Articles about Personal Development

If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things. The quote above is by Albert Einstein and it is perhaps one of my favorite quotes by him. It implies that in order to live a joyful and fulfilling life, you need something beyond what you can hold in your hands, such as purpose and direction. When life feels unsatisfying, it is...

Far more important than fixing all the problems you are constantly worried about is dealing directly with compulsive thinking, which is what makes all of your problems seem worse than they really are. When you come to the realization that it is your own mind you are suffering more so than the circumstance you are in, you are already well on your way to reco...

One of the diseases that has perhaps caused more harm than any other disease, is the disease of compulsive thinking. It steals both our time here on earth and our well-being. By keeping us in an elevated survival mode, compulsive thinking effectively sustains an overload on our nervous system thus constantly pulling us away from living our life here and now....

Don't just explore it inspite that it scares you. Explore it BECAUSE it scares you. One of the things that can feel truly liberating, is awakening to the reality that nothing holds power over us but ourselves. This, in fact, is one of the first big steps in the direction of awakening to the empowered and free self. But as you may already have realize...

Life does not work in favor of your plans, goals, and dreams. It works in favor of showing you what you have built against your own happiness. It may only seem logical that happiness is the ultimate purpose of life since it hides at the end of every decision we make. Even when our decisions intuitively seem to go against this observation, they still have...

Underneath all the layers of doubt, expectations, desires, and sorrows lies the true peaceful self ever-present waiting to be re-discovered. When we arrive at a place on our journey where we want to let go of something, it's because we, on some level, have become aware that what we are currently experiencing in our body and mind is no longer serving u...

To love someone means to set them free. But before we can do that, we must learn to free ourselves. Only when we recognize that only we are responsible for whatever we bring with us out into the world, can we meet it without expectation. We must see that it is our responsibility to actively set boundaries and do what we desire and not the job of the world...

What binds us to self-esteem is our identification with the limited conceptual self. It is a product of a temporary surrendering to the illusion that there are certain universal laws that we should live up to. When we are somehow reminded to measure ourselves against these laws and find ourselves inadequate in comparison, we enter a state of fear. We all ha...

The secret to unlocking your full potential is knowing that you can never truly become aligned with anything other than how you feel. If you are like most, you have probably experienced feeling excited about a new goal you have decided on, and feeling convinced that this time you have finally found the motivation that was missing all along just to throw i...

"If you aren't happy, you are worrying." We like to tell ourselves that when we don't feel happy it's because things aren't going our way. But then again, when we are happy it often feels like things can only go our way and nothing can bring us down. Well at least until something does... Why is it that it can sometimes feel lik...

Worrying is not only the number one cause of stress. It's also the only cause of stress. If you control your worrying, you control your stress. Stress is only here to serve your worrying and nothing else. Stress is of course a natural thing to experience for all of us since it is simply our natural response to a perceived threat. When we are escaping...

Life does not work in favor of your plans, goals, and dreams. It works in favor of showing you what limitations you have built against yourself. One of the big pains in life is feeling that our destiny is based on our history. We tend to get into this feeling when we imagine a certain future or present situation having an outcome similar to a situation th...