Justin Lloyd

Through this website I aim to build a resource of articles that you can use to learn new practical skills to improve your life. Through this website I want to show you how you can build a company, acquire wealth, hire and fire minions, do away with trifling super spies and eventually construct the space based death ray you’ve always wanted or just merely commit the crime of the century.

Personal Development

Personal development to me has always been an interesting subject. The problem I have always found is that much of what is taught is really bad advice. The pushers of self help books and programmes are attempting to maximize their profits and audience by appealing to the mainstream but the problem is that the promoter then gets in to a cycle of quick fixes and sound bite nonsense that has no real substance to it.

I believe very strongly that to get the most from personal growth and to see the greatest gains you must be willing to realise there are niches to every aspect. The easy stuff anyone can pick up and figure out how to implement. It does not take a guru to teach you how to set goals or get your office desk organized. But I would guess than 90% of what is taught and talked about is exactly that sort of thing.

The remaining 10%, the place where the greatest gains are to be found, coming back to the 80/20 or 90/10 rule of almost every aspect of life, is where we will find the deepest veins of knowledge, the greatest lessons to be learned and the furthest advances that we can make. The 10% will be the hardest road and the one least travelled by anyone, it is often the most painful, and frequently puts you well outside of your comfort zone, but this lesser travelled path will always prove to be the most profitable to you.

Living Life To The Fullest

Life is built on experiences. Our lives are the sum total of those experiences. Some are worth more than others. Each one is important to who we are and how we behave. Many people purposely blind themselves to experiences by acquiring material possessions. They believe, because this is what they have been taught, by the media, by their parents, by popular culture and by their peers, that the acquisition of belongings is the end goal. “He who dies with the most toys wins!” is the rallying cry of the consumer culture.

Don’t get me wrong, I am not against the acquisition of personal property, I personally own far more high technology junk than is probably healthy for me, and I agonise over keeping it all safe by paying exorbitant rent and insurance rates.

But the desire to acquire stuff does not rule my life, my current acquisitions do not dictate what I can and cannot do, and my energies and endeavours are not geared towards attaining ever larger piles of junk I cannot use. I realise that my life is made up of experiences, from the simple to the sublime. You should seek out experience wherever and whenever you can find it.

Optimizing Your life

Most areas of our existence are sub-optimal at best. We are constantly moving through our lives making use of sub-standard tools and processes that inhibit our abilities and experiences rather than enhance them. We accept mediocre lives because we have never been taught how to identify problem areas and what tools and techniques will work to fix and correct the problems. Our life is a fixer-upper but we don’t know how or where to begin renovating. What we consider an “average life” is so far below what should be considered “average” that we don’t realise how much better our days could be.

Income Generation

Unless we are born in to wealth by a happy accident of birth we must all figure out how to make a living for ourselves. The majority of the first world population earn a wage working for a company. All of us are indoctrinated in to how life is and how to work for someone else. We are educated with industrial age thinking, coerced, whether we know it or not, to follow a life that may be detrimental to our well being. I want you to understand that there are other ways of making a living, less risky, far more exciting and exceptional fun that will provide you with the best time you have ever imagined.

Through this website I write about how to generate alternative income that isn’t part of your daily job. I write about how to create multiple streams of income that will give you wealth. I write about how to recognise low risk opportunities. I write about how to spot and steer clear of get rich quick schemes that somehow work on “magic.”

Business

Believe it or not business is actually pretty fascinating. I’m not referring to the boring, stuffy corporate business world you probably think of when someone mentions the “B” word. The business of entrepreneurs, of start-ups, of working to create something new, these are exciting enterprises. Business covers a lot of areas from advertising to marketing to working with people. Real business is about creating value and then delivering it.

Communication Skills

We all need to communicate. Great communicators can sway a mass of people to their view. Or they can get an individual to do something they may not want to do. The ability to communicate is paramount in society even in our electronically connected world. The ability to enunciate clearly, to use the correct words, to make your point succinctly, can pay huge dividends.

But communication isn’t all about talking. Communication is a two way process. Learning to actively listen, learning to read body language, learning to ask the right questions and then be silent whilst the answer is given is as important as being a good talker.

Psychology

Understanding what makes us tick and how to change our default behaviours, how to manage our internal and external states, allows us to become a different and better person. Many successful people became successful because they were able to control and manage their internal and external states. Many successful people who self-destruct regressed to earlier default behaviours, or never truly eradicated their negative behaviours as they became successful. These negative default behaviours caused the person’s life to catastrophically implode.

Ethics

Ethics are a fascinating subject to me. I am not talking about the purely academic discussion of ethics as taught in college and university but those that we encounter every day in life. Ethics are so malleable and easily recreated from one day to the next. Most people confuse their ethics with an inner religious morality and that is interesting too once you scratch away at the surface.

When you start to seriously think about ethics you realise that what constitutes your ethics are so easily broken by circumstance. By carefully studying our own ethics and those of other people we gain insight in to the psychology of the mind. There are three things and only three things that you need in this life to make people do what you need them to do: 1) Good communication skills. 2) An understanding of a person’s ethics. 3) An understanding of psychology. Those three things will give you massive leverage in your interactions with other people.

I’m not saying that the above subjects are all I’m going to be writing about on this particular website. The website is focused at personal development which covers a very broad subject such as diet, health, goals, time management and a myriad other subjects but what I have outlined above are the broad themes that I aim to deal with.

What you won’t find me writing about are subjects such as software development, video games, or technology. To save you the boredom I shall continue to reserve those topics for other publications and my personal website. I want you to enjoy this website for what I aim to make it, a resource for improving yourself.

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