Personal Development Blogs

Discover the best independent blogs about personal development on BlogRolly.

• Raising your vibration – 20 ways to elevate your mood — Want to lift your mood in minutes? Here are 20 ways to elevate your mood and how to raise your vibration with daily prac
• Get out of your comfort zone — Awkward at your first Zumba class? Been there. Quitting was my go-to when I wasn’t instantly good. This post shows how I
• Consistency over perfection — Perfection is holding you back. In this post I explain why consistency over perfection beats perfect one-off workouts an
• Sobriety and Recovery: A Holistic Life Approach — Picture a Friday night where the drinks do the talking. I map out a holistic approach to sobriety and recovery that heal
• Visualization vs. Law of Attraction: Harnessing the Power of Your Mind — Curious which actually works, visualization or the Law of Attraction? I guide you through visualization vs law of attrac
• The Power of Progressive Muscle Relaxation: A Path to Holistic Well-being — Feeling wound up after a long day? Read how to practice progressive muscle relaxation and learn the PMR technique, the s
• The Hidden Symphony: Determination and Consequence on the Path to Achieving Goals — Curious why willpower often fails? In this post I unpack the difference between willpower and determination and explain
• Emotions: The Power of Releasing and Healing — Ever felt like your emotions are a jammed kitchen drawer, ready to spill? I explain recall healing and how buried feelin
• 5 Steps To Stop Being A People Pleaser: Nice Guy Syndrome 101 — Sick of being the nice guy who never gets what he wants? In this post I offer five practical steps to stop being a peopl
• How To Reprogram Your Subconscious Mind — Ready to change deep habits and beliefs? In this post I lay out the 10 best ways to reprogram your subconscious mind, a
• What To Do When You’re A Chronic Apologizer — Always saying sorry? I unpack why chronic apologizing can be a fawn trauma response, how it drives people pleasing and r
• What is Embodiment? — Curious about what embodiment really means? In this post I explain what is embodiment, how trauma impacts embodiment and
• Getting Spicy: A Guide to Orgasmic Meditation — Ready to get spicy and try orgasmic meditation? I walk you through setting the scene, consent and communication, and a 1
• Introduction to Setting Boundaries That Feel Good and Work — Ready for a tough love boundary reset? I walk you through how to set boundaries that feel good and work, with practical
• What?! Being Single is The Best Time for Personal Growth? — What if being single is actually the best time to grow? As a sex and relationships expert, I explain five reasons why si
• I’m Always Paying Myself For A New Phone — Paying myself $41 a month makes buying a new iPhone painless. In the post I explain my phone savings strategy, why I upg
• How I Use The Credits I Get From My Credit Cards — Want to squeeze every dollar from premium credit cards? I walk through exactly how I use Chase Sapphire Reserve $300 tra
• Breaking the Silence and Giving a Voice to Women in the System — Incarceration should not be the end of the story. As someone who has lived through addiction and the system, I'm breakin
• A man of no ambition — Ever met a salesman with a permanent grin? I tell a true story from the box factory where I worked for my dad, why I tur
• Identity economics: Who are you? And how does it affect your spending? — Who are you when it comes to money? In this post I unpack identity economics and money mindset psychology, using persona
• Is it better to rent or buy? How to know when renting a home makes sense — Confused about rent vs buy? I walk through a practical rent versus buy decision method using the price-to-rent ratio. Yo
• The Ideal Level of Wealth — Curious what the ideal level of wealth looks like in real numbers? I offer a practical target. Using a U.S. middle class
• Desire Paths: The Unconventional Way to Live Your life — Ever noticed the little dirt trails cutting across a lawn? In this re-share of a favorite from I Dream of FIRE I use des
• WifeFI Status Activated — Zero paychecks for six months and I barely noticed. I'm officially WifeFI, financially independent enabled by my wife, a
• You must begin from where you are — Start from where you are, seriously. In this post I mash up lessons from Yoga Girl with practical personal finance tips
• My $507.34 Ridiculous Mistake! — What a ridiculous mistake. I paid $507.34 over five years for Avast Premium Security I never activated. I trace the rece
• What matters most when it comes to investing? — Saving more beats picking the perfect index fund every time. I explain what matters most when it comes to investing, why
• Most common mistake among investors — Here’s the #1 most common mistake among investors, letting cash sit uninvested in accounts like a Roth IRA. I walk throu
• From A Caterpillar To A Butterfly: What Makes People Really Change? — Ever felt stuck despite doing all the self-reflection? I walk through what makes people really change, decoding the brai
• I Feel Like I’m Too Far Behind to Find Love, And I’ll Never Catch Up. — Ever feel like you're too far behind to find love? In this candid Dr. NerdLove letter I tell my story at 27, from redpil
• How Do I Get A Life? — Tired of numbing out with Fortnite and weed? I walk through how to actually get a life after college. Honest, practical
• I’ve Never Been a Long-Distance Runner (And My Career Proves It) — A powerful story for women and mothers learning patience, rebuilding purpose, and breaking free from burnout, self-doubt
• No More Mirrors for the Unready! — A day that reminded me how far I’ve come, and why I’ll never explain, shrink, or soften to be accepted by someone not re
• Why self-improvement starts with maintenance — Start the year thinking of maintenance, not grand resolutions. I lean on Stewart Brand and his new book Maintenance: Of
• The tyranny of targets — A running watch taught me a lesson about the tyranny of targets. I use C Thi Nguyen's The Score and my fitness-tracking
• What a difference a day makes… — What a difference a literal day makes....
• London(s) — Remember the Night Bus and grotty commutes? This piece is a meditation on being tired of London as an idea not leaving,
• On Cognitive Debt
• inspiration opening doors — A wake up call at 60 changed my path. I write about finding purpose after 60, lessons learned from illness and joy, and
• Theory and practice — A long held dream at my father's knee finally gets rolling. Years of railway history and modelling theory met a stubborn
• Get Comfortable Being Uncomfortable — Feeling stuck? This post shows how to get comfortable being uncomfortable. I push past imaginary comfort lines, explain
• Fixed Growth — Stuck in a fixed mindset trap? I unpack fixed vs growth mindset, why problems are often upstream symptoms, and concrete
• Repetition — Repetition as survival training. I unpack a favourite Murakami quote and how routine, meditation and daily journaling sh
• Personal systems, productivity, and slippers — What if your productivity tools felt like slippers, not shackles. I compare my DIY time tracking text file, custom marku
• All the Bricks! — I share what it’s like piecing life back together one brick at a time. Sometimes literally, sometimes not. Building, bre
• BarberRun — A quick cut turns into a small-town adventure half chaos, half therapy. I didn’t expect to think so much about life from
• I "Do What [I] Damn Well Please" — A little older, a lot freer. This one’s about boundaries, autonomy, and living on my own terms in midlife. A blog post o
• American Sublime — October was a mix of shop time, music, and whatever else rattled around in my head. Posts about making things, fixing th
• Earworm of the Week — A cold-month notebook: shop updates, life admin, and whatever I couldn’t shake from my head. Posts drift between project
• Dressed for (a heart’s) success — I’m thinking about what it means to show up dressed for the life I want not just in clothes, but in mindset. A reflectiv