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Personal Development Carnival – October 1, 2006

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Hi everyone, and welcome to the October 1, 2006 edition of the Personal Development Carnival!

I’d like to use this opportunity and thank Lyman Reed for starting this carnival and also allowing me host this edition on my blog today. I’ve watched this carnival closely since the very beginning, and it really pleases me to see it grow so quickly in the recent months.

 

Here are all the entries for this week. Please remember that only 1 article for each author is included in any given edition, and so you may not find all the articles you have submitted recently. If you don’t want us to make the decision and pick the best article for you – please don’t send in more than one article at a time.

 

Hieu Doan presents From Stagnation to Motivation posted at The Truth of the New Age.

Jane Chin presents Be Skeptical of Other People’s Opinions of You posted at On Careers and Life.

Alexander Becker presents WOW: Leap Forward and Benefit from Nonlinear Growth posted at WOW, saying, “Always expect more than others think is possible.”

Andrew Flusche presents Improve Public Speaking By Warming Up Properly posted at Legal Andrew.

Brandon Peele presents Vision Quest posted at GT.

Milo Paulo milo G. Riano presents How to Let Go and Move On posted at Milo Riano, saying, “Letting go of something is probably one of the hardest and longest running thought decision processing and emotional struggle a person has to make especially if it’s special or dear to the person. The thing we hold so dear could vary from one person to another ranging from profession (jobs, work), personal (girlfriend, boyfriend, friend, family), assets (blog, car, watch), etc.”

Paul Piotrowski presents How to Really Be Happy posted at www.PaulPiotrowski.ca.

Madeleine Begun Kane presents How To Disorganize Your Life posted at Mad Kane’s Humor Blog.

Peter Kua presents The FASTEST way to be put off by yoga posted at RadicalHop.com.

Asher Lewis presents Focus on Your Beliefs, Not Your Behavior posted at asherlew.com.

Violeta presents Dr Jekyll or Mr Hyde? It depends on perspective posted at All Tips and Tricks.

Phil B. presents Phil for Humanity: Greed is Good and Bad posted at Phil for Humanity.

Alvin Soon presents What You Didn’t Know About Bruce Lee’s Kick-Ass Success posted at Life Coaches Blog.

Nneka presents The Power Walk: 7 Reasons Why It Beats The Power Nap posted at Balanced Life Center.

Bryan C. Fleming presents Counting Cold Hard Cash posted at Bryan C. Fleming .com.

Patricia presents Eating Disorder Recovery, 14 Years Free: You Can Break From Addictions or Bad Habits Too! posted at Patricia.

oovs presents What Level of Time Management are You At? posted at LifeTraining – Online.

Kevin Harrell presents Live Longer, Live Better – 10 ways to get you started posted at Live Longer, Live Better.

 

That’s all we have for today! Thanks to everyone who participated, and if you want to submit your blog article to the next edition of The Personal Development Carnival, please use this carnival submission form. Past posts and future hosts can be found on our blog carnival index page.

Next edition of this carnival is going to be hosted by Lyman Reed at his Creating a Better Life blog.

Saturday Links – 30/09/2006

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I’ve been on a training for the whole week, and therefore didn’t have time to post anything knew. But I couldn’t stop reading my feeds, and that’s how I discovered the following two articles which I think you’ll find interesting too.

Mike explains How To Write Goal Statements That Work and introduces you to prophetic journaling:

The greatest thing will begin happening when you write your goals down in a Prophetic Journal, you’ll actually begin to see the incongruency in what you are saying to yourself everyday and the current life you’re living. Pretty soon, you’ll begin to feel like you want to make changes. The important thing is to DO IT!

I dare you to write your statement, read it for 40 days and nights, and see what happens. I think you’ll be pleasantly surprised at the results.

Another great article on goal setting: How to set achievable goals by Buster McLeod. I really liked some of his thoughts, like this one:

Making achievable goals shouldn’t feel like buying art. Reviewing your list of goals should feel more like learning to paint with your hands than walking through a gallery of masterpieces. You should be constantly editing, rewording, removing, and adding goals from your list. Building momentum and confidence is the secret to making achievable goals.

Personal Development Carnival

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I'm happy to announce that Personal Development Carnival, hosted by Lyman Reed, has finally started moving around.

Last week edition is hosted at Balanced Life Center, and the Oct 1st edition will be hosted here on Personal Development Ideas.

If you're not familiar with this carnival, please visit its page and browse through the last few editions. There is an increasing list of interesting articles on personal development and self growth submitted on a weekly basis, and not only you can read what others write on personal development, but you're also welcome to submit your own articles.

If you have any questions regarding this carnival, just let me know.

 

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Keys To Success Are Everywhere

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Saw this phrase somewhere today, and thought I would share it. Just think about these words for a minute: keys to success are everywhere.

Indeed they are! Our life holds many discoveries and adventures, yet they only come to those who believe in them and never stop searching for more.

I like the positive determination of this idea: it is entirely up to you to decide how successful you will be one day, and there are always limitless opportunities waiting for you.

Does anyone know any more successful affirmations? Please share, every little helps!

Saturday Links – 14/10/2006

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Another week has just passed by, and while I didn’t get a chance to post any articles, it certainly doesn’t mean I stopped reading what others had to say! :)

Here are the posts I found interesting in the past week. Enjoy!

Phillip J. Eby from DirtSimple has an excellent article about Five Ways NOT to Create Motivating Goals, which summarizes some of his wisdom on goal setting:

A goal that merely seems like something you “should” do is not only unmotivating, it can be actively de-motivating, slowly draining the life from you as you beat yourself up about not achieving it.

And although a lot has certainly been written out there about so-called “SMART” goals, the truth is that you can have a goal that is SMART (Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic, and Tangible), but still doesn’t do jack to motivate you.

Steven Aitchison from Change Your Thoughts did a terrific job starting a series of post on goal-setting and defining your ultimate outcomes. In the first post of the series, he explains why it is so important to write your intentions down, and provides a downloadable set of ultimate outcomes templates for you to print out and fill in:

Only 3% of the population write down their goals and did you know that the top 3% of the richest people in the world control half of the money going around the world, is this a coincidence?

Try the ultimate outcomes sheets for 3 months and see if it makes a difference in your life.

Books on Personal Development Store

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As some of you have already noticed, I’ve added another section to my website: a Books on Personal Development bookstore.

Believe it or not, it was easier for me to set this aStore (Amazon.com) page than to spend time trying to design a similar book description page of my own. More changes will follow in the next few weeks, like a list of the books I’m currently reading.

This is obviously just the beginning. As of right now, you can see (and buy) only 4 books I have listed there, and I’ve given a very short recommendation to every book. So far I offer you only the books I have personally read and liked so much that I want to recommend them for your reading.

I will be working on further improvements to this section, as I feel really limited by aStore’s allowance for a book description text. I haven’t decided yet, how exactly I will share my full reviews on the books I suggest for your reading, but as always, you will be the first to know as soon as something is formed :)

Let me know what you think, and please feel free to share your recommendations for other books to read. Thanks in advance!