Personal Development Carnival: Issue 28

Welcome to the 28th 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

Karen Shanley begins this week’s carnival with a beautiful story about a timed shared between a mother and a daughter called The Steering Wheel posted at Karen Shanley.

Cameron Schaefer presents Top 5 Reasons for Marital Conflict posted at Schaefer’s Blog. One of the keys to marital success is adopting a view that conflict is good! Conflict always presents an opportunity for couples to work through issues and come out stronger on the other end.

David B. Bohl presents Everyday Creativity and Personal Growth posted at Slow Down Fast Today!. If you don’t think of yourself as creative, I think you’re missing a great opportunity to grow as a person - to become who you really are and who you want to be.

Peter S C presents Living Consciously: 10 Things I Have Learned About Myself posted at I will change your life . com. Anyone who read my article 50 Tips From My Year of Change will realize that 2007 was a big year for me. When I think about it, all those “tips” really point to one thing: I have become increasingly conscious as to how I am living my life.

Lexi Sundell presents Adventures with the Creative Muse Part Three posted at Energies of Creation. This is part three in the saga of how creative forces shape the major changes my life.

Sagar presents 17 Ways to Stop Being a Perfectionist and Get More Done posted at Bootstrapper. Focusing on making every detail perfect can end up making you get less done, not to mention leave you in a constant state of anxiety. These are a few ways you can stop worrying so much about being perfect, enjoy your work, and still get plenty done in a day.

Al presents Awaken the Giant Procrastinator Within! posted at 7P Productions. When you’re not feeling productive for a task, you could try to psych yourself up or try to use sheer willpower. I’m here to tell you that there is another productive option… procrastinate!

Best of Personal Development

FitBuff presents Power of the Mind - Much Stronger Than Your Biceps! posted at FitBuff.com’s Total Mind and Body Fitness Blog. If you’re a longtime FitBuff reader, you may remember I’ve personally experienced the power of mind over muscle in one of my workouts when I lifted 50 pounds with my mind!

CG Walters presents A Spiritual Teacher IS….. posted at Into the Mist. It is not the teacher before you that manifests what you perceive as an awakening, but the awakening within you that manifests what you perceive as a teacher.

DotLobby presents Neurolinguistic Programming 101 - Rediscover Yourself! posted at DotNLP. Neuro, meaning mind and linguistic, meaning language, combine to make NLP one of the most powerful techniques to change the way you see yourself and your world.

DandelionBlog presents A Small Treatise on Happiness posted at Author Suzanne McMinn.

Gabriella Kortsch, Ph.D. presents The Greatest Quality in Life posted at Psychology, Transformation & Freedom Papers. You take decisions often every day, don’t you? Some are easy, some less so, but you know all about taking decisions, and then sticking to them. Imagine taking a decision one day to be happy.

Alvaro Fernandez presents Mindfulness and Meditation in Schools for Stress and Anxiety Management posted at SharpBrains. Several recent news pieces have reported on an emerging trend: schools using techniques such as yoga and meditation to help students manage anxiety and stress. To better understand what is going on, we are pleased to bring you this article thanks to our collaboration with Greater Good Magazine.

SD presents Finding Balance In Your Life posted at 1 Little Thing. What comes to your mind when you think of a balanced life? What areas would you like to bring more balance to? What images come to mind when you say balance?

R.Pettinger presents Could You do This? posted at Sri Chinmoy Inspiration. To make self development we need to ask ourselves certain questions to help get out of our comfort zone. These challenges are not easy, but they can also help our personal development.

Louise Manning presents The passing of Gordon B Hinckley posted at The Human Imprint. A post of positiveness and wisdom.

Shamelle presents If You Want To Be Understood……. posted at Enhance Life. People go to extreme lengths…. in order to be understood. In my opinion, there is one main factor that determines it all. Are you aware of it?

Warren Wong presents Why Compounding Returns Isn?t That Important posted at Personal Development for INTJs. Here are some reasons why compounding returns is less important than it seems.

werelax presents Your Effort Is Good Enough posted at Where We Relax. We often bring ourselves down by thinking our daily efforts are not good enough. But, we actually get done more done in a day than we think we do.

Dorian Wales presents Building Character Through Long Distance Running posted at Personal Financier.

Silveral presents The Secret of Celebrity Success Celebrity News, and Gossip posted at Celebrity News, and Gossip.

John W. Furst presents Performance Boost Under Pressure posted at E-Biz Booster BlogNormally, pressure from someone else keeps people ticking. But what can you do, if you are your own boss?

Phil B. presents Bloggers Love Giving Advice « Phil for Humanity posted at Phil for Humanity. The Internet, specifically bloggers, has started replacing self help books and television shows, just how the Internet is replacing traditional news media.

Edith presents Are You a Risk Taker? posted at Edith Yeung.Com: Dream. Think. Act.. This story provides one answer to the question.

Frederic Patenaude presents 24-Hour Special for Lightning Speed Fitness Program posted at Frederic Patenaude Talks. No more fancy equipment or expensive gym memberships….for the average “joe” who wants to stay in decent shape, these exercises help you to use your own body weight to achieve fitness. The exercises can be done anytime, anywhere, within roughly 15-20 minutes. Convenient and efffective!

Andrew Michaels presents Prove Me Wrong, I Beg You. posted at Lifecrafting. It is this authors fervent hope that someone out there will trounce his ideas.

Donovan Snelleman presents 3 Steps to Improve your Marriage posted at ImprovedLife.ca. Improve your connection with your spouse and rekindle the love that has gone dormant.

Ted Reimers presents 10 Ways to Save on Valentines Day posted at CampusGrottoEveryone wants to show their loved one how much they care, but you don’t always need to empty your wallet to do so. Start planning early this year, and take a look at these 10 ways to save money while still scoring points with your sweetie on Valentine’s Day.

Dr. Joe Capista presents What can a dentist teach me about business, life and success? posted at The Success Triangle. Building a successful business takes more than a business or marketing plan. It takes effective and efficient systems. The daily challenges of running a business can be overwhelming without appropriate systems in place; systems that allow you to create a life of Total Success. Building a successful business also means having success in your personal life. The kind of success many people want and few achieve. Learn proven insights from a wildly successful dentist who understands the relationship between one’s personal and professional life to create Total Success.

Rich Vosler presents Finding the lesson in your struggle posted at Sales Training Tips. We all think our life would be different if “we could get out of this place.” The point is we can! We can do whatever we want to do! The only thing holding us back is our limiting beliefs in ourselves.

Andrew presents 9 Smart Perseverance Tips posted at Personal Hack. Perseverance, or persistent determination, is a common personal development topic, and therefore I will not be discussing perseverance in it’s traditional sense. What I will be discussing is smart perseverance.

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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