Your Personal Development Articles
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Leading a Deliberate Conscious Life - How making deliberate conscious choices can help you get the life you want to have.
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The Power of Realistic Positive Thinking - Illustrates the importance and effect that positive thinking has on your life, and also illustrates how negative thinking is keeping you from achieving your goals. Explains how to become a positive thinker and reap the benefits.
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Achieving Your Goals Part I - Goal Identification - Explains how to identify and formulate goals properly - goals which can be successfully achieved.
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Achieving Your Goals Part II - Form a Plan - Explains how critically important it is to formulate an in-depth plan for achieving your goals. And details the method to use to formulate this plan.
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Achieving Your Goals Part III - Make a Commitment - Explains why people fail to achieve their goals and how making a tangible commitment is key to successfully achieving goals.
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Achieving Your Goals Part IV - Staying Motivated - Explains various techniques which you can use to stay motivated about your goal.
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Achieving Your Goals Part V - Change Your Environment - Explains the effect your environment has on goal achievement. Illustrates how to remove negative effects, which will hinder goal achievement, and how to make positive changes to your environment to encourage goal acheivement.
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Achieving Your Goals Part VI - Change Your Thinking - Explores the critical role your thinking plays in achieving success or failure. This article is a must-read if you want to short-circuit negative thought patterns and promote successful thinking.
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Achieving Your Goals Part VII - Discipline and Vocabulary - Explains how to exercise self-discipline and how to use vocabulary which will promote goal achievement and success.
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How to Quit Smoking Naturally - Part I - Explores the reasons why people start smoking, why smoking sometimes seems more acceptable than other types of drug addiction, and the reasons why people finally decide to quit.
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How to Quit Smoking Naturally Part II: Preparation - Explains the importance of each attempt to quit smoking, having proper detailed written motivation to quit smoking and the essential strategy for successfully quitting smoking.
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How to Quit Smoking Naturally Part III: Identify & Prepare for Your Triggers - Explores your smoking habits and helps you to identify under which circumstances you usually smoke. Explains the importance of planning to successfully deal with these situations without smoking.
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How to Quit Smoking Naturally Part IV: Quit Smoking Strategies - Explains that the initial strategy to successfully quit smoking is to make it through each craving to smoke without smoking. Outlines in clear detail several strategies that can be used to achieve this goal.
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How to Quit Smoking Naturally Part V: The Time to Quit is Now! - Details how to make that final move to quit smoking and thus actually make the transition to a smoke-free life.
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Your Capacity for Change - Explains that you have the capacity and the ability to consciously change any behavior or thinking patterns that you do not like in your life. Details how to go about effecting personal change in your life.
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How to be Happy - Training yourself to enjoy life - “We tend to forget that happiness doesn’t come as a result of getting something we don’t have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.” ~ Frederick Keonig.
How happy are you? Let me phrase that question another way: how much do you enjoy living your life? Could you train yourself to enjoy your [...]
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Optimism vs. Pessimism - Discusses the many tangible benefits of being an optimist. Explains when pessimism is more useful than optimism.
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The Different Explanatory Styles of Optimism and Pessimism - Explains how thinking habits lead to pessimism and optimism. Discusses the three P’s of personal explanatory style and helps you easily decide if you generally engage in optimistic or pessimistic thinking.
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How to become an Optimist - Part I - Outlines the steps involved in becoming an optimist and discusses how to become fully aware of the thoughts you have in reaction to a stressful event.
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How to become an Optimist Part II: Disputing Pessimistic Beliefs - Explains how the steps of how to become an optimistic. Explains how to dispute your negative pessimistic beliefs by questioning them for accuracy, challenging them with possible alternatives and recognising that most stresful situations do not result in a life catastrophe. Discusses Liesl's personal experience with becoming an optimist.
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How to become an Optimist Part III: Avoid Thinking Errors - Explains various errrors in thinking that we routinely make in reaction to adversity, such as jumping to conclusions, catastrophizing, personalizing and magnifying.
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Tips on Giving up Pessimistic Thinking habits - Describes a few tips for you to use while you are learning new more positive, optimistic thinking habits.
