Free Personal Development & Self-Improvement Articles

Willie Horton's articles are regularly published all over the world. An expert on Personal Development since 1996, he has worked with leading figures in major corporations, sports people, small business owners, employed and unemployed people.

In this section, you will find Willie's articles specifically relating to:

- Personal Development

- Self Improvement

- Self Help

- Positive Psychology

- Positive Thinking

- Self Esteem

Your Inner Power

Picture this – your mental energy is like water in a metal bucket. When your bucket’s full, you can pour all your energy into what you’re doing and get the job done. You know what that’s like – it’s like the way you get a load of things done the day before you go on holidays!
Then why does university research say that normal people use just 1% of their mental energy? Is the bucket almost dry? Is your energy being wasted? Because the same research says you could be 2000% more effective

Welcome to Your New Life

Your life is in your hands. If you’re normal – and chances are that you are – that’s an awful shame because your ability to be happy and successful is correlated with your ability to pay attention. And normal people don’t know how. More to the point, normal adults have forgotten how. You need to re-learn what comes naturally, an innate ability that we all have to be present, focused, effective, happy and successful. The solutions are to be found within. Gurdy.Net simply points the way taking you step-by-step on a journey that will transform your life, enabling you create the happiness and success that you really want.

The Dangers of Positive Thinking

Many self help 'gurus' recommend "Positive Thinking" and "Affirmation" as the best way to get yourself "in the zone". Not so - the most effective state of mind is a focused one. In other words, a clear state of mind, one in which you are alert to today's opportunities. Many years research has shown that abnormally successful people operate in this clear, focused, alert state of mind.

Happy New Year!

January, 2009 – another “New” year – but what has changed? Research (in the Universities of Chicago, Milan, Harvard – the list is quite long!) tells us that, in general, normal people lead repetitive lives where little ever changes. Sure, you might have made an important career change, met the love of your life (for now!), launched a new business, or captained your club on their way to winning the cup in 2008. But, so what! Little, under the skin (personal or corporate) ever really changes...

Second Life? How about getting a first one!

Increasingly, people are turning to the virtual world to paper over the cracks of the real one. People lose themselves - or, perhaps, think they've found themselves - on YouTube, Blogging, Social Networks and virtual reality games like Second Life. Wouldn't it make more sense to get a First Life? Our thoughts create our lives - years of research prove this. Change your mind and you'll change your life...

So Many Self-Help Books - So Little Change

Bookshops are full of "popular psychology" and "self-help" books - yet most lives stay the same and the world appears to be in a bigger mess than ever. The problem is that an intellectual understanding of "self-improvement" books is not enough - and, in fact, can be quite dangerous. You need to experience the difference between being "normal" and the "altered state of mind" in which you can clearly see the way towards happiness and success...

Living Dangerously

So-called normal people live dangerously by not really living at all. Research shows that normal people use only 1% of their mental capacity to focus on the task in hand, in the here and now. Yet people who really do live dangerously - those who practice extreme sports - provide us with an important insight into how we can all really live life to the full - and experience true happiness and success. Paying attention is the key.

Barack Will Save Us All!

There is a great expectation that Barack Obama's election to the White House has changed everything. Yet, as the Mahatma Gandhi said, ordinary people create real change - and, in fact it was ordinary people's belief and expectation that got Obama elected. At present, there's a lot of negative expectation about - the good news is that psychology andn quantum physics prove that expectation, which is contangious, works positively too...

How to Build Self Esteem

Self esteem is an illusion - whether you're suffering from low self esteem or you're on a high - the concept is a creation of your personality - and your personality isn't real - it's a mask that hides you from your own inner potential. Understand this, take a little "exercise" to side-step your personality and - lo and behold - you'll find the real you - and all you're really capable of...

Does Anyone Need Personal Development?

Personal development is big business. And, yet, all the psychological evidence, relating to how children use their minds as compared to adults, indicates that the so-called "normal" adult needs some personal un-development rather than personal development! Explore how the adult mind lives in places that bear no resemblance to the reality of the present moment - in stark contrast to the way children's open minds experience reality as it is...

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