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Personal Development » Advice | By Mike Shery @ Wednesday, 12th March 2008 @ 11:58 AM

If you are looking for a counselor or psychologist, here are some guidelines to help you choose correctly. Which Professional Is Right For Me? Mental health professionals include psychologists, psychiatrists, mental health counselors, psychiatric social workers and marriage and family therapists. Finding the right type of therapist therefore, may require some research. Sometimes, it can be helpful to describe your problems to your family doctor or, even to a person who may ... more...

Personal Development » Advice | By Edward hadome @ Wednesday, 12th March 2008 @ 4:02 AM

The secret law of attraction for money wealth and success are not as secret as you think. Actually, they are staring you right in the face every day, but it's up to you to see it. Here's an example. I just watched the film, "I am legend", and it really put me in a mood. Her's this guy all alone in a cruel world, with no one to talk to, not even a single soul. Forget about money wealth and success, let alone trying to apply the law of at... more...

Personal Development » Advice | By Rosamunde Bott @ Saturday, 8th March 2008 @ 6:43 PM

There are a lot of things said about opportunity. Some people say it comes along once in a blue moon. Some people say opportunity only knocks once. There are so called "once in a lifetime" opportunities, and we say "opportunities like this don't happen every day." All these sayings or ways of thinking seem to me to leave one powerless. They suggest that opportunity is something that just happens now and again and you have no control over it. What this does is leave u... more...

Personal Development » Advice | By Kevin Sinclair @ Friday, 7th March 2008 @ 4:17 PM

More often than not "going with a hunch" or "trusting your instincts" turns out to be exactly the right move to have made, a subject which is given more insight in two recently published books, namely Blink by Malcolm Gladwell and Gut Feelings by Gerd Gigerenzer. We very often know something without being aware that we know and without knowing exactly how we know. For example, you are standing in the medical aisle of your local store and you suddenly remember you are out o... more...

Personal Development » Advice | By Kevin Sinclair @ Friday, 7th March 2008 @ 4:49 AM

We've all known at least one genuinely charismatic 'people' person at some time in our lives. This is the sort of person who can walk into a room full of strangers and be chatting away comfortably in no time. Such a person can charm others into helping them achieve their goals, supporting and defending them. Charismatic and personable qualities are the wind beneath the wings of individuals who are blessed with them. This is because people rally around them and desire to hel... more...

Personal Development » Advice | By Kevin Sinclair @ Thursday, 6th March 2008 @ 7:36 AM

We all have quiet moments we can enjoy if we wish to. In the midst of busy lives and stressful demands, we can take mini breaks and enjoy peaceful moments. However, it is easy to miss these moments if we are distracted by looking at our watches or use the time to chat on the phone. To truly benefit from them, you first need to decide to become more aware of them. When you are waiting outside the school for your children to come out you can worry about something or you can enjoy a peacefu... more...

Personal Development » Advice | By Sean Rasmussen @ Thursday, 6th March 2008 @ 2:51 AM

At some point in your life, you will encounter the basic question that keeps many of us up at night am I happy enough? When you consider the answer, you will realize that you may not be and that you need to make changes in order to make sure you can find that joy again. While many self help books and motivational articles will tell you that you need a reason to help you get started - is this really the truth? Motivation That Comes From Nowhere When you get up in the morning to ma... more...

Personal Development » Advice | By Rosanne Dausilio, Ph.D. @ Thursday, 6th March 2008 @ 1:29 AM

Does this ever happen to you? Do you feel overworked? Overwhelmed? Overtired? Most of us are busier than ever: We're doing our jobs plus sometimes the jobs of one or two gone-but-not-replaced colleagues and doing it all with less support. 'Do more with less'is the unforgiving mantra of business in industry today. Make more decisions, launch more innovations, get more stuff done, with fewer people and less resources. Cell phones, laptops, PDAs, pagers all beeping, ringing,... more...

Personal Development » Advice | By Kevin Sinclair @ Wednesday, 5th March 2008 @ 1:19 AM

No matter where life takes us, we all need to be positively motivated in order to succeed. This is particularly true when things are not quite going our way and when we have undertaken business projects that do not seem to work out as we would have expected. It is at this point that fear can move stealthily into our way of thinking and a little irritating voice says that this is not going to work. So, what can be done? Well, for the most part, it is important that you steer clear of ne... more...

Personal Development » Advice | By Kevin Sinclair @ Tuesday, 4th March 2008 @ 5:38 AM

Napoleon Hill, one of the great original self help gurus, devoted a chapter solely to persistence in his landmark book "Think and Grow Rich" simply because he felt it was extremely important. This particular chapter makes reference to persistence as being the sustained effort necessary to induce faith and was regarded by Hill as the eighth step towards becoming rich. However, the importance of persistence is also laid down on page one of this chapter in another sentence. "There may ... more...

