Personal Growth

I believe that never before has the need been so great to fit in amongst one’s peers as it is now. It seems that each time you turn to the news you read about or hear about another child or teenager who has been a recent victim of bullying. For every one of them you read about, there are countless others who are enduring the same detrimental experiences. It would seem that too many today are going along with bullies, or those who run other people’s lives because they are too afraid to take a stand and do the right thing. Do you know what doing the right thing is? More here…

Are you familiar with the expression, “You are what you eat?” I am sure you have probably heard it spoken, but what about this one, “You are what you think about most?” Before reading any further, what is it that you tell yourself most about you? Do you think about yourself in a positive and successful light, or are you your own worst critic, condescending and putting yourself down every opportunity you get? You see, the choice is yours – You are what you think! The key to gaining or creating self-confidence begins with you. More here…

They say that image is everything. You get one chance to make a first best impression! We dress for success not only with the clothes that we wear but all the behaviors and attitudes that we put on display. Are you happy with your current self-image? If not, are you ready to undergo a self-image makeover? Well, there is no time like the present so let’s get started!

To start out, if you were asked to describe yourself, what would you say about yourself?

How are some people apparently able to master things so much easier than others? Some people can physically practice and rehearse something for hours, even sometimes days, whereas some individuals practice and rehearse minimally and they look like they have been doing what they do best before they were even born. What’s with that? Why are some people better than others at certain things even though they don’t have the same training, background or have not sacrificed the same amount of time to hone their skills? Here’s the secret…

Where thoughts go energy flows! Have you ever heard that expression? What about the whole notion of self-fulfilling prophecy – what we think we are or what we will do is a given? You see, in either of these statement scenarios, you have focused on the outcome often times without even knowing that you have. In fact, you might have focused on the “negative aspect of the outcome” in that you expected the worse before it happened even though you hoped for the best. And still you wonder why things never turn out the way you had hoped for them to turn out even though you “hoped for the best”! Want to know why?

Are you one of those people who have a hard time laughing– at life or at yourself? To quote the Joker from the Batman movie The Dark Knight, “Why so serious?” Have you always been the serious type, afraid to let your guard down and smile? Perhaps you were told to “grow up” when you were still very young and all of the “happy” energies of childhood were let out of your sails. Let me ask you, do you have frown lines or happy, smile lines? Your facial lines will tell a lot about your disposition toward humor or lack of it. How about we turn those frown lines to happy lines, or those happy lines to bigger happy lines? Are you game?

Are there times in your life that get real trying for you where you wonder, “How the heck am I going to get through this?” Do you find that as stress builds and builds in your life that you have difficulty coping with any and all situations, even the small ones? Well, it’s time to learn to stop sweating the small stuff so to speak! There will be times in your life when you feel that the proverbial wheels are falling off. Ironically, when it rains it pours in terms of stress. You literally become a stress magnet when bad or not so great things start to happen and they seem to become compounded. You take or allow any small situation that is quasi-distressing and allow it to gain momentum to the point that it appears to be the end of the world. Why does this happen?