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AlexShalman.com Practical Personal Development Podcast #3
This week I interviewed Steve Pavlina, author of Personal Development for Smart People. Not only is he a published author, but he also has one of the most popular self-improvement blogs on the internet with over 2,000,000 monthly visitors.
This isn’t the first time I’ve had the pleasure of interviewing Steve. [...]

AlexShalman.com Practical Personal Development podcast #2
In this interview Dan and Jennifer from www.AskDanAndJennifer.com tell us how they started their online relationship media empire. They tell us how they’ve managed a safe and comfortable place for people from all over the world to ask and get answers for their most personal sex-love-relationship related questions.
Our friends also [...]

“According to most studies, people’s number one fear is public speaking. Number two is death. Death is number two. Does that sound right? This means to the average person, if you go to a funeral, you’re better off in the casket than doing the eulogy.”
~Jerry Seinfeld
Important Bonus Information: This program officially launched last week, and [...]

Today on Shalman’s believe it or not I’m going to give it to you straight. I lost 11.5 lbs in 1 week. I was actually down by 15 lbs the day after fasting but gained a few back. In the article 11 Mindless Eating Habits For Skinny Robots published on October 1st, I pledged to [...]

This is my October Challenge.
From the onset of the summer I have been feeling very impulsive and have cultivated a wide array of unhealthy food habits. This month I’m pledging to go from 195 lbs to 175 lbs, and I’m going to do it by NOT thinking.
Although I run a self-improvement blog, I’m just as [...]

There have been times I’ve woken from a full night’s sleep feeling like a train wreck - drowsy, groggy, and running on zero energy. I’m not an insomniac, I don’t have sleep apnea, anxiety, nor do I have any other kind of sleeping disorder. After analyzing my lifestyle, I’ve come up with some very effective [...]

For those readers who’ve been following this site for a while, you know that I’m big on the subject of happiness (happiness project). I’m blown away by the concept of happiness, its presence on everyone’s goals list, its potential, and how happiness can improve the quality of our lives, or at least the quality of [...]

There is an interesting concept among Orthodox Jews known as Shomer Negiah. It’s a religious law that forbids touching and all other forms of physical contact between members of the opposite sex. By refraining from touching members of the opposite sex, you are effectively building up a profound sensitivity to the simplest form of contact.
In [...]

Editor’s Note: This article is written by the brilliant, amazing, and true Marina Tsipenyuk.
It seems that we are always searching for what is sensible, logical, and politically correct. The older we become, the more such formalities encompass our thoughts and, surely, become us—our identities and traits are unshakable, arguably as they were, have been, and [...]

Editor’s Note: This article is written by the lovely, beautiful, and intelligent Marina Tsipenyuk.
Whether or not we know it or like it, customer service is a great part of everyone’s life. Even if one does not own a business or provide services to others, we are constantly selling ourselves into whatever it is that we [...]