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My Favorite Blog So Far in 2009

Henrik Edberg — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 19:57:47 +0000

So far this year I have been quite focused on fitness and getting into even better shape.

I don’t really write much about other blogs or give linktips here on the blog (that is handled on Twitter) but I’d like to make an exception today.

One blog that has really helped me out and changed how I view fitness quite a bit is Fitness Black Book. Instead of getting really huge a la Arnie Fitness Black Book is all about getting lean and toned.

What I like about this blog is that it’s relaxed but also uses a no-nonsense approach. The guy who owns the blog, Rusty Moore, seems to be a pretty normal guy with a well-balanced life. He writes about the upsides of having a few beers and traveling instead of living in the gym. Plus, he’s pretty funny at times.

Besides having had an impact on how I view training through many of his articles he has also introduced me to two things that I love about exercising about right now:

Planks. The best ab-exercise I have found so far. They aren’t easy but a whole lot more fun than doing a trillion crunches. Read about them in 7 Minute Abs? 8 Minute Abs? What About 6 Minute Abs?

Turbulence Training. Through Rusty I discover this exercise program by Craig Ballantyne that focuses on quick and intense workouts. I have been using it for a while now and my energy has really gone up. The best thing for me about this program is the bodyweight circuits. Instead of going out running intervals or getting bored on an exercise bik, I can get really quick and intense cardio workouts right here at home while using little to no equipment. Awesome!

Pretty much all the articles on Fitness Black Book are interesting, simple and helpful in a practical way. And reading one or a few of them is a good way to get motivated on a tough or uninspired day.

Here are a few of my favorites:

Check them out, I’m sure you’ll find something helpful there.

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Want to learn much more about living a simpler, happier and less stressful life where you dare to follow and achieve your dreams in 2012? Then have a look at my four premium courses and guides:

- Stop feeling lousy about yourself and start living a life of self-happiness where you live up to your potential and dare to follow your dreams today - with The Self-Esteem Course.

- Get rid off the inner and outer clutter and start living a simpler, more focused and meaningful life - with the Simplicity Course.

- How to triple your productivity, minimize stress and free up more time for yourself starting today - with The Art of Relaxed Productivity.

- How to become a more mindful, motivated, action-taking optimist - with The Power of Positivity.

Copyright 2006-2012 Henrik Edberg.

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Eckhart Tolle and Oprah – 10 Free Weekly Live Web Events

Henrik Edberg — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 23:27:46 +0000

Maybe you’ve already heard about this. Eckhart Tolle’s book A New Earth is the Book of the Month at Oprah’s Book Club. This a great opportunity for Tolle’s ideas to reach a really big audience. But Oprah and Tolle has taken this a step further.

Starting today – and continuing for 10 weeks – Oprah and Eckhart Tolle will hold live web events where different concepts from the book will be discussed. The schedule for the webcasts looks like this:

Monday, March 3rd
- The Flowering of Human Conciousness

Monday, March 10th
- Ego: The Current State of Humanity

Monday, March 17th
- The Core of Ego

Monday, March 24th
- Role Playing: The Many Faces of the Ego

Monday, March 31st
- The Pain-Body

Monday, April 7th
- Breaking Free

Monday, April 14th
- Finding Who You Truly Are

Monday, April 21
- The Discovery of Inner Space

Monday, April 28th
- Your Inner Purpose

Monday, May 5th
- A New Earth

If you haven’t already read A New Earth this a good opportunity to do so and to be able to gain a deeper understanding of the ideas in the book via the web events and discussions with other readers online.

What are the benefits of reading this book and understanding and applying Tolle’s ideas? A few upsides that I have found and mentioned before include:

Being able to spend more of your life in the present moment.
Understanding your ego and how it can mess up your life.
Reducing fear and negative emotions.
Increasing inner stillness and positive emotions.

You can sign up for free for the web events and discussions right here. I and over 380000 others have already done so.

If you like this article and want to spread the word about these live events, please give it a thumb up in Stumbleupon. Thanks a lot! =)

Link Karma – 5 November 2007

Henrik Edberg — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 15:59:28 +0000

Link Karma is a section of The Positivity Blog where I list some good reading I’ve stumbled upon over the last few weeks.

I won’t be doing these posts too often anymore since I’m focusing my energy on writing longer articles.

Also, I seem to read less and less blogs/websites. Instead I’m gravitating more towards spending time with books these days.

Anyway, I hope you enjoy this batch of articles and find something helpful.

For more good reading check out the Link Karma-archives.

Anyone interested in learning more about body language – maybe the most important part of interpersonal communication – can find a whole site about it here.
Scott H Young had some truly excellent articles last month. My favourites were The Art of The Finish and the process focused series that started with How to Not Want Things and Still Be Happy.
I thoroughly enjoyed this post about a humor speech Steve Pavlina gave because a) the speech was in parts really funny and b) an analysis of why something is funny is always interesting.
I liked this list with 10 Money Mistakes to Avoid over at Pick the Brain.
I’ve also started exploring the Now-For-You Forum, “a social club for those interested in the observation of this moment” according to the tagline.
Peter, over at I Will Change Your Life, has written a good post about the excitement of mixing things up.

