Personal Growth Articles

Do you have clothes piling up in your home? Unopened mail overflowing on your kitchen counter? Household cleaning left
undone? Other items cluttering your home? If you answered yes
to any of these questions then you may be looking to get yourself organized. You're possibly saying to yourself that sounds great, but, you're really not sure how to do this. Well, you may want to consider these tips to get you started with getting yourself organized:

Tip One:

I bet that there are a number of things you say you want in your life or career. I know I certainly have spouted off long lists at different times in my life. Perhaps you have said to yourself or out loud, I would like to:

* Be fitter and healthier

* Earn more money

* Have my professional life align with who I am and my values

* Start a business

* Write a book, paint, play music

* Create a beautiful atmosphere in my home environment

* Speak my truth

* Build wealth

* Cultivate more faith and trust/deeper spiritual life

* Be more adventurous

At some point in our lives we will all have argued with out parents. Do not let this belittle your grief. They loved you and you loved them, an unconditional love which is only found in close family relationships. The closer you were to your parent the more often you will think of them on a daily basis. However, if you were less close you are still entitles to grieve however you need to.

Family

"Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do."

-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I was recently asked to write about, "Why do you think people don't act?" It is a question I think about often since one of my genres is self development. It blows me away how we all know WHAT to do but implementing change into our lives is an entirely different story.

Getting a new car or getting a raise in salary can set your state of mind to make you feel happiness, but that happiness is not long-term. In a short period of time the new wears off and you find yourself in the same state of mind you were in before you got the new car or the raise.

It’s Monday morning. Alarm bell rings disturbing your sleep. You are feeling tired, dull and lazy and in no mood of going to work but you have to. You force yourself to get ready and reach your work place half-heartedly without even taking the breakfast. In order to activate yourself you take a cup of hot coffee and sip little by little while trying to concentrate on your work.

Success is about more than money and being number one. If you're the top executive in a company does that mean you're successful? Not necessarily. If you have money does it make you successful? If you won $30 million in the lottery would you be successful? No! The money may change the way you live, but success will change your life forever.

For years I struggled with this. I worked 60 hours a week trying to gain success or what I thought success was. One evening I was discussing my future plans, my business plans and life in general with my mentor.

Do you believe that patience is important? I hope you said yes! Patience is the key to success in life. When you are patient you will write out your goals and aspirations. You will plan what you are trying to achieve and by what date. Only when you know exactly where you are going will you get there.

People who jump into decisions without first checking whether it is the right one for them lack patience. They rush about expending valuable energy and wasting time chasing dreams. They make everything so much harder because without a definite plan to follow you are wasting your time.

Why is it that some people can look on the bright side of things while others seem to be stuck in perpetuating negative thoughts, anxiety, doubts, and situations and they they have a difficult time seeing the positive or give up before they even try?

What separates the two types of people isn't the person or the situation, but rather their way of thinking.

Your attitude has everything to do with your creativity, happiness, and love.

Once our day gets going it is the easiest thing in the world to get swept away by the routine, the urgent (which, by the way, is quite different from the important), the latest minor crisis (which probably seems major at the time) or, most common of all, the endless stream of useless thought that simply distracts us. Even if you have made the effort and started your day properly, it is simply all too easy to become submerged in the cares and worries of the moment and, as a result, revert to our default state of unfocused mindlessness.