Personal Development Articles

Personal Development | By Koz Huseyin @ Monday, 26th May 2008 @ 2:49 AM

Do you remember your school friends? Can you remember 100 of those people? Imagine you and 99 others starting in life. Now, how many do you think will succeed? How many will achieve great things? If we take 100 of you and look from that young age, and interview all of you. We will find that you and the 99 others will be looking confident in life. There are some who don't feel good about life, however, in the main, even though all the fears and questions about what will happen when yo... more...

Personal Development | By Robert Kokoska @ Monday, 26th May 2008 @ 2:03 AM

If you're interested in learning to speed read, you're in luck - there are a variety of courses available online that can help you to increase your natural current reading speed. According to all of the claims, these increases can go from moderate to quite dramatic. A moderate increase might be from 700 words per minute (the maximum speed at which most of us can read without any special training) to 1000 wpm or so. To put this into perspective an average printed page might have... more...

Personal Development | By Robert Kokoska @ Monday, 26th May 2008 @ 1:22 AM

Speed reading programs vary greatly in terms of what techniques they teach, what they promise, and the actual outcome. This can be confusing if you have decided to explore speed reading for the first time, and had always thought (like many of us) that speed reading is just one single concept or technique that can be learnt. Actually, there are at least two major approaches to speed reading that differ in fundamental ways. Most speed reading programs are based on one of these two major approaches... more...

Personal Development | By Robert Kokoska @ Sunday, 25th May 2008 @ 8:59 PM

Most of us would benefit greatly from enhanced mental clarity, regardless of age or occupation. Fortunately, enhanced mental clarity is well within reach for most of us. It may take a little work and some discipline, but the payoff is well worth it. With enhanced mental clarity, we are much more efficient, more productive, and therefore more successful in our endevours. In addition, we are also more aware of everything that is happening in our lives, and that's a huge bonus. With awareness ... more...

Personal Development | By Robert Kokoska @ Sunday, 25th May 2008 @ 8:38 PM

With a little hard work and the right guidance, you can enhance your memory at almost any age. Many older adults resign themselves to being a little forgetful; however, in the absence of an actual disease state such as Alzheimer's, this is seldom necessary. Although it is true that you may need to be a little more meticulous in your habits - writing things down as necessary, for example. However, do not assume that growing older is necessarily a challenge to your memory. Forgetfulne... more...

Personal Development | By Nickolove Lovemore @ Sunday, 25th May 2008 @ 7:42 PM

The Indiana Jones films are not only great adventure films. You can learn much about goal achievement from watching these films too. Steven Spielberg said: "I hate that people think it's wrong to say you're inspired by Jaws or by Raiders of The Lost Ark. You're allowed to be." One could add Indiana Jones to that list. Admittedly, Spielberg is biased. Still, here are three lessons in goal achievement inspired by Indiana Jones. 1. Indiana follows his pas... more...

Personal Development | By Robert Kokoska @ Sunday, 25th May 2008 @ 6:43 AM

There are many of us that would like to improve our concentration in one way or another - both for ourselves and our learning children. If we could only concentrate fully on tasks regardless of how much or how little interest they held for us, our quality of work and learning ability would improve vastly. At the same time, our children seem to be affected by a lack of concentration at times as well - after all, that is nothing new; all students daydream from time to time and get distracted from ... more...

Personal Development | By Robert Kokoska @ Sunday, 25th May 2008 @ 6:36 AM

In the past, we might have had the idea that learning is something that occurs during the earlier stages of life, and finishes when our formal schooling ends. Now we know that this is far from the truth - learning really is a life long process. Here are some great and easy tips to help you improve your learning, whether formal (at school) or informal. 1. To improve learning, keep in mind that the one benefiting from your learning is you. Try to tell yourself every day that this is true; ... more...

Personal Development | By Lisa Dyke @ Sunday, 25th May 2008 @ 4:23 AM

Do you feel your lack of confidence when speaking with people stops you from making a good impression in the work place? Do you ever wish you could be more confident at work, express your opinions more clearly and not be intimidated by face to face communication with your superiors or important clients? If this strikes a chord with you and you are interested in learning how to gain confidence with work place communication to enhance your career then you may benefit from learning how to i... more...

Personal Development | By Adam Khoo @ Saturday, 24th May 2008 @ 7:15 PM

Have your values sabotaged your success up to now? Is the way you are ranking your values in your mind or the way you have defined them causing you any conflict? Are your values aligned with your goals or misaligned? Do they help you to achieve your ultimate dreams or do they hold you back? You know, if there are certain areas in your life where you have consistently not gotten desired results, it can almost always be traced back to a values conflict with your goals. But ... more...

