Personal Development
Personality Development
Practicing the basics of personality development can help you to project yourself in a better light. Using personality development methods can help to overcome many hurdles in life. Here’s a look at the some factors.
Who is Your True, Authentic Self?
Each of us has something unique and special to bring to our speaking engagements. It’s how you connect with your audience and make your presentation about them that’s most important. Knowing who you are - and who you aren't - keeps you honest, authentic, and accessible to your audience. You're perfect just the way you are!
Free Extreme Personal Makeover
There is an easy way the get a Free Extreme Personal makeover. Quick and simple steps that will transform the way you look, feel and live. Guaranteed to turn heads and change the way people think about you and respond to you, forever.
Be More Successful: Create "ME INC."
Be more successful! Create "Me Inc." by branding your distinctive value and packaging your skills and unique characteristics into a powerful identity that enables you to rise above your closest competitor for that plum project, promotion, or lucrative business deal.
Are You Affected by Social Contagion?
An article with a social contagion contest is a perfect way to show why we need not agree with a negative social contagion, but be influenced by a positive one.I am still thinking about how to protect myself, and others, from the negative impact of the social environment.
The First Step You Take Is Always The Most Important One
I am thinking we never lose that ability to keep trying until we succeed, it only gets buried under our ego, thoughts and fears. How can we awaken the desire to continue taking those first steps?
Does Attitude Really Count?
For as long as I’ve been a professional I’ve heard that a person’s attitude makes a difference. You’ve probably heard all the cute sayings about attitude – "Your Attitude Determines Your Altitude", Attitude is Everything", "The Only Thing You Can Control is Your Attitude".
Its Ok Not to Be Happy With Your Life
What is it that has stopped you from having a successful business, good marriage, or owning that dream home? Martin Kelly takes a humorous look at what really holds us back and it is not just the lack of money.
Personal Development Coaching - An Introduction
A life coach can assist you redefine your purpose in life.
Reach Your Potential, Steps To Achieve What You Want
The more times you achieve something the more positive reinforcement you will get which will make it easier to do the next thing and the next thing until before you know it you’ll be reaching your potential and beyond.
20 Golden Rules to Live Your Life with Positive Energy and Achieve More
Achieve more than you ever thought possible by shedding negative energy and surrounding yourself with more positive energy with these 20 golden rules.
Is Your Personal Image Up to Par?
Because you can never retract that infamous first impression, perhaps it’s time for you to consider how to make a great one.
Discipline Is The Key
Understanding the importance of discipline.
True Disciplines Of Love Done Right !
Sometimes opposites attract! Ma and Pa Kettle, mixed well most of the time, and when they didn't together, one tried to help the other. Help the other, in your own special ways! More personality of soul awaits you! Taste the sip of discipline first, so your mate doesn't share in discipline gone bad, least burned lips as well.
Step into The Power Of Personal Development
Unleash the power behind self improvement by unlocking the first key of personal development and goal-achievement. Follow this guide to create the life of your dreams.
Enrichment in Early Childhood
One of the brain-related issues of special interest to educators is the place of "enrichment" in early education.
Personal Development - A Dog's Life
A dog's opinion about his stressed boss: I reckon the Boss should lie in the sun with me. And chew his foot for a while. It's relaxing. It might help with his stress. Whatever that is.
Personal Development - Back to Basics
In my work, I use an effective step-by-step process when I'm coaching people to help them create their best life. It ain't rocket science but it works.
Personal Development Lies
Too many 'wanna-be experts' espouse messages that are misleading, unrealistic, impractical and potentially dangerous. Good for selling books, not so good for creating real-life results... forever change. In a culture which is desperate for a shortcut (we are the quick-fix generation) it's easy to sell lies because so many of us don't wanna buy the truth... it's not nearly as attractive.
Personal Development - Does It Really Work?
Is it really possible to use Personal Development to build the life of your dreams? Accelerate your self improvement by discovering the first rule of personal development.
A Life Coach Could Be Just What You Need
Life coaches can act as the perfect motivator in so many different situations.
