Without doubt, the greatest advance you can make in your Personal Development program is to Know Thyself, identify your strengths and weaknesses.

In what areas of your life are you supremely confident (but not arrogant or prideful)?  In what areas of your life are you insecure or lacking confidence?  Knowing your strengths and weaknesses provides valuable insights with respect to where to most effectively focus your efforts in your Personal Development program. » Read the rest of the entry..

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The Law of Attraction has been widely quoted throughout the Internet, largely on the basis of the release of “The Secret” and the books by Esther and Jerry Hicks. At the most extreme end of the Law of Attraction continuum, its advocates would have us believe that, in order to realize (or manifest) our hearts wildest desires, all we need to do is to visualize that desire and release it to the Universe in order for it to manifest into our lives. » Read the rest of the entry..

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One of the most powerful tools we have available to us in Personal Development is Creative Visualization. However, Creative Visualization extends well beyond Personal Development in terms of applications and benefits, representing a powerful tool for Art, Architecture, Entertainment, Literature, Science, Technology, Philosophy … and so on. In fact, it is hard to conceive of a field in which Creative Visualization could not be or, more accurately, is not being utilized to advantage and represents one aspect of our Greatest Asset …. our Mind. » Read the rest of the entry..

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Dreams - Goals with a Deadline

With Opening Ceremonies for the 2010 Winter Olympic Games days away, it seems like a suitable time to discuss “Realizing Your Dreams”. » Read the rest of the entry..

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When consciously and actively utilized, Goals, ideally, represent the targets or objectives toward which we are actively working to fulfill.

Goal setting is the conscious, active process of identifying your goals.

How we go about identifying and setting our goals will, to a very large degree, determine how successful we are in our attempts to achieve those goals. Goals and goal setting are common themes in Personal development and the intent of this lens is to serve as an introduction to the concept. » Read the rest of the entry..

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In reality, the Law of Attraction, as originally proposed by authors such as Charles Haanel and Napoleon Hill, consists of a PROCESS, a process which includes the critical and integral component of ACTION directed toward your goal. The key component of ACTION has been de-emphasized, and even omitted, by many proponents of the “Law of Attraction”, resutling in a “Something for Nothing” philosophy. Nowhere in the known Universe, as documented through science (and, most importantly to the “Law of Attraction”, physics itself), has the concept of “Something for Nothing” been documented. This is physically represented by the concept of the Perpetual Motion Machine. » Read the rest of the entry..

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There is no doubt that we, each and every one of us, “creates” our own reality.  Our world comes to us through our five senses, specifically, sight, hearing, touch, taste and smell.  The information from our senses are then processed by our minds according to pre-existing models in our mind, the models (”paradigms”) we continually develop from birth throughout life.  This reliance on existing models in order to process information allows our brain to handle the immense quantity of data received at any given moment. » Read the rest of the entry..

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This is a very short (1:16 minute) motivational video clip posted on YouTube. Despite being so short, it carries a very powerful message. » Read the rest of the entry..

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Introduction

The Law of Attraction has been widely quoted throughout the Internet, largely on the basis of the release of “The Secret (Extended Edition)” and the books by Esther and Jerry Hicks. At the most extreme end of the Law of Attraction continuum, its advocates would have us believe that, in order to realize (or manifest) our hearts wildest desires, all we need to do is to visualize that desire and release it to the Universe in order for it to manifest into our lives. » Read the rest of the entry..

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Background

Theory and Interventions

Positive Psychology is a relatively new field in psychology, having been founded about 10 years ago, which has, as one of its study projects, research into what makes us “happy”. As with other research in psychology, it is highly subjective as it is based upon studies into peoples responses as to how they are feeling. We have all had days in which we weren’t quite sure how we felt and so you can imagine some of the difficulties encountered in this research. Having said that, however, many methods have been developed so as to gain insight and quantify information within the subjective field of psychology. » Read the rest of the entry..

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