Personal Development Bloggers - We Are All One Elephant
Lyman Reed
August 22nd, 2007
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Priscilla Palmer has a vision of a complete list of personal development bloggers, and she’s asking us to help build it.
The personal development niche has always reminded me of the story of the blind men and the elephant. There are various versions, but the essence of the story is that you can take a single thing, like an elephant, have several people examine only one part of it (the trunk, the legs, the side), and they will all come up with different conclusions on what the object is (a snake, a tree stump, or a wall).
Priscilla mentions this in her original post, and Aaron Potts elaborates on it in his response. Personal development can cover physical fitness, money, spirituality, education, emotional mastery, relationships… even if a person doesn’t think of themselves as a “personal development” blogger, they just might be one.
Remember - while we may have a particular orientation toward one of the areas, they are all important. Even within a specific area (spirituality comes to mind), you may not accept everything that’s put out there, but we can still recognize our own blindness, and allow the other blind people out there to write about what they… ummm… “see”.
Here’s the original list that Priscilla started with:
Aaron Potts at Today is That Day
David Rogers at How to Have Great Self Confidence
Henrik Edberg at The Positivity Blog
Karen Lynch at Live The Power
Lyman Reed at Creating a Better Life
(if I’m at the end of the list, does that make me the elephant’s… no, never mind 
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While many of my possible picks have already been added, here are my five contributions:
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Vickie of Contemplate This
Mark McManus of Build Your Life To Order ™
Phil Gerbyshak of Make it Great!
Donald Latumahina of Life Optimizer
Tim Ferris of the 4-Hour Workweek and Lifestyle Design Blog
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Rick from Shards of Consciousness suggested that I add the final list to the Personal Development Carnival home page, which I think is a top-notch idea. Thanks for that, my friend.
Go, read, add, and have fun!
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Thank you Lyman, for the excellent additions. I have added them to the original list.
Oh, and I’ve got the list in alphabetical order for easier navigation. With the new additions you are no longer at the end of the list.
Thank *you*, Priscilla. This was a great idea!
Thanks for including me Lyman. You’re doing great things here, and I’m glad to be part of your elephant (no matter which piece I might be!)
Thanks for adding me, Lyman! Just like Phil, I’m glad to be a part of the elephant no matter which part
I’d love to be added to the list of personal development bloggers!
Building upon your point that personal development covers so many areas. Developing anything that involves expanding perspective, creating new thought and experience opens doors to possibilities. Because of our uniqueness, we all bring a fresh perspective that, when combined, brings a picture greater than what we might have created alone. And when that picture is all inclusive without judgments or needing to be right, well, it gets pretty cool!
Hi Lyman, thanks for the shout out. I had another idea about submitting feeds for the personal development carnival site. I’ll shoot you an email.
In Spirit,
Nneka
Phil and Donald - You’re both very welcome. Thanks for joining in :).
Lorraine - Jump on in!
Just write a post adding five more to the original list, and let Priscilla know about it. You more than deserve to be on it. And re: the diversity comments… I can just picture a Buddhist monk running a Tony Robbins seminar - thank GOD there are so many different perspectives out there!
Nneka - Yay! New ideas for the Carnival! The site needs some serious lovin’ and an overhaul as it is… I’m looking forward to your ideas!
“…even if a person doesn’t think of themselves as a “personal development” blogger, they just might be one.” Well, hey, that would be me!
Lorraine’s definition really does fit what I blog so, I can see how I would fit. Thank you for thinking of me 
You’re welcome, Vickie!
I’m glad you decided to see yourself as one of us. I guess this one kind of fits in with the “How do you see my blog” meme from the day before.
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