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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Do you tend to hold grudges, or do you forgive people who have hurt you intentionally or unintentionally? You will feel better if you learn how to forgive. This will take away the heavy rock that you are carrying on your shoulders. Forgiveness requires inner strength, an open mind, and …
“A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while, he knows something.” – Wilson Mizner Do you dominate the conversation or let other people talk, too? Many people like to talk about themselves, about what they have done and not done, about their health, ideas, etc. They …
You can stop giving power to negativity in your life and stop contributing negativity to the world. It’s a matter of attitude and discipline. Thoughts and feelings of anger, pain, dissatisfaction, revenge, and violence are constantly released into the earth’s atmosphere. You don’t have to broadcast your share of negativity. …
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 …
How to stop being lazy? Do you, like most people, sometimes feel lazy? It could be a momentary feeling caused by being tired, or it could be a habitual state. You might feel lazy when you need to perform a particular activity, when you need more motivation, or when you …
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 might get them if they aim at minor changes in their life. Gaining immediate results can make you feel happy and satisfied. However, …
The term self-improvement is a little misleading and, sometimes, erroneously interpreted. What do you actually improve? You don’t improve your “self” and you don’t improve your “spirit”. You improve and develop specific skills that are already within you. These skills might be weak or in a dormant state. You also …
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 …
We hear so much about self-acceptance from people who study or teach personal growth methods. What do these words mean? 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? …
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 …