When Women Rule The World By: Dana Krals | - It's been said that Women will be one of the forces that guides the recovery from this recession, and allows for continued economic growth afterwards. The reason is that most of the men in this country are already working (unemployment aside) while there are still some women that can create money by going to work, or better, creating it with their minds by starting a business or investing regimen.
For Everyday Emotional Woes Take Action By: Dana Krals | - One purpose we all share is the one that has to do with learning to understand and manage our emotions. Pretty much all of us have to work on that. It's a really evolved, highly effective, terribly conscious human being that never acts out in anger, never says a mean thing when their buttons get pushed, and never hangs on to grudges. Even though it seems like it could be aiming too high, in fact, that's what we all should strive for. Emotional management is something we all have to work on. ... Tags:emotional management, get my life back, personal growth
Who Do You Think You Are? How Social Roles Can Determine Success In Life By: Gary Jordan, Ph.D. | - When people think of playing a role they usually imagine taking a part in a stage production or starring in a blockbuster movie. For most of us, though, those kind of roles are the stuff of fantasy.
But every day, you actually play all kinds of social roles in your relationships with others. A social role is the part played by a person in a given social context, including typical or expected patterns of behavior.
Research (in the Universities of Chicago, Milan, Harvard - the list is quite long!) tells us that, in general, normal people lead repetitive lives where little ever changes. Sure, you might have made an important career change, met the love of your life (for now!), launched a new business, or captained your club on their way to winning the cup in the year just ended. But, so what! Little, under the skin (personal or corporate) ev ... Tags:New Year's Resolutions, Personal Growth, Self Help, Self Improvement, Personal Development, Personal Success
Congruency - The Universe Loves Having It All Line Up By: Loren Fogelman | - Congruency is very sexy to the Law of Attraction. The universe responds positively when your thoughts, emotions and actions all line up. Your positive energy signals the universe to take notice. Consider the things you say you want for yourself. What are your goals for your practice? To really be successful you must have alignment between your values and goals.
The Flu Shot: Should I Or Shouldn't I? By: Chris Hammer | - You've probably heard all you want to hear about the Swine Flu vaccination by now: I know I certainly have. So this article isn't really about the flu shot - it's actually about making decisions. What brought his topic to mind, though, is that I've recently decided to forego the shot this year and go the homeopathic route instead.
Is this because I know better than those who advocate the vaccination? No. Might I end up regretting not getting the shot? Maybe. I don't know.
The Secret To Successful Relationships By: Gary Jordan, Ph.D. | - Have you ever been in a conversation where it was obvious the other person couldn't wait for you to finish talking in order to say something? We all have Im sure, and its not a great feeling.
You see, relationships are like lengthy conversations. There is a back-and-forth quality that needs to be there. If you focus only on whats in it for you rather than what you can contribute, itll fall flat or end uncomfortably.
Know Thyself - And Adjust Accordingly By: Chris Hammer | - We've all likely seen the Latin aphorism, "Nosce Te Ipsum" on the plaque sitting on the bookshelf in our doctor's office - or even hanging over the Oracle's door in "The Matrix" (thanks to Wikipedia for that). Or if not, we've almost certainly heard time and again the English translation, "Know Thyself".
Taking Action To Achieve Success By: Willie Horton | - Would you like to see more success in your life? Or do you view yourself as a success already but that success is being achieved at a price? Would you like your life to be more effortless, more carefree, more free-flowing? If you've answered "yes" to any of these questions, then it is clear that you need to take some action to change your life, to become more successful, with less (or no) effort. Because your life won't change of its own accord - you're going to have to be the change. ... Tags:Success, happiness, positive thinking, personal development, Self-Help, personal growth
For some success means making a lot of money for others it might mean reaching a goal and for another it might mean reaching one's full potential or attaining peace of mind. No matter how you define success, the 13 keys will bring you closer to your picture of what success is.
What is it?
For our purpose, let's define it as the favorable outcome of an action.
It is the process of growth, development, improvement and getting better.
Willing Slaves Fast Becoming Business Norm By: Ken Keis | - "We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves."
