The Reiki Method For Personal Development

These are the 5 Ideals of Reiki.



More powerful than the ideals put forth in these 5 lines is the idea of taking development one day at a time. I think anyone can commit to doing something for just today. This is an excellent practice for remaining present and tackling long-term goals.

For example, let’s say I wish to stop drinking. Instead of saying “I’m not going to drink for the next 30 days”, I would commit to not drinking for today. And tomorrow, I’ll think about if that choice served me the day before. If so, I’ll go for another day without it. Repeat.

What can you choose to do just for today?

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9 Great Tips To Help Get You That Pay-Rise

Of all the job-related minefields you can enter, asking for a pay rise may seem one of the most dangerous.

Surely it would give good reason for your boss to think you are totally out of touch with reality, or maybe just insensitive? Surely it's easier just to move on and find another job right?

The need to reward doesn't change, whether the economy is in a downturn or an upturn. In fact the need to keep good staff is even more critical as the corporate world gathers momentum. The prospect of seeking a salary review is therefore not as far fetched as one may think. 

1. What's your worth? 

Show your manager how much you are worth - being prepared is the first step to securing a pay rise.

2. Think like your boss 

Second guess their objections.

3. Write a business plan

Know your worth and know what you want. Find out what similar jobs are paying and prepare a report that outlines all the salary data

4. Timing is everything

Make sure you get it right. Ask for a raise after after a personal success and not after the company posted record losses.

5. Approach

When asking for more pay, don't be aggressive. Be assertive. Your goal is to let your employer know how difficult it would be to replace you. But never give an ultimatum.

6. Consideration

Give your boss time to consider your request. Don't expect an on the spot response. Be prepared to negotiate. If you are not getting anywhere with a straightforward pay rise, never threaten to leave; seek feedback and focus on the reason why your request has been denied.

7. Consider negotiation: 

For perks outside your salary, such as extra leave, or training

8. Let your boss know you are willing: 

To improve to earn the raise and try to obtain a time frame under which you can obtain it

9. The bottom line

Remember that the hardest part is asking. But never be afraid to ask - you just don't know what opportunities could open up.

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Five Secrets Of Success

Everyone wants to be successful in life, but not many are aware of what success really is.

Success is an attitude, not just a phenomenon.

Tough situations arise in every business, every organization, and you need skills to handle them. These skills come from our inner space, which I call the Spiritual Space.

There are five ingredients for success:

1. Establishing a congenial atmosphere: 

Peace and prosperity are interlinked. Prosperity cannot flourish in a disturbed atmosphere. While working with others, you need to function as a team. Have a sense of respect for your team members, and do not indulge in blame games. As a team leader, you need to create an atmosphere of trust, cooperation, a sense of belonging, and celebration. Nothing can last if the focus is only on productivity and net result.

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2. Skill in action: 

The whole essence of the Bhagavad Gita is to act without being attached to the fruit of the action. If you can manage your mind in a war-like scenario, then you can manage any situation. This skill in action is called yoga. It is this wisdom of yoga that transforms one's attitude from arrogance to self-confidence; from meekness to humility; from the burden of dependence to the realization of interdependence; from a limited ownership to oneness with the whole. When performing action, if the attention is only on the end result, then you can't perform. Just give yourself fully to the task with 100 percent sincerity and commitment.

3. Being courageous like a lion: 

There is a saying in Sanskrit that says, "Great wealth comes to one who has the courage of a lion and who puts in all his efforts." Passion and dispassion are complementary like the in-breath and out-breath. You breathe in but you cannot hold the breath too long; you have to breathe out. Similarly, you need to have passion to make things work but also the dispassion to let go. When you don't crave for abundance, it comes to you.

4. An atom of luck: 

If all that is needed for prosperity is one's own effort, then why are so many people who put effort not prosperous? This unknown factor or luck is enhanced by spirituality. The whole material world is run by a world of vibrations which is subtler than all that we see. Spirituality enhances intelligence and intuition. Intuition comes to you when you balance your passion with dispassion; profit with service; aggressiveness to get things with compassion to give back to the society. Intuition is the right thought at the right time, and is an important component for success in business.

