Articles about personal growth and development (0-50 of 4071)
Personal Growth And Development: A Guide By: Marc Termine | - With regard to personal growth and development, experience is still the best teacher. The painful failures you encounter will teach you lessons you wont soon forget. But if you would rather skip the emotional trauma and the psychological distress caused by painful experiences, the Greek philosopher Socrates has some advice for you, Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.
How To Utilize The Spiritual Laws For Your Personal Growth By: Eileen Smith | - This course used an interesting methodology to teach the material which work very well for me. My world is very much based around reason and logic and it would appear that the authors is as well. As such I was able to more easily relate to the discussions brought up in the Universal Life Church lessons than I am in some of the other courses that the seminary offers.
Tips On How To Maximize Your Personal Growth And Development By: Rhodri Jones | - You can read all the books about personal growth and development or you can have appointments with the best personal development coaches out there, still what matters most is what you have to do about it. Books and coaches will only train you, so your growth and development will depend on how you apply what you are trained for.
Growing Up: Time Only Flies When You Throw Your Watch! By: Gwendolyn M. Ward | - When I was 16, I wanted to be 18. At 18, I wanted to be 21. To me each age meant I was grown; what I never considered was the growth I needed between them---because maturing is a process that brings along two friends: responsibility and challenges.
Every professional or personal challenge I experienced and every lesson I learned was typically about me recognizing and managing the lines in my life: learning when to cross them, when to draw them and when to read between them. Tags:personal growth, professional development, self-improvement
Personal Growth - Discover Why Disillusionment Means Personal Growth! By: Maria Parkinson | - Personal growth is a part of everyone's life here on earth, whether they recognise it or not. Some people seem to be able to learn and change in ways that are joyful but, for the majority of us, traumatic or seeming negative events act as catalysts, that propel us to our next level of growth.
Changing Your Type: How Entrepreneurs Can Become Exactly Who They Want To Be By: Michele DeKinder-Smith | - Most business owners can define their type, based on the characteristics, mindsets and habits they have developed during their entrepreneurial lives. While some business owners undoubtedly are pleased with their situation and feel personally satisfied, others may crave an entirely different type of business ownership. They can attain any type of business ownership imaginable with the right information.
Developing Youth Entrepreneurship By: Cherryl Hanson-Simpson | - At a recent economic forum hosted by the Bethel Baptist Church in Kingston, a young man came forward to ask the panel of financial experts for tips on how he could be successful in his new business venture. As he made his passionate plea for guidance, I recalled the challenges of my first entrepreneurial effort at 23 years of age.
Personal Growth And Development Plan: 3 Simple Steps To Do It By: Michael Lee | - Having a personal growth and development plan in our life can spell the difference between failure and success. After all, life is not just a series of coincidences; it is something that happens because of who we are and what we choose to do.
Contrary to what other people may believe in, we have the power to steer ourselves in whatever direction we want to go. As long as we have a working personal growth and development plan, we will be able to achieve all our goals.
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
Assessing For Success By: Ken Keis | - "Management by objectives works if you first think through your objectives. Ninety percent of the time, you haven't."
Peter Drucker, Management Guru
1909 - 2005
Assessing For Success: Exposing the Misinformation about Assessments
Assessment: To determine the rate or amount of; to make an official valuation of for the purposes of judgment; to determine the importance, size, or value of something or someone.
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.
Why Don't You Teach The Way That I Learn? By: Ken Keis | - "Learning is not attained by chance; it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence."
Abigail Adams, Wife of John Adams
1744 - 1818
Why Dont You Teach The Way That I Learn?
Learn/ing: to gain knowledge, understanding, or skill by study or experience; to find out.
Creating A Successful Life And Career By: Ken Keis | - "It's not necessarily about what career you pick. It's about how you do what you do."
Cory Doctrow, Science Fiction Writer
Creating a Successful Life/Career for Self and Others
Career: an occupation or profession followed as a lifes work; a course or passage.
Life: a way of living; the physical and mental experiences of an individual; a specific phase or period.
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
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!
Making A Smart Start By: Ken Keis | - "...the root causes of transition failure always lie in a pernicious interaction between the situation, with its opportunities and pitfalls, and the individual, with his or her strengths and vulnerabilities."
Michael Watkins, The First 90 Days: Critical Success Factors for New Leaders at All Levels
Making a SMART Start
Guest Author: Dr. Brian J. Fraser
First impressions matter, especially when you are starting a new job.
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?
Replacing Rage With Composure By: Ken Keis | - "If you do not wish to be prone to rage, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase."
Epictetus, Roman (Greek-Born) Slave and Stoic philosopher
55 AD - 135 AD
Replacing Rage with Composure!
Rage: Violent and uncontrolled anger; a fit of violent wrath; insanity; violent action; an intense feeling.
Success Requires Effort! By: Ken Keis | - "Whenever I hear, "It can't be done," I know I'm close to success."
Michael Flatley, Creator of Lord of the Dance
Success Requires Effort!
Success: A degree or measure of succeeding; favorable or desired outcome or results; the attainment of wealth, favor, or eminence.
Effort: Conscious exertion of power; hard work; a serious attempt; something produced by exertion or trying; the total work done to achieve a particular end.