Francis J. Braceland, O Magazine, April 2003
Willing Slaves Fast Becoming Business Norm
By Guest Author: Dr. Ray Williams
Slave: A person held in servitude as the chattel of another; one that is completely subservient to a dominating influence
How Are You Influenced In Your Life? By: John Halderman | - Who and what do you allow to influence you? How does it affect what you do, how you feel about yourself and your happiness? Your life may literally be the result of the influence of others who have no interest in seeing you succeed at anything beyond the ordinary nor be truly happy.
Breaking The Bonds Of Limiting Influence By: John Halderman | - If you are wanting to live your life uniquely, your own way, doing what you are here to do, you will need to take a good look at what is influencing you day in and day out. Your family, friends, groups and society all can influence your life usually beyond your awareness. Most people operate within what is considered normal in our society. People tend to go away from discomfort and pain, seeking comfort however they can, which usually means not wanting to feel the wrath of disapproval for doing ... Tags:personal growth, influence, happiness, satisfaction, unconscious thinking, motivation, hearts desires, life journey, self image, life success
Wealth Secret: Create A Loving, Supportive Community By: Alexis Martin Neely | - We've all heard the quote, "It takes a village to raise a child." Today, I'm presenting to you the idea that it not only takes a village to raise a child, but also to nurture and empower a successful, satisfied and happy adult.
Whether you seek material wealth, emotional wealth or spiritual wealth, you must learn to foster and embrace your own support community to reach the highest of heights on your journey through life.
Just Say No To Worry By: Ken Keis | - Worry a little bit every day and, in a lifetime, you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything.
Mary Hemingway.
Just Say No To Worry!
Worry: To subject to persistent or nagging attention or effort; to afflict with mental distress or agitation; make anxious; to move, proceed, or progress by unceasing or difficult effort; to feel or experience concern or anxiety.
... Tags:Living On Purpose, marriage, personal growth, Success, Wealth, Worry, Health, Anxiety, Relationships, family, business
Spirituality: Something that in ecclesiastical law belongs to the church or to a cleric as such; sensitivity or attachment to religious values; the quality or state of being spiritual
Relativism: A view that ethical truths depend on the individual ... Tags:Living On Purpose, marriage, personal growth, spirituality, success, family
Personal Success Comes From Mindfulness By: Willie Horton | - Whether it is on the field of professional sport or in the Buddhist temple, you will find exponents of the art of mindfulness. Mindfulness - the exact opposite of mindlessness - is the only key you need to unlock a life of peace, calm and effortless success. Doesn't matter what kind of success you have in mind, if you develop mindfulness, what most occupies your mind will come about - not through you simply wishing for it to happen (and doing, as some books suggest, nothing to bring it about y ... Tags:Success, Mindfulness, Personal Development, Self Help, Personal Growth, Presence, Leadership
Transforming Leadership Is Everything By: Ken Keis | - "Men make history, and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better."
Harry S. Truman, 33rd US President
1884 - 1972
Ethics: The discipline dealing with what is good and bad and with moral duty and obligation; a set of moral principles; a theory or system of moral values; the principles of conduct governing an individual or a group; a guiding philosophy; a consciousness of moral importance.
The Tyrrany Of Political Correctness By: Ken Keis | - "Transcend political correctness and strive for human righteousness."
Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
The Tyranny of Political Correctness
Politically Correct: Conforming to a belief that language and practices that could offend political sensibilities should be eliminated.
The fact is political correctness has gone awry -- destroying the freedom and democracy that permitted it to occur in the first place.
Raising The Professional Development Bar By: Ken Keis | - Raising the Professional Development Bar: Why Most Coaches, Career Counselors, Business Consultants, Educators, and other Professional Developers are Not Qualified to Teach or Advise
Qualified: Having the appropriate qualifications for an office, position, or task. A quality, ability, or accomplishment that makes a person suitable for a particular position or task.
Will You Get Over Yourself - Please By: Ken Keis | - "Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live. It is asking others to live as one wishes to live."
Oscar Wilde, Novelist
1854 - 1900
Will You Get Over Yourself -- Please?
