Personal Development

Monday, July 09, 2007

An Odd Rule of Success

We often think of achieving success as moving from one point to another, from one of failure to success, like moving between two points on a map. This is not necessarily so, and the fact can be used to our advantage.When we want to achieve something we usually go about planning it in the same we plan a road journey. We start from point A and want to get to point B, with places to stop along the way....

Do You Operate in Fear or Faith?

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The greatest tool the enemy uses against us in life is fear, because fear keeps us from doing many of those things we would like to do in order to make our lives, and the lives of others, more complete and prosperous.Since we are born with only a few fears like the fear of falling and the fear of loud noises, all other fears are learned. The fear of failure, the fear of rejection, and even a fear...

What’s Wrong With Being Afraid?

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The End of Fear?Is there anything good about fear?Look at new age, spiritual, and self-improvement blogs, books, CDs, and seminars.Fear is bad for your health, your relationships, your personal growth, and your spiritual development.Fear tells us to avoid and hide from every difficulty in our lives.Fear tells us to do nothing when we should take action.Fear tells us to attack when we should listen.We...

Personal Development Growth

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Personal development used to be a course taught at business and vocational schools around the United States. It was long since held that self-improvement was an essential aspect of succeeding in a more and more competitive marketplace that left little room for those who would not be able to pull their own weight - usually because of self image problems. Personal growth was considered to be the antidote...

The 5 Step Personal Development Plan

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Personal development has become increasingly popular in today's busy world for everything from career improvement and weight loss to public speaking. While the methods and tools used to achieve the desired personal development outcome may vary from high priced seminars to moderately priced books, there are a number of simple steps that can be used to get you started on the right path to reach your...

Friday, June 22, 2007

Gaining New Skills

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When we consider learning a new skill, we often concentrate on how difficult it will be to get good, never mind become a master. We need a different set of thinking skills to help us move forward."I could never do that."How often do we hear that phrase, either from people we know or from ourselves, spoken by a tiny—though often loud and vociferous—inner voice? I’m willing to bet that we hear it every...

The foundations of Success

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"A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him." David BrinkleyIt’s a common conception that successful people have had it easy. Successful people, or so we often think, have had opportunity handed to them on a plate, and all they had to do was pick it up and success was theirs. Then when we look around at our own lives and find that the same opportunities...

Movement and The Mind

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The scientists seem to be getting an idea of something that any sportsman or practitioner of martial arts has always known: that exercise stimulates the brain. In short, exercise makes you smarter, brighter, faster…Scientists have always had an idea that this is so, but only now are they able to offer some sorts of proof, according to an article in Newsweek. Using the latest brain-scanning tools and...

Refresh Your Memory

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Ever had the experience of remembering something but being unable to remember the exact sequence of events that comprised the memory? It’s something that a lot of us have experienced at one time or another. We remember the holiday, for instance, but sometimes find ourselves unable to remember exactly the chronology of the events. In short, we can remember the whole event but not which events came...

Want Success? Get Some Sleep!

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Researchers in Germany have done a study which has significant implications to student’s performance in school and to adult’s success at work. The study shows that individuals taking a simple math test were three times more likely than their sleep-deprived counterparts to figure out a hidden rule for converting certain numbers into the right answer if they had eight hours of sleep.The study also...

Wednesday, June 20, 2007

Success Secrets Explained

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How do you define success? Is it having a lot of money? May be it is defined as being fulfilled in a relationship or family life. Everybody defines success differently, and there is nothing wrong with our own personal definition. Every one of us feels like we succeed in different ways.We can however put some broad definitions to the term success that would apply to most people.One of such definitions...

The Secret in Think and Grow Rich

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Napoleon Hill’s classic book Think and Grow Rich is one of the most popular personal development works ever written. As mentioned in the book reviews page on this site, Think and Grow Rich has passed the test of time. Even though the book was written in the early 1900’s during the great depression, all of the concepts taught in the book are still valid and can be applied today by anyone seeking...

A Process to Success

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Thank you for visiting my website. You must of stumbled upon this website on your journey for personal development and I’m hoping I can help to make your search a success. After doing much research on my own personal development, I have come across what I like to call A Process to Success, if there was a secret to happiness I believe this process is it. I beleive if you follow this process you will...