Self-help Articles

Happiness Is A Choice 
Choice ... What is a choice ? A choice is something that is exclusively yours, nobody can force it upon you, and nobody can take it away from you. But …

Grati-texts & Grati-tweets - From High Tech to High Touch 
My alarm clock didn't go off. Someone had already used up all the hot water before I could take my shower. We'd run out of coffee (gasp!). And to top it …

To Risk Or Not To Risk, That Is THE Question! 
To live is to risk. Risk-taking is as essential to life as breathing. It is the oxygen of such things as innovation, entrepreneurialism, leadership, wealth …

What Is A Conscious Entrepreneur? 
The word "conscious" has become a bit of a buzzword lately. It's common to find the word on everything from clothing to cosmetics, but what does it mean …

The Power Of Constructive Impatience - A Key To Resiliency 
For those who abhor change of any kind, I believe there are an equal number of us who want to challenge the status quo, to move quickly and to leap ahead. …

Reaching Your Goals Begins Here 
Most people perform better when they are heading toward a goal. But it is important to understand that the goals must motivate. If your goals leave you …

7 Ways To Improve Your Professionalism 
At Giant Leap Consulting, we understand the need for professionalism - and in fact, we offer an entire workshop focused on that particular topic, which …

Listen Before You Leap 
Risk-taking is critical to business success. But the starting point for taking smart risks should be inaction, not action. Come on, you might be thinking, …

Three Buckets of Courage 
Courage involves behavior. Like all behaviors, courage can be developed, encouraged, and reinforced. While a lot of writers have focused on the realms …

Resiliency Clues From Marvel Characters & Make-A-Wish Foundation 
I left the hotel in downtown Columbus, determined to take a brisk jaunt before preparing for my keynote address in the convention center. Not knowing …

Keeping An Opportunity Mindset 
Opportunities are the venues where people can try themselves, test themselves, better themselves, and even find themselves. The leader's job is to match …

Humor May Be Hazardous To Your Illness 
Many of you may be too young to recall the story of Norman Cousins. The 60-second version: When diagnosed with a degenerative disease (ankylosing spondylitis) …

Re-Frame with Humor: A Top Resiliency Tip  
Up until my early 30s, vacations for this Southern-bred woman meant sipping mint juleps in a New Orleans courtyard, lounging poolside at one of Florida's …

Fall Back In Love With Your Job? Here's How! 
USA TODAY, recently ran a full-page article of Kerry Hannon's book Love Your Job. She rightfully quotes the latest stats that just 30% of the American …

4 ways to be true to you 
1. Be honest with yourself and others. It's not tough unless you make it so. Don't ignore that part of you that wants to say or do something. Be very …

My Greatest Achievement 
My greatest achievement was when I started thinking of positive ways to improve my life. For 15 years I went into a deep depression. This consisted of …

Breakup of relationships are painful 
I was talking to a friend who told me that her son had a breakup with his girl friend and was devastated, she was very worried about his state of mind …

The Battle Between the Mind and the Heart 
Why are so many of us having a constant battle with our hearts and our minds. Our mind likes to make up a lot of things and you end up bickering in your …

Six Essential Leadership Skills For Today's Leader 
As of July 2014, log on to Amazon and you'll find 116,796 titles under the heading "Leadership". But if you're in too big of a hurry to read a book, open …

3 Leadership & Life Lessons On The Fly - The Butterfly!  
It started when a Monarch butterfly appeared in my garden, lighting on the only milkweed plant in the yard. My leadership & life lesson was about to begin: …

What Do You Say When You Talk to Yourself? 
What Do You Say When You Talk to Yourself? By Floyd Wills The Story of Two Wolves Two Native American warriors were sitting near the camp fire …

The 10 Keys to Eating Disorder Recovery 
Recovering from an eating disorder is hard. In fact, it is the hardest thing I have ever done, and what I believe will be the hardest thing I’ll ever do. …

Five Ways To Sabotage Yourself 
One onstage exercise I do to demonstrate what people look like when they feel stuck is to carry a volunteer from the audience around on my back. The message …

Various Levels of Compatibility in Relationships 
A friend once told me that "Compatibility on many levels (physical, mental, emotional, lifestyle, goals, etc.) is more likely to create a lasting relationship …

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Choosing the right partner 
Choosing your partner wisely is a very vague and over used statement. Almost like saying make better choices in life. Well, duh! We all know we should …

Vivianne Romang 
Patanjali's Yoga Sutras (in every day life) verse 12 12 : tat nirodhah abhyasa vairagyabhyam: That stopping (of the behaviour of mind is possible …

Vivianne Romang 
Vivianne is half South-African, half Swiss. Her mother tongue is English, although she speaks German fluently, studied Spanish at University level and …

Free Will: It’s not Fair! 
I just was writing a great article. Got to almost the end of the first page, and the bloody thing … disappeared. Talk about lack of free will. Which …

