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Personal Development » Advice | By Warren Wong @ Sunday, 27th April 2008 @ 1:37 AM

"Don't Criticize, Condemn, or Complain" - This is the central piece of advice given in How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie. I remember reading this last year and thinking, 'Sounds like good advice. How hard can that be?' Alas, actually doing this is much harder than it seems. I take this particular piece of advice to mean that we shouldn't try to change what other people do. Since other people are doing what they'd like to do at any gi... more...

Personal Development » Advice | By Mike Shery @ Sunday, 27th April 2008 @ 12:40 AM

Are you worried that your partner may be cheating on you? The following are tell-tale signs that frequently appear when someone is having an affair. 1. You find birth-control pills in her medicine cabinet, and you've had a vasectomy. 2. Mutual friends start acting strangely toward you because they either know about the cheating or have been told stories about what a horrible partner you are. 3. Your partner stops confiding in and seeking advice from you. 4. You... more...

Personal Development » Advice | By Kevin Sinclair @ Friday, 25th April 2008 @ 4:18 AM

Self-esteem is a hot topic when it comes to self-improvement. The definition of self-esteem is extremely simple to understand - it is an accumulation of the feelings that you have regarding yourself as a person. It is also the opinions that you hold about yourself as well. Throughout history, there have been a number of books, articles, and other types of literature on the subject of self-esteem. If you do a basic search on any major search engine on self-esteem, you will quickly find millions o... more...

Personal Development » Advice | By Kevin Sinclair @ Thursday, 24th April 2008 @ 4:23 AM

Aromatherapy's promising beginning was around 5000 years ago in Egypt and the way it was used then is practically identical to how it is used nowadays, namely as a health and beauty aid. Even now we are still using quite a few of the combinations of essential oils which were prescribed back then by the Egyptians. Until antibiotics made their appearance in the medical field, aromatherapy was still considered a feasible treatment for many different kinds of ailments. However, due to ... more...

Personal Development » Advice | By Mike Shery @ Monday, 21st April 2008 @ 11:36 PM

If you recently discovered that your spouse cheated on you, you are probably devastated, hurt, furious or some combination thereof. You are probably nervous, preoccupied and wondering what you should do. Should you stay? Should you go? Or, should you ask your spouse to leave? When confronted with extramarital affairs, the first thing people feel is often knee-jerk reactions such as, hurt, rage, despondency or disbelief. If you are in this nerve-wracking situation, keep the follo... more...

Personal Development » Advice | By Kevin Sinclair @ Saturday, 19th April 2008 @ 1:51 AM

Professionals have been studying self-esteem all throughout history. It has been established that this is simply a state of mind. When an individual has high self-esteem, it can produce many positive feelings. Examples of these feelings include happiness, confidence, and even simple cheerfulness. However, if an individual suffers from low self-esteem, the impact that it places on the mind is extremely negative. Feelings of worthlessness, unhappiness, and disappointment are often common in the in... more...

Personal Development » Advice | By Steven Fu @ Thursday, 17th April 2008 @ 4:07 PM

Two days ago I had lunch with a good friend of mine. Throughout lunch, he looked tensed and worried. When I enquired, he said that he had done some work worth about $26,000 for a public listed company. However, they have yet to pay him and the jobs had been on-going for the last few months! I almost choked when he told me that! I said, "What is wrong with you? Have you sent in any reminders, or at least spoken to the accounts people?" He shook his head; he said, since they were a ... more...

Personal Development » Advice | By Kevin Sinclair @ Tuesday, 15th April 2008 @ 7:29 AM

There is one activity that every one of us should be doing every day and that is meditation. As you look at your day, the demands that are placed on you and the never ending "To Do" list you may scoff at the idea of taking time to meditate. Did you know that daily meditation can help reduce stress, and improve your overall physical and mental health? All you have to do is take the time, five minutes, and your mind will begin to function at the highest performance levels, staying mentally... more...

Personal Development » Advice | By Justin Verrengia @ Thursday, 10th April 2008 @ 7:44 AM

Lets begin with this famous quote by H Jackson Brown. "Don't say you don't have enough time, you have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson and Albert Einstein." Within each of us there is a financial thermostat. This gauge determines our financial aptitude for our futures. Some of our gauges determine we'll make no more than $30,000 a year, while others det... more...

Personal Development » Advice | By Roberto Bonomi @ Wednesday, 9th April 2008 @ 7:04 PM

Where does the fear of critic come from? In fact nobody knows what originated this fear, but we know that the human being suffers it in a very widespread way. Perhaps this is a consequence of our daily fight for the status, and either we know that other ones are really worth more than us, or they find something to criticize in us. This fear so ingrained in the human being and that so much good would make us take out from us it is on the other hand a very important element to keep ... more...

