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Learning from others

Today I thought it would help to question about learning from others.

Why you ask me and I would reply that our personal growth and self-improvement is a time of constant learning.

Self knowledge, to be comprehensive, should include awareness of how we are perceived by others.

Could it be that the things we do not know about ourselves by the very things that others know only too well?

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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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The wisdom of children.

Let me ask you as you work on your personal growth and self-improvement how often do you get in touch with your inner child?

Now why am I being asked this question you may well ask yourself.

Here’s the thing I recently came across that question during my readings and it highlighted to me how important it is to recognize the wisdom of children.

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Maat - perfect order or truth.

Today I would like to share with you an intriguing and interesting belief that I’ve come across as I read as part of my personal growth and self-improvement.

The concept I would like to introduce is a that of Maat.

The ancient Egyptians believed that the universe was created in a state of Maat - perfect order or truth.

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The still small voice

Sometimes when I have finished reading or listening to some self improvement material I hear that small voice talking to me and I have a special name for this I call it -.

The voice of my conscience.

Conscience sometimes feels like a separate self - nagging away in our minds.

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