Personal Development Magic…

Good health practice is integral to personal development

This blog article is not intended as medical advice – I’m not a medical doctor and have no medical qualifications or training apart from some first aid.
Worthwhile personal development includes balance. We need to be in harmony with the true and real laws of life. These laws can at times be hidden. At other times [...]

The best mouse mats in the world – Flipmat

My new mouse mats have arrived.
Regular readers of my blog may recall this article I wrote earlier this year:
Why a mouse mat is a good business promotion tool – if you get the right one.
In my view, Flipmats are the best mousemat around (try finding any better). Besides being technologically advanced and useful, they are [...]

Psychological profiling via Twitter

It had to happen!
Now you can run psychological profile checks on Twitter.
I find this type of stuff fascinating and have completed studies/training in psychological profiling (including courtesy of the FBI) as part of my career as Private Detective.
Twitter psychological profiling is of course very different in many ways to what I studied, but interesting nonetheless.
Here are the links:
Psychological profiling via Twitter
http://tweetpsych.com
Put [...]

XSitePro makes building websites feel like blogging. Easy

This afternoon I am enjoying using XSitePro, my website builder software, to develop my Personal Development Magic website.
XSitePro makes stuff so easy and I found myself thinking that it is just like Wordpress. Easy to use, slick and full of key functionality.
Another thing I like about XSitePro is that because it is so easy to [...]

Are you a study cheat? And who are you really cheating?

Cheating on exams and other forms of study has been around the generations. Today it is becoming even easier to cheat us this article illustrates:
Teens turn to the net, mobiles to pass tests
The article covers a number of interesting points on the subject of cheating. Of particular note is:
“Only half of the students surveyed considered [...]

What is your direction?

I have recently written a guest post on the Life Experiment blog which is run by Daniel Faggella, a student at the University of Rhode Island studying Kinesiology, though most of his current work is more related to Psychology and Philosophy.
What is your direction?
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What masterpiece, or crap, are you creating?

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
John Ruskin
The above quote is so profound and exciting.
Thinking about it can provoke many questions…

Can I tick the boxes? Am I working on something which I love? Do I have skill at what I am doing?
Do I pretend to like what I am doing?
Do I con people about the quality [...]

A Heart which Heals – emotional healing

Physical injuries are readily noticed by people. Moreover, a cut, a broken bone, or a bruise can easily be treated by doctors. Physical wounds can be seen, and the remedies are fairly straightforward and uncomplicated. Emotional injuries, on the other hand, tend to run much deeper. They hide in our subconscious and can generally stay [...]

Are you stagnating? Well, are you?

“Only those who constantly retool themselves stand a chance of staying employed in the years ahead.”
Tom Peters – Author
Whether we like it or not, the world is changing, and at an increasing rate too.
We need to embrace change, savor it and look for it.
Personally, I am riding the bleeding edge of the wave and certainly [...]

Woe is me! Pity party anyone?

When times are tough, as with the current economic recession, it is often easy to give in to depression and constantly moan about the woes of life. There are so many worries to constantly think and moan about: bills to pay, family to care for, and so on. The problems never end. The fact is, [...]

Enhancing Your Conversation Skills

You meet people along life’s way, people you have very little in common with. Somehow, you find yourself occupying the same room, and then you’re forced to acknowledge that person. Making simple conversation can be very difficult for some. In fact, small talk doesn’t really amount to much, especially if it’s forced. I remember well the [...]

Courage and Resilience

Courage can be defined as the ability to face fears with our heads held high. It is not the absence of fear which defines bravery. In fact, people experience fear everyday, and sometimes are even paralyzed by it. We are allowed to feel emotions such as fear. In fact, we should! Otherwise, we wouldn’t be human if we [...]

Useful quick translations in many languages

Here is an impressive resource with useful foreign phrases.
It is a collection of phrases in many different languages with sound files for some of them, which is very easy to use. Find what you need fast.
I am impressed by the design, the relevancy of the information, the out bound links and the way the contents are all [...]

Blogging Tips 2

Welcome to Blogging Tips 2, the second in my series on Blogging.
The first post is here:
Blogging Tips 1 – (includes what torn stockings & blogs have in common).
Today I will be telling you how you can buy your own domain name for around $10 USD per year and US web hosting for a few dollars [...]

Recession is not bad! Be careful who you listen to and what you think.

Many years ago I recall listening to an astute businessman who, during an official recession in the UK, had the attitude of ‘What recession?’
The guy was not in denial, he simply refused to join the recession bandwagon and let it pollute his thoughts. Yes, pollute his thoughts.
Sir Richard Branson, a billionaire and one of the [...]

Subscribing to blogs – tips & personal experience.

Just recently I have had some problems with the Feedburner/Google service I was using for managing subscriptions to my blog, via both e-mail and RSS reader.
As a result, I have now moved to FeedBlitz. To make things even easier for subscribers, I have also added a new RSS subscribe box/button in the right-hand sidebar of [...]

The Need for Self-Confidence

We all have hidden fears that we don’t always want to share with friends or family. These fears often leave us paralyzed. When the need to overcome these fears is required, we often choose to take the easy way out: hide and run for cover.
In order to succeed in life, we first have to believe [...]

Will Social Media and The Internet Kill the University System?

The title of this post comes from a very thought provoking article:
Will Social Media and The Internet Kill the University System?
The post comes from the Microgeist blog which provides social media resources, tips and commentary on the mood/spirit of microspace. I have added the blog to my RSS reader.
You can follow the author on Twitter [...]

A better appearance can earn you more money

Here is an interesting article which claims that waitresses can earn 25% more tips with strategically applied make-up.
What every waitress should know if they want to up their tips by 25 per cent…
Regardless of one’s views as to whether or not this should be the case; it seems that the ‘natural flow of life’ dictates [...]