Personal Development Articles

"Most men live a life of quiet desperation." Do you? Do you force a smile on your face, stand up straight and go out to meet the world. Do you stoically keep the dreaded commitments that fill your planner? Do you unquestionably carry out your mounting responsibilities? If getting ...

Fear of public speaking is the most common of all phobias. It’s a form of performance anxiety in which a person becomes very concerned that he or she will look visibly anxious. It is often seen that in many people’s lives, the top raking fear is not death but to having to speak in public. They would rather be lying in the casket at the funeral than giving speech in public. Many people deal with a lifelong dread of getting up to speak in public. Over time, people try to av

Design your dream by imaging what you want. This is not the stage to ask “is this dream possible?” Asking that question so early on is toxic. Don’t destroy the space holding your fragile idea. Of course your dream is possible! Just start with the exuberance and joy of the dream and allow it to percolate inside you. Napoleon Hill said: "What the mind of man can conceive it can achieve.” Using the full power of your imagination rank yourself 1 through 5, 5 being the highest, where you’re at in your life with the following: • Career • Health • Relationships • Spirituality

The ultimate way to transform your life and also earn the admiration of other people would be to enhance your self-esteem. This isn't a really difficult task. The only thing that it requires is great guidance. Listed below are 10 suggestions for improving your self-esteem. 1. You need to surround yourself with individuals who are optimistic and also supportive, and avoid people that are skeptical and unconstructive. This can create a massive swell of optimistic inner thoughts. You'll admire yourself a lot more, plus your self-esteem will certainly increase.

You asked for it, you got it Trump 2016 I have been a political junkie for more than twenty years. Some years I knew every congressional race in every important district, in every state. I’m not there anymore; I’m mainly on the sidelines. Though I do still sit on committee’s and vet candidates for our purposes in my home state.r

Once becoming clear about a goal you want to achieve, there are a number of ways to help support the journey toward its accomplishment. One very effective method is through the use of affirmations. An affirmation is a statement that describes a goal in its already completed state. The purpose ...

Every day, we’re faced with different challenges. Some things are obviously more challenging than others, but with every one of them we are faced with having to make a decision about it. That decision involves a choice, which is what and how we think about it. Because what we think about something has a direct impact on how we act and think about ourselves. How we act directly impacts what others see and think about us. This goes hand in hand with what’s called, “Above the

Life is full of ups and downs and sometimes has a few sideways thrown in too. When things go wrong or don’t go as planned, or when something happens to throw us off balance and doubt ourselves it can be tough to deal with. After all, we all want things to go well and to end up as ‘winners’. ...

It's after knock-off time and you're still at the office, working on a project you feel was made for you. You've become so absorbed in your thoughts and ideas and the sheer enjoyment of the experience, you haven't noticed everyone else has gone home. Your mind, body and spirit have come together as you pour your natural talents, skills and abilities into a product that only you could create. It's a feeling sometimes described as a ‘state of flow'.

Do you find yourself living a mediocre life? Check out this personal development training I have for you where I will share how you can turn literally go big and out an end to mediocrity in your life. To start off this personal development training, let me say that if you want to go big in life, you need to be ready for the challenges that lie ahead. You should be challenging yourself to doing things you have never done before. You may feel afraid of getting out of your comf

As we begin the New Year, we are faced with a spirit of rejuvenation. Another opportunity to create the life we desire. But how do you go about creating the life you desire? You may resolve to go to the gym more, or attend religious services more often. You may even decide to change jobs and ...

A Limited Point Of View

Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain way. Looked at in another way, the right course of action may be so obvious that the problem no longer exists. Edward de Bono I’ve always found it very enlightening to discover new ways of tapping into my creative energy to help dissolve an issue or challenge. Figuring out new ways of handling a situation that is not working, or trying something new to solve an old challenge that keeps repeating itself, is always empowering.

