Hi! Welcome to the Positivity Blog

First things first. What is this website about? Well, it’s here for you that wants to…

• Live more consciously.
• Simplify your life.
• Become happier.
• Create new habits and replace some old habits with better ones.
• Improve your self-discipline.
• Reduce procrastination, become more productive & effective and feel less stressed.
• Learn to be mindful/live in the present moment.
• Get in shape.
• Understand what is stopping you today from doing what you want and learn how you can remove those obstacles.
• Improve your people skills and relationships.
• Increase your self-esteem and confidence in yourself.

The Positivity Blog will give you the advice, tips and strategies that you need to succeed with these things.

Who is Henrik?

My name is Henrik Edberg. I live in Sweden, a smallish country in the north of Europe. I am a 31 year old journalism major that has dived into the topic of personal development and immersed myself over the past 5+ years. I implement what I have learned and I learn from my own experiments and experience and figure out how to build a better life.

This site, it’s content and I am a work in progress. My views on things and the subjects this site covers will probably change, develop or expand. I’m sharing what I have discovered so far. I hope you can have some use of it too.

So what have I accomplished so far? A couple of examples:

• Switched from a generally pretty negative attitude to a much more positive one.
• Lost 26 pounds during 4 months in the winter/spring of 2009.
• Become a lot more mindful. I used to live a lot of my life in my head, in the past and in the future. Today I spend a lot more time living it in the present moment. It’s a wonderful thing.
• I have become a less shy and much more confident person socially and in other situations.
• I have tripled my productivity and effectiveness. I used to be a real procrastinating slacker that never got much done. But over the last few years I have been able to triple my productivity and effectiveness.
• I have simplified my life greatly.
• I have created a highly successful blog and newsletter.
• I have written three books and put together two courses.

But I am not an expert, I am merely an enthusiast.

What I write about are things that have had a positive effect on my life. Some or maybe many of these thoughts and strategies will possibly work for you too to some degree. We are all unique, but perhaps more importantly, we are all very similar.

But I’m not a professional, I’m not a psychologist and no information on this site should be construed as psychological advice. I give no guarantees and this site is for entertainment purposes only. And if you have serious problems, please seek professional help.

A couple of quick details about the website

The Positivity Blog has:

1. Been online since September 2006.
2. 300000+ visitors per month.
3. 47000+ subscribers (as of August 2011).
4. Been featured on major niche sites such as Lifehacker, Dumb Little Man and Lifehack.org.

Now, where to start?

So where do you start with your personal development?

1. You could have a look at the most popular articles – from hundreds of them – that I have written so far to find something that helps you with your current issue or what you want to improve in your life:

Do You Make These 10 Mistakes in a Conversation?
7 Habits of Highly Ineffective People
Gandhi’s Top 10 Fundamentals for Changing the World
18 Ways to Improve Your Body Language
16 Things I Wish They Had Taught Me in School
Bruce Lee’s Top 7 Fundamentals for Getting Your Life in Shape
Mark Twain’s Top 9 Tips for Living a Kick-Ass Life

2. Use the search field at the bottom of the left column on any page of the website to search for the answer(s) you are looking for.

3. Subscribe to my email list – I hate spam just as much as you and will never share you email address with anyone - by using the form below to get new articles in your inbox every week + a free e-book called The 7 Timeless Habits of Happiness.

4. Learn much more and make those changes and habits stick faster by using my in-depth premium guides.

I have so far created four premium guides that go much more deeply into the topics I explore in the free articles. In these premium guides you do not only get concise, in-depth written guides but also instantly downloadable audio guides, workbooks to help you apply what you learn into you own life and other very helpful tools that will help you to make positive changes that stick.

The Self-Esteem Course

In this 12 week course you’ll learn how to:

• Deep down feel like you truly trust yourself to be able to handle life and making the important decisions and that you deserve to have and to get more good and awesome things in your life.
• Finally lay off and overcome your own most self-critical and most self-esteem damaging thought habits such as perfectionism and comparing yourself to others.
• Learn to handle mistakes, failure and criticism in healthy way that preserves you self-esteem.

Plus a whole lot more.

Click here to learn more about the Self-Esteem Course

Simplicity

This premium course – split into six modules filled with written guides, workbooks, lots of audio guides and more – will help you to simplify and improve many of the most important areas of life.

Areas like your effectiveness and stress levels, your thinking, your social life and relationships, your health and fitness levels, your home and workplace and your financial life.

Go to this page to learn all about Simplicity.

The Art of Relaxed Productivity

My e-book about how I tripled my own effectiveness, lowered my stress levels a whole lot and get more of vital importance done in day than I used to get done in a week a couple of years ago. It includes a workbook, audio guides on important topics like procrastination and motivation and other tools that I use to stay effective but at the same time relaxed.

Go to this page to learn all about The Art of Relaxed Productivity.

The Power of Positivity

The first premium guide I created. This one explores many areas such as a positive attitude, self-esteem, losing weight, self-confidence, becoming a person of action and more but does not go into topics as deeply as the guides described above. It also includes several audio guides and a workbook.

Go to this page to learn all about The Power of Positivity.

Connect with me

If you got any questions or comments you can use the contact form on the Contact page.

Or you can connect with me on these social media websites:

• The Facebook Fan Page
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