I love writing about personal development topics its my passion! But I also love reading about them as well. So much of my inspiration for Live Bold and Bloom has come from great thinkers, great books, and many, many amazing personal development blogs.

One of the things I enjoy most about blogging is the supportive, interdependent nature of the business. Other bloggers arent your competition they are your partners, cheerleaders, and friends along the journey. I have met so many wonderful, talented people through my work here at Live Bold and Bloom, and I am honored to partner with many of them on other blogging projects.

Id like to share with you 25 of my favorite personal development blogs.These are in no particular order so please check them all out.

1. Momentum Gathering a beautifully simple and simply beautiful blog by my dear friend Katie Tallo who sees her blog as a way to express myself, to explore bits and pieces of life I feel passionate about and to inspire momentum in the lives of others. Her writing is exquisite.

2. Pick the Brain a blog written by many guest writers and dedicated to self improvement with a focus on personal productivity, motivation, and self education. Its one of the biggest personal development blogs on the net. Lots and lots of great articles.

3. The Change Blog written by Peter Clemens, a father of two and a seasoned blogger, The Change Blog is all about helping people make positive change, highlighting the understanding that each of us is free to choose the direction of our life.

4. Goodlife Zen my friend and partner Mary Jaksch offers practical inspiration for a happier life, focusing on great habits, creativity, spirituality, fitness, and mindfulness.

5. One With Now written beautifully by the amazing Manal Ghosain, One With Now provides practical advice on how to become more aware of this moment and accept it without resistance, reducing mental and emotional clutter and creating more space in your life for what truly matters.

6. The One Question If you are interested in finding the answer to the one question, What should I do with my life? this is the blog to visit. You can take a free life purpose test and read many great articles on life purpose.

7. Marc and Angel Hack Life This lovely husband and wife team enjoy sharing practical thoughts on a broad range of topics pertaining to life, hacks, productivity, aspirations, health, work, tech and general self improvement.

8. Change Your Thoughts Steve Aitchison, the hunky Scotsman, shows hes more than a pretty face with this thought-provoking blog about changing your thoughts, beliefs, and actions to create an amazing life.

9. The Happiness Project Gretchen Rubin is the New York Times best-selling author of the book, The Happiness Project. Her blog is all about, you guessed it, finding happiness.

10. A Certain Simplicity This blog is so delectable you want to eat it. Everything from the design, photos, to the elegant writing, is the work of artist, innkeeper, and lovely friend Diana Baur. Not to be missed.

11. Advanced Life Skills writer Jonathan Wells is a certified personal and professional strategy coach who shares his career insights with practical, useful, and inspiring articles on all aspects of personal growth.

12. Zen Habits Leo Babauta is one of the top 25 bloggers in the world (according to Time Magazine), but hes mainly a really nice guy who writes beautiful, pithy posts about living simply, being healthy, and creating life-long positive habits.

13. The Bold Life Tess Marshall and I share a similar blog name and philosophy. She writes about living fearlessly, connecting peacefully, and having a wild love affair with life.

14. My Super-Charged Life Dont you love the name? Jeff Nickles is a prolific writer about improving your life, growing your money, and finding your purpose and passion in life.

15. Make It Happen London-based writer Arvind Devalia blogs about the possibility of discovering your deepest purpose, living a fully expressed life filled with peace, love, well-being, courage and integrity.

16. The Daily Brainstorm A blogazine featuring the top bloggers on the net, including many listed here. Edited by yours truly. A great place to get all of your favorite blogs in one convenient location.

17. The Positivity Blog Well-known self development blogger Henrik Edberg (of Sweden) writes beautiful articles on how to live moreconsciously, simplify your life, become happier, create new habits and replace some old habits with better ones, improve your self-discipline, and much more.

18. Trading Pounds Blogging newcomer Stephanie Wetzel has made a big splash with her inspiring blog about weight loss, healthy habits, and self-esteem. Her story is truly amazing.

19. Optimistic Lifestyle the name says it all. Its dedicated to personal development, health care, lifestyle and career growth. Its written by Roman Soluk who has dedicated his own life to optimistic living.

