I have a very huge passion for personal development and Self growth so this month I thought to list my fifty personal development sites. The methods used are subjective but they are currently the most reliable and widely acceptable. I used the alexa traffic rank system and the google page rank system. I have arranged the sites according to the alexa ranking. It was actually very difficult for me to come up with the list so I used the following combination of keywords; Motivation, Positive Thinking, Self Help, Self-Improvement, Self-Development, Personal Development, Self-Growth, Personal Growth, Personal Development and success, Personal Growth and Success. I hope you find it useful.
| Rank | Site Name | URL | Alexa Rank | Page PR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Good Reads | www.goodreads.com | 268 | 6 |
| Website for books | ||||
| 2 | T E D | www.ted.com | 849 | 8 |
| TED is a global community, welcoming people from every discipline and culture who seek a deeper understanding of the world. We believe passionately in the power of ideas to change attitudes, lives and, ultimately, the world. On TED.com, we're building a clearinghouse of free knowledge from the world's most inspired thinkers — and a community of curious souls to engage with ideas and each other, both online and at TED and TEDx events around the world, all year long. | ||||
| 3 | The New Yorker | www.newyorker.com | 2185 | 8 |
| Magazine not really a personal development site but worth mentioning. | ||||
| 4 | Mind Body Green | www.mindbodygreen.com | 2461 | 6 |
| 5 | Life Hack | www.lifehack.org | 2832 | 4 |
| Lifehack is your source for tips to help improve all aspects of your life. We are widely recognized as one of the premier productivity and lifestyle blogs on the web. This site is dedicated to lifehacks, which is a phrase that describes any advice, resource, tip or trick that will help you get things done more efficiently and effectively. This blog has been endorsed by many major newspapers, magazines and online publications, and is frequently updated with articles by a team of contributors that just want to make your life as friction-free as possible. | ||||
| 6 | List Verse | www.listverse.com | 3787 | 6 |
| Listverse is a place for explorers. Together we seek out the most fascinating and rare gems of human knowledge. We write, we read, we learn—and in the process, we have fun. Every day we publish three or more amazing lists packed with as many new facts as possible. You will always leave Listverse smarter than when you arrived. Guaranteed. Come in and join our tribe of enthusiastic and friendly folk. People just like you—crazy about learning something new and, more importantly, something you can tell your friends about. Listversers are the smartest people at the party! | ||||
| 7 | The Art of Manliness | www.artofmanliness.com | 5647 | 6 |
| AoM is a blog about growing up well, aimed at men and their unique challenges and interests. We explore all things manly — from the serious and philosophical to the practical and fun. We seek to uncover how to live with grandpa’s swagger, virtue, and know-how in the present age by wedding the best of the past to the best of the present. The end goal is to create a synergy of tradition and modernity that offers men a way forward and signposts on how to live an excellent, flourishing life. | ||||
| 8 | Beliefnet | www.beliefnet.com | 7171 | 7 |
| Religious website | ||||
| 9 | Selfgrowth.com | www.selfgrowth.com | 8567 | 6 |
| Personal development website packed with various tools and articles | ||||
| 10 | Marc And Angel Hacklife | www.marcandangel.com | 11406 | 5 |
| Passionate writers, admirers of the human spirit, and full time students of life, Marc and Angel Chernoff enjoy sharing inspirational advice and practical tips for life on their popular personal development blog, “Marc and Angel Hack Life.” Currently the site contains over 600 articles on happiness, productivity, emotional intelligence, relationships, and general self-improvement, and has attracted over 100 million page views and 100 thousand subscribers since its inception in 2006. Marc and Angel both share a great passion for inspiring others to live to their fullest potential, and they honestly feel best when they are inspiring others to be their best. They started their blog with the goal of inspiring as many people as possible, and they work passionately every day to fulfill this goal through the thoughts and ideas they share online. | ||||
| 11 | Tiny Buddha | www.tinybuddha.com | 11571 | 5 |
| Gaining knowledge isn’t a problem. Applying it, on the other hand, is a lot more challenging, especially when you consider how little time we have throughout our busy days to stop, breathe, and just be. Tiny Buddha is about reflecting on simple wisdom and learning new ways to apply it to our complex lives—complete with responsibilities, struggles, dreams, and relationships. Over the last four years, Tiny Buddha has emerged as a leading resource for peace and happiness, with more than two million monthly readers | ||||
| 12 | Get Rich Slowly | www.getrichslowly.org | 14318 | 6 |
| 13 | Antonny Robbins | www.tonyrobins.com | 15284 | 5 |
| For the past three decades, Anthony Robbins has served as an advisor to leaders around the world. A recognized authority on the psychology of leadership, negotiations, organizational turnaround, and peak performance, he has been honored consistently for his strategic intellect and humanitarian endeavors. His nonprofit Anthony Robbins Foundation provides assistance to inner-city youth, senior citizens, and the homeless, and feeds more than three million people in 56 countries every year through its international holiday "Basket Brigade." Robbins has directly impacted the lives of more than 50 million people from over 100 countries with his best-selling books, multimedia and health products, public speaking engagements, and live events. | ||||
