Free Self Help Articles on Personality Development |
| Thinking Outside the Box |
| Lots of people talk about 'thinking outside the box' when it comes to innovation or problem solving. But our education system, society at large and corporate culture all conspire to keep us firmly in our box from which - for so-called 'normal' people, there appears to be no escape. But we can all name people, in business, sport and public life, who are ab-normally successful. Why? They use thier minds differently - we all can... |
| Second Life? How about getting a first one! |
| Increasingly, people are turning to the virtual world to paper over the cracks of the real one. People lose themselves - or, perhaps, think they've found themselves - on YouTube, Blogging, Social Networks and virtual reality games like Second Life. Wouldn't it make more sense to get a First Life? Our thoughts create our lives - years of research prove this. Change your mind and you'll change your life... |
| How to Build Self Confidence |
| Trying to build your self-confidence is like papering over the cracks in a building that doesn't exist. The voices in your head that tell you "know you can't" are neither real nor relevant to here and now. You need to stop giving them your attention by paying attention, instead, to the present moment. If you're more present, you develop your presence - the hallmark of all those successful people who know better than to focus of self-confidence. |
| Your Life is Your Choice |
| What have Tiger Woods, you and I got in common? We all make choices and, often, our choices may not be for the best, for our lives or for the lives of those around us. But we don't make big bad choices out of the blue, we make little choices, moment to moment, that move our lives in our chosen direction. Most of us don't realize this and, consequently, drift - finally wondering why life is not so bad. Well, not so bad is not good enough... |
| Boring Minds - Boring Lives |
| Normal people (that's most of us) lead normal, mundane lives. Most people are unhappy in their work. Successful people think they paid too high a price for success. Few people are truly happy. Why? Because we're boring. We do the same things, most days, habitually. Our minds are bored because we're so well equipped to do our routine tasks automatically. The same automaticity bores our minds. And boring minds create boring lives... |
| Stop Negative Gossip |
| Gossip (and I've yet to come across positive gossip) is wasting the most precious resource you have - your energy. Your life is created by virtue of where and how you invest your energy - so negative gossip is literally killing you. As a responsible adult, you should take responsibility for where you direct your energy - point it towards the positive - not only will you stop feeding the negative that permeates modern living, you'll start creating the life that you really, really want. |
| Labels Kill! |
| "Normal" behaviour is dictated by our subconscious which, "normally" is focused in the past - when we were young and impressionable. One of the most destructive normal behaviours is the way we label people. We offend, hurt and kill each other because of those "labels". And, yet, that behaviour is just a big bad habit, developed over thousands of years. The good news is that we can break even the biggest habits by breaking little ones first... |
| Get Your Head in the Game |
| Your subconscious mind controls every aspect of your daily behaviour - so, you subconsciously create your version of "reality". Unfortunately, most people - "normal" poeple, don't know how to grab a hold of their subconscious power. You need to get your head in the game - make sure that you start each day totally switched on. If you do, you'll create a whole new experience - a whole new you - a whole new life... |
| How to Build Self Esteem |
| Self esteem is an illusion - whether you're suffering from low self esteem or you're on a high - the concept is a creation of your personality - and your personality isn't real - it's a mask that hides you from your own inner potential. Understand this, take a little "exercise" to side-step your personality and - lo and behold - you'll find the real you - and all you're really capable of... |
| Does Anyone Need Personal Development? |
| Personal development is big business. And, yet, all the psychological evidence, relating to how children use their minds as compared to adults, indicates that the so-called "normal" adult needs some personal un-development rather than personal development! Explore how the adult mind lives in places that bear no resemblance to the reality of the present moment - in stark contrast to the way children's open minds experience reality as it is... |
| Want Nothing - Prefer to Have it All |
| Generally speaking, people constantly want. They may want something they don't have or more of something they have already. Wanting makes people unhappy - makes peace of mind elusive or impossible. Stop wanting - start enjoying the wonder of the now - it's the only time and place you have. Then, at peace in the now, you can start making out the list (the one that your heart desires) of things that you really would prefer to have in your life... |
| Learning How to Control Yourself |
| Normal people are out of control. Instead of reflecting and considering what is the best approach to handle all the various challenges that life throws at us, we react automatically and mindlessly. As a result, we create an automatic life which is way short of the life we could otherwise have. We need to regain control. This is done by relearning how to pay attention. This is done by coming to our senses. You have five of them - use them... |
| How to Take Real Action to Improve Your Life |
