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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...

Personal Development » Advice | By Heather Ash Amara @ Monday, 24th March 2008 @ 10:04 PM

Being in integrity is a way of life: to consciously choose presence, purpose and wholeness in everything we do. At Spiritual Integrity we provide spiritual life coaching. We support individuals to reclaim their innate mental, emotional, and physical integrity, in order to connect fully with their unique purpose in the world. Our intent is to shine brightly and dissolve limitations and agreements that keep us from expressing our brightest light. Spiritual integrity is a path to wholeness.... more...

Personal Development » Advice | By Kevin Sinclair @ Friday, 21st March 2008 @ 1:24 AM

Everyone, including you, has a tendency to procrastinate. So what exactly is procrastination? Simply put, it is when you put off something that can be done now because of laziness or carelessness. Procrastination is putting off things for another day, when it is just as easy to do them today. Many people have a tendency to put off things and then end up doing them at the very last minute or not doing them at all. Procrastination is extremely common in students who need to complete a... more...

Personal Development » Advice | By Mohamad Latiff Bin Rahim @ Thursday, 20th March 2008 @ 7:00 PM

Hi there. Stop what you are doing right now and take a look at this interesting riddle: "I have billions of eyes yet I live in darkness. I have millions of ears yet only four lobes. I have no muscle yet I rule two hemispheres. What am I?" If you haven't figure out the answer to this no-brainer (please forgive the pun) riddle yet, it's actually quite simple. It's your brain. Your brain has billions of optic and auditory nerves, four lobes and two hemisp... more...

Personal Development » Advice | By Kevin Sinclair @ Wednesday, 19th March 2008 @ 10:04 AM

Many individuals experience public performance anxiety. This is a relatively common issue that people everywhere seek resolution to. The pressure of having to experience a situation in which you must face a stranger, or a large group of people can be tremendous. Public performance anxiety can happen to any person, at any time. It can even occur with an individual who has done well in the past with this type of performance. Individuals who work in executive corporations may often experience this ... more...

Personal Development » Advice | By Cynthia Mosher @ Tuesday, 18th March 2008 @ 10:51 PM

You hear it all the time: "success is a state of mind." There are people who would argue that success is a natural result of proper planning, preparation and focused action, and that viewpoint certainly holds a grain of truth - but there are also many exceptions to disprove that "rule." Have you ever wondered how two people can attempt the same objective in the same way and only one of them succeed? Is it sheer luck? Timing? Tenacity? More often than not, it's a person... more...

Personal Development » Advice | By Mohamad Latiff Bin Rahim @ Saturday, 15th March 2008 @ 11:35 PM

Truly I tell you, there is a simple technique to clear all your self-limiting beliefs. It can be performed between 30 to 60 seconds once you have mastered it, does not involve any struggle, does not require any equipment at all and most importantly, is absolutely and completely free. The only things that you will need are you mind and body as you are. You can perform this technique anytime you want - when you wake up in the morning, after a warm, refreshing shower, before you go to bed or... more...

Personal Development » Advice | By Mohamad Latiff Bin Rahim @ Saturday, 15th March 2008 @ 3:00 AM

If you've been into personal development but have not heard of The "Secret", then you might probably have never heard of the Internet. But then, what are you doing reading this article right now? The "Secret" has enjoyed phenomenal success as a movie and a book, and I am sure millions of people around the world have been affected by it in one way or another. Yet the question begs, why have we not seen more people becoming rich as a direct result of The Secret? Is it b... more...

Personal Development » Advice | By Mohamad Latiff Bin Rahim @ Saturday, 15th March 2008 @ 2:57 AM

Did you ever find yourself in a situation where you saw someone just becoming successful or achieve a certain breakthrough and you thought to yourself, "I can never do that." Most of us probably have, even the succesful individuals, at some point in our lives experience this feeling. This is the result of something called self-limiting beliefs that has been rooted in your mind. So what are self-limiting beliefs? Self-limiting beliefs are mental blocks, negative thoughts and belief... more...

Personal Development » Advice | By Craig Miller @ Thursday, 13th March 2008 @ 2:22 PM

As you work to help others, are you still living like someone who isn't really free? Here are three success principles I have learned over the past year that, when applied, will give you your own reason to celebrate your life. 1. You are the average of the five PEOPLE you hang around with the most. When I first heard this I didn't believe it. That is until I did an honest assessment of my current social network at the time. When I began associating with people like I w... more...

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...