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- Is Your Calculator Broken?: Being on Your Case versus Being on Your Side - by Submitted on Feb 26, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesMany individuals have “faulty evaluation systems.” They are rarely satisfied when successful and are overly critical of their performance, even if they win, and win big. This can become a rigid pattern. In the past it may have driven them to great successes, but over time it can become a burden ...
Views: 1015(1 vote) - How Can Writing Improve Your Life? - by Submitted on Feb 26, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesFrom ancient storytelling and hieroglyphics to modern-day therapy and prescribed journaling, writing is one of the oldest and most effective ways we communicate—both with ourselves and with others. For centuries, people have written to bring clarity and focus to problems they’ve been struggling ...
Views: 1555(1 vote) - The Key to Creating Your Own Wealth Creation Plan - by Submitted on Feb 26, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesThe number of people who don’t dream of becoming wealthy are few and far between. While money isn’t everything, it sure does make life easier. Both having too little and too much money can create problems, but wouldn’t you rather have problems with too much money? I’ve looked all over the world ...
Views: 1150(1 vote) - Give People What They Are Longing For! - by Submitted on Feb 26, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesMaking the world (your world) a finer place does not need to be overwhelming. Investing in people all around you, in your family, in your workplace, in your neighborhood, and in your world, returns to you a world that is finer. I am not referring to a financial investment, however; I am ...
Views: 1088 - How to Stay True to Yourself Above the Opinionated Roar of Others - by Submitted on Feb 26, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesHow do you stay true to yourself when you’re surrounded by friends and family that have an opinion on everything you do? Who constantly offer their opinions, whether you asked for them or not? Who seem to imply that they “know better”? It’s not easy! However, if you’re going to lead the life ...
Views: 2528(1 vote) - How to Use the TV to Help You Save Time - by Submitted on Feb 26, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesHave you ever been told to turn off the TV, or has anyone ever told you that watching TV is detrimental to your studies, your health, your spirit, or your financial statement? Have you ever found yourself plopped down in front of the TV when you know you need to be reading, or studying, or being ...
Views: 1097(1 vote) - Make a Splash, One Ripple at a Time! - by Submitted on Feb 26, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesPeople often find themselves caught in the minute details of their day-to-day routines and experience a sense of disconnection from what is really important. Where your focus goes, your results flow! (Negative focus equals negative results; positive focus equals positive results.) Are you happy ...
Views: 2111(5 votes) - Action Today! - by Submitted on Feb 26, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesSo far, I think you’ll agree this has been a pretty upbeat book, right? Well, here’s a downer. The bad news is that you won’t get the opportunity to read this incredible book entitled The Stevedore in the White Fedora. This novel, filled to the brim with stirring passages and replete with ...
Views: 1273(1 vote) - Are You Stressed Out? - by Submitted on Feb 26, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesDo you have difficulty expressing your anger? Are you unable to say no? Are you suffering from a constant need to prove yourself or to do it all? Do you often feel tired and burned out? If so, you are probably experiencing the symptoms of stress. Stress left unattended will lead to burnout. ...
Views: 1198(1 vote) - Choose to Live a Stress-Less Life: The Life You Save May Be Your Own - by Submitted on Feb 26, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesLife is stressful—that’s a basic fact. Stress comes in all shapes and sizes. Of course, major life events, such as a sickness in the family or financial woes, are universally stressful. There are other, less obvious day-to-day stresses, though, many of which impact individuals differently. (One ...
Views: 2393(1 vote) - Dance with Your Heart: How to Befriend Your Heart and the World around You - by Submitted on Feb 26, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesWhat do you see when people dance? Is it how their hands and feet move so gracefully in such unison with one another, yet each of them sparkles individuality? Are the dancers smiling? What does that mean? They may be joyous when they move their bodies to the rhythms of the music, but that is not ...
Views: 2086(1 vote) - Ten Steps to Oratory Eloquence - by Submitted on Feb 26, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesAs you hang up the telephone, the icy fingertips of panic grip your stomach; your heart races. Your most recent project was delivered on time, within budget, and is approaching payback one year ahead of schedule. Your industry association wants you to address their annual convention. Relax: ...
Views: 7608(1 vote) - Make Small Talk? I’d Rather Eat Worms! - by Submitted on Feb 26, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesSmall talk is any superficial personal communication between two or more people. It is the vehicle through which you approach people to test to see if you share interests, attitudes, philosophies, values, histories, and experiences on which you and the other person can build. It is the method by ...
