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- Temperament and Personality - by Who you are, how you got that way, and how to live with others who aren't like you.
Introduction
I. Temperament defined
Your temperament is like an artist's canvas. It is your basic inherited style. It is the fabric underlying who you are. Generally speaking, two of the basic temperament ...
Views: 75757(5 votes) - 12 Tips on Sex in Marriage for the Christian Wife - by 1. Don’t dichotomize your spiritual and sexual life. Sex in marriage is a wonderful gift to be nurtured and enjoyed. Growing sexually with your husband is a godly pursuit. Therefore get in the habit of praying about sex and praising God for this gift as much as you would (or more) for other ...
Views: 74285(7 votes) - Letting Go and Moving Forward - by Let's face it. Many of us choose to hang on to things that at some point have hurt us, angered us, made us feel sad, or depressed us. If we choose to hang on to them, we will never move forward and we could even create physical or medical damage to our bodies. To prevent this from happening we ...
Views: 64911(36 votes) - 10 Reasons to Encourage Fitness in the Workplace - by As business owners or managers, it is important to remember that our most important assets are our employees! We want our employees to enjoy their work environment, and to bring the best of themselves to their jobs every day. Encouraging our employees to embrace fitness as a lifestyle choice ...
Views: 54330(3 votes) - 10 Tips to Improve Your Reading Skills - by In the modern age of information, reading truly is a fundamental survival skill. Here are ten tips that anyone can use to improve their reading skills:
1. You don't have to be a great reader to get the point.
Some people read fast and remember everything. Others read slowly and take a couple ...
Views: 53507(5 votes) - Self Esteem - The Problem Behind All Problems - by Self esteem is THE major challenge of our era. It lies at the heart of many of the diverse issues and challenges we face in life.
In fact, it is precisely because low self esteem does not seem to be the problem, that it is so very insidious. Many people who suffer from low self esteem ...
Views: 49448(12 votes) - EXERCISE PACING & USE OF MUSIC - by We have been studying pacing, the biomechanics and bioacoustics of the human footfall, and gait analysis at the Medical & Sports Music Institute of America for ten years. Our first contract in 1986 was with the NIKE Corporation, who supplied us with elite runners from Athletics West, under the ...
Views: 46311(3 votes) - SIX PROVEN WAYS TO BOOST HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE OUTPUT NATURALLY! - by Size may matter, but in some cases the smallest thing can have the biggest impact. Like that grape-sized organ- the anterior pituitary gland- nestled within your brain. Despite its small dimensions, it is the source of powerful juice when it comes to building height. You see, the anterior ...
Views: 45736(1 vote) - Emotional Intimacy - by Emotional intimacy is not the same as sexual intimacy. Sexual intimacy can take place with or without emotional intimacy, and emotional intimacy often does not occur within any kind of sexual context.
Emotional intimacy is a psychological event that occurs when the trust level and ...
Views: 42247(6 votes) - WHAT IS ADAPTIVE LEADERSHIP? - by I use the term not just in the sense of a trademark, but more importantly to draw attention to a way of leading. I selected a chameleon for my logo because most people readily recognize it as a symbol of adaptation. Adaptation is a dynamic process of mutual influence. All creatures act on their ...
Views: 39061(11 votes) - The Power of Saying, "No" - by =======================
"No" is such a simple word....
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only two letters. Yet saying "No" out loud is harder for most people than saying, "I'll be glad to..." (eleven letters)or "When do you need me to..." (seventeen letters)
Most of us said, "No!" quite well when ...
Views: 34887(6 votes) - 7 Helpful Tips To Immediately Increase Your Confidence - by 1.) Ask yourself, “What’s the worst that could happen?” Too often, we place excess importance on potential problems. We all have a certain amount of energy so let’s apply it to creating extraordinary relationships, advancing our careers and meeting our goals INSTEAD of wasting that energy ...
