<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><rss xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" version="2.0"><channel><title>PersonalLifeImprovement</title><description></description><managingEditor>noreply@blogger.com (Pnetwork)</managingEditor><pubDate>Fri, 1 Nov 2024 03:47:27 -0700</pubDate><generator>Blogger http://www.blogger.com</generator><openSearch:totalResults xmlns:openSearch="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/">18</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex xmlns:openSearch="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/">1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage xmlns:openSearch="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/">25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><link>http://improvingpersonallife.blogspot.com/</link><language>en-us</language><item><title>Disclaimer</title><link>http://improvingpersonallife.blogspot.com/2009/07/disclaimer.html</link><category>Disclaimer</category><author>noreply@blogger.com (Pnetwork)</author><pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 06:56:00 -0700</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-829495463607816590.post-2815946428298260065</guid><description>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnecbwGcTDViacxh9VkXTxa6t9iVySa9y5ekj60cAdQKeO-WETgyn6bcKqlvRIOReFrmaGUjECXR8EqN-HbDkbA2XVwfgqGaM2-qEMfSSn-ExufaRBMVHEEa0iIvYbxx8wrpXWoE7yiP_X/s1600-h/giveMeFiveBlack+merged+copy.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 292px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnecbwGcTDViacxh9VkXTxa6t9iVySa9y5ekj60cAdQKeO-WETgyn6bcKqlvRIOReFrmaGUjECXR8EqN-HbDkbA2XVwfgqGaM2-qEMfSSn-ExufaRBMVHEEa0iIvYbxx8wrpXWoE7yiP_X/s320/giveMeFiveBlack+merged+copy.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5360917399489718562" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;This is my own personal &lt;span2733334&gt;&lt;a href="javascript:void(0);" style="color: rgb(0, 15, 255); text-decoration: underline;" id="Y2733334S0"&gt;blog&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span2733334&gt;. The opinions, ideas, and all story about &lt;span2733334&gt;&lt;a href="javascript:void(0);" style="color: rgb(0, 15, 255); text-decoration: underline;" id="Y2733334S2"&gt;personal life improvement&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span2733334&gt; and other topics expressed here represents my own views, my friends sharing ideas other people, institutions or organizations that I may or may not be related with unless stated explicitly. &lt;p&gt;I am a blogger, I'm always trying to improve my blogging by doing this from past 1 years. I have myself noted that my ideas do evolve and they also &lt;span2733334&gt;&lt;a href="javascript:void(0);" style="color: rgb(0, 15, 255); text-decoration: underline;" id="Y2733334S6"&gt;change&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span2733334&gt; from time to time. I might be knowing a little about a particular thing so I can only describe that much amount of information on that particular thing at that particular time. Maybe in future my ideas and views on that thing might change.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Once again as this is a &lt;span2733334&gt;&lt;a href="javascript:void(0);" style="color: rgb(0, 15, 255); text-decoration: underline;" id="Y2733334S8"&gt;personal blog&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span2733334&gt; I reserve the rights to change my opinions without providing any reason.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;The blog here also has reference to other sites which might be operated by a third party. The references and &lt;span2733334&gt;&lt;a href="javascript:void(0);" style="color: rgb(0, 15, 255); text-decoration: underline;" id="Y2733334S7"&gt;links&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span2733334&gt; over here are just provided for the viewers convenience. I cannot be held responsible for the content or service or products that the third party sites has to offer.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;For more information please do contact me thru &lt;a href="http://www.emailmeform.com/fid.php?formid=367420" target="_blank"&gt;Contact Me&lt;/a&gt; tab&lt;/p&gt;</description><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" height="72" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnecbwGcTDViacxh9VkXTxa6t9iVySa9y5ekj60cAdQKeO-WETgyn6bcKqlvRIOReFrmaGUjECXR8EqN-HbDkbA2XVwfgqGaM2-qEMfSSn-ExufaRBMVHEEa0iIvYbxx8wrpXWoE7yiP_X/s72-c/giveMeFiveBlack+merged+copy.jpg" width="72"/></item><item><title>About</title><link>http://improvingpersonallife.blogspot.com/2009/07/about.html</link><category>About</category><author>noreply@blogger.com (Pnetwork)</author><pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 03:41:00 -0700</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-829495463607816590.post-2334756893933482743</guid><description>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitzh3wdWrwAQ6SQ9pQFyUNULx28uXoD951Nw5KQfFPu_LeswqK_2pjfSM7_5IPsKqoEPyjc0oWAqykltZLCnhMkN_02VrDMj1DSHkrWwIilweWoIGUFTfkte64AEESgHFZsScy5yrz7M0n/s1600-h/me.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 298px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitzh3wdWrwAQ6SQ9pQFyUNULx28uXoD951Nw5KQfFPu_LeswqK_2pjfSM7_5IPsKqoEPyjc0oWAqykltZLCnhMkN_02VrDMj1DSHkrWwIilweWoIGUFTfkte64AEESgHFZsScy5yrz7M0n/s320/me.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5360865079300320130" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Hello, This is my little Corp names Pnetwork's Blog.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have created this blog to share my Ordinary daily experience as well as pointing out other interesthings I find across the web, which I hope you find enjoyable and informative. I am a new blogger that always learning a lot about Internet, Blogging and stuff. I gave this blog name IMPROVING PERSONAL LIFE because I always wondering why people sometimes find a difficulty to tell or share their story of life and I also want to share (and hear your personal stories if you find this site encouraging) as I try to improve myself everyday.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am happily married to a wonderful woman named Ari "the mabu" with two my son doughter, Deva and Daffa and we are blessed to live near family. I am a man of faith and believe God has a plan and purpose for all of us.</description><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" height="72" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitzh3wdWrwAQ6SQ9pQFyUNULx28uXoD951Nw5KQfFPu_LeswqK_2pjfSM7_5IPsKqoEPyjc0oWAqykltZLCnhMkN_02VrDMj1DSHkrWwIilweWoIGUFTfkte64AEESgHFZsScy5yrz7M0n/s72-c/me.jpg" width="72"/></item><item><title>Living in Reality</title><link>http://improvingpersonallife.blogspot.com/2009/07/living-in-reality.html</link><category>Improvement</category><author>noreply@blogger.com (Pnetwork)</author><pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2009 00:40:00 -0700</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-829495463607816590.post-5048514491379431103</guid><description>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGFXtf6ZgBNFASCA3zsBlq07tLNBm8xkZ3_-VLi59L1reoG0K1PfOgXfd229HXLwXkNiTC4VJg0kLryohS8QSIRqr-vRvLmTTIlGXe07L1GvA2upttMNP-8yVuNaOHPs73sUFHkDNLDjVd/s1600-h/060108_real_world.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 269px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGFXtf6ZgBNFASCA3zsBlq07tLNBm8xkZ3_-VLi59L1reoG0K1PfOgXfd229HXLwXkNiTC4VJg0kLryohS8QSIRqr-vRvLmTTIlGXe07L1GvA2upttMNP-8yVuNaOHPs73sUFHkDNLDjVd/s320/060108_real_world.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5360825297616693202" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Reality is about you everywhere you go. When you try to escape reality, you only hinder yourself from growing. Your qualities within are hindered as well, since you will find it hard to develop new skills, new ideas and so on that helps you grow.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the world, we are surrounded by poverty, crime, poor conditions, war, hate, and so on. The elements of life combine to pull each of us down. It is up to us to defeat these ongoing battles and obstacles that get in our way. The way we do this is to face reality head on.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is ok to fantasize about good things occasionally. It is not ok to sit all day dreaming about things you will never accomplish. If you have realistic dreams, you will set realistic goals that lead you to success regardless of the condition around you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How it works:&lt;br /&gt;Each day when you wake, plan to do something different. Plan to try something new. If you live each day eating junk food, plan to eat healthy food for the day. Each day you wake up plan to eat healthier. As you learn new habits, you will see a difference in your health. In addition, if you drink an alcohol beverage in the morning, plan to wait until evening to drink.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You have a wide array of options. In addition, most of us have the right to make our own choices. Make your choices good. Each day you wake up think about the consequences of your decisions to see if it is worth a go. If you see that the consequences will hinder you, take a step back and review your situation further. You can reach for the moon and find new stars by brainstorming your mind.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In addition, you can use helpful tools such as role-playing or self-talk to develop new ideas. The steps you take to open new doors, is the next step to improving your personal life.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you have children and these kids seem to get you, down. For instance, if the school is calling daily, biting your child for something he/she did, take action now. If you take the steps to eliminate the problem, it will only make your life better.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Are you in a relationship that seems to go nowhere? Step back and review your situation. What can you do to make your relationship better? Is your mate stubborn? Can you do something different to lighten his behaviors? Conduct is a great role model that inspires others to change. In addition, you can open the line of communication. Discuss issues with your mate when the mood is right. Try to avoid arguing. Pay attention to your mate and allow him or her to speak their mind. If you leave the doors to communication open, it will help you and your mate grow.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Do you spend more time at work than you should?&lt;br /&gt;If you have a family, kids included and work a 12 hour shift, you should re-consider your goals. If you are not spending quality time with your family, in time your family will drift apart. If possible, reconsider your career. Is there another job you can take on that gives you the same benefits as your current job? You have many job opportunities available.