5. Meditation: 

The greater responsibilities and ambitions you have, greater is the need for you to meditate. In ancient times, meditation was used as a way to find the Self, for enlightenment and to overcome misery and problems. Meditation is all the more essential in today's hectic lifestyle full of stress and tension. Stress is too much to do, too little time, and no energy. It can be difficult to reduce your workload, or increase the time that you have, but you can increase your energy level.

Meditation not only relieves you of stress and strain, it also enhances your abilities, strengthens your nervous system and mind and releases toxins from the body. We are made up of both matter and spirit. The body has some material needs and our spirit is nourished by spirituality. Meditation also helps us get in touch with our inner space - the source of joy, peace, and love.

The sign of success is overwhelming joy, confidence, compassion, generosity, and a smile that none can snatch away. Whatever happens in life, if you can keep these, then you have really found success.

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How To Get A Promotion

Asking for a promotion can be tricky. Suzanne de Janasz, professor of leadership and organisation development, IMD, explains how to be prepared when approaching the subject.

You don’t get what you don’t ask for. This adage is especially relevant in an environment where individuals and organizations find themselves struggling to keep pace.

Are employees so grateful to have a job that they choose not to seek a promotion? Or perhaps they believe that “my work speaks for itself; I need not ask for what I deserve” or “good things come to those who wait.”

Patience may be a virtue, but witnessing others receiving recognition and promotions while you’re being overlooked is a recipe for resentment, decreased productivity, and possibly departure from the organization.

Marketing oneself is for many unnatural, or worse, a societal taboo. But savvy employees recognize that tough economic times may offer unique opportunities to improve their employment situation by helping their employer reduce costs, increase revenues, or improve competitiveness.

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Here are three things to bear in mind when seeking a promotion:

ENSURE YOUR NETWORK IS AWARE OF YOUR KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERTISEPerforming well is a necessary but insufficient prerequisite for promotion. Beyond the annual performance appraisal conversation with your boss, you need to ensure that others within your professional and personal network are aware of your unique knowledge, capabilities, and track record.

For those uncomfortable with the idea of self-promotion, look at it this way: (1) nobody is in a better position to market the brand that is you, and (2) by ensuring others know your capabilities and contributions, you increase your social capital and visibility within the organization.

KNOW WHAT YOU WANT AND WHY
“I want a promotion,” is a weak way to start a conversation with your boss. Prepare by researching positions (within and outside the organization) for which you possess at least 70% of the qualifications and be able to articulate exactly the position you want and why.

Clarify how your accomplishments and capabilities match the position requirements, and demonstrate your worth by pointing out inefficiencies that your ideas have reduced or new clients you’ve brought in. Who could argue with a Dhs50,000 a year higher paid position for someone who has increased revenues by Dhs825,000 last year?

Also, consider your boss’s goals in your preparation. Would your promotion enable him or her to offload tasks that would free up their time for more strategic activities? Could your taking on an expat assignment provide them with a trusted expert in a growing but challenging market? Look for voids that you might fill or problems you might alleviate.

WHAT IF THE BOSS SAYS “NO?”When you know what you want and why, you’re better equipped to consider multiple satisfactory alternatives. Going in with an ultimatum is unwise; such threats can harm the working relationship.

Considering attractive alternatives to your goals gives you more confidence in the negotiation process since you don’t have to accept whatever is – or isn’t – offered. It also gives you the ability to be persistent about your goal without alienating your boss.

By suggesting other possible solutions, you help reframe the conversation into a collaborative problem-solving session. For example, you might negotiate a promotion that is tied to the accomplishment of a specific goal.

Another yes-able alternative would be a phased-in agreement. Or, at the very least, you might agree to revisit the conversation at a specific time, for example, in three months.

In tough economic times, your good performance is more valuable than ever. There may be cheaper employees available, but no one knows the job – or is as committed to seeing the company succeed – as much as you do.

