Personal Development & Happiness Carnival: Issue 21

Welcome to the 21st 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!

Featured Writers

Steve Pavlina begins this week’s carnival with Career Transitions posted at Steve Pavlina’s Personal Development Blog, Pavlina states, “I’ve been in the fortunate position of watching a lot of people undergo career transitions during the past several years, myself included. I’ve noticed a very simple recurring pattern that I’d like to share with you.”

Albert Foong offers Psychology’s unique contribution to your Compassion and Self-Esteem posted at Urban Monk. One of the biggest myths about self-esteem: someone with high self-esteem feels themselves superior to others. But that is simply not true: you must have seen it for yourself. Those who feel superior to others hide a shame, a fear, of insecurity.

Lorraine Cohen presents Celebrating This Week?s Random Acts of Kindness posted at Powerfull Living, Cohen says, “There is great power is kindness. Love transforms people and brings out their best. Imagine how we could transform the world by deliberately being kind to people every day.”

David B. Bohl asks Are Smart and Spiritual Mutually Exclusive? posted at Slow Down Fast Today!, saying, “There sometimes seems to be a backlash in our culture against people who value their spiritual lives and try to improve their spiritual state. In effect, the idea seems to be that smart people aren’t spiritual; that people who are spiritual are somehow stupid enough to be “gulled” into believing something that obviously can’t be true.”

LifeBalanced provides Ten Step Guide to Setting New Year’s Resolutions posted at Life Balanced. With January 1st quickly approaching, this is a good time to start thinking about what you want to accomplish next year. What do you want your life to look like in 2008? What can you do to create happiness and abundance next year? This article is a ten step guide to help you set attainable New Year’s resolutions.

Goal Setting

Shamelle helps us with Staying Motivated When We Don’t Loose Weight, The Way We Want! posted at Enhance Life.

Sunny presents Advent Activities for Young Children posted at Observation and Principles. This article offers some suggestions for advent activities you can do with young children.

Mark Ashbridge presents So You Want To Be Rich! posted at First Home Based Business, saying, “Home Based Business Blog Based On The Principles Of The NEW Think And Grow Rich”

Matthew Paulson presents Creative Fundraising Ideas for Your Non-Profit posted at American Consumer News. As the economy slows down, many non-profits are having a harder time getting the donations they need to maintain their current levels of service. This article provides some very useful tips.

Happiness

GP presents Dont Worry? be Happy posted at Innside Montana-Your Home at the Range. This time of year when we’re supposed to be happy and making merry… we often find heck, we’re plum not. Most of us, like Chevy Chase, in National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, have unrealistically idealized the holidays.

Jirel asks the question How to start each day positively? posted at Positive and Successful Life Style tips, Jirel states, “As we know morning shows the day, whether we remain positive and happy throughout the day also depends on whether we are happy or not in the morning.”

Madeleine Begun Kane presents Misspent Youth? posted at Mad Kane’s Humor Blog.

Akemi presents How to Love your Imperfections posted at Gratitude Magic. We know the importance of self-love. It is indispensable to healthy happy life. The question is “How do I love myself when I am so imperfect!?”

Life

The Baglady presents How Much Money Do You Need To Change A Life? posted at xynny. The author provides five answers.

Carole Fogarty presents The one and only zen gift to give your children. posted at THE HEALTHY LIVING LOUNGE, saying, “what is the one observation in life that you know for sure will offer a helpful guiding path through any confusing, unsure or turbulent times to your children and carry them through to adulthood.”

Jeanie Marshall presents Easing the Beginner into Meditation posted at JMviews Meditation and Empowerment. Many people who have never meditated are often concerned about “doing it correctly.” Many teachers and programs are available to teach various processes. These can be extremely valuable when your inner guidance prompts you to them.

Personal Development

Tupelo Kenyon presents Consciously Programming Your Subconscious Mind Before Sleep posted at Tupelo Kenyon, Kenyon remarks, “We are all continuously feeding our minds with the words we read, the audio we hear, and the images we see on the screen. The ideas we expose our minds to immediately before going to sleep are powerful. They sink deep into our subconscious mind as we ease into the alpha state of consciousness, as part of the sleep cycle. Here, the subconscious mind reviews the ideas over and over, not because they are the most important, but simply because they were the most recent. For a life of excellence, you must be the proactive, deliberate, aware, and conscious gatekeeper and feed your mind on purpose. (Enjoy soothing instrumental music as you read plus songs with lyrics related to each article – all free.)”

Jose DeJesus MD presents How to Make Resume Cover Letters posted at Physician Entrepreneur.

Edith presents Eleven Lessons Learned from Starting My Own Business posted at Edith Yeung.Com: Dream. Think. Act..

Tom Haynes presents How do You Learn? posted at E-Motivate. The web is full of great resources for personal development, but have you ever slowed down a minute to find out how you actually learn?

Warren Wong presents Conversation Skills / Tips: How To Have A Good Conversation posted at Personal Development for INTJs, saying, “Tips to improve your conversation skills and help you have a good conversation!”

Aparna presents Common sense posted at Beauty and Personality Grooming, Aparna says, “We often make use of expressions “Why, I never thought of that! Why didn’t it occur to me?”, when a person having limited resources achieves something remarkable just by exercising his/her common sense. Common sense is the one attribute that will carry mankind through all complexities of life, more than anything else. Like a delicate plant, common sense needs to be nurtured well so that it bears fruits at all times.”

Ralph Jean-Paul provides ideas to Keep Your New Year’s Resolutions posted at Potential 2 Success, saying, “Start sticking to those New Year’s Resolutions by learning what resolutions really are, why resolutions don’t work and how to follow through on them.”

Anmol Mehta presents Stop the Madness of Self-Discipline posted at Mastery of Meditation, Enlightenment & Kundalini Yoga. This articles asks the question, “What is secret to a success life?”

Personal Growth

Richard Ingersoll presents The True Power of Prayer posted at Applying the Law of Attraction, Ingersoll states in the article, “Prayer is a staple of many religions. People speak to God or to higher powers or forces and ask for assistance. Prayer in this form still works, as many people will attest. But prayer in its purest form is nothing more than a focused visualization, utilizing the Law of Attraction to bring about healing, assistance, guidance, or to affirm gratitude. Let’s look at the ways in which we can use prayer to manifest our desires.”

Jeremy Neal presents See More Than You Want to See posted at Thoughts on Quotes, saying, “Anyone can gather facts to support a predetermined conclusion, but true personal growth comes from seeing things as they truly exist.”

Woody Maxim presents Do you lack focus? posted at Woody Maxim.

Relationships

changeyourtree presents Is Your Family Tree Being Poisoned? posted at Change Your Tree, the author says, “I have put together a top ten list of things that can poison your family tree. Even if you are from what you consider to be a normal family, I bet you will find the presence of at least a few of these things. Empower yourself and let this list help guide your change.”

Success

Alfa King presents Most valuable commenter posted at Alfa King Memories.

GreatManagement presents Having A Great Career Means You Have To Have Passion posted at The GreatManagement Blog. Andrew Rondeau, the author, asks, “Do you wake up on Monday morning and dread going into work? Are you constantly watching the clock all day waiting till you can go home? Can you not wait until Friday comes around? If this is the case, you most probably hate your job and have no passion for it.”

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