Personal Development: What do you do?

[Soph]

or don't?

 

[Bradford]

I just recently listened to a bunch of Tony Robbins CD's - the entire Get the Edge program... plus I'm applying for the MBA program at Arizona State University.

Is that what you meant?

 

[Edward Appleby]

Or perhaps:

 

[Soph]

Originally Posted by Edward Appleby

Or perhaps:

I meant development not enlargement

 

[Stax]

find good mentors

 

[odoreater]

I read books on all kinds of different topics while sitting on the crapper.

 

[mimiki]

Listen and take note of people and try to extract the best attributes from each. Also Do the harder things / make the harder choices, i find when i'm not in my comfort zone it brings out the fighting spirit.

 

[briancl]

I'm always learning and striving to become better at what I do.

 

[Buddy Love]

Deadlift.

 

[odoreater]

Originally Posted by Buddy Love

Deadlift.

sweet, i do that too.

 

[Alter]

For working on my communication skills. I videotape myself giving presentations. Then I identify my weak points or annoying habits and try to consciously eliminate them.

I have been doing this a few times a year for the last 5 years. It works well, I am a hell of a good communicator now.

 

[Margaret]

Originally Posted by Bradford

I just recently listened to a bunch of Tony Robbins CD's - the entire Get the Edge program...

Did you find that useful? Have you done any of his other programs before?

 

[Bradford]

Originally Posted by Margaret

Did you find that useful? Have you done any of his other programs before?

I know Tony Robbins gets made fun of a lot and I had not done any of his other programs before, although I had read his book, Unleash the Giant Within many years ago.

Some of the stuff was a little off the wall - he's a raw diet, vegan with some crazy ideas about nutrition, so I didn't find that CD to be all that interesting but I really felt that his mental stuff and general life-coaching strategies were actually quite well done and I am applying quite a bit of it to my life.

I used to see all his infomercials and I'd always been curious about his programs, so when I saw the program in a silent auction at a golf tournament last year, I bid and won - got it pretty cheap too - $75 for the whole thing.

Then again, I'll admit I like motivational and leadership stuff, so I tend to read a lot of stuff by John Maxwell, Tom Peters, Zig Ziglar and others.

 

[Violinist]

People actually listen to Tony Robbins?

 

[wheelerray]

Don't remember where I first heard it, but I try to live up to this:

"He changed by becoming more and more like he already was."

Luckily its not hard.