Personal Development | By Robert Kokoska @ Saturday, 24th May 2008 @ 7:07 PM

The average person typically reads between 200 to 400 words per minute (wpm) when we are reading for comprehension - that is, when we want to learn and retain the knowledge from what we are reading - and this speeds up to about 400 - 700 wpm when we are simply 'skimming' or 'scanning' which is to get an idea of the text or just to pick out the important bits. These techniques are things that we all naturally use in the course of reading; skimming and scanning consist of movin... more...

Personal Development | By Adam Khoo @ Saturday, 24th May 2008 @ 7:05 PM

One reason why people do not set goals in their lives is because they are not convinced that goal setting works. Many people tell me, "You know Adam, I tried setting goals before but it did not work" I respond by saying this, "It is not the goal that did not work, you did not work." Setting clear goals give us a clear direction to base and our plans and drive our actions. When you do not get what you want, it is merely part of the journey of getting what you want.... more...

Personal Development | By Adam Khoo @ Saturday, 24th May 2008 @ 6:50 PM

Every year, thousands of people attend my seminars to find out and discover how they can increase the quality of their lives and get the results they want. I believe the reason why you are reading this article is similar to all those who have attended or have a desire to attend the seminars I conduct. I believe that you want know how to get what you want in your life. So let me begin by asking you this question, "What do you want?" This is a simple and basic quest... more...

Personal Development | By Suzanne Thomas @ Saturday, 24th May 2008 @ 4:31 PM

It happened again! The boss asked you to stay late and prepare a last-minute presentation, when you had planned to go home and work on your business. You feel sick to your stomach, resentful, and despair about your ability to make your business work. Or how about this one: You are working at your business, and you are in the flow and feel very productive. But people keep interrupting you. It could be a new associate, calling you frequently at all hours. Closer to home, it could be ... more...

Personal Development | By Jonathan Hook @ Saturday, 24th May 2008 @ 2:46 PM

Outsourcing is growing, and it is growing fast. It is one of the fastest growing industries in the world. It is growing just like working at home was the way to make money with out a lot of work. Now look at the world, there are tons and tons of way to make money at home. Some people run a business right out of their home. Are you considering outsourcing? You should, you may not be working at home or have the luxury of making your own hours and everything else that home workers get. You d... more...

Personal Development | By Nickolove Lovemore @ Saturday, 24th May 2008 @ 1:43 PM

The secret to achieving your goals is commitment - something which is straightforward but not always easy to do. Writing down your goals is one act and demonstration of commitment. You are clearly saying to yourself and the universe, "This is what I want." Plus, the simple act of writing down your goals vastly increases the chances you will actually achieve those goals? Yet, relatively few people actually write down their goals. So what stops people from writing do... more...

Personal Development | By Robert Kokoska @ Friday, 23rd May 2008 @ 5:56 PM

A very high proportion of adults of all ages would jump at the chance to improve their current memory levels, because their memory just is not as good as they would like it to be, or as good as it was in the past. This is not a recent phenomenon, of course - it has always been true, though it used to be mainly associated with aging or diseases such as alzheimers. In the past, people believed that a person's mind could just get too 'crowded' as he or she grew older and lear... more...

Personal Development | By Tim Kwiatkowski @ Friday, 23rd May 2008 @ 9:21 AM

GTD (or Getting Things Done) is, simply said, a time management system. In 2002, David Allen published a book called Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity. This book started it all. David's book is a must read for anyone interested in practicing GTD. For me, GTD has been a god-send. Over time, I have used a Day-Runner, a Day-Timer, a plain-old notebook, then I followed Covey ( of course, with my Covey notebook), and eventually developed my own "system" for... more...

Personal Development | By Jon Mercer @ Friday, 23rd May 2008 @ 7:17 AM

There must be hundreds -- if not thousands -- of self-help programs and e-books available online, but can any of these resources actually help you succeed in life? The truth is that many self-help e-books are worth while, and they can give you resources to build upon to create a better life. But they can't create that "better life" for you. In order to succeed and create better circumstances, you must take 100% responsibility for your thoughts and behavior, as well as the r... more...

Personal Development | By Robert Kokoska @ Friday, 23rd May 2008 @ 5:33 AM

Positive affirmations are those bits of thought, ideas, and statements, which are consistently repeated to yourself over a period of time, to implant them in your mind as a future source of inspiration for achieving personal growth and happiness. When you embed these constructive thoughts into your subconscious mind, youll be guided and assisted by those bits of information, in a preset direction to achieve future goals and desires. Most of us are born with negative attitudes, beliefs an... more...