There is nothing new under the sun. Everything that exists in our vast Universe is only an extension of what existed before. The same rule also applies to every one of us. We grow by expanding on what we were before. That’s how it has been since we were born.
Most of our growth is the [...]

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“The place to improve the world is first in one’s own heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there.” – Robert M. Pirsig in the classic, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
During their short journey on Planet Earth, humans could be divided into three categories. These would be: 1) the tourist, [...]

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First, let me assure you that this article is not about convincing you about something that you already agree on. It’s about challenging you to accept a point of view that you may completely disagree with.
That point of views holds the belief that, if you are not happy where you are in life you [...]

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“Our whole life is an attempt to discover when our spontaneity is whimsical, sentimental irresponsibility and when it is a valid expression of our deepest desires and values. –Helen Merell
Most spontaneous reactions are pretty well innocuous and harmless. We spend most of our time in a state of spontaneity. If he had to weigh every [...]

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In Roman culture, the literal translation of educate is: to draw out. That small distinction has profound implications. It would mean that the process of education is not done by adding information the brain’s content but allowing the information that is already there to come up to the conscious level.
That would imply that we [...]

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“Without passion you don’t have energy, without energy you have nothing.” – Donald Trump
The movers and shakers of this world have one thing in common, passion. They are passionate about what they do; they would still do what they do even if they were not paid to do it. The money that they earn and [...]

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“Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.” – John Fitzgerald Kennedy
The pathway to personal growth follows the course of uncharted lands. In is when we get out of our familiar surroundings that we expand and grow. Learning may prepare us for growth but experiencing is the catalyst essential to personal [...]

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“Foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Everything changes except our need for consistency. To understand that ubiquitous need for consistency, we must understand how the automatic reflexes of the subconscious work.
The main objective of those reflexes is to sustain life and the way that they do that is by [...]

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“Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.” – E. L. Doctorow
It’s not how much we read that truly matters, it’s how much we retain and assimilate from what we’ve read that is truly important. That is especially true when it comes to self-improvement material. General knowledge is quite [...]

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The word ego has been bandied around so much that it is now almost impossible to have an exact definition but it could be said that it relates closely to self-importance. It has to do with the way that we view ourselves in our relationship with others.
The ego can be seen as a mask [...]

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“Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.’ – Tao Te Ching
It is not uncommon to see people go to great length to acquire this sense of power and fail at it miserably. The reason for that is that they never truly investigated or tried to find out what it was and how to [...]

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Words are more than instruments of communication. Like the decorations in a house, they are also mood-setters, they reveal much about the owner and, above all, they have a powerful influence on the state of mind of those that they touch.
Some words energize, inspire and create joy. Others are depressing, negative and disempowering. In most [...]

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“If you develop the absolute sense of certainty that powerful beliefs provide, then you can get yourself to accomplish virtually anything, including those things that other people are certain are impossible.” – Anthony Robbins
Ask any able-bodied person if they would walk across a two feet wide and twenty foot long plank on the ground for [...]

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Negative self-talk has to be the number one destroyer of self-confidence. You know the type of self-talk that goes on in the incessant chattering of the mind. The type of talk that says, “I’m so stupid. I always mess up. I can’t do anything right.”
That kind of self-talk is an ego pleaser. It gets [...]

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“I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble. The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.” – Helen [...]

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“The problem with communication … is the illusion that it has been accomplished.” – George Bernard Shaw
Every message that comes to our attention is processed through our brain in an effort to transform what has been written or said in a such a way that it will reinforce what we previously believed. Our notions, [...]

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Just because Helen Keller’s quote, “Life is either a great adventure or nothing.” has been repeated ad nauseam, it does not make it any less pertinent. Either our little trip on Planet Earth is a rip-roaring ride or it’s the pits.
For a journey to be exciting and interesting, it has to involve something that [...]

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“The “self-image” is the key to human personality and human behavior. Change the self image and you change the personality and the behavior.” – Maxwell Maltz
Before we can affect lasting personal changes, we have to change the way that we perceive ourselves to be. Before we can change the scope of what is possible [...]

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A Tale of Two Cities, the most printed original English book, starts with the following words, “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times; it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness; it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity; it was the [...]

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“As the Fletcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts.” – Buddha
Racecar drivers know very well that they must constantly look in the direction that they want to go and not on where they are afraid that they could end up. The reason for that is that we [...]

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