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Tim Maher's Articles in General Self Help

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  • Your Recommended Daily Allowance for Relaxation
    The purpose of this article is to spell out some techniques that will enable a person to relax from the stresses of daily living. Transcendental Meditation is regarded as a good way to relax also acupuncture as it releases endorphins in the body. Yoga practise is beneficial as are good breathing techniques. Physical exercise reduces irritability and a massage can work wonders. Biofeedback and hypnosis are two other methods that can reduce stress.
  • Why Coaching is the Way to Go in Team Management
    This article is a description of what is involved in coaching, not just on the sports field but in other areas of life as well. It is just as applicable in the modern corporate world as it is on the athletics track. Coaching is a style of leadership that seeks to build competence and confidence in team members. It also promotes individual and team excellence, not to mention a high commitment to common goals. In summary, it produces good leaders.
  • What makes you tick? 10 Questions you should ask yourself for self improvement
    This article seeks to lay down a few pointers to guide a person on the road to self improvement. One must weigh up what the options are and then decide what direction to take. Is it about earning more money or purely about improving ones mind. It could be about getting fitter and losing weight and feeling better as a result. The spark or motivating factor will determine the course to follow and the end result.
  • What Innovation Can Do to Your Life
    This article is a short guide to help you to seek new ways of doing things, and ways to help you to plough your own furrow so to speak. There is a lot of well meaning advice available but eventually you have to find the spark or inspiration that will drive you to create that book or product that is buzzing around in your head. You need to unleash your passion in order to finally get a grip on your true path in life.
  • Unlock your Self Improvement Power
    This article seeks to point out that we should not wait until we feel pain before we decide to improve ourselves. Happy people are those who are continually working on themselves to improve thir minds or bodies by reading, working out at the gym, etc. We should not leave it until someone points out to us that we have areas of our personality that need improvement. We need to be open to the possibility of making ourselves better people always.
  • To Go or Not to Go Herbal, that is the Question…
    This article sets out to clarify the difference between conventional medicine and herbal supplements. The main difference is that medicines are prescribed by doctors and designed to cure certain ailments. Vitamin or herbal supplements are sold over the counter and are meant to taken as an aid to the body to ensure that the proper amounts of vitamins that we need are being absorbed into our bloodstream to maintain healthy living.
  • The Road to Intuition
    This article is about one of the most useful senses that we can develop, i.e. a sense of intuition or sixth sense. We interact with the world around us through our five senses of touch, smell, sight, hearing and tasting but there is a deeper way of finding out about things. It is if you like reading between the lines or hearing the unspoken words. It is a way of using our subconscious self to delve deeper and find a hidden meaning in things.
  • The Game of Life" Start your own coaching: 7 days program
    This article is about the art of coaching, as it applies on the field and in the corporate environment. It gives pointers to the potential coach on the best approaches to take in order to get the best out of people. It is important for the coach to be able to demonstrate that he /she can do the job of the person being coached arising from first hand experience. It's important to be firm and send people to the bench if this warranted.
  • Setting Your Goals - Easier Said, Easily Done
    This article is about goal setting and the things we must do in order to achieve our goals. We start by setting long term goals and then breaking that down into sections that we can achieve bit by bit until we reach our target. We need to have daily and weekly targets, then monthly targets, quarterly targets and finally yearly targets. We need to have the correct attitude and education and family support and we also need leisure time for balance.
  • Self Improvement and Success
    This article sets out some pointers to help people improve their lives. Our failings are nothing more than lessons on the road to success as long as we learn from them. It's important to set realistic goals that we can achieve rather than being overambitious. Small things like complimenting people are valued by others. Also we can only achieve anything one day at a time so it's a gradual process rather than an "overnight success" story.
  • Power through the people
    This article sets out to demonstrate how to be a people person by following a number of steps such as being genuine, a good listener and being able to laugh when the occasion demands it. One should love oneself and value ones own opinions firstly. It also helps to do random acts of kindness for others. Renewing old acquaintances and developing ones personality are essential. Being confident and in control will lead to self empowerment .
