The Positive Psychology class taught by Ben Shahar attracts 1400 students per semester and 20% of Harvard graduates take this elective course. According to Ben Shahar, the class – which focuses on happiness, self-esteem and motivation – gives students the tools to succeed and face life with more joy. This 45-year-old teacher, considered by some to be “the happiness guru”, highlights in his class 14 key tips for improving the quality of our personal status and contributing to a positive life:

Tip 1. Thank God for everything you have: Write down 10 things you have in your life that give you happiness. Focus on the good things!

Tip 2. Practice physical activity: Experts say exercising helps improve mood. 30 minutes of exercise is the best antidote against sadness and stress.

Tip 3. Breakfast: Some people miss breakfast for lack of time or not to get fat. Studies show that breakfast gives you energy, helps you think and perform your activities successfully.

Tip 4. Assertive: Ask what you want and say what you think. Being assertive helps improve your self-esteem. Being left and remaining silent creates sadness and hopelessness.

Tip 5. Spend your money on experiences: A study found that 75% of people felt happier when they invested their money in travel, courses and classes; While only the rest said they felt happier when buying things.

Tip 6. Face your challenges: Studies show that the more you postpone something, the more anxiety and tension you generate. Write short weekly lists of tasks and complete them.

Tip 7. Put everywhere nice memories, phrases and photos of your loved ones: Fill your fridge, your computer, your desk, your room, YOUR LIFE of beautiful memories.

Tip 8. Always greet and be nice to other people: More than 100 inquiries state that just smiling changes the mood.

Tip 9. Wear comfortable shoes: If your feet hurt you, you become moody, says Dr. Keinth Wapner, President of the American Orthopedics Association.

Tip 10. Take care of your posture: Walk straight with your shoulders slightly backwards and the front view helps to maintain a good mood.

Tip 11. Listen to music (Praise God): It is proven that listening to music awakens you to sing, this will make your life happy.

Tip 12. What you eat has an impact on your mood:- Do not skip meals, eat lightly every 3 to 4 hours and keep glucose levels stable.- Avoid excess white flour and sugar.- Eat everything! Healthy- Vary your food.

Tip 13. Take care of yourself and feel attractive:70% of people say they feel happier when they think they look good.

Tip 14. Fervently believe in God: With him nothing is impossible!

Tip 15: Develop a good sense of humour. Learn to laugh off matters, specially when things don’t go right for you.

- Ada[ted from a WhatsApp message.

1. Stop spending

2. Worry

3. Blame someone or something

4. Give up

5. Go further into debt

6. Sell a possession

7. Become depressed

8. Complain

9. Cheat or steal

10. Hope someone will just give you the money you need

Of course, none of these solutions help you gain more money.

However, this solution is effective.

“I answer money problems with lots of money, not with worry or sadness or impractical hope.” — L. Ron Hubbard

You solve your money problems by making money. No other approach is a solution. An abundance of money is your only solution.

Recommendations

1. Figure out how much money you need. Write the total at the top of a page. For example, “I need to earn $10,000 per month.”

2. List all of your assets. Include all of your possessions, your skills, your knowledge, your contacts and your passions. These are some or all of the ingredients to your ultimate success, so make the list as complete as possible.

Examples: You have a truck, a camera, an empty bedroom and $11,225 cash. You are good at organizing, listening, learning, speaking and making people feel important. You know all about horses, word processors, furniture building, the State of Texas, Internet auctions and using e-mail. You know Jennifer, Robert, Tim, Ruth, Steve, Dave, etc. You have a passion to help others, build model airplanes, solve complex problems, learn new things and more.

3. Dream up every way you can use your assets to make money. Make a list. Old methods, new methods, any combination of assets that produce income.

Examples: Use your empty bedroom to start a small business selling cameras, furniture and jewelry for others at Internet auctions. Learn how to prepare tax returns. Help your boss make deliveries with your truck.

4. Select a method that is proven. Does this method already make money for someone else?

If so, it is a good candidate.

If no one has ever made money with your idea, look for something else. Stick to methods that already work and invent new methods as a hobby at some other time.