Resiliency: A Radical Redefining For Turbulent Times 
Consider some events of this decade: The stock market gyrates with unpredictable and heartburning results. Icons of solid companies become straw figures …

PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT: Benefits of Anger Management 
Do you ever get angry in petty situations? What situations are these? Are you able to control your anger soon? The answers to all these questions would …

The Three Necessities to Success 
In life, no matter what you intend to do; no matter what dream you want to pursue, it's necessary to have three important values. These values are faith, …

Relapse prevention for your peace of mind 
This article is about mental health relapse prevention. We will first look at exactly what relapse prevention is. Then we’ll talk about strategies such …

Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome. 
My father was a World War 1 veteran, he was at Gallipolli and later on in France. For four terrible years he saw a lot and experienced a lot that he …

The tale of Willy Wag Tail 
Sat in the car the other day running feel good sensations, it’s something I love doing. Makes me feel that the world is alright, and that I’m very fond …

It's all in the mood! 
Now here’s a funny thing! Here I am, one moment feeling all good and chirpy, and in the next, I’m in the armpit of despair. This keeps on happening, …

Bliss 
What do we know about Bliss? Well, the bit I want to focus on today, is the unusual problem of being Intoxicated by Bliss. This all started the other …

Your Education Doesn’t Have to Have a Finish Line 
"Learning Opportunities are Available Every Day through Communication" By Dale Schlundt, M.A. The world we live in today is busier and takes more …

What are SMART Goals 
“Life without goal is like cricket without wicket.” To understand this saying, we must understand the meaning of GOAL first. As per the dictionary, …

Doctor Patient Role Reversal and A Great Lesson, Part Two 
(continued) “And he had a LOT of fancy clothes on when he came in, didn't you Andy?" The doctor just nodded. "I WAS well dressed when I got here. …

Doctor Patient Role Reversal and A Great Lesson Part One 
My great uncle Jim was a very difficult man and an even more difficult hospital patient. But a lot of his bad temper and his irritating comments were due …

A Retreat from Suffering 
Now this is really my own theory, but at least for me, it explains how a person might get Alzheimer’s Disease. So it goes like this, … Our emotional default …

Is this the shortcut to being compassionate?  
When you feel good, you do good. It’s the unknown short cut to compassionate care, the untrodden path to helping others, is another way to put it …

How to Prevent Stress from Becoming a Full-blown Anxiety Disorder 
Anxiety disorders are the most common mental health disorders that afflict millions of people worldwide. These disorders cover a group of conditions which …

I just don't get it! 
I just don’t get it! When I’m in my feel good mood, there’s no better place to be, and my life is better in so many ways. But oddly enough when I’m unhappy, …

Once upon a time on a cliff 
There are times in life where a sense of ALIVENESS is none too close. Those times are painful, full of suffering and the urge to shake off these feelings …

How Good Friends Help 
This article is a true story about how I improved my self with a friends advice. There was a time when I was overwhelmed with lots of personal and professional …

Scratch that Itch! 
Some special words that I use to bring Feeling Good sensations to me, have had a new and surprising result. In the midst of strong craving or emotion, …

Lazy You... Procrastinating During the Holidays? It might not be laziness! 
You have a ton of things to do to get ready for the holidays. Yet you put things off. You find yourself reading, watching TV and playing games on the computer. …

How Does Hypnotherapy Help People Quit Smoking? 
This article will give you a bit of background as to what hypnosis is, and show you how it works to help people quit smoking. The therapeutic use of …

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Day Dream Believer – Manifesting for Fun and Pleasure 
Day Dream Believer The other day I was doing a new kind of manifesting thing with day dreams, as the vehicle of manifesting. It’s a new idea for …

The Future IS ours to see! 
If you belong to the Modern Family, The Future IS ours to see! Which is Odd. Remember the Que Sera Sera song? Well the song says with quiet, subtle Authority, …

Why do people shoot themselves in the foot. 
Recently a flat was trashed by a young man who had missed out on renting it. He climbed in through a window and turned on the taps creating considerable …

For the love of God..  
Really? All of you complain about your children and how you don't love or are tied down to them. It may be true, but TEACH them to be better. Or try enjoying …

Shine Your Spiritual Light to Overpower the Darkness of Others 
As I discuss many times in my memoir, Fine…ly, I’ve been a creep-magnet far too often in my life. I share a lot of stories in regard to this odd phenomenon …

What is Our Purpose in Life 
Do you remember being a child and asking your teacher or parent why you had to learn something that you’d never use in life? A child’s world is small; …

How to Get What You Want 
Excerpted from 5/31/11 Blog Radio Talk Show A Fine Time for Healing http://www.blogtalkradio/randi-fine, "How to Attract What You Want in Life: Gratitude …

Seven Apps For Travel 
Have you ever traveled overseas & felt lost because you couldn't organize your itinerary. Well now there are a number of new mobile apps that can help …

Passive Income  
Passive Income means more time, more cash and more options. You could say the Holy Grail of maximizing the ratio of income earned to time expended is …

