25 Top Rated Online Courses
In recent years online courses have become popular learning tools. But with so many choices available it can be a bit like looking for needles in a haystack to find the best ones.
I found the needles for you.
Here are some of the top rated personal development courses available online.
Udemy courses are currently on sale (not sure how long).
Better Habits
Create a Perfect Morning Routine
You will learn how to create a morning routine filled with purpose, presence, and peace. You’ll be more energized, productive, and content — all before the start of your workday. Start your morning by doing things that feed your soul and make you happy.
How to be Lazy and Create the Habits You Need
Sometimes, we have the willpower and initiative to start new habits, but for most of us, motivational videos and sheer willpower isn’t enough to make the habits last. This course is designed to help you understand how to make habits last, with a minimal amount of effort.
Kiss Insomnia Goodnight: Leverage Biohacking to Master Your Sleep
After 15 years of struggling with insomnia, the creator of this class figured out a system that helped him take control of his sleep. In addition to learning his best tricks for kicking insomnia , you’ll be introduced to the concept of bio-hacking. This is a great tool you can use to improve many areas of your life.
Career Development
Building a Personal Brand by Gary Vaynerchuk
This course will start with probably the most important anecdote, which is defining your strengths and understanding what you’re best at. By knowing what you’re good at and putting aside the rest, you’ll be able to take whatever it is you want to develop a brand around and execute against it.
Seth Godin’s Freelancer Course
This course begins with an introduction into what it means to be a freelancer, regardless of what industry you work in. You’ll realize that you have the opportunity to take control of your career, regardless of your previous experience, by seeing the world the way your clients do.
How to Present: Share Ideas That Inspire Action by Simon Sinek
You’ll learn how to identify your passions, speak with conviction, transform nerves into natural energy, and articulate what you really want to say. This class is perfect for creatives, professionals, conference speakers, and everyone looking to make lasting connections.
Master Your People Skills
This course will show you how to effectively communicate with partners, clients, and colleague. You’ll learn communication methods and relationship-building strategies that will transform your interactions. Increase your likability, deal with difficult people, be a master conversationalist, and quickly identify personality types.
Seth Godin’s Leadership Workshop
This course is an active journey of self-reflection. You’ll learn to distinguish between leaders and managers, paint a picture of where you want your leadership journey to go, and motivate people to join you in your cause. Perhaps most importantly, you’ll learn that you can lead even when you don’t have formal authority.
Inspiring Leadership through Emotional Intelligence
Emotional intelligence, hope, mindfulness, and compassion help a person reverse the damage of chronic stress and build great leadership relationships. The Positive and Negative Emotional Attractors inspire sustained, desired change and learning at many levels.
Creativity
Elizabeth Gilbert’s Creativity Workshop
The best-selling author of Eat Pray Love will equip you with the practical tools and inspiration to jump-start your own creative journey. You’ll learn why perfectionism, originality, and passion are overrated and why we should instead strive to be authentic doers who follow our curiosity.
Decluttering for Creatives: Fuel Your Dreams and Ditch Distractions
Step-by-step instruction on decluttering your mind and your space. In this class you will find your creative mission, design your creative space, learn to declutter effectively, and define the creative projects that matter most to you. Each activity is broken down into easy to follow steps.
Health & Fitness
The Yoga of Awakening by Seane Corn
This course, by renowned yoga instructor Seane Corn, will guide you to the deeper dimensions of yoga. As you progress from a physical to an energetic practice, you’ll use yoga poses to tune into the body-mind connection within. You’ll develop a yoga practice that heals you physically, emotionally and energetically.
Maintain Your Body for Long Lasting Health & Mobility
A guide to resolving pain, preventing injury, and optimizing athletic performance. Offering a healthy “how-to” blueprint for moving about in our hectic everyday lives. All the tools you need to perfect your movement and ensure long-lasting health and mobility.
Weight Loss Made Simple
This course is composed of only the simplest and most effective habits that you can seamlessly integrate into your life so that you can lose weight and keep it off for good this time. How you can lose weight by sleeping more and workout less. How drinking cold water will help you lose weight. And more.
Sit Less, Get Active
Learn how to sit less and be more active. Learn how to monitor your activity and set physical activity goals. Examples of how physical activity can be increased in different settings. Also an opportunity to receive weekly activity health messages and monthly video-reminders for 6 months after the course.
Meet Your Brain
Learning How to Learn: Powerful mental tools to help you master tough subjects
You’ll learn about how the brain uses two very different learning modes and how it encapsulates information. The course also covers illusions of learning, memory techniques, dealing with procrastination, and best practices shown by research to be most effective in helping you master tough subjects.
Meet your brain: a short introduction to neuroscience
This course will walk you through the different brain structures, breaking down complex theories into easy to digest chunks of information. The narrative style is humorous, without overdoing it, as not to overshadow the fascinating content being conveyed.
The Science of Everyday Thinking
This course explores the psychology of our everyday thinking: why people believe weird things, how we form and change our opinions, why our expectations skew our judgments, and how we can make better decisions. Topics include placebos, the paranormal, medicine, miracles, and more.
A Life of Happiness and Fulfillment
This course, based on an award-winning class offered at the Indian School of Business and at The University of Texas at Austin draws content from a variety of fields, including psychology, neuroscience, and behavioral decision theory to offer a tested and practical recipe for leading a life of happiness and fulfillment.
What Is a Mind?
Perspectives from a range of disciplines, to explore four specific aspects of the mind- subjectivity, intentionality, consciousness and agency. Together, these will help you think about the fundamental questions: what it is to be a mind, why we have a mind and what it feels like to have a mind.
The Power Of Happiness
Learn how to train your brain to look for happiness patterns, utilize your greatest talents and skills, find balance between nutrition, sleep & movement, and more. Based on a literature review of 246 happiness studies, an audit of happiness data from over 12,000 people, and 4 years of research.
Mindfulness/Meditation
Finding Your Life’s Purpose by Eckhart Tolle
If you’ve been searching for your true purpose in life, Eckhart Tolle has some straightforward advice: stop struggling. For the primary purpose of every human being is simply to be: fully engaged in this moment, and aligned with the natural flow of reality itself.
Freedom to Choose Something Different by Pema Chödrön
If you’ve been struggling with reacting in less than ideal ways to various situations, whether you lash out, write nasty letters, or shut down, this course by a renowned Tibetan Buddhist teacher and writer will teach you how to change those patterns and react in a more grounded, calm way.
Mindfulness Practice for Joy & Compassion by Thich Nhat Hanh
A world famous Buddhist monk will teach you how to find happiness and access the “Kingdom of God” in the here and now. You’ll practice mindfulness techniques, including meditation and simple breathing methods, so you can concentrate fully and connect with all the life that surrounds you.
Awakening a Joyful Heart with Meditation by Jack Kornfield
This course, taught by Jack Kornfield, a renowned Buddhist teacher, dives deep into Buddhist psychology so you can attain a true sense of peace and joy in your life. Modern neuroscience has demonstrated the immense benefits that you can derive from a consistent meditation practice.
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P.S. Some of the courses on this list are free, but if you decide to enroll in any of the ones hosted by Udemy or Skillshare (using the links in this article) you will be helping to support the Personal Growth publication. Thank you for your support. I only promote things I think you will find helpful.
