Tuesday 25 November 2008

How To Achieve Your Personal Goals!!

What is it? Before exploring how you can best maximise your own personal self confidence and discover your key to success, it is important to gain a better understanding of what self-development really is and how, through a process of spiritual growth, you can perhaps improve on your marketability. Self-development is all about taking on your own perspective about yourself and examining how and why you do things the way you do. Once you have carefully analysed this and taken responsibility for your own actions, you can begin on the road to a personal development plan. Take some time to reflect on your life, your successes but also your failures, and take action to reinforce the positives and eliminate the negative. Useful Techniques You will find the process of self-development rewarding because if you use these techniques constantly you will remain a marketable force in your workplace, your career direction for the future will become clearer, and your financial success and self confidence will grow alongside your personal development. This all sounds quite easy, doesn't it? But how do you physically analyse aspects of your own life? The simplest starting point is to take up a pen and paper and write down where you think you have areas for personal improvement and growth. This can be a revealing task as you will unveil areas of your personality where you may suffer form self-confidence issues. Perhaps you may consider taking up a self improvement course, or read a personal growth book, all of which are readily available online; and often associated with articles about internet marketing success. Write find a mission, identify a vision. Develop your own personal life mission and vision statement for the future and focus on achieving those goals through improving your confidence and self-development on a daily basis. Set targets for change that are achievable, realistic and tangible so that you can track your progress. Often these targets and personal development focal points are difficult to achieve on your own. Many people grow spiritually, financially and successfully by finding a mentor and tailoring their lives and experiences to meet their own. Mentors can be friends and colleagues or paid consultants, but they can equally be people you don't know but who have achieved similar personal transitions in life and become successful as a result. You may find personal growth books are the answer to your problems of not realising your potential, and that is the key, everyone is capable of self-development, everyone is capable of more, you just have to find the way that is right for you. Knowledge is power Keeping up to date with your trade through professional journals and magazines and through a continual process of self-education is the route to success. There is no shortcut, or everyone would be blindingly successful. If you know what you are talking about you will have hugely increased levels of self confidence and personal growth will follow naturally. So do your research, not only about specific routes for self-development and personal growth, but also for professional growth and personal skills development.

Friday 14 November 2008

How to Feel Happier - Discover 5 Secrets to Feeling Happier

Hi Guys and welcome back,

Today I would like to give you some thoughts about "Being Happy".

It's not always easy to admit when we're not feeling happy.
We can feel like we're a failure - or perhaps like letting down
those close to us. After all, if we look around at everything we
have, we might conclude that we should feel happy. Yet we often
don't. And then we feel guilty about it, which makes things even
worse.

So what can you do about it?
The good news is that there's a simple solution to help you feel
happier right now. And it takes less than 5 minutes.

Are you ready to discover the 5 secrets of how to feel happier now?

Get Moving And Smile
When you're feeling unhappy, it's not just in your head. It's a
physical thing, too.

One of the easiest ways to feel happier right now is to change your
posture.

Either standing or sitting, have a stretch and a yawn. Keep your
back straight and your head up (all within your own comfortable
range, of course).

Now for the icing on the cake: give a big smile.
When we smile, it releases endorphins, which are nature's way of
giving us a happy boost. Our body doesn't care if the endorphins
are triggered by the mind / emotions or the body, so smiling for
about a minute will give you an instant happiness boost.
Drink A Large Glass Of Water

Sometimes when we're feeling low, it's simply because we're
dehydrated. Yet often our automatic response is to reach for a mug
of tea or coffee.

How about giving this one a go: drink a large glass of cool water.
Don't swig it down or sip it for hours. Just drink it over the
course of a couple of minutes. If you can manage a pint, that's
great. Within 5 minutes, it will lift your mood.

Take A Deep Breath

When we're feeling unhappy, we slouch, which prevents our diaphragm
and lungs from working properly.
Sit up straight and put your hand on your stomach, just below your
rib cage. Imagine you are breathing in to your hand, at the bottom
of your lungs.

