All Entries in the "Self Improvement" Category
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 [...]
Is 60 The New 40?
Once upon a time, life was considered pretty much over and done with, when one reached the big 60 in life. Once you turned 60, your life was supposed to be all about pensions and life in the slow lane, but not any longer. Psychology today put forward an interesting theory in a recent article [...]
Harnessing The Power Of Mind To Improve Your Life
If you know what the placebo of the placebo effect is, then you know how very powerful the human mind can be. In medical terms, the placebo is the inert drug or mere sugar pills administered to a patient who is told that this is the actual drug. Placebo is the sham surgery that was [...]