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- Use a Vision Board to Achieve Your Dreams - by Submitted on Apr 12, 2010 from Royane RealOne of the best techniques you can use to help you accomplish the goals in your life is creating a vision board. Perhaps you have heard of this technique. If you have not yet heard of a vision board, you are no doubt wondering what it is. A vision board is a board which you cover with ...
Views: 2962(3 votes) - Why Is It So Hard to Make Friends When You're Older? - by Submitted on Aug 23, 2009 from Royane RealMany of us fear growing older because we are worried that when we are older we will be lonely. We often see older people sitting in shopping malls who seem to have no friends and nothing to do. We hope that won’t be our fate. What can we do to make sure we still have some friends and a good ...
Views: 6998(1 vote) - Why Long Term Stress Is So Damaging - by Submitted on Sep 26, 2009 from Royane RealToday many of us are facing a lot of physical and emotional stress. When we don’t have good ways to deal with all this stress, it can end up hurting us in many ways, physical and mental. If we live with too much stress for too long, it can start to overwhelm us mentally and too much stress can ...
Views: 1366(3 votes) - Why You Shouldn't Bother to Be Interesting - by Submitted on Aug 18, 2010 from Royane Real“There’s nothing about me that is interesting. I’m completely average in every way. Nobody is interested in me because I’m not interesting. Tell me what I can do to become a more interesting person so I can have better conversations.” Over the years I have received several similar ...
Views: 1584(1 vote) - Keep Your Brain Healthy As You Age - by Submitted on Apr 13, 2010 from Royane RealMany countries in the world are facing a potential health crisis as the population ages. In North America, millions of Baby Boomers are turning sixty every day. Aging can bring with it many benefits such as increased wisdom and experience, but aging also increases the risk of serious health ...
Views: 1407(2 votes) - Yes, You Can Be More Creative! - by Submitted on Apr 13, 2010 from Royane RealDo you wish you were more creative in your life, but you don't know where to start? You can reconnect with your inner creative self. Try some of these ideas to help you get in touch with your inner creativity. How can we become more creative if we think we have lost the spark? For one ...
Views: 871(2 votes) - Improve Your Conversation Confidence - by Submitted on Aug 13, 2010 from Royane RealPeople who are shy, and people who have low self esteem often have a difficult time making conversation with others. They sound awkward, they don’t make eye contact with their conversation partners, and they have a hard time keeping the conversation flowing. Although shy people and those ...
Views: 7845(8 votes) - Use Special Visualization Techniques to Improve Your Life! - by Submitted on Jun 20, 2010 from Royane RealVisualization is a very hot topic these days. Part of the reason that visualization is so popular is because there is a lot of anecdotal evidence that by use of visualization, we can improve in confidence and performance. For example, visualization is often used to help elite athletes ...
Views: 2101(6 votes) - Abusive Relationships - Should You Go or Stay? - by Submitted on Oct 04, 2009 from Royane RealHave you ever been hurt by someone who says they love you? Have you been treated badly by someone who is your friend? Are abusive relationships a constant pattern in your life? Sometimes the people who are the closest to us, our friends and our mates, the ones who should be liking us the ...
Views: 1822(2 votes) - Improve Your Conversational Skills - by Submitted on Apr 13, 2010 from Royane RealAre you one of those people who finds it difficult to start up a conversation with somebody new, or someone you barely know? This is a very common problem. Most of us find it a little bit challenging to start conversations with strangers. When we first meet someone, we don’t know much ...
Views: 1978(1 vote) - Should You Date Your Friend? - by Submitted on Nov 13, 2010 from Royane RealWhat should you do if you realize that you are romantically attracted to one of your friends? Should you risk embarassment and heartache by asking your friend on a date? What are the pitfalls of admitting to your friend that you are attracted to them? This is a problem that commonly comes up ...
Views: 1616(5 votes) - Don't Put Your Life On Hold While You Search For That Special Someone - by Submitted on Oct 05, 2009 from Royane RealAre you looking for a mate? Sometimes people have the belief that their real life won’t start until they meet and marry their one true love. In the meantime, they put their life on hold. This belief is a fallacy. Your real life is going by right now, whether you are married or not. A single ...
Views: 4227(2 votes) - Time to Let Go Of Resentment - by Submitted on Oct 03, 2009 from Royane RealMaureen worked in an office with twenty other people, processing checks. She didn't particularly like her job, but she didn't particularly dislike it either. Getting ahead in her career wasn't important to her until the day that her friend and co-worker Betty was promoted to be the boss of ...
