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141) Investing In Your Dreams: The Key to Perfect Freedom
Author:
Alexander Green
Category:
Self Improvement
Not long ago, I was playing golf with a friend who is an attorney. Between shots he began telling me how much he detested his job.
"Why?" I asked.
"You have to understand my business," he said with a huff. "My day basically consists of writing nasty letters on behalf of my clients. Then we get nasty letters back. This goes on for a while until my clients realize how many billable hours they've run up. Then they start getting nasty with me. The whole business," he said with a shake of his...
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142) Embracing the Art of Distinction - What Makes You Uncommon?
Author:
Robb Thompson
Category:
Self Improvement
"Though no one can go back and make a brand new start,
anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending."~ AnonymousIn life, all of us experience passing moments of frustration, disappointment, and pain. But we also experience exquisite moments of happiness, pleasure, and bliss. I consider it an honor to assist you along this journey that we are all on, one filled with many unseen potholes, inconvenient detours, and pleasant surprises. As I think about the journey of...
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143) Your Mind Power - The Engine, The Source
Author:
Harold L Lowe
Category:
Self Improvement
In an earlier article, I introduced the basic functions of the conscious mind as analogous to a tiny man at the controls of a giant earth-moving machine. We now come to the heart of the matter, the source of your mind power. I wish to now introduce you (or re-introduce you) to the basic functions of your unconscious (subconscious) mind.
First of all, your unconscious mind is enormous! In fact, according to some of the latest suggestions coming from the field of Quantum Physics, the unconsci...
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144) Leadership matters in managing change effectively
Author:
William King
Category:
Self Improvement
Leadership plays an important role for any change in business or service organization. The article brings out a fact of the importance of leadership in management of a change process. It also throws light on the reasons for resistance to change and how these can be effectively managed by a correct leadership oriented approach.
Organizations need to change their functioning and way in which they conduct their business and services. The reason behind these changes might be external forces in e...
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145) Helpful Tips to Motivate your Employees
Author:
William King
Category:
Self Improvement
This article provides tips which will help the owner of a business to motivate his employees effectively, especially by interacting with them personally, and by maintaining good working conditions.
If you have a business approach which is people-friendly and focuses on your customers' needs, your clients' pleasure will be sufficient motivation for your employees to keep up their good work.
- It would be best to start from the very beginning. There is no way you can inspire them if you d...
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146) The 5 Fatal Fears That Will Always Hold You Back
Author:
Tony Hall
Category:
Self Improvement
What are you afraid of?The normal answers to that sort of question will be activities like, flying, drowning, or the most common is speaking in public. Or you may have a fear of spiders, rats, or snakes. Claustrophobia, the fear of confined spaces, and Agoraphobia, the fear of open or public spaces, are both well-known conditions that can cause major problems for people in their everyday lives. And there are even some obscure irrational fears like triskaidekaphobia which is an extreme...
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147) Decision Making - What's Your Style?
Author:
Sue Brenner
Category:
Self Improvement
When you have to choose which direction to lead your department, which city to move to or what your next career move will be, you have to make decisions. When you lead a team, family or even yourself, what style of decision-making do you use? Do you make the decision by yourself, hold a vote, involve everyone, gather input and then make the call, or defer the decision to someone else? Knowing your decision-making style will help you know when to change it if you find yourself in new territor...
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148) Helping Others by First Helping Ourselves
Author:
Sondra Whitt
Category:
Self Improvement
We probably all have people in our lives that we'd like to help - either because we love them or, if we don't even know them, just because we have a sense of wanting to help alleviate suffering in another human being. I learned a long time ago that I can't help anyone who doesn't want it. No matter how self-destructive their behavior, people have to choose to face the truth about themselves, choose to seek the help they need and then choose to do the hard work of change. However, there is a...
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149) Decisions Determine Destiny
Author:
Robb Thompson
Category:
Self Improvement
Success or Failure Is Never Left to Something As Fragile As Chance, It Is Purposely Given The Dignity of ChoiceLong-Term MindsetOver many years of observation, I discovered that all successful people have a long-term perspective. They live life knowing their present actions determine their future situations. They are clear about where they're heading and map out a plan that takes them there.Think for a moment how foolish it is for a construction company to begin b...
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150) Are You Asking the Right Questions?
Author:
Pat Brill
Category:
Self Improvement
During our journey through life we ask many questions. What is the direction of your questions? Are they external or internal?External questions direct us towards what others want from us. Internal questions allow us to listen to what we want.There are so many areas in your life that you need to ask questions about: relationships, friendships, family, careers, children, money, and sex. Let's focus on one very important area: you!Is it revolutionary or selfish of you to f...
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151) Depressed, Sad, Negative, Irritable?
