Personal Growth: Is the Self-help Industry a Fraud?
Change. Whether you call it self-help, personal transformation, growth, or just plain change, it is a goal to which virtually everyone aspires. Gaining self-esteem, losing weight, improving relationships, achieving success, getting rich, or finding happiness are just a few of the ways in which people the world over want to alter their lives. Our ability […]
Read MorePersonal Growth: Rhonda Byrne Proves There’s a Sucker Born Every Minute
There would be more than 19,000,000 and counting of those minutes given that is the number of copies of The Secret that have been sold to date. And that doesn’t include collateral minutes born of purchases of her CDs, DVDs, wall calendars, key rings, and assorted other inspirational tchotchkes available for sale. Plus, her new […]
Read MorePersonal Growth: Will a New House Bring You Happiness?
I was having a conversation with a friend recently about happiness. Our conversation began with her asking me if I thought that buying a new house would make her happier (she asked this question only half facetiously). My initial reaction was that a house can’t bring happiness. In fact, a robust finding of the growing […]
Read MorePersonal Growth: Gratitude: “Get What You Get and Don’t Get Upset”
I first heard this post’s title phrase the other day at snack time from one of my daughters. Our youngest, who is almost three years old, wasn’t happy with the size of her portion of snacks and let my wife and I know of her displeasure in no uncertain terms: “More, more, more!” at a […]
Read MorePersonal Growth: New Year’s Resolutions: Why They Don’t Stick
Ah, a new year, a new chance to start fresh, another opportunity to make to New Year’s resolutions, and, sadly, another year of likely failed New Year’s resolutions. We want those resolutions to last, we ?really do, but we ?just can’t make them stick. Well, we’re not alone. Research has shown that, after six months, […]
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