5. Verify that others would pay you for the product or service.

For example, ask your boss, “Did you know I know 150 horse owners. They need shelters for their horses. What if I tested the market to see if we could add portable shelters to our product line. If it works out, I would be willing to run the new division.”

As another example, you are thinking of taking pictures as a profession. So you meet with professional photographers to see how much money they make.

Ask around. For instance, ask your friends “If I had my own insurance company and could save you money on your car and home insurance, would you be interested?” “If I made a video on how to cut children’s hair, would you buy it?”

6. If all the signs are good, test the idea in the real world before devoting much time or energy to the idea. For example, run a part-time business from your house to ensure it will be popular and profitable. Make a few products or services to see if anyone will buy them. Try the new ad campaign with a small newspaper. Dip your toe before taking the plunge, especially if the idea is new.

7. Once the idea is certain to work, then and only then should you invest significant time and money into the project.

8. If you cannot work out a workable income source, work out a plan to increase your assets. If you have the right ingredients, creating new income sources is much easier.

For example, you may need additional education, apprenticing or experience in certain fields before you can earn more income. You may need to become more responsible. You may need more familiarity with a subject. You may need to make more contacts.

9. Once you have a plan you are certain will work, work long and hard to make it happen. You will solve your money problems by making more money on your own.

10. This final step is rarely taken, but is key to becoming wealthy.

“I never count on any one source. I always plan to get the total sum of all the money I need from each one of three or four ways or sources.” — L. Ron Hubbard

After you have one steady source of income, look for another source by repeating these steps.

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Unconditional love
The term ‘love’ is frequently used to describe love between lovers. On the other hand, ‘unconditional love’ is used to portray love between family members, friends and between others in committed relationships. When you love someone regardless of their actions or beliefs, you express unconditional love. True love is unconditional love towards one and all. Like the sun’s rays, it is warm; like rose petals, it adds colour and joy to life; like a mountain stream, it flows freely and encircles all creation.

The reason people tend to express anger, confusion and resentment is because of the lack of unconditional love. Our emotional need for unconditional love is like our physical need for food and air. Where unconditional love is missing, people tend to behave in an abnormal way and tend to adopt violent and aggressive means to gain attention.

Giving without any expectations
Unconditional love is giving love without any condition or expectation in return. Once we love others in true spirit, we strike a chord with the universe and radiate the positive energy of love from within us like the sun. Again like the sun, the Power of Love thrives on itself. When we radiate true love, we receive true love in return.

When you start loving all life on earth with an equal eye, you generate a strong sense of interconnection with everything. Since we all thrive on common resources such as food, air, shelter and water, we share a strong connection with each and every being. Thus, the Power of Love is always available to us. You can tap this potential by cultivating a heart that gives and receives without expectations.

‘We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.’ —Sir Winston Churchill

Love teaches humility
Love can instil humbleness in you. Through humility you can become a person who is eager to learn, grow and acquire new skills through constant improvement. You must embrace humility if you wish to express the greatness and divinity that lies within you. Such modesty can be developed by following a lifestyle of simple living and high thinking. It will help you discover your true nature and qualities such as enthusiasm, wisdom and creativity.

You will realize that there is so much to learn and do in life. Humility instils an urge to be curious and to learn new things. It helps in self-awareness, self-improvement and unlocks the key to greatness. Taking the humble approach means being aware of your weaknesses while developing your strengths.

‘My religion is simple. My religion is kindness.’ —Dalai Lama

Forgiveness is the beauty of the soul and is often denied to it. There may be times when people caused you pain. You will often feel hurt and angry. In such cases, you must learn to let go. You will feel relaxed once you forgive someone who wronged you. You will be relieved of past wounds and unconditional love will fill that wound in the due course of time. What is most important here is your decision to forgive and forget.

