Personal Development Articles

Personal Development | By Koz Huseyin @ Saturday, 31st May 2008 @ 1:23 PM

Is there a golden key to success? Is there a Holly Grail? I toyed with the question. I sought to find an answer. Is there one key that makes it all possible? I found the answer; join me as we look at the answer. First I toyed with action. Is action the key to success? Is action the ultimate key to success? However, then I considered - no. After all, what is that action in? And then I considered persistence. And lo and behold, I found that, that is not the answer. We can't act,... more...

Personal Development | By Stephen Campbell @ Saturday, 31st May 2008 @ 4:17 AM

Everything that happens to us happens for a reason purpose. And in some cases, one thing leads to another. Instead of locking yourself up in your cage of fears and crying over yesterday pain, embarrassment and failures, treat them as your teachers and they will become your tools in both self improvement and success- achievement motivation. So, when does personal improvement become synonymous with success? Where do we start? Consider the following steps. 1) Stop thinking and feeling... more...

Personal Development | By Deborah Battersby @ Friday, 30th May 2008 @ 11:43 PM

My mother has nine children. When her sixth baby came home from the hospital, all her children were under the age of 7, her nearest family lived 1200 miles away and, apart from my father who wasn't much help, she had no support system! My entire life, I hardly ever remember my mom sitting down except for a meal -- and even that was rare. She never stopped; she never sat; she never rested until she physically collapsed from sheer exhaustion. She never stopped doing until she literally... more...

Personal Development | By Art Stanley @ Friday, 30th May 2008 @ 7:49 AM

Positive affirmations have been around for awhile as a tool for self improvement. Earlier self help authors discussed this technique as a means of shaping the results in your life in a favorable way. Napoleon Hill called it "auto-suggestion". Joe Karbo labeled it "Dyna/Psych". But they were essentially talking about the same thing. There is nothing complicated, sexy, or high-tech about positive affirmations. I bet that's why more people don't use affirmations on ... more...

Personal Development | By Judith Wentzel @ Friday, 30th May 2008 @ 6:19 AM

How many times have you felt that you just weren't measuring up? You weren't living up to what you were meant to be or do? We all have extraordinary potential that often becomes lost or buried beneath our self-imposed limitations or limiting beliefs. In order to shift gears and bypass all that blocks our way, we must take a close, honest look within ourselves and identify exactly what those blocks are. Almost every kind of emotional block is based on fear; most often it is a f... more...

Personal Development | By Deborah Battersby @ Thursday, 29th May 2008 @ 8:43 PM

My mother and grandmother used to say, "Everything happens for a reason". Frankly, I always thought that was just their way of getting me to accept when things didn't go my way. I heard it over and over again "Everything happens for a reason". But for the most part I thought it was just their way of gently letting me down. After a while I guess I just accepted it. Does Everything Really Happen for a Reason? Years later one of my brilliant mentors gave m... more...

Personal Development | By karen glover @ Thursday, 29th May 2008 @ 5:33 PM

Julian Jaynes, a Princeton Professor, revealed how untill approximately 3000 years ago the human mind functioned through automatic, non-introspective commands. This nature given, bicameral mind was highly intelligent, but immersed in the here-and-now. It did not have the ability to be objective, to introspect, or think in terms of the past or future. The Left and Right Hemisphere Dr. Wilder Penfield of Montreal, Canada, carried out experiments locating the different areas o... more...

Personal Development | By Stephen Campbell @ Thursday, 29th May 2008 @ 2:56 PM

With the advent of the Internet technology, anybody can learn hypnosis free. Using online programs, you can enroll to hypnotherapy home study course offered by many websites. There are no restrictions to learning this type of procedure and the more advantage is, you can learn hypnosis just at home-of course, if you have Internet connections. So, this is a good opportunity for those who want to learn hypnosis but could not afford to enroll outside because of their home resposibilities. You may fi... more...

Personal Development | By Anna Stenning @ Monday, 26th May 2008 @ 9:47 PM

Business is about people. It is about communication, relationships and about presenting yourself, your company and your ideas in the most positive and impactful way. Many business people like to think that success is based on logical, rational thoughts and acts, but the human element should never be ignored. Which is why a strong soft skills set is vitally important. Soft skills training can make the difference between closing the deal and losing it, creating a cohesive, efficient team or... more...

