Personal Development Articles

If your debts are building up, your relationship is leading you astray or your career is at a halt, it’s about time you analyze your situation and start the process of life change.Make a decision today to do all that you can to transform you life. To do or not to do; it’s all up to you.Create ...

SWOT your way to better performance rnMost performance management systems that are top down, focus on measuring performance through a map of results, behaviors and competencies. The entire systems are derived from the organizational strategy as outlined either through the strategy map or any other strategy definition and detailing methodology. rnOne of the defects of this approach is that it does not leverage or maximize the potential of the person who needs to deliver this p

People often ask me, "How long will it take to be successful?" Well, that's a good question, and a lot of the people who ask me know that, in my particular case, it was less than three weeks. Less than three weeks after I attended a high-quality seminar that told people how work in the direct response business, which I was interested in, I walked in and quit my job. Within three weeks, I was retired at 45 years old. Permanently retired-I never worked again. How long will it take? Well, like I said, it happened to me in three weeks. But you know what?

We have always had strong perceptions about names and often associate them with peculiar attributes. For instance, a girl by the name of Sita or Janaki is perceived by many in India to undergo hardship in her marital home. This is probably because of the popular Hindu epic, Ramayana, where the protagonist’s wife Sita had to endure hardship. And if your name is Helen, you are more likely to be unlucky. These may indeed be perceptions; but they are powerful enough to influenc

Over the last fortnight, in the process of building an ‘extension’ onto my present business activities, I’ve met an extraordinary range of diverse leaders – some corporate, some entrepreneurial, most a bit of both. Here’s what’s been interesting to me – they have each been successful in their own way, achieving well (from my limited exposure to their work & home lives) and motivated – but not a single one of them had considered engaging an executive coach, a mentor, or an independent leadership partner to speed up the process of living their vision?

As a researcher and promoter of personal development and success systems the commonest question by far that I hear is “How can I be successful?” How to be successful is the driving force for most people with whom I come into contact. Not surprising really, as this is my niche and my area of special expertise.

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Emotional wellness basically means being in a state where a person understands their feelings and doesn’t try to avoid them. Having a positive emotional wellness is a true success maker since one develops a positive approach to life, being able to approach feelings freely and effectively. This is someone who can express how they feel even though undergoing life’s ups and downs is able to deal with them without stress or depression. A person on getting to this state is abl

At age 30, I had directed two feature films. One I financed by going into debt and one I was hired to do, that gave me a salary, but no sharing in the profits when it became a hit. The credit for writing and directing "Death Machines" was more important. But now it was three years later and ...

Today I'll tell you about a very simple, yet very effective technology you can use. It's a problem-solving, diagnosing, goal-setting kind of device—I call it a technology—but it's just so simple. It consists of four items, and you can remember them by the acronym D'PIE.nnI call it that because we all want the pie, the whole pie, "d’ pie," and it helps us remember these things in order. And those are, with any goal-setting, problem-solving sequence: nn“D”—Diagnose.

Many women may identify with a moment like this: you spot a shirt or a skirt that looks perfect for you - and it’s even in your size. Then you take it into the fitting room. Once there, you find that something is simply not right. Maybe a pair of pants fits you in the thighs and hips - but won’t button at the waist. An Oxford hugs your waist and shoulders but puckers at the bust. Don’t despair. Fit is a complicated issue that often has more to do with manufacturing than you.

There are times when I am speaking to a group that I choose to use a flowing river as a means of describing the ebb and flow of life and the living experience. There are strong fast currents that demand your immediate attention and there are slower subtle currents that influence your path and will lead you astray if y

"The voyage of discovery lies not in finding new landscapes but in finding new eyes." Marcel Proust The Big Picture When Rusty Schweikert made his space walk from Apollo 9 and saw the earth as a whole, it changed him forever: ‘Frames and boundaries over which we fight are not real from the ...

The human body needs adequate amounts of sleep on a regular basis to stay healthy. Sleep deprivation can have many detrimental effects on your physical, mental, and emotional health. Without the required rest, a person’s ability to think, process, and cope with the activities and stressors of ...

Are you consistently feeling empty, anxious or frustrated with your life or career. Are you convinced that there is more to life than what you are experiencing, but it’s just not happening for you? Many people perceive happiness and fulfillment to be ever-elusive, and they don’t know which steps to take that will lead them to it. Our education, the way we are brought up and the field of psychology are based almost entirely on what is wrong with us.

When it comes to goals let us face the humongous, bedazzled, hot pink elephant in the room head on. We know the real issue. We know what we want. We are motivated. We take action. We feel great! Then flu season sets in, or we get busy or tired, or thrown off course by appointments, responsibilities, projects, secondary goals, or insecurity sets in… blah, blah, blah. Abruptly, that of primary importance becomes detached and disregarded. Make this year different! Staying on course to your most exciting goals is like going to Disney World.

This last year has seen the spotlight on organisational values as never before.