Remind yourself of that, and prepare yourself thoroughly to remind your boss what you deserve and why. You might not get everything you ask for, but you will certainly get none of what you don’t ask for.

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5 Tips To Enjoy The Personal Development Journey

Ah, the path of self-inquiry and personal development. It is a brave and beautiful thing to investigate the depths and dimensions of your inner world but it’s very easy to get caught up wanting change to happen NOW and soon you find you are just trying tooooo hard. 

Here are 5 ideas from me that may help make your personal development journey a more peaceful and enjoyable one. 



1. Be mindful of the ego, which is essentially a function of the mind.
Yes even personal development is an environment that the ego can thrive in and as you begin to investigate your inner world it can play up and make you anxious about your progress. It is the ego that compares us to others and it is the ego that pushes us to transform now!. Through awareness we can learn to ignore the ego and find the ease within our efforts towards learning and transformation.

2. Be your own best friend.
Let go of the ego’s idea that this is corny and begin to treat yourself in the same way you would your nearest and dearest. Whether you are striving to become a more loving, understanding, tolerant or open-minded person (or all of the above), you will certainly enjoy more success if you can be more patient and supportive of yourself and your efforts.

3. Lighten up!
Don’t take yourself so seriously. Great that you want to become a better person, but have fun doing it. There may be times that you fall off the proverbial horse, but learning to laugh at yourself will help you get back up and enjoy the rest of the ride.

4. Surround yourself with like-minded people (who share similar goals and values).
If your aim is to become a better version of yourself you will find you have more success when you spend time with other people who are also driven in the same way. The yoga world for example, is filled with people who are committed to growing and learning themselves as well as being very willing to support others on their path.

5. Be relaxed with yourself.
There’s no need to transform overnight! Allow yourself time to enjoy the process of learning and developing and remember those wise words written by Ralph Waldo Emmerson: “Life is a journey not a destination”.


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6 Tips For Happiness

Tip 1: Manage Your Time
“Time,” so they say “is money.” But imagine that as if it was the hours and minutes of your life, managed by a “Universal Bank of Time.” 

Under their strict account usage terms, the UBT would mandate a compulsory daily withdrawal of 24 hours. The hours would be automatically transferred to you at the start of each day. But you could never make a deposit, you could never put back what you didn’t use – unused hours would be taxed at 100%. Worse still, there’d be no online banking with the UBT. No paper statements. You couldn’t even get a balance - you’d never be sure how much time you had left.

If real bank accounts worked this way you’d make sure you spent every penny of your daily withdrawal limit on something worthwhile. Pretty soon you’d probably start to plan your spending – you might even keep a book of items you wanted to spend your money on. So with that in mind…


Tip 2: Make a “Now List” 
Most folks have heard of a Bucket List (taken from the movie of the same name), a list of all the things you’d like to do before you die (“kick the bucket”). It’s a fabulous idea - except for the built-in assumption that we’re going to be doing all these marvelous things at some far flung point in the future, probably when we’ll be far too old and frail to do anything more than regret each and every item on the list as a missed opportunity.

So let’s dispense with the term Bucket List. What we want is to “Live Life Now” list – or a “Now List” for short. Write down everything you’d like to do, then start making it happen.


Tip 3: Collect “Trophies” Andy Warhol, so it’s said, never opened any of his mail. He merely collected it up, put it in a box, and when that box was full, sealed it and wrote the year on the top. 

I’ve never taken the time to find out just how true this story is, but I do know that the first time I heard it, it had a profound effect on me. I wanted to do the same. However, being a somewhat deluded individual, I was fairly certain I could improve on the concept.

And so I started to collect things. Theatre tickets, And so I started to collect things. Theatre tickets, raffle tickets, train tickets, plane tickets, postcards, greeting cards, thank you cards, business cards, labels, badges, anything that was evidence of somewhere I’d been, something I’d done, or someone I’d met. And something I could pin to a board.


