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  • Why People Shy Away (and What You Can Do About It)
    To know what makes people shy away, you must put yourself in their shoes. Placing yourself in their position will give you visualized thoughts. Three probable reasons are written below.
  • Visualization as a Key to Happiness
    Visualization is an essential tool used by millions of successful businessmen and professionals all over the world to help them achieve their goals. Visualization however cannot only bring success to your business but happiness to your life, as well.
  • Using Self-talk In Reining In Anger
    When you’re stuck in traffic, it’s so easy to just lose your top and rail at the car in front of you, the car behind you, the cars on either side, those near the traffic lights… you get the picture.

    Anger is so easy to ignite, and so hard to defuse. It is the most destructive of emotions, and one of the hardest to handle.
  • Two Proven Techniques that Successful People Do to Double or Triple Their Time in a Day
    They say that time is much more important than wealth. Most effective people think so. They know how to get more time in a day, and they have mastered the art of utilizing time effectively to do more productive things that contribute to their advancement or success. So how do they do it?
  • Time Management Tip: How to Write a Paper in Two Days
    So it has happened. You had put your homework off for two weeks now and you find that you have only two days to turn it in. The thought of calling in sick at the day of the deadline crossed your mind but you knew your professor will not buy it. You have also considered saying your computer crashed, but, hey, it's probably the oldest late excuse in the book. You're actually left with no choice but to write that blasted paper in so short a time.
  • The Secrets To Stress-Free Change
    The only thing constant in life is change. Change can be an exciting part of one’s life or it can be a daunting experience. However, changes can be manageable if you are prepared to handle them. Since change is so much a part of our lives, don’t you think it is a good idea to learn how to manage it without stress?
  • The Misunderstood Job Of A Caddy
    When you think of caddies, what comes to mind? Someone that carries your clubs for you right? Well caddies (especially those working with professional players) have a much more important role than to just haul the clubs around the course.
  • The Anatomy Of Rejection in Achieving Your Goals
    The fulfillment of your goal is largely dependent on the help you get from other people. But hear this out: Not everyone will be willing to help you.
  • The 3 P’s for Effective Time Management
    You probably have decided to change your attitude towards the effective use of your time. Still, you are short of accomplishing your tasks. You begin to wonder whether you have made the right decision or not. Do not lose hope and opt to go back to your old habits. You are making the correct decision. Overcoming the oppressive procrastination habit begins with a resolute choice to change.
  • Switching Behaviours
    The wise say the first enemy to defeat is the self. When the self rules, any form of success is devoid of meaning. Indeed, many success stories are spoiled by even the slightest show of bad behavior.
  • Successful Leaders And Intuition
    Are you a leader in your organization?

    Are you an instigator of change or a catalyst in your family circle, school, church or institution?

    Does your work entail initiating change?

    Do you want to make a difference?

    If you answered “yes” to any of the questions, then you are a leader!
  • Self Improvement Starts With Decisions
    There is a great gap between hoping and wishing for a change to occur in your life, and aggressively pursuing the decision to initiate change in your life.

    You remember your New Year resolutions? These are not decisions, they are the products of wishful thinking. People who indulge in wishful thinking will probably not succeed in initiating change in their life. They believe that if the wishes come true they will become happier but the chances that that will happen are quite small.
  • Read Your Way To Success
    Do you know that your thoughts shape your reality?

    What goes in your mind has the power to shape your entire present and future.

    That is why it is very important that you take care of the ideas that you feed your mind with.
  • Reach for the Elusive Happiness
    They say happiness is a word for children. If you look back at those years when ignorance still seemed blissful, you know that what they say is true. Now that you have grown more mature, such great emotion has suddenly become extremely elusive. Pure laughter has been replaced by a contrived one. Unadulterated feelings of joy have traded places with incessant bouts of depression. You begin to wonder if happiness truly exists...
  • Nothing to Lose and Everything to Gain
    Presenting four scenarios:

    1. Nothing to lose and nothing to gain
    2. Everything to lose and everything to gain
    3. Everything to lose and nothing to gain
    4. Nothing to lose and everything to gain