Forgiveness is unlocking the door to set someone free and realizing you were the person. —Max Lucado

Till about a century ago, people could travel without a passport or visa anywhere in the world, without any restriction. National boundaries barely existed. After the two World Wars, many nations started feeling insecure, an identity crisis was triggered and narrow nationalistic feelings became stronger. These feelings became so intense that children were taught to take pride only in their nation’s culture and traditions, and the idea of ‘national patriotism’ took root. This, among other things, widened the divide between the rich and poor across the world. But in the 21st century the pace of multicultural social and corporate exchanges has quickened once again. And no matter where you are or what you do, you must try to embrace everyone around you in the blanket of unconditional love.

Two Action Steps:

Step 1: Learn to give without expectations. Whenever you offer any help to a stranger, do it without any expectation in return. There is nothing more valuable than a kind act and when you perform it with unconditional love, a sense of joy will pervade through your being.

Step 2: Be an observer and do not judge people or situations. When you are in an awkward situation, try not judge the situation or the people involved in it. Be open and try to observe the situation as it is and not as you want to see it.

Success Mantra: Remember that love is the strongest power. Love binds us and connects us all. Enlarge your heart and your circle of love: love yourself, your family, your neighbours, those who do not like you, your fellow countrymen, all the citizens of the world and all life on earth. Love everyone, and one day you will find everyone loving you. Begin now.

©Shishir Srivsatava, Motivational Speaker and Author ‘The Eight Powers within You’
www.shishirsrivastava.org and www.eightpowers.com

If you understand and apply the following definition of happiness, you also open the door to unlimited success for yourself, your family and your group.

“Happiness could be defined as the emotion of progress toward desirable goals. There is an instant of contemplation of the last goal in which one is content. But contentment becomes boredom immediately that new goals do not come to view. There is no more unhappy thing than a man who has accomplished all his ends in life.” — L. Ron Hubbard

Examine how three facts, from this definition of happiness, make happiness come and go in your life.

1. “There is an instant of contemplation of the last goal in which one is content.”

Think of goals you have reached in the past. Remember how you felt on your wedding day or when you graduated from school or a training course? In each case, you achieved a goal!

Remember those times when you were content with life? Maybe when you started a business or landed a great job? When you paid off your debts?

At every point in your life when you felt content or happy, you can probably find you were either making progress toward a goal or had reached a goal

2. “But contentment becomes boredom immediately that new goals do not come to view.”

Without a new goal, you get bored. Boredom leads to stress and misery. For example, planning a vacation is exciting. But toward the end of a vacation many people are bored to tears as they no longer have a goal.

Arguments during honeymoons are common if the newlyweds do not set goals for their marriage.

Planning your retirement and the first day of retirement is a thrill. But the joy of freedom quickly turns to boredom and early death if you do not work on new goals.

“There is no more unhappy thing than a man who has accomplished all his ends in life.”

Think of a time you were very bored. Had you completed a major goal without starting a new one? Look at other times you were bored. Examine your goals, or lack of goals, at those times.

3. “Happiness could be defined as the emotion of progress toward desirable goals.”

We can use this definition to understand unhappiness as well. When were you last unhappy?

In each case, you probably 1) had no goal, 2) were trying to reach an undesirable goal, or 3) you were making no progress toward a goal.

Using the definition of happiness makes happiness easy to achieve. Simply chose desirable goals and make progress toward them!

Exercises

The following steps will help you put this definition of happiness to use.

1. List goals you have not yet reached.

Small goals, large goals, old goals, failed goals and current goals. Make a very complete list.

2. Circle those goals that interest you the most.

Drop out the goals that do not excite you as you can’t reach a goal unless it interests you.

However, if an uninteresting goal is vital for you to reach, find ways to get excited about that goal. Examine the goal’s benefits. For example, maybe the goal to “Pay off all debts” does not thrill you until you examine the benefits: Save $5319 in interest this year, financial freedom, less anxiety.

If you cannot find any benefits of the goal, eliminate it.

3. Add new, desirable goals.

Push the envelope of your self limitations and set goals you really, really want. What are your greatest desires?

If you had unlimited time, money and support, what would your life be like? What would you do? What would you have?

If you knew you could accomplish ANYTHING, what would your goals be?

Add these goals to the list.

4. Line up your goals in a logical sequence.

The better your goals align with each other, the more likely you will reach them. For instance, if you have a goal to travel the world for six months this year and another goal to make more money this year than ever before, you might have problems.

However, if you line up your goals, your odds of success are better because your focus is constant. Example of aligned goals: “Finish my training program so I can double my productivity and income.” “Help my husband lower our monthly debts so we can spend more time with the kids.” “Delegate all of my sales activities to the sales manager so I can open a new office.”

5. To complete the procedure and become happier, you now need to start making progress toward your goals.

Big steps or baby steps, any progress is progress.

Plan out next week. Plan out the month of January. Plan your best year ever.

Make a new habit of reviewing your goals each day to keep your attention and efforts aligned with your goals. At the start of each day, ask yourself: What can I do today to make progress toward my goals?

The more progress you make toward your most desired goals, the happier and more successful your new year will be!

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Myths about work can hurt your progress. “Work is not supposed to be fun.” “You must buckle down and get serious.”

Perhaps the biggest myth of all: “People will think I’m important if I act seriously.” Yet getting serious creates problems: stress, worry, anxiety, emotional pain, drudgery and failure.

Resolving problems by getting more serious is like fixing a computer with a hammer. The harder you try, the worse the problem becomes.

“When life becomes serious, a man becomes less cause and greater effect. If life gets really serious, his value drops to practically zero. Driving a car can become such serious business that one can wreck the car. Running a business can become so serious as to make it fail. There is a direct connection between insanity and seriousness.” “It is only when an individual progresses in life to a point where much seriousness is attached to things that he begins to have a hard time. The ancient Italian really knew what he was about when he considered that the only psychotherapy was laughter.” — L. Ron Hubbard

12 Ways to Lighten Up

Approaching your life with a non-serious attitude gives you a clearheaded view of difficulties and the energy to deal with them. Problems are easier to solve, people are more cooperative and you feel more relaxed. You probably live longer and more successfully, as well.

Try these ideas until you find one that lightens you up.

1. Deliberately turn a molehill into a mountain. Make a big deal out of a little problem. “I would feel much better if these papers were stacked exactly like this! Not like that! Like this! Not this! This!”

2. Ask yourself, “Is getting serious about this situation really going to improve it?”

3. Focusing on the positives. “What is right about this situation?” “What else is right?” “What else?”

4. Consider a complete, major change. For example, go back to school, move to the ocean, start a new career.

5. Ask yourself, “When I’m on my deathbed, will I be glad I was so serious about _______?”

6. A challenging game is much better than no game at all. So consider losing all aspects of the problem. Examples: You feel serious about family problems. You ask yourself, “Well, what if I had no family at all?” You feel serious about your investments. You ask yourself, “What if I had no money to invest?”

7. The size of your problem may match the size of your game. So get a bigger game. For example, if you get uptight about paper clips being in the wrong drawer, your game size is tiny. Double your amount of responsibility. Set some huge goals. Succeed by thinking much, much bigger.

8. Stop trying to solve the problem that is making you so serious. Certain types of problems solve themselves if you leave them alone. Your problem may be one of those.

9. Compare what you are doing to other careers. Imagine being a septic tank drainer or a tax collector.

10. Make everyone around you lighten up.

11. Look at bizarre solutions. What is the craziest way you could solve your problem? What solution, if it worked, would make you laugh out loud?

12. Act stupid for a minute. Let down your hair. Stop being so darn important for a while. Be a goof!

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Today I am going to talk about keeping the spark shining. Or to put it another way, how to be happy most, if not all the time.
Where do these sparks start? I think we are born with them.

My 3-year old twin boys have a million sparks. A little Spiderman toy can make them jump on the bed. They get thrills from creaky swings in the park. A story from daddy gets them excited. They do a daily countdown for birthday party – several months in advance – just for the day they will cut their own birthday cake.

I see students like you, and I still see some sparks. But when I see older people, the spark is difficult to find. That means as we age, the spark fades. People whose spark has faded too much are dull, dejected, aimless and bitter. Remember Kareena in the first half of Jab We Met vs the second half? That is what happens when the spark is lost. So how to save the spark?
Imagine the spark to be a lamp’s flame. The first aspect is nurturing – to give your spark the fuel, continuously. The second is to guard against storms.

