Personal Development Articles

So you have a good idea. Maybe it’s even a great idea. Now what? I am very happy for you. Chances are likely, though, that one of three things will happen. 1. You will tell nobody about your idea for fear of it being stolen. 2. You will think that your idea, in and of itself, has value and ...

As the idea of manifesting what we want in life has been a topic at the forefront of the media, talk shows, and public conversations of late, I'd like to address some aspects of the book The Secret that I believe have been misinterpreted or misunderstood based on the "sensationalized" ...

We see them every day. People that have lost their jobs, income and quality of lifestyle. However, there is one thing that keeps them from recovering even when help is available. They simply won't accept help when it is offered. Why is that? Why would people desperate for ways to feed their family and keep their home r

Studies show gratitude makes a difference in helping people grow. There’s a field called positive psychology studying in a scientific way what makes life worth living. It’s a way of looking at strengths, to build yourself up in ways that are particularly useful for business startup. And gratitude has been demonstrated in study after study to deliver benefits that build the best in people. Including in fulfillment. That's why gratitude is a good place to begin. I believe in

Each teleseminar or webinar that I host, I am always most excited by the comments and questions I get from participants. What I see consistently is a huge relief from you when I deliver just great content, no pitch, no hitch, and no catch. So take this lesson and learn to do the same for your audience. One of the surest ways to grow your own Tribe is to go and give to them. Feeding your audience regular value content with a sense of humor, heart, and personality will grow your traffic and your business.

n“There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it. -Napoleon Hill Everyone has goals; how one follows through with them determines the success or failure of any particular goal. ...

Today I want to talk about the Formula for Riches. It's made up of six steps. I talk about this in Chapter 1 of The NEW Think and Grow Rich, because it's that important. It starts with Desire—and this is where a lot of people completely miss the boat. A few years back I was at a Christmas party, and a gentleman approached because he knew I had just released The NEW Think and Grow Rich. And he says, "Well, I'm gonna be a millionaire, too." I said, "Great, great!" and I asked him how he was going to do it. He didn't have the first idea.

Is there really happiness over the rainbow? What’s so special about that place over the rainbow? What’s so wrong with Kansas? Is Glenda, the Good Witch really any more special tha Auntie Em’? Are the scarecrow and the tin man any better than the farm hands whom so adoringly care for Dorothy? Or are they only so in our own minds? Does Kansas really only exist in black and white? My argument is that Kansas exists in vivid, screaming, cannon blasted color! But we suffer from self-inflicted color blindness.r

Todos los tiempos. For you who are not fluent in Spanish, todos los tiempos means—o significa, as they say—all the time, all the times. And really, what I want to talk about today is just an example of how we really want to live life to the max. I'm going tell you the story of a seven-year-old Panamanian girl, okay? We live what we live, and what we don't live we don't live. Alexandra Hill, a citizen of La Ciudad de Panamá—Panamá City, Panamá.

I hope you're enjoying some of these lazy, hazy days of summer...I know I am! Many of you ask me how to choose from all your many ideas -which one should I work on NOW? I also hear from many of you that you're challenged by the "F" word (and I mea Focus!) Here's a powerful, easy 8 step system to choose your ideas, get them into action and completed. 1. Write down all your ideas. You don't have to DO all of them but if you don't write them down, you'll lose a lot of your t

The Origins Of Self Confidence

I'm a self improvement strategist, and if I'm honest with you, I'm embarking upon my on small personal battle... this will become HUGE if I get my own way. Self improvement, or personal development, has got to be the MOST critical thing in life, PERIOD! I mean, everything you say or do is influenced, probably solely, by a person's brain. Fair enough, right?

I’ve often been asked "How can I be positive when I see what’s going on around me?" "I don’t have health/abundance/money (you fill in what you don’t have)." "What about the ‘reality’ I now face?" "Don’t I have to deal with that?" "How can I be positive in the midst of all that’s happening to me?" And yes, you could claim that I have a ‘Pollyanna’ attitude to everything, declaring that there’s always something positive in everything that happens to us.