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Optimism & Resilience - Discusses the importance of resilience in keeping problems and adversity in perspective and enjoying life even with stress and challenges.
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Affirmations and Your Subconscious - Explains how you can successfully enlist your subconscious to help you achieve your goals by replacing your current negative affirmations with new positive ones.
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Coping with Stress - Part I - Explores practical techniques for dealing with major stressful life events, such as prolonged illness, loss of a job, and marital discord.
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Coping with Stress - Part II - The second part of the article discussing techniques to use to get successfully through stressful life events.
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Seeking out Mentors - Discusses the importance of using the criticisms of others and the advice of potential mentors to identify areas for self-improvement.
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The Value of Delaying Gratification - Discusses the importance of making the goal-achieving choice at every opportunity. Explains how delaying gratification will help you achieve your goals and explores a few tips on how to learn to delay gratification.
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How to choose your perfect mate, spouse or life partner - Discusses the importance of knowing beforehand the qualities you want and need in your perfect mate. Explains how to figure out which qualities are important and essential to you.
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How to choose your perfect mate, spouse or life partner - II - Explains how to distinguish your essential needs in a potential mate from your optional needs.
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Slow down, stop rushing and enjoy your life - Discussess the importance of taking time to relish the life you are living now. Explores different techniques to promote a more relaxing mind even in the midst of everyday stresses.
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How to Fight Depression Naturally - The first article in a series discussing various natural methods to overcome depression.
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Physical Strategies for Fighting Depression Part I: Exercise - Explains the use of physical strategies for fighting depression and discusses the importance of exercise in winning the battle against depression.
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Physical Strategies for Fighting Depression Part II: Diet, Vocabulary and Positive Activity - Explains how to use diet, positive vocabulary and fun and productive activities to reduce the incidence and severity of depressive episodes.
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How to Stop Worrying and Be Relaxed – An Experiment - “Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.” ~ Leo Buscaglia.
I am one of the world’s chronic worriers. I worry about everything under the sun. I worry about arriving late. I worry about arriving early. I worry about what will be said and what will not be said. I [...]
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How to choose your perfect mate, spouse or life partner III: Take your time - Explains the importance of taking the time to find out if your potential mate has the characteristics which are critical to your happiness. Also discusses how to get to know your potential mate.
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How to Stop Worrying and Be Relaxed – Over-planning - Discusses how excessive constant planning is a form of worry and how to end this over-planning.
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Relationship Dynamics - How to get the relationship you want - “Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.” ~ Richard Bach.
The term “dynamics of a relationship” refers to the rules that guide interaction of the two people in the relationship. It includes how they interact with [...]
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Mental Strategies for Battling Depression Part I - Discusses the importance of tuning in to your self-talk and particularly to any negative absolutes you tell yourself.
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Mental Strategies for Battling Depression Part II - Explains the importance of realism in overcoming depression. Details specific steps to take when experiencing a depressive episode.
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Achieving Your Goals - The Power of Persistence - Discusses how to be persistent and the role persistence plays in eventual success
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Merry Christmas - Merry Christmas from all of us at LieslNet.
May you have a joyous, loving, grateful, happy day.
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Achieving Your Goals - The Power of Consistency - “In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It’s not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.” ~ Anthony Robbins.
Another critical facet in goal achievement is consistency. Persistence implies consistency. But it is so important that it is worth its own [...]
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Quit Smoking in the New Year - Provides step-by-step instructions on how to successfully quit smoking in the New Year.
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Preparing for the New Year – Evaluating the Old Year - Discusses the importance of evaluating previous successes and failures in order to ensure success in the new year.
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Achieve Your New Year’s Resolutions - We at Lieslnet would like to extend New Year’s greetings to all our readers. Lieslnet would like to thank you for your support during the year 2006 and we look forward to your continued support during 2007.
As you start the new year I would like to re-direct you to the Achieving Your Goals series, [...]
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What is the big deal about New Year’s Resolutions? - Discusses the value of resolutions in helping you to decide what you want from life and how much you are willing to invest in getting it.
