Self Improvement Site
On The Internet! Take the Self Improvement Tour
On The Internet! Take the Self Improvement Tour
Articles from | Selfgrowth.com
- Success—two critical questions to ask, and answer - by Success is one of those words that we all understand, or at first glance, we think we do. We hear that someone is a big success, and we nod in agreement and apparent understanding. But what is success? Webster defines success as reaching a conclusion, usually a fortunate one. OK, what is ...
Views: 723 - THE SECRETS OF SUCCESS - IN WORK AND IN LIFE - by We hope that the following article may be informative and/or helpful for your e-zine, or on your web site. Craig Lock's other articles (internet marketing, self help, writing and money) are available at:
http://www.bridgeniche.com/ebooks/Ebooks.htm
"I share what I know, so that others may ...
Views: 723 - WHAT TO DO ABOUT STRESS - THE 30 POINT PLAN - by 1. Be positive- see problems as opportunities. Have goals and
visions. Have a positive mental attitude.
2. Play sports and step up your exercise.
3. Talk things over with someone.
4. Determine what causes you stress and try to eliminate it.
5. Become physically fit.
6. Balance work, ...
Views: 723 - Beware of the Man in the Mirror - by The biggest pitfall facing hiring managers today is hiring in their own image. Here is how to hire sales people who can do the job, not just get the job.
BY MIKE PIERCE
With the advent of sophisticated testing, electronic background checks and other objective tools available today, one would ...
Views: 722 - Have Goals Taken Too Much Priority? - by Everyone knows the benefits of goal setting. However, many of the greatest developments in your business will not be the result of careful planning, but of fortuitous discoveries, meetings and accidents. This is serendipity: the apparent aptitude some people have to make fortunate discoveries ...
Views: 722 - How To Juggle (and Build a Better You) - by Most people know how to ride a bicycle. It's a rite of passage in childhood. But most people do not know how to juggle.
Question: what's the difference between juggling and riding a bike?
Answer: juggling is easier.
Think about it. If you mess up riding a bike, down you go.
If you mess ...
Views: 722 - The Stress of Difficult People - by "They call him a wit. They¡¯re half right!". Obnoxious, nasty people - they're a big part of our stress load, at work or at home. They might be a boss, a customer, co-worker, neighbour or spouse. Any peaceful workplace or family can be disrupted by one person with a grudge, a mental illness, ...
Views: 722 - YOUR CAREER PROSPECTS - by Every year there are thousands of you young men and women, who are leaving school or college with the sole object of starting your working careers. The biggest problem that you face is, choosing a career that you truly love, and enjoy.
Unless you find an occupation that you love, and are ...
Views: 722 - 5 Tips for Creative Job Searching - by It used to be that finding the right new job was just a matter of reviewing newspaper ads, networking, and contacting a few recruiters. These days, however, much more is required to stand out from the crowd of applicants. By using some creative techniques, you can jump start your job search and ...
Views: 721 - Foundation, Freedom & Responsibilities - by Many people are far removed from the original Foundations they were born into. The cornerstones which success is built upon must be secure.
Freedoms come at a great cost. These freedoms once achieved can also be lost.
Set yourself Free from the captivity of debt, spiritual suffering, and ...
Views: 721 - UP YOUR PIZZAZZ - by I am drawn to people with pizzazz, that spark of enthusiasm and excitement about life that makes being in their presence a joy. They smile easily and often and laugh with great energy and pleasure. It feels good to be alive and in their company.
People with pizzazz don't have to be loud and ...
Views: 721 - What I Learned From A Parakeet - by I want to tell you about the lesson that I learned from my parakeet. Yes, I did say that I learned something from a parakeet. I suppose that it is possible that I have too much time on my hands. Moving on...
My parakeet is named Yazzie. Yazzie is Navajo for small or little. Yazzie is just your ...
