Bryan C. Fleming

Hey everyone, today we have a guest post from Corinna Underwood, a member of Debt Management Talk, a personal finance forum that shares its revenue with their members.  Many thanks to the people over at Debt Management Talk.

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No matter how skillful or gifted or successful you may be in your career and your personal life, this will count for nothing if you are not correctly attuned mentally. A lack of preparation, worries over performance, a loss of confidence, procrastination – all these can mean sudden death to your successful business transaction, to an important meeting, and even to a crucial life decision. Recognizing this and breaking through personal growth barriers that create these problems can help you fulfill your true potential. Here are three main barriers that affect your personal growth, and how you can break through them.  (more…)

Wow.  I don’t know what happened this week, but we had 64 submissions to the personal growth carnival.  That’s a new record I might add.

It seems some authors submitted a bunch of stories, so I only included what I thought was their best one.  This dropped the number of submissions a little, but there is still a LOT of articles this week.  Thank you to everyone who submitted.  Enjoy the carnival.

Personal Growth

Matthew Paulson presents How to Win People to Your Way of Thinking posted at Getting Green.

Ivan Rios presents How to Deal With Envy posted at artofleading.net.

Charles H. Green presents Apologies, Forgiving and Forgiveness posted at Trust Matters, saying, “A true apology doesn’t ask for forgiveness, it seeks to make right, and maybe, just maybe, the grace of forgiveness will follow, but if not remember always that an apology is about them, notyou.”

Phil B. presents How to Really Increase Your Self Confidence « Phil for Humanity posted at Phil for Humanity, saying, “Almost everyone needs a boost in their self confidence, yet few of us know how.” (more…)

Playing the stock market is a lot like gambling.  Actually I like it better than gambling.  Maybe it’s because you keep your chips on the table everyday.  Maybe it’s because the stock market is at least set up for you to win.  I don’t know.  It’s just become fun to play.

Yesterday at 2:25 PM I opened my web-browser.  It automatically opens to a personalized Google Home page so I can see all my stocks.  I can’t help but watch the market all day.  It’s pretty cool.  (more…)