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You can go online to check out the job sites to look for positions. You have opportunities to work at home nowadays. If you have, writing skills try considering freelance jobs. You have many choices, so spread your wings to find your options.</description><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" height="72" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGFXtf6ZgBNFASCA3zsBlq07tLNBm8xkZ3_-VLi59L1reoG0K1PfOgXfd229HXLwXkNiTC4VJg0kLryohS8QSIRqr-vRvLmTTIlGXe07L1GvA2upttMNP-8yVuNaOHPs73sUFHkDNLDjVd/s72-c/060108_real_world.jpg" width="72"/><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total></item><item><title>How to Improve Your Personal Life with Exercise and More</title><link>http://improvingpersonallife.blogspot.com/2009/07/how-to-improve-your-personal-life-with.html</link><category>Knowing How</category><author>noreply@blogger.com (Pnetwork)</author><pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2009 23:33:00 -0700</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-829495463607816590.post-5489483369224305692</guid><description>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgy7Jmd5bfoYnBvHfk8ccqL6rM-NpGb3N5CWmTWC6MwkltPXW_008s_eoltXn4qiRvQxy04HbGaqkcsh3xqmdemTRap7fN0MTriFwQ0lJRV-KCxexo7HXFCs_iilKqH17yesK0YyHtcT_MI/s1600-h/exercise.jpeg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgy7Jmd5bfoYnBvHfk8ccqL6rM-NpGb3N5CWmTWC6MwkltPXW_008s_eoltXn4qiRvQxy04HbGaqkcsh3xqmdemTRap7fN0MTriFwQ0lJRV-KCxexo7HXFCs_iilKqH17yesK0YyHtcT_MI/s320/exercise.jpeg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5360826304192996930" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Life can be difficult and full of worries, and when you’re not taking good care of yourself, things can become quite demanding. Without a proper diet and exercise, along with proper sleep, you could find yourself run down extremely fast. This caused unwanted stress and anxieties in our everyday living. A major part of improving your personal life revolves around elements that can keep you from going off the deep end. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Get exercise with a proper diet&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Getting the right exercise for your body does not consist of trying out for a marathon. Nevertheless, if you want to stay in shape and maybe lose a few pounds, here’s the perfect way to start.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Walk for 30 minutes twice a day with a backpack containing up to five books.&lt;br /&gt;Instead of having an extra alcoholic beverage, eliminate it, replacing it with water.&lt;br /&gt;Substitute daily one serving of starchy carbohydrate with two servings of green vegetables. Rather than skipping breakfast and lunch and overeating on snacks, try snacking consisting of five small meals daily. Make sure you incorporate that with fruits and vegetables. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The key is to watch what you eat and drink. You are guaranteed to feeling better; giving yourself more energy that will allow you to tackle other tasks. Stress will be coped with much easier. Another way for stress is massage therapy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Benefits of Massage Therapy&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Massage therapy offers many benefits.  It helps to start your day relaxed, which is essential for balance. A simple practice would be starting at your head and scalp.  What people fail to realize is that until they have massage they do no know how much stress they are carrying. Once you have an awareness of where stress is lodged in your body, you’ll know exactly which pressure points to work. This is what massage therapy can do for you:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Relief of muscle tension and stiffness&lt;br /&gt;Greater joint flexibility and range in motion&lt;br /&gt;Healthier and nourished skin&lt;br /&gt;Improved posture&lt;br /&gt;Faster healing from pulled muscles&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Getting enough sleep&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is a proven fact that when you do not get enough sleep, this can make you ill. There are even studies that says healing is done while we are sleeping, meaning deep sleep produces the bodies highest form of hormones. A constant sleep pattern is necessary for the immune system to function at its peak.  Have a regularly scheduled bedtime.  Avoid exercising within three hours before bedtime. If you have problems winding down, do something relaxing like watching television, taking a bath, or listening to soft music.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It doesn’t take money to improve our lives or even watching or favorite talk shows. All it takes is a little discipline and action, and we’ll be well on our way to better our personal well-being as we age.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Proper rest, exercise and training your mind to think positive are a great way to improve your life. The best thing you can do is getting started now. Prolonging good health only sends you back to the same patterns. If you want to improve your personal life, you must take action and maintain that action for the course of your life.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Something to keep in mind is that exercise alone has proven to relieve people suffering with asthma, diabetes, heart disease, etc. In fact, studies have shown that people who exercise live a longer, improved and happier life. In fact, exercise has proven to relieve and even heal symptoms emerging from arthritis. If you have back pain, you will benefit from exercise since it will relieve your pain as well. To learn more, check out books at your library or visit the Internet.</description><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" height="72" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgy7Jmd5bfoYnBvHfk8ccqL6rM-NpGb3N5CWmTWC6MwkltPXW_008s_eoltXn4qiRvQxy04HbGaqkcsh3xqmdemTRap7fN0MTriFwQ0lJRV-KCxexo7HXFCs_iilKqH17yesK0YyHtcT_MI/s72-c/exercise.jpeg" width="72"/><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total></item><item><title>How yoga builds self-esteem, awareness and more</title><link>http://improvingpersonallife.blogspot.com/2009/07/how-yoga-builds-self-esteem-awareness.html</link><category>Knowing How</category><author>noreply@blogger.com (Pnetwork)</author><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 10:31:00 -0700</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-829495463607816590.post-2279930886904479514</guid><description>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxB7uGbcG-F__RgjfgCKvettoXORDXYUoXWgjPyuzuf93JfmkNlGD2SVgzp_7ucBZSOgJptnh8ncGdihfSIntDIJXG76rL3j5yT0z-GOssoTA7165AqSncj3FiRPPoojQqRmUATZ2ECnAA/s1600-h/yoga_collage.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxB7uGbcG-F__RgjfgCKvettoXORDXYUoXWgjPyuzuf93JfmkNlGD2SVgzp_7ucBZSOgJptnh8ncGdihfSIntDIJXG76rL3j5yT0z-GOssoTA7165AqSncj3FiRPPoojQqRmUATZ2ECnAA/s320/yoga_collage.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5360826505792447890" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yoga is a way to escape from everything and go into your own little world it will help you to forget all the things that are stressing you for a short while. Yoga will help make a positive change in your life. There are many things that yoga can help you with like depression, many medical problems etc. Yoga is an on going treatment you have to stay with it to get anything out of it. You cannot do it today and accelerate to get the full benefits out of it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What are some of the things yoga will help me with?&lt;br /&gt;Yoga can and will help you with many things. You have to get with it and do it in order to get the full benefits out of yoga however. Yoga can help with breathing, so if your not breathing right, yoga will teach you how to get in control of your breathing. Yoga will help you learn how to control your mind as well as your breathing, of you have asthma it can help, carpal tunnel, depression, lower back pain, multiple sclerosis, osteoarthritis of the knees, memory problems, heat disease, high blood pressure, will help you lose weight, will also help the elderly or someone that has balance trouble keep balance.  So see it will help in many ways. This will make you feel a lot better inside and outside.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How would I learn how to do yoga?&lt;br /&gt;You can go to your family doctor they should be able to tell you how you can get enrolled in a program. If they cant do nothing then you might want to try to go to your local library they may have some information on how to get enrolled as well, or you may want to go on line and see what you can find out. They have classes all over so you should be able to get enrolled but there are films and books to teach yourself as well.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Can yoga hurt me?&lt;br /&gt;Yoga can hurt you if you don’t know what your doing or you do too much of it at once that is why you need to talk to your family doctor before you start anything new that is stressful to your body. You have to take these kinds of things slow it’s just like exercising you have to build yourself up. You can’t run right into it and expect full benefits from it.  It does not work that way. It takes time and obligation before you will see any changes in your body or mind.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When learning to do yoga just take your time and be conscious to it learn all you can learn cause it will help you deal with many health issues. You may have just don’t try to do it all at once and make sure you call your family doctor to make sure it ok to do it. Then try to find a good group. Groups are always easier for some one that way you have some support to turn to if you have any problems. If you can’t afford gym payments, then try asking family and friends to join you. You can start your own home gym at home. At local dollar stores, you will find videos for one buck. Use the videos to gain skills in exercise and yoga.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yoga is an interesting exercise, since it helps you to build muscles and reduce stress. Yoga will help you loose weight; feel better, and so on. Yoga gives you many options in improving your overall personal life.