What are the biggest challenges facing successful business people today? In my work as a certified executive coach for C-Suite Executives, Directors, Managers, and Entrepreneurs, there are many recurring themes that seem to surface. One at a time, I’ll be sharing with you 12 of those top challenges along with hints, tips, and steps you can take to avoid or eliminate altogether these key issues that might be holding you back from achieving the kind of success you are aiming for. Challenge #1: “I have no work/life balance!”

The store clerk just stared back at me with empty almost lifeless eyes and said there was little they could do to stem the chaos and disarray. The people were left to wander and pillage at will. That was her response to the fact that many of the in store customers were so sloppy that they destroyed the store shelves an

one of the biggest challenges facing people in search of fiscal abundance is not actually the making of the money, but rather the battle in their heads about money. It is NOT possible to prosper while simultaneously holding the belief that you can’t make money doing what you love AND the desire to make money doing what you love. This can be even more intense for those who have chosen full time self-employment. This internal warfare is tiring at best and at it’s worst is wearing roller skates on a slippery slope to your ultimate financial destruction. 1.

did you know that chocolate has more antioxidants than kale? *the author briefly imagines and rapidly dismisses the idea of chocolate covered dino kale* For my fellow chocoholics out there, below is more than enough justification [and encouragement] to indulge and a bit on how to be smart about it.

I was driving to work as I usually do during the week. When I do, I look at the signs and businesses that line the roads and streets on which I drive. During this particular drive, I asked myself a quite common question and in doing so, revealed in myself the fatal flaw in my thinking. The fatal ...

Why do so many people struggle with attracting what they wish into their lives? Well there are a couple of things they fail to understand about the law of attraction works which put a spanner in the whole thing. For real and sustainable change to take place, we need experience it, feel it on ...

Is it your role as a parent to buy your toddler a cookie so he is quiet in the store? No! Is it your role as a parent to give in to your child because she is sad? No! Is it your role to make them happy? No! It is your role to teach your toddler, child or teenager the life skills they need to succeed in life.

"LIFE PURPOSE." Do those two little words throw you into anxiety? They upset me at one time. I felt frustrated and inadequate because I hadn’t figured it out for myself. I feared I was failing at life because I wasn’t doing 'the right thing.’ The personal growth industry has created such a mystique around life purpose. Subconsciously, I think I expected to have a flash of insight that would reveal to me exactly what I’m here for. With the angels singing in celebration, I would clearly see my path in life.

Can optimism really be learned? Some say yes, and it can make a huge difference in life. No matter how large and intimidating a leadership challenge might be, facing it with optimism is the thing you can do to manage, shape, and eventually triumph over it. The bottom line: Trash the pessimistic attitude.nnOne of Egypt's best-remembered pharaohs, King Tut, is pictured with headgear featuring a cobra as well as a vulture. The cobra was to attack negative thoughts before they en

“Didn’t you know that anxiety is the new normal?!” That is what a client said to me flippantly the other day. She was trying to be comedic yet we both knew this was coming from pure frustration and a feeling of overwhelm. Life today seems fraught with people who suffer from one form or another of this tormented state. I have heard clients call their anxiety a primal fear that has the power to paralyze them in a one- two punch no matter what their good intentions may be. Without management, anxiety makes life lose a sense of joy, purpose and any type of stable normalcy.

A pot of beautiful, blooming tea, a relaxing moment and time away from the stresses of the day, a comfortable place to sit and observe the simple beauties unfolding before you, everyone needs such a moment in every day of our lives. “Impossible!” you say? “How can I possibly make a habit of taking time each day away from my responsibilities for mindless luxuries?!” I say in response, “How can you not?” Have you ever asked yourself, “What am I doing all this for? What is it going to get me?” If you haven’t, perhaps you should. Take a moment now to review your day up to this moment.

As you work to grow in different areas in you life, it is important to really know yourself. The concept of not knowing yourself may sound preposterous to some people, but hear me out. Because we live such hectic lives, it is important to take time to become reacquainted with ourselves. It is very easy to get so focused on living life that we lose ourselves in the bustle and bustle. With every phase in life, we change and evolve, and if all goes as planned, we should not be the same person we were 5 years ago.

What can I say that hasn't already been said? Hummm... How about this? I can almost guarantee that hours from now, days from now you will still be thinking about this article. In fact every time you stand up you will remember this article. It doesn't matter if you are at work and just getting up to go across the room

Your Self-Esteem is On The Rise “This is what the secret of letting go is all about. First must come the understanding that we are still carrying around the accumulated defeats of a lifetime, and that these weary weights have only served to make us someone sorry, not someone special.” - Guy Finley. The Secret of Letting Go A dream written down with a date becomes a GOAL. A goal broken down into steps becomes a PLAN. A plan backed by ACTION makes your dream come true.

Most bloggers start off strong, full of enthusiasm and more article ideas than they know what to do with. Then at some point reality rears its ugly head and they realize how much time and planning it’s going to take to grow a top-notch blog. Next thing you know you’re feeling like you’ve run out of steam, exhausted and dreading that looming deadline for your next article post. Factor in exte al pressures such as family, money and a job, and the result can be a full blown case of blogger burnout.

