Personal Development & Happiness Carnival: Issue 16

Welcome to the 16th issue of the Personal Development & Happiness Carnival. This carnival is dedicated to people who want to share and receive ideas to improve the quality of their relationships, sustain happiness and create lasting success for the next 45 years; and beyond.

Every Sunday a new carnival containing your thoughts, articles and inspirational stories will be shared. You may participate by visiting the submission form at the bottom of this issue.

Continue to live while resisting the temptation to regret your past. Instead, you need to take full advantage of your future. After all, it isn’t how you start in life, it’s how you finish!

Peter S C begins this week’s carnival with 10 Ways to Give Your Morning a Makeover posted at I will change your life . com. Here are 10 great ways to improve your morning routine.

Edith asks Are You Naked? How to Dress to Improve Your First Impression posted at Edith Yeung.Com: Dream. Think. Act.. Edith offers some outstanding suggestions for maximizing your first impression.

Tupelo Kenyon presents Persistence and Perseverance for Winners – Losers Just Quit posted at Tupelo Kenyon. Giving up is easy. Most people make a habit of giving up. In fact, they make a life of it Persistence through a solution-oriented attitude is for visionaries, dreamers and other winners who refuse to take “no” for a final answer.

Matthew Spears presents That childlike state, and Love. posted at Loving Awareness. There is so much we can learn from children. Most of us are disconnected from that childlike quality inside ourselves, that innocent state of joyful wonder that makes love for children so natural. And yet, it is available to us at all times, and an absolutely essential part of happiness and love.

Dominic Tay presents Economical Lessons to Personal Development and Success posted at Personal Development Blog for Winners. You believe you can be someone greater. What’s next? Just believing isn’t enough to support your quest to success. There has to be actions, careful and well-calculated actions that is.

Rahul Bhambhani reminds us to Give and you Shall Receive » Take-20.com posted at Personal Development Advice, Tools to Improve the Quality of your Life. Make a conscious effort to give something to everyone and anyone you meet. It’s not what you give that’s important; it’s how you give it. You can give the person a flower, a compliment, or a blessing.

Warren Wong presents How To Calm Down posted at Personal Development for INTJs. How to calm down teaches you various tips and tricks for calming yourself down.

Vern L tells us in Happiness Lifehack: 1 Way to Instantly get Optimistic posted at Aim for Awesome!.

Madeleine Begun Kane presents Time Travel posted at Mad Kane’s Humor Blog.

Nadege asks in the post Creating a Positive Attitude posted at Clearly Envision, what does attitude really have to do with life’s not so pleasant surprises?

Carole Fogarty presents Are your energy levels being eaten by the sounds around you? posted at THE HEALTHY LIVING LOUNGE. Are the sounds around you nourishing and uplifting or draining and depleting?

Cynthia Mckenna, LPC, NCC presents Holiday Stress posted at CounselingBlog. Perhaps a “must-read” for most of us right now.

Jeremy Neal presents Improve Your World This Minute posted at Thoughts on Quotes. Opportunities to improve the world exist all around us in every interaction, act of creation and sacrifice we choose to make.

Tina Su gives us some Tips for Public Speaking from Top Speakers Think Simple. Be Decisive. posted at Think Simple. Be Decisive..

GreatManagement presents Owner of www.zenhabits.net Spills The Beans… posted at The GreatManagement Blog.

Marco Richter presents Stress - Me? posted at Self Improvement Emporium.

Richard Ingersoll provides Subconscious Resistance and the Law of Attraction posted at Applying the Law of Attraction. The subconscious mind stores everything we’ve ever experienced, filters what we now experience based upon our beliefs/thoughts, and in a lot of ways works to censor our reality.

Lucy Baldwin presents 5 Things I Learned From Moving 17 Times posted at Moving Help Central. Here are some life lessons learned from moving.

Daniel Brenton presents I am Grateful I Can Learn posted at Daniel Brenton. It’s our job to learn these things. There is no one who can do this for us.

Godwin gives us his version of the Meaning of life posted at Godwin.

Arun presents The Power of Self Confidence posted at Arun is Bringing You…Your Daily Remedy. Build your confidence from the ground up and you’ll be suprised how happy you become!

Andrew Stephens reminds us of The Importance of Relaxation posted at gowashyourhair.com- an article emphasizing the importance of making time for relaxating activities.

Marcus presents Self Development or Personal Development? posted at The Thoughts. Create your own self-development method, and learn to avoid the often fixed ideology of traditional personal-development.

Scott Lee presents Building Your Interpersonal Network posted at Scott Free Thinking. Not every group has things in common with you, and more importantly: you probably don’t have much of anything in common with them either. An important component to all of this is to always be thinking in terms of multiple perspectives - what are they thinking?

Shirley presents Don’t compare yourself to others. posted at Brighter Days for you and me!. When you start feeling like a failure, like you’re stupid, too slow, unmotivated, or too lazy to succeed, stop and see what made you feel this way. Often it is simply that someone you know or someone on TV has made it seem that their success happened overnight. Whether or not that is true, there is no useful reason to compare yourself to them.

Corinne Edwards concludes the Personal Development & Happiness Carnival with Personal Growth with Corinne Edwards » ARGUMENT FOR ONE - How to win posted at Personal Growth with Corinne Edwards. How many arguments do we have in our head? The person involved is not even there. These usually happen at 2 AM. Here’s what to do!