Last night I was talking with someone about self-improvement and the difficulties of choosing the right path. Somewhere in the conversation he used the quote “For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.” (Ecclesiastes 1:18). I got an instant negative feeling about that statement.…
It probably sounded horrible for me to say that trying to fix other people is a waste of time when you start improving yourself, but really, it’s an important lesson, and not as harsh as it sounds. If you’re still broken, no matter how many revelations you have, you’re really…
In my last post for this series I wrote about the feeling of helplessness. A lot of that period of time in my life is kind of a blur, but I do remember one of the next things I tried to do to make my life better, and unfortunately, how…
I keep going back and doing pieces for the Beautiful Like You Project, because it’s so important to me that people understand that they need to love themselves as they are. It’s not just about looks either. Yes, you should love how you look, but you should also love who…
Think about these terms for a moment: Self Help. Self Improvement. Personal Growth Training. Don’t just read the words, think about them. Pay attention to those words “self” and “personal”. Do you get where I’m going with this? No? Well, let me explain. The reason that most people don’t get…
Even though society has taught us that we need to shape everything we do so that we please as many people around us as possible, that’s not actually the way we should be living our lives. There are always going to be people who don’t like you or what you’re…
Many people are skeptical of ideas like The Secret and The Law of Attraction because we’re not yet living in the Utopian world that we dream of. Because we don’t have it yet, people believe that it will never happen. The truth is that it absolutely can happen, there just…
Over the years since I started becoming a new person, I found that one thing is true of almost everyone who wants to become a better person. In the beginning, and at other times through our development, there’s a sense of helplessness. How can I change? Where do I start?…
Last week I told you all that I was going to do a new series on making yourself a better person by using my own experiences. I went through a pretty rough time going from who I wasthen to who I am now, and I know that I always have…
When we look at the world, we do so through the lenses of our past experiences. If twenty people look at the same course of events, each one will interpret it differently. This effect is why eye witness reports aren’t considered completely reliable. As we go through life, the lens…
This has been an interesting year for me. This is the first time that the Christmas season has come along and I’ve given almost no though at all to what I’ll be getting. I don’t even know if I’m getting anything at all, and it honestly doesn’t bother me. It…
Society has been teaching us for some time that we need to look for the bad in the world. Look for what’s wrong and what’s flawed and point it out. Not for the sake of doing anything to make it better, but for the sake of tearing others down and…
Many people these days have a very skeptical outlook on the world and on other people. Society has led us to believe that most of the world is in a horrible state and that our best course of action is to think only of ourselves. Unfortunately, people fail to realize…
This may seem like a sidetrack from today’s talks about being a lady, but it actually fits perfectly. A real lady or gentleman should, in my opinion, be intelligent and well-spoken. People have gotten lazy these days in both their writing and their speaking, but it’s never too late to…