Views: 721 - Journal to the Center of Your Soul - by I have always been intrigued by the idea of keeping a journal. I was always in awe of people I would see furiously writing in their journals at the park, the beach, at lunch, or on the train. What they heck were they writing about? From the looks on their faces, it seemed pretty intense!! ...
Views: 720 - THE TOP TEN STEPS TO A SUCCESSFUL LIFE - by 1. MAKE YOUR INTUITION YOUR ALLY
How does your intuition speak to you? Do you receive information in words, feelings, a body sensation? Do you just know? Ask your intuition questions and pay attention to the answers and act on the information you receive.
2. PAY ATTENTION TO WHAT BRINGS YOU ...
Views: 720 - Tuning In: How To Focus - by Obsessive? Who says I’m obsessive? I’m not obsessive! I prefer to think of myself as... focused.
Okay, so when I decided to plant my first vegetable garden and nourished each seedling as if they were my own children, I had no idea that I would wind up with enough produce to feed a three block ...
Views: 720 - Make sure Affiliate Programs pay you for every Sale - by When joining an affiliate program there are many decisions you have to make. Unfortunately, few people query what kind of tracking software the program uses. To overlook this can prove costly, and means you may never be credited with 5% - 10% of your affiliate sales.
A good affiliate program ...
Views: 719 - The 4 Questions Customers Are Thinking, But May Not Be Asking - by Your customers won’t come right out and ask you questions about honesty, character, and integrity. Nor will they ever consciously ask themselves. But the impression or perception they have of us will be formed in their mind by collecting answers to the following four questions. We must foster ...
Views: 719 - 8 Practical Methods to Remain Empowered During Stressful Time - by 1. Acknowledge that requesting support, guidance and partnership is not the same as being needy. Allowing someone else to give freely to you primes the pump in the universal law of giving and receiving. There are as many blessings to the giver as there are to the receiver: being open to ...
Views: 718 - Overcoming Procrastination - by We all put things off. There’s always a list of projects and “to-dos” that we just never seem to get around to —not enough time, too many distractions, tomorrow would be better, and so on. Maybe you’ve promised yourself you’ll tackle the mess in the hall closet, organize your office space or ...
Views: 718 - The Choice to Feel (Excerpt from Your Destiny Switch: Master Your Key Emotions, And Attract the Life of Your Dreams) - by Recently, a friend of mine named Renee was driving her seven-year old son home from school, and she was preoccupied with worry. She had a lot of bills to pay and was having difficulty making money. Her husband had been ill and unable to work, so they’d fallen behind on their mortgage. This was a ...
Views: 718 - 10 Winning Strategies for Life! - by 1. Get an early start.
The earlier you start at preparing for the life you want, the better off you will be.
2. Develop a road map.
"You will never get to where you want to go unless you know where it is you are going."
3. Don't reinvent the wheel if you do not have to.
If you have an idea ...
Views: 717 - Bridging Two Worlds - by Our awareness resides, moment to moment, in either the conventional or transcendental realities. Each of these realities has its own truths. From a conventional view, illness is a misfortune and death is final. From a transcendent perspective, illness (or any adversity) is a perfectly natural ...
Views: 717 - Conscious Conflict -- the Spiritual Fuel for the Vertical - by If specific problems do not disappear immediately, the answer is to simply relax, let go and realize that Truth is working on things. Immediate healings often occur on our spiritual journey. At other times the healing process is slow and deep and goes at a pace that we would perhaps like to ...
Views: 717 - Life Lines - by "The supreme happiness in life is the conviction we are loved."--Victor Hugo
Victor Hugo may have gotten it right. The strong belief that one is loved is life's supreme happiness.
Can you think of anything other than love? Winning the lottery? The lottery can give you a lot, but it can't ...
Views: 717 - Are You Living Your Soul's Purpose? - by Copyright 2002. Reality Crafting Holding Trust. All rights reserved.
