Fundamental of Achievement
Personal
Growth
If you want to live a better life, you must become a better person. That’s why personal growth is one of the key elements to a life well lived. Very few—if any—of us are born into ideal situations. Yet all of us have the ability to become worthy of attaining our dreams and aspirations.
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What Is Personal Growth?
Personal growth is the process of changing attitudes, and/or behaviors in order to enhance the quality of one’s life. This typically includes improving habits, skills, and thinking patterns. Such self development is used to unlock human potential in the pursuit of goals.
Why Personal Growth?
Personal growth is the path to your ideal future. The only way to get what you want out of life is to become the type of person who is worthy of it.
I don’t claim to be an expert on anything I write about.
Hell, I hardly claim to be an expert on myself. 😂😂😂
These breakdowns are largely for me. I use them to record and reference. Unlike most others on this site though, this goal setting page might actually be useful to the outside observer.
No promises. You can tell me.
Becoming a Goal Getter
Pay the price success demands/earn it.
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Deciding Your Destiny
take onttrol of your story/write your own story… your whole life is training arc
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Force for Good
Best way to improve/change the world
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Better You Better Life
outcomes
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There’s a lot that goes into becoming the best you. Here’s a quick look at what the self development journey has been like for me.
Learn with Me
Like all of us:
I’ve been on a personal growth journey from the day I was born.
But unlike most people, I’m kind of obsessed with it. Starting at around 20 years old, I really started to feel the weight of my potential and begun the task of reprogramming myself.
At one point, I listened to the audiobook for 7 Habits of Highly Effective People every single time I drove my car.
This lasted for several months or maybe even a year. 😅
Nowadays, I’m slightly less deranged. However, I’m still a major personal growth junkie. At my best, I start my days with self-help audio and consume copious amounts of personal growth podcasts and interviews.
I strive to get better everyday, as you can see on This Site.
My Experience
I’ve come quite a long way.
Yet I’ve still got quite a long way to go.
I see self development as a continuous ascent toward my peak self. Even if it were possible, I wouldn’t want it to end.
It’s not just about what it can bring me.
Personal growth is an end within itself. I relish ever single step forward (and even some of the backward ones).
I’m far better than I used to be, on nearly every level. But thankfully, I’m nowhere near as good as I will be down the road. One might even say I’m addicted to the uphill climb.
I play that it never ends. 🙏
- Importance – 99%
- Passion – 92%
- Mastery – 25%
Journey Started: ≈2009
Good Life Foundation
Goals are fundamental. They are an essential pillar of a good life. Without them, it’s easy to get blown to and fro by the winds of the world.
Where Goal Setting Fits in a Good Life
Goals are one of the most important pieces of the Achievement puzzle.
For me, they’re a “Tier 2” concept, on the same level as Mindset, Habits, Growth, and High Performance.
It is also closely tied to practices like Journaling.
1. Achievement
‣ 2. Goal Setting
3. Frameworks
3. Scheduling
4. Yearly
4. Monthly
4. Daily Planning
3. Business Plans
Success Habit Rank
Videos Watched
Mentions on My Site
Books Read
Pulling Threads: A Lion Chasing Rabbits
What the hell is This Site, exactly? A pointless stream of consciousness? A fanboy's ode to his Heroes? A psycho's Favorite topics? All three? Or maybe, it's just the result of a lion chasing rabbits. You might LOL... but this is how it works: I am destined to be the...
Growing Into a Person for a Better Life
For personal growth newbies:
Let’s start with the best advice up front.
Just get started.
Every step you take in the right direction is a good thing, no matter how small.
Whether we acknowledge it or not, we’re all on a journey of self development. The path is not static… the world will pass you by if you stand still/stand still for too long/standing still is basically impossible… you’re either improving or getting worse in relation to the rest of the world
In the end, you have to take Personal Responsibility for your life/who you are/what happens to you.
Tom Bilyeu and Gary Vee:
“Everything is my fault.”
nothing is handed to you
what happens to you is not as important as what you’re willing to do about it
two sides of personal growth… developing virtues and shedding vices
- virtues – character traits, skill building, etc.
- vices – sacrifice the weakest parts of yourself on the altar of your future success
becoming the best you > living your best life
How to Become the Best You Step-By-Step
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Growth Mindset
The path to personal development begins with the Growth Mindset. In order to get better, you have to believe that you can first. This is both a gift and a curse, a hopeful message and an indictment. So the question is, what are you going to do with it?
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Why
Most of the time, if you’re going to do something hard you need a reason… preferrably one that is bigger than yourself… especially if you’re looking to undergo radical change… ambition and duty are both acceptable reasons… both probably even better
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Targets
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Clean Your Room
Jordan Peterson… not actually tongue in cheek
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Grow Everday
daily practice, discipline, learning, skill building… make it a part of who you are, self identity
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Move Goal Posts
Some say the biggest reward you get for achieving a goal is the ability/impetus to set another one. And while shifting the goal posts is bad etiquette in a debate, it is a great thing in your personal life.
the journey never stops… and that is a beautiful thing
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Remember: just start. By embracing self development, you’re on your way to making your life better, and the lives of those around you.
