Personal Development & Happiness Carnival: Issue 17

Welcome to the 17th 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!

Life

Albert Foong begins our carnival this week with Freedom from Judgement - the Beginning of Compassion » Personal Development - The Urban Monk posted at Urban Monk.

Edith Yeung presents What would you ask for? posted at Edith Yeung.Com: Dream. Think. Act..

David B. Bohl presents Being Who You Are and Who You Want to Be posted at Slow Down Fast Today!. You really can do both.

Relationships

Ralph Jean-Paul presents Meet 7 People in 7 Days posted at Potential 2 Success. Single again? New in town? Looking for new clients and business contacts? There are 6.7 trillion people in the world. How many of them do you know? Meet a new person for business or social advancement each day this week.

Silicon Valley Blogger presents Fun Day Trip With Kids, Thomas The Tank Engine Style posted at The Digerati Life. Here’s how this blogger develops and enjoy family relationships.”

Healthy Living

FitBuff presents What Is Healthy? posted at FitBuff.com’s Total Mind and Body Fitness Blog. What is healthy? At first, this may seem like an easy question to answer. However, when you actually stop and think about it, it’s not easy at all…

Tina Su gives us 9 Steps to be Decisive posted at Think Simple. Be Decisive..

Brip Blap presents 67 ways to outlive 106 billion people — brip blap posted at brip blap.

Goal Setting

Wanda Grindstaff provides an interesting article on Marketing Technique or The Truth - Understanding the Ads you See on the Internet posted at Creating Abundant Lifestyles.

Luke Houghton presents Why you should never lose hope posted at Luke Houghton. Hope is an important facet in goal setting. It lays the foundation for the things you believe. Read this to learn more.

Richard Ingersoll presents Magnetizing Your Desires posted at Applying the Law of Attraction. Do you want to learn more about using the Law of Attraction to magnetize your desires? There is nothing more rewarding than watching your desires begin to manifest around you in your daily life. Beginning a daily magnetizing routine will assist you in bringing your desires into being more consistently.

Sunny gives us some timely tips with 7 steps to a clean, peaceful home for the holidays posted at Dandelions and Daydreams. One of the biggest hindrances to having people over is having a disorganized home. Here’s to an organized home for Christmas.

Akemi reveals I Love Myself!! and Four More Wishes posted at Gratitude Magic.

Happiness

Kalyn presents Learning to Let Go posted at LifeEdit.net.

Meredith Mathews presents Pain presents itself. posted at Lemonade Stand. Sometimes pain presents itself in our lives to remind us when to stop.

ISPF gives us 5 Reasons to Like Your Lazy, Annoying Colleagues posted at Grad Money Matters.

Carole Fogarty presents Nine sure signs the energy in your home is stressed: posted at THE HEALTHY LIVING LOUNGE.

Jeremy Neal presents Live a Little More Today posted at Thoughts on Quotes. By learning from both mistakes and successes, you will be a person who is always living a little more each day.

Personal Development

Louise Manning presents Two visionary men posted at The Human Imprint.

Jeanie Marshall presents Creative Dreaming is Life Breathing Itself Anew posted at JMviews Meditation and Empowerment. Creative Dreaming” is a wonderful phrase to capture a concept that is foundational to all manifestations in life. “Visualization” and “Visioning” and “Imagery” and “Imagination” and “Expectation” convey similar ideas. As important as it may be to choose an appropriate word or phrase, it is the idea underneath it that is more important.

Tupelo Kenyon presents Inspire Yourself on Purpose – Inspiration from Inside Out posted at Tupelo Kenyon. Here are twelve common sense reminders on how to inspire yourself.

Chris presents Here’s One Way To Eat Healthier Snacks posted at The Healthy Snacks Blog.

Craig Harper presents Craig Meets Lance Armstrong posted at Motivation - Renovate your life with Craig.

Alex Marlin presents Stress Is Rampant In Our Community posted at Life Improvement Tips For Thin and Small People.

GreatManagement presents How To Be An Effective Public Speaker posted at The GreatManagement Blog.

Personal Growth

Lorraine Cohen presents Powerfull Living » Gratitude: Finding the Gifts In The Experience posted at Powerfull Living. Things don’t always turn out thw way you expect or want. Approaching situations with an open heart and mind can bring wonderfull gifts and blessings when you are open to receive them.

Charles H. Green presents Americans, Travel and Rushing to Judgment posted at Trust Matters, saying, “My personal road to growth has been exposure to others. For me as an American, the benefit of international travel is enormous. Yet only something like 20% of us have a passport. Absurdly few of us speak another language—usually poorly at that.”

Toni presents My Ode to Dead Poets Society posted at Wifely Steps, saying, “This is my ode to my favorite movie of all time. It is highly inspirational and deeply moving. I saw it at the height of my teenage years so I could empathize with the battlecry “Carpe Diem!”"

Tezza presents Are You Willing To Pay The Price To Fulfill Your Dream posted at 4 Eva Young. There is a growing obsession towards the mindless accumulation of riches, fame and power. It’s a travesty that there are people who know more about the lives of celebrities then they do about those who are truly making a difference in the world.

Madeleine Begun Kane presents Ode To Unselfishness posted at Mad Kane’s Humor Blog.

Keyboard Culture Community, Lori Prokop Co-Founder presents Sales Training and Your Marriage—Humor Helps! posted at J Mark Walker - Sales Training.

Thanks to everyone who submitted articles. You are invited to submit your articles and inspirational stories to the next edition of the Personal Development and Happiness Carnival using our carnival submission form.

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