Book review: The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari

By Leo Babauta

The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Fable About Fulfilling Your Dreams & Reaching Your Destiny, by Robin Sharma, is an interesting book — as the subtitle suggests, it’s a fable, and it’s one that will certainly make you give some thought to your life, your goals, your dreams and how your daily habits help you reach those dreams.

I Heard You Need a Push

This article is a list of tips and tricks that, if used in combination, are a nearly sure way to achieve your goals. Achieving goals is not a matter of having “discipline”. It’s a matter of motivating yourself, and keeping your focus on your goal. Follow these tips, or any combination of them that works for you, and you should have the motivation and focus you need.

Relax and Celebrate Your Self

Too often we are hard on ourselves and feel bad about our lack of progress. We feel guilty that we have missed a couple of opportunities, our progress in achieving our goals are hindered or that we made a really terrible decision. But, that’s like looking at the glass as half empty, and it is almost guaranteed to hinder your progress towards your goal.

10 Habits to Develop for Financial Stability and Success

I read this article on Leo Baubata’s blog and thought it wise to share. I hope you will find it useful. Just like any goal; getting your finances stable and becoming financially successful requires the development of good financial habits. I’ve been researching this topic extensively in the last few years in my quest to eliminate debt, increase my savings and increase financial security for my family. I will talk more about these habits individually, but wanted to list them in a summary.

I Care About You

From time to time, we all get a little down or depressed. Sometimes, we feel overwhelmed or bad because we are not doing well with our goals. Feeling a little depressed can interfere with achieving our goals. We know we should be doing something, but we just don’t feel like doing anything. This can last for a long time if you don’t take them off your mind as soon as possible and take action.

Reviewing Your Goals

How often do you review your goals? Annually or Bi-annually? If so, you are definitely ahead of people who have not set theirs. Nevertheless, I recommend a more frequent review period that will seem like overkill for some people; I personally believe this is a key to maintaining focus on your goals and actually making them a reality. The key habit to actualizing your goals is to review your goals at least once a week.

What If You Re-strategise

There is never a good time to sit down and think about what you want to accomplish in life. We all have busy lives, and even when you are not busy, we often feel more like whiling away in front of the television or surfing the internet than thinking about the rest of our lives.

Episode 3: Living A Successful Life

Regardless of how old you are, where you live, or what your career goals are, it's more than likely, that your ultimate goal in life is to be happy and successful. Read this article to learn how to achieve success in both your external life (i.e. your circumstances) and internal life (i.e. emotional well being).

Episode 2: Running a Successful Christian Race

Hello, trust God your day is going as planned. As earlier promised, these are some biblical passages I believe can help to enable remain on track while running the eternal race. Read, digest and practice them.

Episode 1: Academic Excellence

Have you ever looked at the academic achievements of others and said to yourself “Wow, if only I can do that!”, or you have once said: "how I wish I can have better grades, top the class, achieve higher level of academic excellence than my present status", and so on. Here’s the simple truth: