SelfGrowth.com articles for Wisdom

The Voice In Stillness

zoe@innercompass.com.au — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 11:23:51 am

This is not another article about 'active listening'. You know all the tips already - pay attention, nod, open body position, ask questions, acknowledge, clarify, paraphrase, encourage. This message takes listening to a deeper, more magnetic level that creates deep, authentic connection. The ...

The Four Towers of Personality Development

richardmacalintal@gmail.com — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 3:50:27 pm

I have a Psychology class when I was in college. My teacher that time was my favorite because the class is new to me and I learned a lot of things about human behavior. One lesson that I can't forget is about these four essential life ingredients that are very crucial to our development. ...

Emotional Intelligence and Virtuous and Vicious Spirals

magiclifestyle@gmail.com — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 11:17:36 am

We all know what it’s like to feel bad about doing something thoughtlessly. We wake when it’s too late, after the damage is done. And then there are the things we do over and over again, hating ourselves for it every time. Seemingly unable to stop. But what about the joyfulness of doing ...

Success and the One Real Truth

info@geoffreycanavan.com — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 3:59:29 pm

It’s far too easy to let the world seem to do it’s dirty job on our creation and descend into a spiral of out of control hopelessness where our ‘destiny’ and ‘fate’ lie in the hands of everyone and everything beyond our own ability to provide our own redemption as we escape the bleak misery of a ...

The Secret You Need To Know About The Secret

webproducer@hotmail.com — Fri, 2 Jul 2010 11:03:46 am

When the movie The Secret became a big hit several years ago it planted a seed in the mass consciousness that we can all create our individual reality from our imagination. After releasing the genie out of the bottle, so to speak, many people began wishing and focusing on the physical objects ...

Eating Cake

meinicio@aol.co.uk — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 12:00:00 am

In a recent article by JD Dean Signs of a Cheating Boyfriend there appears a reference to a well know incorrect saying; "You can't have your cake and eat it" Why is this incorrect? Simply, you can have your cake and you can eat it, it is just that there will be no cake left. However, ...

How to Always Have Enough Time

CGWELLNESS@GMAIL.COM — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 4:34:31 pm

During a radio call-in show I appeared on, a caller expressed the frustration and stress he feels with his life. “I know I should be exercising, eating well, and meditating, “ he said, “but I have three jobs, kids, and not enough time to do anything.” Primitive humans were lucky to have the ...

Being Fearless in the Face of Adversity

chris@ExpectSuccessCoaching.com — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 12:00:00 am

In my last newsletter, “Five Must-Do Practices in Tough Times” I mentioned the importance of a good attitude, protecting business relationships, getting more creative, focusing on results and the importance of effective communication. I would like to continue discussion about leading in tough ...

How flexible are you?

diaacting2000@yahoo.com — Tue, 8 Jun 2010 12:00:00 am

How flexible are you? Do you know someone who sees only his way of doing things and no other way? Do you know that flexibility is one of the main keys to success? There is a study that was done on mice to know how flexible they are and how they would behave, so the ones who are in charge ...

Our Perfect Game

CGWELLNESS@GMAIL.COM — Tue, 8 Jun 2010 12:00:00 am

On Wednesday night last week, something very special happened…almost. As the Boston Red Sox game played in the background while I worked on the computer, I heard the announcer say that in Detroit, pitcher Armando Galarraga was working on a perfect game. (For those non-baseball aficionados, a ...

End Impatience Now

blparents@aol.com — Tue, 8 Jun 2010 12:00:00 am

Patience is faith in the time something takes. Patience is faith in living in the present moment, without pushing or forcing anything to happen. Patience is accepting things as they are, but this requires some clarification. Things are not the way you think things are. People are not who ...

Personal Development Explained

arkain283@inbox.com — Tue, 1 Jun 2010 12:00:00 am

Personal development is a broad term. As such, it needs to be defined more clearly than simply being explained by end results. Personal development (or self development) is the process of improving ones self. The most common definitions of personal development imply: improving self awareness or ...

Heart, Ch'I and Courage

GlennBerger@glennberger.com — Sun, 30 May 2010 12:00:00 am

Ch’i is the prime energy of the universe. This can be correlated to “the sacred fire” of the Upanishads. The Indians, too, located this energetic source in the heart. “I know . . . that sacred fire which leads to heaven. Listen. That fire which is the means of attaining the infinite worlds, ...

