Personal Development Carnival: Issue 30

Welcome to the 30th 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

Todd Goldfarb presents 4 Pillars of Effective Personal Growth posted at We The Change. In this article I will cover a very simple framework for your personal development. I call it the 4 Pillars of Effective Personal Growth, and you can use this as a general guide as you awaken to greater realities.

Louise Manning presents Maternal skills posted at The Human Imprint. Being a mother has helped me to develop many social skills which I often draw upon in the workplace.

Roger presents Listening To Your Intuition posted at The Happy and Prosperous Blog. How do you allow your intuition to speak ? This is what I am doing at the moment.

Lexi Sundell presents Mastery Over the Four Levels of Intention posted at Energies of CreationThis article reveals how to work with the four levels of intention if the original intention is not manifesting.

CG Walters presents Alone in My Reality? posted at Into the Mist. A core of my belief system is that no one I go to work with, visit with, or share this writing with is actually experiencing the same world/reality that I am. When focused on our human experience, we are a completely unique in our perception.

Best of Personal Development

Edith presents How to Say No to Money posted at Edith Yeung.Com: Dream. Think. Act.. You know when you meet a perfect customer. He just loves what you do for him. He appreciates your work. He thanks you. It is such a joy when you work with someone who is sent from heaven. This perfect customer makes you feel good about what you do.

Alex Marlin presents 50 Personal Development Questions That Will Improve Your Life posted at Life Improvement Tips For Thin and Small People.

Warren Wong presents Why You Should Be Careful When Your Business Is Going Well posted at Personal Development for INTJs. Warren gives us some reasons to be cautious when your business has been doing really well.

Suzie Cheel presents There is a Fork In The Road: Which Path Will I Take? posted at The Abundance Highway. One morning walking on the beach I was fascinated how a tree branch thrown up by the tide was so beautifully positioned on the beach. For me, it was a fabulous image for a fork in the road. I knew then that one day I would find a saying or the words that would be just perfect to go with the picture. The simplicity of the fork, was balanced by the intricacy of the barnacles on the wood, reflecting life’s many complexities.

JC presents How To Use The Divide-And-Conquer Approach To Life posted at A Journey Of Dreams. I find that many people have big dreams and big aspirations but when it comes time for them to actually start working on it, they stand there confused and unsure about which direction to take. The most common complaint they have is that they don’t know where to start.

Gabriella Kortsch, Ph.D. presents Can You Forgive? posted at Psychology, Transformation & Freedom Papers. When your father walked out on you, your siblings, and your mother, your life changed drastically. Now, decades later, it still lives on in your mind, as you remember how difficult things were, and how - about 15 months after he left - you caught a glimpse of him one day on the street in the company of another woman, much younger and less stressed-looking than your mother, who had a baby in her arms. Your father had just hugged her and kissed the baby, and you felt such agony. You also felt rage. And you remember it to this day. How could you forget how he affected all your lives?

Jeniffer presents Quick Motivational Tip #13-Powerful Tools To Overcome Negativity posted at thethirtydayyear.com. Negative input can derail progress and what you can do to battle it now!”

Chief Family Officer presents My Lenten Resolution: Be Kinder posted at Chief Family Officer. At the end of this year’s Lenten season, I hope to be a little more relaxed, peaceful and happy, by practicing kindness and remembering that being right isn’t the most important thing.

Amanda Milne presents You Are Not a Quitter posted at Value For Your Life. This article is about having the courage to find and do what you love to earn a living.

Mark Fleming presents Respect Your Decisions posted at improvefast.net. To respect your decisions is a simple, powerful yet very under used quality of a person. It is a very rare person who fully respects all his or her decisions.

Carl Mills presents Daily Dose of Motivation: Master This One Thing - Shape Your Destiny !! posted at Daily Dose of MotivationGet help losing weight, getting fit, finances, relationships, goals, quit a bad habit, etc.

Tim Bridge presents 10 Tips to Be A Better Listener posted at PersonaDev. This article is a top 10 list of tips to become a better listener. One major problem with society today is the lack of the ability to listen. This article works toward changing that.

Shirley presents Don’t Stop Believing In Yourself. posted at Brighter Days for you and me!Don’t give up, and don’t give in. Keep your dreams alive. These tips are essential for adults who need to keep going in the face of failures, loss and problems in their lives. Life is unpredictable and full of twists and turns. Fear of the unknown often causes us to halt our progress just when we are on the pinnacle of success. Unlike children who are such joyous free spirits because they lack the cynicism that comes from many years of hard knocks and defeats, adults need to be reminded of their own inner strength and worth.

Brendan McPhillips presents How to Overcome Your Temptations posted at Brendan McPhillips. The three temptations represent the physical, emotional and mental temptations that all of us face everyday.

Dr Martin W. Russell presents The Strange Behavior Of Anorexia - Part 1 posted at Dr Martin W. RussellWhat might you learn from the “illness” of anorexia?

Nick Pagan presents Turn Beliefs Into Theories posted at Nick Pagan. Beliefs play a huge part in most people’s thinking processes but most people never question what a belief really is. As a result a lot of people are hampered in their problem solving and development through holding beliefs that prevent them from moving forward. This article explains the pitfalls of beliefs and how to turn things around for the better.

Life. Money. Development. presents Exercises for Keeping a Young Mind posted at Life. Money. Development.Neat collection of tips for achieving a young mind.

Frederic Patenaude presents 32 Seemingly Unimportant Things That DO Matter in Your Health posted at Frederic Patenaude Talks.

Ananga presents Have you De-cluttered Your Head Lately? posted at Ananga Sivyer’s Living by Design Blog. Some of my fellow bloggers have been writing lately on the subject of de-cluttering. De-cluttering cupboards, de-cluttering rooms, workplaces etc. And that got me thinking about another key area that really benefits from being free from clutter. The clutter in our heads. What are we tucking away in corners and lugging around with us that we don’t need anymore?

Toni presents 13 quotes that can lift your spirits posted at Happy Nest.

Shamelle presents The War Is Over; Man Understands Women posted at Enhance Life. “The great question that has never been answered and which I have not get been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is “What does a women want?” ~Sigmund Freud”

Astrid Lee presents Magnetizing a New reality for a New Year using Crystals & Gemstones posted at World Healing. With the Chinese New Year just past, it is a time to plan our future. The lunar new year is a most powerful time to crystallize change.

GreatManagement presents What I learnt From One Of The UK’s Best Selling Business Authors posted at The GreatManagement BlogThis idea is that you describe your future life in the present tense.

FitBuff presents Top 4 Aphrodisiac Foods for Women! posted at FitBuff.com’s Total Mind and Body Fitness Blog. Of course, if you’ve got your game together, you could use TV dinners and fruit roll-ups as female aphrodisiacs, but we all need a little help from time to time.

John Crenshaw presents The Biggest Scam Your Bank Gets Away With Everyday posted at Truthful Lending dot ComThis little known scam accounts for a huge portion of fees paid to banks every year and is going on right under your nose. The worst part is, it’s completely legal.

Semi-Charmed Wife presents Get Rid of Your Options posted at Semi-Charmed WifeIt’s good to have options–it feels great to have the freedom to change direction, to do different things, to take a new job. But what if having options is keeping us from achieving our goals?

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