Shameless Plug for Tim Walther’s New Book

Welcome to Thrilling Heroics: a personal and career development site for college students and young professionals! If you enjoy the site, I encourage you to leave your comments and consider subscribing to future articles. Optimize your Life, Rock your Career, and Make the World your Playground!My friend Tim Walther has just released his first book, [...]

Filtering Through the Static: My Media Consumption Habits

I’ve put together a primer on my media and entertainment consumption as part of the Media Diet internet meme. It’s a big post, but I highly recommend each and every one of the useful links contained here, and if you take just five minutes to read through this, I’ve included a few little gems on [...]

My Personal and Professional Development Goals for 2008

Earlier in the week, I discussed how to set meaningful goals for 2008. I described how to take a roles-based approach to make your “resolutions” for the year more relevant and personally meaningful to you. We reviewed how visualizing each of these areas of focus in your life–your desired outcomes, and the way you’ll feel [...]

How To Set Meaningful Goals for 2008 and Make Progress Towards Your Ideal Life

My favorite positive affirmation is that there is NOTHING you cannot DO, or BE, or HAVE! I like to repeat that to myself daily. But one must do some dedicated goal-setting, and a lot of goal-getting to get there!
This was supposed to be a New Year’s post, but unanticipated changes due to my travel schedule [...]

Women, Invest in Yourselves First with the Empowering Wealthy Girl Summit 2008

Ladies, do you hope to find a millionaire husband? Do you want to marry rich?
That’s what my friend Alicia Dunams set out to do in her mid-20’s, but she instead found herself on a journey of personal growth and self-actualization. Alicia is the author of Amazon best-selling book Goal Digger: Lessons Learned from the Rich [...]

Perform a 2007 Year-End Personal Development Review

The advent of a new year is a great time to reflect on all that you’ve done over the past 12 months and take what you’ve learned, and build a roadmap for the coming year and beyond. Lea Woodward at Freelance Switch wrote a fantastic article to help freelancers apply what you learned in 2007 [...]