General Information About Anxiety

Common Characteristics of Anxiety

Medically, anxiety is defined as a state of apprehension, fear or uneasiness about some impending or anticipated event. 
It is a specific emotional reaction, which may be accompanied by a variety of physical symptoms, such as difficulty in swallowing, diarrhea, muscle tension or irregular heartbeats.

Anxiety is one of the most common of all emotions. In some situations such as one involving physical

Don't Pity Yourself, Pretty Yourself

Life is unfair so there are more than a few reasons to have a pity party. I've stood at the bedside of a child dying of cancer; and with a woman who lost her children in a nasty divorce; and with a family who lost their mother and father in a single car crash.

You too have reasons to pity yourself, some worse than those above, and some not near as bad. Go ahead and list your reasons for pity if you want.

3 Steps To Beating Shyness At Work - Discover How To Progress And Win That Promotion

You probably don't need me to tell you that shyness is likely to hold you back and hamper your success at work. After all, success means more money when you have a job so it's time you stopped sitting on the sidelines watching your colleagues grab the opportunities that you really deserve. Follow this 3 step plan and you'll be achieving and progressing at work in no time at all.

If shyness is a problem for you in the workplace then you have probably missed many chances of promotion and career opportunities in the past.

Start by Not Judging Yourself

Stop Judging Yourself

I think weaknesses are a necessity to prevent you from wasting your life's purpose. As an example, there are many things that we may be interested in, but it does not necessarily mean we should make a living with them. We know what we should and should not be concentrating on by knowing our weaknesses.

Insecurity prevents you from making informed decisions and often results in seeking the opinions of others

You Are Beautiful !

 Sometimes you have to stand alone, and weather the storms in life. Though many leaves may fall, you must learn how to look to your roots and say to yourself, that you are still beautiful! The pain of rejection, abuse, past failures, health conditions, or ruined relationships, seems at times, unbearable; however, you must not give up. 

Accept Yourself and Be Happy

By Michael Ssali

Did you look in the mirror this morning? 

Were you unsatisfied with your facial appearance? 

Are you too fat or are you too skinny? 

How to Beat Your Shyness

Shyness is one of those things that is cute in babies and small children but can hold us back as we grow older. It can stop us approaching people we'd like to meet or even hold us back at work. We all suffer from shyness occasionally but if it's your default mode it's worth tackling it head on.

Often shyness is linked to our self image - how we portray ourselves in our minds. Which is often totally unrelated to how other people perceive us but that's another issue completely!

If you are always thinking of yourself as a quiet person, that's not going to help matters. But, equally, it's unlikely that simply trying to change your thoughts will have much effect either.

I Lost My Job, But I Found My Purpose

Often purpose can be hidden in the midst of pain, but many times if it was not for the pain we would not have had an opportunity to discover, and activate our purpose. 

I was blessed to find my purpose as a result of losing my corporate job due to downsizing. I never imagined that there was a bigger plan that God had for my life outside of working my corporate job. 

I was happy working my job, but deep inside I always felt like there was more, I felt like something was missing. 

Small Steps Lead to Big Changes Over Time

Every single big goal you have can be broken down into a series of small steps.

This is the essence of self improvement: finding the small steps you can take now that will lead to big changes over time.

I've been practicing self improvement for almost 10 years now. Today, I look back on all the changes I've made and I can barely recognize who I once was.

But this change didn't happen overnight. It was slow, gradual, and it had many ups and downs.

In the moment, the goals and obstacles in our lives can seem very scary and daunting. This is why it's important to identify the small steps you can begin taking today that will eventually lead to those goals being accomplished.

Achieve Your Dreams - Forget What You Believe

To achieve your dreams, you must sometimes forget what you believe and do things that you once thought were impossible. The beliefs that we have about who we are and what we can accomplish are extremely limiting. We must all learn to break free from the grips of the ego if we want to achieve everything we are capable of.

Never Give Up, Great Things Take Time

I'm certain you've been there before. No matter how hard you try all your efforts seem to be in vain. Don't despair, for some of life's greatest victories have come to those who have persisted despite external conditions. There is no finite, linear progression toward the realisation of one's goals. Success is achieved through a series of setbacks, dead ends and smaller victories.

The journey toward your goals is clothed in the person you become, more than the goal that you set out to achieve. Successful leaders will advise you that it was the journey not the fulfilment of the goal which is most satisfying. You might recall Thomas Edison overcame repeated setbacks and failures to discover the light bulb. It took him no less than 1,000 attempts to invent what is regarded as history's greatest inventions.

5 Things Necessary For The 2014 Potential Driven Person

Are you looking to make 2014 a year that releases more of your potential? If yes than these 5 things listed below are necessary. If no then this does not apply.

1. Abandon Your Excuses - Take responsibility for your life and the things you desire to achieve.

Why Passion Is Essential To Happiness And Fulfilment

The Oxford dictionary defines passion as a strong and barely controllable emotion. An intense desire or enthusiasm for something.

In other words, passion is a feeling. It describes how we feel about something. So where does this feeling come from?

Ancient Egyptians believed that the heart rather than the brain, was responsible for feelings and emotion and was the source of human wisdom as well as the connection to soul and the creator of human existence. As the heart was considered to be the most important organ, it was not removed from the body during mummification.

8 Steps To A Happier Life At Work And At Home - The Power of The Positive

1. Be a Glass Half Full Person, Not a Glass Half Empty One.

Some people look at the glass and their minds tell them that it is half empty. Others look at exactly the same glass and they see a glass that is half full. Why do they see it differently? The first response comes from people who tend to see everything in negative terms. The second comes from people who always see things in positive terms. They have learnt to look at life that way.

I Want to Build a Better Life

Building a better life  can be difficult, there's no doubt about that.

Many people are more driven to stay comfortable and keep the "status quo" rather than make a dramatic change to their lives - even if that change is a positive one and it's ultimately for the better.