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I help a lot of leaders create individual development plans using some variation of this process. This time of year (January) is always especially busy.

Although every leader I work with is unique, it seems like the development goals end up being somewhat common from year to year.

To help you get a head start on your 2010 leadership development plan, heres a list of development goals that may apply to you too. Id recommend picking no more than one and really working at it for at least 6 months. Do not attempt to work on all 12, just because there are 12 months in a year.

For 2010, Id like to improve my:

1. Strategic thinking. Improve my ability to see the big picture and take a longer range, broader business perspective. Learn to step back from the day-to-day tactical details of my business and focus on the why, not just the what and how.

2. Listening. Learn to pay attention and demonstrate to others that that I value what they have to say. Use active listening, open-ended questions, body language, and eliminate distractions that get in the way of my ability to listen.

3. Coaching. Shift my leadership style away from always directing and telling and learn to guide and develop my direct reports. Work with each of my direct reports to create their own individual development plans.

4. Financial acumen. Learn how to understand, interpret, and use the numbers to improve my business.

5. Cross-functional knowledge and perspective. Learn about other aspects of the business other than my own functional silo.

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Update: The Top 100 Self-HelpBlogs for 2015have just been announced!

Its that time of year where we announce the Best Personal Development Blogs for 2013in fact, we bring you the Top 100!

With 2013 just kicking off, now is the time to start creating what your year is going to look like and ensure it is the most successful year you have everhad.

Every year is another opportunity that we have for progressing towards our goals and our ideal life. Each year progresses on the next. This year is set to be the best year yet!

Spending my life in the career and personal development industries, Im constantly looking for the latest and greatestinformation on success, motivation, results and happiness. I regularly dealwith people from within the industry as well as those looking to gain valuable insight and information.

One thing Ive noticed is that there are so many people in this world that are after a full list of resources for helping them achieve what they want to achieve in life. The good thing is the internet has provided so much access to the information that previously only those attending $5,000 courses would be able to have.

Ive decided to put together a list of the best personal development blogs of 2013. In fact, this list represents the top 100 personal development blogs for 2013.

The tricky thing is these lists are always quite subjective. Ive found that the longer the site has been around, the more visitors the site gets and therefore the more comments and more votes e.t.c. Although we had only been around for 4 months, The Start of Happiness was recently recognised as the 3rd best personal development blog for quality. To me, thats what its all about.

However, because of the subjective nature of measuring quality, the top 100 personal development blogs for 2013 is different. What I have provided is a list of personal development blogs that rank from the biggest with the most traffic to the smallest. This list will provide you a clear indicator of how large a website is and its relative importance.

One thing to keep in mind, however, is that the larger the site does not necessarily indicate that the site is of better quality. Generally, you will find that the larger sites have been around for longer and many of them have multiple contributors. In saying that, the top sites have lasted the test of time and continue to have strong readership so they must be doing something right.

There are a tonne of awesome websites here, in fact, there are 100 of them. If they were not awesome, they wouldnt be listed here.

If youre looking to make 2013 your best year yet, youre going to drown if you try to read all 100 of these blogs.

My suggestion is to go through them all at least once. Try finding 2 or 3 blogs that really resonate with you. Which blogs are most closely aligned to what youre trying to achieve in your life? Which ones are providing you the right information to help you now and into the future?

Blogs and websites can change over time. If you feel youre after something different,pop back to this list and check out a couple of others.

Over the past few months, Ive got to know quite a few of the personal development bloggers on this list and I can say that Im highly impressed with what they aredoing and where they are going.

As I mentioned above, this list ranks the personal development blogsfrom the biggest with the most traffic to the smallest.

There are two primarytools for doing this.

Firstly, you have Alexa rank of the website. Alexa provides a relative ranking of each website based on the number of visitors it receives. A rank of 1,000 would mean that the site is the 1,000th most visited site on the internet. Just so you know, Googles rank is #1, Facebook is ranked #2 and YouTube is ranked #3. The Top 100 Personal Development Blogs are ranked by Alexa scores (asof January 2013).

Secondly, you have Google Page Rank. Google Page Rank is one of the tools Google uses to determine a sites relative importance. This is done primarily by how many quality backlinks the website has. Generally, a score of 4 or higher represents the site is of relative importance. The Top 100 Personal Development Blogs are not ranked by Google Page Rank, however I haveincluded thePageRank of each for you to utilise if you wish (you can filter by this).

The accuracy of these tools has alwaysbeen questionable when it comes to the detail, however when comparing more generally the relative size of a site they are veryuseful indicators.