As you breathe in, your chest will expand, pushing your hand
outwards. As you breathe out, your chest will get smaller and your
hand comes back in. Most of us do this back to front!
Do this for just 1 full minute and you'll notice the difference as
you reoxygenate your body and release tension.
Get Into A Happy Memory
Close your eyes for a moment and think back to a time when you felt
really happy. Spend a few moments getting back into that
experience. What can you see? What can you feel? What can you hear?
What can you smell? What can you taste? Just allow those happy
feelings to wash over you and stay with the experience for as long
as you feel comfortable.
Decide: "What Do I Want Instead?"
We seem to love telling ourselves a story about how awful or
annoying things are. It's as though we're creating our own, private
soap opera, cranking up the drama with each cycle, as the story
goes round and round in our heads.
The problem is that this leaves us feeling lousy.
The solution is simple. Press pause on the mental story and ask
yourself, "What do I want instead?"
Right at this moment, the "how" isn't important. What matters is
gently allowing yourself to shift to thinking about what you want
instead, so you can move towards that.
These 5 ideas might sound simple, yet they are highly effective
ways to feel happier, fast.

Bottom line?
Applying any of these 5 happiness techniques will help you feel
happier right away.
Are you ready to go through them in more detail, for maximum impact?
Then I invite you to check out How-To-Feel-Happier now
to claim your in-depth guide "5 Ways To Feel Happier Now" and free
MP3 downloads.
Are you ready to feel happier now?

From Clare Josa, seminar leader, expert coach and Chief Happiness
Experimenter at How To Feel Happier.

Wednesday 5 November 2008

Personal Growth - Understanding Yourself Better!!

Last week, I was lucky enough to travel to Canada on
business.........And boy was it cold over there!! I was walking
the streets with a huge overcoat on with scarf and gloves and a
wooly hat , and still the cold wind was unbearable. Still everyone
was very friendly and full of Halloween Cheer.

I feel very blessed to be able to travel the world due to my
business and have experienced many wonderful Cultures and Religions
and have met some amazing people on my journey. I have also
witnessed some very distressing sights , for example penniless
children in India begging for money........A very heart wrenching
sight and something that lives with you forever. It does, however,
make you appreciate what you have in your own life and to be
respectful of others and to grab and cherish each and every day!!!


When it comes to personal growth, there are no specific formulas
that you can follow in order to achieve success. As every person
differs, so does their personal goals and priorities. There are
also varying strengths and weaknesses that are consequent to an
individual's personality. However, there are basic steps that can
lead to a more successful and fulfilling personal growth.

Start From Within Yourself

The key to personal growth is evaluating yourself first. Getting
acquainted with yourself is the first step towards achieving
personal success. When people hear of others' success story, they
instantly apply it on themselves only to realize that it failed to
deliver.

In your efforts for personal change, focus on improving that
self-awareness. Determine at what point of your life you are right
now and how far (or near) it is from where you want to be. Then,
you can devise ways to further your efforts toward personal growth
and success.

Work On Your Attitude

One way of improving your attitude, whether in your personal life
or working relationships, is determining your strengths and
weaknesses. This will enable you to become more effective in
dealing with society and all the others who inhabit it. When you
are able to work harmoniously with people around you, it also
increases your level of esteem. Consequently, you are not only
effective in your working relationship but also assisted in your
efforts for personal growth.

Regardless of your current state, your attitude will provide the
means to achieve whatever goals you have set for yourself. Whether
you improve your attitude through professional counseling or
through support from your family, friends, or co-workers, it will
certainly boost your emotional health and create positive mental
habits.

A positive attitude is not just fundamental in your business'
success but also creates a more holistic individual.

Tools for Personal Growth

As much as humans never ceasing growing physically, one should
continually strive for personal growth at every opportunity as
well. Change is not enough to say that you achieve personal growth.
It is a mindset that enables you to surpass the everyday struggles
and remain on the positive side. Here are ways to get out of a
crisis and continue aiming for continued growth:

1.Do not dwell on the negative. Instead, focus on what you can do
to improve your current situation.

2.Live a healthy lifestyle. Improving the state of your health
caters for a more healthier outlook in life. Your physical and
mental being should always couple each other. Therefore, you have
to make a conscious effort to watch what you eat or drink and lead
a healthy lifestyle.

3.Determine your purpose in life. Once you have done this, you are
able to focus your energy on more essential activities that will
bring fulfillment to your life.

4.Have fun. No matter what you are doing or what choices you make
in life, just learn how to enjoy yourself. Aside from the fact that
it takes the burden off your shoulder, you can use this as a
motivation when faced with obstacles you need to overcome.

5.Set personal goals. In business, it is often said that you need
to create personal goals aside from your business goals. It enables
you to stay motivated despite of the hardships that you need to
face. Meanwhile, it also provides a higher level of fulfillment
once you have achieved those goals. Lastly, goals enable you to
determine on which direction to aim, or what steps to take to be
able to further your efforts toward personal growth and success.

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