I’ve been fortunate to have started learning psychology during the times when it had been literally on a growth explosion. In 1995 during my first year of university, I was introduced to several key players who influenced my direction in learning about psychology. Among them, Martin Seligman and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, the two pillars of modern positive psychology.
Principles Of Personal Transformation: The Energy Factor
Although I’m a trained MBTI administrator and have been teaching that stuff for quite a number of years already, I am still surprised by the fact that there are other dynamics.
Principles Of Personal Transformation: The Paradox Of Life
Perhaps you are one of many millions of people all around the world who want to achieve personal success. Perhaps, you are someone who has set goals and set your mind to achieve these goals. Maybe, you have even been successful. At least for a while. The irony of the pursuit of success is that it begins to feed people in different ways. Some people are fed the success of wealth. Others, the success of love. And still others, the success of wisdom. Whatever the case, the Paradox Principle is what drives ultimate success in the world. Our job is to be able to accept the Paradoxes that occur in our lives, and be able to flexibly maneuver through these apparent obstacles to manage our successes.
Personal Development Singapore: How To Stop Procrastination #3 – vicious cycles
It’s quite intriguing to pick up on this topic after an absence of a couple of weeks. Someone dropped me a message and said that the content that I had mentioned in a previous procrastination post had too much common sense and the reader demanded that I put up information that doesn’t contain such motherhood statements.
Personal Development: How To Stop Procrastinating #2
So I surfed the net and I found some people who are dishing out weird and odd ideas for beating procrastination. For example, someone suggested that if you hypnotize yourself, you will cause irreparable damage and prevent you from really taking control of yourself and your habits.
Hm.
Procrastination is habit, and I know that there are times we need to build a habit to save time. However, it’s also important for you to recognize the fact that if you were to ‘hypnotize’ yourself, you might as well do it right.
photo credit: ~ Maryam ~
Personal Development: How To Stop Procrastinating #1
It took me about a year to write this post (just kidding).
It’s a common disease. But it’s not in any medical journal ever. I believe, however, that chronic procrastination is a disease, and it is something that everyone experiences at some time or another.
So why do we procrastinate?
There are so many reasons behind procrastination. Who knows, it might be due to some traumatic experience you had as a child. A fear or a sense of self-doubt. Maybe the desire for a sense of freedom? A desire to just laze around? Maybe, ironically, a supreme level of (over)confidence?