You may be thinking that the title of this article is too dramatic... But in actual fact it's extremely accurate! Any Doctor will tell you that chronic stress conditions lead to thousands of serious illnesses and deaths every single year. A situation that appears to worsen as the pressures of modern life increase on a daily basis.

For many years, I was a lone ranger, doing things on my own, resistant of others’ help and support. Although always friendly and well-liked, I never let anyone get too close. I never felt good about sharing my deepest thoughts and feelings, perhaps for fear of ridicule. Somehow, during my ...

(This essay deals with ego development, or the transformation into “who I’ve become” versus “who I am”. Recognizing this metamorphosis in yourself is critical to your personal growth and precedes rediscovery of your inner adult.

An act or thought that unintentionally deviates from what is right or true. This is the formal definition for slip-up. To slip-up should never be thought of as a failure to accomplish something. I am quite certain that many of us would agree that many mishaps we may have been involved with in the past have led us to not only negative but positive experiences. If at first you do not succeed, try again. We can never prosper unless we first taste defeat. These are a couple sayings that come to mind.

Physical beauty is what almost everyone is fixated on these days, so much so that it overwhelms all consideration of intelligence or personality. The question now of course, is where inner beauty actually fits in. Inner beauty is something that we all have, though the question is whether or not we are actually aware of it. Even more importantly, will we ever actually make use of it? Believe it or not, your inner beauty will actually have a significant effect on your physical beauty! Use these strategies to develop your inner beauty:

Bad habits are something that we all have to come to terms with because we're all going to have them at some point. It could be smoking, it could be nail biting, or it could even be overeating. There are just too many possibilities out there to name them all, but what you may find hard to believe is that you can get rid these afflictions quite easily. Following these five strategies will set you on the right path:

Toss out the “roles” and discover your freedom. As a woman from the south, born in the ’50s, I was raised to be small, quiet, polite and inauthentic… a perfect southern belle. The instructions were to look and act pretty, speak when spoken to and keep a low profile, ESPECIALLY around men. I was groomed to be a perfect southern housewife, much like “the good wife” described in the May 1955 Good Housekeeping article. Here were just a few of the steps from that guide: Have a d

This is a massive topic. It's one I've been reading around now for about 5 years. And I'll tell you what - when you see it working it's like magic just appeared in your life. So let's start with basic 3 questions: 1. What is an intention? An intention is a desire to be, to do or to have something. It's an aspiration for progress. It's an expectation that your life is going to be different, more enhanced, in some way in the future.

If you desire to be successful in anything - and I mean anything, be it business, career, relationship - here are the two most important principles you must know!nn(1) Successful people are those who do the things other people are either unwilling or unable to do - or both.nn(2) Successful ...

Losing weight naturally is easier than you may think. Even though you added those pounds slowly over the years, you don't have to wait several years to lose the weight that you have gained. Here are 4 simple ways to lose weight quickly.

Working with troubled teens , I have found myself with a new perspective on the whole New Year’s resolution racket. It isn’t about these sweeping, end of year promises to do incredible things. It is about setting small goals, and sticking to them through the year. How do I know? Because the troubled teens I work with do this at different points all year long, and they are more successful than any of the resolutions I have made. They are learning long term habits for life,

Everyone one has talents and strengths to contribute to the world. The problem is that many people aren't aware of this fact, of they might have self-doubt issues, and they don't tap into their innate talents. Some people doubt themselves so much, they don't think that they have any contributions to the world. If this is you, then know that there are ways to overcome this way of thinking, so that you can make your mark on the world! Here's is how you can find and develop your strengths.

The experts seem to have all the answers. Been there, done that, have the postcard and now can tell you everything you need to know to make your dreams come true. You’re a good girl, do what they say – and nothing. Or at least not what they seemed to promise. That weight they said you would lose? Still there. The money they said you would make in your business? Still waiting. The guy they said you would attract? Still single. So is it that they don’t know what they’re t

Let’s face it: These are tough times in the lives of executives. The markets are topsy turvy, layoffs are rampant, stock options are under water, and people are running scared. For expatriates, add in the complexity of living outside your home country, and all of this can leave you wondering where you’re headed and worried about a future that is increasingly murky and unclear.

Knowing what you want in your life and career is the most important step to achieving it.

Often, when people talk about introverts and extraverts, they think in terms of whether people enjoy social interactions. In fact, the true definitions of introversion and extraversion have to do with where a person finds meaning – and for this reason, knowing which you are can help you make life decisions that leave you happier and more fulfilled. I was surfing the web the other day and came across a site that defined introverts as people who do not enjoy social situations

The clothes are different, hairstyles change and the blur of daily activity seems to go on forever, but eventually you realize that whenever you stop to notice, there you are. You are standing in the moment with the people that are important to you at that time all around. Soon things will change and some of them will

As children, we dream, and we dream big and wide. Sadly, as we mature as adults, and as we experience the hardships of life, our dreams die with our childhood. We think that our dreams were immature or unrealistic, and we don't carry on with our dreams. But you can in fact make your dreams come true. But it's not going to happen by simply hoping and wishing. You have to make those things come to pass on your own! So, here are some things that you can do, to make your dreams come true!