"What's the world's greatest lie?" the boy asked, completely surprised. "It's this: that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. That's the world's greatest lie." — Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist The day was a winter wonderland as our family drove through the country to a Christmas open house at a friend's home. A fresh snowfall had left the trees, houses, and barns covered with a inch of magical whit

Today, you get a special marketing message from the insights of Ted Ciuba as a direct response marketer. What does that mean? Basically, it means that I put the message out to the masses as much as I can—I want everybody to know what's happening. And then, those who respond I work with more deeply. I invest my time, money, emotions, and efforts with them. It's the active utilization of the 80/20 rule. I already know when I wake up that 80% of the people I come into contact with aren't really going to have any interest in my message.

Happy holidays! It’s time for most businesses to close down in observance of Christmas and the New Year. But when we’re constantly caught up in the fast pace of the office, it can be hard to stop working entirely and to enjoy the time off. A few extra days without constant meetings and incoming requests: it seems like the perfect opportunity to catch up on forgotten emails and unfinished to-do lists, or to start on projects planned for next year.

Mind Most of us make the mistake of taking consciousness for granted as we do so many other things. The act of taking things for granted can have really bad consequences because it affectively limits the possibility of achieving a deep understanding of a given subject because we simply don't investigate the things we take for granted. One of the consequences of taking the landscape of consciousness for granted is the shallow superficial world we live in today. How many of us even give a moment's thought to the idea of consciousness?

Can a few kind words or a quick smile make a difference in someone’s life? If you smile at someone and they smile back, could that change their mood? Could it change your mood? There are so many ways that we can help other people; some of them are just small gestures. If we all would make a ...

With a passion for oil painting, artist Duong Ngoc Son has continuously sought and expressed his emotions onto the toile. At first he focused his feelings on still life. With a subtle, skillful painting style and an exclusive way of selecting and using colors, he searched for and expressed his own stories and states when facing simple things like a conical palm hat, a pomelo, a mangosteen, a bamboo bed, a smooth folded satin strip, a pure lotus flower, or an old pottery vase.

When looking for ways to overcome your fears it is important to establish where exactly does your fear start from. What causes you to choose to feel the fear? What is the trigger? What tells you it is time to feel fearful and freeze? How does that serve you? I can guarantee that the cause of your fear will start with a thought. Let me explain what I mean.

We've all been there, the bills are piling up, your workload is overwhelming you, and your kids are giving you a hard time at home. Before you know it, you are stressed out of your mind and you can literally feel your blood reaching boiling point.

Making the world (your world) a finer place does not need to be overwhelming. Investing in people all around you, in your family, in your workplace, in your neighborhood, and in your world, returns to you a world that is finer. I am not referring to a financial investment, however; I am referring to value.nnNo man becomes rich unless he enriches others.n– Andrew CarnegienPeople must feel valued. If they do not feel valued, they wilt and become stifled. nnA child needs to kn

As you are aware, there are two sides to everything; good and bad, positive and negative, yin and yang, action and inaction, force and allow, rigid and flexible. In all of life there is a balance between the two polarities, sides or aspects that must be mediated in your pursuit of happiness and ...

Did you know that there is an ant colony that lives on three continents? Seriously. There is a colony of Argentine ants that has spread to Europe and Japan, of course with some help from people. One colony spreads over 6 000 km (3 700 miles) along the Mediterranean coast. The second one extends over 900 km (560 miles) in Califo ia in the US. The third colony is in Japan. Researchers discovered that these ant colonies share a very similar of hydrocarbons in their cuticles, and they are in fact members of the same colony. Here is the interesting part.

To succeed, you need passion, skills and experience and market need. Focus on what you love, and acquire skills, as explained below: To succeed in Uganda, and elsewhere; follow the below: rnI. Passion + Skill + Need =Success Passion is something you can do even without being paid to do it. It is within your DNA. You love it. You don’t need to be motivated or forced to take any action. You actually feel incomplete if what you are passionate about is not going the right way.