Views: 1983(2 votes) - Are You a Sleep Walking Zombie? - by Submitted on Sep 19, 2009 from Royane RealDo you get enough sleep? Chances are you don’t. Many people living in modern industrial societies suffer from a chronic, and worsening sleep deficit. Until a few decades ago, most people lived lives so very different from ours that we would scarcely recognize them. Until fairly recently ...
Views: 1542 - Are You Terrified of Social Rejection? - by Submitted on Apr 13, 2010 from Royane RealDoes your shyness and fear of getting rejected keep you from having the relationships you want? Are you lonely much of the time? Everyone gets rejected at times, but for those of us who are socially confident, rejection is a minor matter, and people who are confident quickly bounce back from ...
Views: 2509 - Are You Too Nice For Your Own Good? - by Submitted on Apr 13, 2010 from Royane RealAre you too nice? How can anyone be “too nice”? Isn’t being “nice” a good quality to have in a relationship? Yes, it’s true that people will value niceness in others, but if your way of being nice is to suppress your own needs constantly, you are being too nice for your own good. If you ...
Views: 902 - Do You Need to Have More Friends? - by Submitted on Apr 13, 2010 from Royane RealMany of us today are getting too busy to have a lot of close friendships. In the modern world, we are on the go all the time. Yet our human need to be close to other people continues. Maybe it's time for you to slow down and have more friends. Lots of studies have shown that it’s ...
Views: 3186 - Fighting For Your LIfe - by Submitted on Apr 13, 2010 from Royane RealA few years ago, the well known American news anchor Peter Jennings died of lung cancer.. Just a few months before his death, he publicly announced that he had the disease and that he was going to fight it with everything he had. After his death, I read some of the tributes that poured in ...
Views: 1240 - How to Get Over a Fear of Being Rejected - by Submitted on Aug 03, 2009 from Royane RealSome people end up living very lonely lives, with few friends, and no loving partner. Why? Because their fear of being rejected is so powerful that they can't find the courage to approach others socially. Learn what you can do to increase your confidence and improve your social ...
Views: 4537 - How to Turn Down an Invitation Politely - by Submitted on Aug 23, 2011 from Royane RealHave you ever been in a situation where you did not know how to turn down an invitation to a social event, but you knew that you really did not want to attend? This is an embarrassing problem that everyone faces from time to time. One reason that it is embarrassing is that most of us want ...
Views: 3859 - Improve Your Conversation Performance By Changing Your Thoughts - by Submitted on Apr 13, 2010 from Royane RealHave you ever had a conversation with someone where you start to get nervous and shy, and worry about your conversation performance? Do you start to think that everything you say sounds stupid or awkward or insincere? Do you start to obsess over what other people think about you? Do you ...
Views: 1624 - Improve Your Learning Ability With Visualization - by Submitted on Apr 13, 2010 from Royane RealWhen you need to learn something new, do you approach your learning experience feeling confidence in yourself as a learner? Or do you convince yourself that learning is hard, and that you’re not very good at learning? Learning is harder when you lack confidence. You can use visualization ...
Views: 4835 - Is Being a Perfectionist Keeping You From Having a Perfect Life? - by Submitted on Apr 13, 2010 from Royane RealFor the last couple of weeks I have been working on a magazine article that I hope will be good enough to get accepted for publication in a major magazine. Because this article is so important to me, I am putting a lot of time and work into it, writing and revising, and polishing my writing ...
Views: 4570 - Let Other People See Who You Really Are - by Submitted on Nov 07, 2009 from Royane RealDo you know anybody that you feel is particularly engaging and lively? Take a moment to picture that person in your mind. What is it about that person that you find most attractive? He or she may have a charming voice and a great laugh, but it is also very likely that you find their face very ...
Views: 2959 - Life Lessons From Hurricane Katrina - by Submitted on Nov 07, 2009 from Royane RealDuring the past couple of weeks, like many millions of other people around the world I spent a lot of time watching the horrific events taking place in New Orleans, Louisiana, unable and unwilling to believe that what I was seeing was actually taking place in the United States of America. ...
Views: 849 - Life Lessons From Virginia Tech - Appreciate the Happiness of Your Life Today - by Submitted on Nov 07, 2009 from Royane RealTwo things have happened to me recently that really affected me a lot. One event of course was the shocking killings of thirty two students and teachers at Virginia Tech in the United States. The other thing that happened that affected me a lot this week was an accident that I witnessed ...
