Personal Development Articles

What is an adult? While we may argue about what a "Man" or "Woman" is, there is remarkable agreement around the world on the subject of Human Adulthood. An adult takes responsibility for his or her actions and emotions.

From time to time I take a look at what "competitor" websites are offering in the so-called personal development or self-help sector. After all, we all need to know what we're up against - and we all need to put bread on the table. But how much bread should that be? Because, what I've found is that many websites promise that you'll treble your income in weeks - or that your income will "explode". Most of the websites I look at are focused on money - and making more of it.

When I was 16, I wanted to be 18. At 18, I wanted to be 21. To me each age meant I was grown; what I never considered was the growth I needed between them — because maturing is a process that brings along two friends: responsibility and challenges.rnEvery professional or personal challenge I experienced and every lesson I learned was typically about me recognizing and managing the lines in my life: learning when to cross them, when to draw them and when to read between them

How to be happy is a question lots of people ask. It's very common for us to depend upon others in order to make us happy... "if only I could have an amazing boyfriend, I would be happy", or "if only my friends were more attentive, I would be happy" or (and this is a common one!) "if I had more money, I'd be happy". But these things are situations and events in our lives. Your happiness depends on one thing and one thing only - you. You have a choice every day when you wake up whether you are going to be happy today or not.

Remix Your Wardrobe If you're like many shoppers, there have been many a buying spree through boutiques and malls these past few years.. However, recent economic downtu s have made even the most dedicated fashionistas cut back. In fact, a December 2008 survey study by BIGresearch, a consumer market intelligence firm, found that 92.2 percent of consumers were cutting out luxury handbags, specialty apparel, and high-end cosmetics. While you might not be adding to your wardrobe, savvy dressers know to shop their closets.

n n Self Confidence nIn psychology, self-esteem or self-confidence reflects a person's overall self-appraisal of their own worth.nnSelf-esteem encompasses beliefs and emotions, and behavior may reflect self-esteem. Psychologists usually regard self-esteem as an enduring personality characteristic, though normal, short-term variations occur. Self-esteem can apply specifically to a particular dimension or have global extent.nnSynonyms or near-synonyms of self-esteem include:nn

What is Passion? Passion is any powerful or compelling emotion or feeling or desire, as love or hate. One of Anthony Robbins motto is Living with Passion. Passion can be developed with time from a liking of something you are doing. To excel in anything you are doing, firstly, you need to love what you are doing. When you have found what you love doing, passion can be further developed. It is just like a relationship with an opposite sex. You need to like the person before you start loving him/her.

Goal setting is also possible with the rule of a 1000 steps. Reaching your goals is not hard, if you are trying to do it step by step. Let us say you have a big dream and a want of a new, outstanding innovation in your field of occupation or work. You watch out for the one and only innovation. You wait for the one and only big idea. You look for the one and only famous goal. You await the one and only big step forward. Sometime it works for very few people to make a turnaround of 180 degree.r

Here we are again meeting on a beautiful morning sharing our thoughts to loving the life we have, while dreaming of more. Is that the tape that is running in your head? Or is it a more defeating one? I have been using these very questions with many aspects of my life. Let’s look at these questions:

The internet is full of quick solutions to any problem you mention. And you probably know by now, that they do not work as promised. Why, you may ask ? Is it because they are not true, spoofed and hyped chats? Most of them, may be, but there is more and more quality content and tips worth ...

The duplicate content issue has gone back and forth on the Internet for the last several years now. There are camps that have been saying that your web site will be penalized if you have duplicate content, to the camps that are saying your web site won’t gain any benefit if it has ...

We're building a seventeen-part structure for self-coaching and self-exploration, with an end toward becoming responsible, awakened adult human beings. The first ten steps of this structure originate in Joseph Campbell's famed "Hero's Journey" The second part of the Hero's Journey is called the "rejection of the challenge." What this means is that you are aware of a change that needs to take place, are aware that it would move you to the next level of your life, or alleviate serious conce s, but cannot motivate yourself to do it.