Want to know whats really cool? The Top 100table is dynamic, meaning you can search for your favourite blog and see what its ranked and sort by any column, such as page rank or alphabetical order. This is your list. Make it so!

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Do you know of a blog that you think should be on this list? Let me know!

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Heres to making 2013 your best year yet!

Brendan

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Principles, concepts, strategies, and techniques essential for building an extraordinary life.

The following ideas are distilled from $100,000-worth of the best personal development books, courses, and seminars, and further refined with personal experience. My goal is to find the biggest leverage points for changing the quality of one's life. This is it!

If you're unhappy with any area of your life, we can trace it down to one of these root causes.

Click the headings for videos and in-depth discussion of each concept.

Have a Life Purpose Commit to a life calling. Immerse yourself in deeply meaningful work that channels your creative energy and gives you a sense of contribution.

Live Strategically Make methodical, long-term plans for your life. Analyze your life and have your actions lead to some ultimate objective. A quality life is designed, it doesn't happen spontaneously.

Understand the Process of Mastery Understand what it takes to master any area of life. Choose what you're going to master, embrace the mastery process, learn to love the plateau, and practice for practice-sake.

Just Do It Action is essential to all results and trumps thinking, talking, or planning. Shortcut a lot of mental-masturbation, debate, and self-help theory by simply taking consistent action. Action tends to self-correct.

Have a Personal Mission Statement Write out your personal mission statement and spend 5 minutes reading it every morning, no matter what. Live your mission statement every day.

Be Prepared for Resistance Your brain creates resistance to change and growth. Be prepared to encounter serious resistance when you undertake any creative project that taps into your highest self. Be ready to wrestle and negotiate.

Understand How Happiness Works Most of us don't understand what will truly make us happy. Happiness is living with integrity. It's living your top strengths and values every day, consistently. Happiness is not about acquiring tangible or even spiritual "things".

Articulate How You Want to Feel Identify which feelings are most important to you and make them your ultimate goals. If you're going to chase anything, chase feelings, not material or spiritual things.

Articulate Your Top 10 Values Identify and articulate what's most important and meaningful to you in life. Keep refining and prioritizing your values over time. Align your actions with your values.

Be Patient Be patient with large, ambitious life goals. Lack of patience is often the only thing that stands between your success and failure. Patience creates a sense of groundedness and peace.

Use Vision to Generate Motivation Motivation can be consciously created and sustained by using your imagination to come up with a compelling vision of the future. The best kind of motivation is positive and internally grounded.

Know Your Potential as a Human Being Your actualized self is your ideal self, the greatest possible you. Get inspired by just how much personal growth is possible for you. Commit to self-actualization as a life-long pursuit.

Master Your Inner World We live simultaneously in two worlds: the inner world of thoughts and feelings, and the outer world of physical things. Take control of your inner world to create the outer world you want.

Commit to Living a Charged Life You will live one of three types of life: a caged life, a comfortable life, or a charged life. You only have one life. Commit to living a charged life. Commit to being all that you can be despite the challenges.

Practice Deliberately Design concentrated practice sessions that train you faster. Apply deliberate practice to important areas of life that you've committed to mastering.

See Failure as Good Acknowledge that failure is an essential part of the learning process. Train yourself to think about failure in an empowering way. The most successful people are the ones that failed the most. Adopt an explorer mindset.

Raise Your Level of Consciousness You are a puppet pulled by strings. You are far less conscious than you think. Start to notice just how many of your actions are actually unconscious, automatic reactions; take back control.

Be a Positive Thinker Develop the habit of thinking constructively. Stop thinking about the things that distress you. Think about the things you want to create in your life and teach yourself to let go of the rest.

Tame Your Gremlin You are constantly limiting yourself with automatic negative thoughts. Develop a habit of spotting your inner negative self-critic, and learn strategies for managing this negative self-talk.

Develop Emotional Awareness and Range Emotions have various levels of meaning that must be understood. Learn to identify and manage your emotions so they don't control you. Expand the range of emotions you feel.

Be Principle-Centered Live your life according to deliberately-chosen principles. Ground your happiness and success in your ideal values, not external circumstances. Do not ground yourself in family, work, church, material possessions, or pursuit of pleasure.

Be a Creator See yourself as someone who creates. In whatever you do, be a creator and artist. Take your work personally. Seek to contribute something new to the world.

Be Proactive Take control your circumstances and show initiative. Make decisions that increase your agency over your external environment. Do not be passive. Do not be a victim.

Be Honest Be honest with yourself and others even when it's costly. Honesty is powerful, attractive, and creates an unshakeable foundation for success in your business and personal life.

