Personal Development

I should get my car washed. I should pay my bills. I should eat less. I shouldn't sleep so late on the weekend. Our lives are filled with shoulds. Shoulds keep us on the straight and narrow path to goodness. What are shoulds and where did they come from?

Shopping is a pastime that hooks us into spending more than we can afford. Malls are like giant theme parks that beckon us to make out dreams come true through purchasing things. Mall Therapy is a quick and enjoyable way to curb the unstoppable urge to spend.

Although we joke that when the going gets tough, the tough go shopping, shopaholics suffer from a serious psychological problem. Compulsive spending and debting can lead to bankruptcy and ruined lives. It's no laughing matter

Perfectionists are driven by the nebulous fear, "I must be perfect, or else." Learn how to break the chains of irrational thinking now.

The trouble with perfectionism is that there are no concrete guidelines against which to measure bona fide perfectionism. Each purist stakes out an area to focus on. In that sector of life the need for perfection takes over, yet in other parts "good enough" is tolerated. Perfectionists tend to fall into different categories, but all share the burden of having unreasonably high expectations.

Although it looks as if you have gotten over the time you had your tonsils removed when you were a child or endured a recent root canal, these kinds of experiences may have left you with unhealed emotional wounds. Diagnosis Trauma happens the moment the doctor tells you what is wrong with you. We are all carrying memories of these moments. As they build up, they create stress and anxiety.

As the shockwaves of our inhumanity awaken us from our impotence and we re-claim the power that we have prostituted away to our modern forms of government, something extra-ordinary occurs. For between the screams of terror and monstrous demonstrations of evil run amok we can hear a lullaby, this sacred song of eternity's sweetest secret is a golden message of silence, a sacred language...

This Entrepreneur does not agree that this is a dog-eat-dog world nor was the wild wild west as wild as Hollywood portrays. He says it's our nature more to help than to hurt, to gossip than to fight! Enterprise is more natural than tyranny.

This tip title will probably cause you to go, "huh?" or have an "aha!" when reflecting on your own experience trying to learn to read faster.

In history, there have been various definitions of what a leader is. Some theories associate leadership with certain traits that can be observed right from childhood. Some people think that a leader is forged by the fires of need and that great leaders will rise when the situation calls for it.