Do you have your own motivation techniques? Better still, do you actually use them?... Being able to motivate yourself is a very difficult thing to attempt, but yet it is so important to achieving the meaningful stuff in life. By putting into practice the simple techniques within this article, I'll make it that bit simpler for you. OKAY... MUCH easier! The missing link between a good personal development plan and you EXTRAORDINARY life, is MOTIVATION!.

Have you ever been involved in a strength training regimen? If you have, you'll know what I'm saying to be the truth. It's that they talk a lot about, and teach a lot about, and practice, repetitions. They practice stepping it up—so that the next time, you can do more. They talk about adding weight gradually, so the next time you do more.

Money - we all want more of it. We want more to come in and less to go out. Money is a major conce for the majority of the business owners with whom I have been speaking recently. They are scared. They are worried about spending money. Their plan for surviving "this economy" is to hang on to it, choosing very carefully what to buy. Poverty consciousness really seems to be heightened among people in general and business owners in particular. Poverty consciousness says that there is not enough money.

What is the experience you provide for others? Consider how your presence and behavior impacts your employees, your colleagues, your boss, your children, your parents, your spouse. The experience people have when they are with you, when they enter your department or have dealings with your department, will create memories and have lasting impact. “People may not remember what you say, but they remember how they feel when they are with you.” rn~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

As Healthy Chat evolves and begins to morph and manifest into the visio I’ve been holding for nearly 5 years, the process has encouraged me to look at how I’ve been resourced personally to get to this point.

You may have already my two articles exploring the best strategies for effortless business success. In the second article we explored what success actually means - and in the first, I suggested four specific steps anyone in business - from the "one man band" to the multi-national - can take to achieve the kind of effortless success we're talking about. In this article, I want to add a couple of further incredibly simple steps to the ones we've already covered - add these and your effortless business success starts today. Let me start by telling you Mike's story.

Would you like to live a healthy, happy, prosperous life? Of course you do, who doesn't? But, where do you start? One way to achieve all that’s mentioned above and more is to raise your vibration. When you raise your vibration, you allow more life force (feel good) energy to flow through you. And the more life force energy that flows through you, the more you open the gateways to abundance.

Because shame and fear never changes ANYTHING! In my psychotherapy/coaching practice and my personal life I am always amazed at how often we try to motivate ourselves through shame and fear. We also live in a world where it is common place for our media to scare us to death about everything!? Thank about it, When was the last time you wanted something in your life to change. I bet your first thought went something like this, that is, if we are aware of what we are thinking. Man, I'm fat, broke, lonely, stuck....what the hell is WRONG with ME....that feels good, right?r

TEAM COACHING. Effective team coaching is the fine thread of liquid gold linking together individual blocks of talent and ability within a group of people brought together to achieve a given objective. Professional team coaches are to be found in any number through a simple 'team coaching' search on the Internet. The methodologies proposed and the fees charged by the Professional Coaches vary greatly and great care should be taken to select a team coach who is a best fit for your needs, your industry and your corporate style.

In my bestselling book A First Serving of Milk & Cookies for Success, I devote a whole chapter to what I call The Know-Zone™—knowing what motivates people to buy, to join, to sign up, to participate. To do anything in fact. The Know-Zone™ is all about Human Motivators. One of the most important motivators is the Desire to Feel Important. One way to make people at any level feel important is to show them respect. There are many ways to show respect, but one surefire way is to show interest.

I have been doing a lot of research lately for our August tele-coaching seminars. Sometimes I will go through times when it seems like I keep hearing the same message over and over. It comes in many different forms - books, music, conversations, movies - it can be anything, really. The thing is, I notice a recurring theme. Do you ever feel like God is giving you a tap on the shoulder and saying “are you paying attention, this is important”? That is how I felt today. I have b

There may be times when your life situation may not be what you want it to be, and there may be times when for whatever reason our life doesn’t always resemble what we thought it would be like. We may not like to admit it at times, but sometimes our life situation can become a distant ...

Although most of my clients are business people, because of my personal development work with young aspiring sports people, I often get to spend quite a bit of time with people who have not yet grown so inward looking that they miss out on the joys of life. The psychological facts are plain, simple and incontrovertible. Up to the age of puberty, the mind functions in a manner that is clear and focused – this young, as yet to be fully “constructed”, brain is subjected to far lower levels of electrical-impulse-induced vibration as the neural pathways are still being constructed.