Live Your Top 5 Strengths Identify and align your life with your top 5 strengths, especially the top two. Live your top strengths ever day at work and at home.

Live Your Zone of Genius Identify your zones of genius, excellence, competence, and incompetence. Commit to living in your zone of genius even though you are comfortable in your zone of excellence.

Eliminate Addictions Toxic, addictive behaviors keep you from living a charged life. Eliminate negative addictions like: TV, food, alcohol, shopping, internet, porn, drugs, gossip, worry, and negative thinking.

Take Full Responsibility for Your Life Take full responsibility for everything in your life, even those things that are seemingly outside your control. Own every aspect of your life and believe that you have the power to change it all.

Create More Flow Experiences Design your life so that you're "in the zone" more often. Do not multitask. Focus on one task at a time and develop technical mastery so you can easily become absorbed in the moment.

Set Reasonable Expectations Set reasonable expectations for yourself by studying the process and results of others. Know what you're getting into and how much time and effort it will take. When you feel down, check back with your expectations.

Commit to Being World Class Strive to be world class in your career or business. If you're not going to be world class, why even bother? You're leaving the peak experiences off the table! Dedicate yourself to excellence.

Commit to Investing 10,000 Hours Realize that it takes 10,000 hours to become world class at anything. Prepare yourself for the long-haul. Commit to and focus on mastering 1 or 2 things. Then, practice, practice, practice!

Eat Healthy Food Take control of your nutrition. Stop feeding yourself low-grade, processed garbage. Eat whole foods that makes you feel clean, keep your body healthy, and optimize your brain function.

Exercise 5 Days Per Week Take control of your body. Exercise daily to keep your body and mind strong, keep your energy up, and stay attractive for the opposite sex. Join the gym and do a combination for cardio and strength-training.

Always Take Right Action Do what is necessary even when you don't happen to feel like it. Be religious about this. Imagine how great your life would be if you followed through on everything you know you need to do every day.

Commit to Constant Improvement Baby-step your success. Build your life up with steady, incremental improvements. Stop trying to sustain knee-jerk, dramatic changes.

Get Quality Sleep Take sleep seriously. Get 7-8 hours of sleep every day no matter what. Your body and mind need high-quality sleep to function at their peak. Design your life to give you sufficient sleep.

Read Every Week Read high-quality, non-fiction books every week, and take notes and implement ideas. The life-changing potential contained in a good $12 paperback is mind-blowing! The answer to any problem can be found in some book.

Eliminate Extrinsic Motivation Don't do things for the sake of others. If it's truly important, make it a part of you. Either ground it intrinsic or shed it entirely. Extrinsic motivation is not strong enough to make you truly happy or competitive.

Monitor Your Information Intake Cut out all sources of low-grade, mindless, negative information. Feed your brain with information that raises, rather than reduces, your level of consciousness.

Practice Mind Power Create a daily habit of training your mind and programming your subconscious with techniques like visualization, seeding, affirmations, contemplation, and acknowledging. Your mind needs daily training.

Have 5-7 High-Quality Friendships Build 5-7 high-quality friendships that you intend to sustain for the rest of your life. Invest time in enjoying and maintaining your growth friends. Shallow friendships don't count.

Focus on the Top 20% Identify the 20% of your effort that's responsible for 80% of your results. Amplify that 20% by giving it more time and energy. Ruthlessly cut out the rest. Learn to say "No!" to the other 80%.

Set Effective Goals Develop a habit of setting, writing down, and constantly refining your goals. Have short-term, medium-term, and very long-term goals. Set goals that are specific, compelling, and aligned with your highest values.

Build Positive Habits Invest your willpower strategically in building positive habits. Lock down your results. Routines are powerful because they free you up to focus conscious attention on your biggest goals and challenges.

Build Momentum Realize that you will have to slowly ramp up your effort to hit peak performance and that this ramp-up process can be difficult, requiring patience.

Dismantle Your Buttons Identify which situations and behaviors trigger negative emotional reactions in you and eliminate them. With introspection, visualization, and journaling, dismantle your buttons so other people cannot control you.

Invest In Yourself View yourself as your greatest asset. Actively invest in skill development, learning, and personal improvements that will make you more effective and valuable to others. Prioritize investment in yourself over investment in external things.

Turn State Experiences into Stage Experiences Don't beat yourself up for not being able to lock down state experiences, but do strategize and work toward turning your favorite states into permanents stages of being.

Raise the Bar for What it Means to Learn Raise your standard for what it means to "learn" something. True learning only occurs when your behavior has changed. Merely intellectual knowledge is not enough.