Views: 1360(1 vote) - The Power of Qs - by Submitted on Feb 26, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesHave you ever wondered why some people’s lives seem to unfold effortlessly while others face one disaster after another? Is it simply fate, or are there ways of controlling and improving the outcome of one’s life? By understanding the laws of the universe and the capacity of personal power, you ...
Views: 1324(1 vote) - Stop the Negative Self-Talk! - by Submitted on Feb 26, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesMelody Beattie has a book called Stop Being Mean to Yourself that I often lend to clients because it’s a good book and because I love the title. It is hard to feel happy when we are so critical and judgmental of ourselves. No wonder we don’t feel good enough. We live with a mean voice in our ...
Views: 1482(1 vote) - The Vital Element: Self-Esteem - by Submitted on Feb 26, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesYou’ve decided to improve your life. Where do you start? Do you begin with a new relationship, with a new career, or move to a new city? The answer is no, none of these, for there is one constant: you. The same you will be there, wherever you choose to go, whoever you’re with, whatever you ...
Views: 1411(2 votes) - Awaken the Genie Within - by Submitted on Feb 26, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesAncient lore tells us that there’s a magical Genie who lives in a lamp and that the person who possesses that lamp has the power to invoke wishes and desires beyond our wildest dreams. If I told you that Genie lives in you, would you believe me? Maybe not. But if I told you that there was ...
Views: 2487(1 vote) - Some Simple Rules for a Satisfying Life - by Submitted on Feb 26, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesLife has taught me that success, abundance, prosperity, peace, and happiness are all created through exercising a planned routine. To create a happy and prosperous life, we need some instructions, or rules, for living. Rule 1: Spread love. In order to produce great achievements, we have to take ...
Views: 1498(1 vote) - Creating Everyday Rituals for Magical Living - by Submitted on Feb 26, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesIn the technically brilliant sterility of our modern age, I believe we’re aching to find new ways to make meaning in our lives. Truly transformative ceremonies and rituals allow us to infuse a sense of the sacred into our ordinary lives, to recognize major life events in profoundly satisfying ...
Views: 1591(1 vote) - Learn to Choose: The Seven Types of People to Avoid on Your Way to a Happy and Fulfilling Relationship - by Submitted on Feb 26, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesIf you are looking for a relationship, it takes patience to find someone you can respect, whose heart is open to you, and whom you can be with without driving you up a wall. Good mate material is out there, but while you are looking, don’t waste your time and money on the Dirty Sevens. The ...
Views: 1905 - Play 20 Questions and Revitalize Your Love Life - by Submitted on Feb 26, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesDo you remember the game “20 Questions”? You could ask 20 questions to elicit and eliminate and finally discover what animal, vegetable, or mineral the other person was thinking about. We use a variation of this game to enrich your love life and build a stronger bond in your most intimate ...
Views: 6133(1 vote) - Are You Running Your Life, or Is It Running You? - by Submitted on Feb 26, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesSometimes our lives can feel like an endless to-do list, where we leap from one task to another. It can feel like our lives are running us rather than the other way around. If this is how you are feeling, it is time to consider how you are spending your time and energy. The simple fact is that ...
Views: 1127(1 vote) - Nothing Happens in Life or Business Until Somebody Says Yes!Submitted on Feb 26, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesThink about this: even when there is no one else involved in a decision, like whether you’re going to exercise today, you still have to say yes to yourself to make it happen. And if you don’t enjoy the activity, there’s probably an internal conversation going on where you have to give yourself a ...
Views: 1209(1 vote) - Don’t Take Your Inner Brat to Work! - by Submitted on Feb 26, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesIs your inner brat taking over your job? Everyone has an inner brat. It’s the part of us that’s still a two-year-old. It lives on in the dark recesses of our minds, no matter how much we’ve accomplished. The inner brat gets furious at the slightest inconvenience. It feels entitled to get what ...
Views: 1363(1 vote) - It’s Not the Room, It’s the View - by Submitted on Feb 26, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesIt has been said that the eyes are the windows to the soul. And, as much as I believe this is true, I also believe that every window has two vantage points—one for seeing in and one for seeing out. What is most familiar to a soul is its own image, and it is constantly drawn to what it ...
