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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...

Personal Development » Advice | By Rosamunde Bott @ Monday, 12th May 2008 @ 12:29 AM

It's a word we use constantly. Authors of self-help books use it in their titles all the time. If you are a human being with any kind of goal or project, you want it. But what does it actually mean? How do we define success? We may all want success, but we don't all see it in the same way. One person's success may be another's failure. Some people would be very happy to get a B in exam. For some people, anything less than an A is a failure. What does... more...

Personal Development » Advice | By Mike Shery @ Sunday, 11th May 2008 @ 10:50 AM

Trying to save your marriage on your own very often does not work or get at the truth. It is a band-aid that fails to alter the underlying dynamics of your relationship. Trying to change the relationship on your own is usually focused on changing your partner or trying to please him or her. Unfortunately, this only leads to a deeper sense of being stuck. For the best and fastest results,do not work on the relationship by yourselves. Here's my mantra: Get marriage counselin... more...

Personal Development » Advice | By Kevin Sinclair @ Wednesday, 7th May 2008 @ 6:02 PM

There are times in life when your self confidence will take a hard hit. Sometimes you are able to overcome life's challenges, while other times you simply feel overwhelmed. Sometimes, your confidence and courage will see you through. However, there are times when your self confidence will take a beating. Therefore, it is extremely important that you remember "Nobody can hurt you without your consent." The impact the problem has on you, is not nearly as important as the impact y... more...

Personal Development » Advice | By Rachel Yoshida @ Tuesday, 6th May 2008 @ 8:36 AM

In the spring and summer season is when many people decide it is the right time to make a move if they are going to. The kids are out of school, the weather is better, and the possibility of finding an empty home or job might be better because other people have the same idea. The trick to moving to Miami or anywhere else for that matter is planning. It can be impossible to move at all unless you know you are going to have a job when you get to where you are going. The unemployment rate in... more...

Personal Development » Advice | By Deborrah Cooper @ Tuesday, 6th May 2008 @ 3:38 AM

A young woman wrote in to my dating advice column recently and asked me: "What qualities are absolutely essential in a partner or in an ideal relationship? I have a pretty huge list and want to share some of them with you o affectionate o unconditional love for each other o emotional support, connection and harmony o caring, kind, compassionate o easygoing, calm o stability, commitment, loyal o understanding, accepting (accepts me as I am)... more...

Personal Development » Advice | By Mike Shery @ Sunday, 27th April 2008 @ 8:12 AM

When trying to get your spouse back do not say, I have changed! Thats right. In an attempt to persuade your spouse to stop an affair or mend your relationship, you may want to use the following ploy: I am not the person I used to be. I have changed and I am different. Well,it may be true in the sense that your behavior may really be different, these days at least a lot of the time. After all, you may find yourself attempting to accommodate your spouse in ways you never tried b... more...

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...