Discover The Power Of Awareness On Personal Development
August 17, 2007
Almost all the human beings are facing problems in their lives for one or the other reason; there comes a point where they are stuck. Our lives need a serious makeover. Some define it as ‘being in a rut’ or ‘caught in a funk’ but others don’t even bother to put a voice behind it, just hoping, it will go away. The lucky ones find a path to shore, while many of them are still treading in deep waters.
Normally, personal growth has to be consistent by each and everyone in their daily routine. For many people, self improvement is a continual necessary process. By improving ourselves, we dramatically improve our outcomes and opportunities in our life.
Personal development is a path that takes us to the desired location where we want to meet our goal. It helps us to improve our career, spirituality, emotional health, and every other aspects of our life. Basically, personal development is about making conscious decisions about everything that you do, the way you think and the way you respond to situations. It helps you to attain everything that you always dreamed of.
Here are some of the few steps on personal development which can help you out:-
• One of the biggest steps toward personal development is a change of mind set. If you think that you can do better, you will. When you think positively, you will find that you put forth more effort into everything that you do, and you will have much better results. Everybody needs a strong support system and reinforcing positive feedback.
• Another important step towards personal development is to set obtainable goals. This is not to say that your dream is not obtainable. But if you constantly think about the goal of being a millionaire with a successful family, you will feel pretty hopeless as that goal seems so far out of reach. Setting obtainable goals simply means that you set goals that lead to the ultimate goal.
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The Art of Changing Yourself
July 14, 2007
Life is constantly pounding you from the outside with millions of hammer blows, but you have the last word as to how those blows will change you.
Man alone, of all creatures of earth, can change his own pattern. Man alone is architect of his destiny.
William James declared that the greatest revolution in his generation was the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.
You cannot climb uphill by thinking downhill thoughts. If your world is gloomy and hopeless, it is because you are gloomy and hopeless. You must change your mind to change your world.
Change demands self-discipline. Command yourself and make yourself do what needs to be done.
Changes requires the substituting of new habits for old. You mold your character and your future by your thoughts and acts.
Change can be advanced by associating with men and women with whom you can walk among the stars. Meet, mingle and make friends with those who have upward urge.
Change can be achieved by changing your environment. Let go of lower things and reach for higher. Surround yourself with the best in books, music and art. Listen to the greatest speakers. Hang on the wall of your home portraits of the men you most admire.
Change can be realized through conscious evolution. Moment by moment, day by day, concentrate on becoming the man you want to be.
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This is an excerpt from a collection of essays on The Art of Living by Wilferd A. Peterson in 1961.
Let Go Of Your Ego, It’s Not About You.
April 16, 2007
Believe it or not, it is NOT about you. You may like to think it is, or act like it is, but it isn’t. It is about the rest of us and how you treat and interact with the rest of us.
Do you find that people like you? Do you easily make friends, or do you silently criticize other people as not worthy of being your friend. Do you love your neighbor? Or do you despise their existence? Many people do not take the time to appreciate others and their peculiarities. Everyone has their own idiosyncrasies and if we allow them to affect us, then we are allowing that idiosyncrasy to own us.
Emotional outbreaks happen to the best of us. Typically, our bruised ego is the one doing the yelling. Bruised ego flings irreparable insults at your significant other. Why do we let these control us? It is insanity. Yet, we see people do these same actions over and over again.
No one can make us feel a certain way or another way. It is the way we react to their action that can lead us to demise. Many people allow the reaction to be to systematic and automatic, without thinking through the course of anger and action. Say your kid upsets you, next thing you know, you are spanking your kid because he doesn’t want to adhere to your rules. Are your rules ridiculous? Do you even go by your own rules? Have you defined your rules?
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Shushing the Self Sabotage Monster
April 12, 2007
How often do you think to yourself “I really want to do that” but before you can take any action, you hear another voice in your head telling you that it isn’t possible, you’re not good enough, that you will fail, look stupid, etc?
It’s okay to admit that you sometimes hear this negative voice and you are certainly not alone. This is the interfering voice of the little monster that lives in your conscious mind, otherwise known as self-sabotage. Its intention is honourable, it basically just wants to protect you and keep you safe, but in doing so, it also prevents you from achieving your dreams and reaching your full potential.
Self-sabotage is the voice that represents the culmination of all the limiting, restrictive and disempowering beliefs that hold you back and stop you from being the best you can be. It is the uninvited guest that gatecrashes every decision-making event in your life and shouts down your ideas before they can develop into something magnificent.
How often have you paid attention to this voice and avoided taking action towards your goals? When you look back over your life, how many times have you talked yourself out of doing something that you really wanted to do, or convinced yourself that it can’t be done? How many opportunities have you let slip from your grasp, how many potential relationships have passed you by and how many plans were aborted before they could shine? How many hopes and dreams remain just that, a figment of your imagination?
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