The Gift Of Challenges And Problems By: Ken Keis | - "The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem."
Theodore Rubin
The Gift of Challenges and Problems
Challenge: A stimulating or interesting task or problem.
Problem: A question raised for consideration or solution; an unsettled question; a source of perplexity or vexation.
What Is Stress Costing You? By: Ken Keis | - "If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding worry, stress, and tension. And if you didnt ask me, Id still have to say it."
George Burns, Comedian
What is Stress Costing You?
Stress: Pressure, strain, or force that tends to distort a body; a factor that induces bodily or mental tension.
Why Do We Need Personal Development? By: Dennis McKenzie | - Personal development is sometimes referred to as self-development or personal growth, and it traditionally covers a broad set of areas to improve. It is not however something that you gain from formal education, though the process of gathering knowledge is fundamental to growth. Personal development is a path that you take to better your family situation, career, spirituality, emotional health, and every other aspect of your life. It is the investment into improving yourself. Essentially, It is ... Tags:personal development, personal development goals, goal setting, personal growth, Self Development, personal awareness, goal acheiving
Take Time To Celebrate! By: Ken Keis | - "Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast -- you also miss the sense of where you are going and why."
Eddie Cantor, Comedian and Singer
1892 - 1964
Take Time to Celebrate!
Celebrate: to observe a notable occasion with festivities; to refrain from ordinary business; to honor as a holiday with ceremonies.
Do you take time out to celebrate your wins and successes in life?
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
Hatha Yoga, Personal Growth, And The Environment By: Paul M. Jerard Jr. | - Among the members of many noble causes, you will find Yogis and Yoginis. Causes such as: Charities for curing diseases, world peace, and saving the natural environment are filled with Hatha Yoga practitioners. While it is true that these people are performing Karma Yoga, what is it that draws them toward giving to others?
The core of all Yoga philosophy agrees with the values of the environmental conservation. There is a logical reason for this. Living, eating, consuming, and recy ... Tags:Hatha, Yoga, yogic, health, healthy, fit, fitness, Personal, Growth, Environment, development, yogi
Practicing Hatha Yoga For A Personal Growth Path By: Paul M. Jerard Jr. | - In Yoga classes, we are taught about Santosha (contentment). Yet, how can we be content with our lives, when we are influenced by the past, and the society we live in? We have to accept the fact that we are products of our family, culture, and education. To accept oneself at "face value" and without judgment is the beginning of finding inner peace.
For each of us this is a starting point in the journey of Yoga practice, and the path of personal growth, which runs parallel to our Y ... Tags:Practicing, practice, Hatha, Yoga, yogic, health, healthy, Personal, Growth, develop, development
Balance: The Final Frontier! By: lovelydian | - In this crazy-making world of multi-tasking and too many commitments, how do we find balance in our life? Better yet, what would balance look like? What would it feel like?
Many of us spent much of our lives achieving goals, making promises, and being in service to others. Now years later, instead of receiving recognition for our extra efforts, we find we are still being over-worked, stressed out and looking for a way to hide from the world.
Your Online Personal Growth - A Definition Of Wealth By: Tony Farrell | - Online personal growth is a goal that those with internet based careers want to achieve. And usually, those with internet based careers pair personal growth with how similar their internet income source is to a dollar generating machine. The more the income source freely generates money, the more that people associate this with personal growth.
The Importance Of Your Personal Growth And Development By: Tony Farrell | - The importance of personal growth and development is an essential aspect to an individual's capacity to live life to the fullest. Living a quality life depends on how we assert ourselves to be dedicated in managing our personal growth and development.
Personal growth and development comes in different aspects, namely, physical, mental, emotional, financial and spiritual aspect. All these are essential ingredients in attaining desired growth and development.
Managing Personal Growth Successfully By: Tony Farrell | - Before delving into managing personal growth successfully, let's first understand something.
Each person on this planet has a different set of talents and gifts. We all have different experiences that shape us and different opportunities that lead to the road of life that we are currently walking on. However, most of the time, these talents and opportunities are not taken advantaged of - perhaps because people are not aware that they have them or they're just not paying attention. ... Tags:managing personal growth successfully, personal growth and development, selp-development,
Resources To Support Personal Growth And Development By: Koz Huseyin | - In the past, resources to support personal growth and development were limited. You either had books or seminars. And these were few and far between. Luckily there are more and more resources to support personal growth and development, and as you read this article, you will discover the essential resources to support personal growth and development.
Personal Growth And Development In The New Age By: Koz Huseyin | - In the world today, we have an increasing need to develop ourselves. This is the domain of personal growth and development. And we can see why. Jobs are requiring certain personal characteristics, and getting to the top of your field, needs personal growth and development.
Personal growth and development is becoming more and more essential. If we take a look at the job market, we can see the developments, and why personal development is essential.
Improve Your Self Awareness For Personal Growth By: Kevin Sinclair | - Self awareness involves being conscious of who you are and how you will react in certain situations but it's also more than that.
What is Self Awareness
Self awareness is achieved by reflecting on your intentions and your actions. It is being aware of your own emotions and how to channel them in order to achieve what you want from life. So many of us re-act to life. Awareness of our selves enables us to be pro-active and therefore more in control of our life course ... Tags:self improvement, personal growth, self development, self awareness, growth
