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Personal Development » Advice | By Kevin Sinclair @ Saturday, 31st May 2008 @ 5:20 AM

Everyone needs to learn to cope with anger; having a fit of rage is counterproductive and causes, rather than solves problems. We learn how to process anger as we grow; unfortunately not everyone learns how to do this in a healthy manner. Despite your upbringing, you may have still never learned to appropriately cope with anger. For instance, take a child who is rarely praised but frequently punished. This child will very likely grow up to be an adult who ends up punishing his or herself when th... more...

Personal Development » Advice | By Brian Higdon @ Saturday, 31st May 2008 @ 4:02 AM

So what is self esteem? Self esteem is usually described as how a person values him or herself or how he or she regards him or herself. It is one's belief in himself as well as one's self respect and self image. It is important in a way that it may dictate our behavior and our interaction with other people. Self esteem or the lack of it can affect individuals in such a s way they have no confidence or belief on themselves. People need to know what is self esteem, in order to mak... more...

Personal Development » Advice | By Brian Higdon @ Friday, 30th May 2008 @ 5:03 AM

What areas of your life need improvement? Do you want to find a great relationship, or strengthen the ones you have? Do you want to land a lucrative career? To become successful in life, you need to assess your goals. Setting up clear markers for yourself can aid you in your quest to become successful in life. First of all, consider exactly what it is you want to accomplish. If being successful, to you, means that you have amassed great wealth, then decide how you are going to do t... more...

Personal Development » Advice | By Gerald Solfanelli @ Monday, 26th May 2008 @ 5:47 PM

People have long seemed to attempt new ways to explore and heighten their healthy sexual pleasures with their love partner. Generally, these natural curiosities had been limited to playful experimentation like varied positions, Tantric Sex (sexual yoga), and stimulating talk. Others have included increasingly risky sexual behaviors, such as unprotected sex with multiple partners, marital affairs, auto asphyxiation and illicit drug use. Although hypnosis can often play a vital role in the ... more...

Personal Development » Advice | By Nina Cherry @ Saturday, 24th May 2008 @ 11:12 PM

Each of us have soul wounds that we came here to heal. These are our most difficult and painful inner issues. We have the choice to see our soul wounds as a curse or as a challenging opportunity for transformation. These wounds developed in our psyches as children when our parents or caretakers were unable to be as supportive, nurturing and attentive as we needed. Because we saw our caretakers as omnipotent, we decided whatever was problematic for us in our relationship with them mus... more...

Personal Development » Advice | By Jamie Jefferson @ Saturday, 24th May 2008 @ 9:09 PM

If you were to hire a life coach, you would have some help in clarifying your personal goals, as well as someone to hold you accountable in your efforts to attain them. But hiring a personal coach can get expensive, and it can be a little awkward and embarrassing to ask someone to help you to get along in your personal life. Here are five steps you can take to help you become your own best life coach. 1. Write in your journal every single day. While my coffee is brewing each morn... more...

Personal Development » Advice | By Kevin Sinclair @ Saturday, 24th May 2008 @ 4:45 PM

Let's face it; it is simply not possible to listen and talk to your colleagues at one and the same time. Working on your listening skills to the point of perfection is likely to be one of the best assets you have to offer your organization. This skill alone will take you further in life than practically anything else you can think of in connection with how you connect and communicate with other people. Instead of listening to what someone has to say in an uninterested mann... more...

Personal Development » Advice | By Robert Kokoska @ Friday, 23rd May 2008 @ 5:27 PM

Success is a beautiful word and a powerful antidote for failure; it is a well known truth that success drives away failure and makes us happy and prosperous. Simply speaking, the word success is related to a positive mental attitude, while failure is genuinely connected to a negative mindset. The rate of success is so rare, while the failure is common among all walks of human life. Now, is it really possible that any work or task we do or undertake in our daily life culminates in a perfect, fair... more...

Personal Development » Advice | By Kevin Sinclair @ Thursday, 22nd May 2008 @ 2:44 PM

Many of us find ourselves being judgmental - even when that is not our intentions. However, when individuals differ in their personality traits, physical characteristics, and behaviors, it is easy to place some type of judgment. Chances are, you have experienced this yourself. Whether we admit it or not, each of us are constantly judging others and being judged. However, there comes a time in a person's life in which it is time to simply accept the fact that every person is their own. We ar... more...

Personal Development » Advice | By Kevin Sinclair @ Thursday, 22nd May 2008 @ 2:44 PM

Procrastination is a very common issue among many individuals. This is so common that many individuals have actually turned it into an art. Procrastination is simply a means of putting off what you could do now, and doing it at a much later time. While this does not seem like an entirely bad thing at surface, it can lead to a number of complications that are uncomfortable for an individual. For example, the stress of having a lot to do, the pressure of deadlines, and even physical and emotional ... more...