  • Motivation as the heart of self improvement
    This is a concise summary of the main things that contribute to energising you the reader into taking those steps that are necessary to get you going at that project you were thinking of starting, a motivational check list in other words.
  • Life is About Choices and the Decisions We Make
    This article is about advising the would be decision maker about the process involved in arriving at that decision having taken into account the various factors that influence the outcome. Depending on what we are trying to decide about our lives whether it be a career move or a location move or to do with the more personal aspects, we will need to take risks based on the information presented to us and make a judgement call and follow that up.
  • Leadership Exposed: Things You Thought You Knew About Leadership
    This article is about leadership in its different forms such as formal as in politics and business and informal as in the elder of a family. People who have achieved a lot in their field of endeavour have positions of leadership bestowed upon them. Leadership is a process of becoming and it starts with the individual. It is a shared process with a team of people. Depending on circumstances different styles of leadership are required in practice.
  • How to Become an Ideal Leader
    This article is about the qualities required of someone if they are to assume the mantle of leadership in an organisation. It is about having a sense of purpose, a vision for the future and an ability to harness the abilities of others in order to achieve a stated goal. It entails being respected by ones subordinates for ones abilities, being trusted and having their confidence. Being a good communicator and having sound judgement are essential.
  • Having a Positive Attitude
    This article is an attempt at demonstrating the differences between the positive attitude and the negative one and the effects that each one has on the holder of such attitudes and more importantly the ripple effects that such attitudes can have for better or worse on those around them. The main thrust of the article is to show that a positive attitude is the favoured option for healthy living.
  • Happy as You Want to Be
    This article lists a number of ways in which we can be happy at work and at leisure. This is a most important character trait to develop as it impinges on how we see the world and interact with it. Being grateful for the small things in life, less exposure to news which is usually bad, having a religious involvement, managing time well, having a sesnse of humour, and finally bodily exercise. These all contribute to a well balanced happy person.
  • Grow spiritually, a guide to spiritual development
    To grow spiritually in a world defined by power, money, and influence is a Herculean task. As a result, our concepts of self-worth and self-meaning are muddled. How can we strike a balance between the material and spiritual aspects of our lives?
  • Genuine Happiness Comes from Within
    This article is about the art of being and remaining happy in oneself. It doesn't mean that we have to have the biggest or fastest car or indeed earn a huge salary. It has more to do with our attitude to life itself and having a go and taking part and feeling better for having done so. We must first love ourselves and then involve ourselves with life around us in order to make the world a better place to live in by different countless acts.
  • Enjoy Your Life: Change Your Point of View
    This is a guide to living your life to the full and not seeing the glass as half empty but half full. The advice given is based on research and well founded. We can be negative and bemoan everything around us or we can take the opposite approach and see opportunities for growth instead of obstacles to development. Every "failure" in life is really a stepping stone to success and this has been proved by the great inventors such as Edison.
  • Energy Healing 101: Pranic, Tantric, and Reiki
    This article seeks to give a short overview of three types of energy healing, Pranic, Tantric and Reiki. Pranic healing has to do with studying the "auras" that cover our bodies and different personality types will have different colours.Tantric is associated with sex and spirituality and is said to remove impurities during orgasm. Reiki stands for universal energy and can tap this for healing purposes. Energy healing practise is non invasive.
  • Does a Law on Human Attraction Exist?
    This article sets out to throw some light on why people are attracted to each other. Is a female attracted because of certain odors that are given off by the male or is there another reason such as personality traits. Shared values, dreams and philosophy of life also matter in the mating game. The state of health such as physical, emotional, psychological and spiritual are also important factors. Good health for its own sake is the best option.
