Personal Development
What is the Diathesis-Stress Model?
51 year ago
Many doctors and therapists face a difficult challenge in trying to prescribe the same treatment to multiple different individuals for one particular problem. The reason for this, in part, is of course that different individuals are just that: different! To help explain the mix of factors that go into whether or not someone is susceptible [...]
Why Learning About the ‘Law of Attraction’ is a Waste of Time!
71 year ago
Just about everybody has heard of the movie, The Secret, and I have talked to countless different people I know personally who are still raving about the idea of the Law of Attraction to this day. In fact, I heard about the film way before the majority of the public had when it had just [...]
Creating a Life Transformation From the Ground Up
11 year ago
Most people are unwilling to change. The reason for the static nature of people’s own personal resolutions is that once you perform a specific behavior for long enough, it becomes routine and when it’s routine: it’s predictable. Predictability creates comfort and comfort is pretty addicting. Of course, people that are serious about creating change in [...]
10 Things To Do While Being Single
111 year ago
For one of the first times in my life I have been enjoying being single. And I mean, really single. In fact, I’ve been spending so much time alone I have actually gotten quite comfortable with spending time alone. Eventually, once you get into the groove of getting things done and accomplishing things entirely for [...]
Deserving
51 year ago
A thought recently came to mind as to whether or not “deserving” something made a difference as to whether or not it was given or gotten. When it all comes down to it, the whole idea of “deserving” is actually sort of a strange one in modern society and I think the entire concept of [...]
A Brief Description of the Long Term Survival Model
61 year ago
During my long absence away from writing and going to college I began doing a lot more heavy research than I had originally done, on anything. What I am about to share with you is the basic core idea of the new book that I am currently working on. In order to get the full [...]
Response to Reader: Missi of MissisMusings.com – What Can Science Prove?
42 years ago
I got an interesting comment the other day on my entry which explained why I have begun writing in this blog again after over a year of being away from it. I decided it would be a good idea to, not just respond to the commenter, create a post out of the comment for the [...]
Why Steve Pavlina is WRONG!
142 years ago
Uh oh, I said it. Some of you may have heard about this guy, Steve Pavlina, because of his successful blogging ventures but more importantly because he is the author of a book which hit Barnes & Noble shelves a while back known as Personal Development for Smart People: The Conscious Pursuit of Personal Growth. [...]
The Foundation of Genius Thought
04 years ago
Originally written July 23rd, 2003 For so long, and in so many ways has the concept of ‘genius’ fascinated the average population and majority of mankind. The thing that we always ask ourselves about these talented individuals, is how do they pull off these things that they do seemingly effortlessly? It seems incredible to many [...]
The Importance of Self Esteem
34 years ago
Recently in a psychology class of mine we were talking about self esteem. Similar to many other things, self esteem is something that we experience in ourselves that affects all of our decisions. Self esteem is directly tied into our own personality, and it creates our inner thoughts of self worth, or lack of self [...]
