Brighter Self Improvement

People with pessimistic attitudes go through their lives fighting their thoughts and emotions every day. If they are rejected for a job position, they feel that they are not good enough to have any job. They start to think that everyone believes they are stupid, and the cycle of pessimism traps them into psychological immobility. [...]

“Your purpose explains what you are doing with your life. Your vision explains how you are living your purpose. Your goals enable you to realize your vision.” Bob Proctor The relationship between purpose and vision affects whether or not we reach our goals. Each one of us has a purpose that is distinctly ours. The [...]

You are thinking about starting your own home based business and you are not alone. There are tens of thousands of people all over the world that start their own business every year. Out of these people, there is a small group that is very successful, and then a large group that never lives up [...]

Anger is a completely normal, usually healthy, human emotion. We all know how it feels; sometimes we experience it as a fleeting annoyance, other times as overwhelming fury. One thing is certain: When it gets away from us and turns destructive, we are instantly at high risk for crises; crises at work, in our intimate [...]

How would your life change if you had your ideal income? Would you travel the world? Perhaps you would live in a spacious house appointed with all the finest furnishings? Or maybe you are content to live a humble but comfortable life, with enough money to afford and enjoy “just enough” of those things you [...]

Simplifying your life is not about launching a complicated system of decluttering and organizing. Simplifying your life is about changing your perspective from one of scarcity to one of abundance. To simplify your life is to be grateful for all the things in your life. Many times, those things are not physical possessions. The abundance [...]

Decking the halls and spreading good cheer can be stressful. Here are some tips to make sure you enjoy every last fa la la. 1. Stay Centered. An energized and peaceful holiday season is possible only when you can keep your priorities straight. Take a pen and paper and ask yourself: What do you value, [...]

Whether you have a high stress job such as an airline pilot and have to sit in one cramped place for long hours at a time or you are the worn out mother of a toddler on the run from morning till night, you can feel like your nerves are shot to pieces. You probably [...]

The goal of anger management is to keep you, your family and others safe-emotionally and physically. When anger is not managed, but only blurted or acted-out, your emotional feelings are commandeered by the physiological arousal caused by the huge spikes in adrenalin, cortisol and other stress-inducing chemicals that take place. These substances make you want [...]

The word stress derives from the Latin word stringere meaning to draw tight and anyone who has ever been stressed will understand that feeling of being stretched beyond what is normally comfortable. The Stress Management Society defines stress as what happens when the demands made on a person exceed the abilities of that person to [...]

GOD, grant me the Serenity to accept the things I cannot change, Courage to change the things I can, and Wisdom to know the difference. The Serenity Prayer In software and technology implementation projects, there needs to be something called “Change Control”. And why is this needed? No matter how thorough the business analysis job [...]

You are a one-of-a-kind person with extraordinary design and potential! Within you resides amazing energy, an intuitive ability to make the wisest decisions, and the creative power to accomplish the deepest desires of your heart. I’m not just trying to make you feel good about yourself; I actually know that to be true. As more [...]

Does this ever happen to you? Do you feel overworked? Overwhelmed? Overtired? Most of us are busier than ever: We’re doing our jobs plus sometimes the jobs of one or two gone-but-not-replaced colleagues and doing it all with less support. ‘Do more with less’is the unforgiving mantra of business in industry today. Make more decisions, [...]

Yes you read that right. New Year’s resolutions are for losers! I am sure by now many people are asking each other what their resolutions are for next year. What a joke. Resolutions are made only because of peer pressure. Wanting to be thought of as one of the gang, we all have fallen for [...]

EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques) is an energy psychology that uses tapping on the meridian points to stimulate flow in the body’s energy field, resulting in the removal of negative emotional blockages that can lead to psycho-physical illness. One can say that EFT is like acupuncture only without the needles. This article uses EFT metaphorically to [...]

Counseling or psychotherapy is a form of treatment that can help you understand and resolve problems, modify your behavior for the better and make positive changes. There are several types of psychotherapy or counseling techniques and they use different approaches, techniques and interventions. At times, a combination of different counseling approaches may be helpful, while, [...]

Successful people make habits of certain things. Things they do unconsciously. Generally they don’t think too much about “being successful”. They are too busy doing the things that make them successful. If you study these habits and attributes, and make them part of your daily life, and learn what habits to avoid you can duplicate [...]

We are certainly creatures of habit and when we first seek to find new pastures we are excited by the prospect, full of energy to fulfil our dreams and inspired by our new magic formula for success. How many of us have books, CDs, DVDs, home study courses, and seminar tickets piled high in the [...]

Setting personal goals is necessary thing to do to achieve your desires. The problem is that many people struggle to achieve their goals. Why? First reason why people can’t achieve their personal goals is that they have a dusty image of what their goals are. The second one is that they don’t act on it… [...]