Like always, thank you for a great comment. It seems like you really resonate with this topic. I am grateful to have such an awesome reader like you. Although it seems that you have already gone through the stages that I have described above.

I wish this caught the attention of the people that really need this information :)

I am looking forward to more amazing comments from your blog! Best of luck and let’s keep growing.

Best,
Tomas

Knowledge without action is useless.

If you don’t strive to achieve results with what you learn (and results means anything, including how to relax better or which show you want to watch), you just clutter up your brain.

I’ve fallen into a similar trap to what you described: inaction. It seems we all have, when we first discover the wonderful world of self-development books :)

You’ve compiled a simple and useful list to be able to start taking effective action on what a person learns from self-development material. I especially agree with slowing down and limiting yourself.

What has greatly helped me is to limit my info intake. Choose a small handful of sources from which to learn from, then go apply the lessons to my life. After all, life is simple, and there’s only a few real “lessons” on how to live effectively. It’s all in how they’re presented and the voice that delivers them.

So rather than consuming 10 different flavors of the same thing, you find the voice that resonates most with you (like the example of Steve Pavlina), and limit yourself to that. You’ll find only the nuggets you need and apply it to your life in your own way anyway.

Here’s to slowing down and simplifying the info intake, and forming a game plan to take action and actually achieve some self-development (rather than consume a bunch of knowledge and then forget it, deeming your reading time fairly useless).

Best,
Oleg