Self Improvement Articles & News
Dark Ages: History Of The Negro Leagues In America
The sport of baseball is often referred to as the "national pastime." For years it has played an important role in many people's lives, providing heroes and idols for millions of children and providing numerous memories of "spring eternal" for many others. Baseball's popularity can be traced to many things: the dramatic one-on-one confrontations between the pitcher and batter, unlike any duel in any other sport; the last minute heroics by a rookie with a single swing of the bat in the ...
Fly Fishing Journals - Keep Track Of Your Trips
Fly fishing is addictive. Once you start, you'll never stop. Whether you are going to the local water hole or to Alaska, you should use a fly fishing journal to keep track of your sessions.
Hiking Shoes And Thin Socks - A Backpacking Winner
Hiking shoes versus hiking boots? Hiking shoes win. Okay, next issue? No, really. Hiking or running shoes are better for most backpacking trips, at least during late spring, summer and early fall. Boots are heavy, hot, stinky, and stay wet forever. A pound on your feet is like five on your back (some say six), so three-pound boots leave you much more tired at the end of the day.
Ultralight Backpacking - Getting Started
Want to run up that ridge, just to see what's there? Want to easily carry your pack up those fourteener's, so you can go down by any route you choose? Want to feel good at the end of a twenty-mile day? It's time to liighten your load.
6 Add Tips For Organizing Everyday Things
Life with ADD (Attention Deficit Disorder) can be a constant hassle. Little things like lost car keys, tools that stick or don't cut well, papers that go missing all add to the general level of tension. These tips will help you come to grips with the nitty-gritty of everyday things.
Gratitude: The Ice That Fills Your Half Empty Glass!
Are you completely happy in your life right now? Honestly? Have you achieved all the success that you know is rightfully yours?
Loving Kindness - How To Evoke It
The practice of meditating on loving-kindness may be over two thousand years old. Although it may feel a bit mechanical at first, many who have used it experience greater feelings of compassion and love towards both themselves and others. Here's how you do it:
The Power Of Your Mind
The mind is an extreme admiration. It has the fantastic ability to transform your desires into their physical counterparts. You can do anything that your mind can imagine, as long as you have the belief and determination to back it up.
Don't Take It Personally
Many of you already know that I’ve been divorced for 5 years now, but I learned more than a few valuable lessons in those 5 years that I’m going to share with you.
The 7 Emotional Phases Of Divorce
Divorce, though often an ugly process, isn't always an emotional death sentence, and regardless of who we are, or what we do, we all go through the same emotional turmoil to varying degrees when it comes to divorce.
Kaizen For Self Improvement
What does Kaizen, a Japanese method of production excellence and industrial efficiency have to do with self improvement? Can it be adapted to self-work? What is it, anyhow?
How to Keep an Addiction Recovery Journal
During any addiction recovery process and even afterward, support is essential. A simple, easy and proven effective way, that anyone can use to support themselves, is keeping an addiction recovery journal or diary. An excellent tool for recovery, as well as a great way of doing our, Daily 10th Step Inventory, journaling provides a record of gratitudes, goals, intentions, and the ups and the downs of life. Journaling is a record of our actions and growth, our dreams and desires.
Be A Great Date
The single life can be fun. But whether you are looking for a partner, or just enjoying meeting new people, dating is part of what being single is all about. The problem is that dating can be tough. It is sometimes scary, usually exciting, often disappointing. Some of this you have no control over, but here are some tips for being the best date that you can be:
Feelings We All Have Them
Feelings are a beautiful part of who we are yet we spend so much time doing what we can to avoid them. As a child I was brought up to be quiet keep your mouth shut, crying is for babies, anger is just not happening and don’t scream as children should be seen and not heard. Now did that have any affect on me? Yes of course it did. And for a very long time I lived my life in a non-feeling box.
4 Amazingly Brilliant Tips To Speed Read Faster Than You Ever Thought Possible
Many people, particularly students, would love to be able to absorb information faster. But before retaining information, they have to go through the first stage of learning, which is reading.
Have You Taken the Time to Observe Nature?
Have you ever taken time to observe nature? Or truly digested the unspoken wisdom it has to offer us? Fall's appearance is somewhat graceful as it gives its grand finale before it bids adieu. Not paying attention, we didn't notice the slight shift of colors in the oaks and maples; nor did we see the aromatic pines pregnant with their geometrical cones. In its sporadic and beautiful display of life and death, Mother Nature is a catalyst of human life.
