Who Should You Listen To
When it comes to advice, some are phenomenal, some are plain bad and the bulk of them everywhere in between. Most of the time there’s a subconscious, automated gut feeling that tells you whether a piece of advice is more of the productive or the destructive sort. But when you’re ...
NLP - A Personal Development Tool
Like many personal development innovations, NLP – which stands for neuro-linguistic programming – is a product of the 1970’s when the idea of cognitive patterns creating a subjective form of reality that by virtue of its ability to be manipulated, could be slated into personal development tools.
The goal is to ...
Frank Parsons - Father of Career Development
Career development is considered by many to be an integral part and parcel of anyone’s training who fathoms her- or himself as going into business. It used to be the case that young people used to graduate from school, take an entry-level position with a company, and then over the ...
Career Development: What You Can Do To Further Your Career
Just about everyone wants to advance in his or her chosen vocation. No one wants to simply stay put; everyone wants to get somewhere else. But few people really know how to make their own advancement happen.
Career development is not very complex – which is not to say that it ...
Gaining Through Adversity
ldquo;A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” Sir Winston Churchill
Adversity is one of those words that when we hear it or it comes our way our inclination is to run and hide from it. It feels frightening and uncomfortable. Then there ...
Agreeing With Everyone
There are two ways you can disagree with someone else and I’d like to clearly separate them from each other so that you can enjoy improved relationships with others. One of them is that you think the other person is wrong and the other is that you think he is ...
Impersonal Development
Sporadically, I’ve encountered some negativity in the comments of the personal development blog-o-sphere. It’s as if self-help allegedly has a dark side to it - egotism, fluff, exploitation, superiority, deception and even lunacy. Another prevalent issue is when a genuinely useful piece of work has a miniscule orthographical or political ...
A Lighter Way of Life
Give yourself the gift today of a lighter way of life. All stress and pain are created in the mind. Whatever kind of day you have, it will be one of your own making. You are the producer, director, writer and star of your own day. Will it be a ...
7 Simple, But Transformational-Things You Can Say To Anyone
1. Thank You!
One day a childless widow decided to give some cookies to some of the neighborhood children. Some of them quickly said thank you and started running down the street eating their cookies. Others said nothing and snatched the cookies and ran. But one little girl, held the ...
Filling the Canteen of Relationship Resilience
Keeping the relationship canteen full is more than just accumulating friends and acquaintances. The relationship canteen is filled by the richness of those relationships and the connectedness created through the friendships and family.
It is said that a person with friends is never truly alone and when your resilience is tested ...
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