about Life and Growth just this month and produced an interesting article titled Drink More Water, which you will find very much complementary to my Liquid Motivation article. Have a look at both.
Life Coach Alvin Soon writes about breaking out of your comfort zone in his post, How To Suck And Still Be On Top.
Stretch or die. Because if you’re not growing, you’re dieing.
Craig Harper, a personal trainer and motivational speaker, writes about being proactive and defining what success means to you. Check out Craig’s Don’t let “life” happen to you. Also, Craig appears on a radio show, which you can syn
At Alex Shalman . com - Practical Personal development the Sunday morning tradition is me posting links, to my favorite articles for the week, from OTHER blogs. I feel like this is a good way to bring attention to quality writing that my readers might not get a chance to see otherwise.
For this week my favorite articles are:
Alec Gullon started blogging about Life and Growth just this month and produced an interesting article titled Drink More Water, which you will find very much complementary to my Liquid Motivation article. Have a look at both.
Life Coach Alvin Soon writes about breaking out of your comfort zone in his post, How To Suck And Still Be On Top.
Stretch or die. Because if you’re not growing, you’re dieing.
Craig Harper, a personal trainer and motivational speaker, writes about being proactive and defining what success means to you. Check out Craig’s Don’t let “life” happen to you. Also, Craig appears on a radio show, which you can syn
At Alex Shalman . com - Practical Personal development the Sunday morning tradition will be me posting links to my favorite articles for the week from OTHER blogs. I feel like this is a good way to bring attention to quality writing that my readers might not get a chance to see otherwise.
For this week my favorite articles are:
Scott Young, a young blogger who is currently polishing up his public speaking skills, writes his theory on specializing vs. generalizing in areas of your life.
Brian Kim, author of The Hidden Secret in Think And Grow Rich, talks about the 5 things every college grad should know. I know some of my readers are college grads and some are just about to finish. You’ll want to read this.
Kyle Pott, who has been getting up early everyday for the past year, to take on life with a boost of productivity, shares his tips for getting up at 5am.
Mark McManus, achieves great things with body building and personal development, and you can read about why he loves bodybui
At Alex Shalman . com - Practical Personal development the Sunday morning tradition will be me posting links to my favorite articles for the week from OTHER blogs. I feel like this is a good way to bring attention to quality writing that my readers might not get a chance to see otherwise.
For this week my favorite articles are:
Scott Young, a young blogger who is currently polishing up his public speaking skills, writes his theory on specializing vs. generalizing in areas of your life.
Brian Kim, author of The Hidden Secret in Think And Grow Rich, talks about the 5 things every college grad should know. I know some of my readers are college grads and some are just about to finish. You’ll want to read this.
Kyle Pott, who has been getting up early everyday for the past year, to take on life with a boost of productivity, shares his tips for getting up at 5am.
Mark McManus, achieves great things with body building and personal development, and you can read about why he loves bodybui
