As most of you might have realised by now, Stevesgoal is a personal development site. However, unlike other blogs that cover self improvement and personal social goal setting, I tend to avoid highly theoretical stuff, spiritual concepts and ideas that tend to verge on the paranormal. I’m not saying this to put down other blogs – they are simply doing what a blog should do – express beliefs and ideas. The fact is though, that whilst I might have ideas that are largely theorectical and other oddball concepts I have tried to keep this blog as both a diary of my own progress and a resource of practical no nonsense tips for self improvement.
I have read literally hundreds of self improvement books and audio tapes, and I have discovered masses of useful information. I have also found a lot of these tips surrounded by the authors own personal theories and a lot of waffling and unecessary padding. For book authors, I can understand how they want to introduce, summarise and put the self improvement advice into context, I am less sure I understand the need for massiv amounts of padding.
As well as self improvement I also have a strong interest in art, particularly asthetics, science and economics. So, to put that in English – provable, repeatable strategies that follow the basic principles of self improvement and that are highly economical in that they deliver the maximum results for the minimum of effort. Why shouldn’t posts themselves be the same – short snappy and clear – allowing you to get maximum results with the minimum of confusion.
All of these thoughts led me to two conclusions:
Firstly, I need to make posts more list and bullet point oriented. I also need to make sure that they are concise and easy to read. Stevegoal is read largely by people in their lunch time. As such, I need to tailor stevesgoal to be self improvement for your lunch break.
Secondly, I will be introducing a new catagory of posts called Stevelab, where I will put more of my theory testing and investigation. Normally this would go in regular posts under the relevant catagory – but this way people can read about the background of a strategy or technique if they want to, or just stick with the meat. Steveslab is there to create new methods and routes to self improvment, not just build on existing ones. That means that the ideas will be unusual, and still concise. My hope is that the result will be a collection of souped up, ultra concise tips for the next generation of personal developement.
Thirdly – Technical Issues. If you are having problems seeing stevegoal, just give the site a few minutes and refresh. Traffic has quadrupled since the start of 2008 and I really need to move server. This will probably happen along with a refocused branding exercise – “personal development in your lunch hour” or something like that, and new look for the site. This will the site will be on its sixth version, design wise.
