Personal Relationships – Have you told them lately that you love them?

When was the last time that you told your partner, children, parents and other loved ones that you love them?

It’s so easy to get wrapped up in our work and neglect our personal relationships. For the self-employed, this is a real danger; we spend as much time as we can chasing and delivering work and forget the reasons why we are doing it. It’s so easy to neglect the personal; growth in the business is little satisfaction if there’s no one to share it with, if our “significant others” leave us because they feel neglected. [Read more...]

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Guilt and forgiveness.

Have you ever paused to consider how much your personal growth can be really stymied by guilt and forgiveness issues(or often a lack of forgiveness, to be more accurate)? Why? Because they suggest to us that beauty does not lie within us, but in others. It urges us to listen to voices outside of our own and in many cases, to give away our personal power to the owners of those voices. Going further, it even suggests that other people know more about us than we do! [Read more...]

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Personal Growth or Personal Stagnation?

What’s stopping you from achieving personal growth? Michael Jordan recently said that the only thing that held him back was himself and there’s a lot of truth in his statement. So let’s have a look at the ten most common reasons for our not achieving what we want to. [Read more...]

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Personal Development Lessons from Patch Adams

One of my favourite films is Patch Adams starring Robin Williams. If you haven’t seen it, I really recommend that you borrow or buy it as it contains so many lessons that you can use for your personal growth.  And it’s not an airy fairy, pie in the sky work of fiction. It’s biographical – Hunter (Patch) Adams is a real person. [Read more...]

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We’re up Shift Creek – Personal Gowth and Compassionate Capitalism

Are you really happy with things as they were before the economic downturn or are you looking for something different? Do you want to stagnate or are you prepared for a period of personal growth and societal change and even, perhaps,change on an even wider level?

I’m hoping that one of the results of the downturn will be a desire amongst many people to paddle through shift creek,  and come out into the new waters of compassionate capitalism. This requires personal growth, being prepared to let go of old habits, as well as change on a more national and even global scale. And the social media tools could play a big part in mobilising this. It is widely accepted that the Obama’s election marked, amongst many things, the first election where social media tools were used to contact voters. Wouldn’t it be cool if the population were to now use those same tools to inform politicians of what we want! [Read more...]

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