</description><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" height="72" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxB7uGbcG-F__RgjfgCKvettoXORDXYUoXWgjPyuzuf93JfmkNlGD2SVgzp_7ucBZSOgJptnh8ncGdihfSIntDIJXG76rL3j5yT0z-GOssoTA7165AqSncj3FiRPPoojQqRmUATZ2ECnAA/s72-c/yoga_collage.jpg" width="72"/><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total></item><item><title>How You Can Improve your Personal Life</title><link>http://improvingpersonallife.blogspot.com/2009/06/how-you-can-improve-your-personal-life.html</link><category>Knowing How</category><author>noreply@blogger.com (Pnetwork)</author><pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2009 00:26:00 -0700</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-829495463607816590.post-1589954260339620332</guid><description>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnPoSPHxamnoyW0D5bW-QquYDNAPGOwgunpERSeyAYBmbKr5OGKpeEHCfQ3I32laY6pWE85m8C-XG0jEveaXfVhD1kz-iwGc_VGXC2Jq_H_bRhizgnGWflyd9Fukt8szPBRvshgicc3RcW/s1600-h/SpiralOfLife480.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 288px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnPoSPHxamnoyW0D5bW-QquYDNAPGOwgunpERSeyAYBmbKr5OGKpeEHCfQ3I32laY6pWE85m8C-XG0jEveaXfVhD1kz-iwGc_VGXC2Jq_H_bRhizgnGWflyd9Fukt8szPBRvshgicc3RcW/s320/SpiralOfLife480.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5360828192008092466" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For some of us, improving our personal life is finding a new career. If we are working in what we love to do, that rubs off on the way we view things and gives us a better perspective on life. You have to consider the many ways of success we can practice to become a well-rounded person finding his or her dream job. You have to believe in you and what you want. Make it your reality.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With a solid plan, whether to change jobs or start a new business can become a reality.  You should never let the fear of change stop you from achieving something that you really want. New is overwhelming for most of us, but if you take time out to research and do proper networking, you’ll find the transition will be less stressful.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Find a career you love&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Whether your in mid career, a student, new to the work force, or an entrepreneur it gets difficult to gain satisfaction and accomplishing your full potential when your stuck doing something you hate.  Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, so why not do something that you like doing.  Keep in mind that doing what you like is often complicated but if you would like to improve your personal life here are a few steps:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Decide why you want to change careers:&lt;br /&gt;It is important to know whether you are moving away from something or moving towards something.  It is difficult to identify your ideal job when you are overwhelmed by negative issues from your current situation.  If you are making a career change, keep all of your options open to make a fresh start.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What are your goals?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Write down a normal aspect of a normal day.  Outline what it is exactly that you want.  Such as what is your work schedule, the positions and tasks, what is your ideal salary to live comfortably, and are you an entrepreneur at heart.  Continuously write these goals in a notebook or journal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Identify your interests&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Your interests do not mean this should be your new job or business, it is just the beginning of self exploration.  The key is to identify what truly interests you and how you can incorporate those interests into the work field.  What are your favorite hobbies?  What books do you like to read?  What sections of the newspaper to you turn to first?  What are your favorite television shows?  After keeping track of this for a week, you should discover a trend that should narrow down to two or three topics of interests.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What are your abilities?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Write down a list of abilities that come easily to you. By doing something that your good at will not only greater your chance of succeeding, but give a sense of satisfaction to your work. You will find that you have hidden abilities. Once you pull up those hidden abilities use them, see how you like them and put them to good use.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Many people walk through life failing to realize who they are and what they are capable of doing to its entirety. Do not be afraid to learn who you are. It will take some time. It took me over thirty years, but it was well worth the trial and errors made along the way to learn who I am.</description><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" height="72" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnPoSPHxamnoyW0D5bW-QquYDNAPGOwgunpERSeyAYBmbKr5OGKpeEHCfQ3I32laY6pWE85m8C-XG0jEveaXfVhD1kz-iwGc_VGXC2Jq_H_bRhizgnGWflyd9Fukt8szPBRvshgicc3RcW/s72-c/SpiralOfLife480.jpg" width="72"/><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total></item><item><title>How to live healthier...Eating Right than</title><link>http://improvingpersonallife.blogspot.com/2009/07/how-to-live-healthiereating-right-to.html</link><category>Improvement</category><author>noreply@blogger.com (Pnetwork)</author><pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 18:23:00 -0700</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-829495463607816590.post-7021671474329276579</guid><description>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFbbJPcjef1WEaOGSPqFq6tqS7zeAWM1OGu7-DUkgzaTVeAWMALBYB00dGR7lYuUc0yfn4NvdRs6EPBXiwyYsPPPzD9G2BuO6TUAtU_8HcDZrtz4CzhVICjrnywnzOx2xFwEwT-jQbXbZH/s1600-h/killer_eating.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFbbJPcjef1WEaOGSPqFq6tqS7zeAWM1OGu7-DUkgzaTVeAWMALBYB00dGR7lYuUc0yfn4NvdRs6EPBXiwyYsPPPzD9G2BuO6TUAtU_8HcDZrtz4CzhVICjrnywnzOx2xFwEwT-jQbXbZH/s320/killer_eating.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5360827896337137138" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The main thing to a healthier you, is to eat right exercise and visit your family doctor regularly. This is all part of a healthier you and if your healthier you will feel better about your self. One of the biggest problems we have today is that most people do not eat right. While the world is wising up, they still fall short of proper eating habits, since we are rushed by a face paced world.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What do I have to do to eat right?&lt;br /&gt;Eating right is a hard thing to do for some of us and for others it is easier to do. Eating healthy is a big problem these days. For some of us it is hard to buy healthier food due to the fact it cost more to fix meals the right way. There are a lot of people that are just making it in the real word with out having to buy a loaf of bread that cost $2.50 a loaf when they can get a loaf for $.50 so what do they do get the $.50 loaf and knowing that its bad for them but that’s all they can afford. So eating right can be hard for you too. We have options. You can grow your own home garden; bake your own bread for a fraction of the cost and so on.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What are some of the things I can eat?&lt;br /&gt;Some of the things you can eat right are vegetables, dairy products, high-protein dishes and so on. You need a certain amount of fat, carbs, etc, which helps to keep you healthy.&lt;br /&gt;You can get a list from your family doctor or you can go to the library to get information on the basic four food groups. If you cannot afford to eat right then maybe you should not eat as much. In addition, do some excising; excising is always good for you. Exercise will increase your health, even if you cannot afford the four basic groups of nutritious foods. In addition, you have many services available to you, which can offer you food supplies.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How do I learn how to eat right?&lt;br /&gt;If you want to learn how eat right you can read about it in books from the local library or maybe you will want to talk to your doctor. Your doctor might be able to tell you how to go about doing this and the right way for your body. You cannot just jump in and change everything about you overnight. You have to take time to start and to learn. For some of us that have been eating wrong all of our life, this would be hard to do over night. Then again, others may not have any problems with it. You want to consider your position and move forward.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Will I feel better if I eat right?&lt;br /&gt;You will feel a lot better if you eat right. Eating right has a lot to do with how we feel. If we lack nutrients, it can make one feel depressed, ill, etc. Since, we get vitamins from our foods, you may want to include natural regimens of vitamins in your daily schedule also.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The right vitamins we need every day to make us feel good about our self. We get many vitamins from what we eat. Vitamins are what make us feel like a person. So if you eat right and get the right vitamins daily that your body needs to function you will feel a lot better about your self and that will help you to improve your personal life.</description><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" height="72" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFbbJPcjef1WEaOGSPqFq6tqS7zeAWM1OGu7-DUkgzaTVeAWMALBYB00dGR7lYuUc0yfn4NvdRs6EPBXiwyYsPPPzD9G2BuO6TUAtU_8HcDZrtz4CzhVICjrnywnzOx2xFwEwT-jQbXbZH/s72-c/killer_eating.jpg" width="72"/><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total></item><item><title>How to Improve Your Personal Life Avoiding Procrastination</title><link>http://improvingpersonallife.blogspot.com/2009/06/how-to-improve-your-personal-life.html</link><category>Knowing How</category><author>noreply@blogger.com (Pnetwork)</author><pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 23:25:00 -0700</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-829495463607816590.post-952184509844521437</guid><description>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXqTUq_yctdbF7o7aVyTjXVRz0Js3TjydRSiNeVL7xybGRnhliu-UHPQPSaruPZ1XB2yQhH1HOZLhqTzYnQCdiA4fDKWfrLbLLP-35NUCm09m8A5nztbjQqYowNy4qYPw2i5cfDxbe67Z_/s1600-h/procrastination.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 287px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXqTUq_yctdbF7o7aVyTjXVRz0Js3TjydRSiNeVL7xybGRnhliu-UHPQPSaruPZ1XB2yQhH1HOZLhqTzYnQCdiA4fDKWfrLbLLP-35NUCm09m8A5nztbjQqYowNy4qYPw2i5cfDxbe67Z_/s320/procrastination.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5360829114739955522" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Let’s face it, dealing with the obstacles of day to day living can drive us a little crazy. Without proper organization, this could make rolling out of the bed a problem of its own. We sometimes find it difficult focusing on one thing at a time, find that in the end nothing is done. From the office, to household, children, and finances, without proper organization could turn disastrous. You want to learn how to manage your time, actions and overall arrangements. Successful people know how to get ahead; they plan, set priorities, and always follow through. There are many services to help you to organize and control your life, but here are some suggestions to get you started.