Finished Before the Starting Line
Why some people stuck on the starting line will never come near achieving their goals.
Personal Development Plans and Goal Setting Tips
Do you realise the power of having a personal development plan? It's like having your very own blueprint for success in your life – tailored to create your life exactly how you want it to be. If I could show you how to build your own personal development plan, would you be willing to devote 10 -15 minutes per day to nurture it and put it into practise?
You can't get to the fridge if you don't get off the couch
Momentum is that irresistible force that keeps us doing what we need to do and moving in the right direction, irrespective of how we're 'feeling' on a given day. The greater the momentum we create... the greater our chance of success.
Time Efficient Personal Development
"Err, yes Mrs Smith... well... the test results are back and surprisingly, your child is not big-boned... he actually comes under the clinical classification of... really fat!" "Huge even".
The Varieties of Wisdom
There are several varieties or "flavors" of personal wisdom. Here, Copthorne Macdonald discusses three of them as well as the back-and-forth relationship between personal wisdom and socio-cultural wisdom.
Playing the Wisdom Game
Subtitled "Some thoughts about the nature and development of wisdom," this article was first published in the 2006 book LIVING A LIFE OF VALUE.
How To Go From Millionaire To Decamillionaire
How To Go From Millionaire To Decamillionaire (A personal development article - five part series)
What Does It Mean To Love Your Neighbor?
To love your neighbor, means we should first follow the ancient golden rule "What you do not want others to do to you, do not do to others." Second, we can show and prove that we really love our neighbor by respecting and keeping on improving our being. I believe these are the key that we can be able to find a true meaning of happiness and peaceful living.
I Dream To Become A Great Man
I was born as a poor boy and grew up in the street without the care, guidance and supervision of my beloved parent. I have been experienced an empty stomach, Almost naked, without permanent shelter and without proper education. As a young man with deprived and sad experiences of life, I started to think of innovation and dream for my future. I dream to become a famous, I dream to become a great man!
The Best Investment: Investment Begins Inside Not Out
Despite of obstacles faced through a failed marriage and the humiliation of bankruptcy one woman's self-discovery about her talents and gifts made her finally realize that there's not just a light, but life at the end of the tunnel.
The Personal Development Zombie
Personal Development Zombie - a person seemingly incapable of independent thought. Takes on the beliefs, philosophies, ideologies and identity of other higher profile and allegedly(?) more enlightened individuals.
The Potential of Leisure for Personal Health and Development
How a new recreation interest played a key role in transforming me from a person having absolutely no self esteem, self confidence or self belief to becoming a successful public speaker and lifestyle coach showing people how to enjoy unlocking their natural potential.
Personal Development Checkpoint: Taking a Look Back
In order to effect positive changes in your life, you must be willing to recognize the fact that you may have already strayed WAY off track.
Why Personal Development Doesn’t Work
Does personal development success come in a box, a bag, or in tickets to a highly motivational training weekend, or is it something more elusive, yet very much available?
Achieve Personal Growth in 5 Steps
We all have goals that we would like to meet and fears we would like to conquer. Not many of us have reached our full potential. Learn how to develop personally in just five steps so that you can reach your goals.
Master Success and personal development by transforming the hare into a tortoise
What can we learn from the tortoise and the hare? How can these lessons contribute to our personal success? We can learn that you have to want it bad enough to work for it, you have to plan for the long haul, and you have to be able to withstand some bumps in the road.
A Simple Personal Development Method for Bonding Yourself to Success
Attaining your definition of success in life is something that is caused initially by the way you feel, not the things that you do. Taking action has its place, but you need to first emotionally bond to your desires if you want to be able to take consistent action towards attaining them.
Exploring the Concept of True Self
How do we discover our true self, I wondered. What does the term mean? Do we really need to worry about it... or is this just one more piece of unnecessary personal development fluff to distract me from just living, laughing, learning and loving? Maybe I already am being my true self... but if not, does that mean I'm being my fake self?
