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Personal Development » Coaching | By Francis Lua @ Monday, 28th August 2006 @ 3:36 PM

Children naturally look for role models to shape their attitudes and behaviors. As parents, it is important for us to make sure that they have plenty of positive responsibility models. There is a lot of enough negative surrounding our children and much of the adult world can be negative, apathetic or mediocre. If we do not actively focus on being positive person, then other can dampen our children natural enthusiasm and optimism. The first thing to remember about positive role mode... more...

Personal Development » Coaching | By Francis Lua @ Monday, 28th August 2006 @ 1:53 PM

To grow spiritually in a world defined by power, money, and influence is a Herculean task. Modern conveniences such as electronic equipments, gadgets, and tools as well as entertainment through television, magazines, and the web have predisposed us to confine our attention mostly to physical needs and wants. As a result, our concepts of self worth and self meaning are muddled. How can we strike a balance between the material and spiritual aspects of our lives? To grow spiritually is to l... more...

Personal Development » Coaching | By Francis Lua @ Sunday, 27th August 2006 @ 6:09 PM

Every parent hopes their family will build a close and loving relationship. Every parent hopes when their children are grown that they will have many fond memories of their childhood. But how do families create those bonds and memories? By creating rituals. It is so hard in today fast paced, overscheduled world to find time to spend together as a family. It is too easy when a gap appears in the family schedule to simply collapse in front of the television and meditate for the evening. It ... more...

Personal Development » Coaching | By Francis Lua @ Sunday, 27th August 2006 @ 6:08 PM

Relationships of all kinds are often perceived as very delicate things especially with the parents that require extra effort to maintain. However, a relationship can also be something that can provide security and can also be long lasting despite many trials. Building effective and lasting relationships with parents is a necessity for several reasons. For example in a family, the well being of the family members depends on how efficient and effective that members works. An ineffect... more...

Personal Development » Coaching | By Francis Lua @ Sunday, 27th August 2006 @ 5:41 PM

There are few things when interacting with human we need to focus on. The most important things that we need in order to behave as a human are being what we are. To do this we need to know: The Powers of a Positive Attitude I am going to ask you to something very weird right now. First of all, I want you to listen to your thoughts. Now tell me what thoughts fill your head? Would you label them as positive or negative. Now let say you are walking down the street with these thoug... more...

Personal Development » Coaching | By Ann Stewart @ Saturday, 5th August 2006 @ 10:03 PM

Do you know how to receive abundance? The Bible teaches a sure-fire way to get more than you need. According to Luke 6: 36: "Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again." That is such a great promise. You do not need an in-depth Bible study to understand this verse. It clearly underlines the certainty of gettin... more...

Personal Development » Coaching | By stan lewis @ Saturday, 5th August 2006 @ 6:02 PM

I remember being a midshipman in college during the fall of 1987. It was homecoming and I thought that it would be fun to be on the homecoming court in my last year of college. I remember expressing this to a civilian staff member of the Navy ROTC staff. He told me to forget about trying. That people like me could never be part of the homecoming court at such a major university. What he said rocked me to my core. I could have let this have a negative impact on me, but I ran for hom... more...

Personal Development » Coaching | By Karen Oates @ Wednesday, 2nd August 2006 @ 7:07 AM

There may be many personal growth changes that you want to make and that you are finding these changes are proving elusive. Perhaps it is losing weight, maybe learning a new language, achieving financial independence or finding that elusive intangible, Happiness. Even when you know you need to make changes and you want to change, it can often be very hard to do. You can start off with the best of intentions and then lose momentum easily. You can recognize that change is clearly importan... more...

Personal Development » Coaching | By stan lewis @ Wednesday, 2nd August 2006 @ 6:16 AM

As a Christian Life and Career coach, I have noted that most people have better outward vision than inner vision. That is, they act as if they can see others qualities better than they can see the qualities of themselves. Everyone of us where wonderfully and fearfully made by God, but so few of us take the time to obtain a 20 / 20 look inside ourselves in order to find out exactly what type of amazing creation we are. The purpose of this article is to get you thinking and acting on way... more...

Personal Development » Coaching | By Tristan Loo @ Wednesday, 26th July 2006 @ 6:11 PM

Emotional intelligence, also known as EI, is the innate ability of a person to perceive, assess, and influence one's own emotion and the emotions of other people around them. The term emotional intelligence itself originated with Dr. Wayne Payne 1985, but the term became popular with the book Emotional Intelligence, written by Daniel Goldman in 1995. Studies in the early 1990's by John Mayer and Peter Salovey came up with a working model of emotional intelligence that defined... more...