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Stop procrastination&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Although there are good and bad procrastinators, depending on what you do for a living most commonly, you are working on nothing, something less important, or something more important. Stop putting off small things, for more important things. Still, not always good. Try writing down the tasks you could be working on and when something is completed; scratch it off your list. The description of procrastination is avoiding in doing a task and not accomplishing it. Improve your personal life by completing what it is your set out to do. If finances are something that you are putting off to get organized, pull out those receipts and take control of your finances. If your goal is to lose weight and this has created anxiety in your life, discover a nutritional plan that works for you and start today. The best solution is to start exercise. Start out slow and work your way into a complete three day a week program. You will be amazed at what exercising can do for you muscles, mind, body, and so on.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Allow more free time to do want you want&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Increase productivity and find free time for you may seem almost impossible, but only when we are disorganized. The key to finding more free time is to organize what needs to be done. A simple list consisting of catching up on your workload, working out, time with family and friends, and pursuing your own leisure activity can all be done by making a plan. It seems a little odd to have to put your family on a priority list, but it sure beats not spending time with family at all because your doing everything spontaneously and unprepared. Improve your personal life by staying organized and allow room for fun.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Give yourself a peace of mind&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Very few people understand the cause of happiness. Many of us focus on friends, cars, and money as the true reason for happiness and devote all of our time and energy acquiring these things. The real source of peace of mind is in inner peace. Remember that if we have a peaceful mind, we will be happy. Having all the money in the world would not make us completely peaceful if we decide to let in all the negative influences and disturbances in our circle. Improve your personal life by creating a healthy surrounding for yourself and family. You can take steps to gain peace of mind. The first step is meditating at least once everyday. Allow your mind to focus on nothing. Once you are in the mood, allow your thoughts to graze the pastures. In addition, there is nothing wrong with taking time out to dream about a life that you would like to live.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sometimes if we take the step to dream, we will find the stamina to take action to achieve our dreams. Keep the dreams realistic.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Get ahead of your fears and conquer your goals, personal growth is just a plan away!</description><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" height="72" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXqTUq_yctdbF7o7aVyTjXVRz0Js3TjydRSiNeVL7xybGRnhliu-UHPQPSaruPZ1XB2yQhH1HOZLhqTzYnQCdiA4fDKWfrLbLLP-35NUCm09m8A5nztbjQqYowNy4qYPw2i5cfDxbe67Z_/s72-c/procrastination.jpg" width="72"/><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total></item><item><title>How to Improve Personal Life ..Anyway?</title><link>http://improvingpersonallife.blogspot.com/2009/07/how-to-improve-personal-life-anyway.html</link><category>Knowing How</category><author>noreply@blogger.com (Pnetwork)</author><pubDate>Tue, 9 Jun 2009 21:19:00 -0700</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-829495463607816590.post-2427999265726508252</guid><description>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0gxUtcYWR57gyITESP298Zs89uLyIoUS5gI1cDx4mP47ZMaSqnePffZjk8XCBhBO7xSTg8v-AkS2qzkNfJysdRrbf8Lum7KiIm8qpzMIjEyzP2fJvLjhunWMdbI8RfJWuDFf1xzFCBCJW/s1600-h/improve-personal-life.jpeg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 195px; height: 140px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0gxUtcYWR57gyITESP298Zs89uLyIoUS5gI1cDx4mP47ZMaSqnePffZjk8XCBhBO7xSTg8v-AkS2qzkNfJysdRrbf8Lum7KiIm8qpzMIjEyzP2fJvLjhunWMdbI8RfJWuDFf1xzFCBCJW/s320/improve-personal-life.jpeg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5360831975965189042" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Throughout our lives, we all had the desire to be all we can be, although some of us ignore this desire. Many times, we may stay in our comfort zone without realizing that we are passing up opportunities to do something that we truly enjoy. Of course, the money may be good, your bills are paid and you find it easy to work with repetition. Yet, are you happy?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When you are ready to improve your personal life, you must turn your wants into needs. I need to be successful. I need to be a great parent. I need that promotion. I need to save my relationship, etc.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How to be your own life coach:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Many of us spend time convincing ourselves that our dreams will never come true. We may feel that our dreams do not amount to anything. Poor self-esteem hinders the quality of life. In addition, you miss being your own coach. You can turn the negative thoughts into positive reflections, which will guide you to improve overall personal life. The next time you feel like turning yourself into a destructive thinker, breath deep and say, I love myself, just the way I am. Learn to walk tall and habitually think about what you want to achieve. Set plans, write down your goals, and take action to reach those goals. You may want to learn something simple. Learn how to be a better cook. Stop yelling at the children.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How to take steps in becoming a better you:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thinking positive is a great start to improving overall personal life. Surrounding yourself around good influences will encourage you to acquire better behaviors. You will learn to practice these new habits daily. Once you conquer your obstacles, you can mark off the list of poor behaviors you have written down.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tips for personal development and growth:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Learn to say no. For some of us, our natural instincts lead us in the right direction to helping others. Are you sacrificing your needs however, to consistently take care of other peoples needs? Are you taking time out of each day to pamper yourself for fifteen minutes or so? Are you taking actions to stop persistence that spreads yourself too thin?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you spread yourself too thin, it will lead to sleepless nights, since you will feel anxious and depressed. Do you constantly keep yourself in the center of drama? If so, do not allow others to drag you down. Try to stay away from situations that drag you down and take you beyond your control. If you are focusing on the wrong items in life, you are not improving overall personal life.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Do you tell you that you are not good enough? Do you say you are not strong? Do you feel like you are not enough? Do you feel like you deserve what you get, when what you get causes you sadness?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For some people it is easy to focus on negativity, which causes them ongoing depression. If you are one of those people at interviews, when asked about your qualities, skills, etc, speaks out rambling off your bad qualities, you need to stop now. What you are doing is taking away your opportunities to achieve. Some of us are lost at words when it comes to speaking highly of ourselves. For some people this seems selfish, or boisterous, yet it is not. Learn to become your own best friend and give yourself frequent compliments. Stop focusing on your self and criticizing your every move, and forget about the past mistakes and focus on your future. Sure, we can say it is easier said than done; yet if you put forth effort it is easier than you believe. So many times, we do not take full responsibility of our own actions. We rather live a life blaming others for our mistakes or misfortunes. Do not obsess over past mistakes, live in denial, and stop blaming others to see how your life will improve. We all make bad choices in life. This is a part of living. Learn from your mistakes and move ahead. Treat each new experience as a point of learning. Next, we can learn how to wake up to improving overall personal life.</description><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" height="72" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0gxUtcYWR57gyITESP298Zs89uLyIoUS5gI1cDx4mP47ZMaSqnePffZjk8XCBhBO7xSTg8v-AkS2qzkNfJysdRrbf8Lum7KiIm8qpzMIjEyzP2fJvLjhunWMdbI8RfJWuDFf1xzFCBCJW/s72-c/improve-personal-life.jpeg" width="72"/><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total></item><item><title>Competence Leading</title><link>http://improvingpersonallife.blogspot.com/2009/07/competence-leading.html</link><category>Improvement</category><author>noreply@blogger.com (Pnetwork)</author><pubDate>Sun, 7 Jun 2009 19:17:00 -0700</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-829495463607816590.post-6076325030742307441</guid><description>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAcrNq9Jn1_rluxs9EOd0X9aZU5tchOjbmBJc3AxkuvzfpiAnF-GBFqT2dj8tUSuu-qfMmTkZbqxkqKPBLWc6vx8ixtE3QrDQBWYSwqE_agOCQThUdjdVf3d_Np7ZD1mSVXud60eMwtkZN/s1600-h/young_professionals.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 170px; height: 128px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAcrNq9Jn1_rluxs9EOd0X9aZU5tchOjbmBJc3AxkuvzfpiAnF-GBFqT2dj8tUSuu-qfMmTkZbqxkqKPBLWc6vx8ixtE3QrDQBWYSwqE_agOCQThUdjdVf3d_Np7ZD1mSVXud60eMwtkZN/s320/young_professionals.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5360830528316871394" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Do you have the competence to improve your everyday living and overall humane existence, or do you lack this quality? To improve personal living you have to find competence to take control. Our life is the personal way we as humans life. It is our way of making choices, which contributes to our person. In life we have inner coaches, counselors, etc that help us to achieve in life. We also have helpful experts in the world who will take the time to help those who find it difficult to help self. You have many options and resources available to you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How to use competence:&lt;br /&gt;Competence is earned. You must learn how to build competence to use it. A person with competence will take what they learn and use it to solve different situations in their life. They will make what they learn second to the first nature they intend to acquire. A competent person always sees the new light at the end of each tunnel.