Views: 913 - Starting a Conversation When You Are Shy - by Submitted on Aug 15, 2011 from Royane RealStarting a conversation can be agonizing if you are a shy person. Many people who suffer from shyness have a hard time knowing what to talk about when they encounter someone they don’t know very well. These might be people that they work with, neighbors, and people they would like to be friends ...
Views: 1304 - The Secret to Making More Friends - by Submitted on Apr 13, 2010 from Royane RealWhen you meet new people for the first time, do you usually like most of the new people that you meet? Or do you find that you usually dislike new people, unless they can eventually prove after a long time that they deserve your friendship? Perhaps you have never thought about this ...
Views: 4834 - The Truth About Persistence and Success - by Submitted on Apr 13, 2010 from Royane RealMany people who want to be successful spend a lot of time reading motivational books and articles. You probably do too. You want to know what qualities are required for success. When we read about the tools required to achieve success, very often we are told that if we really want to be ...
Views: 6567 - Turning Strangers Into Friends - by Submitted on Mar 29, 2006 from Royane RealDo you find it easy to make conversation with new people you’ve just met? Or does the thought of trying to make conversation with someone new make you break out in a cold sweat? If you don’t feel comfortable making casual conversation with new people you have just met, you will find it harder ...
Views: 2312 - Use Eye Contact to Improve Your Relationships - by Submitted on Apr 13, 2010 from Royane RealHave you ever wondered why some people make friends so easily? Do you wonder why they are popular and act as friendship magnets? Do you wonder what you're doing wrong? If you're not making friends easily, it might not be your clothing style, or your financial status that is to blame. It ...
Views: 5550 - Use Positive Reinforcement To Improve Your Life - by Submitted on Apr 13, 2010 from Royane RealIf you want to improve your performance at something, or if you want to create new good habits, one very successful technique is the use of positive reinforcement. The following story will illustrate how one of my coworkers used positive reinforcement to create new successful behavior. When ...
Views: 9260 - Using Visualization to Expand Your Mental Powers - by Submitted on Apr 13, 2010 from Royane RealOver the centuries, human beings have developed many techniques to gain access to their inner wisdom and improve learning. One technique that many people have found very beneficial is to have an imaginary guide that they can call on for advice and insight. A modern variation of this ...
Views: 1909 - Want to Get Over Your Fear of Getting Rejected? - by Submitted on Sep 19, 2009 from Royane RealHow do you feel about getting rejected? Does rejection devastate you, or do you shrug it off? Rejected. It can be such an ugly word. One of the reasons why rejection can cause us so much difficulty is that in our minds we often tie rejection to so many other ugly words that cause us even ...
Views: 2148 - What Can We Learn from Unlikeable People? - by Submitted on Apr 13, 2010 from Royane RealAll of us encounter unlikeable people from time to time. These are people who in one way or another manage to be very unpleasant to us in every encounter. Yet, even though the experience of coming across an unlikeable person can be very unpleasant, there is always something we can learn from ...
Views: 2980 - When You Have Problems In a Relationship - Should You Forgive and Forget? - by Submitted on Apr 13, 2010 from Royane RealIf someone has let you down or hurt you repeatedly you may wonder how many times you should "forgive and forget" before you give up on the relationship. No one else can really tell you what to do, although you may wish to ask others for their advice. If you are always being let down or hurt ...
Views: 3292 - Why Are You Lonely? What Can You Do? - by Submitted on Jun 04, 2010 from Royane RealIf you are wondering why some people have a lot of friends and why you don’t have many, there can be many reasons for this. Perhaps the most common reason why people don’t have a lot of friends is shyness. If you are very shy, or if you have a lot of social anxiety, then being around ...
Views: 1680 - Why Very Smart People Sometimes Have Poor Social Skills - by Submitted on Apr 13, 2010 from Royane RealDo you ever have trouble making conversation with others even though you consider yourself to be a very intelligent person? If so, this may puzzle you. You may wonder why you are so poor at making conversation with others, even though you are very smart, and you know a lot of interesting ...
Views: 10857 - You Can Overcome Your Shyness - by Submitted on Apr 13, 2010 from Royane RealDo you need help in overcoming shyness? If you suffer from shyness, you probably often wish that your shyness would instantly go away, never to return. For some people, being shy can be a small problem. For others, shyness can be life crippling. Some people suffer from extreme shyness ...
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