| What's the point of telling people about the power of now, if they don't like now? Lots of people don't like their lives but the mistake they make is they feel victimized and do nothing about it. Normal people simply react to their perceived now and make matters worse. You need to take action, which can only happen if you look beyond your perceptions and experience the here and now. The result, a clear and present mind, will take real action... |
| Normal People are Lazy |
| Normal people are not uncomfortable enough to do anything to break out of their mundane, repetitive lives. They complain that they don't like their jobs, they spend their lives telling others that they're "not too bad", but they never do anything to be really successful and happy. And that could all change effortlessly. If I told you that a commitment of ten minutes each morning would change your life beyond recognition, would you be interested... |
| How to Make the Best Life Choices |
| Each moment we make choices that change the course of our life. Big choices are obvious - like a major career move, like marriage. But all the little choices we make in reaching those major crossroads that are just as vital. The people who are closest to you in life were once total strangers and you never know who the next stranger might be who could change your life. You need to be constantly alert to make the right choices - moment to moment... |
| What Normal People Want |
| Surprisingly, by their actions, normal people don't want success or happiness - they want to stay "not too bad" and want abnormally successful people to be normal too. There's no one more threatening to a normal person than someone who "has it all" and, yet, research proves that normal people are technically insane. Which would you choose - effortless success in your business and personal life - or to be normal and not too bad? No choice really... |
| How to Get Your Own Way |
| People rarely take action - they react. Years of research prove that our reactive behaviour takes us away from getting what we want out of life - when all we have to do, instead, is take "right action". But to take right action, you need a clear and present mind. And to be mindful, you need to practice. Meditation is what's called for (in whatever form turns you on) enabling you take the right action to create the life you really really want... |
| The Motivational You |
| We need to get a kick out of life. Yet research suggests that we're stressed, unhappy at work, worried about money and frustrated in our apparent inability to achieve our goals and dreams. We need to motivate ourselves - but does that mean one part of me needs to motivate another part of me? The evidence suggests that that is the case - your real potential is being held back by your perceived personality - it's a battle the real you must win... |
| No More Bad News |
| Why are the media full of bad news? What kind of sick minds continually press negative stories on us? Or, more to the point, what kind of sick minds continually have such a voracious appetite for bad news? Normal people, that’s who! Normal people are very sick people – they use almost none of their mental capabilities, they only perceive what they expect to perceive and, as a result, live normal lives are, at best, “not too bad”. That’s not good enough. The good news is that you can choose to be abnormal – abnormally successful and happy... |
| How You Are Who You Are |
| We are victims of our upbringing because our formative years formed our frame of reference for our view of what’s possible or not possible and our strengths and weaknesses. Most importantly, our early years are the subconscious basis for our adult behaviour. Our subconscious pays attention to that past, rather than the present moment – so we miss out on what’s really going on now – we miss out on life’s opportunities that could well be staring us in the face... |
| Changing Inappropriate Behaviour |
| Normal people don't know how to behave themselves - inappropriate behaviour abounds. But don't confuse your inappropriate behaviour with who you truly are, because your behaviour is dictated by your programmed subconscious mind. It's time to take back control of your mind. Then, your inappropriate behaviour will simply fade away and you will be the better person for it. Take back control by re-learning how to pay attention to the here and now... |
| Why Approval is Worse than Crack (and how to quit) |
| We've all been raised on the drug of approval - there's nothing nicer than someone saying something nice to you or about you. Yet all this approval by others is wasting your energy, divorcing your from the real and, ultimately, amazing powerful real you within. You need to start approving of yourself. To do this, you need to reacquaint yourself with the real you, beyond your perceived inadequacies. Five minutes, each day, will take you there |
| Crazy Parents - Crazy Kids |
| Normal adults are crazy. Research proves that they live their lives automatically, paying little or no attention to what they're doing or what's really go on. That means that normal parents are raising their children - automatically and mindlessly - to become, just like them, normal crazy adults. But this is not inevitable. We can all learn from our children, for they, as we did, have the natural ability to mindfully experience the wonder of now |
| You Simply Need to Turn Yourself On! |
| The average person drifts through life in a mindless daze, so says many years research. They waste their mental energy on listening to the noise in their heads - noise that distracts, little voices that say "No you can't!". Yet the only thing that we can control in our lives is our state of mind. If we do, we unleash an inner potential that is capable of transforming our lives into the success we want. We need to stop listening to the noise... |
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