Give me a Punctuation Change and I’ll Give you Personal Development Success
If it was possible to put your problem-solving tasks on autopilot and free yourself from having to come up with solutions, do you think that is something you would be interested in? The method for doing exactly that is only a punctuation mark away!
The Seven(teen) Habits of Highly (In)effective People
Okay, here we go; my seventeen anti-personal development gems for those people who seem curiously desperate to fail and extremely determined to find a way and a reason to do it...
Personal Development Fraud (part two)
Today I thought we'd discuss some of the key Personal Development fallacies, self-help myths; call them what you will .... but they inhabit the pages of many books and the teachings of many people who (I believe) should know better.
Personal Development Fraud (part one)
Personal Development gurus have just as many issues, fears, insecurities and flaws as the next person; they just hide it better!
How to Maximize Personal Development by Instantly Stopping Mental SPAM
As if getting SPAM in your email wasn’t bad enough, the mental SPAM that you keep feeding yourself is far more damaging, but also far easier to get rid of!
A Successful Failure
Every day I get up and I know that life is a gift and I have the opportunity to do something.... or nothing. I am passionate and driven because I choose to be.
Critical of Critics
Have you ever noticed how some people, who clearly have enough of their own flaws, faults and issues (as we all do), seem compelled to constantly find fault in others?
A Mathematical Approach to Success (Personal Development for Geeks)
I got to wondering about what would happen if we de-emotionalised the personal development process and approached the success journey from a strictly numerical and mathematical perspective.
Direct Your Thoughts
Let's have a little fun with our machine! You know, that little motor between your ears that drones every day.
Creating Space for the New
How can anything great come into your physical, spiritual or mind space when you keep filling the spaces with all those unnecessary extras? Including, worry, drama, procrastination, physical clutter and negative conversation.
7 Quick Tips To Simplify Your Life
Avoid being road-kill on this super charged super highway called life in the 21st century. It is time to take charge of our lives again and do it in a way that does not add to the current of overwhelm.
Already There.....just didn't realise
One of the problems with some Personal Development students is that they are so pre-occupied with creating their amazing future that they don't really appreciate, or let themselves enjoy, their pretty-darn-good 'right now.' Considering that we live in the present and never in the future, it's a good idea to be able to enjoy the here and now (while still having goals and dreams for the future).
The Success Myth
I just watched a short video of a world-renowned personal development guru sharing his thoughts and ideas on success and what we need to do to become successful. Give me a bucket. I'd rather hit myself on the head with a bat.
Wanna Succeed? .... Get Uncomfortable
As an Exercise Scientist and Trainer I have spent much of the last twenty-five years helping people change their body. Smaller, bigger, lighter, leaner, more muscle, more flexibility, speed, power... Athletes, non-athletes, kids, mums, dads.....whatever they were after; that's what I did my best to deliver.
Psychosexual Stages of Personal Development
The pursuit of pleasure ("the pleasure principle") and the avoidance of pain drive the infant to explore his or her self and the world at large.
Working Women Facing Professional Crisis: New Research Can Help
What happens to a woman in mid-life when, after dedicating years to building and maintaining a successful, high-level career, she awakens suddenly to the belief that her work is no longer acceptable or positive for her, and that it no longer makes sense for her to continue?
How much are you worth?
Could Microsoft, Toyota or Sanyo whip up a duplicate of "you"?
From A to B in a Straight Line
Are you doing what it takes to achieve the outcomes that you say you want to achieve? There are many actions that can make you feel like you're moving and therefore the time you spend appears justified, to you! Take an honest and brutal approach to reflecting on those actions and you may be surprised at how much time you're actually not using to full effect.
What are your 50,000 thoughts a day creating?
Your focus detemines your reality. Create life they way you want it!
The Key To Self Discipline
The key to self discipline isn't in working harder, but in working smarter. Learn to do that, and life gets easier.
Eliminate stress - the easy way!
Stress is the plague of the 21st Century. It causes untold damage to individuals, communities and even countries. However, there is a very easy yet extremely effective way to combat it!
