About

About

Alex Shalman is a superstar personal development writer and speaker. Some would say he does for personal development what Chuck Norris does for karate. However, this site is not about Alex Shalman as much as it is about you – the reader, person, and individual who I’m very grateful for lending me their eyeballs for a minute.

The short story is that this site is a culmination of life experiences, both of mine and those of some of the greatest thinkers of the world. This trained and obtained knowledge is all geared towards your understanding and practical application, so that you may lead a long, happy, healthy, and productive lifestyle of your own design.

On my site, I focus on many pillars of personal development, because I believe that a holistic well-balanced approach is necessary to get the most out of our lives. However, even moderation should be taken in moderation, and many extreme ways of self-improvement will be talked about in the archives of this site.

The topics include everything from goal setting, health and fitness, money and finances, communication and relationships, leadership, blogging, productivity and time management, traveling, happiness, and beyond.

If you were to leave the site right now and never come back (which I sincerely hope you don’t, I’d like you to be a part of my journey), I’d want you to leave with one important lesson:

Life is yours to dream up, design, create, and to do with as you please. Your only limits are internal- those that you put on yourself. Fulfillment, for me at least, is doing for others. So let this be my little bit of insight: you are who you say you are, that is, you are a possibility. Now- create!

Why Have I Started AlexShalman.com?

I’m often asked the question as to why and how I got into the world of personal development. I usually try to come up with a new and creative answer, because if I tend to tell the same story over and over I bore myself (and there’s nothing worse than boring yourself).

I grew up feeling pretty damn average. Average built, average intelligence, from a middle-class average Russian-Jewish-immigrant family, and living a pretty average American lifestyle. When you look at yourself and your life as being average, you’re looking at life through gray-colored glasses (and greatly limiting your potential.)

As a young kid I was pretty much evil. Not mean-spirited, but always getting into trouble, pulling pranks, and causing chaos. In retrospection I was well above average on how much carnage I caused in the lives of my family and their friends (setting the house on fire, running with sharp knives, climbing on roofs, harassing my little female class-mates, etc.)

The truth is, throughout my whole life I was never really average. That didn’t matter though, because the way that we perceive ourselves is the way we will be. I did a lot of average things, like getting in trouble with the law, hanging out with the wrong crowd, and the worst thing of all – stifling my potential.

At some point in college I bumped into a group of friends that were into personal development. I plugged into the personal development audio tapes, started reading a ton of books, and finally realized that the only way to end my average existence is to commit to being extraordinary.

It didn’t take long before I wanted to share everything I learned – it’s quite selfish, seeing how sharing means you get to hear the message again, and then the people in your lives grow along with you – so I began AlexShalman.com in order to document my own personal growth.

After more than 2 years of writing, this personal development Alex that I have created, has become a central role in my life. If I hadn’t made a penny from blogging here, I know for sure that I would continue to do this for the rest of my life based on how much pleasure I get from sharing.

About Alex Shalman

I’m Alex Shalman, a 24 year old Jewish student, son, boyfriend, classmate, writer, speaker and friend that lives in New Jersey, USA. Some of my interests include reading everything I can get my hands on, from personal development books, to books about fitness, nutrition, productivity, psychology, and relationships.

My other interests include exercise, fine dining, traveling, cooking, nutrition, editing my life, teaching, pondering ways to improve the world for myself and everyone around me with my close friends, and mastermind group. I’m a student of martial arts, of life, and of love.

Personal Development

I’ve been reading books, listening to audio tapes, going to seminars, and visiting with a life coach in the field of self-improvement for a combination of over 5 years now. As you can tell, I am very passionate about the subject of human potential and personal growth. One of my goals with writing on this website is to transfer my knowledge to you, in a condensed, easy to understand, and practical to implement format so that you could use everything that I’ve learned to your own benefit.

Education

As far as my education is concerned I completed grades 2-8 in Brooklyn, NY and 9-12 in East Brunswick, NJ. I received a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Rutgers University in 2006, and a Masters in Biomedical Science from University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey in 2008. Most recently I have entered the NYU Dental School class of 2013.

Future Plans

The next steps of my life will lead me to entrepreneurship in dentistry and the field of self-improvement. I want to continue my family legacy by becoming a 5th generation dentist and taking dentistry to another level. I want to go beyond the 9-5 by creating a franchise, mentoring, conducting dental education programs, teaching, being involved in real-estate as well as writing, consulting, and public speaking. Eventually my goal is to be able to live a geographically independent existence with a wife and 4 children.

My Commitment

I am committed to constant and never ending improvement, which means that each and every day of my life will play a role in my journey instead of wasting away idling. Most importantly I have a commitment to you, my readers, to give you my 100%, and to use what influence I have for the greater good of all.

My Mission Statement

  1. I am an outstanding human being in every respect
  2. I am honest, kind, loving, loyal and true – to my family, friends and everyone who knows me
  3. I am a positive, optimistic, confident, warm, friendly person who is admired and respected by everyone
  4. I am an excellent parent (in the future), a fine employer and I do my work in an upstanding fashion every time
  5. I uplift, encourage and inspire everyone I meet – everywhere I go
  6. The possibility that I have created for myself and my life is the possibility of being someone who operates with the greatest good of all in mind, and the possibility of living in the present.

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