Self Improvement Idea / Archive for May, 2006

God and religion are man made. Instead of investigating manmade god and religion, if we investigated the creation and the Creator, the nature of the Creator and the purpose of creation, we would arrive at many intriguing ideas.
The process of developing life starting with the vegetable kingdom, continuing into the animal kingdom and finally to […]

Henry David Thoreau once said, “Let us spend one day as deliberately as Nature, and not be thrown off the track by every nutshell and mosquito’s wing that falls on the rails.” Well, school’s in session, you’ve got two papers due next week, three quizzes to study for and a part-time job to help you […]

For several years a staple of the self-help literature has been the affirmation, a statement we make aloud or silently, to ourselves.
Salespeople find it helpful to repeat this line:
“I’m making more and more sales all the time!”
A French pharmacist, turned psychologist, Emile Coue, coined an affirmation that he found effected great cures in his patients, […]

How do you convince leaders to change?
Executive coaching offers a tremendous opportunity to leverage the talent and resources of leaders.
Coaching is no longer reserved for problem leaders. It is frequently sought by top performers whose organizations value their growth potential. But not all coaching is the same.
Establishing Ground Rules
Here are five principles that should be […]

“Hitting a Home Run”
The purpose of life is to discover True Love; The secret is to discover the Present Moment.~Simon Heighwaya
Often the attempt to develop mindfulness can be discouraging. The excellent idea above can seem like being told that the way to become a successful baseball player is to hit a home run when […]

Dear Loved Ones,
Welcome to Spirituality Inside and Out. Wishing you as fantastic a day as you please.
Are you with me? Right Now! For I love you. I love you. I love you.
FOR WE ARE ALL ONE.
Are you available? No, I don’t mean for a date or something!
I mean, are you available for yourself?
Are […]

Many if not everyone reading this has heard or read of the value of “Goal-Setting”.
Goal setting has once again made its way to the forefront of most motivational
speakers’ lectures and tape series as well as become the “hot” catchword of many
books recently published. The success ratios are staggering for those that have set
goals. […]

Tip #3 “The Making of New Habits”
We usually hear that bad habits are hard to break. A more accurate statement is that good habits are hard to make. Since our focus is on helping folks with their home paperwork filing, I am going to use that as an example.
In Tip#1, I talked about […]

“The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.” — André Gide, French writer who won the 1947 Nobel Prize for literature
An entrepreneur decided it was time to give his daughter, a recent business-school graduate, a lesson “in the real world.” “In business, ethics are very […]

I was five years old, sitting on my fathers lap. He was teaching me to read. English and also Hebrew. I remember his lesson on ‘emes’, Hebrew for ‘truth’.
Being 5, I had no conceptual difference between truth and honesty. What I learned that day was the secret of living free, and very much in line […]