Category: Self-Improvement

The Power of Positive Self-Talk

date 07 Oct 2008 | category Self-Improvement

Perhaps the most powerful influence on your attitude and personality is what you say to yourself, and believe. It is not what happens to you, but how you respond internally to what happens to you, that determines your thoughts and …

The Keys to Self-Acceptance

date 07 Oct 2008 | category Self-Improvement

Psychologists today generally agree that your level of self-esteem, or how much you like yourself and consider yourself to be a valuable and worthwhile person, lies at the core of your personality. Your level of self-esteem determines:

your level of energy …

The Journey to Happiness

date 07 Oct 2008 | category Self-Improvement

The key to happiness is both simple and complex. It is the sum total result of more than 2000 years of philosophy, psychology, speculation and discussion about the meanings and sources of happiness. From Aristotle in 340 BC through to …

The Discipline of Reading

date 07 Oct 2008 | category Self-Improvement

Some things in life are optional, and some things in life are mandatory. Taking your next vacation to the Caribbean is optional. Building a personal library and becoming an excellent reader is mandatory. It is no longer something you can …

The Courage to Take Action

date 07 Oct 2008 | category Self-Improvement

Perhaps the greatest challenge that you will ever face in life is the conquest of fear and the development of the habit of courage. Winston Churchill once wrote, “Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, …

The Value of Mentors

date 07 May 2008 | category Self-Improvement

Benjamin Franklin once said, “There are two ways to acquire wisdom; you can either buy it or borrow it. By buying it, you pay full price in terms of time and cost to learn the lessons you need to learn. By borrowing it, you go to those men and women who have already paid the price to learn the lessons and get their wisdom from them.”