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When a person has competence, he or she feels joyful. A joyful person will consider each incident, experience etc in life as something they can learn from, as well this person will not allow bad weigh him or her down. The person will take the bad, see new light and continuing learning from his or her mistakes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We hear bad news each day. The US is battling hard with other countries. This is out of our control. Therefore, we must see the new light. For instance, you can say “I do not have control over the world, yet I have control over my actions.” Once you see that you can only change you, you will live happier and free of chaos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You will need to learn how to suspend judgments of self and others. You are not the Man in control. Only one spiritual being has the right to call judgment down on anyone. Let this Man take the weight on His shoulders. You may need to pray often to cease judging self and others. since this is a common problem, we face in the world. It is habitually seen in nearly everyone you meet.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is ok to have opinions, but when you do not have facts to support your claims, why speak. Too many times people suspect, offer opinions, speculate, or jump to conclusions, which has caused major problems in the world. If you do not have facts behind you, or to support what you say, shut up. Allow someone else in the world to make the next mistake.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you want to live happier, you will need to build your energy. To build energy you will need to eat proper, exercise and take good care of you. You will need to associate with positive people and learn to help others as well as yourself. The more effort you put forth, the more you will get back from your efforts.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Next, you want to consider your health. Frequent doctor visits, exercise, eating right and avoiding harmful chemicals and substances are a start to bettering your health.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Once you get your health in check, you can move to build self-awareness. In fact, you should have a degree of this already built, since you needed it to see how to improve your overall life. Self-awareness is the process of evaluating self. When you can sit back and look at you, you have self-awareness. What can I do to change bad habits. How do my bad habits help me. Remember, laugh as you evaluate yourself to keep from going insane.</description><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" height="72" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAcrNq9Jn1_rluxs9EOd0X9aZU5tchOjbmBJc3AxkuvzfpiAnF-GBFqT2dj8tUSuu-qfMmTkZbqxkqKPBLWc6vx8ixtE3QrDQBWYSwqE_agOCQThUdjdVf3d_Np7ZD1mSVXud60eMwtkZN/s72-c/young_professionals.jpg" width="72"/><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total></item><item><title>How Hobbies Improve Your Personal Life</title><link>http://improvingpersonallife.blogspot.com/2009/06/how-hobbies-improve-your-personal-life.html</link><category>Knowing How</category><author>noreply@blogger.com (Pnetwork)</author><pubDate>Fri, 5 Jun 2009 21:13:00 -0700</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-829495463607816590.post-3059200427559026696</guid><description>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-w0zjkuDeSJbVA8NLy4mUXrLrrhhZ4EsnGDjMyfaMzp1aqajaXE0K7fEjxquELa8v0_lwaOlqdm1ZERebitpzeNlLf9RjQJeArR2_s9jpANPHn3sLoTivHlewDcToJxEI-gl9ajz3vRmu/s1600-h/Hobbies.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-w0zjkuDeSJbVA8NLy4mUXrLrrhhZ4EsnGDjMyfaMzp1aqajaXE0K7fEjxquELa8v0_lwaOlqdm1ZERebitpzeNlLf9RjQJeArR2_s9jpANPHn3sLoTivHlewDcToJxEI-gl9ajz3vRmu/s320/Hobbies.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5360833557859798610" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When you have a hobby that you like and you will spend time doing this. This will help keep you from getting in trouble, since you will stay busy. This will free your mind and you from stress as well. If you have bad habits, such as drinking or drugging you can invest your time in hobbies, which will free your mind of the binds that drugs and alcohol hold you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What are hobbies?&lt;br /&gt;Hobbies are something that you enjoy doing, it could be collecting coins, dolls, hot wheel cars, stamps, knitting, more less what ever you enjoy doing. When you enjoy doing hobbies, you spend not all of your extra time doing them and you think about doing anything else. Like getting into trouble. Some people may make their work is their hobbies this could be working on cars or heavy equipment to semis they enjoy it so much they are always doing it no matter what when some of us want a break from work so we do something else that we enjoy doing. We all have different hobbies and different ideas of what hobbies are. Some people make fishing and hunting their hobbies.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Does hobbies cost a lot of money to get started?&lt;br /&gt;Hobbies can get very expensive. Then other hobbies do not cost hardly anything to do. Like collecting coins can get very costly. If you can’t afford to put money in on a hobby maybe you should try to pick one that does cost a lot like knitting or something to do with crafts there are a ton of things you can do that don’t cast nothing. Hot wheel cars only cost around a dollar. Perhaps you can spend time in shops looking at hot wheels, purchase one and go back each week to purchase another. Hot Wheel cars in time will become collectors items. In fact, the cars are already collector items, i.e. some are.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How do I get started with my hobby?&lt;br /&gt;You have to decide what you enjoy, things that interest you like maybe collecting coins, or stamps or maybe you want to learn the history on them so this can be a good hobby for someone. Maybe someone likes to work with yarn and make things so that may be some one-hobby knitting or crouching. Maybe some one likes to work on cars and that is a hobby of theirs. There is no real way to get started other then doing it and deciding what you want to do as a hobby.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So remember when you want to get your mind free of stress or do not want to get into trouble. Sit down and try to figure out what you what to do for a hobby. Perhaps you will want to write them down and pick out the one you think you would like. There is nothing wrong with having more then one hobby or later on deciding that you don’t want to do this after all and find another one. Just remember hobbies can help you improve your life by helping you to stay out of trouble and keep your mind clear of things so you can think more clearly.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Other hobbies included doll collecting. The older porcelain dolls are a common collectors item you may want to consider. You will find a wide variety of dolls online at Ebay stores and so on. In addition, you will find the dolls are various collector stores.&lt;br /&gt;To learn more about hobbies go online and review the different items collected, so that you can decide what hobby is best for you.</description><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" height="72" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-w0zjkuDeSJbVA8NLy4mUXrLrrhhZ4EsnGDjMyfaMzp1aqajaXE0K7fEjxquELa8v0_lwaOlqdm1ZERebitpzeNlLf9RjQJeArR2_s9jpANPHn3sLoTivHlewDcToJxEI-gl9ajz3vRmu/s72-c/Hobbies.jpg" width="72"/><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total></item><item><title>Keys that Unlock the Doors</title><link>http://improvingpersonallife.blogspot.com/2009/06/keys-that-unlock-doors_03.html</link><category>Improvement</category><author>noreply@blogger.com (Pnetwork)</author><pubDate>Wed, 3 Jun 2009 20:40:00 -0700</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-829495463607816590.post-4026669425832720875</guid><description>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNM-tJr2PVjBuEZKj4-1NZOenp6HkPaDDdYfWh-AYa0ASMsrAV69pSO6sGT_gt1RihTUnFbEcme-_Oxx3wEouNswjfKs-jo7nNiN84o0hrt3orQdB4FJJU9UO3TR-R48ixJDgS6DORXS1w/s1600-h/kunci-sukses.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNM-tJr2PVjBuEZKj4-1NZOenp6HkPaDDdYfWh-AYa0ASMsrAV69pSO6sGT_gt1RihTUnFbEcme-_Oxx3wEouNswjfKs-jo7nNiN84o0hrt3orQdB4FJJU9UO3TR-R48ixJDgS6DORXS1w/s320/kunci-sukses.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5360830977875234818" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="display: block;" id="formatbar_Buttons"&gt;&lt;span class="" style="display: block;" id="formatbar_Add_Image" title="Add Image" onmouseover="ButtonHoverOn(this);" onmouseout="ButtonHoverOff(this);" onmouseup="addImage();" onmousedown="CheckFormatting(event);;ButtonMouseDown(this);"&gt;&lt;img src="img/blank.gif" alt="Add Image" class="gl_photo" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How to improve your personal life ?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Learning is the key to unlock doors to success. When you learn about you, what you want, and what specific difficulties you want to change, you are improving your personal life. To get started learning you, your wants, and so on you will need to use new ideas. If you need to hit the “refresh,” tab then go online to find articles. Read the information, since someone may provide you with the keys that unlock doors in your mind. You can also visit your local library, a great place to start improving your life.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Life is filled with problems, diagnostics and solvers. To start improving your life you can start by reliving a time in your life. Look back to see obstacles in your pathway. What did you do to overcome those obstacles? Were your decisions capable of helping you handle the problems? Did your decisions have good or bad consequences? If you made good decisions then, can you use those decisions now to fix problems?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Once you review your history of problem-solving tactics move on to evaluate your skills. What skills do you have that will help you improve your personal life? What skills can you develop that will guide you to a prosperous life? Do you need to continue school? Can you find a better job?