To nurture, always have goals. It is human nature to strive, improve and achieve full potential. In fact, that is success. It is what is possible for you. It isn’t any external measure – a certain cost to company pay package, a particular car or house.
Most of us are from middle class families. To us, having material landmarks is success and rightly so. When you have grown up where money constraints force everyday choices, financial freedom is a big achievement. But it isn’t the purpose of life. If that was the case, Mr. Ambani would not show up for work. Shah Rukh Khan would stay at home and not dance anymore. Steve Jobs won’t be working hard to make a better iPhone, as he sold Pixar for billions of dollars already.

Why do they do it? What makes them come to work everyday? They do it because it makes them happy. They do it because it makes them feel alive Just getting better from current levels feels good. If you study hard, you can improve your rank. If you make an effort to interact with people, you will do better in interviews. If you practice, your cricket will get better. You may also know that you cannot become Tendulkar, yet. But you can get to the next level. Striving for that next level is important.

Nature designed with a random set of genes and circumstances in which we were born. To be happy, we have to accept it and make the most of nature’s design. Are you? Goals will help you do that. I must add, don’t just have career or academic goals. Set goals to give you a balanced, successful life. I use the word balanced before successful. Balanced means ensuring your health, relationships, mental peace are all in good order. There is no point of getting a promotion on the day of your breakup. There is no fun in driving a car if your back hurts. Shopping is not enjoyable if your mind is full of tensions.

You must have read some quotes – Life is a tough race, it is a marathon or whatever. No, from what I have seen so far, life is one of those races in nursery school, where you have to run with a marble in a spoon kept in your mouth. If the marble falls, there is no point coming first. Same with life, where health and relationships are the marble. Your striving is only worth it if there is harmony in your life. Else, you may achieve the success, but this spark, this feeling of being excited and alive, will start to die.

One last thing about nurturing the spark – don’t take life seriously. One of my yoga teachers used to make students laugh during classes. One student asked him if these jokes would take away something from the yoga practice. The teacher said – don’t be serious, be sincere. This quote has defined my work ever since. Whether its my writing, my job, my relationships or any of my goals. I get thousands of opinions on my writing everyday. There is heaps of praise, there is intense criticism. If I take it all seriously, how will I write? Or rather, how will I live? Life is not to be taken seriously, as we are really temporary here. We are like a pre-paid card with limited validity. If we are lucky, we may last another 50 years. And 50 years is just 2,500 weekends. Do we really need to get so worked up? It’s ok, bunk a few classes, goof up a few interviews, fall in love. We are people, not programmed devices.

I’ve told you three things – reasonable goals, balance and not taking it too seriously that will nurture the spark. However, there are four storms in life that will threaten to completely put out the flame. These must be guarded against. These are disappointment, frustration, unfairness and loneliness of purpose.

Disappointment will come when your effort does not give you the expected return. If things don’t go as planned or if you face failure. Failure is extremely difficult to handle, but those that do come out stronger. What did this failure teach me? is the question you will need to ask. You will feel miserable. You will want to quit, like I wanted to when nine publishers rejected my first book. Some IITians kill themselves over low grades – how silly is that? But that is how much failure can hurt you. But it’s life. If challenges could always be overcome, they would cease to be a challenge. And remember – if you are failing at something, that means you are at your limit or potential. And that’s where you want to be.

Disappointment’ s cousin is Frustration, the second storm. Have you ever been frustrated? It happens when things are stuck. This is especially relevant in India. From traffic jams to getting that job you deserve, sometimes things take so long that you don’t know if you chose the right goal. After books, I set the goal of writing for Bollywood, as I thought they needed writers. I am called extremely lucky, but it took me five years to get close to a release. Frustration saps excitement, and turns your initial energy into something negative, making you a bitter person. How did I deal with it? A realistic assessment of the time involved – movies take a long time to make even though they are watched quickly, seeking a certain enjoyment in the process rather than the end result – at least I was learning how to write scripts, having a side plan – I had my third book to write and even something as simple as pleasurable distractions in your life – friends, food, travel can help you overcome it. Remember, nothing is to be taken seriously. Frustration is a sign somewhere, you took it too seriously.