Provide Value to Others Seek to provide massive value to others in everything that you do, from business to relationships. Take satisfaction in making people feel like they got the better part of the bargain. Don't be a value leech.

Learn and Use Sedona Method Learn to release negative emotions like worry, anger, and fear, so you can act from a position of good feeling. Develop emotional awareness and imperturbability.

Invest in Shadow Work Spend time introspecting and journaling about your past to release repressed emotions and get closure for past traumatic events. Integrate marginalized aspects of your psyche so you aren't held back by the past.

Eliminate Limiting Beliefs Identify your greatest limiting beliefs and eliminate them one by one with techniques like visualization, seeding, affirmations, contemplation, shadow work, and journaling.

Meditate Daily Develop a habit of meditating consistently, every day, for at least 20 minutes. Meditation calms the monkey chatter in your head, puts you in flow, raises your consciousness, and unhooks you from stimulation.

Only Focus on the Things You Want Build a habit of only thinking about the things you want. Stop worrying. Stop thinking about what you don't want. Stop planning for worst-case scenarios. Think constructively.

Create Relationship Abundance Design your life to have relationship abundance. You should be able to find another mate quickly if you wanted to, otherwise your intimate relationships will be unhealthy because you will feel and demonstrate scarcity.

Journal Consistently Develop a habit of journaling consistently. Have an easily accessible journal and use it to vent feelings and organize your thoughts. Journaling creates deep self-awareness.

Leverage Your Subconscious Your subconscious mind plays a big role in your performance and happiness in all areas of life. Program your subconscious to align it with your conscious intentions.

Keep a Commonplace Book Great Enlightenment-era thinkers like Voltaire and Da Vinci kept scrapbooks for collecting their greatest ideas. Have a commonplace book to organize all the information you're processing as a life-long learner.

Use Your Willpower Strategically Willpower is your most precious resource and wanes from morning to night. Invest your willpower wisely each day. Use your willpower to create positive habits.

Change Your Identity, Not Your Behavior Focus on changing your beliefs, values, and ways of thinking rather than brute-forcing behavior. This is much more sustainable. Right behavior flows naturally from proper inner game.

Force Your Mood Don't be a victim of your mood. Mood can and should be dictated. Choose 3 adjectives to define the mood you want to feel every day and commit to feeling this way regardless of circumstances.

Embrace Paradox Learn to tolerate paradox, contradiction, and simply not knowing. Be flexible, open-minded, and intellectually humble.

Be Your Own Cheerleader Acknowledge and champion yourself even for the tiniest, most insignificant achievements. Reduce your reliance on external validation. Validate yourself. Your own validation should be the most rewarding.

Don't Be Attached to Your "Who" Stop labeling yourself as being this or that type of person. You are not a fixed and static "who". Your identity is plastic. Don't be stubborn about who you are and how you're supposed to be.

Think Properly About Money Learn to think about money properly. There is a set of beliefs about making and managing money that you need to put in place or you will always be poor.

Prioritize Quadrant 2 Activities Make important, non-urgent activities the core for you schedule. Minimize time spent on putting out urgent fires or dilly-dallying with unimportant activities.

Contemplate Death Contemplate the shortness of your life and the finality of death. Have a sense of urgency and scarcity about life. Use this to focus your attention on the things that really matter.

Surround Yourself With Great People Surround yourself strategically with people who are successful, positive, intelligent, and support what you're doing. Cut toxic, unsupportive people out of your life.

Contemplate the Meaning of Life Recognize that life is entirely neutral to your purposes. Meaning doesn't exist in the external world. Meaning is whatever you make it out to be. Choose to live a meaningful life.

Work in Block Time Work in focused, uninterrupted 1-2 hour blocks of time. Work less hours but with more focus. High productivity comes from focused effort, not pure time.

Balance Your Intake of Theory to Practice Strike a balance between the amount of theory you're learning and its implementation. Each concept requires hours of practice to internalize. You are probably not practicing enough.

Understand What Enlightenment Is Know what enlightenment is, and that it's an option for you to go down this road at any time. Your identity is largely illusory. Your true nature is not your thoughts or your feelings or your beliefs, but your awareness of it all.

Be Outcome-Independent Stop obsessing over the result you're trying to get. You don't have control over the result. Instead, focus on the process. Be happy to do the work even if you fail to get the result.

Write Manifestos for Major Projects For every major project you undertake, write a one page document outlining its purpose, costs, most likely causes of failure, and points of consolation. Read the manifesto when you feel like quitting.

Learn the Principles of Marketing You have to understand basic marketing principles to be successful in business, career, and even relationships. Learn the psychology of selling and persuasion. Marketing is more universal than it seems.