Link Karma – 6 October 2007

Henrik Edberg — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 10:04:19 +0000

I havenÂ´t done one of these Link Karma posts in a while so I thought it was time to share some of the best articles IÂ´ve read online over the last few weeks.

I wonÂ´t be doing these posts too often anymore since IÂ´m focusing my energy on writing my own longer articles.

I also donÂ´t read as many blogs/websites as I used to so the links I gather are probably good for one Link Karma post a month.

Jason Ivers wrote a very practical article about everyone’s favourite productivity problem: procrastination.

Gretchen Rubin, of the wonderful Happiness Project, wrote a post about how easily you can turn negative emotions into positive ones by acting the way you want to feel.

Steve Olson has an optimistic view of the younger generation.

10 Big Lessons from Little Kids is an excellent article from Ririan Project. I think my favourite one among the lessons is #7: Your body was designed for throwing baseballs, shooting hoops, and jumping off diving boards and stuff. In the secret language of children, the word “fitness” doesn’t exist. It’s called “having fun.”

Leo at Zen Habits did a useful post about his minimalist productivity system called Haiku Productivity.

Finally, there was an excellent post about diffusing conflicts a few weeks back over at Pick the Brain.

My Five Favourite Personal Development Blogs at the Moment

Henrik Edberg — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 08:10:45 +0000

Priscilla Palmer has started a meme where I was tagged.

The point of the meme is to list your top five personal development bloggers/blogs.

Priscilla is compiling the results into a Master List of Personal Development Blogs.

The five bloggers/blogs Priscilla listed was:

Aaron Potts at Today is That Day

David Rogers at How to Have Great Self Confidence

Henrik Edberg at The Positivity Blog

Karen Lynch at Live The Power

Lyman Reed at Creating a Better Life

Quite a few months back I listed The Personal Development Blogs I Really Like. Some of the blogs I listed back then are in my current top five. Some are new. My favourites at the moment are:

Scott H Young at Scott H Young – A wonderful blog with a new and improved design. One recent and outstanding post is What do you want to do with your life?.

Tim Ferriss at 4-Hour Workweek and Lifestyle Design Blog – Tim wrote the excellent and ridiculously popular 4-Hour Workweek. He now blogs about improving your life and lifestyle experiments. Often quite original posts with a good bit of value to them, like this recent interview: Networking Tips from the White House.

Scott Adams at The Dilbert Blog – An immensely popular blog – with like 400 comments for each post – about life, humour and comics by Scott Adams, creator of the cubicle-comic Dilbert. Scott has a very sharp pen and is – not so unexpectedly – actually consistently funny in writing. A valuable blog if you want to learn more about humour – a not so often talked about but important topic when it comes to self improvement – and read sensible thoughts about all kind of things.

Brian Clark at Copyblogger – On how to become more influential and persuasive in your blogging. The principles and insights Brian and his co-bloggers share can be translated to just about any part of life.

Gretchen Rubin at Happiness Project – A very well-written blog with a light tone. Reading Gretchen’s blog in the morning always puts me into a happier mood.

And that’s it. Have a fun weekend!

Link Karma – 8 August 2007

Henrik Edberg — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 09:10:24 +0000

Link Karma is a section of The Positivity Blog where I list some good reading IÂ´ve stumbled upon during the last few days (or weeks, depending on how much browsing and reading I do).

I hope you enjoy this batch of articles and find something helpful.

For more good reading check out the Link Karma-archives.

- Top 10 Reasons Why Complaining is so Toxic in The Workplace – Alexander over at Chief Happiness Officer shares some good reasons to stop the constant moaning.

- I really liked this super short quotations-post by Gretchen Rubin over at The Happiness Project.

- 10 Tips for Razor Sharp Concentration – Scott H Young has written a good post with the fundamentals of improving your concentration.

- 10 Commandments for Living a Bold Life – One of the finest posts from the archives of Ririan Project.

- Three Easy Ways to Expand Your Creativity – A short and concise article from Copyblogger with three creative ways to get your creative juices flowing.

- Finally, Steve Pavlina gave some interesting suggestions on how to speed up your audio learning.

Link Karma – 15 July 2007

Henrik Edberg — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 08:25:16 +0000

Link Karma is a section of The Positivity Blog where I list some good reading IÂ´ve stumbled upon during the last few days (or weeks, depending on how much browsing and reading I do).

I hope you enjoy this batch of articles and find something helpful!

- Feeling Unfulfilled? 37 Tips to Enjoy Work More – A good list from Positivityblog-reader Rich McIver. My favourites among the tips are: 7. Stay away from Negative Ned, 13. Prioritize and 1. Think positively.

- What Buddha Did Not Teach – A table that clarifies the wrong (complicated) and right (simple) view of Buddha’s teachings. A very interesting read.