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How to travel the discovering road to unlock doors:&lt;br /&gt;The first action you will need to take to unlock doors is to be honest. When you are honest with self and others, it helps reduce emotional chaos. When a person lies, they live in denial, anger, misery, hopelessness, etc and often drown in their own pity. Stop the pity and hop on the road, traveling down the trail ways to discover the keys that unlock your doors to success. To get started tell the truth about something that hinders you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Start: I dwell on negative thoughts rather than focusing on positive thoughts. What can you do to change this? Say, my life is filled with stress, yet I feel I can change my life to make it better. Think about those people in the world who has it worse than you do.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Do you have addictions?&lt;br /&gt;Consider drugs, sex, alcohol, and cigarettes and so on when thinking of addictions. Also, consider shopping, work, food and so on. If you discover an addiction ask, how can I take steps to change this harmful habits? Do I have support? Is there hope? Can I find help? How can I find that help? You will find many helpful resources, including addiction clinics of all sorts that will offer you a hand. Never deal with addictions alone. You will also need to work on your own to take control of your addictions. The key to success is accepting you have a problem. Honesty is the key that opens many doors. Once you accept you will find it easier to get help.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Looking ahead:&lt;br /&gt;Looking ahead is good. When you look ahead, you are visualizing your future. You want to avoid dwelling on reaching tomorrow.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Rather keep one day in your mind and work in that day to complete your goals. Taking it one day at a time is the key to success. You have many options, yet it takes you to discover those options.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Communication:&lt;br /&gt;Communication is the ultimate key that opens many doors. When you learn to communicate effectively, you are taking steps to improve your personal life. To learn effective communication skills, consider continuing your education. You can also learn communication tools by frequently talking with others about positive topics.</description><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" height="72" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNM-tJr2PVjBuEZKj4-1NZOenp6HkPaDDdYfWh-AYa0ASMsrAV69pSO6sGT_gt1RihTUnFbEcme-_Oxx3wEouNswjfKs-jo7nNiN84o0hrt3orQdB4FJJU9UO3TR-R48ixJDgS6DORXS1w/s72-c/kunci-sukses.jpg" width="72"/><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total></item><item><title>Discovering Values that Improve your Personal Life</title><link>http://improvingpersonallife.blogspot.com/2009/05/discovering-values-that-improve-your.html</link><category>Improvement</category><author>noreply@blogger.com (Pnetwork)</author><pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2009 20:18:00 -0700</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-829495463607816590.post-9026751261616380266</guid><description>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgU_9oyHNmbEBcBiDj_iIToGzDXsKB3UhRSfDmWXQn9lRTFRyny6h3x-lNz27MMZg57PQWosJKf002isBW2MjNVM1WL6REkpMXT4qri6c-RbjhvqVzz9FqPQTBkpaAxP6QGXmNu1rC2XDFV/s1600-h/puzzle_family.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 282px; height: 282px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgU_9oyHNmbEBcBiDj_iIToGzDXsKB3UhRSfDmWXQn9lRTFRyny6h3x-lNz27MMZg57PQWosJKf002isBW2MjNVM1WL6REkpMXT4qri6c-RbjhvqVzz9FqPQTBkpaAxP6QGXmNu1rC2XDFV/s320/puzzle_family.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5360833972862307346" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Values make us as a person and define how we invest our time, energy and money. When our values are high, we can reach the limits of improving our personal life. Throughout our life, we decide what we want to do with our time. Time is essential, since time runs out quick. For this reasons you, want to invest time, spending your time wisely. Spending time wisely includes activities, entertainment, work, quality time and so on.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The average person spends most of their day working. At the end of the day they return home to spend time watching television, or engaging in activities with the family. Unfortunately, family is a thing of the past. If you want to improve your personal life, you are going to have to put family first. If you have wife and kids, or husband and kids, you will need to learn how to invest time with the family. Unfortunately, you have five or six hours after a day of work to do this. You also want time for self.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To achieve a time frame that works for everyone try considering discovering new interests. When you discover new ideas, it will help you open the doors to success. Your directions in life are based on new ideas. For instance, if you come home after work most times without spending time with the family, try practicing eating at the dinner table each night with your family. Do not allow room for excuses. As you feast together, take time to ask how each person’s day went. This has proven to enhance relationships. When you enhance relationship, you are also building a new bridge to personal improvement.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One of the biggest mistakes some people make is hanging out with poor influences. If you hang out with poor influences, you are wasting time. Your values are low. You will need to build your values to improve your personal life by changing company. You want to hang around with positive influences. Let me draw you a picture.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you hang around at bars with your friends, you are wasting time. In time, you will face court costs, fines, and perhaps jail, especially if you visit the bars and drive home after drinking. In time, you will learn new bad habits. Each bad habit you learn takes over your life, which only keeps you down.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Finding new positive influences is a key to success. Anyone who thinks positive will rub off on you, helping you to develop good habits. When you find friends that care about you, you will have friends that do not allow your to drink and drive. You will have friends that care about your future.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To make new friends you have to learn communication skills. Don’t be afraid to smile and say hi. There is nothing wrong with being friendly. One has to use good judgment however, since this world is filled with bad characters that have harmful intents. In addition, many people today fear friendliness.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When you learn to communicate however, you are building blocks that lead you to a happier future. Failure to communicate is one of the leading reasons why businesses fail, relationships falter, children kill and so on. Communication comes in many forms. Sometimes when you sit and listen as well as pay attention to gestures or body languages you learn best. Observation is the ultimate key that helps you to gain successfully and learn to develop skills that lead you to improve your personal life.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You have many options in the world. Take those options, use them to your advantage and you are on the road to improving your personal life.</description><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" height="72" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgU_9oyHNmbEBcBiDj_iIToGzDXsKB3UhRSfDmWXQn9lRTFRyny6h3x-lNz27MMZg57PQWosJKf002isBW2MjNVM1WL6REkpMXT4qri6c-RbjhvqVzz9FqPQTBkpaAxP6QGXmNu1rC2XDFV/s72-c/puzzle_family.jpg" width="72"/><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total></item><item><title>Discovering Intentions</title><link>http://improvingpersonallife.blogspot.com/2009/05/discovering-intentions.html</link><category>Improvement</category><author>noreply@blogger.com (Pnetwork)</author><pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 19:19:00 -0700</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-829495463607816590.post-8968982605775954346</guid><description>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB1XL8nYCoJV2fhx5NZWSIUSVmdkD0WDbdAEEeuC9FF1VFCga3hyphenhyphenFk_ZjraMXoM9uz6d13Rlo3xDROJC0yvq3RbHCrSoS9MhNJsEr_MWvJTpOiLUqcmvMFdBm5hd0jq-ocaTvhuaq4tVI8/s1600-h/intention.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 210px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB1XL8nYCoJV2fhx5NZWSIUSVmdkD0WDbdAEEeuC9FF1VFCga3hyphenhyphenFk_ZjraMXoM9uz6d13Rlo3xDROJC0yvq3RbHCrSoS9MhNJsEr_MWvJTpOiLUqcmvMFdBm5hd0jq-ocaTvhuaq4tVI8/s320/intention.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5360834610152812930" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;the question is How to discover your intentions?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Good intentions are the ultimate choice of improving your life. If you have bad intentions, it is a sign you are filled with greed, envy, hate and so on. You want all these negative influences out of your life. Intentions are powerful. Intentions tell others where our goals are heading. It is our purpose. Intentions are our motive that helps us to achieve our objectives.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To learn your intentions you must put forth effort. Sometimes you will feel grouchy, and grit your teeth, yet as you continue to learn you will see a light at the end of the tunnel. So what if some of your intentions are bad. Welcome to reality, humanity and imperfection. Yet, you can change those bad intentions to good thoughts. The key to find your intentions is to consider discovering. Acquire the determination to reach for the stars, learn about you, decide what you want and move ahead. Take the action so that you can develop healthier thoughts, habits, behaviors etc that guide you to success.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The system of entry:&lt;br /&gt;It always helps a person to write down their intentions. When you enter your intentions on paper, it helps you to discover you. Many people do not like to write, however if you keep a journal you can look back later to see your growth stage. It only takes a few minutes daily to jot down your feelings, thoughts, ideas and so on.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Accessing your interests and strengths within:&lt;br /&gt;To access your interests, first you have to sit down and consider what you want. Once you decide what you want, you will need to write a plan, set goals and take action. Move to get what you want. To access your strengths, test your abilities and skills. What can you do best? How can you use your skills and abilities to improve your personal life?