Along the highways of Burma there is placed, at regular distances away from the dust of the road, and under the cool shade of a group of trees, a small wooden building called a “rest-house”, where the weary traveller may rest a while, and allay his thirst and assuage his hunger and fatigue by ...

I will always remember receiving my first letter from AARP. I had just celebrated my 40th birthday and thought the letter was hilarious. Each year thereafter, I’ve received a letter. The closer I got to the BIG 5-0, the less funny it became. In fact, I became downright upset that someone I ...

Networking and learning to talk to people you don’t know is an essential skill for most business people, but especially for entrepreneurs. There is a strong correlation between the entrepreneur as a person and his or her business that requires they get out into the world to create and maintain business relationships.

The magical power of a band-aid. Once applied, to a child, the hurt and pain instantly defuses and they are left healed and ready for the next adventure … Doesn’t matter the kind of band-aid – name brand vs. dollar store, Scooby Doo vs. Hello Kitty, to a child they hold power; the kind of power that relieves the pain, no matter how severe. If only life were that easily fixed. The mending of a broken heart, a shattered spirit, a life falling apart, could instantly be hea

The secret to how productive, efficient and successful you are in life is dependent on how well you use your mind. Brian Tracy said: "You become what you think about most of the time." In other words, the thought process is the key to accomplishing anything. What you think about, and how often you think about that thing, attracts that thing into your life. It is difficult, if not practically impossible for you to become what you have never thought about or what you are not thinking about. Success and failure follows the Law of Cause and Effect.

Does your child fear going to school or team practice? Is your child picked-on or teased by other kids? Bullying is a growing problem in our country. It can cause the victim hurt feelings, emotional damage, depression and in some cases suicide. Would you like to protect your child/teen from being victimized by a bully? If so, then read on.

Do you ever suffer from low self esteem? The Oxford English Dictionary defines “self esteem” as confidence in you own worth or abilities. So let me ask the same question a different way - do you ever doubt yourself or question your abilities? Because, if you do ever question your own value or capabilities, who is questioning whom? Who is doubting your self worth? And who or what is the self? Are you somehow a split personality? Let’s get something straight right here, right now. No one can suffer from low self esteem – they can only imagine that they’re suffering. The co

We’re all called upon to be leaders – if you have children, people reporting to you at work, friends who confide in you – leadership is required of you. You mightn’t call it that, but that is what it is. Above all, we’re called upon to lead our own lives. Yes, we’re called upon to be leaders and few wish to shoulder the responsibility. Most normal people will look to someone else – if not for leadership, then for blame.

There is an old saying in the field of interpersonal communication, which is “you cannot not communicate.” Even if you are “saying nothing,” your facial expressions, your body language, even your eye contact (or lack thereof) convey something to the other that they take in and interpret. As a corporate executive once observed to me, “I cannot scratch my head without people around me wondering what it means.”

Dear Friend, … I’m sure you’ve heard that it is good to have a ‘Friendly Gossip’. Well I agree it is not unhealthy as long as you can be AWARE and identify early what kind of gossip you are having. Is it just an innocent and healthy fun about a person with a touch of humour or damaging and irreversible lye, which creates suffering as a result? … The DISTORTED TRUTH, especially when made damaging, demeaning and degrading, sticks to people, and so it is hard to turn it around.

If you know how to attract money, it makes everything else in your life a breeze. Just think about how much easier it would be for you to find the time to exercise, to purchase nutritious foods and to get your health in order. Just think about how much easier it would be for you to devote time to building relationships if you knew the secret to how to make money and manifest prosperity. And just think about how much easier it would be for you to find the time and the resources to accomplish any goal if you just had more financial resources.

The truth about networking is that (according to an article in Profit Magazine) “…most people suck at it.” What follows are business networking tips (i.e. for people who network in person at networking groups events), but you can apply those as well to social networking (for people who spend a lot of time on networking sites). The purpose of these tips is to help you reduce your chances of “sucking at networking”. That is one simple, easy way to beat your competition.