20. Think Simple Now Blogger Tina Su strives to empower people to find inner clarity and personal happiness through simple, uplifting, and honest writing and she has certainly succeeded. Her blog is lovely and has become one of the biggest personal growth blogs on the net.

21. Self Help Zone This blog is a one-stop-shop for everything self-help. Its a super-blog crammed with great info on every possible life betterment topic. If you cant find it here, you wont find it!

22. Everyday Bright Written by Jennifer Gresham, an U.S. Air Force Academy grad, as well as an odd combination of PhD biochemist and award-winning poet, Everyday Bright is a blog focused on designing a career you love to enhance your life.

23. Dumb Little Man Not so dumb, and not just for men. Writer and founder Jay White offers a handful of tips that will save you money, increase your productivity, or simply keep you sane.

24. The Self Improvement Blog Another mega blog with articles, videos, quotes, and even a radio program, covering just about every personal development topic imaginable. A great resource.

25. Feelgooder Another great blog from blogging guru Darren Rowse of Problogger fame. This blog is dedicated to creating daily content on topics like health, relationships, social good, work and financeto help those who read (and write) it be informed and inspired in those areas. He features a variety of guest writers.

I am certain Ive left off many fantastic personal development blogs so if you have a favorite, please add it to the list. Or if you are a personal development blogger, feel free to share your blog with all of us here at Live Bold and Bloom.

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Dedicated to the Washington State University institutional mission of offering a world class, face to face education and the Athletic Departments mission of attaining the optimal student-athlete experience, the P.R.O.W.L. student-athlete Personal Development Program is committed to promoting the student-athletes life-long process of learning and development toward excellence through five areas of focus: New-Student-Athlete Seminar, Career Development, Student-Athlete Mentoring Program, Community Outreach and Services and the P.R.O.W.L. Resource and Referral Center. Emphasis is placed on the athletes individual endeavors in academic, athletic, career, personal and community efforts while at WSU and later in life. The P.R.O.W.L. program strives to empower the student-athlete to:

P.R.O.W.L. adheres to the ethical standards of Washington State University, the WSU Athletic Department, the N.C.A.A., and the NCAA National CHAMPS Life Skills Program. The Personal Development area within the Student-Athlete Development unit is dedicated to five areas of focus to promote and facilitate the personal development of each Cougar student-athlete:

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Continued from page 1 This list of tips is intended to help you focus on the key issues that are important to your success as a manager.

Leadership | Personal Development | Business Management | Motivation | Marketing | Quality | Customer Management

Personal Development Tips #P1 Be on time for ALL your appointments. #P2 Stop And Smell The Roses. #P3 Be Careful Who You Step On On Your Way Up. #P4 You Are Not Smarter Than Everybody.

#P5 Get Involved. #P6 Do Your Homework. #P7 It's not how hard you work, it's what you get done. #P8 Learn from the mistakes of others. #P9 Focus your energies. #P10 Work On Your Weaknesses First. #P11 Dare to Dream. #P12 Don't Limit Yourself. #P13 Anyone can steer the ship in calm waters. #P14 You have to make a difference.

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If you are not sure what kind of personal development goals you can set for yourself, here is the list that will help you decide. It contains many examples of self improvement goals in the areas of spirituality, productivity, health, relationships and personalfulfilment.

Hopefully this list of personal development goals will give you ideas of what goals you can set for yourself.

If you are still struggling with coming up with personal development goals, heres what you should do:

1. Go to a place where you wont be disturbed.

2. Identify the area of your life you would like to change most.

3. Identify the things in that area of life you are least satisfied with.

4. Come up with ways to improve those aspects.

5. Set a definite personal development goal together with a plan of how to achieve it.

Your personal development goal can be anything that improves your personality/body/health in some way. Such self growth goals can include other people or be only about you. However know that if your goals include other people, you cannot affect them directly because every person has a free will. So the best thing to do is to set goals that you can fully control.

