Category Archives: Personal Development

Yoga And Meditation Can Help Bring Balance To Your Mind And Body

For many years, I have found yoga and meditation to be great activities for bringing my mind and body into harmony with one another. Both help me remain calm and centered.  It has been said that yoga and meditation may even help shield us from disorders of the mind and body.

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How To Keep An Open Mind To New Ideas

Do you have those times when you simply cannot generate any kind of an idea about anything?  Sometimes I feel so far removed from a good idea that I can’t even buy an idea if I tried.  Where is an idea when you need one?

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Seven Simple Ways To Put Happiness Into Your Day

If you’re like me, every day has its ups and downs.  Sometimes I get more downs than ups. But I make it a point not to sit around waiting for things to change.  No, I accept the challenge head on.  I decide right then and there to make a proactive and focused attempt to add a little happiness to my day.

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How to Overcome Jealousy

Can you remember a time when you felt a great sense of jealously towards someone?  While you may not have thought too much about it, but jealousy is shrouded with traits of inferiority complex and selfishness.

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Fun, Sun And Self-Improvement

Summer brings fun and sun.  We simply love jumping into our summer activities with complete abandon.  It’s time to relax, take it easy and not have to focus on all the “doing” stuff that normally fills so much of our time.

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Move Through Challenges To Reaching Your Goals

There may be times when you have the greatest motivation for reaching your goals yet something is missing.  Somehow you seem to get stranded at one point or another.  When that happens, it is a challenge for you to find that resolute to keep moving forward.

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Give Your Self-Confidence a Boost

Give Your Self-Confidence a Boost

Every now and then our self confidence takes a beating and we need a little boost.  I find that it is similar to refueling my car.  It needs to be taken back from time to time for refueling.  How about you, is your self confidence in need of a fuel boost?

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Thank You!

Thank you, Jeanette for pushing me forward in ways I could not have imagined until the 30 Day Blog Challenge.  Thank you for this platform to meet new people, to explore new ideas, and to sharpen my writing skills.

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Follow Your Heart

Have you heard the expression, “He(she) wears his(her) heart on his(her) sleeve?”  I don’t really know what that means.  But I do know every now and then, it pays to follow the heart.  When I follow my heart, I’m usually happy with the outcome.

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Help, They’re Driving Me Crazy!

Do you have people in your life to whom you wish you could say, “poof!” and they’d be gone – off to bother someone else? Maybe it’s because they’re perpetually antagonistic, intolerably obnoxious, always negative or insufferably nosy.  Whatever the situation, you could do without them. If only you could just do what employers do from time to time – issue a pink slip, fire them.

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