- Stumbleupon led me to two other nice summaries. One is of How to Win Friends and Influence People. It might be the most well-spent 14 minutes of your day.

- The other summary is of David Greene’s 48 Laws of Power, a sort of darkside alternative to How to Win Friends and Influence People. A fascinating book, with lot of great examples of the laws put to use by influential people throughout the last few thousand years.

- IÂ´d also like to highlight two posts from Leo Babauta of zenhabits-fame and who seems to be everywhere these days. Since I like eating slowly I enjoyed 5 Powerful Reasons to Eat Slower. And since I like to improve my writing IÂ´ve found great value in 7 Ways to Crank Out Articles. If you are a blogger/writer I highly recommend taking LeoÂ´s advice in that article and downloading DarkRoom – or a variation of it – to improve your crankingpower.

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Want to learn much more about living a simpler, happier and less stressful life where you dare to follow and achieve your dreams in 2012? Then have a look at my four premium courses and guides:

- Stop feeling lousy about yourself and start living a life of self-happiness where you live up to your potential and dare to follow your dreams today - with The Self-Esteem Course.

- Get rid off the inner and outer clutter and start living a simpler, more focused and meaningful life - with the Simplicity Course.

- How to triple your productivity, minimize stress and free up more time for yourself starting today - with The Art of Relaxed Productivity.

- How to become a more mindful, motivated, action-taking optimist - with The Power of Positivity.

Copyright 2006-2012 Henrik Edberg.

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Link Karma – 11 June 2007

Henrik Edberg — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 08:01:51 +0000

Link Karma is a section of The Positivity Blog where I list some good reading IÂ´ve stumbled upon during the last few days (or weeks, depending on how much browsing and reading I do).

If you have a tip about something great you read, send an email to henrik at positivityblog.com.

Thanks and enjoy this batch of articles!

- The Simple Dollar published an inspiring email from a reader about how taking a lower paying job may have been the best personal finance move of her life.

- Famous psychologist Abraham Maslow (the guy with the hierarchy of needs) on Self-Actualization. A short and interesting read that includes the characteristics of self-actualizers and 8 ways in which individuals self-actualize.

- Gretchen over at The Happiness Project wrote a good piece about crushing procrastination and creative blocks by putting yourself in a Creativity Boot Camp.

- Successful internet entrepreneur Jeremy “Shoemoney” Shoemaker has been posting a series called Tips for Success for the last few weeks. Well worth reading. Some of my favourite posts of the 16 posted so far are: Make Progress Every Day, Wasting Idle Time, Know Your Faults and Shit or Get of The Pot.

- Finally, an interesting read on Color Psychology.

Link Karma – 1 June 2007

Henrik Edberg — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 06:56:49 +0000

Link Karma is a section of The Positivity Blog where I list some good reading IÂ´ve stumbled upon during the last few days (or weeks, depending on how much browsing and reading I do).

If you have a tip about something great you read, send an email to henrik at positivityblog.com.

Thanks and enjoy this batch of articles!

One way to find out whatÂ´s really important and what you should focus your energy on is brought to you by the military and Steve Pavlina. Steve outlines the CARVER system in one of his latest posts and it sure sounds pretty useful to gain clarity.

Leo at Zenhabits shares How I work 2 jobs, blog and still find time for my wife and 6 children. Interesting insights. And it made me think – once again – that I should really learn how to type faster.

Scott H Young has typed down 12 Tips for Eliminating Boredom. I especially like these three suggestions: Figure out what you really want to do, Be your own cheerleader and Learn something new.

Over at Ririan Project there are 33 New Ways for Overclocking Your Brain. My favourite – among the many excellent suggestions – probably is #23: Share it with others. It has really been a great way to make information stick in my mind and to deepen my understanding of different topics.

And, finally: 7 Ways to Make Someone Else’s Day Better by Kim Roach at The Optimized Life.

Link Karma – 17 May 2007

Henrik Edberg — Thu, 17 May 2007 21:11:46 +0000

Link Karma is a section of The Positivity Blog where I list some good reading IÂ´ve stumbled upon during the last few days (or weeks, depending on how much browsing and reading I do).

If you have a tip about something great you read, send an email to henrik at positivityblog.com.

Thanks and enjoy this batch of articles!

The 15 Best Diet Tips Ever – I thought this was a pretty nice list. I especially like tip # 2 “Think about what you can add to your diet, not what you should take away” and tip # 14 “Use non-food alternatives to cope with stress”.

I’m trying to boost my happiness by being more enthusiastic – A warm and useful post by Gretchen Rubin.

5 Back-to-Basics Strategies For Renewing Your Energy – I really like these five simple tips from Ririan. But I have to admit that IÂ´m having some trouble with tip # 2 and tip # 3.

Do You Need People to Support You? – This post by Scott H Young resonated with me. A good and insightful read.

Can you see the green dot? – ItÂ´s funny how the mind can be tricked. One of the coolest optical illusions IÂ´ve seen so far.