For example, if you decide that your self improvement goal is to lose weight, such goal is good because you are the only force that impacts your weight. But if you set a goal for some particular person to like you, you dont have full control of that goal. Of course, if you improve your personality that person might as well start liking you, but this depends only on that person therefore you cannot guarantee the final result.

Some self growth goals can seem overwhelming they are the ones that you know would take a long time to achieve or theres a lot of work involved. If you have such goals, you should make them look more achievable by taking them apart into smaller, more manageable steps.

For example, if you have a goal to earn a large income, you can go about such goal this way:

1. Set a time period for a goal to be achieved (e.g. 12 months).

2. For each month set specific steps you should take to start earning a bit more income.

3. Each month you should aim for the higher income until your desired income is achieved.

Using this method no personal development goal will seem too big to achieve.

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It's helpful to take a high level perspective on personal development, looking broadly at all the important skills. This can help identify areas you may be weak in, and serve as a mental checklist to help you focus. While this is not an exhaustive list of elements important to personal development, these are some of the most important.

1. Continuous Learning: Take responsibility for your own lifelong personal development, knowing that its the secret to success in all areas of life, and your most valuable asset. Your knowledge and experience is personal wealth you can never lose.

2. Positivity: Find the positive aspect in everything, accepting what cannot be changed, and acting on what can, towards a positive result. Dont let circumstances drive your state of being, let your state of being drive your results. Smile and use humor to help drive a positive attitude and share it with others.

3. Personal Excellence: Strive to do your best in everything you do. If its worth doing, its worth doing well. Not only to achieve superior results, but so that if you fail you can remain positive rather than wishing you had tried harder. Look to be creative in your personal excellence rather than follow the safest, lowest risk path.

4. Honesty: Maintain honesty and integrity in all that you do. Trust and respect by others is hard earned, yet can be permanently lost over the smallest lie. Decide that honesty is one of your core values, and stick to it at all costs.

5. Know Yourself: You are a unique individual with your own strengths and weaknesses, all others have these also. The difference with a successful person is they have learned to leverage their strengths, and to identify their weaknesses so they can improve those areas through learning and practice. Accept yourself as you are without comparison to others, if you look you will find much about yourself to be proud of and thankful for.

6. Appreciate the Moment: Seek happiness in the present moment, even in the simple things around you such as nature, a good conversation, or a good meal. Excessive contemplation on the past or future steals this appreciation from you. Some techniques to support this is getting out in nature, and meditation.

7. Communicate Well: Learning to communicate well with others is an essential skill, which includes speaking, writing, listening well, and body language. Nearly everyone can still find areas to grow with these skills, and should receive constant attention. Becoming a good listener is one of the top areas of improvement you should seek, become truly interested in other people and it will work wonders.

8. Embrace Mistakes: Mistakes are a prerequisite to personal development; you must choose either courage and success, or safety and being average. Mistakes are a learning opportunity so long as you are not repeating your mistakes, if you have learned from a failure then pat yourself on the back. Carry this to others mistakes also, forgive them with this understanding in mind.

9. Embrace Change: Change is a constant part of life, and integral to personal development and success. Become excited about change, and look to it with a positive attitude. Be a leader by being the initiator of positive change. If you fear change, then you fear personal development, as self improvement is about changing yourself.

10. Increase Your Value: Know that personal development is not a selfish activity; rather it increases your value to others, ranging from relationships, business, and career. Too many people focus on changing others, which rarely works as well as changing yourself. Make a difference externally by changing yourself internally.

11. Be Giving: Seek to be giving, compassionate, loving, yet humble, knowing you receive what you give out. This is a secret to finding happiness in life.

12. Balance: Seek balance in all areas of life, considering family, relationships, career, business, health, leisure, and spirituality.

13. Gratitude: Be thankful for the gift and opportunity of life. If you have a spiritual belief, pursue the core tenets of the teachings and make them part of who you are.

14. Find Your Excitement: Find things in life that excite you, and act on them. Embracing things which excite and motivate you will move you more quickly into success and happiness, and attract the things you need to get there. This attitude will support and integrate with all the above tenets.

