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Personal Development Articles

Please enjoy the personal development articles many of which offer some tips and strategies on employing the "Essential Life Skills" and incorporating them into your game plan.

I will continue to add to the list with new and interesting information so check back often for the latest additions.

"We are built to conquer environment, solve problems, achieve goals, and we find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve". Maxwell Maltz


Articles

Self-Worth and High Self-Esteem

How to Build Self Confidence
We have to build our self-confidence and not depend on or wait for anyone else’s approval.

Healthy Personal Boundaries & How to Establish Them
Learning to set healthy personal boundaries is necessary for maintaining a positive self-concept or self-image.

Dare To Be An Original
When you dare to be an original you are in essence daring to be "yourself" and everything that encompasses who you really are.

10 Ways To Improve Your Personality
Contrary to what you may believe, you can improve your personality.

Personal Effectiveness

The Elements of A Productive Mindset
A productive mindset is one that makes the best use of your resources – your time, your energy and your efforts.

Good Communication Skills - Key to Any Success
Good communication skills are key to success in life, work, and relationships.

Increase Your Brain Power with Classics
Consider reading and learning about Classics to improve your mind or brain power, learning capability, and expanding your cultural literacy.

Tips On How to Develop Patience
Needless to say, patience does not come easily to most of us and it’s probably harder now to be patient than historically it has ever been.

How to Think Positively
What does it mean to 'think positively'?

7 Ways to Boost Your Mood
Enjoy this article I originally wrote for Peter's "I Will Change Your Life" Blog.

10 Tips for Maintaining Mental and Emotional Health  To lessen the impact of stressful mental and emotional wear and tear, consider implementing some of these helpful strategies into your daily routine.

Caring Compassion Charity
A cause that I feel strongly about and one that can lessen all the others when pursued with commitment and for the benefit of others, is EDUCATION.

Personal Development Techniques

The Benefits of Practicing Mindfulness  Mindfulness is the practice of being aware of ourselves without getting caught up in thinking about the past or worrying about the future.

Emotional Freedom Technique Can Change Your Life  More people are taking responsibility for their own well being than ever before. As a result there are self-help modalities available, to suit everyone's needs.

Affirmations - How To Make Them Real  There has been some speculation as to whether using affirmations is helpful in pursuing personal development and setting goals.

Visualization a Key To Achieving Your Goals Just as affirmations can help you motivate yourself and focus better so can using visualization or mental imagery.

How to Think Critically and Problem Solve Learning to think critically or problem solve is imperative if we are to succeed at anything in life.

Keys To Making A Good Decision  Good or sound decision-making is necessary for living life productively and efficiently.

Expand Your Comfort Zone If you want to improve and develop yourself you have to step out of your comfort zone.

Positive Personal Development Habits and Ways to Improve

Invest In Your Personal Development When you invest in your personal development you take responsibility for your life, your circumstances and your happiness. You become the agent, the doer, and the affecter.

Personal Development and Human Potential
Personal development is not measured by financial, social or external success.

Overcome Your Fear  Fear is certainly not always a bad thing. When it serves as a warning signal for impending danger or a life-threatening situation it is necessary and life preserving.

5 Tips to Help You Manage Change Change is sometimes difficult yet inevitable. If we can learn to accept and manage it, we can make it work for us.

Motivate Yourself - 5 Tips To Help You Sometimes it’s very difficult to get ourselves moving, however, if we want to accomplish our goals we have to be able to motivate ourselves.

10 Positive Habits To Develop  The little positive habits that could make the difference between having an okay day and a upbeat, positive day.

Ten Character Traits Worth Developing A wonderful article that lists a set of principles to live by.

On Life

5 Tips For A Well Balanced Life
A well balanced life is essential for personal effectiveness, peace of mind and living well.

15 Life Lessons They Didn't Teach You In School
There is the type of education we get in school and there are life lessons we learn along the way.

Live a Life of Courage
Contrary to what some may believe, courage is not a quality you are or aren’t born with.

7 Life Lessons Learned from Basketball
Like all sports basketball is a great metaphor for life.

What is Your Legacy?
Is there any more effective way to think with the end in mind then to consider what your legacy will be?

5 Ways To Buck the Trend and Add Meaning To The Holidays
This time of the year is typically busy with the hustle and bustle of the holidays.

There Is An Art To Living Well There is an art to everything and living well is no exception.

Live In The Moment To live in the moment means to be conscious, aware and in the present with all of your senses.

The Importance of Maintaining Balance   We tend to underestimate how much maintaining balance contributes to living life successfully and productively.

Success In Sports and In Life   For many, success in sports and in life is "winning". It is considered to be the ultimate goal.

The Law of Attraction - A Different Take  Given the popularity of The Secret lately and the concept of the Law of Attraction it has promoted, I can no longer avoid mentioning it even though I find the focus on it somewhat misleading.

Relationships

Relationship Reality Check Every now and then your relationship needs a reality check to make sure you are on the same page and in touch with each other.

Be An Interesting Person Too many young people today spend time working on their "outer packages" and neglect to develop their personalities.

Build A Support System When things aren’t going well or we’re just not feeling that great we all need support and encouragement.






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