Do the Exercises When Reading Self-Help It's too easy to read-help and not get the promised results. Realize that 95% of the results from reading a self-help book come from doing the exercises. You must absolutely do the exercises.

Build Your Career Strategically Make your job into a passionate, life-long career. A desirable career is built by committing to being really good at what you do and testing the waters to find your ideal niche. Build career capital.

Be More Authentic Strive to be more of your authentic self at work, at home, in relationships, and in social situations. Accept who you are and give yourself the freedom to express your uniqueness. Trust that people will accept the real you.

Stop Judging Things and People Judging things and people is toxic. It will poison your mental wellbeing and distract you from what you want to create. Let things and people be as they are. Stop trying to fit them into your mold.

Lean Into Emotional Labor Don't shy away from situations that feel emotionally difficult. In fact, seize this opportunity to separate yourself from your competition. All valuable work nowadays involves emotional labor.

Challenge Yourself Design challenges to keep yourself sharp. Too much comfort, counter-intuitively, leads to dissatisfaction and poor performance.

Commit to Life-Long Learning Read, listen to CDs, attend seminars, talk to smart people, study, subscribe to magazines, follow bloggers, etc. The more knowledgeable you are, the more options and opportunities you'll have.

Understand How the Opposite Sex Thinks The male and female brain work in very different ways, leading to asymmetrical interactions. Learn and respect the differences or suffer the consequences.

Avoid Short-Term Gratification Good things come when you resist short-term for long-term rewards. Train yourself to resist short-term gratification, which usually comes at a high cost to your health and happiness.

Free Yourself of Limiting Social Conditioning Identify areas in which social conditioning has limited you and consciously challenge it. Free yourself from the shackles of government, society, media, friends, employers, and family.

Have an Accurate Knowledge Framework Develop a respect for truth and appreciate its importance in manipulating the world around you. Learn how to reason and beware of valid versus invalid sources for truth.

Accept That We Are All Biologically Selfish We are all biologically wired for selfishness. Accept this and don't try to fight it. Instead, take care of your needs so you can move beyond yourself and get to the point of being able to help others.

Understand the Hero's Journey Your life is the hero's journey: you will be forced to start a journey, you will encounter threshold guardians, you will face your greatest fears, you will falter, and you will share your knowledge with others.

Eliminate All Forms of Victim-Thinking You are either operating from a place of victim energy or creator energy. Get control over areas of your life where you feel like a victim. You do not have to keep being a victim.

Balance Your Life Live a well-rounded life, with attention put into career, intimate relationship, health, friends, hobbies, and personal improvement. Do not make the mistake of over-focusing on any one part of your life, like work.

Stop Being a Perfectionist Stop trying to make your work perfect. Accept that the path to mastery is full of screw-ups, big and small. Embrace kaizen. Your work will become good naturally, over a long period of practice.

Develop a Habit of Reframing Get good at reframing negative situations into positive ones. Use the power of your focus to pick out the good within the bad.

Align Your Life With Your Values The over-arching strategy of your life should be alignment. Identify what's most important to you and commit to changing your life to match that ideal. When you see a misalignment, resolve it.

Get Regular Bloodwork; Take Essential Supplements Get blood work done every year even if you're feeling fine and take essential supplements like vitamin D, omega-3, vitamin A, vitamin C, iodine, magnesium, etc.

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The McCormick Office of Personal Development supports the McCormick School of Engineering's focus on its students and provides resources and opportunities for their personal growth.

By creating an environment that encourages students to explore available opportunities and engage in new experiences, MOPD helps transform McCormick students into whole-brain engineers.

McCormick Office of Personal Development stives to cultivate a student body of engineers who are:

Whole-brain engineering refers to the balance of both right-brain and left-brain ways of thinking as engineers aim to understand, frame, and solve problems.

Left-brain implies skills that are logical, analytical, rational, and quantitative, in contrast to right-brain skills, which are creative, integrative, artistic, and emotional. Whole-brain engineers possess the ability to combine both ways of thinking to the complex problems they solve.

Explore how McCormick promotes whole-brain engineering

MOPD helps students develop the skills to be lifelong adaptive learners by fostering the five core competencies:

As you work to develop these core competencies during your time at McCormick, we encourage you to:

Northwestern offers a wide range of experiences to students. We want you to be intentional about the extracurricular activities you choose.

As you consider all your academic options, we offer meetings and seminars where you can discuss your work and development with fellow students and advisers.

Through critical examination of and reflection on your experiences, we hope you'll leave McCormick with clear ideas of who you are and how you can reach your goals.

