What follows is a list of many of the most important pieces from this blog. The list makes it easy for you to understand at a glance what is necessary in this work. It takes you through the process of self-development and self-realisation – from awareness, observation and reflection, and back to awareness – offering you guidance on what to expect along the way and what you can do to help yourself.

There is a structure to the list, but you can begin by clicking on the titles which draw your curiosity. (The page numbers in brackets refer to my book.)

1. Awareness Is The Key (p.12)
2. It Begins With Awareness
3. The ‘How’ Is Unimportant (p.17)
4. Survival & Growth (p.30)
5. Childish Learning
6. Read The Instructions
7. Write Stuff Down (p.327)
8. Write & Become More Aware
9. Simply Observe (p.100)
10. Heisenberg, Observation & Growth (p.71)
11. One Simple Observation (p.118)
12. Observation As The Gateway
13. Reflection Of What’s There
14. Made Beautiful By Reflection (p.366)
15. The Ivy Of Conditioning (p.486)
16. Thoughts on Conditioning (p.98)
17. Cultural Conditioning (p.92)
18. People’s Patterns
19. Make Sure You’re Okay (p.552)
20. Work On Yourself
21. Make Yourself (Happy) (p.189)
22. It’s Easier To Look At Yourself (p.170)
23. The Choice Is Always Yours
24. Clarity (p.16)
25. The Power Of Intention (p.543)
26. It’s The Thought That Counts
27. Use Life To Make Life Easier
28. Make Your Own Tools (p.480)
29. Talk To Yourself
30. Make A Connection (p.76)
31. Tell Yourself A Story
32. Yes, It Is That Simple
33. Patterns, Procedures & Routines (p.460)
34. Self-Doubt & Emergency Procedures (p.558)
35. Better Strategies (p.130)
36. Switching To Manual (p.387)
37. Find A Way To Open The Valve
38. Make It All About You
39. Listen to Yourself (p.289)
40. Calibrate The Machine (p.440)
41. The Subtlety Of Feeling (p.506)
42. Discipline
43. 300 Days (p.547)
44. One Thousand Days
45. If At First You Don’t Succeed… (p.34)
46. Just When We Think We’ve Made It (p.35)
47. The Mind (p.59)
48. How Easily The Mind Goes To Work (p.37)
49. Quietening The Mind (p.330)
50. Think Whatever You Want (p.263)
51. You Think Too Much
52. Focus It All Away
53. Separate Out The Emotions (p.537)
54. What Are You Going To Do About It? (p.336)
55. Prediction (p.36)
56. Gathering Evidence (p.224)
57. Look At The Evidence (p.139)
58. Own How Good You Are (p.400)
59. Are You Still Breathing? (p.520)
60. Exploration, Expectation & Non-Attachment (p.95)
61. Expectations
62. Beyond Expectations
63. Life In The Middle (p.346)
64. Already Perfect
65. Step By Step (p.385)
66. Better Than Yesterday
67. See Your Progress (p.434)
68. The Exponential Curve (p.444)
69. Punctuated Equilibrium (p.31)
70. TS 4 – Practice, Practice… Breakthrough!
71. Progress Report (p.63)
72. Why We Need Boundaries
73. 4 Hours, 4 Weeks, 4 Months (p.436)
74. Give Yourself Two Years
75. Meat & Potatoes (p.248)
76. TS 6 – The Foundations Of Success
77. Relax, You’re Going As Fast As You Can (p.405)
78. TS 8 – Relaxation & Balance
79. Riding & Surviving The Waves (p.413)
80. Close To A Breakthrough (p.399)
81. The Fork In The Road (p.418)
82. Changing Patterns (p.150)
83. It Can Happen In An Instant (p.366)
84. Keep Doing What Works (p.361)
85. It All Comes Down To This (p.421)
86. And So It Continues…
87. TS 7 – Don’t Get Cocky
88. Distracted By The Shiny Stuff
89. You Create Your Reality
90. Imagine You’re Already There
91. Limited Only By Our Beliefs
92. Drop Everything For A Moment
93. Letting Go On The Bridge
94. TS 16 – What Happens When We Let Go?
95. Discovering The True Self
96. Developing Attachment
97. Distractions Of The Familiar
98. Be Quiet, Be Still, & Listen
99. Shut Up & Listen
100. Inhabiting The Silence
101. Beyond The Noise
102. When You Know It’s Possible
103. Lead By Example
104. Worry, Love & Freedom
105. Life Is Unimaginably Large
106. Astonishingly Simple
107. Get Out Of The Way
108. The Conclusion Is Emptiness
109. Stop Searching, Look Inside
110. Everything Is A Distraction
111. The Mandala Of Personhood
112. Observing From The Is-ness
113. A Shift Of Perspective
114. Let Go. Be Empty.

For further information, see the related posts listed at the bottom of many of the above entries. There is also another set of posts which resulted from a series of 18 seminars on the same process. Those seminar summaries go deeper into specific subjects and include videos from each seminar. In addition, if you are looking to further your reading on particular subjects, you can find extra material collected in the 100+ categories in the blog’s archive.