Were kicking off 2015 with an absolute bang!

Damn, I love this time of year. Its all about setting your year up for massive success and what better way of doing that then presenting you with the best personal development blogs for 2015. In fact, we bring you the Top 100!

This is the third year that we have compiled the Top 100 personal development blogs and every year we see more and more blogs adding great value to people all around the world.

I must say, because of all the awesome value that everyone is putting out there on the internet, it is getting harder and harder for personal development bloggers to make this list. So if you have made the list of the Top 100 personal development blogs this year then I, and everyone else, give you HUGE congratulations!

But firstly, I hope you had an absolutely fantastic night to bring in 2015. Sylvia and I went to a friends apartment with views across Sydney Harbour in Australia to witness some absolutely spectacular fireworks. It was the perfect way to farewell 2014 and launch into the New Year.

Now, more than ever, is the perfect time to regain focus on what you truly want in life and ensure you have the strategies and support you need to be successful at it too. The turn of the New Year gives us a clear time to separate the past and move forward into the future.

Thats why I love this time of year. Its the perfect time for creating new habits, setting your goals and making real change in your life.

Being a student of the personal development industry most of my life, Im always on the lookout for the latest and greatest resources to not only implement into my own life but to also share with those around me. Since Ive been running my own business Ive fallen more and more into the well of personal development and self-improvement and I absolutely love it! With the internet now a common place for everyone and the free economy being born, its amazing to know that what was once hidden from the majority of people and limited to a select few people paying $5,000 to access information at a weekend seminar, this information is now mostly widely available for free on the internet or at least at a much more affordable price.

The key to all this information is being able to pull whats relevant for you and being able to apply that information in a systematic and successful way that will lead you towards your desired life.

I feel honoured to know that over the last few years Ive had the pleasure of getting to know a lot of the blog owners in this list and share some great experiences with them. I can certainly say that after sifting through each and every self-improvement blog, Im highly impressed with everyones work!

It is somewhat tricky putting together a list of the Top 100 personal development blogs as it can be rather subjective in nature. To avoid this, Ive removed any of my own opinions or judgements and let pure metrics do the talking.

As with previous years, what I have created is a list of personal development blogs that rank from the most trafficked (largest number of visitors) down to the least trafficked. This list will provide you with a clear indication of how large a website is and its relative importance in the personal development blogosphere. Keep in mind, even though the blogs towards the bottom are the least trafficked, they are still within the Top 100 out of hundreds and thousands of personal development blogs out there on the internet (if not more!).

One thing to keep in mind, however, is that a larger site (a site ranked towards the top) does not necessarily indicate that the site is of better quality. Generally speaking, you will find that the larger sites have been around for longer and have more blog posts and content being crawled by Google. Because of this, they are sure to have larger audiences. In saying that, however, the top sites have lasted the test of time and continue to have strong readership so they must be doing something right!

Last year we introduced the concept of magazine-styled or multiple-authored personal development websites. These are websites that originated as personal development blogs but have grown to a level where there are now multiple authors providing content on a regular basis.

Keeping in tune with last year, I have decided to again separate these blogs as they are more commercial in nature and not really websites that I would classify as blogs.

Yes, there are still some blogs in the Top 100 list that have multiple authors (including yours truly), however the key difference is that in the Top 100 list the blog owner is still the main, active contributor to the website and they are the primary person that you will be learning from.

Rather than eliminate these websites completely, I always decide to add them here as they are still fantastic resources to learn from, a great means of finding personal development professionals that you might relate with and are also great guest posting sites for those personal development bloggers that would like to write an article on another site.

If you feel your blog or website should be included above or removed from the above and added to the Top 100 below, please let me know.

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This is YOUR LIST.

This is a resource that I encourage you to save and come back to on a regular basis. As we progress throughout the year we all face different challenges and often those challenges have already been faced by others elsewhere in the world. Thats when I suggest you return to this list and find the right blog to guide you.

Each personal development blog is unique and has its own style and purpose. You will also find that you will resonate strongly with some blog owners and their content and perhaps less so with others. For this reason, there is a wide variety of blogs on the list; including business, career and work, happiness, health, productivity and more. The one thing in common is that they all are themed around self-improvement.

My recommendation to you is to browse through each of the blogs below at least once and then pick out the two or three blogs that really resonate with you.

Think about the below questions as you sift through each blog:

Be sure to subscribe to their content and make personal development a key focus for you this year. Its like having a free mentor or coach.

The Top 100 Personal Development Blogs are ranked in order from the most-trafficked (largest number of visitors) to the least-trafficked (although the smallest in this case is still a Top 100 Blog!)

There are two primarytools that have been used for determining this ranking.

Firstly, I have used the Alexa rank of the website as the primary ranking method.Alexaprovides a relative ranking of each website based on the number of visitors it receives. A rank of 100,000 would mean that the site is the 100,000th most visited site on the internet. With the millions and millions of websites on the internet, such a ranking is classified as pretty good! 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 2015).

Secondly, I have included Google Page Rank.Google Page Rankis 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 3 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 blog for you to utilise if you wish (you can filter by this).

People often question the validity of such tools, however, when comparing more generally the relative size of a website they are quite accurate and very useful indicators. Other tools might indicate that a lower-ranked blog in our Top 100 is infact larger than a higher-ranked blog, but generally speaking, the Top 10 websites will always be larger than those ranked 10-20, and those ranked 10-20 will always be larger than those ranked 20-30 etc. To sum it up, the larger and more trafficked sites will always tend to be ranked higher regardless of the tool being used.

Do you want to get really funky with the Top 100 blogs? Im pleased to let you know that the Top 100table is dynamic. This means that you can search for your favourite blog to see where it is ranked and sort by any column, such as page rank or alphabetical order. This is your list. Have fun with it!

Theres one small change to how the blogs are ranked for this year. There were a few blogs last year that somehow snuck into the Top 100 without having any PageRank. Therefore, for this year, Ive only included those blogs that have a PageRank of atleast 1.

Without further ado, let me introduce you to the Best Personal Development Blogs for 2015!

CONGRATULATIONS to every blogger that has made this Top 100 list! I personally give you a high-five and want to thank you for your contribution to this world.

If your blog is one of the Top 100, you have the honourof displaying the following badge on your site. This is the most comprehensive list of personal development blogs currently on the internet and Im honoured to have you as part of this! Simply use the code provided below to add it to your site.

Code to link to this page with badge on your website:

(you may need to replace the inverted commas on your own site for the image to work).

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The tools, strategies and support you need to live your best year ever are all here waiting for you. Now, its in your power to start living out your most inspired and desired life.

Only you can make the difference in your life this year. I give you full permission to make this your best year ever and apply what you need to from these blogs into your life.

If you need some instant motivation and inspiration, then make sure you check out the Top 100 Motivational & Inspirational Quotes for 2015.

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If youre keen to make the Top 100 for next year, you might be interested in registering for upcoming course:How to Start a Blog That Profits.

Do you have a favourite blog on the list?

Which blogs do you find you get the most value from?

What other personal development resources do you use to live a better life?

I would love to hear your thoughts in the comments below!

Heres to making 2015 your best year yet!

Brendan

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