Personal Development Carnival: Issue 27

Welcome to the 27th issue of the Personal Development 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

Patricia Singleton begins the Personal Development Carnival with Gratitude—A Life Saver posted at Spiritual Journey of a Lightworker. Gratitude brings to mind the miracles in my life. It reminds me of all of the wonderful people that love and support me.

FitBuff presents Power of the Mind - Much Stronger Than Your Biceps! posted at FitBuff.com’s Total Mind and Body Fitness Blog. The power of the mind is a truly remarkable phenomenon, but don’t let books like “The Secret” fool you into thinking it does everything for you. When you add in the ACTION, then amazing things will follow!

Peter S C presents Feel the Pain, Then Make the Change posted at I will change your life . com. The pain I describe is all too common. Across the world there are literally millions of parents, managers, service providers, labourers, professionals, and executives who are bored, frustrated, and unfulfilled.

Corinne Edwards presents WHEN YOUR HUSBAND HAS DIED - A Survival Guide posted at Personal Growth with Corinne Edwards. There are many books and articles about grieving that are not too helpful because they don’t discuss what the human issues are - just the spiritual. Here is a well earned practical article by a widow who has gone through it and come out the other side.

Lorraine Cohen presents What Makes You Fabulous, Lovable, Wonderfull?..? posted at Powerfull Living. Consider two questions that will inspire and motivate you to feel good about yourself to attract what you want.

CG Walters presents Ego as Spiritual Ally posted at Into the MistA common “suggestion/implied obligation” encountered in one’s spiritual study is to “overcome the ego.” As a tool to avoid misidentifying myself as only ego, it has often been suggested to me to consider “the watcher” that remains outside the psychodrama of any moment of my mind or life—a marker to bring my awareness to the true, higher self.

Tupelo Kenyon presents TupeloKenyon.com » How to Accelerate Manifestation posted at Tupelo Kenyon. Whenever a new desire or grand plan is born within us, the tendency is to share it with others. Every time we talk about it, the energy of the dream seems to deflate a little more, until it becomes merely a topic of idle chatter. Why is that? How can we add to the excitement and urgency of our dreams instead, and speed up their manifestation? (Enjoy soothing instrumental music as you read plus song selections with lyrics related to each article – all free.)

David B. Bohl presents Are You Living Consciously? posted at Slow Down Fast Today!. What did you do when you first woke up this morning? Taking this further, do you really think about what you’re going to do when you get out of bed, or do you hit the snooze, roll over, turn the alarm off the second time, get up, go down and make coffee, and continue on without thinking?

Best of Personal Development

Lifestyle Guru presents Should you quit your job? posted at Lifestyle-Guru.comDo you love your work? Or do you hate it? Is the time that you spend toiling away really worth it? The Lifestyle Guru shows you why quitting isn’t for losers and explains how to know when to break free from that which is holding you back from finding true happiness.

Patrick A. Sizemore presents Motivation - Make Mondays Sexy posted at College Information for Smart Students. From a young age we learn that Mondays are horrible because we have to return to work. It doesn’t have to be this way.

Jeanie Marshall presents What to Be or Feel, that is the Question posted at JMviews Meditation and EmpowermentYears ago I made a decision to be happy. It was one of the single most important decisions of my life. I consider this a “high level” or “broad” or “over-arching” decision. It was life changing. It was the type of decision that helps me to make the everyday decisions to choose something that makes me happy rather than something that makes me unhappy.

Samuel Bryson presents The Middle Way: posted at Total Wellbeing. Essentially “the middle way” is a theory of moderation and balance. It also known as the Buddhist practice of non-extremism.

Joshua Wagner presents Love and Fear posted at Total Possibility. We should take a moment every day to do maintainance on our relationships, both spiritual and social, because these relationships help to give us not only a context and identity, but the ability to love and overcome fear that might otherwise be holding us back.

Steve Nguyen presents Life Was Simpler Back Then posted at BeyondBehaviors.Com.

Frederic Patenaude presents Willpower is Overrated posted at Frederic Patenaude Talks. Establishing patterns of habit in our lives is mind over matter. The author provides tips to establishing goals whether person, life, health or diet regiment for long term benefit.

Wyatt Song presents Making the impossible possible - wyatt’s story posted at Ueverse - Creating possibilities. In this post Wyatt talks about his own personal story about turning dream into reality by smashing his false belief and limiting thoughts into pieces. A blog journaling someone’s personal experienced changed his way of thinking, he took action, made changes and then competed at national level… He’s latest change include quiting his corporate job and pursuing his dreams.

Rose Walbrugh presents The inflexible brain posted at FreeMyMind.Net. Never ever forget and realize as soon as possible, that the brain is NOT a flexible a thing. We are creatures of habit and have to learn to use this to our advantage.

Roger presents Breaking Away From The Corporate World Part 1 posted at The Happy and Prosperous Blog. This is an excerpt from my life story and tells of the time I decided to leave my job and the dream that helped me make the switch.

Warren Wong presents How To Gain An Edge In Business posted at Personal Development for INTJs. This post describes three things you can do to gain an edge in business naturally.

Gabriella Kortsch, Ph.D. presents Giving Birth To Yourself posted at Psychology, Transformation & Freedom Papers. Giving birth to yourself can happen at any age. You could be in your 70’s, you could be a teenager, you might be in your mid-thirties: it makes no difference, you can make this exhilarating change in your life at any time.

Rachel S Grover presents Student Comments: Fear them or Succeed thru Them posted at Personality Of Teaching. Teaching is truth medicated by personality. Learn to be an effective teacher by connecting with your students.

Alvaro Fernandez presents Looking inside the Brain: is my Brain Fit? posted at SharpBrains. How neuroimaging and the brain reserve theory support the value of education, lifelong learning and stimulating hobbies.

SimoneM presents The Art of Standing Up For Yourself When You Are a Natural-Born Sucker posted at Outfit Inspirations. It is remarkably easy to be a pushover, but despite the get-to-the-top, take-no-prisoners, win-at-all-costs mentality of many a boardroom - and playground - standing up for yourself does not have to translate into stepping on another.

Peter Joubert presents Life As A Journey posted at PeterJoubert.com. How to arrive at your purpose in life. What freedom do you have to make choices? Use the power of intention. Where to start if you want to redirect your journey. Take the basic action steps.

GWN Lifestyle presents What He Needs posted at GWN Lifestyle. What does your man need from you?

Dr Martin W. Russell presents Procrastination Case Study posted at Dr Martin W. Russell.

Akemi presents Abundance as Our Spiritual Birthright posted at Gratitude Magic.

Sarah presents The Girl’s Guide to Kicking Your Career into Gear posted at SARAHSPY.

John Wolfe presents Effortless Passionate Creativity posted at Season of Shadows Blog. The sheer act of creating from a place of effortlessness brings us into the close proximity of our full power. When we passionately create, without over thinking and managing, we become a conduit for the most positive aspects of Universal energy.

GreatManagement presents Great Successful People Extracts - Real Practical Tips posted at The GreatManagement Blog. Numerous tips from top successful individuals sharing ideas on being a new manager, building relationships, how to have a successful career, how to manage your boss, public speaking, job hunting, leaving college. And All profits are going to the Breast Cancer Care Charity.

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

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