Unfairness – this is hardest to deal with, but unfortunately that is how our country works. People with connections, rich dads, beautiful faces, pedigree find it easier to make it – not just in Bollywood, but everywhere. And sometimes it is just plain luck. There are so few opportunities in India, so many stars need to be aligned for you to make it happen. Merit and hard work is not always linked to achievement in the short term, but the long term correlation is high, and ultimately things do work out. But realize, there will be some people luckier than you. In fact, to have an opportunity to go to college and understand this speech in English means you are pretty damm lucky by Indian standards. Let’s be grateful for what we have and get the strength to accept what we don’t. I have so much love from my readers that other writers cannot even imagine it. However, I don’t get literary praise. It’s ok. I don’t look like Aishwarya Rai, but I have two boys who I think are more beautiful than her. It’s ok. Don’t let unfairness kill your spark.

Finally, the last point that can kill your spark is Isolation. As you grow older you will realize you are unique. When you are little, all kids want Ice cream and Spiderman. As you grow older to college, you still are a lot like your friends. But ten years later and you realize you are unique. What you want, what you believe in, what makes you feel, may be different from even the people closest to you. This can create conflict as your goals may not match with others. And you may drop some of them. Basketball captains in college invariably stop playing basketball by the time they have their second child. They give up something that meant so much to them. They do it for their family. But in doing that, the spark dies. Never, ever make that compromise. Love yourself first, and then others.

There you go. I’ve told you the four thunderstorms – disappointment, frustration, unfairness and isolation. You cannot avoid them, as like the monsoon they will come into your life at regular intervals. You just need to keep the raincoat handy to not let the spark die.

I welcome you again to the most wonderful years of your life. If someone gave me the choice to go back in time, I will surely choose college. But I also hope that ten years later as well, your eyes will shine the same way as they do today. That you will Keep the Spark alive, not only through college, but through the next 2,500 weekends. And I hope not just you, but my whole country will keep that spark alive, as we really need it now more than any moment in history. And there is something cool about saying – I come from the land of a billion sparks.

- Chetan Bhagat
Writer

Chetan Bhagat is a one of India’s most popular writers of English fiction, rated by New York Times as the greatest selling Indian author of all time; he was also included by Time Magazine in the list of the most influential people in 2010. His best selling books include Five Point Someone, One Night at a Call Centre, The 3 Mistakes of My Life and Two States. Some of his books have been adapted to make Bollywood films. The above speech was delivered by him to welcome a new batch of BBA students at the Symbiosis Institute of Management Studies in Pune, India.

Here I have sorted a few ways to be happy at work.

1. SMILE!
Smile to everyone around you. Even if you hate the people around you, all you got to do is smile and be happy for yourself. Don’t mind who thinks what about you. The more you smile, the less complex everything else will seem to you.

2. Develop
This is a fast paced selfish world. The sooner you realize the better. So, don’t wait for someone to come, hold your hand and help you develop personally and professionally. You’re in charge of your own self and it is your responsibility to look out for all possible opportunities to develop in every possible way.

3. Always ask for feedback
For anyone to prosper it is always important to gain feedback from the experienced and the less experienced. One can never achieve growth if they are just doing something aimlessly, as one just ends up making innumerable mistakes.

4. Meet deadlines
It is important to meet deadlines at work as that creates a good impression about you. However, make sure that you never over-promise and under-deliver.

5. Stay positive
Avoid as much negativity possible. Think about it, when you speak negative about anyone, do you feel any better? It’s just spoils your mood even more. So try and avoid such negative interactions. Let people be the way they are. You have the power to change, but only yourself. So just be indifferent to negativity and be happy.

May be a new job could be the answer to your problems, but the right attitude, a positive mindset, a desire and commitment to continuously develop, improve and accomplish are pre-requisites for a permanent ticket to happiness and fulfillment at work.

