Personal Development Articles

Personal Development | By Marc Savage @ Tuesday, 27th July 2010

While at first, the act of being hypnotized without your awareness may sound hard to believe or even frightening, you can easily learn to hypnotize this way. It in fact is common and not as scary as it may sound which is why you should learn to hypnotize. If you've ever been sucked into an infomercial or met a politician [more...]

Personal Development | By Alan Densky @ Monday, 26th July 2010

If you are a student who is trying to enhance your grades, there are a number of shortcuts that can help you to amplify your ability to focus your attention, memorize the data that you study, and recall it during a test without suffering from mental blocks or a test phobia. This is a list of how to go about [more...]

Personal Development | By Marjorie Salada @ Tuesday, 20th July 2010

Online education is growing in popularity every day. This type of education has allowed many nontraditional students, such as; individuals that work full time and stay-at-home moms to attain a college degree. I have even seen soldiers serving in Iraq and Afghanistan taking online classes in their off time. Distance learning has opened many doors for people that did not [more...]

Personal Development | By Doreen Rainey @ Monday, 19th July 2010

Celebrities, the media, our family, our friends...they all try to tell us what success should look like. But the only person that can define success for you...is you. But how do you do that? How do you break away from all the external voices and focus on your own? Here are 7 tips, incorporating the word [more...]

Personal Development | By Doreen Rainey @ Monday, 19th July 2010

Celebrities, the media, our family, our friends...they all try to tell us what success should look like. But the only person that can define success for you...is you. But how do you do that? How do you break away from all the external voices and focus on your own? Here are 7 tips, incorporating the word [more...]

Personal Development | By Alan Densky @ Monday, 19th July 2010

Self-confidence is an ability to believe in oneself as well as one's personal strengths and faculties. This quality is a correlate of positive self-image, and essential to success. Frequently, those who have a social phobia or fail to learn how to increase self confidence find it difficult to succeed. A deficit in self-confidence unfortunately, is an obstacle to a person's [more...]

Personal Development | By Suzie Crawford @ Tuesday, 13th July 2010

Many of us only give whatever time we have left over after work, surviving and sleeping to the things we truly love and value. We have to turn that equation around. If you look at your life, you should be spending your time doing the things you love. It is not enough to just know what you love. [more...]

Personal Development | By Greg Savoie @ Wednesday, 7th July 2010

The big day is over with all the excitement and fun, guests have all departed, gifts exchanged and the wedding cake cut, now what next? This often marks the onset of a condition referred to as the "post wedding blues" also " wedding withdrawal syndrome" and learning how to deal with it is something that will greatly improve your relationship [more...]

Personal Development | By Jacob Schiffer @ Wednesday, 7th July 2010

To come up with an effective personal development plan to improve all areas of your life, here are some things you need to do: take a self-assessment, set a goal, learn new skills, hire a coach, and measure progress. Personal development is about enhancing your personality and making positive changes to improve your life. It involves identifying areas of improvement while [more...]

Personal Development | By Jenny Vidal @ Tuesday, 6th July 2010

It's definitely possible for everyone to make extraordinary achievements and overcome obstacles -- all through the practice of self hypnosis. People from all walks of life can excel once they find help beating the challenges they face in life. You might ask why someone would want to learn to do self hypnosis since with the thousands of self-improvement books, DVDs, and [more...]

Personal Development | By Doreen Rainey @ Friday, 2nd July 2010

I am a true believer that success is self-defined. It's tapping into the talents, passion and gifts you have to create a life - and a lifestyle - that brings you joy and fulfillment. Using the word "SUCCESS", I've outlined seven steps to help you create a successful life. S - See Your Future Success is very personal. The definition of [more...]

Personal Development | By Andrew Stratton @ Tuesday, 29th June 2010

Sometimes, the time spent in the classroom just isn't sufficient enough when it comes to understanding and retaining lesson information from the classroom. For those students who are struggling or would simply benefit from a little one on one interaction, a tutor can be a wonderful solution. Tutors are professional private teachers who are hired in order to aid in [more...]

Personal Development | By Jack Landry @ Friday, 25th June 2010

What exactly is olive? What is the difference between extra virgin olive oil, virgin olive oil, and just plain old olive oil? Olive cultivation started in the eastern Mediterranean around 6,000 years ago. Today, about ninety-nine percent of all the olive oil still comes from Mediterranean as well as Spain, Italy and Greece. Olive oil comes from olive trees which are [more...]

Personal Development | By Irsan Komarga @ Thursday, 17th June 2010

There is a theory in psychology known as the self-determination theory. Well, basically it points out that a person is best living his or her life if he or she is self-determined. So what does it mean to be self-determined? It means that a person is motivated from within. The passion must come from the person, not from external rewards, [more...]

Personal Development | By Michael Halper @ Thursday, 17th June 2010

One way to create female attraction is to increase you the level of value that we display. Displayed value is the level of personal value that others perceive that you have. This may or may not be the same as level as our true value. The perceived value is impacted by how we act, what we say, [more...]

Personal Development | By Irsan Komarga @ Thursday, 17th June 2010

Sometimes we get to the point that we feel there is no hope for us to get through the hard times especially when the economy is getting worse each year. Things may get ugly and you would not want to go through the fight anymore. You just want to sit and feel defeated like you want to give up. But [more...]

Personal Development | By Irsan Komarga @ Thursday, 17th June 2010

There are some points in our lives that we get to struggle. Life's trials are inevitable but it does not mean it can't be solve. The trials we go through in our life are part of life. It is part of growing up and learning things that would give us wisdom and enlightenment as we go through them. We have [more...]

Personal Development | By Irsan Komarga @ Thursday, 17th June 2010

First, you have to accept that when you were a child, other people were afflicting you with their own internal pain: you are not to blame for this. Negative self-blame can be very chronic and damaging. It can reduce your healthy self-esteem to virtually nothing and gain you doubt about yourself for most of the time in your life experiences. Second, [more...]

Personal Development | By Irsan Komarga @ Thursday, 17th June 2010

Every person has an inborn drive for success. He is craving to climb up to the top of the ladder. He may not be able to articulate it or write it down, but inside of him has always been a burning urges to succeed at something.  Of course, this something, whatever it may be, propels an individual's thoughts, feelings, and [more...]

Personal Development | By Irsan Komarga @ Thursday, 10th June 2010

Now when a traumatic event happens, we automatically perform our coping strategies-possibly the good ones, the bad ones or both. The bad kind of coping strategies are called maladaptive coping strategies. Why? This is so because healthy adaptation is the key to survival after encountering a traumatic event like fires, sudden deaths and terrorist activities. So what is healthy adaptation? Healthy [more...]