Engaging in the Moment for More Effective Living
So many people seem to be pre-occupied with the past and what is going to happen tomorrow and lose track of right now. This moment is now is so very important for several reasons noted in this article. Learn how to engage in this moment more and how it can lead to much more effective personal and business success.
Personal Development and Growth
Personal development and growth require change management regimen whether in business, career, relationships or else.
There is an easy way the get a Free Extreme Personal makeover. Quick and simple steps that will transform the way you look, feel and live. Guaranteed to turn heads and change the way people think about you and respond to you, forever.
Be More Successful: Create "ME INC."
Be more successful! Create "Me Inc." by branding your distinctive value and packaging your skills and unique characteristics into a powerful identity that enables you to rise above your closest competitor for that plum project, promotion, or lucrative business deal.
Are You Affected by Social Contagion?
An article with a social contagion contest is a perfect way to show why we need not agree with a negative social contagion, but be influenced by a positive one.I am still thinking about how to protect myself, and others, from the negative impact of the social environment.
The First Step You Take Is Always The Most Important One
I am thinking we never lose that ability to keep trying until we succeed, it only gets buried under our ego, thoughts and fears. How can we awaken the desire to continue taking those first steps?
Does Attitude Really Count?
For as long as I’ve been a professional I’ve heard that a person’s attitude makes a difference. You’ve probably heard all the cute sayings about attitude – "Your Attitude Determines Your Altitude", Attitude is Everything", "The Only Thing You Can Control is Your Attitude".
Its Ok Not to Be Happy With Your Life
What is it that has stopped you from having a successful business, good marriage, or owning that dream home? Martin Kelly takes a humorous look at what really holds us back and it is not just the lack of money.
Personal Development Coaching - An Introduction
A life coach can assist you redefine your purpose in life.
Reach Your Potential, Steps To Achieve What You Want
The more times you achieve something the more positive reinforcement you will get which will make it easier to do the next thing and the next thing until before you know it you’ll be reaching your potential and beyond.
20 Golden Rules to Live Your Life with Positive Energy and Achieve More
Achieve more than you ever thought possible by shedding negative energy and surrounding yourself with more positive energy with these 20 golden rules.
Is Your Personal Image Up to Par?
Because you can never retract that infamous first impression, perhaps it’s time for you to consider how to make a great one.
Discipline Is The Key
Understanding the importance of discipline.
True Disciplines Of Love Done Right !
Sometimes opposites attract! Ma and Pa Kettle, mixed well most of the time, and when they didn't together, one tried to help the other. Help the other, in your own special ways! More personality of soul awaits you! Taste the sip of discipline first, so your mate doesn't share in discipline gone bad, least burned lips as well.
Step into The Power Of Personal Development
Unleash the power behind self improvement by unlocking the first key of personal development and goal-achievement. Follow this guide to create the life of your dreams.
Enrichment in Early Childhood
One of the brain-related issues of special interest to educators is the place of "enrichment" in early education.
Personal Development - A Dog's Life
A dog's opinion about his stressed boss: I reckon the Boss should lie in the sun with me. And chew his foot for a while. It's relaxing. It might help with his stress. Whatever that is.
Personal Development - Back to Basics
In my work, I use an effective step-by-step process when I'm coaching people to help them create their best life. It ain't rocket science but it works.
Personal Development Lies
Too many 'wanna-be experts' espouse messages that are misleading, unrealistic, impractical and potentially dangerous. Good for selling books, not so good for creating real-life results... forever change. In a culture which is desperate for a shortcut (we are the quick-fix generation) it's easy to sell lies because so many of us don't wanna buy the truth... it's not nearly as attractive.
Personal Development - Does It Really Work?
Is it really possible to use Personal Development to build the life of your dreams? Accelerate your self improvement by discovering the first rule of personal development.
A Life Coach Could Be Just What You Need
Life coaches can act as the perfect motivator in so many different situations.
Finished Before the Starting Line
Why some people stuck on the starting line will never come near achieving their goals.
Personal Development Plans and Goal Setting Tips
Do you realise the power of having a personal development plan? It's like having your very own blueprint for success in your life – tailored to create your life exactly how you want it to be. If I could show you how to build your own personal development plan, would you be willing to devote 10 -15 minutes per day to nurture it and put it into practise?