There are times when I feel like laughing about the growing religious intolerance in the UK, but this is too serious a matter to laugh about. If you think that there is no religious intolerance in this part of the world, just read the newspapers. The latest incident is about a Muslim woman who ...

Many people jump into get-rich-quick schemes, create ruinous debt, and fail to employ solid strategies that serve their best interests. So what really happens to disappoint and frustrate these people? How do they sabotage their financial success? Many positive thinkers judge, suppress, and ignore negativity. They may have legitimate conce s about a business venture but choose to ignore them. You have probably heard these people say, “I don’t want to hear any negativity!” The

Everyone has dealt with procrastination at some point in life. It's human nature to put off the things that they don't enjoy. But sometimes, procrastination can be a major problem. Sometimes you might be in a positive groove, and then you can barely leave the bed. However, there are things that need to be taken care of, and can't be put off. This is when procrastination has to be addressed. Here are some tips to overcome procrastination:

Every human needs personal closeness and interaction. It completes our sense of being alive and the development of meaningful memories. People bond with other people through interaction and the association of that interaction with anchors of the sensory or memory components involved. Special needs to exist in order for

I’ve been publishing, coaching, and writing about The Master Key System and Haanel’s philosophy of success for quite a while now. I’ve been reading and researching much, much longer. One thing I’ve noticed is that when I say the words ‘hard work’, a veritable shit storm ensues. People fight me ...

Invisible Forces Many people today are not experiencing the quality and quantity of success in their lives that they would like and feel they deserve. Why are some people very successful and others seem to be unable to get beyond a certain level? Why is success easy for some, difficult for others and impossible to achieve consistently for many others who struggle with this concept their whole lives? Sometimes exploring things that seem at first glance to be simple, can take us to places we did not expect to go.

I was doing some Life Management work with a client and we started out talking about what was going well, what she was doing that was working and making her life better. She had accomplished a lot in a few short months. She had created some routines that changed the tone of her days, as well ...

Dear Friend, … We all know how powerful words can be and we also know that at times we are able to say words that we later regret. You have probably heard that thoughts are things; well words are more than just things. When we can change our thoughts with the help of our will, we can’t take back our words. Today I will share with you some useful tips to make your words count and create that inner peace, confidence not only in ourselves but others too.

As I contemplated the nature of faith I was struck by how deeply embedded this phenomenon is in our society and culture globally. Faith is the fabric that holds all of one’s beliefs and expectations together. As I began a deeper exploration, I made some interesting discoveries about my own experience of Faith.

Women are connection. They connect with their friends, their children, and their spouse. Women connect others. We are the bridges that build relationships and foster communication. Basically, women are the directors of the future. Women are wonderful sources of inspiration and support for each other. They are willing to bare their souls and share their experiences, even with perfect strangers. Put two women who are strangers together in a room, on an airplane, in a line at t

Flashback 5 years…There I was laying on the path staring up at the sky. Just a moment before I was running. Now it felt like someone had ripped my foot off and stapled it back on. It had happened before. My right ankle would twist and there I would be staring up at the sky. Kim would joke that I have fallen down in some of the most amazing cities around the world..New York, London, Paris, LA, Rome, Honolulu and a few more. We would be walking along and suddenly there I was examining sidewalks around the world.

All my life, I had been a little bit envious of the success that I saw that others clearly had and I didn't have. And of course it was justified in my circles and my family, and we were taught it was good, religiously, to be poor. God loved the poor people but not the rich ones, you know… “It’s easier for a camel to get through the eye of a needle than it is for a rich man to get into heaven.” So this is pretty doggone tough, but I wanted it—and I kept sabotaging myself. In other words, I couldn't get outside my comfort zone, which had been established for me at a very low level.

When it's my turn to make my transition from this world to the next, I want to be able to look back on my life and feel a sense of accomplishment and pride. I refuse to go to my grave with my music still in me. I want my life to be an example to my children that anything is possible.

