Personal Development - articles
Waiting for the train I notice two still-smoking cigarette butts on the grass bank, the previous mid-fourties owners nearby chatting away. I found myself with an internal disconnect - how hard is it to join the dots between personal actions and the bigger picture.
Have you ever noticed that no matter how hard you try to be 'positive', past beliefs come back to haunt you?
Public speaking and leadership roles can be daunting assignments for a blind person, but in taking on the leadership of her local BNI networking chapter, Dunedin blind woman Julie Woods discovered that the blind can lead the sighted - particularly when it comes to building strong relationships.
There is a reason why we are here living in the world and it’s our responsibility that we tap into our inner core and be all that we are made to be. I remember striving hard in my career for financial gain to build that wonderful future I had been told about but it left my soul void of life, leaving me to ask questions like ‘What am I here for?’ and ‘What’s my purpose?’.
What is a limiting belief?
How have your limiting beliefs hindered or helped you?
Heres an example: you have had your heart broken by another. From that you may have decided that you cannot have successful relationships?
Could this be you?
Take your time over answering these questions, and make sure you listen to your fiance as well as making your own feelings clear.
All the little compromises you'll need to make along the way [and there will be many of them!] will be so much harder if you feel that you're not getting the wedding you really want in the first place.
This is tribute to the strength and courage of our friend Greer who passed away on the 7th of February 2010 from Cancer.
Although 3 weeks of lying on the beach of a tropical island might seem like a great way to de-stressify yourself, sometimes that just not possible! So here are some quick, practical and easy ways to de-stressify, chill out and generally get back to feeling in control. AND, you can use them all year round.
When we find things in our lives that we are not satisfied with, we often dwell on them, talk about them and generally try to figure out 'why me?".
Julie gets asked loads of questions about cooking as a blind person. Here are some of the most commonly asked questions, along with her answers.
Find out how Julie spent her birthday recently - it wasn't shaping up to be the best she had, but a comment shared with her by her son Sebastian made her heart sing.
The most important part to finishing a half marathon is to start it! You have to be in to win so start today by being in for the next half marathon in your local area. Make their date your date and start moving towards a great achievement. Here are seven ways to keep you motivated to finish:
When I went blind, I HAD to give up my notes. This was a shock to my public speaking system which had previously relied on reading. Following are the four things I recommend you do before any public speaking engagement to ensure your heart and head are in sync. Don't worry; going blind isn't one of them.
Do you have a book that's bursting to come out? Have you started writing stuff down in a private file somewhere but you're too scared to make it public? Well, if you've started writing your book and would like to get it ready for viewing then pull up a pew and read these nine tips on how to write your book.
Sometimes we think getting on TV is for other people – and not for us! Wrong! Everyone can have a shot at getting on the tele and following are four hot tips on how to do just that. You are going to be blown away with how simple these tips are so hang onto your TV remote and start being in control of your own TV appearance! Who knows – you may just be using your own remote control to turn the volume up on yourself real soon!
A lot of people think New Year’s resolutions are a waste of time but I don’t! What is a waste of time is if you make one and then don’t see it through. I find the Christmas break a perfect time to slow down the mind and get refocused. Following are five ways you can get clear on what you want to get out of 2010 and stick to it!
When I placed an A4 image of Louis Braille up in my office I wasn’t quite sure why I had. What I also wasn’t sure about was kissing the cheek of Louis with my pink trademark lipstick! However – what I was sure about was that I was “going to Paris with a splash” which was the goal I had set with my coach to help me get to Paris for Louis Braille’s bi-centennial celebrations earlier this year in January, 2009.
When I was writing my book How to Make a Silver Lining – I got stuck! Time was eluding me with work, parenting and managing a household taking my valuable attention. So when the opportunity arose to work on my book with my coach I snapped it up!
I decided to chuck my fear of rejection out the window and ask Jo Seagar to write the forword for my book. Jo was a NZ tv cooking icon who gained her reputation in the 90's with a cooking show with a liking for the "easy peazy" approach. My book had a cooking bent with how I mastered "cooking without looking" as well as a recipe for my infamous truffles at the back of the book so - when I thought of who in the cooking industry I would like to write my forword she was my first choice.
Do you know how many times you or your family have had successes over 2009?
Have you been involved as a parent, class trips, sports, conversation time?
have you been interactive with your partner? Outings, time,gifts or acts of love.
did you win a competition?
did you get a new career? or do well in the one you have?
did you qualify in something?
have you been what you consider to be a good person, and citizen?
Why some goals never become reality and how to make sure they do!
We use goals as a way stating our intention for the future and (by achieving them) shaping it. BUT goals gather dust too and many go no further than being just a good idea
You might have already met the Night Terrorist.
He might turn up after you’ve had a particularly busy day. You’re tired. Your muscles ache and your head is spinning. As the evening progresses you think longingly of your bed.
what do you do to celebrate the great events or achievements that come into you life?
The short and simple answer?
NLP is the study of Human Excellence.
The program has been running with great results now.
much to the relief of students and parents.
STUDENT COMMENT: i gained so much more interest in succeeding well in my goals, learning about my abilities and career choices and knowing how to love myself which gives me a lot of confidence for my future. i also learnt how to control anxiety in stressful times like my exam times. Katie.
Sometimes as adults we tend to stop asking ourselves what we want to be and we create our life's on auto pilot. Many of us become disassociated from that creative "I can do anything" spirit within us.
So here is a fun and easy 7 step exercise to assist in accessing your "creative spirit" and creating an Authentic Vision for your life.
What a lemon has to say about what’s listening to the thoughts in your head, why it matters and how you can best make use of them.
Living passionately is about having a swing in your step, feeling great with high levels of energy, motivation and inspiration.
Louis Braille had a dream. Not the kind of dream I have like when I turn up at a business meeting of my career in my pink satin pyjamas, unaided by a dying lap top only to discover the meeting had taken place that morning! No, no, not that kind of dream. Louis Braille's dream was to create a code that would enable blind people to read and write. Otherwise, what was the point in this little French boy, born nearly 200 years ago, in going blind?
Imagine if you could park your fear in one of those high class hotels with the cute parking attendant who comes and takes it away for you? How many things would it allow you to now do? Is your fear based on fact or fiction? Following are five ways to valet park your fear in order to help you be in charge of driving your fear off.
When my partner Ron wanted to send out invitations to an upcoming Dunedin book launch of a book containing his father, Tom Esplin’s paintings, he scoured his mind for those he thought might like to attend...
“Sebastian should be reading quarter of an hour a day” said his teacher across the desk at his school interview...
One of three major presures on a human being - along side ambiguity and over-busyness - is being-seen; those times when everyone is focused on you and assessing every word you say and move you make.