The first time you put your goals on paper, you’re closer to achieving your dreams than 90% of the population.
My Favorite Personal Growth Videos
Everything you need to learn about goals is online.
I’m no high performance titan. I stand on the shoulders of giants. I simply listen to what my Heroes say and apply it. Not everything sticks. But enough does to make a lasting impact.
Data
Dump
One of the main purposes of This Site is to catalog my learnings. I’m not that learned. But I’m working on becoming moreso. If you see a “data dump” on this site, you’re looking at unsorted information. It may be related or completely unrelated, depending on the topic.
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How I improve Myself to Create the Life I want
If you haven’t noticed, I take this stuff seriously.
You don’t have to do it like me. But maybe you wanna know. So I guess I’ll tell you. You might have picked some of it up by reading through this page or clicking on some of the links.
I’ll spell it all out here.
Stoking My Inner Fire
I’ve always had the desire for greatness in me
My small, still voice is not that small or still 😅 it’s often loud and judgmental 😂
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Brainwashing Myself
Moticuts, Affirmations, my protocols… useful for day-to-day productivity but also for rewriting my self-identify/becoming the type of person who
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Building This Site
Personal growth is one of the primary purposes of This Site. The page you’re reading now was one of the first I ever started working on. It has since evolved into a whole constellation of pages covering various aspects of Achievement and Character.
My Content Challenges are also a tool I use to instill Consistency and improve my Writing skills
First, I use pages like this one to improve my character
Not only do I use things like my Content Challenges to instill Consti
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Habit & Productivity Tracking
My Bullet Journaling system gives me the hard data I need to ensure my progress…. self awareness to the next level/impossible to lie to myself about how well I am doing
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How I Do It Part 5
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Favorite Coaches
Favorite Teachers
Favorite Entrepreneurs
My [This Favorite] Posts
Becoming Legendary: My 2022 Goals
I'm fairly confident 2022 is going to be the most successful year of my life so far. I'm writing this post to help guarantee that. Obviously, I can't control the future. But I can set intentions and create a plan of action. That's what Goal Setting is all about. So...
Setting the New 20s Off Right: My 2020 Goals
New Year's Resolutions get a bad wrap. It's not their fault though. It's yours. The truth is: The beginning of the year is a perfect time for a reset. You have to execute though. Do it right and this year could be the best year you've ever had. No guarantees. Because,...
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How to Become a Morning Person [Life-Changing Habit #1]
Becoming a "morning person" has changed my life. Only time will tell, but it could go down as a top five factor to my future success. Learning how to wake up early wasn't easy. Until the second half of 2018, I've been a notoriously late sleeper. It started as a kid: I...
Becoming Legendary: My 2022 Goals
I'm fairly confident 2022 is going to be the most successful year of my life so far. I'm writing this post to help guarantee that. Obviously, I can't control the future. But I can set intentions and create a plan of action. That's what Goal Setting is all about. So...
Setting the New 20s Off Right: My 2020 Goals
New Year's Resolutions get a bad wrap. It's not their fault though. It's yours. The truth is: The beginning of the year is a perfect time for a reset. You have to execute though. Do it right and this year could be the best year you've ever had. No guarantees. Because,...
How to Become a Morning Person [Life-Changing Habit #1]
Becoming a "morning person" has changed my life. Only time will tell, but it could go down as a top five factor to my future success. Learning how to wake up early wasn't easy. Until the second half of 2018, I've been a notoriously late sleeper. It started as a kid: I...
Setting Goals for 2019
I have mixed feelings about New Year's Resolutions. I don't believe in waiting to make changes. I think it makes more sense to try to grow everyday. Create good new habits. Erase the negative old ones. Do it all the time. However, I find that measurement is...
My Top 3 High Performance Coaches
"YouTube University" has brought many a life-optimizer across my path. These three are my favorite high performance coaches.
What You’ll Find Here
For the time being, this site is mostly just a data dump. Over time, it may become more useful to the outside observer. Who knows?
My Own Research
I am the definition of a know-it-all. Hopefully, someone else can use that to their advantage. These pages are to cataloging my learnings.
Opinions of Same
I am a master of unsolicited advice. Frankly, it’s annoying. An outlet for self-expression, I hope this site will help me become a better listener.
Video Breakdowns
I consume hundreds of hours of video training, keynotes, and other education content. Timestamping content helps me learn and teach others.
Top 7 Pieces to the Personal Growth Puzzle
Self Brainwashing
Quality content is the first pillar of SEO. If you want to be known about a topic, you need content about it. Nowadays, that content has to be the best. That trend will only continue into the 2020s—and beyond.
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Habits & Rituals
Vishen may be the man I look up to more than any other. His mission of education reform may be the most important of any of my heroes. Over the long-term he may be the favorite for the top spot.
Self Awareness
Naruto is the most inspiring character I’ve ever come across. What I’ve learned from him is unique. And yet, his story seems inevitable, almost perfect. Watching Naruto, I felt as if it was written from my own heart.
