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Personal Development » Advice | By Bill Protresi @ Saturday, 6th September 2008 @ 5:06 PM

Identity theft is when someone else assumes your personal information and poses as you. Therefore it's not only just a question of stealing credit card numbers. There are several ways and places where your personal information can be stolen by the identity thieves. There are four different categories of identity theft; they include business or commercial identity theft, identity cloning, criminal identity theft, and financial identity theft. People use identity theft for diff... more...

Personal Development » Advice | By Kevin Sinclair @ Saturday, 6th September 2008 @ 12:38 AM

One of the crucial things to remember while you are in a panic attack is keep breathing. It becomes extremely necessary to breathe in the course of the attack, as you need to regularize oxygen flow into the blood stream as otherwise there is a severe constraint on the efficacy of the blood flow that in turn ensures control on the mind and the body. Controlling anxiety by breathing is a possibility as the mind and the body are kept steady by such mechanism. In the course of breathing in... more...

Personal Development » Advice | By Phyllis Goldberg @ Monday, 1st September 2008 @ 9:12 PM

The new Pew Research Center Social and Demographic Trends survey measured dissatisfaction and pessimism in close to 2500 participants. The data indicates that Baby Boomers worry more than any other generation. And a recent study from the University of Chicago suggests that the boomer generation has never really been happy. One hypothesis is that they grew up wanting to make the world a better place - and it's not. No one could deny that the national conversation has become depressin... more...

Personal Development » Advice | By Kevin Sinclair @ Saturday, 30th August 2008 @ 3:02 AM

Confidence is a very broad and general term. We would all enjoy being confident, and having more confidence throughout our lives in general, but when we make this choice in our lives, it is important to define the means of confidence that we want in life. Without implementing the use of a defined goal, it is very likely that our full potential when it comes to determining your level of confidence. We all have the dream of confidence, but the only way that it will become a reality is for us to ma... more...

Personal Development » Advice | By Kevin Sinclair @ Friday, 29th August 2008 @ 4:05 AM

Do you often find it difficult to finish your work at home or at office on time , in spite of those long hours you spent behind organizational training? Don't fret, below I have listed the top 7 tips to help you elevate your performance. 1. Is there something in particular that motivates you? It is important for you to understand what are the things that motivate you the most, in order to increase your performance. Often times, some competitive activities bog us down. Thus, i... more...

Personal Development » Advice | By Ranju Kumar @ Thursday, 28th August 2008 @ 11:51 PM

Leadership is a lifelong learning endeavor that requires following your dreams and making them come true. It involves "giving" to help others. It includes: Coaching, Directing, Delegating and Collaborating with others for a productive outcome. A leader must have a real passion for people and is willing to advocate for the cause of a vision. Leaders never ever settle for second place, they need to be in first place all of the time and detest losing. Great Leaders never wait for... more...

Personal Development » Advice | By Hans Thorn @ Wednesday, 27th August 2008 @ 12:28 PM

Imagine yourself wakening up every morning full of energy and ready for the challenges of the day. Lots of exciting things are happening and you manage them with success. You turn around the negative to the positive and with the positive you create balance and success within all areas. Would not this be wonderful? This scenario could be yours, but the question is: Does your life look like this? Most likely most people would like to have a life like this, but the reality for many people is... more...

Personal Development » Advice | By Jim Janowiak @ Wednesday, 27th August 2008 @ 10:01 AM

Are you struggling with your internet business? Not making the money you were promised? Are you having a hard time getting started? Believe me, these are very common problems. Tons of beginning internet marketers are having the same problems. Don't feel alone and don't think you won't ever be successful at this. Others are sitting there right now trying to deal with the same problems are you are having. Know what the reality is? You're on the right track! The ri... more...

Personal Development » Advice | By Matt Chang @ Tuesday, 26th August 2008 @ 11:57 PM

Here's another tip that you can put to use right away in order to improve your speed reading. In previous articles we talked about the concept of practice, some localization, and linear reading. If you have put those pointers to use, then you should already see some improvement in your reading speed already. We are going to add on one more component to this, and this next tip should help you with your skill, and add value to your speed. In this article were going to talk about another id... more...

Personal Development » Advice | By Bruno Auger @ Tuesday, 26th August 2008 @ 5:16 PM

How to make a man fall in love? It's a question that many women have been pondering for some time. However, if you have ever found yourself wondering how some very average woman ended up with some amazing guys, it's because they learned the important tips about how to make a man fall in love. There are a variety of things that you can easily do to steal his heard and win his love, and the following are just a few that you may want to give a try. No doubt you'll love the results in... more...