Tip 4: Decide What’s Important
Most people I encounter haven’t actually got a clue what they really want. They might wake up in the morning and want to go back to bed. They might flick through a magazine and want those shoes. They might even want the person in the magazine wearing those shoes. But these desires come and go. Few of them seem to stick around and become important - and that’s a mistake.

Knowing exactly what you want is hugely important. Merely knowing has the power to change everything. Not convinced? Then allow me to introduce you to the incredible, completely automated wish-fulfilment machine you have inside your head…


Tip 5: Use The Power of Focus
Brains are amazing. Especially yours. Even mine has its moments. And one of the most fascinating mechanisms of the human brain is how it deals with focus. Have you ever noticed how when you buy a new car, or even when you’ve merely decided what type of car it is you want to buy, you start seeing that same car everywhere?! That’s the power of focus. It happens because in order for our brains to cope with the extraordinary amount of information coming in through our five senses from the world around us, we’re programmed to concentrate on what’s “important,” and more or less ignore the rest.

Unconvinced? Excellent!

You might be asking yourself how does the brain determine what’s important? And the answer is: you tell it! And this mechanism isn’t just taking place during card tricks; this happens all day, every day. Your brain is continually filtering the information coming in based on what you’ve decided is important. Strange then that we quite often focus on entirely the wrong things, or nothing at all. 


Tip 6: Remind Yourself Of The Important Things Most people own a wallet, a purse, or some other item to carry around their credit cards, dog-eared receipts or (if you’re really retro) cash.

If your wallet is like mine then it might have a small see-through pocket where you’re supposed to put a photo of a loved one. Ditch it. Not the loved one, just the photo.

On a small piece of card, just big enough to fit that space, write down what you really want in life – your “life vision” if you like – and place it in your wallet. What we’re doing here is utilizing that Power Of Focus on a daily basis by creating something that will remind you of those important things, each and every time you look in your wallet.



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Practical Steps To Personal Development

Practical steps can be taken to enhance personal development, including:

• Organising your time.
• Producing a personal CV or résumé.
• Undertaking a skills appraisal.
• Looking at your transferable skills.
• Overcoming barriers to learning a new skill.

Organising Your Time
If you are considering making changes in your life, finding additional time often poses a problem. It could be that the changes you are thinking of making are to ensure you have extra time to:

• Spend with your family.
• Spend on things you enjoy doing.
• Devote to your work.
• Devote to your education

Whatever the reason, looking at how you spend your time will encourage you to think of ways your time could be managed more effectively.

• Learning to say 'no' to jobs or requests that you feel are not your responsibility.
• Learning to delegate – sharing jobs can be fun and will leave you with more time.
• Making a ’to do’ list of tasks you need to do each day/week, ticking off tasks that you complete.
• Giving up things you do not really want or need to do.
• Identifying your high and low times of the day. Everyone has a time when he/she feels more or less energetic. Try to do the most demanding tasks when you have the greatest energy as you will do them more quickly, thereby releasing more time to spend on other things.

For many people their personal development will involve setting goals; these might be to change behaviour - as in looking at their time management - learning new skills or advancing their career.

Many employers are looking for the same sorts of skills. These include good communication skills, the ability to work as part of a team and the ability to learn – these are often termed ‘Soft Skills’ and are the sorts of skills that SkillsYouNeed writes about. Beyond that the skills required will depend on the particular job.

http://www.skillsyouneed.com/ps/personal-development.html

Success Is A State Of Being

VERY often the benchmark of ­success is wealth. Everyone is judged by the external signs of wealth.

People pass ­disparaging remarks about those who are doing service or providing for others but are not wealthy and do not display the signs of wealth.

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If people identify more with their external conditions or roles, they will inevitably feel inferior or superior to others and so lack self respect.

The ways in which society works often blinds an ­individual from realising his/her own ­self-worth. For example, society sometimes gives ­acknowledge-ment only to those who are wealthy or occupy a position of authority. In reality, every individual has the right to know that worth is inherent in every human ­being.

Self worth can help ­individuals avoid feelings of inferiority or superiority. The middle path is a dignified way of life.

Success is not a material thing. It is a state of being. We might call it contentment, ­happiness or even peace.

