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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Are you allowing the outside world to affect how you feel and act? 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 …
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 …
When do you experience anger? You become angry when you are frustrated, unhappy, or when your feelings are hurt. You also experience it when plans don’t turn out as desired or when coming against opposition or criticism. Anger never helps anyone. It wastes your energy, hurts your health, spoils your …
Do you tend to lose your patience at work? What are the reasons for losing patience in the workplace? Here are a few instances where you might lose your patience: You try to teach a new employee a certain job, but he does not understand, no matter how many times …
What does deja vu mean? You have most probably heard the words ‘deja vu’ more than once. What do these words mean? Let’s try to define the meaning of the words deja vu. Definition of Deja Vu What is deja vu? Here are a few explanations. The term “deja vu” …
Are you decisive, energetic, and a doer, or do you tend to procrastinate and prefer passivity? Do you sometimes ask yourself how to stop being lazy? Do you wonder how not to be lazy when you feel so? In this article, we will discuss laziness and provide some tips to …
The quality of your life depends largely on the quality of your emotional and mental life. What you think and how you feel affects your life, your relationships, your work, and everything else in your life. This means that what goes inside you affects your external life. Inner changes create …
Did you start some kind of self improvement technique, but did not see any improvement? Did you meditate, repeated affirmations or used visualization, but got no results? Do you sometimes, hear people say, “I have tried positive thinking, and I have repeated affirmations, I have meditated, and yet nothing happened?” …
Negative thinking appears to be more prevalent than positive thinking. It seems that positive thinking requires some effort with most people, whereas negative thinking comes easily and uninvited. This has much to do with education and the environment one has been living in. If you have been brought up in …
Do you wonder how to be assertive? What does ‘assertive’ mean? How to be more assertive in your everyday life? How to define the word assertive? The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines assertive as: “Disposed to or characterized by bold or confident statements and behavior.” Wikipedia defines assertiveness as: “The quality of …