Personal Development » Coaching | By Jaz Lai @ Tuesday, 25th July 2006 @ 5:08 AM

Why is it that some people succeed at things while others fail? Is there such a thing as creating your own luck? The answer is quite simple, those who succeed chose to 'do something' and do it now rather than later. For example, imagine that 100 people read the exact same book that I did. I benefited from what was written and implemented the information in it to my advantage. Yet the other 100 people managed to come up with 100 different reasons why the book either wouldn... more...

Personal Development » Coaching | By Karen Oates @ Saturday, 22nd July 2006 @ 12:43 AM

Are you a workaholic and when almost burnt out you take a holiday, hoping to rekindle that motivation and restore the focus you need, but when you get back to work you find that the drive and energy levels are significantly lacking? Or maybe you work hard with one of your key goals being a well earned break and expect that you will return to work well rested and raring to go only to find that when you return, the reality is that you struggle to get back the motivation you had or hoped tha... more...

Personal Development » Coaching | By Richard MacKenzie @ Friday, 14th July 2006 @ 7:44 AM

Not many of us give ourselves the credit of being great speakers; neither do we find ourselves comfortable and confident when encountering new people and situations. How often have you found yourself rehearsing the lines which you are supposed to speak at tomorrow’s meeting? Even though some of us might feel more confident than the rest, it would not be untrue to say that they too have their fair share of cold feet. Sudden bouts of nervousness and palpitations do not indicate that you are having... more...

Personal Development » Coaching | By Barbara Holstein @ Tuesday, 11th July 2006 @ 10:15 PM

How to access positive states of well being again and again. These positive states are unique to you and often reflect your interests, talents, and potential. Here are some activities useful in helping you get in touch with your Enchanted Self. 1. Relax and let your mind drift backward in time. Give yourself permission to drift back through your memory to a younger age. Let your intuition be your guide in choosing an appropriate age. Once you have chosen an age, imagine yourself in a r... more...

Personal Development » Coaching | By Robert Elias Najemy @ Saturday, 8th July 2006 @ 1:15 AM

The mind is the molder of our personal and communal world. Every event we perceive through our senses is analyzed, evaluated and registered in the mind as pleasant, unpleasant or neutral. Our belief systems seek to determine whether each perceived input is something, which will "protect" or "endanger" our security, self-worth and / or freedom. When life's events are interpreted by our programmed mind as threatening, fearful or unpleasant, we experience a state of anx... more...

Personal Development » Coaching | By Robert Elias Najemy @ Saturday, 8th July 2006 @ 1:11 AM

Love is the ultimate healing energy. We lack giving and receiving love. Our feelings of isolation and loneliness breed mistrust, misunderstandings, competition, antagonism and the whole series of health destroying emotions such as fear, anger, hatred, jealousy, bitterness, resentment etc. These negative emotions build up a personality complex of their own, and grow out of the control destroying our health and relationships. Learning to accept and love ourselves and others despite ... more...

Personal Development » Coaching | By Robert Elias Najemy @ Saturday, 8th July 2006 @ 12:59 AM

Some fear that if we accept ourselves as we are, that we will have no motive to improve ourselves. There is a small possibility that self-acceptance might cause a few people to loose interest in self-improvement. In most cases, however, it opens the door towards natural change and self-betterment. Contrary to what many think, self-acceptance is usually a prerequisite to moving beyond aspects of our selves which we would like to leave behind. It is as if that aspect which we... more...

Personal Development » Coaching | By Tristan Loo @ Tuesday, 4th July 2006 @ 1:21 PM

There was a point in my life when it seemed like everything was going wrong and it seemed like one bad thing lead to another bad thing in a never-ending cascade of bad karma. I kept punishing myself with the question: Why me? Or Why does this always happen to me and not anyone else? I tortured myself by reliving past mistakes and I spent countless hours dwelling on what I should have done and I constantly beat myself up daily over these questions and self-criticisms. I eventually hit rock ... more...

Personal Development » Coaching | By Robert Elias Najemy @ Saturday, 1st July 2006 @ 1:07 AM

Our childhood experiences pretty much determine our self-image, perceptions of reality, emotions reactions and thus, in essence, our reality. If we really want to be free from these self-limiting influences we will have to discover them and transform them. Such work requires an experienced guide, but this list may help you get started. The first step is to make a list of the childhood experiences which may have developed into mistaken perceptions of reality which cause us today to... more...

Personal Development » Coaching | By Robert Elias Najemy @ Thursday, 29th June 2006 @ 5:37 AM

We suggest that you read part 1 of this series. 1. We first need to get to know these various parts of ourselves by keeping a daily diary in which we refer to them by names that represent their particular qualities needs or emotions. 2. We can keep a separate page for each persona in which we list its particular needs, desires, fears, emotions, reactions and beliefs. 3. We then need to discover for each persona the core belief that creates, sustains and drives it. ... more...