Self Improvement and Personal Development
Articles on self improvement and personal development, and on how to improve yourself and your habits.
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Working on yourself is one of the best things you can do. Self-development not only improves your everyday routine and quality of life, but also leads to improving your relationships with others at times. You can achieve a lot more if you set some personal development goals to turn into a better version of yourself. Maintaining your body and personality …
Are you allowing the outside world to affect your life? Do you make your own decisions, or do you let outside factors make them for you? Do you accept other people’s opinions or do you form your own? Are you allowing the news you hear on TV to affect your moods and state of mind? How do you react to …
A clever friend today suggested I explore the idea of counting your blessings before sleeping or when waking in the morning. I said “Oh yes, I call that the Thank You Game”. Abraham Hicks calls it A Rampage of Appreciation and Peggy McColl calls it a Gratitude Journal (written version). The idea is that you can shift your current state …
Have you ever met people whose confidence was inspirational? Have you seen how this confidence helps them succeed regardless of the challenges they face? In learning and in life, confidence is what makes people perform better. Performance and confidence are related in a unique and interesting way. Should a student have faith in their own abilities and ideas, they are …
Have you been feeling stuck lately? Do you think that you have not been productive? Or do you want to make some changes in your life? Whatever your answers to these questions are, your feelings are valid. It might be a hard-to-swallow pill, but you must understand that everyone experiences them, too. It is all up to you if you …
Setting boundaries gives you control over your life and your time, and protects you from manipulation and doing things you don’t want to do. Setting boundaries means the ability to say ‘no’, to stop allowing people to exploit and manipulate you. Acting in this way means that you respect your life and your interests, and acknowledge that your own plans, …
Be Kinder to Yourself – Simple Self-Love: The Top 10 Ways to Be Kind to Yourself Starting Today “Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind.” – Henry James Being kind to yourself in everyday life is in my experience one of …
If there is one trait that people say they are attracted to, whether it is in a personal way or in a professional setting, it is confidence. This can result in everything from having more relationships to securing the best business deals for a company. But, there are a lot of people that struggle with self-confidence. This might be the …
The human mind is an incredible thing: it absorbs our experiences and thoughts and helps us to form our sense of identity. Yet, with the change of our life circumstances, we tend to ask ourselves ‘Who am I really?’ as we no longer relate to the way we used to see ourselves. That’s exactly what happens when one experiences an …
The definition of a procrastinator is: ‘someone who keeps delaying things that must be done.’ Procrastination might come in the form of doing lots of smaller tasks that aren’t so important, to avoid the bigger ones that are. But it can also mean putting off those smaller tasks too – perhaps you find yourself doing anything but that one little …