How do you define success? It is the completion of a task, another job well done, an exam passed, a promise kept, or a mountain climbed.

Whatever we believe success to be will have a profound ­influence on our lives.

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How To Boost Your Confidence Easily

Do you want to boost your confidence?

Confidence is a skill that many folks want to master, but have a hard time acquiring. Have you ever wondered why? Let me inform you that you were born confident, you just allowed external sources such as your parents, friends, relatives, society, and media affect your level of self-esteem and self-worth.

Perhaps you were talked to negatively as a child or maybe you were rejected many times. Whatever the case is, know you can change all of that and you can begin to improve your self esteem and build confidence today.
How to boost your confidence?

1. Act as ifBegin to act as if you are confident. Act as the person you would want to be like. This requires you to know how a confident person looks like. Surround yourself with people who you think are confident and have high value. Begin to think and behave like them. You will learn so much from observing other confident folks.

2. Improve your positive self talkOne of the most areas that you need to pay attention to is your self-talk. Your thoughts about your capabilities and self-worth need to be positive and encouraging. When you start to program your mind with uplifting words and start believing you are a worthy human being, your confidence in yourself will become stronger.

Whenever you notice that you start thinking to yourself negatively, pause and take a moment, and shift your focus to something that can help you feel better about yourself.

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3. Be optimisticLet me ask you, whenever you encounter an undesirable situation in life, do you start lamenting and beating yourself or do you trust that everything will be ok? Do you stay focusing on the problem or do you shift your focus to the various solutions you have available to you?

Optimism is an important aspect in boosting your confidence and it must be cultivated. Train yourself to trust that everything will be all right whenever you encounter an undesirable issue in life. This positive outlook on life helps you not only to improve your self esteem, but also to succeed in all areas of your life.

4. Go after your goalsIf you are really serious about building self confidence, you need to identify your goals and go after them. The more you add to your accomplishments, the more confident you will feel about your abilities and skills.

When you begin to achieve goals that you are passionate about, you begin to trust your inner self more and you begin to appreciate yourself more.

By using these four steps to boost your confidence, you will be on the path to enhancing your self esteem and self-worth.

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You Need A Better Story

Everybody gets stuck. Life can be difficult, painful, and confusing. It's in those confusing seasons of life that we often find ourselves the most stuck, unable to change and move forward with our lives. I hate being stuck.

Solving Stuck
Like you, I've been stuck a lot. What immediately comes to mind is graduating college with no plan, the first and the second time my mom was diagnosed with cancer, that time my girlfriend broke up with me when I was just weeks away from proposing marriage, discovering a dead body in a lake, waking up one day and realizing I'd somehow become thirty pounds overweight during my twenty something years, and that terrible day when I was left unemployed for the first time in my life with two young sons, a pregnant wife, a mortgage, and a chest full of fear.

I've noticed that my tendency (and the tendency of everyone on the planet) is to solve stuck by doing something. We set new goals, write a to-do list, read a self-help book, and try to get un-stuck. Now, there's some merit to this. We certainly need to take action. But, at least for me, I've found that the problem of stuck runs much deeper than what can be fixed by a new exercise program, a change of scenery, or the latest method for improving my self-esteem. I need something bigger.

Finding A Story
A few years ago I read a quote that changed my life. Here it is:

The same impulse that makes us want our books to have a plot makes us want our lives to have a plot. We need to feel that we are getting somewhere, making progress. There is something in us that is not satisfied with a merely psychological explanation of our lives. It doesn't do justice to our conviction that we are on some kind of journey or quest, that there must be some deeper meaning to our lives than whether we feel good about ourselves. Only people who have lost the sense of adventure, mystery, and romance worry about their self-esteem. And at that point what they need is not a good therapist, but a good story. Or more precisely, the central question for us should not be, 'What personality dynamics explain my behavior?' but rather, 'What sort of story am I in?' - William Kilpatrick, Why Johnny Can't Tell Right from Wrong. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993

I realized I'd been asking the wrong questions. I'd been asking questions that were too small. When life got hard and I got stuck I tended to ask questions like, "How do I fix this?," "What's wrong with me?", "What do I do now?" Instead I started asking myself, "What sort of story am I in?"