How to Change Bad Habits! What Works - rather than what doesn't - in Breaking a Habit

CBN@LifeStrategies.net — Thu, 13 May 2010 12:00:00 am

Breaking bad habits is simple but not easy. How? Just do what works! But you need to avoid the common mistake that gets most people doing what doesn't work for breaking a habit instead. Explore the difference as you find out why I kept stopping smoking, and see how to increase your personal ...

3 Basic Steps to Conflict Resolution

kealahparkinson@aol.com — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 12:00:00 am

Are you afraid of conflict? You're not alone. It's human nature to avoid situations that make us uncomfortable. And today, as jobs become more precious and tensions rise in the work place, conflict creates an even bigger stress load (at best) and irreparable damage to our jobs and relationships ...

Be Trustworthy, follow the Golden Rule - its Context can Change Your Life!

CBN@LifeStrategies.net — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 12:00:00 am

Disappointed is not the word for it! Not at what his email contained, but at what it didn’t say. Charles was a new friend, we'd met on a personal development course. He was American, I'm English Canadian, and we’d connected. He told me he was a real estate investor. “I do it both for ...

Being Aware of Being Aware

claudewarner@gmail.com — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 12:00:00 am

We all see the world through our normal eyes, but we are aware that there is much more that exists that we can only see through microscopes and telescopes. Similarly, we see the world through our normal perspectives, paradigms, and beliefs, but there is much that exists that we may not be ...

Accepting What We Can’t Change & Embracing What We Can

smtucson@msn.com — Thu, 8 Apr 2010 12:00:00 am

One of my favorite quotes comes from Reinhold Niebuhr. He said “God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.” I think that most people have seen or heard this quote at some point in their lives. ...

How To Become More Intelligent

publications@fitlyspoken.org — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 9:56:00 am

It may not be that intelligence is a measurable quality. We establish IQ scores, true, but these scores are not set in stone. Our brain is like any other muscle, if it is exercised, it grows stronger and more agile. Therefore, it may not even be accurate to assume that one person is necessarily ...

Rubbing Up Against Everything

joni@wisdomatwork.biz — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 9:05:00 pm

At a Greendrinks networking event I met a guy in the heating business. He asked me if I ever wondered why a certain temperature in the summer feels fine but in the winter feels chilly. He explained that the walls and objects are literally using us as a heat supply. We rarely think of our own ...

Experience - the crucial difference between Real Knowledge and just Understanding

CBN@LifeStrategies.net — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 2:31:08 am

Are you gullible - do you just believe what other people tell you? Or do you appreciate the vital difference between understanding something and real knowledge? My Brother's Shiny New Red Bicycle Many years ago, I was just five, my older brother was given a bicycle, a deep red bicycle. I was ...

Nothing Is Happens By Chance

xgierg@gmail.com — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 10:25:00 am

If you are trying to get financial freedom, explode your business or if you are just looking for success in life, read this article. In this article I will explain one of the laws of success. There are several laws in universe and we have to learn to work with these laws, because law is ...

Lessons from a Pilot's Daughter - Part 2

monkeyfish68@yahoo.com — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 6:14:46 pm

Life coaching is about helping people reach their goals and discover their ability to transform their lives. When life deals us hard knocks, it is easy to react defensively. We may see the problems as external – caused by other people or institutions. In our anger, we magnify our significance. ...

Role Models – Who really belongs on your pedestal?

shari.bench@gmail.com — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 9:13:00 am

Role Models – Who really belongs on your pedestal? What’s wrong with promoting Tiger Woods as a role model for your children? Until recently most people didn’t think anything was wrong with that. Who’s to blame…Tiger Woods or society? The reality is some people quickly turn to ...

Don't just work yourself, work on yourself

claudewarner@gmail.com — Tue, 9 Mar 2010 10:42:00 am

Several years ago Michael Gerber published a book called the E-Myth. The fundamental premise of this book was that an entrepreneur is someone who works on their business, not just in it. The person who only works in their business, who effectively IS the business, is called a ...