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As the world moves forward in technology, communications and global relations, individuals must find a way to keep up with the changing pace. Personal development planning is a way to bring out a person's distinct characteristics and strengths. In doing so, individuals develop the skills needed to excel within their areas of expertise.

People who are capable of earning a living in today's world may not necessarily be using their abilities to their fullest. To use an ability, a person must first know that it's there. Personal development planning provides a framework in which individuals can identify untapped abilities and construct a plan that will capitalize on their specific skill sets and strengths. Development is an ongoing process that integrates personality and character with the demands that everyday experiences bring on a daily basis. Personal development may often require the learning of new habits so new patterns of productivity can emerge.

Personal development planning is designed to affect all areas of a person's life. The overall process emphasizes the importance of personal values. The choice of career path and personal goals are all based on core values held by the individual. From there, the habits and behaviors required to make these values a real part of life can be factored into the plan. As a result, the effects of a clear sense of purpose and direction causes distractions and unnecessary conflicts to lose importance.

The focus of a personal development plan will provide a theme from which a person can develop individual goals, as well as the behaviors and habits that will make these goals possible. The focus ties in with a person's core value beliefs regarding life, and the role she wishes to fulfill. In effect, each individual goal, habit and behavior change will work toward a certain life direction. Part of identifying the focus involves knowing what the end point of a particular plan will be. Financial independence, a career and a simplified lifestyle are all examples of possible end points.

Areas of development within a personal plan fall into two categories--building on existing strengths and abilities, or developing new skill sets. Identifying which areas to work with requires a person to know what his current strengths are and which abilities need further development. Self-reflection and feedback from others are ways to hone in on strengths and abilities. Feedback from others provides input on qualities that may be difficult for a person to see in himself. This type of feedback should be workable and rational, meaning a noncritical and specific directive will be apparent.

The process of behavior change can be challenging even under the best circumstances. Behavior change requires a person to incorporate new habits and attitudes that may run contrary to her current lifestyle. Personal development planning is designed to connect this process of change with a person's core values and motivations. By doing so, the reason for change takes on a real and personal meaning. The objectives laid out in the plan should provide clear guidelines on how a particular habit will be incorporated into a person's daily routine.

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The programs for personal growth at Sunrise Ranch offer a great opportunityfor people who are working withself exploration and developmentto enrich their lives.You may be in the midst of a new spiritual awakening or feel stuck in a certain area of your life. Perhaps you are pursuing aspecial area oflearning or want to take a workshop to understand more about your relationships with other people. Whatever is next for you, there are amazing programs at Sunrise Ranch and insightful workshop facilitators to assist you on your journey.

We believe that there are times in life when a special environment, outside a persons everyday life, is important for anindividualsgrowth to flourish. Somecomponents that make up that special environmentincludeapeaceful atmosphere, the serenity of nature, the feeling that it issafe to express yourself and that the people around you care for your wellbeing. Most importantly there is joy in sharing the wisdom of others who arewalking a similar path.

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Sunrise Ranch and the Emissaries have been a profound part of my spiritual growth for many years. This is one of the special places I like to come when I need to rest, relax, and revitalize my soul

James Twyman, world renowned author and peace troubadour

Neale Donald Walsh completed the writing of his third Conversations with God book at Sunrise Ranch and recommended us as a resource for those on a spiritual path.

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If you want to be involved in the intellectual, cultural, and active life of our community, The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga offers alternatives to conventional higher education. Provided through Continuing Education, non-credit classes and seminars range from art and recreation to all areas of personal interest.Our youth programs are designed to offer local young people a variety of classes to teach skill development, college preparation, and other special interest areas. The popularity of continuing education programs across the country reflects the need for lifelong learning beyond traditional higher education.

Online Non-credit Learning

March

Recreational Archery A to Z

DIY Boutonnieres & Corsages

SAT/PSAT Preparation

How to Arrange the Perfect Vase

Post-Processing: Taking Control of Your Images

Getting to Know Your Digital Camera

Introduction to Biking

Springtime Floral Arrangement

Taking Better Photos

April

Beginning Golf

Recreational Archery A to Z

ACT Preparation

Voice-Overs... Now is Your Time! (webinar)

Proprioceptive Writing Weekend Immersion

Summer Wreath Making

Canning College

Writing From the Inside Out

May

Mother/Daughter Floral Design

The Exciting World of Nature Photography

Retirement Planning Today: An Educational Course for Adults - Ages 50-70

Introduction to Reiki Healing

June

SAT/PSAT Preparation Summer Camp

Around the World Cooking Camp (for rising 7th-10 graders)