“Are you living your soul’s purpose?” That’s the question I asked myself. The answer led me on a magical transformational journey from Detroit, MI to Kauai. It’s a powerful question. If you ask it of yourself, be ready to ...
Views: 716 - Choose Your Target Audience Because You Care - by As I started my coaching company, I knew that one segment of my target audience would be small businesses. These were the people that I loved working with and for in my previous occupation. I simply cared about these people.
As I began to work on my marketing plan, I went back to take a look ...
Views: 716 - Communicating With Your Doctor - A Guide to Doing It Right - by Have you ever come home from a visit to your doctor wondering if you really understood your medical problem or how to take your medications? In the past, doctors were in charge of your care and you were to "follow orders." These days, patients and doctors have an equal responsibility for care. ...
Views: 716 - Forgiveness is a Destination - by Forgiveness is a destination and not an action. When you tell yourself to forget and forgive some wrong or hurt, you can not. You tell yourself to take the action of forgiveness, yet can not, because forgiveness is not an action.
When your boss passes you over for a promotion or a raise, you ...
Views: 716 - Like it or not, in this life…The Name of the Game is Change - by Most of us fear change, because - as we've all experienced - most change seems to be imposed upon us, originating outside of ourselves.
The only thing that each of us can really change is OURSELVES.
A rule to remember: "The only thing you can change is YOU."
Therefore, unless you ...
Views: 716 - Synchronicity - a doorway into the flow - by After years of working with computers, I had had enough. Together with my partner, I departed for India, in search of a new purpose in my life.
One night, I awoke on fire with the feeling that I had to work with people, yet at that moment I was not clear about what and how. A few days later I ...
Views: 716 - Advice and Dating Tips for Single Men on Succeeding With Single Women - by TIP #1 - Three Basic Attitudes Which Form a Golden Key in All Human Relationships if Practiced and Lived: Every woman wants, unconsciously yearns for, three basic attitudes from the man she will love. But for that matter, every human being needs and deserves and will grow in power when he ...
Views: 715 - Fitness - The Quality Factor - by Spring is traditionally a time for renewed interest in fitness activities. But these days, our enthusiasm is often tempered by a growing uneasiness about the benefits of exercise. Increasingly, we are hearing concerns being voiced about the effectiveness of some fitness programs.
“Are health ...
Views: 715 - Marketing You - by MARKETING YOU is a three-step career strategy:
1. Understanding the importance of regularly assessing your career;
2. Evaluating where you are now and where you want to be; and
3. Marketing yourself effectively all the time.
The Importance of Assessing Your Career
Even if you are not ...
Views: 715 - Our Self Image and Our Self - by So we've identified what we want in our lives. We've set our goals and made a plan. All of which is great and vital in achieving what we want. But in itself it’s not enough. It’s only part of the picture, the other part is contained in the behind the scenes activity of our minds.
What we really ...
Views: 715 - Shoot & Move - by Back when I was a videographer in the Air Force, videotaping various training activities and shooting military documentaries, one of the basic filmic principles I used was the "shoot and move" method.
It worked like this: I would record a shot from a specific position, at a particular angle ...
Views: 715 - THE LAST THING YOU WANT TO BE IS HER FRIEND - by Women Don't Lie - Men Don't Listen
Hi Doc,
I'm currently a sophomore in college. Back in high school, I met this girl that I really liked. Though we never saw each other outside of school, we would always talk and have a good time in class. During our senior year I tried desperately to ask ...
Views: 715 - I can't afford a publicity/public relations campaign -- can I? - by It's a phrase I hear over and over again from many entrepreneurs, small businesses owners and inventors: "I'd love to hire someone to launch our publicity campaign professionally, but we can't afford it, so I'm just going to have to do it on my own."
Over the past several months, I have been ...
Views: 714 - Interlude: Reflections on Relationships - by A dear friend, who unexpectedly arrived in Chicago for an interview, and I recently met over gnocchi and ravioli. The impromptu occasion was a wonderful opportunity to exchange updates on the life events and new awarenesses that had gelled over the past few years since we had last seen one ...