Personal Development » Advice | By Deborrah Cooper @ Friday, 4th April 2008 @ 6:23 AM

After six months (or even years), the man of your dreams, the sweetest guy in the world suddenly needs space. You've noticed a change lately...he's been unhappy, uncommunicative, argumentative. Sex has dropped off to the point and he is either not interested or "too tired" most of the time. You begin to wonder if he is seeing someone else. He doesn't care what you think and no longer tries to please you. He may have begun to become somewhat rude - calling you ... more...

Personal Development » Advice | By Kevin Sinclair @ Friday, 4th April 2008 @ 6:14 AM

Are dream killers present in your life? People who discourage you when you are attempting to make changes within your life are classed as dream killers. You will be amazed at the quantity of people that inform their friends and family that they cannot succeed. Unfortunately, this especially rings true when you are attempting do undertake something "outside of the box" such as starting your own business or making money online. The main disagreement that these dream killers have... more...

Personal Development » Advice | By Lee Heather @ Wednesday, 2nd April 2008 @ 12:48 AM

Much has been written and reported about remote viewing on the internet in the last few years some of it accurate and some of it just plain nonsense. I personally trained a s a remote viewer in the United States back in 1996 and because of that I feel I can add some authenticity to this topic. Firstly most people have by now some knowledge that the CIA developed the use of extra-sensory perception to augment their intelligence collection capabilities during the cold war. The truth is that the pr... more...

Personal Development » Advice | By Lee Heather @ Monday, 31st March 2008 @ 2:40 PM

The art of journaling is probably one of the most under rated but simple and profound personal development techniques that anyone could ever do. It is the simplicity of the method that is the main reason why people often overlook this powerful tool. The sheer act of writing out all your thoughts, emotions and concerns onto paper literally gets them out of you to a place where they can be acknowledged and examined from a totally different and often new perspective. This can create the correct emo... more...

Personal Development » Advice | By Sami Ben Hassine @ Thursday, 27th March 2008 @ 4:32 PM

To be a doer means to take action. To implement the things you've been putting off doing. Thinking is passive. It is comfortable because it doesn't require very much out of us. Doing is active. We avoid doing because it requires a lot of time and energy. Frankly, most of us just don't have enough of that at the end of the day. Following these tips will help you to stop putting your energy toward thinking, and focus it on doing instead. If you've been invol... more...

Personal Development » Advice | By Deborrah Cooper @ Thursday, 27th March 2008 @ 2:29 PM

Woman complain frequently about male/female communication. "Men don't communicate" these ladies say in frustration. Women complain that men give one-word answers, don't elaborate and tell the entire story in a play by play fashion, and that it feelings like "pulling teeth" to get information out of them. Being Like A Man Is Not Always A Bad Thing! Women operate on a different dynamic and love to share their feelings, experiences and thoughts with other... more...

Personal Development » Advice | By Kevin Sinclair @ Thursday, 27th March 2008 @ 9:29 AM

It is very important to possess effective listening skills in every aspect of life in order to be able to send your message out. The ability to listen at work, at home, and in social situations is as important as being able to present well. This also applies to leadership, management or a team member position. It is important to listen because your understanding of the thoughts and motivation of the other person are increased. Being aware of what motivates the other person is the key ... more...

Personal Development » Advice | By Anne-Lie Karlsson @ Wednesday, 26th March 2008 @ 9:21 PM

Aptitude is a function of a number of independent traits and characteristics as a learner. It is a specific task and depends on possession of certain characteristics may either be innate or may be dependent upon prior learning or exposure to certain situation. Being physically, mentally, socially and emotionally fit to a great aptitude. Physical development It is generally recognized that ill health retards physical and motor development and malnutrition interferes with learning and ... more...

Personal Development » Advice | By Roberto Bonomi @ Wednesday, 26th March 2008 @ 5:36 PM

The positive subliminal messages are positive phrases that are directed to the deep levels of the mind to re-program the thought's structure. When your subconscious is programmed in a positive way, your life receives positive results, but if you are filled with fears, anguish, jealousy, pain and other limitations, your life will show it. It doesn't matter why your mind may be contaminated with negative thoughts, you are a free to decide what is it that you want for your l... more...

Personal Development » Advice | By Kevin Sinclair @ Wednesday, 26th March 2008 @ 1:18 AM

After a 3 week fasting retreat on Mount Kumara in Japan in the early 1920s, Mikao Usui developed Reiki. Two Japanese symbols make up the word Reiki, they are Rei, which is Spirit and Ki, which is life force. Therefore, the practice of Reiki is the channeling of the universal Spirit energy, life force. It involves the Reiki practitioner lying on of their hands to channel this energy into the recipients body. During a Reiki treatment, the recipient lies fully clothed upon a couch, the practitioner... more...