ACT Preparation Summer Camp

Travel Photography: Beyond the Postcard

Explore Archery Camp (for rising 7th-10th graders)

Action Photography

Art Camp: Visual Storytelling (for rising 7th-10th graders)

Getting to Know Your Digital Camera

July

Rising Girls Camp... Cooking, Crafts & More (for rising 7th-10th graders)

Grades 4 and 5 Math Enrichment

Explore Archery Camp (for rising 7th-10th graders)

Adventure Camp (for rising 7th-10th graders)

Grades 6 and 7 Math Enrichment

Cartooning with Mr. Ollie

Caricatures Made Easy for Fun and Profit

August

You've Taken All Those Great Photos, Now What?

Canning College

A New View: Shifting Focus From Seeing the Subject to Seeing the Composition

Writing the Mind Alive: A Weekend Immersion in Proprioceptive Writing

September

The Examined Life

Read Hebrew

Photographing Favorite Subjects From People to Waterfalls

October

Retirement Planning Today: An Educational Course for Adults - Ages 50-70

Getting to Know Your Digital Camera

The Slow Shutter: From Magical Acts of Disappearance to Brilliant Displays at Night

Savvy Social Security Planning: What Baby Boomers Need to Know to Maximize Retirement Income

Introduction to Lightroom

Recreational Archery A to Z

Eric King

Come and learn what makes archery such a great sport that can be enjoyed at any age. In this class, you will learn to use the bow and arrows, play some archery games, and make new friends! Must be at least 8 years old to participate. All equipment will be provided.

$80

Session 1:

When: Mondays, March 2-23, 2015

Time: 7:00-8:30 p.m.

Location: River City Archery, 1304 McCallie Avenue, Chattanooga

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Session 2:

When: Thursdays, April 9-30, 2015

Time: 5:30-7:00 p.m.

Location: River City Archery, 1304 McCallie Avenue, Chattanooga

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DIY Boutonnieres & Corsages

Lisa Tanner

Just in time for the prom and wedding season! In this class, you will learn how to make boutonnieres and corsages for a wedding or prom. The instructor will provide a detailed how-to demonstration and help participants make both a boutonniere and corsage to take home.

$69 (includes supplies)

*Each participant will need to bring their own floral scissors and wire cutters.

When: Tuesday, March 3, 2015

Time: 6:00-8:00 p.m.

Location: UTC - Fletcher 113

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How to Arrange the Perfect Vase

Lisa Tanner

Have you ever found yourself with beautiful fresh flowers, but you have no idea how to arrange them in a vase? In this class, youll learn how you can take purchased flowers from the grocery store and display them into a charming arrangement at home. The instructor will demonstrate and walk you through the steps, and youll take home an arrangement youll be proud to display. Must be at least 15 years old to participate. All participants must register and pay to attend.

$45 (includes supplies)

*Each participant will need to bring their own floral scissors and wire cutters.

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Program Description

Santa Barbara City College offers courses that provide opportunities for students to increase their potential for success, develop leadership competencies and management skills, and evaluate and plan their educational programs.

The college faculty believes strongly that students should take time early in their educational endeavors to develop a plan, seek information, and prepare themselves for a comprehensive program that is best suited to their interests, abilities and goals.

Personal Development courses at SBCC, as well as a diverse array of support services, allow the student to develop and organize his or her program of courses, co-curricular activities and use of support services to achieve desired career training, educational goals, life management skills and leadership skills.

Educational planning and academic skills development opportunities through Student Success, Educational Planning and College Search courses should be an essential part of every student's college curriculum, while specialized courses provide unique opportunities for leadership development.

All students, particularly those who are undecided or looking for possible new career directions, are urged to take advantage of Career Planning courses, services and professional guidance provided by the faculty and staff of the Career Advancement Center. Career planning courses and services also provide an opportunity to explore, choose and enter careers and professions.

Information/Offices

Office of Student Development (SS-260, ext. 2202) Academic Counseling Center (SS-120, ext. 2285) Career Center (SS-282, ext. 2331) EOPS (SS-240, ext. 2279) ESL (ESL-2, ext. 2320) International Students (IE, ext. 2240) Student Activities (CC-217, ext. 2262) Student Success (SS-260, ext. 2202) Transfer Center (SS-140, ext. 2547)

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If you find no one to support you on the spiritual path, walk alone. There is no companionship with the immature.

If you are prone to creative work, you know that inspiration hits you naturally. Sometimes you fall into a dark spot, so you think that waiting is the best solution. Its not! Creativity is a trainable skill, so you can make an effort that will yield results.