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Fourteen Key Personal Development Skills

Delta Phi Epsilon Sorority has identified five areas of development and personal growth among our members which cultivate a well-rounded and balanced woman. These areas are known as our five S's - Scholarship, Self, Service, Sisterhood, and Social. Every active undergraduate member of DPhiE is expected to complete 21 PEARLs (or activities) each academic year. The purpose behind this is so that she can intentionally engage in activities that fulfill areas of each of the five S's. By the end of the year, each woman will complete at least four PEARL's associated with each S, in addition to a Personal Development Pearl (PDP). The PDP is a long term goal that a sister will work on over the course of the year. PDPs are focused around something that a sister wants to personally improve upon in her life. Examples of this would be learning to play an instrument, learning another language, train for a marathon at the end of the year, or perform in a community theater production. The possibilities are unique for each sister to support her in becoming the woman she wants to be.

Sisters receive the support and encouragement of her chapter's Vice President of Membership Development and/or PEARL Coordinator as she works on completing her PEARL requirements.

SisterhoodOrganizational Knowledge and Skills

In order for the sorority to function as a family and have an environment that fosters positive personal and group development, the chapter itself must be strong. Individual sisters must have the skills to manage the affairs of the chapter and lead their fellow sisters. All members must have knowledge of how the sorority operates and what are the expectations are of the members. Sisters must also have an understanding of the Greek system, the benefits of being in a sorority, and the policies relating to Greek life. A strong sorority experience involves mutual friendship, support between members, and activities that increase the bonds of sisterhood. Workshops in this area include: Panhellenic; campus Greek policies; chapter management skills; chapter goal setting; group dynamics; marketing/chapter PR; and officer development. Retreats and sisterhood activities with planned educational programs to increase communication skills and the understanding of sorority values could also be included in this area. (A simple sisterhood dinner would not suffice for a Pearl experience, but may continue to be part of sisterhood activities as often as the chapter likes.)

Scholarship

College is designed to prepare students to function as educated and productive members of their families, their professions, and society. Delta Phi Epsilon recognizes academics as a priority and aims to enhance the college mission by providing information and assistance on educational concerns, intellectual development, career preparation, and life style planning. Workshops in this area should include: time management; study skills; using campus resources (career center, learning center, library, etc.); cultural and fine arts events; faculty dinner speakers; literary reviews/debates; resume writing and interviewing skills; social skills for business; balancing family and career; and goal setting for personal advancement. Chapters are strongly encouraged to invite experts (faculty members and others) to guide you through information and ideas that may be new to you (i.e., different topics such as appreciating African Art, understanding Japanese, business culture, realizing the impact of man on the rain forests, etc.)

Service

Delta Phi Epsilon aims to develop women who will be contributing members of society. Service Pearl Experiences should be designed to expose members to relevant societal issues and provide opportunities to make a positive impact within as well as outside of the sorority. Through membership in Delta Phi Epsilon, you have the chance to become aware of important issues, discover new ways to be more involved, and begin to participate in community service and philanthropic projects. Service Pearl Experiences should be designed to encourage members to continue their involvement in philanthropic and community events after college. Activities should include: Fundraising for Delta Phi Epsilon's philanthropies and other philanthropic organizations; community service projects; and participation in campus service programs. Invited speakers could address such topics as volunteering for literacy programs, understanding the long term impact of the AIDS crisis, women's involvement in local politics, scientific discoveries that will have social implications (i.e. global warming, toxic waste management, etc.), local policies on smoking, recycling, voter registration, etc. Chapters can arrange for speakers from the campus, League of Women Voters, United Way, and other community service organizations, philanthropic and community leadership societies, and other political, social service, and non-profit professional societies.