Stories are powerful. Whether we're conscious of it or not, every single one of us believes some kind of a story in order to make sense out of our lives. Human beings are meaning makers. No matter our culture, background, or beliefs, we need to make meaning of our lives and the story of our life only begins to make sense when it's understood under the banner of a bigger story. We need a story that is big enough to make sense out of both the beauty and the brokenness in our lives and in our world. Or, in other words, we need a story that's big enough to get us un-stuck from whatever life throws at us and to keep us moving forward in the plot.

You Need A Better Story
Change and forward movement in our lives isn't merely a matter of trying harder. It's a matter of believing and living more deeply into a big story in which we each have an important role to play.

Your life would actually be a lot better if your life could become less about your life. If you could see that your life is part of a larger plot than simply "the story of me," then adventure, mystery, and joy would reenter the picture. Most of the stuck-ness in our lives is a product of an over focus on our lives. We spend so much time looking in, when we ought to be looking out and up. The late Austrian philosopher, Ivan Illich, was once asked about the most revolutionary way to change society. He answered the question this way:
Neither revolution nor reformation can ultimately change a society, rather you must tell a new powerful tale, one so persuasive that it sweeps away the old myths and becomes the preferred story, one so inclusive that it gathers all the bits of our past and our present into a coherent whole, one that even shines some light into our future so that we can take the next step... If you want to change a society, then you have to tell an alternative story.-- Ivan Illich, "Storytelling or Myth-Making? Frank Viola and Ivan Illich," Proclamation, Invitation, & Warning, July, 2007

What our larger society needs is the same thing you need: an alternative story. A bigger story. Ditch the small goals, anxious to-do list, and the self-help craze of the month. Instead, get your heart wrapped into a better story and watch what happens.

What sort of story are you in?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/justin-buzzard/you-need-a-better-story_b_3397077.html.

It's Not Just Older People Who Suffer Memory Loss: Stress And Multi-Tasking Means More Under 40s Are Becoming Forgetful

• 14% of men and women aged between 18 and 39 complain of poor memory.
• Researchers say modern lifestyles - such as spending time on a computer and texting - could be to blame because it prevents people focussing.
• They also advise taking greater care of general health - such as getting regular exercise and not smoking - to preserve brain power.

An increasing number of young people are suffering from poor memory, according to a new report. While memory problems are normally seen as a sign of ageing, the latest study found that 14 per cent of young men and women between 18 and 39 also complained that their memory was poor.
Now researchers leading the study say that stress and multi-tasking lifestyles could be to blame.


The new Post-It note generation: Young people complain of memory problems too.

To examine the impact of these lifestyle choices on memory throughout adult life, researchers from UCLA collaborated on a nationwide poll of more than 18,500 individuals between the ages of 18 and 99. Respondents were surveyed about both their memory and their health behaviours, including whether they smoked, how much they exercised and how healthy their diet was.

As the researchers expected, healthy eating, not smoking and exercising regularly were related to better self-perceived memory abilities for most adult groups.

Older adults (aged between 60 and 99) were more likely to report engaging in healthy behaviours than middle-aged (aged between 40 and 59) and younger adults (aged between 18 and 39), a finding that runs counter to the stereotype that aging is a time of dependence and decline. In addition to this, a higher than expected percentage of younger adults complained about their memory.Experts say stress and multi-tasking could be affecting our ability to focus and concentrate'

These findings reinforce the importance of educating young and middle-aged individuals to take greater responsibility for their health - including memory - by practicing positive lifestyle behaviours earlier in life,' said the study's first author, Dr. Gary Small, director of the UCLA Longevity Centre.