Personal Development » Advice | By Celeste Onorati @ Tuesday, 4th March 2008 @ 12:20 AM

The time has come for you to start to gain the freedom to live your life peacefully. When you learn techniques of awareness of self, in the moment and work on the awareness, then stress has no place in your thoughts. There is no knowledge in the world that is better than self knowledge. Without self knowledge you are just another person repeating someone else's knowledge. It is that simple. There is nothing to follow; this is not a 10 step program. All of this knowledge is i... more...

Personal Development » Advice | By Mike Shery @ Saturday, 1st March 2008 @ 1:06 AM

All people experience stressful events which can affect them emotionally and physically. Our reactions to stress are usually brief, and most of us recover without any further problems. However, if you have experienced a catastrophic event, you may find that you have developed signs of ongoing problems, known as posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). In PTSD, the stressful or traumatic event may have involved a situation where your life may have been threatened, severe injury had occurred ... more...

Personal Development » Advice | By Bill Loyd @ Friday, 29th February 2008 @ 2:23 PM

Of course we all have questions from time to time that we need to find answers to. The need to be in the "know" keeps many people jumping from one fad to the next. We are so eager to find out information that we spend countless hours and money searching every possible facet of what ever it is that we are interested in. The process of our minds in wanting to know leads to many taking large leaps in faith to substantiate what they believe to be true. The debate between evolution an... more...

Personal Development » Advice | By Jamie Jefferson @ Friday, 29th February 2008 @ 12:20 PM

This is the time of year when I am always looking for a little lift. This string of days before spring unfolds just seem to stretch on and on. Each year, it seems, I try something new at these times. Here are 18 things that have worked for me to lift the winter doldrums. See if any of these might work for you. 1. Try out a new exercise: something you've never done before. Whether you buy a new workout tape or try the Hot Yoga class at your gym, get moving in new ways. <... more...

Personal Development » Advice | By Steve Scott @ Friday, 29th February 2008 @ 11:43 AM

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow said, Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart. There is something to be taken from this quotation. Business men and women everywhere usually have at least one thing in common. Before tasting success, they have all tasted failure. In fact, it is quite rare to find someone who is a success that has never experienced some kind of failure ... more...

Personal Development » Advice | By Jinger Jarrett @ Friday, 29th February 2008 @ 7:56 AM

Although "The Secret" sounds as if all you have to do is envision what you want and then send happy thoughts out into the universe to get it, it's a little bit more complicated than that. Although I do believe in the Law of Attraction, I also believe that there is another "law" at work here, and if you really want to succeed, you have to follow this law, the "Law of Action." Another pitfall to avoid is wanting things for the wrong reasons. The unfortuna... more...

Personal Development » Advice | By Kevin Sinclair @ Thursday, 28th February 2008 @ 3:05 AM

It can be a long and sometimes difficult journey to discover true inner peace, but it is possible. Attaining inner peace is a process which must begin with identifying what you truly value. From this starting point, be willing to mix with positive people, improve your understanding of yourself and others, and be prepared for an exciting journey. Our beliefs and values set the direction of our lives. If we do not live in harmony with them we will live in a chronic state of stress and will ... more...

Personal Development » Advice | By Heather Ash Amara @ Wednesday, 27th February 2008 @ 11:36 AM

Spoken or unspoken, the concept of integrity - what is right, what is whole, how we should be in the world - is passed to us from our parents and society. Our parents physically and energetically model this message, sharing verbally and psychically what they feel is appropriate. In many cases, their beliefs and their relationship with integrity have been passed down from their parents unquestioned. It is the role of parents and teachers to teach us a moral code. Problems arise, however, ... more...

Personal Development » Advice | By Heather Ash Amara @ Wednesday, 27th February 2008 @ 11:07 AM

Celebrating the many transitions in your life, from difficult to ecstatic, weaves a thread of spirit into everything you do. It also encourages you to be in the present moment with your full, conscious attention. The act of celebrating keeps you attuned to the gifts of all aspects of life, from birth, to death, to rebirth. Your celebrations can mark not only the expected holidays, but also the mundane, the unexpected, and the challenging. Creating personal celebrations helps you integrate... more...

Personal Development » Advice | By Tim Ryan @ Wednesday, 27th February 2008 @ 7:58 AM

What is visualisation and why should I bother with it? Visualisation is a technique where you use your imagination to create a picture or movie in your mind that you deliberately put together yourself. Rather like painting a picture you have complete control to create an image that you desire. By seeing this picture you will: a) be able to focus more on achieving that goal because you are very clear what you want. b) be providing yourself with a boost in confidence and motiv... more...