Self Improvement Idea / Archive for January, 2008

Since this is my first column of 2004, I thought we’d spend a few minutes talking about those well-intentioned, though seldom kept promises we call New Year’s Resolutions.
In addition to “This year I will lose weight!” and “This year I will stop smoking!” and the ever popular “This year I will stop watching reality TV!” […]

It is amazing how many people wander through life expecting that fulfillment and happiness will one day just fall into their lap. It’s as though if you work hard and sacrifice you will one day receive the reward like it’s a prize. The stark reality is that this is never what reality looks like, and […]

Yes, this is correct. Sunny Days are here to stay, that is, if
you want them to be. What’s that mean? Well, let me explain
it this way.
How do you feel when it’s a “sunny day” outside? When you
first awake and the sun is shining in your window doesn’t that
perk you up a bit? Now […]

The importance of a confident mindset, determination, focus, skill, practice, effort and a refusal to be intimidated emerged once again at Wimbledon as deciding factors in nearly every match. It is worth taking a close look at the power of these factors in some of these matches.
Justine Henine-Hardenne had won the championship at Eastbourne in […]

“Born an original” is one of the topics I’m more passionate about. That’s because I’m afraid people don’t really appreciate that fact. They “know it” at the intellectual level, but they don’t “get it” at the gut level. They don’t grasp the full meaning of it.
Ugo Betti did when he wrote “When I say ‘I’, […]

Stress is a quiet killer. It exists twenty four hours a day and has no known genetic patterns. Our lives are under continuous pressure whether family driven or job related. Stress is something that builds over time and takes a deep and destructive path on our bodies. Stress can also trigger […]

One thing that is important to realize about thought: one thought always leads to another. It is impossible to have one thought without having another one. What does this have to do with positive and negative thinking?
Everything. The thoughts usually follow one after another–usually in a similar vein, until there is […]

Improve memory easily? Yes, there really are some simple techniques, and you can start using them right now. Here are a few to get you started.
1. Tell yourself to remember. When you first learn a person’s name, for example, tell yourself, “remember that”. This signals your unconscious mind to rank this input higher in importance.
2. […]

When we have something to memorize or at least to remember for the day, we tend to forget all about it although we have been thinking not to forget since we got out of bed. But the wonder of the human brain doesn’t work like that. The more we force for it to work, in […]

Is life with ADHD getting you down? You can’t lose weight. You have no time to write, paint, live or whatever you want to do? You’re tired? You’re no good at it anyway? You would like to change if only you could find the time and energy to start.
And if I say to you, “You […]