All Entries in the "Self Improvement" Category
Make a Positive Change in 2013
Being overweight can have an impact on your self-confidence, making your social interactions more difficult. However, all you need to do is make a positive change as part of your New Year’s resolution – it’s as simple as that. Once you’ve decided that you don’t want to be overweight anymore, all you have to do [...]
5 Fine Arts of Diplomacy
There is no argument about the fact that honesty is a fine and stellar quality, and is indeed the best policy. But there are also ways to speak the truth and make it more pleasant and palatable – there is much to be said about tact and diplomacy. Tact is not about being dishonest or [...]
What Are Your New Year Resolutions Going to Be?
It’s that time of the year when we are (probably) making pious plans to become better in the coming year resolving to do X, Y and Z and resolving not to do A, B and C. The commonest New Year Resolutions are usually to do with getting healthy or fit, kicking bad habits and spending [...]
Are You a Control Freak? Top Signs That You Are One
A Control Freak is a term ascribed to a person who tries to control and dictate how everything around them is done. The control freak is the person who typically tries to persuade, to pressure or even manipulate others into thinking or doing things their way. There are plusses and negatives to being a control [...]
Fighting Procrastination – 8 Tips to Overcome Procrastination
It is a familiar situation – you have a task to do which you find difficult, arduous, time consuming or just boring. You would rather be doing something else (or even nothing) so you decide to do this arduous or boring task later; by the simple expedient of procrastination. Here are some tips to help [...]
Self Love – Why a Lack of This Can Be So Problematic
It isn’t narcissism or conceit that we speak of when we talk of self love, but of a positive sense of the self. It is self esteem and acceptance of ourselves that we’re talking of here. What is self love or self esteem? We all have faults; but equally we have our special talents. To [...]
Cultivate Gratitude for Better Life
Living a balanced life with the sense of gratitude is extremely important trait that every successful human should have. Despite of difficulty and frustration that you might experience in your life, cultivating gratitude certainly helps you to acknowledge that the world and people living in it are quite good. Cultivating gratitude More often people think [...]
Thesaurus Day – Resolve This Day to Be a Better Communicator
Today is Thesaurus Day, so named because Peter Roget, the creator of the first ever Thesaurus was born on this day in 1779. Take the opportunity, this Thesaurus Day, to improve your language and vocabulary, which can contribute to becoming a more effective communicator. Free online resources such as Dictionary.com and Thesaurus.com not only help [...]
