Reinvent Yourself in 21 Days Can a mop and a dust cloth bring happiness and luck? Back in August, I picked up a book written by Mr. Mitsuhiro Masuda (in Japanese) who advocates the power of cleaning and decluttering. Now, I know grabbing a dust cloth and reorganizing the bookshelf is as boring as it gets in personal development. Many people are big on decorating their place. The book came with the 21 day action plan. Ready? Letting the fresh air cleanse and refresh the place Day 1: Open the windows to change the air. Day 2: Open the windows first thing in the morning and take a few deep breaths. Day 3: Open the windows first thing in the morning, take a few deep breaths, and say “Thank you.” You want to keep the good habit of caring for your personal space. What is your baggage literally? Day 4: Take out everything from your wallet and throw away unnecessary items such as old receipts and coupons. Day 5: Do the same with your purse or bag. Day 6: Check the address book in your cell phone or PDA. How it worked for me
THERE’S NO PAINLESS WAY TO KILL YOURSELF Altucher Confidential Posted by James Altucher I gave my 11 year old daughter important advice the other day: there’s no painless way to kill yourself. “What about with a gun?” she said. I told her about a friend of mine who shot himself in the mouth. He put the gun in his mouth and pointed upwards towards the brain. He missed. He shot off half his face, he went blind in one eye, and he is now in a wheelchair. If you type in “I Want to Die” into google, my website is the first result. My first business I sold for $15 million. Mobb Deep would hang out in my office. Then I saw that kids in junior high school were learning HTML. I bought an apartment for millions. Then I started more companies. From June 2000 until September, 2001 I probably lost $1 million a month. I couldn’t stop. I wanted to be loved. Writing this now I even feel like slitting my wrists and stomach. I felt like I was going to die. I lost all my friends. There were no jobs, There was nothing. I tried meditation to calm down but it didn’t work.
Free In-Depth Personality Test - Eysenck Personality Questionnaire "Insight occurs when, and to the degree that, one knows oneself." Returning to the test? Please log in here... How you see yourself and how others see you may be quite different. It is hard to be objective about oneself - after all, one is being oneself and therefore there is no distance from which to view. Eysenck, however, as a behavioral psychologist believed that personality, like intelligence, is determined to a large extent by a person's genes and is unchangeable beyond an effort to cover up negative traits through learned behavior. Of great significance in the development of personality is an individual's experience, both pleasurable and painful, in this lifetime, from birth onwards. So the results of this Questionnaire should be seen as an instructive guide to your present psychological makeup and an indication of areas of your life that you may choose to transform by applying appropriate techniques of personal development. You will need to register to begin the questionnaire.
3 Words That Guarantee Failure People who fail to achieve goals almost always signal their intent to fail by using three little words: "I will try..." There are no three words in the English language that are more deceptive, both to the person who says them and the person who hears them. People who say "I will try" have given themselves permission to fail. No matter what happens, they can always claim that they "tried." People who hear "I will try" and don't realize what it really means are fooling themselves, by thinking there's a chance that the speaker will actually succeed. People who really and truly achieve goals never say "I will try." Instead, they always say "I will do" something–or, better yet, "I must do" whatever the task is. As a wise (though fictional) guru once said: "Do, or do not.
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Two Lists You Should Look at Every Morning - Peter Bregman by Peter Bregman | 11:00 AM May 27, 2009 I was late for my meeting with the CEO of a technology company and I was emailing him from my iPhone as I walked onto the elevator in his company’s office building. I stayed focused on the screen as I rode to the sixth floor. I was still typing with my thumbs when the elevator doors opened and I walked out without looking up. Then I heard a voice behind me, “Wrong floor.” I looked back at the man who was holding the door open for me to get back in; it was the CEO, a big smile on his face. The world is moving fast and it’s only getting faster. So we try to speed up to match the pace of the action around us. But that’s a mistake. Never before has it been so important to say “No.” It’s hard to do because maybe, just maybe, that next piece of information will be the key to our success. A study of car accidents by the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute put cameras in cars to see what happens right before an accident.
Have A Personal Creed | Joyful Days There is a scene in Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland where Alice asks the Mad Hatter which direction she should go. When the Mad Hatter asked where she was headed, she replied that she didn’t know. “Then,” said the Mad Hatter, “any direction will do.” This simple scene from a child’s tale holds so much wisdom for us. A personal creed provides a guide for living. When you’re wandering aimlessly through life, your creed reveals a path for you to follow. Creeds can come from many sources. 1. The most common source of a creed is religion. - “Judge not, that ye be not judged.” - “Work with all your heart, soul and mind, as working for God and not for men.” - “Forgive not seven times, but seventy-times seven.” - “Seek first to understand, then to be understood.” 2. You could use a poem or verse that you find a powerful guide to living. You gotta dance like nobody’s watching Dream like you will live forever Live like you’ll die tomorrow And love like it’s never going to hurt. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.
Top 10 Things That Determine Happiness | MintLife Blog | Personal Finance News & Advice photo: meddygarnet Happiness is, by nature, a subjective quality with a definition like a moving target. There is scant evidence — qualitative or quantitative — to lend convincing support to those life variables most critical in determining individual happiness, which is likely why past researchers committed to the scientific method rarely tried to tackle the subject. This is changing. While we’re not entirely convinced of this marriage between science and subjectivity, we can still offer up a top 10 of things that determine human happiness, as supported by this growing body of research. No.10 – Having a short memory Are you one to hold grudges? No.9 – Exacting fairness According to a recently published study in the prestigious journal Nature, people derive more happiness from scenarios and situations that result in a perceived fairness for everyone involved, even when this fairness goes against self-interest or comes at some personal cost. No.8 – Having lots of friendships No.2 – Good genes