Dear Friend, ...In the past even though I knew what compassion was, I really didn't understand and didn't use its POWER. I thought that being kind and nice to people, feel sorry about them, is what I need to do. It turned out this is not what it really is. It is being kind, nice of course, but not in a way I thought... When studying the Bible, philosophy, psychology and other subjects about self growth and evolution you could find lots of examples of "the importance of compassion", however I found this subject most of the time boring and didn’t really pay a lot of attention.

Back in December 2008 I was sitting on my deck in the shade working and writing, enjoying the most delightfully hot steamy Queensland day. This is how it played out: “The waves are lapping gently on the concrete retaining wall as the tide is almost fully high. I have soft relaxation music playing in the back ground. My plants around me are smiling in grace and beauty and in being naturally who they are.r

Attaining true wealth and abundance is not something that you have to do exte ally in order to be over-flowing with money. It is what you do on the inside that dictates whether or not you will have true wealth and abundance. Most importantly, it begins with your internal approach towards yourself. If you are always stressing, worrying and struggling to get money, then you are not aligning with your higher self in order to attain true wealth and abundance.

S is for Subconscious Early in this alphabetic progression, we encountered the conscious mind (C Is For Conscious). Let's review a little. Thought is the language of the conscious mind. It is the conscious mind that knows that it knows. It acts upon what it “knows”. Thus, the conscious mind governs intentionality; it controls our voluntary thoughts, actions, and processes. Unfortunately, the conscious mind can juggle only 7 or so bits of information at one time and deals on

There are many aspects to success and progress in life, but there is a common pattern of thought that robs many of what they really want for happiness and fulfillment and it is true for you if you are unhappy with your life. You are living in self-deception. You are not facing the reality of what you are and stand for.

I'm a talk show radio host-that's a piece of information. The question today pertains to this: “Why would anybody pay for a coach?” Well, I do want to share with you that I'm really a rather recent talk show host. I have had a show before that was broadcast on the radio, and I have been on several hundreds of interviews. But being a talk show radio host, having the whole show under my care and production, has given me a whole new insight.

Having clear goals is important to ensure successful living. With a vision in mind and landmarks for achieving success, you add direction and focus to your personal and professional life. It’s like taking both hands and grabbing hold of the steering wheel of the car called life and steering into ...

A newsletter is a great way to promote your business or service, and if you’re a budding entrepreneur it can go a long way toward establishing you as an expert in your field. A newsletter also provides you with a way to communicate with clients who may not regularly visit your website about new articles or features; this alone is reason enough to publish a newsletter as the benefit is so substantial. Of course newsletters have the additional benefit of generating revenue should you choose to sell ads or charge a subscription fee.

We all know that to change and grow, to have an open mind and be flexible with the daily and not so-daily changes in our life is a must in order to flourish, however there is one area where, when we expect change, it is an absolute recipe for disaster. You may be able to already guess which area it is I am talking about, if not, it is the area of relationships, not just intimate, but any relationship you have with any person.

Self-hypnosis is a simple mental technique which narrows down your focus to just one thing. It's been used for many years to focus on goals, whether personal change or personal development goals or achievement goals in business, sport and the arts. Here's a thought experiment (don't try it in real life). Imagine taking a large nail, say a six-inch nail, and a small, sharp tack. Now imagine that you're pushing first the nail, and then the tack, into the flesh of your arm (this is why I said not to actually try it). Which one is going to penetrate?

Human behavior is always a surprise. We know that we must have to achieve Success in life and we tend to not take action. We have many reasons for not achieving what we want. Many times though we know that logically we are right we tend to move away from it, the reason being Emotions. ...