Personal Development » Advice | By Bill Protresi @ Friday, 22nd August 2008 @ 6:36 PM

There are a lot of identity theft cases being reported today and many millions of dollars are being lost as a consequence. It will therefore pay to take a closer look at what is identity theft because the more knowledgeable you are about this particular form of theft, the better equipped you will be to prevent it from happening to you. The first thing that strikes most people when they wonder exactly what is identity theft is that it involves someone hacking into a bank account (online) ... more...

Personal Development » Advice | By Kevin Sinclair @ Thursday, 21st August 2008 @ 7:16 AM

There are not many people who have not heard of hypnosis. However, some of the information out there that people pick up may not be completely accurate. Hypnosis has been used for years to improve the quality of life and because of this we wanted to give everyone a clear image to what Hypnosis really is and various aspects of it. There are many people in the world that want to change one thing or another about themselves or their lives. Hypnosis is one of those great tools to help a person chang... more...

Personal Development » Advice | By A. Thomas Perhacs @ Wednesday, 20th August 2008 @ 5:37 PM

There are books and courses out there professing to teach the amazing ability to hypnotize with the written word. I can tell you from personal experience that Hypnotic Writing does indeed work, and that even though I don't call what I do Hypnotic Writing, it is in fact what I am teaching in all of my courses. As a matter of fact, if you have read my book "Manipulation", you have just about everything you need to start the process to do Hypnotic Writing. The keys to Hypnotic W... more...

Personal Development » Advice | By Lisa Copen @ Wednesday, 20th August 2008 @ 2:10 PM

If you live with an invisible illness, you may find the emotions of coping with people's doubts about it can be harder to manage than the disease itself. Most of us with a chronic illness must eventually accept our condition. In order to live our best life, we need to educate ourselves about the disease and make well-researched decisions about treatment. Those with illness, however, have no ability to make others except the illness or even acknowledge it. We are loved ones are skepti... more...

Personal Development » Advice | By Gregory McGuire @ Wednesday, 20th August 2008 @ 11:06 AM

"It's not my fault." That's what Ellen, a client of mine, told me. She believed it, too. Her mother and boyfriend caused all her problems. If only they would behave differently, her life would be perfect. As a counselor, I hear this all the time. "If only my husband/wife/mother/father/boss/employees would do things differently." Sadly, even after several sessions, I couldn't get Ellen to see how she caused all her problems. It was as if there w... more...

Personal Development » Advice | By Lisa Copen @ Wednesday, 20th August 2008 @ 7:34 AM

Upon the diagnosis of an illness everyone, including your doctor, likely tells you to go to a support group. Research has shown that support groups can be extremely helpful in how one copes with disease. And yet, not everyone finds a group to be the answer to the kind of support for which they are searching. Like any kind of group, there are some support groups you will "click" with and others you will not. So don't rule out all support groups just because one doesn't seem like... more...

Personal Development » Advice | By Deborrah Cooper @ Tuesday, 19th August 2008 @ 8:51 PM

In the mid-1960s, Motown great Smokey Robinson (backed up by his group The Miracles) topped the R&B charts with "You Betta Shop Around!" Goes something like this: 'There's some things that I want you to know now Just as sure as the winds gonna blow now The women come and the women gonna go now Before you tell 'em that you love 'em so now My mama told me...'you better shop around' Don't Settle for the First Thing That Comes Al... more...

Personal Development » Advice | By Kevin Sinclair @ Tuesday, 19th August 2008 @ 3:02 AM

Stress and panic seem to come with everyday life for many of us and learning to control and cope with this can mean less time in the doctor's office being sick. Stress is not something to turn your nose up at because if it is not treated it can lead to serious illnesses and possibly diseases. What happens is when we let our stress build and build and not control it our bodies become more prone to illnesses because prolonged stress leads to a chemical imbalance in the body. Therefore, if lef... more...

Personal Development » Advice | By Hans Thorn @ Tuesday, 19th August 2008 @ 12:55 AM

Today we shall look into what kind of unique qualities you have that can improve your chances in your work or in your business. We all have a number of unique qualities which we often are not aware of. This is often referred to as your USB or Unique Selling Proposition. To really appear as unique in what you do, makes it easier for a potential customer or manager to judge if they want what you offer them or not. Let us take an example: We have John, 38 years old, who run his own business... more...

Personal Development » Advice | By John Milton Fogg @ Monday, 18th August 2008 @ 9:27 AM

A fatwah is a legal opinion or ruling issued by an Islamic scholar. Osama bin Laden issued three fatwahs calling upon Muslims ". . . to take up arms against the United States," which apparently resulted in the 911 attacks on the World Trade Center. The term first came to the attention of Westerners more than a dozen years earlier when Ayatollah Khomeini, then Supreme Leader of Iran, called for author Salman Rushdie to be killed for writing a book that was seen to be critical of Is... more...