You can't get to the fridge if you don't get off the couch
Momentum is that irresistible force that keeps us doing what we need to do and moving in the right direction, irrespective of how we're 'feeling' on a given day. The greater the momentum we create... the greater our chance of success.
Time Efficient Personal Development
"Err, yes Mrs Smith... well... the test results are back and surprisingly, your child is not big-boned... he actually comes under the clinical classification of... really fat!" "Huge even".
The Varieties of Wisdom
There are several varieties or "flavors" of personal wisdom. Here, Copthorne Macdonald discusses three of them as well as the back-and-forth relationship between personal wisdom and socio-cultural wisdom.
Playing the Wisdom Game
Subtitled "Some thoughts about the nature and development of wisdom," this article was first published in the 2006 book LIVING A LIFE OF VALUE.
How To Go From Millionaire To Decamillionaire
How To Go From Millionaire To Decamillionaire (A personal development article - five part series)
What Does It Mean To Love Your Neighbor?
To love your neighbor, means we should first follow the ancient golden rule "What you do not want others to do to you, do not do to others." Second, we can show and prove that we really love our neighbor by respecting and keeping on improving our being. I believe these are the key that we can be able to find a true meaning of happiness and peaceful living.
I Dream To Become A Great Man
I was born as a poor boy and grew up in the street without the care, guidance and supervision of my beloved parent. I have been experienced an empty stomach, Almost naked, without permanent shelter and without proper education. As a young man with deprived and sad experiences of life, I started to think of innovation and dream for my future. I dream to become a famous, I dream to become a great man!
The Best Investment: Investment Begins Inside Not Out
Despite of obstacles faced through a failed marriage and the humiliation of bankruptcy one woman's self-discovery about her talents and gifts made her finally realize that there's not just a light, but life at the end of the tunnel.
The Personal Development Zombie
Personal Development Zombie - a person seemingly incapable of independent thought. Takes on the beliefs, philosophies, ideologies and identity of other higher profile and allegedly(?) more enlightened individuals.
The Potential of Leisure for Personal Health and Development
How a new recreation interest played a key role in transforming me from a person having absolutely no self esteem, self confidence or self belief to becoming a successful public speaker and lifestyle coach showing people how to enjoy unlocking their natural potential.
Personal Development Checkpoint: Taking a Look Back
In order to effect positive changes in your life, you must be willing to recognize the fact that you may have already strayed WAY off track.
Why Personal Development Doesn’t Work
Does personal development success come in a box, a bag, or in tickets to a highly motivational training weekend, or is it something more elusive, yet very much available?
Achieve Personal Growth in 5 Steps
We all have goals that we would like to meet and fears we would like to conquer. Not many of us have reached our full potential. Learn how to develop personally in just five steps so that you can reach your goals.
Master Success and personal development by transforming the hare into a tortoise
What can we learn from the tortoise and the hare? How can these lessons contribute to our personal success? We can learn that you have to want it bad enough to work for it, you have to plan for the long haul, and you have to be able to withstand some bumps in the road.
A Simple Personal Development Method for Bonding Yourself to Success
Attaining your definition of success in life is something that is caused initially by the way you feel, not the things that you do. Taking action has its place, but you need to first emotionally bond to your desires if you want to be able to take consistent action towards attaining them.
Exploring the Concept of True Self
How do we discover our true self, I wondered. What does the term mean? Do we really need to worry about it... or is this just one more piece of unnecessary personal development fluff to distract me from just living, laughing, learning and loving? Maybe I already am being my true self... but if not, does that mean I'm being my fake self?
Give me a Punctuation Change and I’ll Give you Personal Development Success
If it was possible to put your problem-solving tasks on autopilot and free yourself from having to come up with solutions, do you think that is something you would be interested in? The method for doing exactly that is only a punctuation mark away!
The Seven(teen) Habits of Highly (In)effective People
Okay, here we go; my seventeen anti-personal development gems for those people who seem curiously desperate to fail and extremely determined to find a way and a reason to do it...