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Once you access your inner you, you can move to set your own standard of living. Do not live for others; rather learn to live for you. As you move ahead, explore your vocation paths. Do you see you in the future enjoying the job you love? Do you see you in the future working at the same company going nowhere? If you see yourself stuck, check your options to find a way to better your situation. You can start by identifying the jobs that peek your interest. Once you discover what you want to do, set up strategies to achieve your goals. Take action and move ahead.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How it is done:&lt;br /&gt;Discover you and what options you have available. Pull up resources. In fact, build resources. Resources are the key that unlocks the doors to success. Check your intentions. What is the ideal vocation for you? Pull up your assets and use them to your advantage. Do a job search to help you find a new career that makes you happy. Always follow through with your plans. Never give up and demand results.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To achieve your goals discover your wants.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Take action by recording your specific needs and wants. Review the inner pictures you develop and listen to the voices that tell you how you can improve your personal life. We have cute little thingy ma-jigger that tells us when we do wrong. Learn to train your conscious to live healthier. We have another cutie inside us, which is called instincts. Learn to re-establish your instincts and listen. Listening is the key to help you improve your personal life. Learn how to recognize your bodies needs also.</description><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" height="72" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB1XL8nYCoJV2fhx5NZWSIUSVmdkD0WDbdAEEeuC9FF1VFCga3hyphenhyphenFk_ZjraMXoM9uz6d13Rlo3xDROJC0yvq3RbHCrSoS9MhNJsEr_MWvJTpOiLUqcmvMFdBm5hd0jq-ocaTvhuaq4tVI8/s72-c/intention.jpg" width="72"/><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total></item><item><title>Changing Habits</title><link>http://improvingpersonallife.blogspot.com/2009/05/changing-habits.html</link><category>Improvement</category><author>noreply@blogger.com (Pnetwork)</author><pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 20:05:00 -0700</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-829495463607816590.post-8764485972910155848</guid><description>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNrk7JUSsSCrfU-04Vw2S_ZkqVXcPzq9uqdvvWi5HMjmdAXYyKf3YhZWnbUij8BOljoLjYbyWsPqfoLs1SVe6r44HzK27xbI6rSEA-_bFIbWBM14psDdIxfWI8gsNwimqjI3bSCrbRzc4v/s1600-h/habits.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 316px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNrk7JUSsSCrfU-04Vw2S_ZkqVXcPzq9uqdvvWi5HMjmdAXYyKf3YhZWnbUij8BOljoLjYbyWsPqfoLs1SVe6r44HzK27xbI6rSEA-_bFIbWBM14psDdIxfWI8gsNwimqjI3bSCrbRzc4v/s320/habits.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5360835339642423906" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Habits, oh those nasty habits. Habits are developed from training, influences, observation, and practice. We develop many habits throughout our life, which some are good and others are bad. Good habits we can keep, but if one wants to improve their life the bad habits has to take a hike. Getting rid of bad habits however is not easy, especially if an addiction is involved. For this reason, we can take a few steps to learning how you can change your habits.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Making excuses:&lt;br /&gt;People wander through life making excuses. Anytime a person sees something complicated, they will often make excuses why they cannot deal with the problem. “This is just the way I am.” This is a common problem in the world, which we’ve all heard billions of times. If you are out to improve your life however, you need to say, “This is something that hinders me from achievement and I have the power to change it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The first key to success is stop making excuses. Learn how to tell the truth. The truth is the only answer that leads you to improve your personal life. Once you learn to tell the truth, you will need to commit self to learning new behaviors and habits.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You can commit by choosing a new habit. Today I plan to drink more water. Some of us detest water, yet water is our way of living healthier. Instead of detesting something that will save your life, start saying, today I will drink more water. Even if you start out drinking a glass for the first couple of days, you are making changes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Today I am going to stop judging others and myself. This is a common mistake people make in the world. They spend time judging others and themselves. This gets them nowhere but in a world of chaos. You make your bed, you must learn to sleep in it, which is why you should change your ways. Judging is only for our Master in the sky.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Do you think negative? I can’t change this. My life is full of nonsense, I can’t swing it anymore. Why me? Who put a tag on my head, saying persecute me. If you spend your life thinking negative and saying negative connotations, try changing your ways today. For instance, say, I can change something and I am going to. Instead of saying life is full of nonsense, accept it as truth yet move ahead to make your life better. Why me is a common question, which no one knows why, yet we have to accept it, make better decisions and move ahead. If you feel persecuted, ask you what you are doing that makes you feel this way. Do you have friends or family members weighing you down? If so, then kick their butt down the road and make new friends. No one in life is worth you suffering ongoing. You have the power to make changes, yet you do not have the power to change other people.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When you start to make changes to improve your life, start small. Instead of jumping the gun, take baby steps to success. Too many times people try to change overnight. This only leads to frustration.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When you are working to change your life and habits make sure you seek support and feedback. You do not have to walk the road to success alone. Feedback is found at your library, the Internet, at colleges, and so on. You will find support along these channels as well. Ask someone you trust to support you and give you feedback when needed also.</description><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" height="72" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNrk7JUSsSCrfU-04Vw2S_ZkqVXcPzq9uqdvvWi5HMjmdAXYyKf3YhZWnbUij8BOljoLjYbyWsPqfoLs1SVe6r44HzK27xbI6rSEA-_bFIbWBM14psDdIxfWI8gsNwimqjI3bSCrbRzc4v/s72-c/habits.jpg" width="72"/><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total></item><item><title>Accepting</title><link>http://improvingpersonallife.blogspot.com/2009/05/accepting.html</link><category>Improvement</category><author>noreply@blogger.com (Pnetwork)</author><pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2009 12:10:00 -0700</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-829495463607816590.post-1092465737917282959</guid><description>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPjPnWLw0DS8C05IhlDjgHOdZS0aQoYBTKd3rtYGUkiP_TQAPYFKOgI4YdXB1jSxHS-oG-jvoIZTJXFrXf_k3HxzvkERPXHkC93ImYEnVwXhHlILHmVxVw9D9ZE_xgcRtDodj7WbNlyP4C/s1600-h/accepting-it.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 232px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPjPnWLw0DS8C05IhlDjgHOdZS0aQoYBTKd3rtYGUkiP_TQAPYFKOgI4YdXB1jSxHS-oG-jvoIZTJXFrXf_k3HxzvkERPXHkC93ImYEnVwXhHlILHmVxVw9D9ZE_xgcRtDodj7WbNlyP4C/s320/accepting-it.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5360836584605716178" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Do you have the ability to accept the things you can change and the things you cannot change? Do you have the ability to accept that other people are opt to change them, rather than you changing them? Do you accept that you are who you are, regardless of what others think? Can you accept the many changes that take place in your life?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you answered yes to one or all of these questions then you are off to the start of improving your personal life. If you are willing to accept, you have the ability to laugh, even when something is not funny. For instance, if someone pushed you, you could stand back and laugh. The push is only a threat to your emotion, which you will see, accept and find a way to gain control of the situation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When you can accept things in life, including you and others you find a way to take control. When you are in control, it helps you to see how you can improve your personal life. When you learn to accept you will learn to discover you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Individuality is personal, which philosophers over generalize this subject. Many people in the world believe that when we act the same way at all times, we have established our identity. Politically incorrect! We have emotions, thoughts, behaviors, actions, and have been plagued by a world of influences both good and bad. Each day we will feel something new, which causes our personality to reflect on these changes. Therefore, when you see someone laughing one minute and crying the next, you are seeing a shift in emotions, which is a normal pattern of identity for this person. Unless the persons eyes change, behaviors change dramatically, friends change regularly, etc, and you are seeing common behaviors.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We live in a world that desensitizes us. We are surrounding by billions of influences on television, in the media, on radio, in house-holds, government, schools and so forth. Each to their own, but everyone is judging someone at some time, which is something we have to accept. We cannot change these peoples behaviors and way of thinking, but we can change ours. This is a part of learning and accepting. The best way around the world is become your own influence and allow other influences to make someone else’s life miserable. Only rely on sources that prove truthful with their actions, behaviors and words. Positive reflections are the key to living happier.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Once you learn to accept you will be eager to laugh. For instance, if someone makes you mad you will see the humor in his or her actions. You may see the humor in your actions if you make a mistake and feed into their stupidity.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Once you start to see the humor in life, you will feel better inside. We are involved in a unruly world filled with greedy people, envious souls, lusty tigers, and so on. We have to learn how to work around these people, accept us and move on. Once you learn to change to better you, other people may follow. Good conduct has proven far more effective than words to encourage others to change.