Sometimes we are mistaken. We think and believe that other people have the same experience as we have. Imagine that you cross a street and are passing a very dirty car parking in the street. You see that is so dirty that a lot of mud sticks still to the tires. Imagine that five people are passing the car. The first one thinks what a dirty car it needs a car wash. The second thinks what a smart car. This car is good at driving off-road. The third thinks that the owner is a sloppy person. The fourth thinks that is the car of my neighbor, he lives on a dusty and muddy road.r

Many people dread the times when they are left alone. They feel a sense of emptiness or boredom. They start to look out for things to do or people to talk to. Some get into habits like shopping, eating, watching too much television or anything else to 'kill the time."Anytime is a good time to ...

"In a moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing to do. The worst thing you can do is nothing." Theodore Roosevelt As I wandered a parking lot looking for my car I realized the quality of my decision making skills shrunk drastically in the midst of chaos. We make hundreds ...

Confidence is an inside job. You've got to have confidence to achieve anything. And by the way, confidence makes you feel powerful yourself, but that message is communicated to others, too. Confidence is the greatest trait of a leader. Confidence makes people popular; confidence makes others want to help. On the other hand, when there's a lack of self confidence—well, who wants to follow a leader like that? Who wants to help someone when they're not even sure that they'll follow through? Confidence. So how do you get it? We talk about meditation, which is a focus thing.

It is not uncommon, for the terms, personal development and growth, to be met with a certain amount of sighing and an expression of 'been there done that'! We've been learning about the idea since we were in school and we've been working on it since forever. So, what is going to be different about this one? Well, for starters I am not going to be talking about the conventional idea. Secondly, I am a believer of skill development. If it isn't taking you ahead, it doesn't matte

Here is an interesting piece of information: I looked up the meaning of the word “job” in the dictionary. The meanings included “task, chore, difficulty, problem, trouble, hard time”. This reminded me of a biblical figure called Job, whose name means “persecuted, afflicted, adversity”. Is there some message in there? I wonder. Have you been made redundant recently? It is interesting how such an experience impacts not only on you, but also on your colleagues who are not made redundant. I have been made redundant three times in my career.

For over forty years, Lou Tice helped corporations, non-profits, sports teams and individual athletes achieve success. As the founder of the Pacific Institute, Lou's thinking on the subject of personal development led to his creating tools and technology that supported people like Kirk Gibson, Pete Carroll and Nick Saban. Lou understood that our minds – the words, pictures, and feelings that we invoke to communicate with ourselves – can either be the accelerator that prop

A common form of dysfunctional behavior exhibited by parents is one where they take advantage of the child(ren) who has a tendency to be helpful. These child(ren) have fallen victim to the Helpful Child Syndrome (HCS). This is where a particular child, regardless of their age, realizes that he ...

Walking the path designed for you is not an easy thing to do. Many of you have family obligations and you may have sacrificed your life to help your parents or other family members. You may still belong to the religion of your childhood, working in a job that you grew up seeing others working in and you may feel trapped. You can still be there for your family while walking the path designed for you. All of you including your family each have a path of life that is uniquely yours. And if you are not walking that path you will feel trapped, miserable and unhappy.

If you have come from a poor background or a life of difficulty, you may have come to believe that success comes only to those who have been born with a silver spoon in their mouth. Pain hardens you A study at the University of Califo ia at Berkeley concluded that the absence of negative experiences actually does not contribute to a better quality of life. Psychologists have further concluded that spoiled children tend to turn into adults who lack persistence to follow their dreams and have difficulty withstanding adversity, setbacks or failures.

"The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us." — G. K. Chesterton, British author, Fancies Versus Fads Marti was driving through her neighborhood to work one morning when a genie suddenly appeared in the passenger seat and asked, "And what will your third wish be?" Marti was so startled, she almost hit a lamp post. After pulling over to the curb and stopping the car,

What would it take to end war? That was a question I was asked yesterday by a close friend. I think it was intended to be politically inclined, but my answer stunned the listeners. Simply lay down the guns and go home to your families. War and other imbalances in the human living experience do not end through diplomati

Have you ever been in a position where you made a decision because you felt at the time that you had to, even though your mind was woolly and the world was unreal? I am sure you lived to not only regret that decision, but also to ask yourself “What had gotten into me when I decided that?” And it is possible that at the time you were recently traumatised, for example being widowed, walking away from a very destructive relationship, being forced to leave a job, and so on. Such experiences often uproot our entire existence, and turn our world upside down.