Life is messy. Too often, we miss this fact. The grass is not greener on the other side; the other side may be better cared for. Even though life is more like a warrior dash than a journey, either way, too many muddy their paths in unnecessary ways.

How can you be an effective team member and help your work group be successful? It may seem unlikely that there could be anything new to learn about what makes teams effective, but there is. More than ever before, work today gets done in teams, and your ability to contribute as a member is vital to your career success.

The palest ink is better than the best memory.

New research from the emerging field of neuroeconomics suggests that being generous is not as tough as some people think. But even so, it is pretty rare.

If you want to make a career of public speaking, youre going to have to get paid.

When was the last time a salesperson really, really annoyed you? No matter how professional or helpful you are 99% of the time, at one point or another in your sales career, youve probably irritated some of your prospects.

Our brains are wired to dislike uncertainty. When we face an uncertain leadership challenge, the fight-flight center of our brain releases hormones into our blood stream and neurotransmitters into our brain.

No matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.

Im sure you have heard these things before, especially now in an age when positive psychology is so popular: Choose to be happy. Visualize your success and you will be successful. If you believe it, you can achieve it. Theyre nice messages, and theyre everywhere.

But scientific evidence suggests that they may not actually be helpful when it comes to achieving our goals and being successful.

If you had the choice of doing something the easy way or the hard way, and you didnt have to do anything morally, ethically, or legally wrong to do it the easy way, which would you choose? My guess is the majority of you would say take the easy way. I certainly would.

No one in management starts out wanting to be hated. Certainly, most managers have principles, and use them to do what they think is best for the team and the company. But sometimes they are moving so fast they dont realize their destructive behavior. Or worse, they lack a certain amount of self-awareness.

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Your Record Book should include a goal which identifies a definite task to be completed and activities which require the application of specific skills.

Acceptable goal: I will improve my acting skills and learn more about working behind the scenes in a theater.

Acceptable activities: I will perform in community theater, work as a stage hand, and learn about lighting, props and costumes.

If you are a full-time student, a part-time job could count for Personal Development. In order to qualify, the goal must indicate the development of vocational and/or work skills and the activities must be performed without school credit. Similarly, if you are employed full-time, educational activities could serve as a Personal Development activity.

Part-time work pursued by a full-time student as Personal Development: I will work part-time at a bank where my duties will include: answering telephones, filing, word processing and operating photo copiers and fax machines. This will allow me to explore careers in banking.

Education pursued as Personal Development by a person employed full-time: I will attend classes to prepare for and take the exam for a General Education Diploma. In addition, I will explore jobs that I will be qualified for at a hospital and practice writing letters to apply for those jobs.

Your Personal Development goals can be pursued either individually or as part of a group. If your goal is within a group activity, your individual contribution to the planning, execution, and completion of the activity is the basis for assessment. Your individual progress should be measured against your goals, not other teammates.

Personal Development goals as part of a group: I will pursue my interest in photography as a member of the school newspaper staff. I intend to produce at least 10 photos, which will be published during the next school year.

Your Record Book should show an intended improvement level from where you stand now in a particular skill or hobby to where you intend to be at the completion of your goals. If no obvious way to measure your progress exists, include extra activities.

Personal Development additional activities to show improvement: Baby-sitting-include child safety or choke prevention course. Reading -develop a vocabulary list and write book reviews.

These are just some of the activities that young people have participated in to earn the Award. Remember its about your interests and your own challenges. If you have a question about a specific activity and want some feedback please contact us!

Agriculture/farming Amateur radio Arts and crafts Astronomy Automotive science Career development Clerical and office Collecting (stamps,coins, etc.) Conservation/environment Construction Creative writing Cross cultural programs Dancing Dog training Electrical engineering Fashion design/tailoring Floral art Forestry Gardening

Horsemanship Job training programs Language study Leadership training Learning For Life Literacy programs Magic Model building Music/singing National Guard Nursing Part-time work Photography Speech and debate Sewing/quilting Theater/acting Venturing Video production Woodwork

CertificatesBronze 15 hours & no min. months required Silver 30 hours& no min. months required Gold 45 hours & 6 months

MedalsBronze 50 hours & 7 months Silver 100 hours & 12 months Gold 200 hours & 24 months

Personal Development requires an extended commitment to ones goals. Months of activity are as vital to the program as hours dedicated to the program area. Please see ourProgram Requirements Pagefor further explanation.

Once you areregistered, you canclick hereto get your copy of the Record Book. Work with your Advisor and Validator to set goals in each program area, then set out to achieve them.

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