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. What Should I Write?
10. Simply Observe (p.100)
11. Heisenberg, Observation & Growth (p.71)
12. One Simple Observation (p.118)
13. Observation As The Gateway
14. Reflection Of What’s There
15. Made Beautiful By Reflection (p.366)
16. The Ivy Of Conditioning (p.486)
17. Thoughts on Conditioning (p.98)
18. Cultural Conditioning (p.92)
19. People’s Patterns
20. Make Sure You’re Okay (p.552)
21. Work On Yourself
22. Make Yourself (Happy) (p.189)
23. It’s Easier To Look At Yourself (p.170)
24. The Choice Is Always Yours
25. Yesterday I Was Clever
26. Clarity (p.16)
27. The Power Of Intention (p.543)
28. It’s The Thought That Counts
29. Use Life To Make Life Easier
30. Make Your Own Tools (p.480)
31. Write Your Own Feedback (p.481)
32. Talk To Yourself
33. Make A Connection (p.76)
34. Yes, It Is That Simple
35. Patterns, Procedures & Routines (p.460)
36. Self-Doubt & Emergency Procedures (p.558)
37. Better Strategies (p.130)
38. Switching To Manual (p.387)
39. Find A Way To Open The Valve
40. Make It All About You
41. Listen to Yourself (p.289)
42. Calibrate The Machine (p.440)
43. The Subtlety Of Feeling (p.506)
44. What Exactly Do I Do?
45. Discipline
46. 300 Days (p.547)
47. One Thousand Days
48. If At First You Don’t Succeed… (p.34)
49. Just When We Think We’ve Made It (p.35)
50. The Mind (p.59)
51. How Easily The Mind Goes To Work (p.37)
52. What We’re Up Against (p.611)
53. Quietening The Mind (p.330)
54. Rubbish At Meditation?
55. Think Whatever You Want (p.263)
56. You Think Too Much
57. Focus It All Away
58. Separate Out The Emotions (p.537)
59. What Are You Going To Do About It? (p.336)
60. Prediction (p.36)
61. Gathering Evidence (p.224)
62. Look At The Evidence (p.139)
63. Own How Good You Are (p.400)
64. Don’t Tell Me You’re Funny, Make Me Laugh
65. Are You Still Breathing? (p.520)
66. Exploration, Expectation & Non-Attachment (p.95)
67. Expectations
68. Beyond Expectations
69. Life In The Middle (p.346)
70. Already Perfect
71. Step By Step (p.385)
72. Better Than Yesterday
73. See Your Progress (p.434)
74. The Exponential Curve (p.444)
75. Punctuated Equilibrium (p.31)
76. TS 4 – Practice, Practice… Breakthrough!
77. Progress Report (p.63)
78. Why We Need Boundaries
79. 4 Hours, 4 Weeks, 4 Months (p.436)
80. Give Yourself Two Years
81. Meat & Potatoes (p.248)
82. TS 6 – The Foundations Of Success
83. Relax, You’re Going As Fast As You Can (p.405)
84. TS 8 – Relaxation & Balance
85. Riding & Surviving The Waves (p.413)
86. Close To A Breakthrough (p.399)
87. The Fork In The Road (p.418)
88. Changing Patterns (p.150)
89. It Can Happen In An Instant (p.366)
90. Keep Doing What Works (p.361)
91. It All Comes Down To This (p.421)
92. And So It Continues…
93. TS 7 – Don’t Get Cocky
94. Distracted By The Shiny Stuff
95. You Create Your Reality
96. Imagine You’re Already There
97. Limited Only By Our Beliefs
98. Drop Everything For A Moment
99. Letting Go On The Bridge
100. TS 16 – What Happens When We Let Go?
101. Developing Attachment
102. Distractions Of The Familiar
103. Be Quiet, Be Still, & Listen
104. Shut Up & Listen
105. Inhabiting The Silence
106. Beyond The Noise
107. When You Know It’s Possible
108. Lead By Example
109. Worry, Love & Freedom
110. Life Is Unimaginably Large
111. Astonishingly Simple
112. Get Out Of The Way
113. The Conclusion Is Emptiness
114. Stop Searching, Look Inside
115. Everything Is A Distraction
116. The Mandala Of Personhood
117. Observing From The Is-ness
118. A Shift Of Perspective
119. Discovering The True Self
120. Let Go. Be Empty.
121. Tell Yourself A Story
122. Our Connection With Nature
123. We Change The World

This list has been organised into nine steps which take you through the whole process in the simplest, yet most thorough way possible. You can read more about it in the blog post, The Nine Tiles.

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.