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. Discipline
45. 300 Days (p.547)
46. One Thousand Days
47. If At First You Don’t Succeed… (p.34)
48. Just When We Think We’ve Made It (p.35)
49. The Mind (p.59)
50. How Easily The Mind Goes To Work (p.37)
51. What We’re Up Against (p.611)
52. Quietening The Mind (p.330)
53. Rubbish At Meditation?
54. Think Whatever You Want (p.263)
55. You Think Too Much
56. Focus It All Away
57. Separate Out The Emotions (p.537)
58. What Are You Going To Do About It? (p.336)
59. Prediction (p.36)
60. Gathering Evidence (p.224)
61. Look At The Evidence (p.139)
62. Own How Good You Are (p.400)
63. Don’t Tell Me You’re Funny, Make Me Laugh
64. Are You Still Breathing? (p.520)
65. Exploration, Expectation & Non-Attachment (p.95)
66. Expectations
67. Beyond Expectations
68. Life In The Middle (p.346)
69. Already Perfect
70. Step By Step (p.385)
71. Better Than Yesterday
72. See Your Progress (p.434)
73. The Exponential Curve (p.444)
74. Punctuated Equilibrium (p.31)
75. TS 4 – Practice, Practice… Breakthrough!
76. Progress Report (p.63)
77. Why We Need Boundaries
78. 4 Hours, 4 Weeks, 4 Months (p.436)
79. Give Yourself Two Years
80. Meat & Potatoes (p.248)
81. TS 6 – The Foundations Of Success
82. Relax, You’re Going As Fast As You Can (p.405)
83. TS 8 – Relaxation & Balance
84. Riding & Surviving The Waves (p.413)
85. Close To A Breakthrough (p.399)
86. The Fork In The Road (p.418)
87. Changing Patterns (p.150)
88. It Can Happen In An Instant (p.366)
89. Keep Doing What Works (p.361)
90. It All Comes Down To This (p.421)
91. And So It Continues…
92. TS 7 – Don’t Get Cocky
93. Distracted By The Shiny Stuff
94. You Create Your Reality
95. Imagine You’re Already There
96. Limited Only By Our Beliefs
97. Drop Everything For A Moment
98. Letting Go On The Bridge
99. TS 16 – What Happens When We Let Go?
100. Developing Attachment
101. Distractions Of The Familiar
102. Be Quiet, Be Still, & Listen
103. Shut Up & Listen
104. Inhabiting The Silence
105. Beyond The Noise
106. When You Know It’s Possible
107. Lead By Example
108. Worry, Love & Freedom
109. Life Is Unimaginably Large
110. Astonishingly Simple
111. Get Out Of The Way
112. The Conclusion Is Emptiness
113. Stop Searching, Look Inside
114. Everything Is A Distraction
115. The Mandala Of Personhood
116. Observing From The Is-ness
117. A Shift Of Perspective
118. Discovering The True Self
119. Let Go. Be Empty.
120. Tell Yourself A Story
121. Our Connection With Nature
122. 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.