Do you have trouble sleeping? Tired all the time?Here are some great tips for better quality sleep. 1. Exercise regularly. Your sleep will be better quality, which means you should need less sleep. This will give you more energy and time to do other things. Exercise will ward off tension and help you relax. 2. Sleep only when sleepy. 3. If you can't fall asleep within 20 minutes, get up and do something boring until you feel sleepy. 4. Don't take naps. 5. Get up and go to bed the same time every day. Even on weekends. 6.

Ready, aim… ready, aim… ready, aim… Come on, pull the trigger, already! One of the things that consumes time and bogs people down is being slow to make decisions. Things You Don’t Have Time NOT to Do: 8) Make a Decision

It’s tempting when you’re struggling with money issues to think that this really is a cruel unfriendly world. There you are, working your socks off, and it’s all money out, out, out, leaving you constantly on the bread line while others around you seem to have anything and everything they ...

As this new year approaches, I am sure their are a million different things I can write about. The idea would be to give you value and ideas to help you jump start 2010 in the right direction. But I am not going to do that. To keep adding value without one taken action is a lost cause. It amazes me time and time again to listen to everyone this time of the year. "Oh this is my year, this year is going to be so different for me." This one is my favorite: “I can't wait for 2009 to be over with, what a horrible year it was.” Question is, why was it a horrible year?

Experts estimate that nearly a billion people entered the 21st century unable to read a book or sign their name. In the U.S alone, 40 percent of 4th graders do not achieve basic levels of reading proficiency. The number is higher among low-income families, certain minority groups, and English language learners. The tragedy is that these children may never fully participate in American society. These are powerful statements, the shear enormity of the problem overwhelming . . . because after all what can you or I do about a problem as big as world literacy, right?

A while ago I received the following story in an e-mail. Unfortunately I do not know the original author of the story. A man was exploring caves by the seashore. In one of the caves he found a canvas bag with a bunch of hardened clay balls. It was like someone had rolled clay balls and left them out in the sun to bake. They didn’t look like much, but they intrigued the man, so he took the bag out of the cave with him. As he strolled along the beach he would throw the clay b

We always need self-improvement ideas for a positive impact on our lives, especially on our finances, careers and relationships. To make significant change and growth in the weaker parts of our lives first begins with admitting the fact that it has to start with us for a better result. It involves how we respond to situations, the experience that we create and how we effectively build the life that we desire. Besides that, we should not blame our external circumstances becaus

Do you want to have a big story to tell? When things are tough and you are starting to think that no one else gets this much hassle, when you have difficulty sleeping 'cos your mind keeps going over things looking for an answer, when you know the answer's there...but no matter how hard you try or how often you ask for help, you just can't find it...when you do not know what to do - relax, and trust in your higher self. Your higher self knows what is happening and is working t

The poet wrote, “There’s a destiny that shapes our ends, rough hew them how we will.” I’ve lost several friends and family members, good friends in the internet community, father-in-law recently. Sad. We all will die. Then I happened to be looking through photo albums, family albums. Oh, all the people that are no longer here that formed important parts of my life! And that can be very, very sad, too.

Change is often very difficult for people to accept and yet it’s happening every minute. The only thing certain is change. When you find that things are not as you want them to be in your life, it’s time to get comfortable with change. The Comfort Zone Change means many things to people. It ...

“Ships don’t sink because of the water around them; ships sink because of the water that gets in them. Don’t let what’s happening around you get inside you and weigh you down.”rn-Unknown To the above quote, the self-proclaimed realist might answer “But I am not a boat and my problems aren’t water.”rnYeah, sure, that’s true, but it is just another excuse to not take control of you own feelings.rnAll of us have the base feeling at one point in our lives or ano

A Quick Preamble: Yep, “been there, done that” as well…in fact, nothing and nobody born, created or grown, on this planet, from the very beginning of time, has ever avoided the very natural and absolute constant that we know as “Adversity”…the very stuff of life that will, on regular occasion, throughout your whole lifetime, challenge you physically, mentally and spiritually… …and quite often all three of these areas at once, which will either ‘make’ you o