Selfish:Concerned excessively or exclusively with oneself; seeking or concentrating on one's own advantage, pleasure, or well-being without regard for others; arising from concern with one's own welfare or advantage in disregard of others; genetic material solely concerned with ... Tags:selfish, giving, living on purpose, generosity, success, wealth, personal growth
What's Your Legacy By: Ken Keis | - "I wanna live 'til I die -- no more, no less."
Eddie Izzard, Comedian and Actor
Whats Your Legacy?
Legacy:Something transmitted by or received from an ancestor or predecessor or from the past; a gift by will, especially of money or other personal property
If I Had Wanted Your Opinionm I Would Have Asked For It By: Ken Keis | - "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed, in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible."
Bertrand Russell, British Author
1872 - 1970
If I Wanted Your Opinion, I Would Have Asked for It.
The Fine Art Of Effective Communication By: Willie Horton | - On many of my workshops, I quote a piece of well known research into the effectiveness and impact of communication. The effect on those with whom we communicate is dictated by body language, tone of voice and our words. Body language accounts for an enormous 56% of the overall effect, tone of voice accounts for another 36% and the actual words we use only account for 8%.
"There is a time for departure, even when there is no certain place to go." - Robert Frost
Introduction
As you begin to read this article on personal development and self-improvement, I'd like to ask you to put aside all judgment and simply wipe the slate clean. You are about to begin a journey of truth about why you are who you are and why you do the things you do. What's important for you to know is th ... Tags:change, empower, courage, success, confidence, inspiration, motivation, self-improvement, personal growth, personal development
Can You Let Go of Your Negative Thoughts and Events?
NegativeMarked by denial, prohibition, or refusal; marked by absence, withholding, or removal of something positive; denying a predicate of a subject or a part of a subject; denoting the absence or the contradictory of something; lacking positive qualities; disagreeable; marked by features of hosti ... Tags:success, wealth, living on purpose, personal growth, professional development, failure, guilt, negative, freedom, relief, future
MaturityOf or relating to a condition of full development; characteristic of or suitable to a mature individual; based on slow, careful consideration; having completed natural growth and development; having undergone maturation; having attained a final or desired state; having achieved a stable growt ... Tags:success, wealth, living on purpose, personal growth, professional development, mature, maturity, old, young, experience
Alternative Medicine For Personal And Business Success By: Willie Horton | - For many years, Eastern medicine - acupuncture, Vedic medicine - was termed "alternative" by a Western society whose medical traditions could only be described as youthful or adolescent by comparison. As an Ayurvedic surgeon from Cambridge said to me last Autumn, "If I'd studied conventional surgery at somewhere like Stanford or Harvard, I'd be using text books that are fifty years old, at most. In Bangalore, I was using texts that were five thousand years old." But the "developed world" knows b ... Tags:Personal Development, Business Success, Motivational, Self Help, Personal Growth
What is Your Mindset toward Money and Materialism?
MoneySomething generally accepted as a medium of exchange, a measure of value, or a means of payment; officially coined or stamped metal currency; a form or denomination of coin or paper money.
Reject The Victim Mentality By: Ken Keis | - "We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves."
Marilyn Manson, Musician
1969 -
"The price of greatness is taking responsibility."
Sir Winston Churchill, British Politician
1874 - 1965
Reject the Victim Mentality. Take Personal Responsibility!
You were born a pure genius, filled with promise and unlimited potentiality. But the majority of people do not approach anywhere near their full potential. So what happens to us?
Well, basically society boxes you in and surrounds you with numerous boundaries and limitations. Even think about the way in which most people work. Most people work within the confines of a cubicle and then ... Tags:success strategy, achieve success, achieving success, personal growth, inner game
Decreasing Clutter And Chaos By: Ken Keis | - "A life lived in chaos is an impossibility . . . "
Madeleine LEngle, Science Fiction Novelist
1918 - 2007
Decreasing Clutter and Chaos!
Clutter: To run in disorder; to fill or cover with scattered or disordered things that impede movement or reduce effectiveness.
Chaos: A state of utter confusion; a confused mass or mixture.
Do you ever feel there is just too much stuff in your life?
Our failures are indeed the most fertile seeds of our future success. If we plant them. To understand this, we have to understand why things go wrong. We have to learn the lesson from the bad experience.
