After 6 weeks, I have restarted my self-coaching process that I had started in the Netherlands. Today, I was looking at persistence in achieving your personal goals. A study once found out that successful people are neither very intelligent nor very creative but very, very, very persistent in putting their goals into action.

via What makes people successful? | Blog | Ode Magazine.

ScienceDaily (Mar. 27, 2009) — This month Fox Chase Cancer Center performed the world’s first successful minimally invasive distal pancreatectomy using the ViKY® system’s revolutionary robotic, compact laparoscope holder. The technology, developed in France and tested on thousands of patients in Europe, made its debut in a cancer setting in the United States at Fox Chase.

via World’s First Successful ViKY Robot-assisted Surgery For Pancreatic Tumors.

The most successful game ever made isn’t World of Warcraft, Tetris or even The Sims.

Click-for-click, nothing has wasted more time than Minesweeper, a little game that debuted back in 1990 as part of the Windows Entertainment Pack, before being promoted to a standard feature in Windows 3.1 and onwards.

via The most successful game ever: a history of Minesweeper | News | TechRadar UK.

We’re a bit biased, but we believe there’s no question that Don Draper is the best salesmen of all-time on Television. Selling happiness is an art and he is one of the best. So, this led us to speculate about who are the best salesmen, con artists, sweet-talkers, swindlers, and Bullshitters in the Movies.

via Best Salesmen Characters In Movies – Mad Men Fan Site.

This MA-study shows that Roberto Assagioli’s original conception of Psychosynthesis is fully aligned with Ken Wilber’s Integral Psychology. A careful research into all Assagioli’s English publications gives clear evidence of Levels, Lines of development, States, Types and to some degree the four Quadrants.

Read more on: Integral Options Cafe: Kenneth Sørensen – Integral Psychosynthesis, a comparison of Wilber and Assagioli.

This is interesting and amazing (and I am not being sponsored by this software producer), but there is even software that can help you in being more successful and achieving your goals.

At first instance, it sounds good. Having a system supporting you in setting up your goals and tracking the progress in achieving them. This could be a good support.

Questions that rise with me are:

1. My scepticism: In the end, as with all software, it ends with the usage and perseverance of the user. It could be a bit like following a diet and having the Jojo effect.
2. I think there should also be some personal support or coach where you can have contact with.
3. What I am interested in is if there is a certain theory or known model behind it (is it validated)?
4. Is there a training in the software as well?

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