Personal Development » Advice | By Kevin Sinclair @ Thursday, 22nd May 2008 @ 2:43 PM

The decision to improve your self esteem can be an important step in improving your life and gaining the respect of other people. Although, building your self esteem is not difficult, you do need to know how to go about it. Here are ten ways to help your self esteem grow: 1. Choose your company wisely. Avoid people who are overly or persistently negative or cynical and instead choose the company of those who have a positive and uplifting outlook. 2. Get clear about your goals. If y... more...

Personal Development » Advice | By Mohamed Abdul Rauf Bin Mohamed Yusope @ Thursday, 22nd May 2008 @ 7:17 AM

As one passes through phases of life, one can also observe or experience many great learning opportunities. Through an individuals' great challenge in life, it can provide a wonderful platform or avenue to inspire others. We can observe through history how groundbreaking successes in life are achieved through great amount of adversity. One can learn that such successful individuals take great ownership in mistakes they make. They take painful lessons and use it to motivate them to reach gre... more...

Personal Development » Advice | By Mohamad Latiff Bin Rahim @ Tuesday, 20th May 2008 @ 12:54 PM

Think carefully when I say that ideas are the building blocks of any creative thinking process. Without ideas, you cannot go very far when trying to create something unique, inspirational, imaginative and magnificent to become a successful achiever. Brilliant ideas were at play when Sir Isaac Newton discovered gravity, when Thomas Edison discovered the light bulb or when Albert Einstein stumbled upon the famous energy formula. It was thought provoking ideas that led to the abundant mega s... more...

Personal Development » Advice | By Alex Liu @ Monday, 19th May 2008 @ 10:09 AM

If you have learned about the law of attraction or use it before, you will realize how important it is to eliminate negative thoughts. It is because negative thoughts will attract negative results to your life. If you want to be rich but always complain about being poor, you are likely going to be poor. Suppressing negative thoughts will end up accumulating and finally explode. Disappearing negative thoughts might seem tough to people who never study about it. I'm going to share a s... more...

Personal Development » Advice | By Susitha Reddy @ Sunday, 18th May 2008 @ 9:40 AM

Frustration is a feeling of powerlessness and helplessness when something goes wrong in our lives or when we the result of a certain action does not meet our expectation. Frustration causes people to be angry and rude. It damages relationship and harms ones health. Frustration if left uncorrected can spiral into negative events like accidents or impulsive decisions like quitting a job. It could also damage a marriage or a relationship. Using Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT... more...

Personal Development » Advice | By Roberto Bonomi @ Saturday, 17th May 2008 @ 7:23 PM

Buddhism says that there are two kinds of fear: the appropriate fear and the inappropriate fear A fear is appropriate when it is based in a danger of real existence, regarding which you can take measures to avoid it. Like the person that stops to eat red meats because he is afraid of lowering his spiritual vibrations. The inappropriate fear is the one that arises from things that can not harm us, like having fear to a cockroach; or that we can not avoid, like being afraid to ag... more...

Personal Development » Advice | By Asha Tyson @ Saturday, 17th May 2008 @ 6:44 PM

They call it a "recession". On any given day you can hear the media and societal buzz of concern. The economists and stockbrokers give us the scoop with confidence and authoritative certainty. And the message is clear: The whole country is going bankrupt and you should be scared. The information we are fed constantly is that there is a drop in the stock market; long-term interest rates are falling below the level of short-term. There is a decline in housing activity. And it'... more...

Personal Development » Advice | By Arthur Magoulianiti @ Saturday, 17th May 2008 @ 6:02 PM

Multiple streams of income must be the objective of any business, not to mention any person, who wishes to financially secure themselves against a single point of failure, or a single avenue of income. If you only have one product to sell, a single report or a software package, for example, and all your income is gained from that one product, the risk is a lot higher that should the market shift, a competing product is released or you lose your supplier, you will lose out. Similarl... more...

Personal Development » Advice | By Mike Shery @ Saturday, 17th May 2008 @ 3:50 PM

If your spouse has been having an affair, you probably have read articles saying that you need to reflect and improve yourself. Even though you are not at fault for your partners affair, some advise that you should still commit to studying self-improvement materials to either cope with all the strife, win him or her back or make it on your own. Should you really read magazine articles and books in order to become a better, more energetic, more exciting person? Right now, any work to mak... more...

Personal Development » Advice | By Mike Shery @ Monday, 12th May 2008 @ 4:16 PM

Large numbers of people are involved in marital infidelity. In fact, recent data suggests that approximately 45% of women (and that statistic continues to increase) and 59% of men at one point participate in marital infidelity. That means that the shocking reality is that 80% of todays marriages will have one spouse, at one time or another, involved in an extramarital affair. That may appear to be a huge number. However after thirty years of practice as a psychologist and family... more...