Views: 917(1 vote) - Money Is No Object: Passion is Your Currency - by Submitted on Feb 26, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com Articles(Excerpts from How to Discover Your Purpose in 10 Days.) Have you ever wondered what billionaires Bill Gates, Oprah Winfrey, and Warren Buffet have in common with you? It’s an exciting possibility. You may say it’s definitely not the fame or the fortune. So what is it? Each of us has been given ...
Views: 1779(1 vote) - Improve Your Life by Improving the Lives of Your Children - by Submitted on Feb 26, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesWhen asked to author a chapter about improving one’s life, I immediately thought of improving the lives of children. Most parents would agree that when their children are happy, they themselves are happy. Therefore when parents improve the lives of their children, their lives also improve. The ...
Views: 1051(2 votes) - What’s Stopping You? - by Submitted on Feb 26, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesWhat are your favorite don’ts that prevent you from doing what you need to do to be successful or happy? Perhaps you believe you don’t have the talent, the money, the confidence, the know-how, the energy, the time, the looks, the brains, the motivation, or the willpower. Ten big don’ts! And ...
Views: 1157(2 votes) - Boss It or Toss It?: That Is the Question for Your Life - by Submitted on Feb 26, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesDo you know where you are going? Do you know where life is guiding you? Are you plagued by stress? Are you happy? You can have a balanced, fulfilled, and happy life. The question for your life that uplifts and restores balance and happiness as your perpetual state of mind is, Do I boss or toss? ...
Views: 1136(1 vote) - The Map is Not the Territory - by Submitted on Feb 26, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesIn NLP (neuro-linguistic programming) we talk about people’s “maps of the world.” This term describes a person’s unique experience of reality. A map is not reality itself, only a representation of it, just as a map of Yellowstone Park is not the park itself, but a two-dimensional ...
Views: 1498(1 vote) - Five Steps to Creating a World-Class Social Network in Any City - by Submitted on Feb 26, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesOne of the secrets to success in life is having a web of friends and associates. I’ve moved around a fair amount in my life, and one thing that my friends have noticed is that I quickly get to know a large number of people within a short time after moving to a new city. In fact, it seems that I ...
Views: 2241(4 votes) - Harness the Power of Your Natural Negotiating Style - by Submitted on Feb 25, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesThe first step people often take when honing their negotiating skills is to read an assortment of how-to books and attend a class or workshop. Mastering negotiations, however, requires a three-prong approach: learning the fundamentals of negotiating, understanding the tactics associated with ...
Views: 2532(10 votes) - Is Neediness Ruining Your Relationships? - by Submitted on Feb 25, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesIn a recent survey conducted at MarsVenus.com, “neediness”—clingy, controlling, possessive, and/or demanding behavior—was one of the most commonly cited reasons for ending a relationship. Dating couples are calling it quits because they feel they either cannot or do not want to please their ...
Views: 1651(1 vote) - The Question Is Not How Smart You Are; Rather, It’s How You Are Smart - by Submitted on Feb 25, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesScientific research has shown we all have within us multiple ways of knowing, learning, and processing information. Yes, we are all smart in a lot of different ways nobody ever told us about, especially when we were in school! Here’s the real issue, and it deeply concerns me: we’ve been lied to ...
Views: 1153(3 votes) - The Bowl of Light - by Submitted on Feb 25, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesI am going to be a first-time grandmother in August. I’m ecstatic about having my first grandchild. One of the first things I will share with my grandson or granddaughter is the “Bowl of Light” story that I learned when I was an alakai, advanced student, of Ho’o pono Pono in Hawaii. My kumu, ...
Views: 6951(1 vote) - Understanding Your Relationship with Money - by Submitted on Feb 25, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesWhenever we say that we want more money, less debt, or more possessions, what we are really saying is that we want a feeling. Money and possessions have no power. Power comes from the feeling we get from having money and possessions. In order to determine your money values, you need to determine ...
Views: 1728(1 vote) - Mistake Salad - by Submitted on Feb 25, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesA mother seeking to inspire her young son to progress with his piano lessons took him to a concert by the famed virtuoso Ignacy Paderewski. After the two took their seats, mom noticed a friend a few aisles away and went to chat with her. When mother returned, she discovered her son was missing ...
Views: 896(1 vote) - Things Are Not Always as They Seem - by Submitted on Feb 25, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesI’d like to share with you a story that my spiritual teacher and dearest friend told me. Once upon a time, there were two seekers of enlightenment climbing in the Himalayas. One seemed more surefooted and climbed at a faster speed. He was conflicted about whether to wait for his friend to catch ...