Align Your Life With Your Values: Get Down to the Core

donnathompson100@comcast.net — Mon, 8 Mar 2010 4:32:03 pm

“Integrity is not so much a value in itself; it is rather the value that guarantees all the other values. “ Anonymous Your core values govern the way you live and the way you respond to life. They govern the way you react to situations that present themselves. Your core values help to ...

Can You Reverse Email Search?

donzns8@gmail.com — Sun, 7 Mar 2010 3:01:00 pm

If you are like everyone else you have an email account and have been online for a while now. You are careful who you talk to and give your email address to, because you do not want spam mail. Before you know what happened your inbox is getting loaded down everyday with emails that you have ...

Self Improvement and Motivation just got ugly- What you haven’t been told but MUST know if you want to succeed

kstone.gulf@gmail.com — Sun, 7 Mar 2010 5:26:00 am

Long before I became The Man Inspiring Millions, an international author of several books, a sought after inspirational speaker, the authority in the field of Mind Nutrition and a sought after brand, I came to a realisation. Every winning individual and every winning team has had to come to ...

Giving Advice: Come again when you can't stay so long!

swimming@foowater.com — Thu, 4 Mar 2010 5:12:00 pm

A friend was buying cigarettes and a stranger said, “The surgeon general said smoking can be hazardous to your health.” My friend responded, “Did they also tell you that #$!@ing with me can be hazardous to your health?” The stranger opted to move to another line. When my friend told me ...

Are Your Leads Leading You Astray?

drrobinrushlo@gmail.com — Wed, 3 Mar 2010 9:48:00 am

Advertisements for leads are everywhere on the web and they promise everything from wealth to automatic ways to grow your business. But can a lead system really deliver? Are they really worth the money? Lead systems can be effective and can be used to grow your business. In fact, if you ...

My Most Favorite Quotes!

FatherTimePublishing@gmail.com — Mon, 1 Mar 2010 1:36:00 am

These are some quotes from famous people, and they are quotes that I especially like, and can write or recite them without looking them up! I hope that you enjoy them because they are powerful and effective when used as motivation! "A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single ...

Positive Productivity

bizzoom@gmail.com — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 9:19:27 pm

Positive productivity is exactly as it sounds -- positive. Productivity increases as does quality, when body, mind, and spirit, are focused upon being in a positive state of mind, emotion, and will -- then the body also will react in a positive manner. Negativity, or being in a negative state ...

Building Common Sense

ckuretdoc@comcast.net — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 12:39:39 pm

“Success is what you get from using common sense; failure is what you get from using everything else.” ~The author. Success is built on a firm foundation of good old common sense (which unfortunately isn’t so common these days); failure follows the crumbling of a weak foundation ...

Since I accepted the Inevitably, I see Possibility

claudewarner@gmail.com — Thu, 4 Mar 2010 7:18:26 am

For most of us our goal in life is to be comfortable. For instance, we want just enough money to be able to live a “comfortable life”. We don’t necessarily seek the passion of fulfilling great visions, or the other extreme of apathy and despair. For many of us our lives are focused on ...

Live, Love & Laugh

ckuretdoc@comcast.net — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 7:53:29 pm

Live, Love & Laugh By Bill Cottringer “When done correctly by individuals, living, loving and laughing greatly improve the quality of life for humanity.” ~The author. The more you do these three things, the more successful and happier you and others will be. But first you have to ...

Making Affiliate Marketing Work up a Profit

jossefsal@gmail.com — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 3:14:19 am

Affiliate marketing is an extensive means of endorsing a website, in which an affiliate is compensated for each sale production using his or her own hard works. In Affiliate marketing, there are various methods to earn money. Even if one of the methods can direct you to a victorious and ...

De-mystifying Work-Life Balalnce

hans@hansyoga.com — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 11:05:49 am

Work-Life Balance has become some kind of a cliche, and the more it figures in our talks, the less we seem to have of it. To begin with, the name itself is a misnomer. Work is a part of life, how can we balance a part with the whole and is it not vain and futile to even try to do that ? ...

Submitting to Directories Can Drive You Crazy

jimgreen@writing-for-profit.com — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 8:25:46 am

It all starts with sending out a few emails on a daily basis, progresses to submitting batches of articles and press releases every other day, on to uploading your newly generated pristine videos to YouTube etc, and finally, posting obsessive announcements to an ever-growing trail of social ...