    If you are given a chance to pick one, which will it be?
  • Necessary Qualities of a Good Persuader
    Persuasion is asserting your will over others. In this definition, the concept of power comes in. Power is the ability of a person to put his will over others or over his followers. But in persuasion, no full power should be applied. The persuader should learn to be humble to accomplish his objective, so that the persuadee may give in. Therefore, the qualities of a persuader must come from opposite ends. He must be positive-minded but open to negative results; he must be insistent but must also
  • Miscommunication - Root Cause of Problems?
    People of two opposing ideas can stir up arguments and fights. It's that situation when one thinks he has the right concept while the other one also believes he has the proper notion. Both of them would try to outsmart each other until one claims victory.

    Here's an actual example.
  • Mind Control over Body
    What your body can do depends on what your mind can conceive. The body can only come up with a potential that the mind can imagine. When the mind is strong, the body will obey. When the mind is creative, the body will create accordingly.
  • Let the Leader in You Shine
    Not everyone is a natural born leader. Occasionally you may find yourself at a loss when delegated with a task to oversee a certain group of individuals. You begin to panic. Your serene comfort zone has just been crossed over by a superior persona whom you regard with deep seated ambivalence.
  • Keeping Away Those “Bad” Memories
    After watching the film, “The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,” I suddenly became interested about a threshold point of our memory. It is the point where people would just want to undergo a painful medical process, although currently impossible, of removing some parts of their memory just like what the lead actors of the movie did.
  • How to Succeed in Whatever Field You Choose
    Success is a goal you undeniably want to strive for in life. As with everyone else, you would like a piece of the good life. You would want to rise above your capacities and drive yourself to the best you can possibly reach.
  • How to Streamline Your Day
    Do you feel like you always have too much on your plate? Like your day needs to be 48 hours because: your boss requested that you walk his dog, your wife needs your sheets changed, and you still need to edit your kid’s album on Photoshop?
  • How to Stop the Sleep Robbers
    You think you’re getting enough sleep? Think again, because you’re most likely not. A lot of studies confirmed that most adults have been depriving themselves (oftentimes unnoticed) of the amounts of sleep needed.
  • How To Plan The Rest Of Your Life
    Some people value spontaneity. Others crave structure. Still, it would help if you would go through life with direction, and with goals. Goals help in guiding your choices. Purpose underlines everything you do.
  • How To Overcome Defeatism
    Admit it or not, many of us have some sort of defeat habits. Have you ever felt that you are not good enough? Have you ever let fear dissuade you from pursuing a perceived difficult task? Have you ever let a strong comment from your family stop you from pursuing your dreams?
  • How to Manage Your Problems
    Problems and solutions are no exceptions to this natural phenomenon. Life is never free of problems. Life came to existence with problems on its tail. Imagine a life with no problems. It would be a dull life. Imagine a life without struggling. With only good things dominating the earth, it would result to laziness.
  • How To Make This World A Better Place
    Consider these facts:

    If you have food, clothes, and a home, you are richer than 75% of the people in the world. If you have some money in the bank, you are among the top 80% of the world’s wealthy. If you woke up healthy this morning, you are more blessed than the 1 million people who will not survive this week.
  • How to Improve Your Memory
    Have you ever been in the middle of a thought and could not remember what you were thinking of? Perhaps you were about to take an exam and forgot all of the information that you thought you knew. Maybe you were talking to someone and forgot entirely what his name was. If any of these situations sound familiar to you, read on to discover some relatively simple ways to jog your memory and keep everything in perspective.
  • How To Get Inspired Now
    “Do you need to be inspired to aspire or do you need an aspiration to get inspired?”

    Some may argue that in order to have a strong desire to achieve something, you must be inspired. On the other hand, some argue that for you to be inspired, you may need to aspire first.
  • How to Drive Shyness Away
    A wallflower cannot succeed in this competitive world. One has to stand out in order to be heard. If you are timid and shy, you will not be noticed. You have to get your point across.

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