Personal Development

Stress causes more than mental anguish. It can also affect your health. This article will discuss how stress can be managed and controlled. What Is Stress and How To Handle Anxiety Everyone feels stress occasionally. What’s interesting is that everybody perceives or responds to stress differently. The feelings of stress originate from our flight or … Read moreStress Management: How to Handle Anxiety

It can be very beneficial to devote one week of a personal development program to forgiveness healing and apologies. This can lead to finding inner peace through learning to forgive – an effective form of anger self-help. For readers following the Sample Personal Growth Plan, this material applies to week eighteen, which focuses on apologies and … Read moreFind Inner Peace by Learning to Forgive as a Form of Anger Self-Help

Emotional wounds can fester and deepen in the absence of forgiveness, and it is important for one’s own mental health to learn how to shed the burden of rage. Human life is filled with unhappy or downright evil events. Each day there are misunderstandings, value clashes, competitions, stumbles and even crimes. Sometimes there’s an apology, … Read moreHow To Forgive: Let Go of Anger and Blame for the Healing of Inner Wounds

Focus on improving one personal development skill each week for fifteen weeks. As each new skill is introduced it is defined along with an assignment for the week. Focus your personal growth and development on one skill each week for the next fifteen weeks. Each skill builds upon a separate aspect of growth, accumulating to … Read more15 Weeks of Personal Development: Sharpen a personal growth skill each week

Learn the secrets of happiness, what it really is and how you can become happier. Happiness is a universal human goal. Aristotle recognized this over two-thousand years ago, when he said, “Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.” If generation after generation seeks greater happiness, … Read moreHow to Fight Depression, Cheer Up Find Happiness

Kindness is an important component of a personal growth plan. Use these suggestions to integrate kind acts routinely. Personal growth and development is a conscious plan for becoming a better human being. Kindness and generosity are easy qualities to nurture in oneself. Doing kind acts costs little or nothing, no special training is required, and … Read moreActs of Kindness Ideas: Thirty Kind Deeds for Personal Growth

Use the intentional activities described in this article to find and sustain greater life happiness. Positive psychology researchers have identified several strategies for finding happiness and sustaining a higher level of overall happiness. The Secrets of Happiness Though most people credit happiness to life’s circumstances and therefore work to change their circumstances in order to … Read morePositive Psychology Studies Suggest Ways to Cheer Up When Depressed

Few people ever experience genuine happiness; however, this elusive state is attainable once people know the secret of happiness. Happiness is an emotional state wherein people feel optimistic, delighted, and at times, even euphoric. Moreover, happiness comes not from mere satisfaction with one’s circumstances but, instead, from a deep inner contentment with both oneself and life. Although … Read moreThe Secret of Happiness: How to Be Happy and Find Joy and Meaning in Life

Make this a Christmas to remember by saying I love you in new, refreshing ways. These active, practical tips about love will go a long way! Knowing how to say “I love you” at Christmas can make your holidays happier and more fun. This is It’s a Wonderful Life in action! How say “I love you” with … Read moreHow to Say I Love You at Christmas