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Personal growth compared to

Today I’d like to share one of my negative and destructive habits. Fortunately my desire for self improvement and personal development has helped me to overcome this habit. What I’m talking about is comparison – - you know compared to…

It took me a while to realize that comparing myself to others was one of the most destructive no-win games I had ever played with myself.

There will always be someone who is in better shape than us, fitter than us, richer than us and the list goes on and on.

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What he is self.

I am always amazed when I come across some of the golden nuggets that are scattered along the bumpy road of personnel growth and self improvement.

Today I would like to share with you a nugget, a story that I have recently come across.

A Buddhist teacher, Nagasena, once asked a great king of Greece called Milinda to prove that he existed. The king laughed at this question but then Nagasena asked: if you dismantle a chariot piece by piece, can you still call the heap of parts a chariot?

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Today think like a winner

Okay who hasn’t been beat-up in the past either by their friends, family or the hardest judge of all themselves?

Who hasn’t had times of discouragement?

Haven’t we all had times when we didn’t get the encouragement, approval or even love that we felt we needed.

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Social phobia

Today I would like to share with you some of the recent readings I have come across on my personal growth journey. Often our progress in the self improvement and personal development is affected by social anxiety disorder [S.A.D.] This is also known as social phobia. I have read an interesting description of this which goes like-social phobia is an excessive worry fear or concern of what others may think about us.

While I agree that the opinions of others should matter and in a civilized world we are concerned about other people’s opinions. It is when someone’s feelings show an exaggerated concern for public opinions so much so that it goes beyond that need to simply relates to others for our mutual benefit that we should worry because this can effect our personal growth potential.

Social phobia occurs in our imagination as we often unconsciously assume [making an ass of you and me] that other people will see us as awkward, stupid, cursed, or with some other unacceptable quality. With our vivid imagination and the passing of time we may even sink to the level of believing that we are have those perceived unacceptable qualities.

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The power of seeing…

As we continue on our journey of personal growth and self improvement I would like today to talk about the importance of visualization, and in particular of visualizing victory.

Have you ever had that little voice inside your head saying:

“I’m not good enough?”

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Are the Prophets of Doom Wrong About the Law of Attraction

Many Prophets of Doom don’t like the Law of Attraction
During my studies of personal growth and self improvement I had come into contact with certain people who seem to have made it their mission to dispute and dispel the Law of Attraction. Here is why I think that they’re wrong.

What is the Law of Attraction?

To start with I asked myself what is it that I believe the law of attraction states – simply – that you get what you think about. Others say it in a different way – like attracts like. The basic assumption behind the law of attraction is that it is indifferent and neutral and doesn’t get emotional like people. And whether you’re consciously aware or not of thinking negative or positive thoughts, the law of attraction will give you what you think about. Read the rest of this entry »

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Why is it important to improve yourself?

Have you ever said to yourself either aloud or silently “I wish I was somebody else.”

Why is it that we think and believe that somebody anybody is better than us.- when in truth most people are not.

We look at others, envy them for appearing so outrageously perfect that we wish we could trade places with them, while, guess what they look at us and thinks of the same thing. We are insecure of other people who themselves are insecure of us.
We suffer from low self-esteem, lack of self-confidence and lose hope in self improvement and personal growth because we are overcome by quiet desperation.

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