| 14 | Brian Tracy International | www.briantracy.com | 15769 | 4 |
| Leadership development and personal develoment website. | ||||
| 15 | Stevepavlina | www.stevepavlina.com | 18607 | 6 |
| This website is designed to stimulate your growth by giving you an abundance of interesting ideas and insights to ponder. | ||||
| 16 | Success | www.success.com | 20151 | 7 |
| SUCCESS magazine is designed specifically to serve the growing entrepreneur, the home-based and small-business markets. SUCCESS magazine is not only inspirational but also instructional in taking a balanced approach to success by offering guidance and insight into improving one’s entire life. | ||||
| 17 | Mark Manson | www.markmanson.net | 21189 | 4 |
| This site teaches a reality-based form of self development, as investigated through a deep understanding of psychology and culture. I also throw in a little bit of my own ridiculousness now and then. | ||||
| 18 | Robin Sharma | www.robinsharma.com | 26784 | 5 |
| 19 | Pick the Brain | www.pickthebrain.com | 28768 | 5 |
| A website dedicated to self improvement with a focus on personal productivity, motivation, and self education. | ||||
| 20 | Business Balls.com | www.businessballs.com | 29100 | 6 |
| Businessballs is a free ethical learning and development resource for people and organizations, run by Alan Chapman, in Leicester, England. | ||||
| 21 | Danielle Laporte | www.daniellelaporte.com | 33363 | 5 |
| The place where conscious meets cash, and ambition meets inner peace; the space in which all beings and ecologies are considered by asking questions | ||||
| 22 | Personalitypage.com | www.personalitypage.com | 35493 | 5 |
| Personality typing is a tool with many uses. It's especially notable for it's helpfulness in the areas of growth and self-development. Learning and applying the theories of personality type can be a powerful and rewarding experience, if it is used as a tool for discovery, rather than as a method for putting people into boxes, or as an excuse for behavior. | ||||
| 23 | Skills you Need | www.skillsyouneed.com | 58247 | 4 |
| Here at SkillsYouNeed we're passionate about providing quality information and resources that can help you to learn and practise the skills you need to make the most of everyday life. | ||||
| 24 | Changing Minds | www.changingminds.org | 59229 | 5 |
| Collection of motivational stories | ||||
| 25 | Tools for Transformation | www.trans4mind.com | 62967 | 5 |
| Our mission is to maintain a comprehensive personal development service dedicated to the uplifting of humanity worldwide, providing each visitor with an abundant choice, both of free and paid resources, to create their path of personal and spiritual growth. | ||||
| 26 | Paid to Exist | www.paidtoexist.com | 73063 | 5 |
| We believe that there’s a new paradigm of work emerging that’s starting to take root in the world. At least, there’s an opportunity for it to become the new paradigm. It’s up to us to make it happen. | ||||
| 27 | The Start of Happiness | www.startofhappiness.com | 100624 | 4 |
| The Start of Happiness exists to provide you the strategies and tools to be able to do the things you love, more often. It is about understanding yourself, understanding your passions, defining your goals and staying motivated to enable you to reach your full potential. | ||||
| 28 | Palgrave Macmillan | www.palgrave.com | 122935 | 7 |
| 29 | Success Consciousness | www.successconsciousness.com | 173905 | 5 |
| The aim of SuccessConsciousness.com is to provide practical information and guidance, to help people live a better, happier and more fulfilling life. | ||||
| 30 | Critical Thinking Community | www.criticalthinking.org | 190960 | 6 |
| The Center for Critical Thinking and Moral Critique and the Foundation for Critical Thinking — two sister educational non-profit organizations — work closely together to promote educational reform. We seek to promote essential change in education and society through the cultivation of fair-minded critical thinking | ||||
| 31 | Essential Life Skills for Personal Development | www.essentiallifeskills.net | 204679 | 3 |
| Welcome to Essential Life Skills.net a website dedicated to contributing to your personal development and self-realization. | ||||
| 32 | Personal Growth Courses | www.personalgrowthcourses.net | 223397 | 4 |
| These dynamic personal growth courses bring together the best of the Internet with heart and mind expanding materials designed to inspire your personal growth and expand your awareness of all that is happening in our lives and world. The journey through these free courses will support you in feeling more connected, in more fully experiencing life in all its richness, and in making a difference in our world. | ||||
| 33 | The Pachamana alliance | www.pachamama.org | 244905 | 5 |
| To empower indigenous people of the Amazon rainforest to preserve their lands and culture and, using insights gained from that work , to educate and inspire individuals everywhere to bring forth a thriving, just and sustainable world. | ||||
| 34 | Self Development.Net | www.selfdevelopment.net | 277723 | 3 |
| This site is designed for people who are serious about their personal development and want to make changes in their lives, starting today. | ||||
| 35 | The Self Growth Marketing | www.selfgrowthmarketing.com | 360624 | 3 |
| SelfGrowthMarketing.com. This site is designed to teach you how to build your business using the most up to date marketing and sales techniques. | ||||
| 36 | Personal-Development.com | www.personal-development.com | 364342 | 4 |