Author:
personal growth
Category:
Self Improvement
Are you trying to overcome depression? Perhaps you suffer from seasonal depression that is just starting to lift as the spring months approach. Whether you are a person who experiences low grade depression (like a chronic virus) or a deep unrelenting sad mood that seems to stretch over the horizon, it is likely you are here, seeking ways to lift that ton of bricks off your shoulders.
In our quest to "feel good", we sometimes lose the forest for the trees and stop allowing ourselves to feel d...
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152) Socialize For Better Memory and Mental Health
Author:
Martin Mak
Category:
Self Improvement
Does it make sense to be more involved and have a more active social life as we age? Yes it does. Being more engaged socially appears to delay memory loss as we grow older, a new study has shown.The finding, which appears in the July issue of The American Journal of Public Health, suggests that strong social interaction, through friends, family and community groups can enhance our brain health as we age and that social isolation may be an important risk factor for cognitive decline fo...
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153) Follow the Rules in Order to Break Them
Author:
Jennifer Koretsky
Category:
Self Improvement
So this past weekend Erin and I played house when we took my 6 & 5 year old cousins, Michael and Alex, for a night. These kids are insanely cute, but they're a handful. Erin quickly deciphered Michael's MO: if no one's looking, the rules don't apply.At 6 years old, Michael has recently been diagnosed with ADHD. He's got many ADHD traits, from hyperactivity to severe boredom after 60 seconds of inactivity. And keeping up with him is a challenge.It also forced me to think about t...
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154) Subliminal Learning Increases Your Ability to Learn
Author:
Anne Dixon
Category:
Self Improvement
A very popular method of increasing your ability to learn faster is through subliminal learning. Subliminal learning helps by allowing you to hear information at a level so low that only your subconscious mind "hears" it. Positive affirmations regarding learning, focusing, getting rid of learning blocks, etc. are recorded on audio or video. They are added to the recordings in a special way so your "conscious" mind is not aware of the information. The audios or videos are enjoyable to hear an...
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155) What is Wisdom?; and How Can We Get Some?
Author:
Don Frazier
Category:
Self Improvement
"And this is what he says to all mankind; Look, to fear (respect) the Lord is true wisdom; to forsake evil is real understanding'." (Job 28:28 tlb)There are two type of wisdom and mankind is capable of obtaining only one kind, human wisdom. Gods' wisdom is not for mankind."Everything is appropriate in its own time. But though God has planted eternity in the hearts of men, even so, man cannot see the whole scope of God's work from beginning to end."
(Ecclesiastes 3:11 tlb)<...
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156) Personal Success Creation
Author:
Salim Hashamy
Category:
Self Improvement
As a student, Success University has been designed with one thing in mind - to teach you the right kind of knowledge that will raise the level of success in every area of your life.As the first and only Success University, we firmly believe that knowledge alone won't make you wealthy... We go to school for 12 to 20 years of our lives but are simply never taught the right kind of knowledge to be successful in life. In today's world, you need to THINK in a different way to achieve real...
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157) Sales Management Training: Protect Your Company from (Sales) Identity Theft in 3 Simple Steps
Author:
Rod McKinnis
Category:
Self Improvement
Business Development Officer? Business Procurement Specialist? Did you know these types of titles for salespeople can ultimately rob your organization?
As a Sales Management Training Consultant, I often notice business cards from salespeople with titles that require some effort to decipher. As I inquire further about their role, eventually it pops out - "I'm in sales". It makes me wonder, when did "Sales" become a five letter word that can no longer show up on one's business card? It gets d...
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158) Interpreting Body Language Attraction Signals and Gestures of the Opposite Sex
Author:
Brandon Lindall
Category:
Self Improvement
Did you know that the body language of both males and females will change dramatically when in the presence of the opposite sex. For instance, a man will automatically straighten up his body, stand a little taller, and avoiding all those common slumping or slouching postures.When a man is in the company of a woman he's interested in, he will try his best to appear more dominant by pulling in his stomach and expanding his chest out.Let's say coincidently the woman he likes here...
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159) The Narcissist - A Golden Child Without Limits
Author:
Linda Martinez-Lewi, Ph. D.
Category:
Self Improvement
When we are struggling with grandiose, ruthless, self-entitled narcissists in our personal and professional lives, we ask ourselves: "How did this person develop into such a self-absorbed, unempathic, deceitful individual?" The answer is not in the stars or the genetics as far as we presently know. The personality of the narcissist develops very early in childhood as a result of his (her) interactions with mother, father or both parents. In many instances the future narcissist is chosen for...
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160) Invest in Yourself First
Author:
Happy Riches
Category:
Self Improvement
Investing in yourself is about the best investment you can make.The reason for this is when you invest in yourself, you are increasing your true personal worth. When you make investments in savings debentures, bonds, stocks, property or anything else that might give you are return on your money, you may be increasing your personal financial worth, but this does not necessarily mean you are increasing your true personal worth.Your true personal worth transcends your financial wo...
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