Your level of self-esteem affects how you perceive everything and perhaps especially how you perceive your partner. Your perceptions of your partner have important consequences for how fulfilling and lasting your relationship will be.

We would all love to able to radiate inner self confidence-that feeling of being at one with one’s-self, ones surroundings and ones fellow human beings. Such feelings tend to create an air of charisma and poise that most of us would like to possess but find difficult to achieve.

Personal responsibility is the most important ethic you can exercise. With the cultivation of personal responsibility comes growth in all areas of life. It is a matter of taking charge of your own self and your circumstances through well-directed thoughts, words, and deeds.

Why is it important to develop resilience? How easily can you bounce back from hardships and misfortunes in your life? Happiness is accompanied with good times.

Understand what selfishness is and what it is not. Recognize its different forms and discover why people exhibit selfish behavior.

Everyone laughs when I tell them that I wrote Codependency for Dummies. But codependency is no laughing matter. It causes serious pain and affects the majority of Americans, both in and out of relationships. I know. I spent decades recovering. There are all types of codependents, including caretakers, addicts, pleasers, and workaholics, to name a few. They all have one thing in common: They’ve lost the connection to their core.

Fear has a way of injecting psychological toxins into our subconscious that acts like a handcuff, restraining our ability to achieve our goals. Although the fear may be perceived, it seems so real. This perceived fear plays games with our minds, robbing us of any rational thoughts we need to cherish in order to move ahead.

It doesn’t have to be a life shattering change to make you happier, nor do you have to go back to school or be a rocket scientist. Happiness is indeed a very personal state without comparison. Sometimes we overlook the very thing we love to do and at the same time be a benefit to others.

Living for life is living in perspective. The art of living well is to change your perspective in order to change your own perception of your life problems. Living in perspective is mind over matter.

It is understandable that with growth comes a variety of changes to accommodate certain needs. However, as a result have those needs leaked into our personal lives?