Category Archives: Personal Development

Personal development is the passion of Will Edwards the founder of White Dove Books and is the central theme of this website and blog. For each of us, there is a personal journey to be made to find and listen to our true self and go on to achieve our life purpose. That is the essence of personal development and these posts are here to help.

Another Place

Recently, I took a trip to see Antony Gormley’s sculpture at Another Place. In case you are unfamiliar with the work, it consists of the 100 cast iron figures that are located on Crosby Beach, just north of Liverpool. Gormley … Continue reading

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Discussion Forum

Today, I decided to resurrect the Discussion Forum because I feel it would just be great to chat with some of our regular visitors on subjects they raise. I know that many people who visit the site have a lot … Continue reading

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Free Will: Why Determinism is Bunk!

Today, I came across the above video from Sam Harris on the subject of free will. Personally, although I thoroughly enjoyed hearing the argument for determinism so eloquently put, I do not buy the idea that we don’t have free … Continue reading

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When Your Life Story is the Wrong One

The world blurs as the young girl races through the trees. Branches reach out to scratch her arms and face, and she moves faster. She trips on a tree root, and falls face first into the dirt. That won’t stop … Continue reading

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You Need to Own Your Now

Why is it that sometimes it takes a defining moment or the prospect of death to make us realise what is important and teach us, in an instant, how important it is to live in the moment. Let me put … Continue reading

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Advertise at White Dove Books

At present, we use Google Adsense to serve contextual advertising here at the site and after some consideration, I have decided to offer the advertising space on my main pages to interested parties. Your ad will be shown in place of … Continue reading

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Best Personal Development Blog 2012

The time has come for me to announce the winner of our first ever annual awards here at White Dove Books. It has been a very interesting competition with many really excellent blogs nominated for the award. There have been … Continue reading

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The 7 Hadits of Highly Effective People

Thinking about the late, great Jim Rohn, I remember him once saying that a person’s life often changes on the day that they say “I’ve had it”; when they reach a point where they just cannot tolerate the status quo … Continue reading

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The 7 Hobbits of Highly Effective People

As my regular readers will know, I think The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People is a great book and I really admire Stephen Covey’s work. But I have recently been thinking in terms of the ways that the 7 … Continue reading

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Farewell Zig!

Zig Ziglar (Hilary Hinton Ziglar) died of pneumonia on November 28. A sad loss to the personal development industry, Zig will be fondly remembered by us all for many things, but perhaps most importantly for a life well lived. Hearing … Continue reading

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Free Personal Development PLR

Today, I was speaking with Ronnie Nijmeh, the PLR guy I have previously mentioned to you and he told me he has a free offer running at the moment. PLR (Private Label Rights) materials are products you can put your … Continue reading

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If You Always Do What You’ve Always Done

If you were to think back along the timeline of your life, you would come to recognise that there have been moments where you had to make a decision: to do this or that; to go here or there; to … Continue reading

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