Posts Tagged ‘self-help’

10 Powerful Success Strategies

If you’re serious about creating lasting and significant change in your world – as opposed to merely thinking and talking about it for another year – there are a few things you might want to do in order to help make those intentions a reality… 1. Know what success is. If you don’t know what success is (for you), how can you possibly create it? Success is different things for different… Continue reading

July 14 2009 | By Craig | Tagged: personal-development, self-help, success | 28 comments»

Functionally Dysfunctional

A Shift of Focus Yesterday I spent some time with a bloke who wants to shift his life focus, change his career and begin doing some work with people who are struggling with certain challenges in their world. Over the last year he has had a few significant experiences which have given him a different perspective on life, a better understanding of certain things and a much greater level of awareness… Continue reading

June 26 2009 | By Craig | Tagged: positive thinking, self-help | 14 comments»

How to Create Self Help Momentum

Human Statues In order to get anywhere - either literally or metaphorically - we need to create and maintain a certain level of momentum. Sitting in your very-capable Porsche won't get you anywhere unless you choose to start the engine, engage a gear (or six), steer the car and operate the pedals. In my time as a coach, trainer and teacher I've encountered many people who have not only been sitting… Continue reading

April 6 2009 | By Craig | Tagged: personal-development, procrastination, self-help, self-improvement | 6 comments»

If your Childhood Sucked – It’s Time to Stop Blaming Your Parents!

Dear Parent Blamer, Firstly let me say, stop it. It's pathetic and pointless. And for the rest of us innocent bystanders... very annoying. To be completely honest, we're sick of your whining, your complaining, your anger, your victim mentality and your inability to see that your current attitude (not some historical event) is your biggest problem. We're also sick of you blaming your (current) bad behaviour on your parents. What's standing between you… Continue reading

April 3 2009 | By Craig | Tagged: childhood, personal-development, psychology, self-help, self-improvement, trauma | 101 comments»

Barack, Change and Spiderman

I'm a lot like Obama. Well, now I think about it, I'm not that much like him. In fact, about the only 2 things we have in common is our love for good pizza and being big fans of Spiderman. I've been a superhero nut forever, and just love the fact that Obama is too. As far as I'm concerned, that means he understands some fundamental principles about life and courage - "With… Continue reading

January 30 2009 | By Steve | Tagged: change, obama, personal-development, self-help, success, superhero | 10 comments»

12 Personality Types to Avoid to Make 2009 Your Best Year

Forever Results When it comes to creating life-long positive change in our world (that is, "forever results"), most people won't and don't - despite their constant attempts to re-invent themselves and ample access to an ever-increasing range of information, inspiration, resources, specialists, and facilities to help them through the change process. That's not to say that they can't transform themselves or don't have the potential for greatness and forever results, it… Continue reading

January 29 2009 | By Craig | Tagged: motivation, people, personal-development, personality, self-help | 30 comments»

Personal Development Lessons from Branding?

The Story of the $800 Jeans I recently watched a presentation given by a journalist (Benjamin Wallace) who had taken an extensive look at the way people shop; what they buy, why they buy, how much they spend and why some people are prepared to part with obscene amounts of money for the supposed 'top shelf' versions of every day items (jeans, wine, olive oil, beds, coffee). His talk was essentially an… Continue reading

January 20 2009 | By Craig | Tagged: attitude, brand, branding, consumption, motivation, personal-development, self-help | 15 comments»

5 Ways to Avoid Change in 2009

The financial climate, the job market, family tensions, Obama moving into the Lincoln bedroom. Even the climate's getting in on it. Yup, change is everywhere in 2009. Apparently some people are 'embracing change', but aren't aware of the dangers inherent in changing the ways things are. If you're not careful, all kinds of strange things might happen in your otherwise ordered life, so it's best to work at avoiding change whenever… Continue reading

January 13 2009 | By Steve | Tagged: change, confidence, goal, personal-development, self-help | 7 comments»

New Years Resolutions Don’t Work – Here’s Why

I just Googled 'New Years Resolutions' - guess how many results turned up? Over 24 million. I'm not particularly surprised. Coaches and lifestyle guru's right around the world are espousing the need to make 'realistic' resolutions and offering all kinds of ways to stay on track with them. Not me. Let's face it -- it's pretty pointless waiting all year to decide on one or two things that you kinda, sorta want to… Continue reading

January 1 2009 | By Steve | Tagged: confidence, goals, personal-development, resolutions, self-help | 29 comments»

How To Make Resolutions Stick

] I'm not a fan of the traditional New Year's Resolution. As a rule, they rarely lead to long-term change. Each year millions of people start a diet on January 1, all with the same objective - to lose their (excess) weight and fat forever. Both scientific research and those things behind our eyelids will tell us that (1) most people will maintain their new behaviours for less than a fortnight… Continue reading

December 31 2008 | By Craig | Tagged: motivation, personal-development, self-help | 9 comments»

Goal Setting – The WHY behind the WHAT

Our Real Goals In Personal Development-speak we are always talking about goals, outcomes, success, desires and dreams. In other words, all the stuff we want to do, achieve and create in our world. And while it's important for us to know what we want to achieve (our goal), it's also important for us to understand why we want to achieve it; the reason behind the goal or some would say, our… Continue reading

December 29 2008 | By Craig | Tagged: achievement, goal, goal setting, happiness, personal-development, self-help | 10 comments»

How to Stop Being an Over-Thinker

As a rule, thinking is a good thing and while some people don't do it enough, some over-think everything. Both genders can fall into either category - today we're going to chat about the one who does too much. Some people think themselves into stagnation, frustration, exhaustion, anxiety and even illness. They have an aptitude for making the simple, complex, the easy, hard, the minor issue, a major drama and… Continue reading

December 22 2008 | By Craig | Tagged: action, overthinking, personal-development, procrastination, self-help, self-improvement | 47 comments»

How To Control The Way You React (part two)

In part one we began to look at how we deal with, or react to, the various happenings in our world. I observed that we have reacting and we have thinking and for some of us, the two don't merge very often. And therein lies the problem; something happens and we respond without thinking, planning, assessing or considering the consequences of our reaction. If we are serious about creating… Continue reading

December 16 2008 | By Craig | Tagged: anger, anger management, calm, personal-development, reaction, self-help | 3 comments»

How to Confidently Handle Festive Family Friction

Help me Steve! The kids, my husband, getting the house ready, the cooking, the shopping plus full-time work - I've got everything to do for Christmas, I'm already running around like a mad thing and time's fast running out! Plus my husband's parents are coming over for the first time and I don't get on with his Mum at all. So Christmas Day itself is going to be… Continue reading

December 10 2008 | By Steve | Tagged: christmas, confident, conflict, family, holiday, personal-development, self-help, stress | 2 comments»

How To Control The Way You React (part one)

You've probably heard sayings like: "It's not what happens that matters but how you react (to what happens) that matters" "It's not about the situation or the circumstance, it's about you in it" "Things only have the meaning we give them" "People only treat you the way you let them" You the Reactor All of the above sayings refer to how we deal with, manage and react to what happens in our world. In extreme… Continue reading

December 9 2008 | By Craig | Tagged: anger management, personal-development, self-help | 7 comments»

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