Self Improvement Made Easy

A good friend recently suggested one of his best-loved self-help books to me – it was the most recent in a growing list of recommended reading. In chatting with him, I enquired as to how he was finding putting into practice his learning from all his reading. It emerged from our conversation that, in fact, [...]

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The whole concept of the word IQ comes from the intelligence quotient and the score that you take and get at the end of the test comes from a range of standardised tests which actually attempt to measure intelligence to a certain extend. It was actually taken from a German term and a German method [...]

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Most people are going through their lives wishing, hoping, wanting or waiting for something to change. “I wish I could just get that lucky break.” “I hope that tomorrow will be better.” “I want to win the Lottery!” Sadly, what all these people don’t realize is that nothing “just happens” in life – you have [...]

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You’re being swamped by useless thought and you many not even be aware of it! Whilst the normal adult is bombarded by around fifty-thousand thoughts each day, it is also true to say that the average adult is largely unaware of anything that is going on in his or her life. Wow – that’s a [...]

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I’ve just spent a couple of days with a client here in the Alps – an individual who would regard his personal development as his number one priority in his life, somebody who changed his daily routine, going to bed one hour earlier to give himself an extra hour each morning for meditation. He has [...]

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I receive some odd responses to some of my articles and posts. I recently wrote an article on the importance of paying attention to the present moment, which made the point that it’s the only time and place that you can be – and if you don’t bother to turn up to the reality of [...]

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Everybody gets frustrated every so often. Others’ behaviour drives us to distraction, we get frustrated by our own lack of progress, we get frustrated over things over which we have no control – like the volcanic ash or the weather! But how about those of us who are trying our best to live a better [...]

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I hear from lots people – clients and readers of my Personal Development Ezine – who tell me that they have become far calmer, more aware and focused as a result of the various little “mental exercises” that they practice to banish distraction and move themselves towards where they want their life to go. I [...]

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Short answer to a short question: “none!” – unless, of course, you’re prepared to put what you’ve learned into practice. And that’s where most people fall down. OK, they spent a day or two and it was fabulous, they felt invigorated, uplifted, ready to change their world. But research has concluded that it takes about [...]

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Many of my Personal Development clients, when we meet for the first time, sense that they’ve become stuck – maybe they feel that they’ve encountered that so-called glass ceiling, maybe they feel that they’re going through the motions or that, in some vague way, they’ve begun to feel that there must be more to life [...]

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