Views: 714 - PLEASE! Don’t make THE BIGGEST MISTAKE on the Internet today! - by Everyday I see a common mistake being made on websites all over the Internet. It results in lost customers, lost sales, poor visitor figures, lost profits and more. In short, it has a negative impact on all aspects of the website and company concerned. Its also completely unnecessary and costing ...
Views: 714 - Things I Have Learned About Relationships. Part I - by Here are some lessons and concepts learned by me, my clients and friends in the process of attracting and creating great relationships. If you get, truly get, any one of these and apply it, you will see an immediate improvement in the quality of your relationships.
It's your job to educate ...
Views: 714 - Top 7 Steps For Creating Unlimited Success This New Year - by New Year's is traditionally a time for resolutions--when we vow to live our lives better than we have in the past. Unfortunately, we treat our resolutions as wishes made on stars. We declare them and then simply hope they'll come true. Well, it takes more than wishful thinking to change our ...
Views: 714 - Breakthrough: Guaranteed Secrets to Create an Extraordinary Life! - by Would you like to know the amazing secrets that millions of Americans use to live an extraordinary life? If you knew the time tested, proven, secrets that can produce the life you have always dreamed of; would you use them?
Imagine driving your dream car. Living in your dream house. Working in ...
Views: 713 - Citizens of The Land of Opportunity - by "-The Declaration of Independence"
In a crowded, airless room in the city of Philadelphia 223 years ago this week, a group of men solemnly stepped forward, one by one, and affixed their names to a single sheet of paper -- each man knowing that if they faltered in their collective vision, ...
Views: 713 - Continually Improve Your Life - by Northrop Frye, a Canadian literary critic, has said that "the mind best fitted for survival in any world is the mind that has discovered how knowledge can be joyful, leading to a friendship with wisdom that is pure delight. That mind is ready to tackle any kind of knowledge with intentness of ...
Views: 713 - SPIRITUALITY: JUMPSTARTING A CYCLE OF PSYCHOLOGICAL TRANSFORMATION? - by There is a general consensus that spirituality is good for you. This may be the only point of agreement about spirituality these days. Traditionally associated with religion or the occult, spiritual belief and practice in the 21st century are variously and personally defined. There is much ...
Views: 713 - Ten Top Ways To Get Unstuck And Reach Your Goals - by 1. Write down 2 or 3 ways you can immediately start moving toward your goal. Select one and GET STARTED!
2. Imagine what life will be like in 5 years if you don’t begin moving toward your goal. 3. Make sure your goals are measurable. Having a definite target to shoot at gives you a much better ...
Views: 713 - Ten Ways to Evolve, Part 2 - by Over the past decade, I've worked with thousands of individuals seeking ways to improve their ability to attract their ideal mate. As a result, I've created a list of ten most commonly prescribed personal development steps I recommend for those wanting to attract and create their ideal ...
Views: 713 - Breathing Freely: The Hidden Key To Vibrant Coaching - by Some experts estimate that we take more than 20,000 breaths each day. Based on that figure, we breathe in and out about 833 times per hour and 13 times a minute. In every coaching session, you are either breathing in, breathing out or holding your breath. So is your client.
How you and your ...
Views: 712 - Expectations At Work Can Destroy You if You Don’t Communicate Them! - by by Carole Nicolaides © 2002
http://www.progressiveleadership.com
Expectations have a powerful impact on our emotions, behaviors, and most importantly, in our performances. Have you noticed what happens when you expect no raise or promotion at work? Most likely you will not get them! The ...
Views: 712 - Get REAL! - by Can you trick the Universal Laws of nature and do you listen to the Call of the free?
In life, many people practice complacency and are not aware of the reality of what they were born to accomplish. They do not acknowledge the possible potential which lies within each and every one of us. ...
Views: 712