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Look around you, now look inward. Are you doing what you are meant to do? Are you happy in and with your surroundings? Is there something you think you would be better off doing? Do you find yourself having frequent inner dialogues full of complaints or full of “I’d rather be ____________.” Guess what happens when what you are supposed to be doing, you are NOT? Imagine for a moment, that the little voice inside of you has been put on ignore?

Thousands of thoughts go through your mind in the course of your day and each day you make many choices. Your choices intend to bring you the greatest value. Your perception of what adds value is based on your thoughts, beliefs, feelings, and habits. These were created from your life experiences ...

I’m sure you’ve spent a lot of time daydreaming here and there. It’s fun to sit around and think about life in the past or future. In fact, most people spend a great deal of their time thinking about the past and future. Unfortunately, plenty of their thoughts are either regretful or fearful. That ole “stinkin thinkin” will create negativity in your life for sure.

Do you feel as if you’re drifting through life without ever achieving anything? Do you often make excuses for not taking positive steps towards a long-term goal? If so, you would benefit from setting quick and easy monthly goals in all areas of your life. Here is a system for doing so in just one hour a month. Choose Your Tools Buy a hardback notebook or journal for the specific purpose of setting your goals and recording your achievements. You may also use a laptop or smartphone, as long as it’s easy for you to consult your list of goals frequently.

Releasing the old from your life can be the hardest thing to do. Maybe it came to the point that it was necessary, but it can leave a deep suffocating feeling that makes you want to undo the releasing. But know that the pain is only temporary and it is important to mou the ending of your relationship with the old. Don't just gloss over it. Grieve and give it a proper burial. You are moving on from a part of your life that had played a major role in your life. So it is important that you grieve the passing of the old, so can begin to celebrate the entrance of the new.

There are times when others tell us something about ourselves or about life in general or maybe about their own personal experiences that could prove invaluable to us in our self-development journey. But often we tend to ignore the message because our egos raise it's ugly head and we take offense at what is being said or we look at it as well that person lived a traumatic life so his/her message has nothing to do with me. We may be right. That person's traumatic life did not happen to us, but who better to talk about how emotional issues can affect our lives?

Do you have enough time to do all the things that you really should be doing today? Or, like most people, do you find yourself labouring under a mountain of “to dos”, never getting through it and then find that you simply haven’t done some of the things that you really wanted to or should have done? Are you a slave to others’ demands at work? Are you trying to juggle job and family responsibilities and finding that you’re getting neither done properly? Are you one of these people who has to take home work at the weekend to “catch up”?

For those of us that have studied and live the principles of The Secret, we understand that like attracts like. This means as you think a thought, you attract it to you. Thoughts actually become the things in your life. Our thoughts actually become things! Bob Proctor is quoted as saying "If you see it in your mind, you're going to hold it in your hand". Those that understand this secret, and apply this knowledge purposely, can change everything in their lives.

What a strange title for an article given all the gloom and doom that's doing the rounds at present! Most interestingly, how did the word "Effortlessly" get into the title? Surely, hard work is a virtue, God loves a try-er and you have to work hard to be a success. All these statements are wrong. I've been working with big business leaders and business owners - large and small - for over thirteen years.

Think about it, there's nothing nicer than someone saying something really nice to you - or about you. It makes you feel better about yourself. And what that means is you're giving other people the power to make you happy. And, if you give others the power to make you happy, by definition, you've also given anyone and everyone the power to make you unhappy.

Personal motivation is what pushes us to achieve our goals, feel more fulfilled and improve overall quality of life. Personal motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going. Personal motivation is the key to success. It is a combination of determination, expertise, and purpose to maintain in order to achieve a high level of success. Self-motivation is the inner power, an internal drive that pushes us to keep moving forward, to develop, to produce, and to a

The common view of love is one of fleeting, unpredictable passion. To most, love is something that has to "be there." It's a feeling that strikes you, and if you don't feel it, then you (and your significant other) are out of luck. After all, you have to fall in love with someone to love them, right? Nothing could be farther from the truth. This viewpoint is simply a delusion. If you aren't in control of your life, then your best hope is that love will choose you. If you are in control, then you can make the choice to love.