Personal Development | By Uchenna Ani-Okoye @ Monday, 26th May 2008 @ 5:12 PM

Ever since the beginning of time, ambitious people of the world have attributed some "indescribable" secret to the success of those people with wealth. These people have spent, and will continue to spend, millions of dollars to cultivate these "secrets" within themselves. Particularly since the early seventies, there has been a growing demand by the public to attend classes, workshops, and self-improvement seminars that will enable them to align their thinking as well as ... more...

Personal Development | By Koz Huseyin @ Monday, 26th May 2008 @ 2:56 PM

Far too many people will wait for when the time is right. There are far too many people who let life pass by. Opportunity comes, opportunity goes. And goal setting is only done at New Years, and we wonder why failure is all too often found in our lives. Old man procrastination was young. Many people told him that he had potential. Some people even said he couldn't do anything so he should never try. This was done to protect young man procrastination. When he completed his formal educ... more...

Personal Development | By Koz Huseyin @ Monday, 26th May 2008 @ 2:44 PM

You got no money, and no one to turn to. You need that advice, you need that information, but you don't know how to get to it. You need a life coach, you need one now, but the only problem is that you are struggling financially. What can you do? Before you begin to think there is no hope in getting access to the information you need, consider the points in this article. You don't need lots of money to find a life coach. Yes, the top life coaches may charge you up to 6 figures to... more...

Personal Development | By Robert Kokoska @ Monday, 26th May 2008 @ 9:56 AM

Lack of self-confidence is the largest single factor that holds most people back in life, both in the professional as well as personal sphere. If you are seriously lacking self-confidence and self esteem, it usually means that you don't believe in yourself or your abilities and that you don't think your life can be what you want it to be and that you are simply stuck with whatever you are with at the present time. This type of self doubt and negative thinking limits us in all of our li... more...

Personal Development | By Robert Kokoska @ Monday, 26th May 2008 @ 9:03 AM

Many of us know that we would benefit greatly from increased sense of self confidence; after all, a lack of it is often easy enough to identify! If you are lacking self-confidence, you are much more likely to let people treat you badly or take advantage of you. You might also have a tendency to fall short of your real potential at work or school, or even in your interpersonal relationships. If any of these above descriptions sound like you, chances are, you need to work on your self-confidence a... more...

Personal Development | By Robert Kokoska @ Monday, 26th May 2008 @ 8:55 AM

There are many different confidence courses available for people from all walks of life, all ages, and all income levels. The increased need for building self confidence is almost universally acknowledged, and many instructors are responding to this need by presenting a range of courses that can really help you enhance your self confidence and self esteem. Interestingly enough, if you really suffer from low self esteem or self confidence, simply just signing up for and showing up at a co... more...

Personal Development | By Robert Kokoska @ Monday, 26th May 2008 @ 8:27 AM

Ideally, self confidence is a personality trait that you should develop early and maintain throughout your life. For many of us, though, that just isn't the case - as either the process of developing self confidence is stymied early on by several factors, or we lose confidence because of certain life events. Nowadays, it is relatively rare to meet someone who is entirely satisfied with his or her selves level of confidence. Interestingly enough though, this can also be true of peopl... more...

Personal Development | By Rachel Yoshida @ Monday, 26th May 2008 @ 4:38 AM

Have you ever wondered how it is that some people just never seem to get really stressed out over very much? It can be puzzling to us worry warts that feel like we might not be paying close enough attention to our life when we do not get all freaked out over every little thing, especially our finances. There must be some secret to being able to weather the storms of life and do it with a little less wear and tear to ourselves physically and emotionally. Finding out what those tricks are ... more...

Personal Development | By Koz Huseyin @ Monday, 26th May 2008 @ 4:15 AM

Is it really possible, to simple get up and go? Is it possible to achieve such a goal so simply? Or do you need a goal setting plan, a goal setting system that makes it possible? In this article, we will take a look. If you know what you want, and take action, irrespective of time, you will arrive! It seems so simple, and it is. However, most people's goals are not to simply get a cup of Coffee or a hot chocolate. To do something bigger such as find a soul mate, become a millionaire,... more...

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...