Views: 33689(7 votes) - Reading Body Language for Sales Professionals - by Body language is fascinating. People rarely recognize how much information they give off and how noticeable it is to the human eye. Even to the untrained human eye.
I can remember coming home from school as a child after having a tough day and seeing my mother. Instantly she would look at me ...
Views: 31220(5 votes) - Five Ways to Make Your Body Speak - by ?1999 LJL Seminars
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Dr. Ralph C. Smeadly, the founder of Toastmasters International, wrote, "The speaker who stands and talks at ease is the one who can be heard without weariness. If his posture and gestures ...
Views: 30699(3 votes) - How Coffee Interferes With Losing Weight - by Are you addicted to coffee? You're not sure? Just ask yourself if you can commit to living without it. For most people, coffee is a must have in the morning. Without coffee they don't feel alive. I know some people who instantly get a headache if they don't have their coffee in the morning. ...
Views: 29349(3 votes) - THE TOP 10 WAYS to LIFT YOUR MOOD WHEN YOU'RE FEELING DOWN in the DUMPS - by Everyone has periods in their life when they feel *down in the dumps*, blue, or mildly depressed, *especially* at holiday times, such as Christmas & Thanksgiving. Many people feel this way especially on New Years Eve due to perhaps a combination of alcohol, the end of a year that was not great ...
Views: 27539(10 votes) - Loneliness: What is it and how to get rid of it - by Loneliness is a very complex, multidimensional phenomenon. Simply put, there is no one cure for loneliness, simply because there are many different types of loneliness. The loneliness of a widow, who just lost her husband, is different from the loneliness of a boy who is sick in bed and can’t go ...
Views: 26203(4 votes) - Steps of PhotoReading at 25,000 Words a Minute - by Excerpted with permission from "The PhotoReading Whole Mind System." Third Edition, ?999.
The demands placed on you as a reader in our age of information are tremendous. The PhotoReading whole mind system can help you meet any challenge. It works with any subject matter and flexibly adapts to ...
Views: 25929(4 votes) - How to Avoid Vindictive People - by Narcissists are often vindictive and they often stalk and harass.
Basically, there are only two ways of coping with vindictive narcissists:
1. To Frighten Them
Narcissists live in a state of constant rage, repressed aggression, envy and hatred. They firmly believe that everyone is like ...
Views: 25734(4 votes) - 20 Do's & Don'ts of a Functional Relationship - by 1. Who you think you are is important. Like attracts like. Do you like who you are?
2. What you want in a relationship is important, and when you are willing to ask for it, you will be able to create it. But only ask for what you want when you are clear about what it is. Until then, don't go ...
Views: 25683(8 votes) - Empathy in Communication - by Empathy is vitally important in good communication. Many people confuse empathy with sympathy, but empathy is much more.
My dictionary defines it as "the quality or process of entering fully, through imagination, into another's feelings or motives." In the fullest sense, it implies putting ...
Views: 25458(1 vote) - Hot and Cold Love Addicts: A Lethal Combination - by A lot has been written about love addiction and yet it is still a misunderstood disorder. For instance, many people believe that love addicts only run hot —passionately pursue someone who is unavailable like in the movie Fatal Attraction. However, many love addicts also run cold ? appear aloof ...
Views: 25410(3 votes) - A SIMPLIFIED SPEED READING COURSE FOR 8 TO 12 YEAR OLD KIDS - by I used to teach speed reading courses to adults. I remember being excited when one lady got to where she could read 3,000 words per minute. She was the fastest student that I had ever seen. It took her 6 weeks to get that good.
Then I got invited to teach some children to speed read at a local ...
Views: 24342(4 votes) - Acid-Alkaline Balance - by Introduction
This article attempts to summarize the importance of the acid-alkaline balance in the human body as a measure of overall physical health, and to indicate several steps that can be taken if you need to improve that balance.
Body Chemistry
We live and die on a cellular level. If ...