Self Hypnosis And The Power Of The Mind 
Have you ever wondered about the old biblical statement "By faith alone ye shall move mountains"? What this actually metaphorically refers to is the incredible …

Life Is A Gift God Gave Us. 
Okay,I understand that life is tough. But think about it this way, that you have your problems but all the other poor, needy people have no food and are …

Everything Will Be Okay 
The angels are always near to those who are grieving, to whisper to them that their loved ones are safe in the hand of God. ~ Quoted in The Angels’ Little …

Stop Procrastinating, Start Achieving 
According to a recent poll 20% of the population are chronic procrastinators, does the following sound familiar: "making a decision for no valid reason …

Synchronicity: Recognizing the Stream of Consciousness Through Which Life Flows 
“Coincidences are spiritual puns”~ G.K. Chesterton We’ve all heard the common mantra, “There are no coincidences.” Whether believer or skeptic, we …

Nothing Personal 
“Whatever you think, whatever you feel, I know is your problem and not my problem. It is the way you see the world. It is nothing personal, because you …

Forgiveness Means Letting Go of the Past 
'Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.' ~ Mark Twain We are all likely to be wronged by others more than …

Stop Mindless Chatter with Controlled Attention 
So many times we have what I call mindless chatter going on in our heads. The problem with this mindless chatter is that it has energy and vibrations …

Lessons from Saunas and Steam Rooms: A Technique for Finding Inner Peace 
For most people who go to the spa, at least from my own experience and from what I observe, experiencing the spa is a very interesting mixture of pleasure …

How to decide if a profession is right for you 
I have been thinking on this for a long time now. I want to become a life coach. And I have been wondering, do I have what it takes to become a good life …

Experiencing Abundance 
When I hear the word abundance, the very sound of it entices me with the promise of a life well worth living. It speaks to me of existence that suffers …

I am thinking about the floods and also the victims whose lives are being shattered 
In the past few months we have seen much tragedy, an earthquake which has destroyed buildings and infrastructure, a mine disaster where the bodies of …

Do you really need people who make you feel bad! 
No one needs people who make you feel bad, it happens they tend to be the people that you most want to make you feel good and acceptable. Bear it in …

Solution through Islam for all problems in life 
Now a days people have so many problems from health to family, its really stressful and highly impacts your health. Main thing all human beings want is …

I want to be a fierce lady. 
I am a Freshman student from the Philippines and my greatest fear is to be judged negatively by other people most especially when it comes to the things …

Controlling Your Emotions 
Controlling your emotions Lots of people think that having good communication skills involves just knowing what should be said or what should be done …

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The truth behind gossiping 
The person who is laughing out loud, capturing the attention of everyone in the room while gossiping about someone who is not present is not as happy as …

Life 
LIFE is so simple. What we give out, we get back. We need to realise that how we treat others is precisely how we will be treated... when we think …

What Love Is 
I decide to seek out lessons which show me what love is... and do not spend too long in the class of what love is not. I wish to be a teacher of love although …

Hypnotic Botox - The latest Beauty Craze? 
Hypnotherapy is well known to help with many issues such as weight loss, phobias, confidence issues, and addictions such as smoking. Creative and inventive …

The Secrets Of How To Boost Your Charisma 
Charisma can help you in many aspects of life. It can help you win friends, be popular with the opposite sex, and even land that new exciting job. There …

Dreams - A penny for them 
Today as I sat in one of the Supermarkets collecting for a charity I am involved with, it was interesting to see the people who entered to do their shopping. …

Joys of going away on vacation 
One wonders what is in it to go away for a break. Why is it that so many hassles come up? There are repairs to be done as something breaks at the …

New Beginnings: You Can't Go Back! 
Simply put, we mess up. Things don't go our way, and we have to go back to the drawing board and figure out how on earth to clean up our mess. This happens …

How To Do Self Hypnosis 
How To Perform Self Hypnosis Hypnotherapy is a great tool for relaxation and relieving stress. It helps calm both the mind and body, giving a valuable …

The tyranny of "What if...?" 
What you worry about determines the course of your life. Free yourself from the tyranny of your negative "What if..." scenarios, and you will discover …

life is a journey which comprise problems & solutions but easy way to get through is just to enjoy each moment as a new surprise. 
Since, I was born I struggled a lot in my life sometimes for making friends & getting a good position around the world, but I never felt bad or down whenever …

Change the way you think to Change the way you see to Change the Way you Be! 
The bible tells us that we are a triune being-mind, body and spirit and, that we are made in the image of God. So, when I consider this fact, I have to …

Growing through Adversity! 
My name is Biancia Tate and, if I was to describe myself I would use the word Hope Bearer! So, what is a Hope Bearer one might ask? A Hope Bearer is one …

Forgiveness 
If we are to be able to forgive the past hurts and bitterness, perhaps we should first of all forgive ourselves for all those silly mistakes and upsets …