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Handling Rejection with Style

“A rejection is nothing more than a necessary step in the pursuit of success.” – Bo Bennett One of the major roadblocks to self-expression is the fear of rejection. People will go to their grave with the song still in them because of that fear. Wonderful opportunities have been lost and the quality of life [...]

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Is Life Easier for Self-improvement Aficionados?

Let’s put it this way, life will never be as great as your favorite guru would like you to believe but, if you put enough work on improving yourself, you will see a major change. That’s not saying that you no longer will face challenges. Everyone does. Even Tony Robbins had to face bankruptcy at [...]

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The Worst Obstacles to Self-growth

“As long as you believe something, your brain operates on automatic pilot, filtering any input from the environment and searching for references to validate your belief, regardless of what is it.” – Anthony Robbins The human mind is funny. Once it has accepted a belief, it will hold onto it even in the face of [...]

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The Highway to Personal Growth

If it matters, put it down on paper… The best way to grow is by translating our thoughts into written the words. We tend to think in wordless notions, abstract concepts and images. Most of our thoughts are vague and ephemeral. If a conscious effort is not made to put some order in our thinking [...]

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Use It or Lose It – Man’s Search for Meaning

At birth we were given a blank book in which we get to write our life’s story. We are the authors of that book and we can make it an epic story or a tale of crushed hopes and frustrations. Whether we like it or not, we will write that book. Every page represents a [...]

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How To Feel Good All the Time

One of the problem with the human mind is that it finds it very hard to grasp extremes. A very simple truth is just as hard to be accepted as a bold faced lie. So, if we want to accept a simple truth, what we have to do is complicate it enough so that we [...]

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Why the Negative and Self-destructive Habits

The first step in trying to eliminate self-destructive habits is to understand why these habits are entertained in the first place. Understanding why people overindulge in drinking, overeating, gambling, promiscuity and other assorted destructive habits will give us the key to the solutions for these problems. The main reasons that people adopt self-destructive habits are [...]

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The power of the state of mind

How well or how badly we perform at any given moment depends mostly on the state of mind we were in at the time. Understanding that premise and understanding it well could be one of the most powerful lesson that we’ll ever learn in our lifetime. Have you ever said anything, or come up with [...]

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Significance

There are six universal human needs. They are: Certainty, Uncertainty, Significance, Love, Growth and Contribution. Somehow, each of us manage to fulfill at least the basic requirements for all these needs. And the way that we fulfill those needs will determine the direction that we take in life. In this Blog, I would like to [...]

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Arête

Personal Development dates back to the Greek philosopher Aristotle. In those days, Personal Development was a quest to reach “arête” which means, Personal Excellence. Arête, or personal excellence, was sought in order to attain Eudaimonia, commonly translated as “happiness.” Times have changed but the common desire to attain happiness has not. And what was true [...]

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Wall Street Warrior

If we want to be honest about it, we have to admit that reaching for the higher echelons of personal income is not easy. In fact it could easily be called warfare. I have never heard of anyone making it to the top, or even making it above average, without some serious struggle. Thus the [...]

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