Personal Development Fraud (part two)
Today I thought we'd discuss some of the key Personal Development fallacies, self-help myths; call them what you will .... but they inhabit the pages of many books and the teachings of many people who (I believe) should know better.
Personal Development Fraud (part one)
Personal Development gurus have just as many issues, fears, insecurities and flaws as the next person; they just hide it better!
How to Maximize Personal Development by Instantly Stopping Mental SPAM
As if getting SPAM in your email wasn’t bad enough, the mental SPAM that you keep feeding yourself is far more damaging, but also far easier to get rid of!
A Successful Failure
Every day I get up and I know that life is a gift and I have the opportunity to do something.... or nothing. I am passionate and driven because I choose to be.
Critical of Critics
Have you ever noticed how some people, who clearly have enough of their own flaws, faults and issues (as we all do), seem compelled to constantly find fault in others?
A Mathematical Approach to Success (Personal Development for Geeks)
I got to wondering about what would happen if we de-emotionalised the personal development process and approached the success journey from a strictly numerical and mathematical perspective.
Direct Your Thoughts
Let's have a little fun with our machine! You know, that little motor between your ears that drones every day.
Creating Space for the New
How can anything great come into your physical, spiritual or mind space when you keep filling the spaces with all those unnecessary extras? Including, worry, drama, procrastination, physical clutter and negative conversation.
7 Quick Tips To Simplify Your Life
Avoid being road-kill on this super charged super highway called life in the 21st century. It is time to take charge of our lives again and do it in a way that does not add to the current of overwhelm.
Already There.....just didn't realise
One of the problems with some Personal Development students is that they are so pre-occupied with creating their amazing future that they don't really appreciate, or let themselves enjoy, their pretty-darn-good 'right now.' Considering that we live in the present and never in the future, it's a good idea to be able to enjoy the here and now (while still having goals and dreams for the future).
The Success Myth
I just watched a short video of a world-renowned personal development guru sharing his thoughts and ideas on success and what we need to do to become successful. Give me a bucket. I'd rather hit myself on the head with a bat.
Wanna Succeed? .... Get Uncomfortable
As an Exercise Scientist and Trainer I have spent much of the last twenty-five years helping people change their body. Smaller, bigger, lighter, leaner, more muscle, more flexibility, speed, power... Athletes, non-athletes, kids, mums, dads.....whatever they were after; that's what I did my best to deliver.
Psychosexual Stages of Personal Development
The pursuit of pleasure ("the pleasure principle") and the avoidance of pain drive the infant to explore his or her self and the world at large.
Working Women Facing Professional Crisis: New Research Can Help
What happens to a woman in mid-life when, after dedicating years to building and maintaining a successful, high-level career, she awakens suddenly to the belief that her work is no longer acceptable or positive for her, and that it no longer makes sense for her to continue?
How much are you worth?
Could Microsoft, Toyota or Sanyo whip up a duplicate of "you"?
From A to B in a Straight Line
Are you doing what it takes to achieve the outcomes that you say you want to achieve? There are many actions that can make you feel like you're moving and therefore the time you spend appears justified, to you! Take an honest and brutal approach to reflecting on those actions and you may be surprised at how much time you're actually not using to full effect.
What are your 50,000 thoughts a day creating?
Your focus detemines your reality. Create life they way you want it!
The Key To Self Discipline
The key to self discipline isn't in working harder, but in working smarter. Learn to do that, and life gets easier.
Eliminate stress - the easy way!
Stress is the plague of the 21st Century. It causes untold damage to individuals, communities and even countries. However, there is a very easy yet extremely effective way to combat it!
Engaging in the Moment for More Effective Living
So many people seem to be pre-occupied with the past and what is going to happen tomorrow and lose track of right now. This moment is now is so very important for several reasons noted in this article. Learn how to engage in this moment more and how it can lead to much more effective personal and business success.
Personal Development and Growth
Personal development and growth require change management regimen whether in business, career, relationships or else.