Tears Of Love That Heal: Making Men And Women Grow By: David Essel | - As my client walks his girlfriend through the airport to her gate, she turns to say how excited she is to explore a new city, and sees tears rolling down his face. She had no idea these were tears of love, tears of personal growth.
Her questioning goes unanswered, as he can't seem to pull it together to explain what he is feeling. All he knows is that he's in great pain, and wants it to stop. He tries to smile, to say that he's really going to miss her, but the words just get stuc ... Tags:love, partner, risk, feelings, tears, emotions, personal growth, relationships, children
The Cry For Competence By: Ken Keis | - "The incompetent with nothing to do can still make a mess of it."
-Laurence J. Peter
US educator and writer
The Peter Principle
1919-1990
The Cry for Competence
Do we really have a crisis in terms of individuals competence in their various fields of endeavor? Yes, Yes, and Yes!
Creating A Flake-free Zone By: Ken Keis | - "I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments."
-Nathaniel Emmons
Creating a Flake-Free Zone
Although true success is built on trust and truth, in North America there seems to be a drift toward being "flaky."
The Spirit Of Abundance By: Ken Keis | - "The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves, too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise occurred . . . unforeseen incidents, meetings, and material assistance, which no man could have dreamed would have come his way."
-John Wolfgang von Goethe
The Spirit of Abundance
Would you like MORE abundance in your life? If your answer is Yes, read on. If not, read on anyway, so you can help others have more.
Are You A Giver Or A Taker By: Ken Keis | - "We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give."
-Sir Winston Churchill, British Politician 1874 - 1965
Are You a Giver or a Taker?
To give: to bestow by formal action; deliver or to yield to another.
To take: to get into one's hands or possession; grasp, seize, capture, or defeat.
How would your friends, family, or co-workers characterize you -- Are you a giver or a taker?
The Magic Of The Moment By: Ken Keis | - "When we are capable of living in the moment, free from the tyranny of "shoulds," free from the nagging sensation that this moment isn't right, we will have peaceful hearts."
-Joan Borysenko, A Woman's Book of Life
What's Behind Your Lack Of Motivation? By: TJ Philpott | - Do you find yourself not fully engaging in life due to a lack of motivation? Do you sometimes feel you're a just spectator and wish you could participate in the world around you more fully?
How To Stop Persistent Failure And Grow A Successful Work At Home Business By: Jennifer Herndon | - Persistence can be fatal to your home business success if it is random rather than guided. That is, persistently doing the wrong things will get you no where. Following a proven step-by-step path to success is essential. Unfortunately, for most people with a new online business, persistence is fatally random, if you are persistent at all.
Success - Mediocrity - Failure. You Choose! By: Willie Horton | - Outside events don't determine whether or not you're successful. You do. The challenges thrown up by day-to-day living, particularly in the current business and economic environment, are not the real challenges that each of us face. The real challenge in life is within. How you act in the face of external negatives or positives is what makes the difference - it is, as I said to a client recently, the measure of the man (or woman, of course).
Leading Your Way Out Of Recession By: Willie Horton | - I simply don't know how many clients have said to me, over the last few months, that they crave leadership. The current global economic has found national and international leaders wanting. Governments have often scrambled, like headless chickens, to implement sticky-plaster solutions to a mess which was partly of their own making. At the same time, many bankers (and I know quite a few) have been in denial, blaming all kinds of external forces for the systemic collapse of the global financ ... Tags:Leadership, Success, Business Development, Personal Development, Self Help, Personal Growth
Is Twitter For Self Improvement? By: Jennifer Herndon | - Twitter is all the rage these days. And no doubt, it is a powerful tool in growing your online business. I recently read that having Twitter followers is like having a sub-list. Definitely, "the money is in the list," which says a lot about the value of Twitter. And makes it important to think about how you use Twitter and what kind of people you follow on Twitter.
Easy And Powerful Way To Increase Your Intelligence By: Franz Rasch | - Can you increase your personal IQ by as much as 20 points by the use of image streaming (cf. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image_streaming)? This seems to be a proven claim by now.
