What follows is a list of the most important and most helpful 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. To Serve (p.376)
27. Clarity (p.16)
28. The Power Of Intention (p.543)
29. It’s The Thought That Counts
30. Use Life To Make Life Easier
31. Make Your Own Tools (p.480)
32. Write Your Own Feedback (p.481)
33. Talk To Yourself
34. Make A Connection (p.76)
35. Yes, It Is That Simple
36. Patterns, Procedures & Routines (p.460)
37. Self-Doubt & Emergency Procedures (p.558)
38. Better Strategies (p.130)
39. Switching To Manual (p.387)
40. Find A Way To Open The Valve
41. Make It All About You
42. Listen to Yourself (p.289)
43. Calibrate The Machine (p.440)
44. The Subtlety Of Feeling (p.506)
45. What Exactly Do I Do?
46. Discipline
47. 300 Days (p.547)
48. One Thousand Days
49. If At First You Don’t Succeed… (p.34)
50. Just When We Think We’ve Made It (p.35)
51. The Mind (p.59)
52. How Easily The Mind Goes To Work (p.37)
53. What We’re Up Against (p.611)
54. Quietening The Mind (p.330)
55. It Is What It Is
56. Rubbish At Meditation?
57. Think Whatever You Want (p.263)
58. You Think Too Much
59. Focus It All Away
60. Separate Out The Emotions (p.537)
61. What Are You Going To Do About It? (p.336)
62. Prediction (p.36)
63. Gathering Evidence (p.224)
64. Look At The Evidence (p.139)
65. Own How Good You Are (p.400)
66. Confidence & Self-Belief (p.312)
67. Don’t Tell Me You’re Funny, Make Me Laugh
68. Are You Still Breathing? (p.520)
69. Exploration, Expectation & Non-Attachment (p.95)
70. Developing Attachment
71. Distracted By The Shiny Stuff
72. Expectations
73. Beyond Expectations
74. Life In The Middle (p.346)
75. Already Perfect
76. Step By Step (p.385)
77. The Best Time To Plant A Tree
78. Better Than Yesterday
79. See Your Progress (p.434)
80. The Contributions We Make
81. The Exponential Curve (p.444)
82. Punctuated Equilibrium (p.31)
83. TS 4 – Practice, Practice… Breakthrough!
84. Progress Report (p.63)
85. Why We Need Boundaries
86. 4 Hours, 4 Weeks, 4 Months (p.436)
87. Give Yourself Two Years
88. Meat & Potatoes (p.248)
89. TS 6 – The Foundations Of Success
90. Relax, You’re Going As Fast As You Can (p.405)
91. TS 8 – Relaxation & Balance
92. Riding & Surviving The Waves (p.413)
93. Close To A Breakthrough (p.399)
94. The Fork In The Road (p.418)
95. Changing Patterns (p.150)
96. It Can Happen In An Instant (p.366)
97. Keep Doing What Works (p.361)
98. It All Comes Down To This (p.421)
99. And So It Continues…
100. TS 7 – Don’t Get Cocky
101. Distracted By The Shiny Stuff
102. You Create Your Reality
103. Imagine You’re Already There
104. Limited Only By Our Beliefs
105. Drop Everything For A Moment
106. Letting Go On The Bridge
107. TS 16 – What Happens When We Let Go?
108. Developing Attachment
109. Distractions Of The Familiar
110. Be Quiet, Be Still, & Listen
111. Shut Up & Listen
112. Inhabiting The Silence
113. Beyond The Noise
114. When You Know It’s Possible
115. Lead By Example
116. Worry, Love & Freedom
117. Life Is Unimaginably Large
118. Astonishingly Simple
119. Get Out Of The Way
120. The Conclusion Is Emptiness
121. Stop Searching, Look Inside
122. Everything Is A Distraction
123. The Mandala Of Personhood
124. Observing From The Is-ness
125. A Shift Of Perspective
126. Discovering The True Self
127. Let Go. Be Empty.
128. Watch Yourself
129. Tell Yourself A Story
130. Our Connection With Nature
131. We Change The World
132. Focus On Love. That’s All.

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.