We live in a world where initiative is the ultimate currency in terms of achieving success. And growing up being told that the smartest one gets to witness the rewards is probably the biggest mistake.
If you observe the average successful person (by what society determines as success) you will come to realize that nine out of ten he scarcely matches the description which aligns with what your belief system is, that the smartest and most intelligent one is the one to go to the top.
If we decide to observe backwards on how we go through the process of adopting a passion, an interest, show incentive or just occupy our mind with things ranging from materialistic to interpersonal, we will notice a rather disturbing trend of buildup and then a sudden retrogression.
For the sole purpose of not overwhelming you with broadening the concept, I will rather stick to the material aspect of it. It both serves the analogy perfectly as well as offering a model which, when perfected, can dramatically improve the quality of our lives through the concept of minimizing the clutter which we so often experience.
One year, you see, is representing the perfect time frame in which we can reflect upon success of any kind; time frame in which we can see personal development for the person it helped us to transform into; time frame in which it is hard to delude ourselves over what went right and what went wrong.
And while this way of observing the previous year calls forth for a parallel and almost symmetric expectation of the next, I have a slightly different idea.
With this year coming to an end I thought it would be interesting to make a recap of all the best material I stumbled across throughout the net. Following many blogs myself, I picked the 12 posts that had the biggest influence on me in this previous year.
Being a personal development junkie, running this blog and writing many articles on the subject, I thought that sharing these articles would serve both as a reminder of all the things that I, myself, should implement, as well as offer you a great resource for building your New Year’s resolutions, or just level up your self-improvement game.
For today we have a special guest here at Lifestyle Updated, someone who really walks the walk in terms of personal development and self-actualization, and one of the best personal development bloggers in the world.
A published author, blogger, entrepreneur, avid surfer, and overall a great guy I feel like there is no need for further introduction – we have with us Srinivas Rao, the author of The Skool of Life.
Aside of being one of the best personal development bloggers in the world, Srini is unique in the sense of working hard on the things that he love, as well as enjoying life full time – the two things which he advocates the most.