Here is list of Self Improvement Articles published by our writers here on Success Demands Action. Anyone can learn something from these articles and at the very least they are a great motivational tool to help you take the necessary action required to accomplish all of your goals in life.
"A desire arises in the mind. It is satisfied immediately another comes. In the interval which separates two desires a perfect calm reigns in the mind. It is at this moment freed from all thought, love or hate."
I find it interesting that most people spend more time planning their next vacation than they do planning out their lives. You must create goals that matter! Sure, its OK to create your dream vacation goals and etc, but you must also work on the big stuff as well, such as; career, relationship, and financial goals.
40 years ago, at a nursery school at Stanford University, psychology professor Walter Mischel ran an experiment.
A bunch 4-year-olds were brought into a room, one at a time. They were given one marshmallow, and told they were allowed to eat it immediately, but if they could wait 15 minutes without eating it, they'd be given a second marshmallow, and could eat both.
In 1996 a promising 19 years old professional ballerina Ma Li lost her right arm in a car accident. Her life would never be the same, her boy friend couldn't handle what was going on and he walked away from her. She tried to kill herself only to be saved by her parents. Then Ma Li found the strength to live.
In a nutshell Dhoni's story is all about an ordinary man doing extraordinary things and a role model for every aspiring leader. Each one of us could use this model, pattern and design to create our leadership journey.
The movie Last Samurai is an amazing movie that will give insight into the Japanese psyche and a way to imbibe the "Samurai Spirit." The word Samurai means to serve.