While 26 per cent of older adults and 22 per cent of middle-aged respondents reported memory issues, it was surprising to find that 14 per cent of the younger group complained about their memory too, the researchers said. 'Memory issues were to be expected in the middle-aged and older groups, but not in younger people,' Small said. 'A better understanding and recognition of mild memory symptoms earlier in life may have the potential to help all ages.'Small said that, generally, memory issues in younger people may be different from those that plague older generations.

Stress may play more of a role.

He also noted that the ubiquity of technology - including the Internet, texting and wireless devices that can result in constant multi-tasking, especially with younger people - may impact attention span, making it harder to focus and remember. Research carried out last year showed that the average age that people experience memory loss is 57, although it has been known that a declining ability to recall simple facts can start in your 30s.

An online poll found that 11 per cent of respondents said they had started to notice their memory suffering in their 40s. Six per cent had noticed it in their 30s.The survey, published to coincide with the UK's first ever online Memory Training course, also revealed that the over-50s are plagued by the fear of memory loss and many have frequent and embarrassing memory lapses.

Examples included leaving the house without putting on socks, forgetting how to spell common words like 'hour' and even struggling to remember their own name when introducing themselves at a business meeting.

The research, also revealed that half of over-50s have been embarrassed about forgetting simple things. Other people’s names came top of the list at 37 per cent, followed by keys and glasses at 19 per cent. More unusual examples included not remembering the word for ‘apple’, how to spell ‘hour’ and names of colours. Some people even admitted to leaving loved ones behind in shops. 

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Personal Development Tips For Real World Situations

It can be difficult to know what you should do for bettering your personal development. With personal development, you should find something that works for you. Everyone is different and what works for them won't necessarily work well for you. There are always tips, like these, that can allow you to improve yourself.

Stress can be the opposite of happiness a lot of the time. When we have to deal with stress, it takes its toll on the body in a physical and mental sense. You have to tackle the stress that's bothering you before you can meet your goals. Take the time out of your day to sit down and clear your head. A calm, refreshed mind is essential to inner peace and self-assurance.

There are plenty of great books on personal development available. A good book can help you find new ways to reach for your goals and improve yourself. Pick out a book that has gotten good reviews because there are some books about personal development that are not written very well.

Give yourself a boost of confidence by reciting all the things you like about yourself. List the things that you love about yourself on a postcard. Keep it handy, and when you need a little motivation, read it. Better yet, record your qualities on video or audio and listen to it often. "Why would I want to do this?", you may be asking.

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Do what it takes to create an emergency fund and add to it even if you can only add a few dollars at a time. Many people handle every unexpected expense with a credit card, building up debt. Even a few dollars per week can quickly add up to a nice savings. This money can help out in the short and long term because debt continues decreasing.

Your pastor or counselor is there to help. Not only have they been trained to deal in personal growth, their experience in these issues is what makes them a good choice to speak with. They will help you figure out what things are bothering you and what you can do to sort them out. Speaking with a professional is a great step toward personal development.

Many people are unaware that diet can affect feelings of depression, as an increase in consumption of complex carbohydrates can help. Serotonin can lower if you don't eat enough carbs. Eat more vegetables and fruits, whole grains, nuts and beans.

It's possible to teach yourself how you can deal with difficult situations without becoming too emotional. If you learn to stay calm during stressful times, you will have the confidence you need to face almost anything in your life. Take the time to reflect on the situation, breathe deeply and relax.

Demonstrating selfless behavior shows remarkable progress in any personal development program. You can cultivate a strong, positive character, by learning how to make sacrifices for the sake of helping others. You will soon become the person you envision for yourself, when you have mastered the ability to personally sacrifice without harming your own well-being.

Taking a few small risks may just be where you should start on your path towards happiness. Most people don't want to risk feelings of rejection or failure, so they never travel from their comfort zone, eventually causing dissatisfaction. Taking risks shows courage, which is a component that can help you on the path of happiness.

Each person has strengths and weaknesses; therefore, put into practice the techniques which speaks to you. As the old G.I. Joe cartoons used to say, "Knowing is only half the battle." You need to apply what you learn to make any progress. Share this article with anyone in your life that you believe will benefit from it, and help yourself as well as others grow and develop. 

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