Personal Development & Happiness Carnival: Issue 26

Welcome to the 26th 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!

Albert Foong begins this week’s carnival with The life that has gone on before: The Perils of Compassion, Part 2 posted at Urban Monk. Understanding is one of the foundations towards a soft heart; and understanding comes from having trodden the exact same path, having cried the same tears and shouted in the same joy. Is there a better way – no, is there even another way – to find this understanding?

Goal Setting

Hueina Su presents Take Action Monday Challenge posted at Intensive Care for the Nurturer’s Soul. The campaign designates each and every Monday as a call to action – a day for healthy behaviors, for example, to choose healthy foods, exercise, drink more water, get enough sleep. Each Monday brings a new opportunity to make healthier lifestyle choices toward your health and fitness goals.

Joshua Wagner presents Getting Your Ducks in a Row posted at Total Possibility. There is a lot of ways to try and cage the “ducks” rather than keeping them in line- but the catch in our lives is that not only do we have to keep our ducks in a row, we also have to do it in freedom- not by some artificial means.

Colette Ellis presents A String of Pearls for 2008 posted at Discover Your Competent Advantage. So, while your resolution may be to lose 25 pounds or get a new job in a given timeframe. A small, successful behavior change may be to replace your 4:00 pm candy bar with raisins or nuts.

GreatManagement presents How to make 2008 great… posted at The GreatManagement Blog. So how are the first few weeks of 2008 going for you? Here are 5 ways you can make things better in 2008:

Rich Vosler presents The Power of a Smile posted at Sales Training Tips. How a simple technique that everyone can do can contribute to your happiness on a daily basis.

Life

Akemi presents How I Have Found What I Love to Do and Meant to Do, and How You Can Too posted at Gratitude Magic. In ”How to Get Rich and Happy,” I maintained the importance of exploring yourself first. You have heard it – “Do what you love” “Be true to yourself” “Dharma” “the purpose of your life.”

Madeleine Begun Kane presents Vive La (Brain) Différence! posted at Mad Kane’s Humor Blog. In her book, the Columbia professor explores the chemistry of male and female brains - and, using up-to-the-minute medical research, reinforces some cherished “Men Are From Mars” stereotypes.

JC presents 10 Things I Do To Make More Time posted at A Journey Of Dreams. Here is a list of 10 things I do to make more time during the day. Some of these things are no-brainers while others are more suited for me and may not necessarily work for you.

Chris presents Don’t Snooze In Your Cubicle: Here Are Four Ways To Snack For Higher Energy posted at The Healthy Snacks Blog. It’s mid-January and the days are getting shorter and colder. While some people are invigorated by the brisk weather, others (like me) are ready for hibernation, until the sun comes out again in spring.

Personal Development

CG Walters presents Find Your Center: Personal Preferences posted at Into the Mist. Over time, I have put together a collection, a practice that helps me be healthier, happier, and generally a better person than I would otherwise be. I gladly share my history and centering activities, but must say that though some of these very same activities may be of great help to you, there is no inherent value in any of them, except that they are “the right key for my lock.

Jennifer Mannion presents Are you Listening to Your Self-Talk? posted at Heal Pain Naturally. I have written about self-talk a bunch of times because it was such an integral part of me healing myself. I was on auto-pilot for YEARS and just moving through my days without really listening to what my mind was saying.

Peter S C presents What Are You Doing That’s Different? posted at I will change your life . com. So then, my question for today is: what are you doing that’s different from the majority of people that has you on the path to success?

TerryM presents Marathon Day posted at The Chocolate Chip Cookie FamilyLast weekend I ran a half marathon. If I can do it, so can you. I blogged my journey to race day hoping to inspire others.

Han Xin presents Mind Power: Life is a Mind Game - Learn How to Play it Well posted at Mind Power Hacks: Tap The Subconscious Mind Power. It is normal to feel emotionally low sometimes, especially during difficult and trying moments. To dwell in that condition, however, even when the storm has faded away, is unreasonable.

Warren Wong presents How To Learn To Make A Good Investment posted at Personal Development for INTJsThis article describes the most effective method for learning to invest well.

James presents How to Take Control of Your Life posted at Mind Power Hacks: Tap The Subconscious Mind Power. The title of this article contains a misnomer (albeit an intentional one), and that is the word: control. For the key to taking (or taking back) control over your life is to release control and instead direct the course of your life.

Alex Marlin presents What Would It Feel Like To Be Rich posted at Life Improvement Tips For Thin and Small People.

Ben presents How to Connect to Your Higher Self posted at The Beautiful Ego. If you’re like me and you’ve probably heard about your Higher Self. Its that part of You that guides you to connecting to your wants and desires. But what is it really?

Personal Growth

Stephen Martile presents How To Change Your Beliefs With Praxis posted at Stephen Martile. In this post I talk about awareness and the process I have used to uncover hidden beliefs. It’s the first in my series of posts on How to Change Your Beliefs with Praxis.

Carole Fogarty presents Easily delete obstacles and welcome a rush of amazing new opportunities: posted at THE HEALTHY LIVING LOUNGE.

Samuel Bryson presents Discipline Vs. Desire – Is Discipline Really Such an Omnipotent Virtue? posted at Total Wellbeing. Most things in our life require balance. It’s a strange fact that is seemingly always the case.

James presents Stop Approaching Law of Attraction with a “Blab it and grab it” Mentality posted at Mind Power Hacks: Tap The Subconscious Mind Power.

David B. Bohl presents Conflicting Desires: Knowing That We Have Enough vs. Always Wanting to Better Ourselves posted at Slow Down Fast Today!. From a very early age most of us are taught that we should always work towards bettering ourselves – through education, through our careers and through our family.

Richard Ingersoll presents Deliberate Manifestation posted at Applying the Law of Attraction. The Law of Attraction teaches that everything in our lives, from the good to the bad, has been attracted to us by our own thoughts and feelings. We often hate to hear this, and may remain in denial. After all, most people do not wish to admit that all of the unpleasantries in their lives were self-created. Unfortunately for them, it is so. Fortunately for all of us, we can change the course of our lives quickly by deliberately manifesting the conditions for the ideal life we dream of.

Relationships

Cameron Schaefer presents Say What You Need posted at Schaefer’s Blog. In my effort to share with my readers lessons in skilled living, I give you this piece of advice that has truly transformed the way both my wife and I think about our relationship: say what you need.

FitBuff presents How to Eat Less - While Having Sex! posted at FitBuff.com’s Total Mind and Body Fitness Blog. Speaking of Buffalo, there’s actually research to back my crazy “how to eat less” dinner date suggestion…

Success

Carol Bentley presents I hereby give you permission to. . . posted at Carol Bentley.

Adrian presents How to Successfully Advertise Your Blog posted at Path to Your Destiny. I’m going to go out on the metaphoric limb and take a wild guess that if you’re a blogger, you’re often concerned with the traffic you’re getting.

Jeanie Marshall presents Moving Forward with Enriching Questions posted at JMviews Meditation and Empowerment. When people are focused on why something happened, they often miss the real understanding of the process of creating the experiences that are happening to them. A question beginning with “Why” can certainly be empowering, but more often it is not; more often it yields an answer that re-creates precisely what people do not want.

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