How To Increase Your Self Confidence
Posted on March 15, 2008 - Filed Under Self Improvement | Leave a Comment
A healthy level of self confidence and self image is not only necessary, it is essential for any kind of success we seek achieve. Only when you’re comfortable with who you are and confident in what you can do, will other people believe in you and your abilities. This applies both to your personal as well as your professional life.
For those who experience the day-to-day effects of low self confidence it is a very real and troubling issue. The fact is that it dramatically reduces your chances for success in life due to its far reaching consequences. No matter how badly you may want something, a lack of self confidence will always work against you and undermine your efforts.
Read More..>>Embrace Your Introvert
Posted on March 12, 2008 - Filed Under Self Improvement | Leave a Comment
Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about the frustration associated with being an introvert. Over the last couple months I’ve heard from many introverted people who are intelligent, articulate, funny, and very self-aware. Each and every one has demonstrated some level of frustration with the complications that come with being introverted. And that frustrates me.
Read More..>>Effective Goal Setting
Posted on March 8, 2008 - Filed Under Self Improvement | Leave a Comment
Did you ever question why setting goals is essential to your life? The simplest answer is that you could just end up anywhere if you don’t set a goal. There you would be, just floating around waiting for whatever happened next. That may be a little overly simplistic, but you get the idea. You need to have a destination in mind. In order to get to that destination, you have to have a plan. Every morning you wake up and make goals. You are just not aware of it. You decide what to wear, what to eat for breakfast, what chores you want to get done that day.
Read More..>>Father Really Knew Best - The Kid Can Do It!
Posted on March 4, 2008 - Filed Under Self Improvement | Leave a Comment
Whether it’s running behind the bike as we learn to manage without training wheels or standing by our side as we make a lifelong commitment to a new life partner, our fathers are there to offer support and encouragement as we master new skills and experiment with life.
So, let’s raise a glass or a picnic plate full of good vittles to the FATHER in our lives. Here are the qualities I cherish as a result of my dad.
Read More..>>Do You Appreciate Your Abundance?
Posted on March 3, 2008 - Filed Under Self Improvement | Leave a Comment
We are blessed to be alive on planet earth at this moment in time. We are so important to the planet because we are on the cusp of a rise in the consciousness of all humanity that will bring on the dawn of a new era of life as we know it on this beautiful blue planet. I believe that the proper thing to do when you are confronted with this situation is to be eternally grateful.
The great thing about it is you can begin right now and start being grateful for all that you possess in your life. Not only the material possessions but more importantly the non-material ideals and concepts that you hold about who you are.
Read More..>>Good Lessons From Bad Bosses
Posted on March 2, 2008 - Filed Under Self Improvement | Leave a Comment
Today, among the myriads of workplace troubles having a bad boss is probably the worst that can happen to an employee. Of course, the definition of a bad boss is a vague and subjective term that can be debated to eternity depending on whose side you lean on an issue. And typical textbook definitions of a bad boss is one who screams, threatens, intimidates, disrespects, grabs credit, fires people, throttles people’s necks and so on.
Read More..>>Organizing - Is It Worth The Effort?
Posted on March 1, 2008 - Filed Under Self Improvement | Leave a Comment
As an organizing consultant, I hear time and time again, “I don’t have the time to be organized.”
Today life moves at such a fast pace and families are involved in so many things doesn’t it make sense to live as efficiently as possible? Being able to quickly access the things you need when you need them not only makes life easier but much less stressful.
Being disorganized also throws your life out of balance. Feng shui experts will tell you that clutter stagnates ‘chi’ which is the energy that breathes life into our living spaces. When ‘chi’ is blocked you’re faced with an imbalance.
Read More..>>Responsibility Helps You Stay In Charge
Posted on February 28, 2008 - Filed Under Self Improvement | Leave a Comment
Do you find yourself always making excuses; when you are you late on your project? what about your unmet goals? did you forget something? have you screwed up again? No matter what it could be, desist from making unnecessary excuses for yourself. Excuses does a lot of harm on your reputation and occupies quality emotional space with negativity. Instead of cooking a creative or captivating lie or trying to wiggle your way by making excuses, just accept your fault and move on.You don’t need to be defensive on every issue, if you are wrong, you are wrong. So leave the excuses and use your time on rewarding things. “Spend your thought time planning your next successful venture. Positive thinking becomes a helpful habit. Excuses fuel failure.”- Susan M. Heath field
Read More..>>Are People Scary?
Posted on February 24, 2008 - Filed Under Self Improvement | Leave a Comment
How did the world become a place where we fear others, sue them, keep our children away from them, while we know little, if anything, about who they are and what they think? Let’s have a look at the impact of statistics on our beliefs and find out how we can choose to brighten up our world again.
My childhood memories, and those of many of the people I know, include being outside and playing with other kids, having warm, familiar people around us and generally having faith in other humans. As a child, strangers were interesting to me and I knew that the adults in my life, even if they were hard on me, would help me in case of trouble.
Read More..>>Understanding Shyness Social Phobia Better
Posted on February 20, 2008 - Filed Under Self Improvement | Leave a Comment
Social phobia is a severe form of shyness, a disorder also known as social anxiety. People with social phobia are often reluctant to admit that they have the symptoms because they fear being ridiculed about their psychological condition.
Making a patient feel more at ease:
If the caregivers of a patient want their loved one to be more comfortable admitting to having social phobia, they may try expressing sympathy about the patient and his condition. For example, a patient who dreads attending parties may feel better if he is told by his sister: I feel uncomfortable at parties sometimes too. It helps to have allies.
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