Given below is a list of self development tips that will help you achieve success:

1. Assess yourself
First, start by examining yourself. Everyone is in need of self development. So, don’t ever think you don’t . Rather, think about the areas you need to work on. Once you do that, decide on how to go about it.

2. List your goals
When you decide to work on self development, it’s very important to have a clear set of goals. So, make a list of goals you want to achieve and remember to monitor those on a regular basis so that you keep yourself focused.

3. Accept change
If you keep whining about, why good things aren’t happening to you, then you need to press the stop button at the earliest. It’s only because sometimes we just aren’t ready to accept changes. Whether good or bad, the world around us is constantly evolving with changes. So, why should you be waiting?

4. Forget the past
All of us have a past that just makes us feel uncomfortable. But constantly looking into the past and getting depressed about it will simply stub our growth. Instead look ahead at what you can do now.

5. Take hobby classes.
Life is a continuous learning process. Don’t think of age as a barrier. Instead take hobby classes to develop a new talent.

6. Identify your weaknesses
Nobody is perfect. Everyone is born with weaknesses. And we can only live a successful life, if we identify and work towards overcoming them.

7. Challenge yourself

Think of impossible goals as a challenge. Because when you work hard towards achieving them, you will understand the meaning of achievement better. Don’t settle for something easier, as you will never learn anything new.

8. Don’t stop.
There is no such end to self development. With learning, comes development. And both are a lifelong process. So, don’t you ever stop and enjoy developing yourself.

Article contributed by Namrata More.

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Within the pages of author Michael E. Lanphere’s new Xulon Press book, In His Image: Discovering Your God Given, Inborn Personality Characteristics ($15.99, paperback, 978-1-61579-807-0), readers will learn how to broaden and enhance their personality preferences, both for themselves and for those to whom they relate.

“The readers should come away with an ability to use their personality preferences in a balanced way that will enable them to see from a broader perspective,” the author says. “When it comes to making decisions, they will begin to understand how to approach people and processes in a way that is most suited for the moment. This book shows people how to use all of their functions regarding gathering information and evaluating that data.”

The book is the result of the Lanpheres’ success over the last 30 years using the MBTI and Keirsey Temperment assessments in pre-marital and marriage counseling. They have also been teaching a 20-hour seminar called “In His Image” for 23 years helping missionaries understand personality dynamics. The Lanpheres, themselves being mirror opposites, have tried and tested the principles in this book in their own marriage. Readers will find help in every relationship by these principles that bring illumination, transformation, and empowerment to live in harmony with one another.

Xulon Press, a division of Salem Communications, is one of the world’s largest publishers, with more than 7,000 titles published to date. Retailers may order In His Image through Ingram Book Company and/or Spring Arbor Book Distributors. In His Image is available online through xulonpress.com/bookstore, amazon.com, and barnesandnoble.com.

As a 27 year old self made millionaire and entrepreneur, Jordan’s success started far earlier than most, beginning in business before he was even 10 years old. Following his passion, Jordan started his first company, an aircraft brokerage at 14 years old, and sold it by the time he was 18, while at the same time earning his commercial pilot’s license. Now a serial entrepreneur and aerobatic air-show pilot, Jordan Wirsz has dedicated his life to the enrichment of people’s lives around the globe. In 2010, Jordan will be speaking in more than 8 countries, and 2011 is already slated for 14 countries.

The Las Vegas Sun wrote “Tony Robbins, check directly behind you. You might see a motivational speaker from Las Vegas…” Jordan is taking his lifelong dedication to the art of being a “mentalist” and using it to help people transform their lives. “Most people don’t know that I I help more than the Rich and Famous” Wirsz Said. “While I have mentored Fortune 500 CEOs, multi-billionaires and Hollywood celebrities, I also work with drug addicts and people afflicted with all kinds of addictions.” Little known, Jordan Wirsz has helped over a half-dozen people get off of of Meth, one of the world’s most powerful drugs, relapse FREE. How? Find out with an interview of this up and coming personal development superstar.

To learn more about Jordan’s incredible story, please contact Rachael Campbell, Director of Public Relations for Jordan Wirsz International, or Youtube/Google Jordan Wirsz

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