Goal Setting
To this point, I might have learned more from Brian Johnson than any other person on the planet. He has created a library of classic and modern teachings on becoming the best you and living your best life.
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Motivation
Brendon Burchard is one of the world’s leading high performance coaches. Before I met Gary Vee, I filled my house with Brendon’s voice almost everyday. His content was the first I used to brainwash myself.
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Happiness
Nahko is probably my favorite musician today. I use his music to heal and connect with my highest self. There are others I use in the same way. Yet much Naruto’s story, Nahko’s music often feels written just for me.
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Biohacking
Tom is one of the dark horses for top spot over the long term. Similar to Vishen, much of that has to do with the weight of his mission. He wants to “break people out of the Matrix” through entertainment. Smart and strong.
More Personal Growth Subtopics
Affirmations
Enlightenment
Peak Performance
Productivity
Habit Tracking
Bullet Journal
Gratitude
Meditation
Web Development
Marketing Strategy
Funnels & Integration
Web Development
Personal Growth Heroes
Learn With Me
Most people know Gary as “that social media guy.”
For me personally, he’s a lot more.
But I’ll get to that. First, let’s start with a…
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vayner media
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My Progress So Far
More than anyone else:
Gary is the reason I started creating hero profiles.
Now that I’ve started, I see that his profile may be less useful than my other heroes to other people. But his will likely always remain the most important to me.
I fucking love this dude. He changed my life.
More accurately, he teamed up with Nahko to save my life.
I’m not quite sure when I found him. I featured him all the way back in one of my first posts for Greensboro SEO Pro.
- Level of Understanding – 95%
- Level of Admiration – 98%
- Level of Modeling – 99%
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Mentions on My Site
G.O.A.T. Rank
My Favorite Personal Growth Videos
Why SEO?
For the time being, this site is mostly just a data dump. Over time, it may become more useful to the outside observer. Who knows?
I don’t claim to be an expert on anyone I write about.
Hell, I hardly claim to be an expert on myself.
These profiles are largely for me. I use them to record and reference. In the future, I may make them more meaningful to the outside observer.
No guarantees. Let’s start small.
Career Path
This is an odd way to put it. But it’s the only phrase that captures the entire bucket. Gary thinks like a Scorpio.
Going For the GoAt
Many of my heroes talk about company culture. Gary’s idea of a “Honey Empire” is one of the best.
Experts Don’t Exist
Most people know Gary as “that social media guy.” Makes sense. He’s one of–if not the–best at it on the planet.
Satisfies Curiosity
Gary wants to buy the Jets. Big dream, but he has a practical plan for it. Luckily, he is documenting the journey.
My Personal Growth Content
Gary Vee’s 4 Ds Meeting Videos are AMAZING!!!
There's a lot of great business content online. I might have consumed an unhealthy amount of it already. Now, I'm more on the application side. So PBD at Valuetainment gets more of my watchtime than anyone else right now. Actionable advice to the extreme. It might be...
How to Become a Morning Person [Life-Changing Habit #1]
Becoming a "morning person" has changed my life. Only time will tell, but it could go down as a top five factor to my future success. Learning how to wake up early wasn't easy. Until the second half of 2018, I've been a notoriously late sleeper. It started as a kid: I...
How Gary Vee and Nahko Bear Teamed Up to Save My Life
Once upon a time, I was in a deep, dark place. It was completely self-imposed. I loved a girl. She gave me the world's greatest kids. But I was a dick. So she ran away with them. Good on her. It fucking huuuuuuuuurt though. It almost did me in. How? It took me so...
My Month in Personal Growth – July 2018
Two weeks and some change late. No biggie. This thang bout to get shipped though. At the end of July, I took off to Arizona. Predictably, it's gotten me behind on few things. These posts are basically useless to anyone who I'm not close with. So it makes sense to...
My Month in Personal Growth – June 2018
Quarter three, here I come. I've been banging out personal growth posts for six straight months now. January February March April May I'm slightly proud of myself. It definitely feels better than when I promised a slew of work from home posts but tapped out after the...
My Month in Personal Growth – April 2018
4 months down... ...no telling how many I have left to go. Certainly, I'll be growing every month from now until my dying day. But how long will I do this series? Nobody knows. Not even me haha But I will commit to all of 2018. I need to practice consistency...
My Month in Personal Growth – February 2018
Yaaaaaaaaaaay! I made it to my second monthly personal growth post! A year from now, these posts will be a great resource. Again, I'm all about brainwashing myself. Repetition helps. So I will use this this partially as a record of all of my favorite talks. Last...
My Month in Personal Growth – January 2018
As I mentioned in my Grateful as Fnck post: I'm going to try to start a regular blogging habit. It's about time. After all, I've had high-paying copywriting clients for several years now. I should have started writing for myself when I first began my work from home...
Grateful as Fnck
Okay. Okay. Okay. I know. I know. I know. I need to start writing on this blog. And while this post may not connect well to any of the bigger things I want to do with my life, it is connected to my life. Ya see? I have a daily gratitude practice... ...and it has...
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