Views: 24202(3 votes) - Workplace Friendships or Office Romance - by Based on the extensive original research I have conducted for more than a decade on workplace relationships, casual not close or best friendships are preferable in business. Caution should also be exercised against revealing too much or too soon to a co-worker, superior, subordinate, or mentor ...
Views: 24007(1 vote) - Mobbing in the Workplace: Has This Happened to You? - by Mobbing in the workplace has long been studied in Europe. Just look it up on a search engine. Described in "Mobbing: Emotional Abuse in the American Workplace", published by Davenport, Elliott, and Schwartz in 1999, mobbing is about collective assault in the corner office, in cubbies, on the ...
Views: 23783(1 vote) - Staying Positive in Tough Times - by We all know that the economy is bad and things are tough! Many people are out of work and many more are afraid they will loose the job they have. Given this poor economic environment, it is crucial that you keep a positive attitude. The last thing you want to do now is get a negative attitude or ...
Views: 21844(6 votes) - Eight Ways to Stand Out From the Crowd - by Sometimes I think we may feel that we have to do the big things in life to stand out from the crowd, to make a difference, but in my experience I have found that it is the little things that we do on a consistent basis that are usually the most powerful. I would like to share with you 8 ways ...
Views: 21672(17 votes) - How to Overcome a Confidence Crisis - by A confidence crisis can be caused by normal life transition such as getting a new job, moving to a new city, starting a new business, or starting a new relationship. Life's losses can also cause confidence to sink - the loss of a relationship, the loss of a job, the loss of a big client, the ...
Views: 21501(4 votes) - High School Stress - by High school years should be a great experience, but many demands and rapid changes can make them one of the most stressful times of life. Students today face increasing amounts of schoolwork, a rapidly changing curriculum, assignment deadlines and exams; they worry about selecting careers and ...
Views: 21355(4 votes) - Unconditional Love (starting with you) - by Gay Hendricks says in “The Learning to Love yourself Workbook? Humans tend to demand from others what we are most unwilling to give.
Isn’t that funny. We expect and demand someone to give us what we are not willing to give. Unconditional love. If we expect that from someone to make us feel ...
Views: 20966(5 votes) - Manifesting - create your own reality - by I've experimented with conscious manifesting techniques for 13 years now. For 5 years I have taught others the tools that I myself have learned in a course called 'Manifesting Results'. Some people come to the course with a preconception that I'm going to teach them how to manifest. The bad news ...
Views: 20787(11 votes) - Bio-Energy Healing - by The bio-energy field of a human consists of subtle bodies with their energetic potentials, and which give strength and power to the biological field. Energetic potential depends on the conditions of physical and psychic health, and, perhaps, astrological factors. For example, experienced ...
Views: 20677(2 votes) - Panic Disorder and Gastroesophageal Reflux - by It is my opinion, based on endoscopy and 24 hour gastric and esophageal pH studies that the gastrointestinal problems, so very common in panic disorder are a result of abnormal bile flow. Cholecystokinin (CCK) has long been known as a central nervous system neurotransmitter involved in anxiety. ...
Views: 19929(4 votes) - A Letter From The Mistress - by Dear Wife:
This letter is long overdue! There's a few things we need to get out in the open so we both know where we both stand!
You see, I've known your husband for some time now. We met some time after high school and have been fond of each other ever since. I wasn't the only love of his ...
Views: 19044(1 vote) - Need for Validation - by Def. Validation: To declare or make legally valid; to mark with an indication of official sanction; to establish the soundness of. Synonym is confirm.
~Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition `````````````````````
We all have a need for ...
Views: 18598(1 vote) - Absolutely the Best Personal Ads to Use to Meet, Attract, Seduce Women - by This week I want to share with you some great personal ads to use to attract single women like crazy and increase your responses to personal ads that you place in singles publications, on the net, newspapers, etc. Try these ads (just fill in the blanks for your personal data and the kind of ...
Views: 17575 - Remove The Distance In Your Relationship - by Relationships usually start out great. People treat each other with love and respect. Then something happens and we get upset.
