101 lessons learned from Personal Development

[makessense]

101. Planning a little goes a very long way.
100. Don't read so much, take action.
99. If what you're attempting is too overwhelming, you're not ready... take baby steps.

Please continue for all to acknowledge your lessons.

[writerros]

98. What you focus on you create.
97. The more you give the more you receive
96. Do what you love doing

Ros

[shivraj]

95)Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later the man who wins, is the man who thinks he can - 'I-Can' attitude.

94)Joy,Happiness is not in things; it is in us. - Inside happiness

93)Real motivation comes from an unselfish cause.

[makessense]

So far, so good. I really like 93.

[DayInTheLife]

92) Everyone has the same 24-hours-per-day 'time budget' to spend on whatever they want. Be a smart shopper.

[Sam988]

91) Be realistic. Having unreal expectations makes you create unreal plans that will end up not being accomplished because of a lack of motivation for accomplishing them, since they look so hard.

90) The word ACTION really can't be stressed enough. After planning, it's the most important thing to do, yet many people (myself included, many times) get lost in the "planning" phase and never get to the "action" step.

89) The guy who is going to post next may say the exact contrary of what i'm saying. He may say that you create reality and there's no such thing as "unreal expectation". Conclusion: don't take other people's words or advices too seriously without first checking them with your own life experience. Therefore, don't consider people's advices in this topic to be the ultimate truth. Find your own truths according to your experience.

[uberinquisitive]

This goes along with - setting realistic goals:

88. People overestimate what they can do in 1 year, but underestimate what they can do in 5 years

[distinctionsforlife]

87. Measure what matters
86. Do one thing at a time. Switching from task to task can cost you up to 40% efficiency.
85. Think Big. "You will become as small as your controlling desire, as great as your dominant aspiration." - James Allen.

[Matt Willard]

84. **** happens. Take a deep breath, push it aside, and move on.
83. Choose what works for you. Take advice if you want, but in the end, commit to what you feel is right.

[AlexG]

82. All knowledge is ultimately self-knowledge.
81. Provide value through your passion and purpose.
80. Express yourself fully and completely and let the chips fall where they may. Its your life.

[Life Coach UK]

79. Find what you love to do and then do it with love.
78. Celebrate your failures as well as your successes along the way. You can't learn without failing!
77. From Neale Donald Walsch (in the secret), "There is no blackboard in the sky on which God has written your purpose..."
It is for you to define while you are here.
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Kind regards,

Dan O'Neil
Life Coaching
Personal Development

[seeker5]

76. Beware of deep, unconscious limiting belief. They can keep you from getting what you want so much, they can render useless most of your actions. Uncover them, and remove their power by installing a better, empowering belief.

[cheech]

75. doing something is usually better than doing nothing, and if you can't choose between 2 options, it's probably because they're about as good. so just pick one and go with it (flip a coin if you have to)

[Ceoarob]

74. Avoid the traps of the masses. Most people do what they do because they don't realize they are doing it.

73. Learn to educate yourself. Not from the institutions, but from knowledge that cannot be learned from an ordinary classroom.

72. Change yourself to change your surroundings

71. Thought only goes so far, it is action that does the rest

70. Learn to learn and you will learn that learning takes care of itself

69. Belief alone causes delusion, belief backed by action causes greatness

68. Attitudes are contagious.

[hkalchemy]

67. Work with nature, not against it. Conserve your energy for important things.

[igmistro]

66. Keep a sense of humor, especially about yourself. It's a strength beyond all measure.

[makessense]

Originally Posted by igmistro

66. Keep a sense of humor, especially about yourself. It's a strength beyond all measure.

Yea, i definitely think people tend to take themselves too seriously and never have fun. Good lesson

[eruso]

65. If there is something you don't love about yourself, work on it. Otherwise love yourself.

[AWOL]

64. Don't rush what doesn't need to be rushed

65. If you feel down look up (focus on happy things)

66. You can't have everything you want, but try anyway

[The David]

#100 is the heart and soul of my own personal development at this time.

61. Live in awareness of change, death, and the fact that we aren't always in control.

60. Trust your perceptions. They may be wrong, but they are all you have. Cherish them until you find something better. And you probably will.

[metamorph]

59) whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world. Outflow determines inflow! (Tolle, New Earth)
58) You can resist or you can be free.

[Murre]

57) Life will give you whatevever experience most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness. (Absolutely love this quote from Tolle!)

56) As long as you thoughts, words and actions come from the right place (no ego), life flows with ease and everyone starts treating you much better. People sense egoic actions unconsiously and consciously, and they REACT to it. This has been a serious epiphany for me lately.

55) The human sense of humour is one of their greatest assets.

[ar81]

Originally Posted by Ceoarob

68. Attitudes are contagious.

68.1. Be careful of epidemic sense of being powerless. TV shows, history books, movies and other media use to try to convince you that you can't change the world, while historical characters can. Those who made it into history changed the world. Gandhi, Jesus, Buda.

Not only rich and powerful men change the world. Jesus was not rich. Mother Teresa of Calcuta was not a man.

Hitites were a military power that won over Egypt. None of their rulers is known today. We only know about the greatness of the losing side. So winning a war is not an omen of being in history books.

In the year 250 AC China did not exist, only 3 kingdoms and you do not know their names, let alone the names of their rulers.

Jesus was a poor man who taught about love. And he prevailed longer than those warriors. Buddha lived 500 years before Christ.

Politicians exaggerate their importance. Millions of people died for countries that do not exist today during human history. You do not need to be rich or a world leader to change the world.

[techguykelly]

54 - Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
53 - Limitations live only in our minds.

[Orange]

52. You dont gain things in your life, you just replace other things. So be carefull what you let in and spend your time on. Make sure you are passionate about it if you fill your life with passion then you will always be happy

51. Its how you relate to things that creates there value. The pablo piccaso quote explains this well "I would like to be a poor man with lots of money"

50. Anything and everything is just as real as what you think is real now.

[metamorph]

49. Practice,practice, practice!

You do not become good at playing the piano by reading about it or by taking a lesson once a week. You have to practice ideally every day. The same applies for changing beliefs and habits. The same applies to personal growth!

[alexb5784]

48. You can't make Peace you have to BE Peace.

[moggi]

47. Be yourself.

[SonoranBob]

46. Enlightenment isn't nearly so much about gaining knowledge, as letting go of knowledge. As Mark Twain said, "It ain't what people don't know that gets them in trouble. It's what they know that ain't so."

[javamannen2]

45. Establish new habits one at a time. If you're falling behind schedule, prioritize maintaining already established habits.