Consciousness And Awareness

Change occurs constantly. Things move so fast today, people cannot keep up. With every change, there is a process that occurs. The process is called transition and there are three stages: an ending, middle and a new beginning. These stages can happen separately or simultaneously. Depending upon ...

In order to live a successful and fulfilled life we need to have self-worth and a healthy self-esteem. Some individuals will look to others, or their material successes, to determine their self-worth but by far the most important assessment is the way you feel about yourself. Boosting your self-esteem can be done and there are numerous ways of doing so. You can take the steps necessary to build your self-worth and well-being and in so doing you will be practicing the most effective means of preventative medicine around. Seven Ways to Boost your Self-Esteem:

It is always interesting to see how people respond to death. The reaction is often so predictable, even though people that lose a loved one believe that the experience is so unique that nobody will understand them. Of course the latest example is the passing of Michael Jackson. The first, very predictable response was denial. When the news broke, over sixteen million people did not believe what they had heard and turned to the internet to get the right facts and confirmation.

As the title states, “Become an Information ?lter and a knowledge Sponge.” On your daily journey to achieve your WHY, you will travel through many different avenues and sometimes you will ask yourself, “Why do I need to meet this person or experience this situation?” The key is to truly understand that you must become an information ?lter and use your personal God-given ?lters -- your eyes and your ears. I always say that you were born with 4 inputs (2 eyes, 2 ears) and 1 out

Are you getting older? Of course you are we all are during the natural process of the living experience. Youth or rather the quest to capture and maintain youth becomes a major focus of many as they reach the latter years of their life. The fountain of youth is a thing of legend and desire and long considered the one s

Milton Berle said, “I’d rather be a could-be if I cannot be an are; because a could-be is a maybe who is reaching for a star. I’d rather be a has-been than a might-have-been, by far; for a might-have-been has never been, but a has-been was once an are.” What a profound statement that embodies attitude, choice, and a journey towards success. The old cliché, attitude is everything, is true with regard to our choices and our success.

What exactly is Self Confidence? Self-confidence is the conviction that you can cope with a particular situation correctly. Self-confidence is to know that you don’t lack of any of the necessary skills in order to successfully complete a task. How do we achieve it? Self Empowerment by mastering the techniques to build your self confidence 1. Make a plan to do something and then follow through to complete it This is one of the many ways, but most effective one in building l

Many cosmetic procedures are on the rise. Few compare to the recent popularity of teeth whitening. If you enjoy foods or drinks that leave your teeth less than bright white, then you may be interested in one of the many ways currently available for making your smile whiter. A whiter smile ...

My definition of "meditation" is a somewhat broad one. I consider meditation is an opportunity to realize your higher consciousness (or to realize your oneness with your higher consciousness) and to let go of resistance. Benefits and Techniques of Meditation There are many benefits to ...

Here are some time-tested tools to aid you in your journey of SELF growth. Each of these self-improvement techniques has tremendous potential to speed your growth and to help you attain your goals, but the results you get from each will depend, one hundred percent, upon the amount of effort you ...

Surfing the Internet recently, looking for inspirational videos for my Forum and web site, I’ve come across a strange phenomenon. There are many lovely videos out there with the usual breathtakingly beautiful photographs and music on, but instead of the normal ‘I am healthy’, ‘I am rich’ type of affirmations, you would expect to find; there are new words that ask the question ‘Why am I rich?’ ‘Why am I healthy?’

First, shift focus off learning how to manage time. We manage ourselves, not time. Time management starts with personal growth and development: learning and developing new skills and implementing good habits that create productive work days with high quality time off. Does your approach support your success, or are you in a wind storm pushing through obstacles and handling circumstances where ever the wind blows you?