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 :) )

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 â„¢

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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