  • Do Yoda Proud: Meditation 101
    The essence of this article is to give some guidelines on the best way to get the most out of the practice of meditation. The best way to begin is to clear the mind of distractions and be in a quiet atmosphere. The aim is to focus on a mantra or a thought and it is best to be in a comfortable sitting position perhaps on a cushion on the floor with the legs crossed. It can help to dwell on parts of the body where there is some stress to relieve it
  • Creative Notions
    This article is about developing the creative side of our personality. We need to firstly fill our minds with as much information as possible to be gleaned from books and any other sources that prove useful. We need to think outside the box and not be constrained by limitations. Try a new experience like bungee jumping. Move outside of your comfort zone and try new things or new ways of doing things that will stretch your ability and imagination.
  • Creating Effective and Efficient Relationships
    This article is about relationships and the necessity of good communication between people in order for harmonious living conditions to exist. In the workplace, effective and efficient relationships are essential where there is an open dialogue between people. If there is a difference of opinion on a subject then feelings need to be aired and brought into the open and dealt with. Respect for each others point of view is an essential prerequisite
  • Build your Self Esteem, a starter guide to self improvement
    This is a guide to building selfesteem as a means to further personal development. It offers advice on how to deal with negative environments and people who try to pull you down and gives tips on how to stay positive amidst the everyday slings and arrows that you find being thrown in your direction.
  • 5000 Year-Old Medical Secret Unearthed!
    The gist of this article is that while the dispensing of medicines has been around for thousands of years, nowadays we tend to rely on synthetic medicines such as paracetamol instead of looking to remedies that were used by generations of our ancestors. I refer to herbal remedies, acupuncture, homeopathy, aromatherapy. These are complementary methods of healing and are not totally accepted by the mainstream medical community as yet.
  • "Who's the Boss?" 10 ways to start taking control (time management, goal setting, record tracking)
    This article is a guide to help you take control of your time and be more productive. We should look around us and appreciate the good things in our lives and seek to find the positive outcome rather than the negative. Good social interaction with a human touch will always produce a more rounded person who integrates better with other people. We shouldn't dwell too much on negative thought patterns and we need to recognize our imperfections.
  • "The Way to Wellness" It's time to start a Healthy life: your 7 days program
    This article sets out to give the reader a summary of the actions that need to be taken to develop a healthy lifestyle. We need to take exercise in order to burn off the fat accumulated from sedentary lifestyles. There is a programme suggested that when implemented will result in a loss of weight over time. In turn the body will be fitter, more muscular, leaner and should lead to the person feeling better about themselves.
  • "Relaxing with a Mental PDA" Your 5 minutes daily program to Stress management
    This article is about stress management and some methods to use to reduce it and keep it under control. Managing one's time is an important one as one can be led down sidealleys of time waste if one is not careful. It is also important to maintain a balanced lifestyle of work, relaxation, and sleep with good nutrition and exercise. Social support of friends and family is essential. When negative thoughts occur it is better to think positive.
  • "Life With Woody" 10 inspirational quotes that can improve yourself
    This article is about humour as seen through the eyes of Woody Allen. This comic actor has had some quotable quotes attributed to him over the years. His rather sanguine approach to life could offer solutions to the rest of us as we chew on the meaty problems of living. His rather zany quotes have a way of bursting our bubbles and giving us the opportunity to have a good laugh at ourselves and predicaments we sometimes find ourselves in.
  • "Enlightenment" Your 7 days program to Positive thinking
    This article seeks to give pointers to living a more positive life. Having goals and thinking big is a must for a positive lifestyle. There must be action for goals to succeed. One must operate out of love rather than fear and see obstacles as opportunities for growth. Learn also to be grateful for what you have rather than what you haven't got. Have a sense of humour and realise that you are the author of your own destiny.
  • "A Piece of Blarney Stone" 10 ways to empower your communication
    This article sets out to give some well meaning advice on how to speak in public and how to hold a decent conversation with other people. There are techniques such as listening, being humble, making eye contact, using humour, knowing that you are no better than other people and have to learn new things, having a cheery disposition, using role models as a point of reference for your own performance and being prepared with notes if necessary.
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