When you are upset at someone, you can’t be with the person. There are a million miles of distance between you and the person you are upset with.
Before long, ...
Views: 17536(2 votes) - Sales Commissions...A Tool For Success - by While commission-based compensation isn’t the only—or even necessarily the best—way to compensate a sale force, it is predominate in most industries that rely on a direct personal sales force to market their products or services. The basic problem with many of these commission plans is that they ...
Views: 17187(3 votes) - Your Life Is Like A River! - by Your life begins small, something like the drops of rain which become small streams and eventually great rivers which flow into the ocean.
Like these streams and rivers, we encounter obstacles and challenges. The streams and rivers overcome these obstacles by wearing them down or finding a ...
Views: 17122(1 vote) - FAQs about Temperament and Personality Types - by A. Can you change your personality? You cannot change your basic temperament styles but you can influence your behaviors and thereby your personality. The biggest mistake I've seen is someone who has "put on" behaviors that were not theirs' naturally until it has become habitual. It is almost ...
Views: 16796 - What Self-Forgiveness Is - by A common fear – and criticism of self-help psychology – is that self-forgiveness is a snazzy, politically correct, socially acceptable way of letting ourselves off the hook by avoiding accountability and personal responsibility. This is absolutely not true. In fact, the more powerful and ...
Views: 16750(3 votes) - Explaining Suicide to Children - by "What should I tell the children?" A question often asked after the suicide of a loved one. The answer - the truth.
Many people still believe it is best to shield children from the truth, that somehow this will protect them. More often than not, the opposite is true. Misleading children, ...
Views: 16471(1 vote) - Developing self-belief - The 10 step process - Part 1 - by To achieve any goal in life, you must believe you are going to be successful. If you do not, you are likely to fail.
When I was 27, I took the bold step of handing in my notice at work in order to set up my own business. I did not have any idea what I was going to do, but inside of me was a ...
Views: 16309(2 votes) - Learn to Make the Psychic Reading form your Tea or Coffee Cup - by Called by any name, Tasseomancy, Tasseography. What I like about Tea and Coffee Reading is it's gracious nature. Unlike other forms of divination, Tea Leaf Reading involves a lovely social ritual. In order to read the tea leaves or grind coffee, one must be served a cup of tea, and as everyone ...
Views: 16140(2 votes) - Seven Steps to Successful Negotiation - by ****Philosophy of successful negotiation: In negotiating
assertively, each person should feel that she/he wins.
Each person should get some of what he/she wants.
** Step One:
IDENTIFY the problem
Each person states what seems to be the problem using
"I" statements. Sometimes the negotiation ...
Views: 15737(8 votes) - Overcoming Negative Emotions - by One of the many lessons I have learned in my life, and continue to learn, is that my thoughts create my emotions, and my emotions create my behaviors, and then it circles back around. Once this cycle begins it seems almost impossible to stop. If my thoughts are positive in nature, the results ...
Views: 15364(2 votes) - HIS KIDS: BECOMING A W.O.W. STEPMOTHER - by A stepparent's role is not that of a biological parent, but of a real parent nonetheless. WOWs (Wives Of Widowers) should not be quick to replace the late wife as a mother, but to become to the child the closest thing to a mother he or she has got. The WOW who loves her husband accepts that his ...
Views: 14875(1 vote) - Ten Signs of Emotional Intelligence - by We're hearing more and more about EQ (emotional intelligence) these days, and for good reason. How you handle yourself and others makes a big difference in your success and happiness, both in your career and in your personal life.
Here are ten signs of emotional intelligence:
1. ...
Views: 14853(1 vote) - 10 Ways To Burn Calories Without Exercising - by Over the years many "time & energy saving devices" have been invented to allow us to get our daily chores done quickly and with less effort. The problem is we have become so efficient that we now pay a price for it in declining health. One solution; look for ways to waste energy. No, I am not ...
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