| Welcome to Personal-Development.Com!. For over 10 years we have been bringing our fans high quality and original information dedicated to positivity and success. Personal Development is the key to improving your skills and attitudes, to bring you more success in the various areas of life such as relationships, health, and financial success. Original authors include author and speaker Chuck Gallozzi, Yasha, Miles Murphy, and more. We also have articles by well known experts Brian Tracy and Jim Rohn. | ||||
| 37 | Made for Success | www.madeforsuccess.com | 483439 | 3 |
| Since 1998, Made for Success has provided hundreds of thousands of people with motivational and personal development content in the form of audio CDs, digital download audios, DVDs and eBooks. People in over 100 countries have benefited from Made for Success programs through leading retail outlets. Thanks to our participating authors, this personal development content is made available through a vast resource of free articles from experts, professional speakers and best selling authors. | ||||
| 38 | The Self Improvement Blog | www.theselfimprovementblog.com | 625207 | 3 |
| The blog was created because almost everyone wants to be better, do better, achieve more. All real change comes within but many of us don’t know where to find the information or guidance we need to make the changes that bring about the improvement. And most of us don’t know how to work “within.” | ||||
| 39 | Planet of Success | www.planetofsuccess.com | 688459 | 3 |
| This site is dedicated to the aim to provide you free personal development resources that will help you to develop your personality, grow as a human being and to enhance the quality of your life. | ||||
| 40 | Mr. Self Development.com | www.mrselfdevelopment.com | 712021 | 3 |
| This is a Web site for people who want real change in their life! It’s for those who are tired of talking about success, and who want to see results. | ||||
| 41 | Irene Becket - Just Coach It | www.justcoachit.com | 827872 | 3 |
| A repertoire of customized leadership, communication and career consulting, coaching and training with a unique 3Q and R-E-A-C-H™ focus/methodology that helps clients optimize, humanize and monetize results. | ||||
| 42 | Peace Revolution | www.peacerevolution.net | 829488 | 5 |
| This Peace Revolution is creating a new “paradigm shift” intent on redirecting and refocusing all of our personal priorities from an outward search to an inward quest designed to discover and cultivate a lasting, self-sustaining happiness. Through this, we open powerful, exciting and limitless new horizons of personal development. Through the transformation of our inner mind, each of us will consequently transform the world without! We become a living example. More importantly, we grow to be “Humane Change Agents” affecting both directly and indirectly everything around us in a most positive way. | ||||
| 43 | Net Fieldnetwork | www.newfieldnetwork.com | 875778 | 4 |
| Personal growth through Ontological Coaching ® is only the beginning of a brand new discovery of life. | ||||
| 44 | Success Partners | www.successpartners.com | 1326343 | 3 |
| This is our unique factor. Why we do what we do. We are inspired by personal stories of success, motivation and entrepreneurial feats. We are the SUCCESS experts. | ||||
| 45 | Psychologist Any Where Anytime | www.psychologistanywhereanytime.com | 1826773 | 2 |
| I developed this website with the goal of helping each visitor to grow both emotionally and intellectually and, thus, help you to understand more, feel better, be more satisfied and productive, and improve the depth and quality of your life. | ||||
| 46 | IFS Growth Programs | www.personal-growth-programs.com | 2472657 | 4 |
| IFS is such a powerful method for healing that we want everyone to have access to it. We want to help IFS become known throughout the U.S. and the world, both in the professional psychotherapy community and among personal growth enthusiasts. Not only is IFS extremely effective for personal healing and growth, it also embodies love, cooperation, wholeness, interconnectedness, spirituality, and embodiment, all qualities that are desperately needed for the transformation of our society. | ||||
| 47 | Successful Personal Growth | www.successfulpersonalgrowth.com | 4147654 | 3 |
| Personal development website | ||||
| 48 | Self Improvement | www.selfimprovement.com | 4765632 | 2 |
| Welcome to SelfImprovement.com . We invite you to click on the blog link above to view helpful videos, quotes, and other life change tools. Self improvement.com is becoming the platform for ideas and interaction related to your personal development. Our site features posts to help in four areas of your life: relationship, spiritual, finance, and physical health. We hope you share your comments on our blog page. | ||||
| 49 | Personal Growth Club | www.personalgrowthclub.com | 5766057 | 2 |
| Personal Growth Club is a membership website with a goal of teaching you how to access your subconscious mind, using tools such as Self-Hypnosis, Meditation, Affirmations, and Visualization. | ||||
| 50 | Self Growth Giveaway | www.selfgrowthgiveaway.com | 5978752 | 2 |
| Site for personal development books and many giveaways | ||||
Conclusion
It is an honor for me to produce such useful information for my readers. If you are like me and enjoy the subject of personal development am sure you have found this list very useful. I will endeavour to produce another such list at the end of the year. I believe that this is one way of giving. I would also appreciate a link back from the webmasters of the above listed sites. I have also been trying to host a monthly carnival but have had challenges receiving submissions ever since blogcarnival.com went down. I will in the near future announce how to submit your carnivals for inclusion in the upcoming ones. Bye for now and remember to always “standout tall and be counted”.
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