Views: 2944(1 vote) - Meditation—Cure of All Cures: The Magic Potion of the Soul - by Submitted on Feb 25, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesWhen I take on a new client in my practice as a life coach, I usually begin with a strategy of exploring what this individual’s beliefs are about himself and his life. I then find out what the underlying daily thoughts are that support those beliefs. I always discover that whatever is showing up ...
Views: 2688(1 vote) - Transform Your Relationship with Love Play Technology - by Submitted on Feb 25, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesWith the divorce rate looming over our society, there’s a lot of pressure and fear about how to keep a relationship vibrant and filled with love. Here’s a way to keep that sparkle of love alive or to reignite a sparkle that might currently be at a low fizzle. It’s often said that it takes work ...
Views: 1376(2 votes) - Finding True, Blessed Love - by Submitted on Feb 25, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesHave you always wished to attract your life partner, a love that is blessed and sacred, but have been having difficulty making your dream come true? We have been married in what we call Sacred Partnership since 1992 and would like to share the process that we used to find each other. This ...
Views: 1284(2 votes) - How to Simplify Your Life and Be Happier - by Submitted on Feb 25, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesI’ve often found that people make their lives more complicated than they really are. To be sure, life is not easy in today’s nonstop-action world. However, it doesn’t have to be that complicated. We often put imaginary obstacles in our way. Decisions that can be made quickly are made more ...
Views: 1267(2 votes) - Sit Humbly Before Your Buddhas - by Submitted on Feb 25, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com Articles“They say you should write what you know,” she offers as we sit sorting one more in an endless stream of boxes filled with papers. “Right now, this is what you know. They say no man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child. This is kind of like that.” My mother leans from her wheelchair ...
Views: 1098(1 vote) - Nine Keys to Spiritual and Physical Liberation - by Submitted on Feb 25, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesThe physical universe is a maze of smoke and mirrors, complicated diversions that try to capture our attention and place it on the path of illusions instead of on the path of spiritual truth, love, and happiness. We are living in a swirling mass of positive and negative energies, vibrating to ...
Views: 2073(1 vote) - Passing the Generational Torch - by Submitted on Feb 25, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesThere are labels for mom’s condition: senility, Alzheimer’s, dementia. There are other labels, too, more often whispered in days past: she’s off her rocker, a few bricks shy, lights on but nobody home. They all describe one whose physical existence has outlasted mental faculties. Mom’s frailty ...
Views: 1060(1 vote) - Live Your Life in Language - by Submitted on Feb 25, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesHow do you relate to yourself and others? What do you have in common with the voice in your head and the messages you speak? It’s language. Some say that ultimately, words are everything. Call it communication, conversation, or articulation—your expression of life lives in language. I say you ...
Views: 3042(2 votes) - Joy Replacement Therapy: Your Prescription for a Joy-Filled Life! - by Submitted on Feb 25, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesFrom your soul to your senses, joy is accepted, rejected, noticed, ignored, savored, severed, shared, withheld, increased, denied, or multiplied. You choose when and how to have joy in life. Your choice is influenced by the beliefs that are deep in your soul, planted in childhood and affirmed ...
Views: 1156(1 vote) - Things You Thought You Knew but Really Didn’t: The Reality of New Jobs - by Submitted on Feb 25, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesGetting ready to start work can be very exciting—there are so many things to do. First, put yourself on a budget before you receive your first paycheck because if you do not, you will find yourself deep in debt before you even get paid. Very few people realize going to work every day is very ...
Views: 1220(1 vote) - Discover Three Simple and Easy Ways to Enhance Your Intuition - by Submitted on Feb 25, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesI didn’t really believe in intuition until four years ago. It really hit home for me the day my car was stolen. I woke up in the morning with the recollection of a dream about my car being stolen. I drove to work and kept “hearing” the message. So what did I do? I ignored it, of course! I was ...
Views: 2366(1 vote) - True Intimacy - by Submitted on Feb 25, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesTime and time again, people tell me they are not experiencing real intimacy in their relationships. Sex? Yes. True intimacy? No. They long for a soul connection, a deep, tender love, a satisfying and fulfilling sexual love. They long for a deeper level of communication, not just the chatter of ...
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