Personal Development & Happiness Carnival: Issue 22

Welcome to the 22nd 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

Craig Harper begins this week’s carnival with The Muffin-Top Pioneer. posted at Renovate your life with Craig, saying, “It’s the late seventies. I’m thirteen years old. I’m a tank. Gorgeous, but a tank.
I weigh the best part of 90 kilos (200lbs) and it’s school swimming sports day. Yippee. I’d rather hit myself in the head with a hammer, but here I am.”

Dr. Joe Capista asks Can You Really Achieve Total Success? posted at The Success Triangle. Have you ever thought about what Total Success would feel like? What would it look like? And what would you be like if you had Total Success? Ask ten people what success means and you will likely get ten answers. Some base success on the amount of money they can accumulate while others base success on other, less tangible criteria. Dr. Joe Capista shares insights into what needs to happen to achieve Total Success.

Tina Su presents 7 Hacks to Remember Any Name posted at Think Simple. Be Decisive..

CG Walters presents Walking on Water: Unlearning our limitations posted at Into the Mist, Walters states, “Sometimes the correction for a situation is not to do something more, but primarily to stop what we have being doing; rather than learning something new, relinquish limiting information that you have acquired along the way.”

Tupelo Kenyon presents How to Live the Life of Your Dreams Through Intuition posted at Tupelo Kenyon, saying, “Intuition feels good. That should be enough of a clue it’s something that can be trusted. But, our culture has done a thorough job of instilling doubt about the wisdom of following our instincts. Instead, we are taught to think things through and be logical. These mental tools are important, but they were never intended to be used instead of intuition.”

Lorraine Cohen provides Happiness Tip: Mining For The Gold posted at Powerfull Living, Cohen explains, “Within life’s challenges, there are blessings that can be found in each experience, if you are willing to look for AND own the gift.”

David B. Bohl continues the subject of happiness with Happiness: It?s What One Emphasizes That Counts posted at Slow Down Fast Today!, saying, “One of my favorite quotes is Carlos Castaneda’s: “The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.””

Andrea Hess presents How to turn regret into opportunity posted at Empowered Soul Blog. Regret is attachment to what could have been, obliterating completely all that is available right now.

Akemi presents How to Forgive Safely posted at Gratitude Magic.

Personal Development Articles

Cameron Schaefer presents Balance: The New Way to Make and Keep Your New Year’s Resolutions posted at Schaefer’s Blog, saying, “Last year about this time, my sage father-in-law showed me an incredibly simple, but effective way of making a list of goals, or resolutions, for the year and actually following through on them. This is the process.”

Roger tells us How To Have A Better Day posted at The Happy and Prosperous Blog, saying, “Try deliberately setting an intention to have a better day, every day.”

Mike Remer presents Wish Exercise wasn’t so Hard? My Path To Fitness Blog posted at My Path To Fitness Blog.

ananga presents On Goals & Resolutions: Progress with Kindness posted at Ananga Sivyer’s Living by Design Blog.

changeyourtree presents Listening Relationally: Six Priceless Tips for Healthy Communication posted at Change Your Tree, saying, “If you can learn to listen relationally, you will see an immense change take place between you and your spouse (or boss, friend, etc.). Here are six priceless tips for healthy communication.”

Bonnie Krueger presents How Does Abundance Thinking Help Get Rid Of Your Debt? posted at Student Loan Consolidation. Much of the stress and unhappiness of people’s lives is caused by negative thinking. There is a constant battle going on between negative and positive thoughts, and when there is some type of setback in your life, those negative thoughts can become rampant.

Lovelyn presents What Do You Really Want To Do With Your Life? posted at Where We Relax. There are many people who give way too much time to a job they don’t really like. I became aware of this in college.

Edith presents The Last Day of My Life posted at Edith Yeung.Com: Dream. Think. Act.. If today was the last day of your life, would you do what you are planning on doing today?

Dr Martin W. Russell presents Self Help For Sleeping Pills - The Campaign posted at Dr Martin W. Russell, saying, “How to take sleeping pills without getting caught on them - and how to help the world take less pills too!”

Wanda Grindstaff presents Adding Rocket Fuel to the Law of Attraction - Success with Major Goals posted at Creating Abundant Lifestyles.

Patricia Singleton presents Spiritual Journey of a Lightworker: What “Ifs” Are Holding You Back? posted at Spiritual Journey of a Lightworker, saying, “What excuses are you using to not fully live your life?”

Dominic Tay presents The Role of Personal Development in Business Entrepreneurship posted at Personal Development Blog for Winners, saying, “Diploma and certification can’t be the basis of your success. Consider that many people are educated in the world’s famous academes yet they remained unsuccessful in dealing with their personal success.”

Joshua C. Karlin presents How Should We Give? posted at Marketing & Fundraising Ideas.

Blaine presents Before you love someone, learn to love yourself posted at BlainePower.com, saying, “Often times people fail in life because their lack of self-love encourages them to do things unproductive, and potentially harmful to themselves. This article emphasizes self-love, which is the cure for depression and bad decisions.”

Madeleine Begun Kane presents Annoying Advice Poetry Prompt (Limerick and Haiku Prompt 1) posted at Mad Kane’s Humor Blog.

James DeLelys presents Look with your Heart! posted at Author James DeLelys.

James D. Brausch presents Five Gifts For Those Losing Weight posted at Weight Loss Dude, saying, “With the season of giving fast approaching, I wanted to share with you some ideas for those on your list who are currently trying to lose weight. Or maybe you know someone who has chosen to diet as a New Year’s Resolution. By the way, its perfectly acceptable to buy yourself the gifts you really want.”

Pie presents Facing Your Fears posted at Unforgettable Blog.

Jeremy Neal presents Character Distinguishes Good from Great posted at Thoughts on Quotes, saying, “People of high character earn the respect of others through consistency of action, commitment to excellence and faithfulness of trust.”

Niharika presents The Web Worker?s Stress Busting Toolbox: 50 Tips to Improve Your Life posted at Virtual Hosting.

SimoneM presents Why Three Isn’t Always a Crowd in a Successful Relationship posted at Outfit Inspirations, saying, “Keeping the “3 Rs” as the foundation of our relationship allows for a solid and balanced platform upon which all three entities can grow and prosper in harmony.”

Sagar rounds-out our carnival with How to: Turn Your Desk Into a Productivity Zone posted at Bootstrapper.

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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