Self Improvement and Personal Development
Articles on self improvement and personal development, and on how to improve yourself and your habits.
Learn about Positive Thinking.
You have the ability to stop giving power to negativity in your life and in the world. Thoughts and feelings of anger, pain, dissatisfaction, revenge and violence are being constantly released into the earth’s atmosphere. All of these thoughts and feelings are repeated over and over again, day after day, producing currents of negative emotional and mental energy, which get …
Are you happy with your life? Are you satisfied with what is going in your life? If things go wrong, do you become angry and impatient, or do you let your anger boil inside you? Can you accept what cannot be changed? Are you able to do your best to change what can be changed? Plans, expectations and desires don’t …
Do you, like most people feel lazy sometimes? It could be just a momentary feeling of laziness due to being tired, or it could be a habitual state. You might feel lazy when you need to carry out a certain particular activity, when you feel no motivation, or when you prefer to do something else. Laziness is a state of …
Sometimes, after reading about the results of personal growth techniques, people start enthusiastically repeating affirmations, visualizing, and using various inner growth techniques. They expect immediate results, and they might get them if they aim at some minor changes in their life. Gaining immediate results can make you feel happy and elated. However, when it comes to more important matters, change …
The term self improvement is a bit misleading, and sometimes, erroneously interpreted. What do you actually improve? You don’t improve your “self” and you don’t improve your “spirit”. You don’t improve something that does not exist in you. You improve and develop certain skills that are already in you, but are weak, in a dormant state. You improve your personality, …
It seems that a great number of people suffer from anxiety. The ADDA – Anxiety and Depression Association of America, says that anxiety disorders are the most common mental illness in the U.S., affecting 40 million adults in the United States age 18 and older, or 18.1% of the population every year. Is it possible to get rid of anxiety, …
We hear so much about self-acceptance from people that study or teach personal growth methods. What is the meaning of self acceptance? Does it mean accepting your weaknesses or negative habits and doing nothing about them? Does it mean accepting your behavior, attitude and lifestyle, and doing nothing to change and improve? Is it the acceptance of your life as …
People often ask me why positive thinking does not work for them. Here is an email message I have received recently: “I’ve been trying this whole positive thinking thing for about 2 years now with no results. Things actually seen to be getting worse. “I’m up to my neck in debt and my health isn’t the greatest. I watched “The …
Do you often feel upset, down, disappointed or frustrated? Are you allowing your mind to think about problems, failure, obstacles or bad health? Do you worry a lot? If you do, it means that you are a victim of negative thinking. This is a form of victim mentality. You suffer and feel bad, because you allow negative thoughts to occupy …
Do you want to improve the quality of your life? I am sure you do. You can start improving the quality of your life right now. Actually, you can start to see results right away. Even doing small things count, such as: Going to sleep earlier at night. Waking up earlier in the morning. Reducing the time you spend in …