Lessons from a Pilot's Daughter – Part One

monkeyfish68@yahoo.com — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 1:37:06 am

Both my father and my grandfather were pilots in the US Air Force. My early childhood was spent in the company of flight suits, airplanes, men in uniform, pictures of men in uniform, pictures of airplanes, model airplanes and just about every accoutrement of flight available. My father retired ...

Common Sense Life Mission-Based Alignment

ckuretdoc@comcast.net — Sat, 6 Feb 2010 2:54:46 pm

Common Sense Life Mission-Based Alignment By Bill Cottringer “Common sense and a sense of humor are the same things moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.” ~ William James. A few years ago, a colleague of mine wrote an important business book ...

Success Built On Common Sense

ckuretdoc@comcast.net — Fri, 5 Feb 2010 10:27:00 pm

Success Built On Common Sense By Bill Cottringer “Common sense is the simple knack of seeing something the way it is and doing something the way it should be done.” ~Mark Twain. Is it just my imagination or is common sense being bred out of the human gene pool entirely? Some ...

The Anatomy of a Narcissist

james.legrand@spiritualindividual.com — Thu, 4 Feb 2010 1:26:00 pm

Self-absorbed. Self-centered. Selfish. Narcissist. These are a few of the terms that we normally attribute to a person with an overwhelming sense of entitlement, a belief that they are the center of the universe, and to a person who doesn’t consider how their actions affect anyone else. ...

How to inspire others

jaco@leapinlife.com — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 7:43:00 am

Have you ever had the desire to inspire? That feeling that you wanted other people to look to you and feel their hearts getting warmer and their decisions to make the most of their lives clearer? We have probably all heard of people or met others who seem to elevate us by the way they ...

Life Quotes - Inspiring Your Life - Great Life Quotes Explained

soul_shadow06@yahoo.com — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 2:02:00 am

Enlightening quotes are the best source for gaining inspiration. These type of quotes are available in the quotation dictionary and quotation treasures. Enlightening quotes can be in different category and my favorite category is life quotes. The reason I love life quotes is because it gives us ...

Smart Women Share Their Pearls….

Joy@SmartWomenSolutions.com — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 1:49:00 pm

One of the birthday “traditions” in our family is when a member gets to a certain age, they share one “pearl of wisdom” for each decade they have lived. Today is my 50th birthday! The five decades behind me were all wonderful and as I reflect on each one of them, I can clearly see how each ...

The Art of War

editor@varsityblah.com — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 2:19:00 am

“Wars teach us not to love our enemies, but to hate our allies.”- W.L. George With so many interactions with so many different people, we’re bound to butt heads every now and then. And if we’re not careful, those conflicts could ruin a great relationship. (We’ve all seen that happen!) But we ...

Winners Give Up Easy?

jmaioho@madkogroup.com — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 7:33:00 am

Winners give up Easy! Don’t they? Have you ever looked at the income percentages of the U.S. population? If you make $100,000.00, you’re in the upper 4% of the population. Do 96% of us not aspire to, or dream about making good money? What If I told you about the upper 1%...Wow! What are ...

Fear or False Evidence Appearing Real?

imastertechniques@gmail.com — Tue, 5 Jan 2010 11:37:00 pm

In this lesson I would like to explore the following questions. What is fear? What are our biggest Fears? and what fears should we look to overcome first? And Finally, I will present you with a session on overcoming your fears in a way that will probably be different than what you may ...

***Are You Really Successful? 8 “Wise” Ways to Tell

EarthAngelEnt@optonline.net — Tue, 5 Jan 2010 11:18:00 am

Charging into adulthood was all I had dreamed about for 18 years. Daydreams of independence and a successful career were the thoughts in my youth. I pursued education and employment opportunities with such fervor that I was sure I would learn it all to have it all. Knowledge of people, places ...

Winners give up bad associations, partnerships and relationships.

jmaioho@madkogroup.com — Sun, 3 Jan 2010 10:10:00 pm

What happens when pleasing others runs contrary to serving your own best interests? People all over the country have told me that they feel held back by the very people they believe should be helping them succeed. They secretly fear that their own family and friends work against their ...