Career Move! From Shelf Filler to Manager
Are you in a dead end job? Are you fed up with low pay and long hours? Are you bored and want to do something more interesting? Do you want to be the person telling others what to do rather than being the one taking orders?
Please Listen, Don't Just Hear Me!
Celebrating Little Clothes After Gastric Bypass Weight Loss
Have you found yourself asking “whose clothes are these?” when you are taking care of your very own “little clothes” since losing weight with gastric bypass? Men and women alike, after experiencing massive weight loss, enjoy a wonderment, a shock and awe, as they see their new clothes which appear to be so small. Can this really fit me? we ask. Or sometimes we simply state, “Oh, this will never fit me.” We still see ourselves as large and morbidly obese.
Improve Memory: How Much Can I Improve My Memory
The short answer: Your memory is capable of indefinite improvement. Your 3 pound brain contains 100 billion brain cells that can form gazillions of connections. According to Karen DeBord, Ph.D, "there are enough brain cells to learn just about anything." There you go. If I were you, I wouldn’t worry about how much I could improve my memory. If I had to worry at all, it would be about how to improve my memory.
Lack of Confidence and Its Effects
Confidence comes from within you. Confidence is also what you show on the outside despite, or to hide, what you feel inside. You may have the tools and skills to do anything you want in the world but without confidence nothing will be done.
How To Be A Man Or Women Of Integrity?
There are times in the life of every man who takes his stand on high moral principles when his faith in, and knowledge of, those principles is tested to the uttermost, and the way in which he comes out of the fiery trial decides as to whether he has sufficient strength to live as a man of Truth, and join the company of the free, or shall still remain a slave and a hireling to the cruel taskmaster, Self.
Give Yourself The Greatest Gift
Would you be interested in having such a gift? Hmm, let me guess! The good news is that YOU CAN. The gift I'm talking about is personal responsibility. Let me share with you precisely why this gift is the best you will ever receive!
Are Your Business and Personal Lives Balanced?
For the sake of your sanity, the health of your relationships and, yes, even the success of your business, your business and personal lives need to be in balance. Many small business owners spend so much time on their businesses that they hardly have any time for their families or even themselves. Often this is more a symptom of chaos, disorganization and lack of clarity than anything else. Ask yourself these questions and see how balanced your life is. Do you work less than 50 hours a ...
White Sun What is Tranquillity?
Generally, people regard serenity in their lives as being dependant on the environment. We seem to think that tranquillity comes to us when we place ourselves in a tranquil situation, but actually the reverse is true. It is the state of the heart and mind which determines how tranquil our surroundings can be. It is said that, "A calm heart makes a shaky hut stable".
Don't Say Yes When You Want to Say No
Hello Friends, Greetings from Shabbar Suterwala. Tell me if this sounds familiar -- someone asks you to do something that you really don't want to do or you honestly don't have time for. It might be a request or an unreasonable request from a friend, a neighbour, a close relative, a familty member, your office colleague or your boss for just working late. But you feel like you will let the other person down if you say no. You feel GUILTY already, and you haven't ...
Juggling Your Way Into Balance Part 1 Where We've Been
Let's take a brief look at the journey of American women through the last 100 years. Throughout this period, we have proved ourselves to be resilient and flexible, persistent and determined, dedicated, diverse, courageous, and perennially undiscouraged.
Any Experience Can Change Your Life
I have read in many different cultural and religious texts not to take any moment in life for granted, as all experiences can be opportunities to learn about yourself and the world around you. Recently I went on a trip to Melbourne, Australia and while I was there I had two very memorable experiences, both in restaurants. I love going out to eat anyway, but these two events were both what I believe to be extraordinary, as neither had ever happened in my life previously. Let me tell you a ...
How Logic Puzzles Can Help You Become a Better Problem Solver
I have to admit that I am a confirmed puzzle-head. I love crosswords, acrostics, and cryptograms. But I am becoming ever more intrigued by logic problems. Perhaps it is because I am still at the novice level. Perhaps it is because I am learning the nuances of language that can provide invaluable clues to their solution. Whatever the reason, I am convinced that they are providing skills that are valuable for nearly all reasoning situations.
MORAL ARMOR'S Achieving Moral Perfection
Spirit Murderers view Self-made Men as those who can do no wrong. It is the denial of Man’s natural pattern of function to expect men to live in a state of perfect action—to be infallible. Their own pretense of false perfection drives the belief that infallibility is necessary for achievement, which it isn’t, and they revel in seeing us err, enjoying the shame they expect us to feel at slipping on a pretense which we never practiced to begin with. The truth is that their premises tied ...