Personal Development Carnival: Issue 34

“When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I’m afraid.” – Audre Lorde

Welcome to the 34th 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. Here’s to finishing strong in life.

Hidden Anger: How Your Journal Can Help You Let off Steam in a Healthy Way
by Ananga

Anger sounds like an upfront and obvious emotion and it can be when it erupts and everyone around you gets to feel the heat, but anger can also burn you from the inside, and it can happen beneath your level of conscious awareness. This unhealthy simmering anger can seriously affect your health and the quality of your life if you leave it bubbling beneath the surface. more>>

The Art of Giving What You Don’t Have
by Albert Fong

What if we were to discover something very strange – what if we discovered that all our giving, our kindness and charity, had come from a place of lack and misunderstanding?

The time of giving and love is upon us, and it’s natural for the world to be buzzing about the beauty of giving. But this post is a little different. It’s about giving, yes, but not just the common misunderstanding. more>>

The Simple Life
by Tina Su

As we become wealthier, people seem to be adding more and more things to our homes. We then use our homes, and our treasures, to justify that we have won the game of life. Growing up in a family of pack-rats, I spent many years in my teens and early twenties accumulating stuff. During this time, much of my self-worth was unconsciously associated with the amount of stuff I owned. Not only did I not find myself in all this, I’ve also accumulated a lot of clutter in my living space and my inner space. Ironically, the piles of stuff actually held me back from understanding and inner peace with myself. more>>

Don’t Limit Your Growth by SMART Goals
by Akemi Gaines

I’ve lived in the corporate world many years, where the SMART goal setting is used in performance review. It was full of hypocrisy, but that’s just the corporate world, I thought. At finding out this approach used for personal development, however, I feel obligated to write how it can belittle you and fail you to achieve your big dream – like finding joy and passion in your own business. more>>

Connect Your Dots
by Al Betz

I’d like to tell you about my mentor. Eleanor Ross grew up in Maine and for many years operated a 17-room guest house on a beach somewhere in New England. She was a hard working, no nonsense single mother of three girls when I met her. She was the official reporter to a United States District Court Judge in Maryland.

At that time Eleanor lived in Baltimore City and her daughters attended schools in the city. After school, the girls reported to Eleanor’s office where they did their homework and then helped Eleanor by binding transcripts and packaging them for delivery. more>>

Why Won’t The Law of Attraction Work For Me?
by Gary Evans

If you’ve tried using the Law of Attraction and have failed to manifest what you want, then rest assured that you are not alone. Many thousands of people have given up far too quickly once they’ve decided that it doesn’t work for them.

But why doesn’t it work for them? And why doesn’t it work for you? more>>

“What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Who is Your Greatest Ethical or Moral Role Model?
by CG Walters

Who is your greatest ethical or moral role model? Is it someone famous, living today or from the past?

For me, it is the unknown, unnoticed divine individual who gives openly, limitlessly, happily without desire to be seen, thanked, or acknowledged—without ever imagining they should be seen or acknowledged! more>>

Great Friends
by Stephen Martile

I think deep down everyone has a burning desire to be great. They want to be the best plumber, the best carpenter, the best mechanic, the best engineer, the best lawyer. They want to be the best dad, the best mom, the best uncle, the best cousin and the best friend.

They simply want to be the best - they want to be great. It’s human nature to want more for ourselves and to want more for others. We simply want to be great. more>>

How to Get a Life
by Brad Bollenbach

Positive relationships are the foundation of an interesting life. Regular readers of my blog know that I advocate talking to strangers as a fantastic way of shaking up reality. But that’s not the whole story. If your interactional energy is misspent, you can end up in a repetitive cycle of drive-by friendships, random sexual adventures that are as fun as they are meaningless, and a general sense of wondering why you seem to always end up back where you started. more>>

Are You Compromising Yourself?
by Edith Yeung

I read Seth’s blog today about a hobby shop and how slowly it has compromised its own marketing strategy without even realizing it. What he said about the shop made me think about people and my own strategy of life.

Every day, you wake up in the morning and it is so easy to be average and to follow what everyone else does, i.e. go to Starbucks, shop at Prada, listen to Britney Spears, etc. more>>

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