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Can You Find Joy and Happiness in Little Things

Would you say that you experience joy in your daily life ?

Do the little things in your daily life awaken joy and happiness in you? Or are you the kinda person who wants more and more out of life?

When you recognize the joy and happiness that is actually around you this can result in a more contented and peaceful existence and life for you and those around you.

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Forms of Patience

Part of my challenge has been learning patience and as I learn about this I thought I should share this with you.

At one end of the scale patience can take the form of the passive act of waiting without agitation or complaint.

However patience can be linked to action - the painstaking completion of a laborious task or the relentless pursuit of a goal.

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Tools of peacemaking

“Peace is not the absence of war: it is a virtue; a state of mind; a disposition for benevolence and justice” - Benedict de Spinosa

As part of our self-improvement and personal development we come across situations where we must understand about peacemaking.

I have found this to help me when I think about what we have learned from our past. The native Americans provided a form and a ritual for establishing peace, including the pipe of peace and the ceremony of burying the axe.

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Do As You Will

As part of our development and self improvement sometime we should ask ourselves challenging questions.

The one that I have recently wrestled with is this: “Do as you will”

As a maxim for how to live ones life the first thought that I had was “Hey this sounds like a recipe for mayhem”.

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Tips to Making the Right Decisions

“In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.”–Theodore Roosevelt

Recently when I sat down to catch up on my personal growth plan I had this horrible feeling of frustration. So I realized that my head was not in the right place to handle personal development and self improvement things. It got me thinking why was my head not in the right place and what was all this cloud that was around me and distracting me?

When I stopped and started thinking about this I realized that what was making all the noise in my head was the decisions that I was making and my brain was doing a big plus or minus on every thing that was going on.

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Women and Low Self-Esteem

Self-esteem is a very important tool in your back of tools for personal growth and development. It has been said, by others more knowledgeable and experienced than me, that women are often seen to be the one who suffer the most from low self-esteem. It is not that there is a special group who are often seen to be inflicted it also includes those women who appear to have everything altogether and seem to know themselves on the surface often suffer from low self-esteem in the privacy of their own company.

One school of thought lays the blame for this on the power of publishers, news, magazines and movies in that they promote the ‘super female‘ from perfect hair, skin, teeth, body shape, career, life partner and on and on. Advertisers have used these methods of promoting the latest and greatest (…… fill the blanks …….) that if you buy this, read that, rub on the other and abstain from something else that you too can gain “perfection” - like the Stepford Wives movie.

Confidence is something that comes from within it’s not the latest accessory that you can pick at Wal-Mart or Walgreens.

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How to Avoid A Negative Attitude

In understanding our personality so that we can continue to grow and get the best from our personal growth and development exercises we need to be aware of any negative attitudes that are around us.

A negative attitude is the most difficult of attitudes you can have. When you develop a negative attitude it is unbelievably difficult to change it. In fact, a lot people only succeed in becoming more and more negative over time.

This trap, a negative attitude trap, is terrible. It’s a horrifying monstrosity that can be annoying, to say the least. So how do you ward off falling into its trap?

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