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As you grow you will feel a new hunger, and that hunger will guide you to discover new ways to better you. In time as you start to feel better, you will see a need to exercise, eat right, and hang out with positive influences and so on. Once you feel this hunger, you will feel inspired to labor to achieve your goals.</description><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" height="72" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPjPnWLw0DS8C05IhlDjgHOdZS0aQoYBTKd3rtYGUkiP_TQAPYFKOgI4YdXB1jSxHS-oG-jvoIZTJXFrXf_k3HxzvkERPXHkC93ImYEnVwXhHlILHmVxVw9D9ZE_xgcRtDodj7WbNlyP4C/s72-c/accepting-it.jpg" width="72"/><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total></item><item><title>Building Courage</title><link>http://improvingpersonallife.blogspot.com/2009/05/building-courage.html</link><category>Improvement</category><author>noreply@blogger.com (Pnetwork)</author><pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2009 19:15:00 -0700</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-829495463607816590.post-7739646388549006050</guid><description>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1UCpW-A6BpFZAq_TA0Yfml46Jgf4FLNOJHUFnb9LgNzXRJS-xamAwcu7GxRAe8dR-vWN7PvslZLLTdckSziSMULmV3O3luD4Pk_edIIIPhEZBWE163yy0OSDVxvNOX-1M8P7dU7DHNXyf/s1600-h/courage.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1UCpW-A6BpFZAq_TA0Yfml46Jgf4FLNOJHUFnb9LgNzXRJS-xamAwcu7GxRAe8dR-vWN7PvslZLLTdckSziSMULmV3O3luD4Pk_edIIIPhEZBWE163yy0OSDVxvNOX-1M8P7dU7DHNXyf/s320/courage.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5360837410810411266" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;When you build courage, you start to improve your personal life. Building courage will help you take risks to a brighter future that you ordinarily would not take. When you build courage, you put fear behind you. courage is the process of admitting that you have fears, yet you are willing to find a way to defeat those fears and not allow these fears to take control of you. It is ok to experience your fears at appropriate times. For instance, if a bus is heading in your path, swerving you have a right to fear. There is nothing wrong with healthy fear. The problem is you have to put healthy fear in its place and unhealthy fear out of your life.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Once you build courage, you will learn to self-direct you in life. You will learn to accept punishment and rewards gracefully. A courageous person will often feel motivated to accept blame and responsibility while reviewing their actions and using what they learn to move forward. Courageous people will step to the front, rather than stepping back when opportunities come their way. On the other hand, a courageous person will step back and take a view at his or her mistakes gracefully.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sometimes the courageous person is spontaneous. It is never good to plan each day, because no one knows what the next day will bring in. Think about it. How many times have you planned something all to see it shatter in your face the next day. For instance, I plan to go to the ballgame tomorrow. Come tomorrow a blizzard, hurricane, tornado, wind storm, or rainstorm could change your mind. You planned, but did you plan for the weather. Did you make a backup plan in case your first plan failed. As you can see, planning is not always in your favor, which is why courageous people are sometimes spontaneous.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A person willing to improve their life will relax. This person will relax even when plans fail. For instance, if it stormed the next day the person will find something else to occupy his or her time and feel just as happy about joining this adventure.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To become successful and improve your life you will need to learn how to trust you. When you trust you, you can trust others as well. Unfortunately, we live in a world where trust is hard to find, yet when you trust you, you can’t blame others when things go wrong.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Improving your life includes using your creative and critical mind. When you can create new ideas, you are off to the road to success. You have many options in this world, it takes you to pull up resources to find those options.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sometimes in life, we feel uncomfortable. In fact, this is common. Are you willing to accept your discomforts? Perhaps at an interview you feel misplaced. Are you willing to accept this discomfort and find a way to deliver a good speech to impress the interviewer. Alternatively, are you willing to allow negative energies cost you the job.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Do you accept?&lt;br /&gt;Do you accept the things you cannot change? Do you accept the things you have control over? Do you accept other people regardless of how these people act? Do you accept you for who you are? Do you accept the changes that life brings your way?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Acceptance is your key to happiness. When you can learn to accept the good with the bad, you can learn how to live happier and improve your personal life. If you cannot accept however, well, reread this article again.</description><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" height="72" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1UCpW-A6BpFZAq_TA0Yfml46Jgf4FLNOJHUFnb9LgNzXRJS-xamAwcu7GxRAe8dR-vWN7PvslZLLTdckSziSMULmV3O3luD4Pk_edIIIPhEZBWE163yy0OSDVxvNOX-1M8P7dU7DHNXyf/s72-c/courage.jpg" width="72"/><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total></item><item><title>Getting the Most out of today</title><link>http://improvingpersonallife.blogspot.com/2009/05/getting-most-out-of-today.html</link><category>Improvement</category><author>noreply@blogger.com (Pnetwork)</author><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 18:12:00 -0700</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-829495463607816590.post-1196805276706874973</guid><description>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuJR_qHXaAuJDVBMm2nlwliJtO3TeF7hkpbV2VJ9Omle3-gtPRNtL8f5Nr5IItaUdlH26FyQb-osnV4iohnnTSfOl3LvTeb_d7Dn8CvdqWbVBNkIrjtYrIDXhEqv-Ok1hbBcBG_sjr85g_/s1600-h/lifewell.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 318px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuJR_qHXaAuJDVBMm2nlwliJtO3TeF7hkpbV2VJ9Omle3-gtPRNtL8f5Nr5IItaUdlH26FyQb-osnV4iohnnTSfOl3LvTeb_d7Dn8CvdqWbVBNkIrjtYrIDXhEqv-Ok1hbBcBG_sjr85g_/s320/lifewell.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5360838609543798018" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Today is your only concern. You have no control over tomorrow or yesterday. Today you are going to get the most of your day while working to improve your personal life. To do this you will need to set up time management plans. You want to include your daily activities, work, and entertainment, relax time, family time and so on. When you set time plans, you are growing to spend your time wisely. You learn to live for now, instead of tomorrow or yesterday.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As you write your plans, consider how you will deal with the world around you. If you are sweating their every move, you are wasting time. Instead, say, the world is their own, today is mine. If you have to work, then practice dealing with your fellow employees respectively. When you learn to respect, work in order, and try to get along it makes everyone’s life better.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Each day you want to choose a couple of new strategies that helps you to improve your personal life. For instance, if you are into a daily routine of drinking only one glass of water daily, move to drink two glasses. Build your health and you improve your personal life. If you do not exercise, plan today to walk thirty minutes. Plan to practice walking each day. The more effort you put into building a positive you, the more you will get from your works. “Faith without works is dead” the bible tells us. It has proven true far too many times to ignore.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you are attending school or working long hours, learn to manage your time as well. Overworking yourself is leading you nowhere but to poor health. You need to take time out for you. During work hours and school time, you can learn to deal with the complex problems first, as well as deal with the boring items first to eliminate stressing your day. Once you get past the tough, you will get moving toward the simple. Here you will find relief, even if you are studying hard or working long hours. Don’t put off what you can do today. Do it now, get it over with and watch as you grow.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As you plan, set a time that is best for you. For instance, if you are a student or worker and do your best job in the early morning, work hard then and relax throughout the day.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tips for relaxing:&lt;br /&gt;You can stretch in the morning when you arise, stretch in the afternoon, and stretch at night to relax your muscles.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Once you learn how to relax, you can move to find ways to reduce time wasted. For instance, at night you can lay out your clothes for the next day, prepare what you will take to save time. At what time you clear up time wasted you will find more time for productivity.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Do you procrastinate?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If so, stop. Procrastination is wasting time and building stress. Instead of putting it off, get it done now. You will be amazed at the free time you will accomplish by stop procrastinating.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Do you spend long hours on the phone. If so, then you are forming a habit that will lead you to procrastinate, waste time, and put things off. Forget the phone. Set a time limit per phone call you take, or make.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Saying no is a great way to improve your personal life. Saying no is a positive attitude that takes you to success. If you say yes to each person that consumes your time, you will waste valuable time that guides you nowhere.</description><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" height="72" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuJR_qHXaAuJDVBMm2nlwliJtO3TeF7hkpbV2VJ9Omle3-gtPRNtL8f5Nr5IItaUdlH26FyQb-osnV4iohnnTSfOl3LvTeb_d7Dn8CvdqWbVBNkIrjtYrIDXhEqv-Ok1hbBcBG_sjr85g_/s72-c/lifewell.jpg" width="72"/><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total></item></channel></rss>