Social

Social Pearl Experiences provide you with opportunities to enhance your communication and leadership as well as the ability to work with and relate to others in a variety of situations. College graduates need the knowledge and experiences of social skills in order to effectively participate in one-on-one situations and small and large group settings. You should use the Social Pearl Experience to explore diversity, multiculturalism, and gender issues, as well as leadership development. Workshops in this area should include: listening and communication skills; gender differences; diversity and multiculturalism; conflict resolution; leadership training; handling difficult social situations (including sexual harassment, substance abuse); and conversation skills, especially as they relate to membership recruitment. Social Pearl Experiences involving other groups, (i.e. fraternities, sororities and NPHC groups), workshops and opportunities to practice skills (mock interviews, receptions with administrators, gender communication workshops, etc.) are appropriate for this area and are encouraged.

Self

College is a time of change for young women, and the sorority is uniquely positioned to assist you in positively meeting new challenges and offering support and encouragement. By promoting positive self-awareness and providing opportunities for self-discovery, your sorority involvement will help you develop individual strength, establish a personal set of values, and clarify your purpose as a student and a member. Self pearl experiences should focus on developing physical and mental well-being. Workshops should include: personal fitness; nutrition; managing stress and anxiety; women's health issues; body image; self-esteem; personal safety; personal values and spirituality; promoting personal creativity and risk taking; and maintaining a positive balance.

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PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT PAPER. I was born in Vietnam in 1982. My family includes my parents, my older and younger sister and me. I was the middle child. In Vietnam, my mom is a dentist, while my dad is a construction engineer. My parents are educated and so they always stress about the importance of educations. They are both loving parents who work really hard to take care of my sisters and me. They always want to make sure we have a roof over our head, food on the tables, clothes to keep us warm. Both are working parents and we are in middle range income in society. Both of my parents have different religion. My dad is Buddhist and my mom is Catholic. However, they came up with agreement that my sisters and I both come to the church once a week and to the temple when needed. I also have two sisters. My older sister was born three years before me and my younger sister was born four years after me. We have a close relationship. We often play with each other and share our stories, our toys. We have a good bond sisterhood. When I was young, I often play with both my sisters. We pretended to be a mother taking care of baby doll. Those were the precious times of our childhood. We do run into fight, arguing but soon those arguing evaporates and we learn to be good sisters again, who watch out and take care for each other. In school, I was usually a good student who obeys and listen to my teacher. I was good in academic also. I often got rewarded for my academic standing. From my first grade to the end of my high school years, I was always regarded as one of top students in my class. My parents were always proud of me. Although I was really strong academically, I lack social skills. I often have social anxiety, paranoid, that it made really hard to make friends and stayed close for a long time. I often hung out with few friends. I did not have a lot of friends due to my shyness and anxiety. However, most of my close friends are trustworthy, kind hearted, and loving. As a...

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Personal Development Paper - College Essay - Oanhtrucbui

Reflect on what youve learned. Become who you want to be.

Bridgewaters Personal Development Portfolio (PDP) program is a way to bring together everything you do in college your courses, experiential learning and activities outside the classroom. As you explore, you discover who you are. You develop your own view of the world. And, most importantly, you grow into the person you want to be.

Starting as a freshman, youll learn how to critically reflect on your development as a whole person intellectual, emotional, physical, ethical and spiritual and as a citizen and responsible member of a community.

The program culminates in a senior e-portfolio in which youll look back on the personal growth you achieved as a result of your college experience.

PDP-150: Critical Inquiry in the Liberal Arts is BCs first-year seminar. Youll take this class at the very beginning of your time at BCthe fall semester of your freshman year.

Course topics for PDP-150 are extremely varied and diverse. From sustainability to music. From American gangsters to pet ownership. Dr. Jamie Frueh covers Leadership and the Art of Decision, while Dr. Karie Barbour takes you through Brawlers in the Holler: The Coal Wars of Appalachia. Transfer students have a unique course topic as well, while Flory Fellows can choose from two honors sections.

Note:Transfer students sign up for PDP-350, and honors students in the Flory Fellows program have separate sections of PDP-150.

Beyond your first semester, youll keep a record of your academic life, your involvement in campus activities and your engagement in the community.

Finally, during your senior year, youll complete the senior e-portfolio. The final senior e-portfolio includes:

Completing PDP-450 is not only a graduation requirement, but also a capstone for your entire four-year experience at BC.

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