Allow me to introduce myself. I am a game developer and a moderator at GameDev.net (http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/).

I would have emailed Steve Pavlina directly but I can't find the address. I suspect that he doesn’t display it publicly or he would get flooded with spam or possibly emails with a similar topic to this post.

I read the Personal Productivity articles here about 1.5 years ago. It was one of the best things I have ever done. I found them so enlightening that I printed them out and read them a second time and then a third and then some even more.

I recall, thinking about how accurate they were in pointing out where I had room for improvement. (Also the “Zero-Defect Software Development” article did a lot for my code).

One and a half years on I am in the process of starting a business (not in game development for the time being, but in other computer areas). I have found the other articles amazingly helpful in aspects of planing, goal setting and even simply in inspiring me.

Tonight for a little light reading I have dug out the printouts of the articles (they were the first of many articles I have in a shelf beside my bed) and read them again. Now I am no longer thinking about how they show where I have room for improvement. Now I am reading them and thinking: “hey, I do that”. These articles have seriously helped me to improve the signal to noise ratio of how I spend my time on the computer as well as real life.

I would like to say a very big “Thankyou” to Steve Pavlina for the articles. They have improved me as a person many times over. I would recommend that anyone who hasn’t read them should check them out immediately.

Thanks,

Andrew Russell

Wow. Thanks for the feedback! It's very rewarding to hear stories like this.

And yes, I've had to stop posting my email address publicly on sites because I would get way too much unsolicited email, more than I could reasonably handle.

Originally posted by Dexterity
Wow. Thanks for the feedback! It's very rewarding to hear stories like this.

No problem

Just keep pumping out the articles :)

Andrew

Until today, I had not even looked at these articles until I read these comments. I have done some programming but not games (sprites on a commodore 64 don't count!). In fact I'm now a dog groomer but I have found reading many of these articles to be helpful to me as well. I have also copied those I felt inspired by - copyright intact (I hope this is okay) - and will be applying them to things I do. If nothing else at least the dining table will be clutter free.

Thanks for being so positive and motivating to other people. It is wonderful when someone who is successful wished to share their principles of success to help others attain similar goals. Likewise, it is also wonderful when someone using these methods (as in the initial poster to the topic) acknowledges and appreciates their source and that the methods have worked for them.

Best regards to both of you!

I am new to the forums. Where can I find the articles that Andrew mentioned.

Emil

www.dexterity.com/articles