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If youve ever hung out in the personal development section of the major bookstores, you may have been overwhelmed with the extensive number of volumes related to the subject. With all this information, where do you begin? And of these titles, are there specific must-read books out there which are essential for your own growth and understanding? Well, over the next 52 weeks Ill attempt to answer these questions.

Inspired by Trent over at The Simple Dollar, Ive decided to undertake a project and read 52 books over a 52-week period. I will read one book related to personal development every week and offer an in-depth review, spreading this review throughout the week. These will include many of the classic as well as more modern titles.

Each Monday, I will provide an overview of the book, describing the general premise as well as any reviews or comments that may have been given. Tuesday through Thursday will be set aside for the meat of book, divided into three sections, spread evenly throughout the three days. To wrap it up, each Friday will be dedicated to my own personal thoughts and opinions on the book.

I must admit, some of these will be books that Ive already read, but I look forward to rereading them anyways, as Im sure they will offer new insights and awareness that I may have previously missed. Its my goal with this project, to not only increase my own understanding and knowledge pertaining to personal growth, but also provide you with a well written review of 52 personal development books that you can use to determine which books will be most beneficial for your growth.

Here youll find a complete list of all books reviewed so far with links to their respective posts. UPDATE 03/19/2007: Also included is a link to download each complete review in .pdf format (just right-click the link and click Save Target as) [thanks for the pdf idea Peter Damoc!!]

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As stated previously, appraisal is about helping the appraisee to succeed, and to perform well or better in the future. So it is vital that the appraisal discussion produces a personal development plan (PDP) for the appraisee to take forward into the next review period. The PDP should consist of a set of carefully tailored clinical, educational and personal development objectives.

There may be a mixture of work objectives focusing on the appraisees agreed and expected contribution to the teams goals over the coming period and personal development objectives based on areas of agreed improvement in job performance in clinical and non-clinical contexts. The word improvement can, unfortunately, suggest that objectives are purely about correcting poor performance. In fact, personal development objectives can be used to manage performance in a number of ways:

The general emphasis when setting objectives should certainly be on seeking improvements. However, continuous development is as much about maintaining standards as it is about more, better, faster, smarter. In this context, the term improvement should be viewed widely to incorporate the three development areas: remedy, consolidation and growth.

Much has been written about how to write good, effective objectives. The SMART or SMARTER acronym is well known and provides a valuable aide-mmoire for those with the challenge of composing them. Three of the letters are particularly key: the s for specific, the m for measurable and the a for agreed or achievable.

It is up to the appraisee to ensure objectives are reviewed. Writing and agreeing objectives that are never referred to again is a supreme waste of effort. Ideally the appraisee should look at them and discuss them in a timely manner as events arise; amend and update them as circumstances change; and above all keep them alive and current as a useful and relevant tool helping to guide their performance. Remember, appraisal should be a process and not just an event.

See Setting Learning Objectives for more details on setting learning objectives and Assessing Educational Needs for more information around personal and professional development plans.

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Personal Development Programmes at The Rainbow Project.

The Rainbow Project offers free Personal Development Programmes that address the issues that affect gay and bi men.

So what is a Personal Development Programme?

Well personal development is many things and has many traditions and methods, but can be best summed up by the notions of improving self-awareness and self-knowledge, developing potential talents and strengths, and the building or renewing of identity. For gay and bi men, it may prove more difficult for us to self-develop due to the additional obstacles we face as a sexual minority, and the discrimination and prejudice we often face in our daily lives.

The Rainbow Projectscourses are for men who are 18 years plus and there is a maximum of 15 participants on each programme. These courses run over a twelve week period, with a week break mid-way through and a celebratory event at the end. The sessions are delivered in an informal group work setting through a variety of methods. These would be large group and small group discussions, role-plays, individual work, multi-media presentations and lots more. The facilitators are kept on their toes to keep these sessions interesting and fun but with the right pitch of challenge for the participants.

The issues that we address are determined by the participants in week one, but in the past these have included issues such as; mental and sexual health, relationships and intimacy, assertiveness and communication, body image and flirting, parenthood and coming out, homophobia and the law, to name but a few.

If this sounds like the type of challenge that you would like to be involved in then please contact Mal or Martin at Rainbow on eithermalachai@rainbow-project.org or martin@rainbow-project.org or call 90 319030.

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Personal development planning(PDP)is a structured and supported process undertaken by a learner to reflect upon their own learning, performance and/or achievement and to plan for their personal, educational and career development. It is an inclusive process, open to all learners, in all HE provision settings, and at all levels.QAA Scotland works with the Higher Education Academy (HEA) and Centre for Recording Achievement (CRA) to help higher education institutions in Scotland to implement PDP.

The PDP Toolkit is designed to help all staff at all levels within institutions to consider, reflect and develop their strategies and policies for the implementation and enhancement of PDP. It achieves this by using a series of self-assessment questions (SAQs) which encourage reflection on the important issues in implementation and development.

The Toolkit was developed for QAA Scotland by Kirsty Miller, Jonathan Weyers, Stuart Cross, Lorraine Walsh and Eric Monaghan of the PDP Consultancy Team at the University of Dundee. In 2011, the Toolkit was extended to include reference to PDP within placement learning and work-based learning.

The Toolkit builds on previous work on the Effective Learning Framework and the Individualised Support for Learners through ePortfolios (ISLE).

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At age 30, Eckhart Tolle went from suicidal thoughts to spiritual awakening, literally overnight. Can you tell us the story of his life-changing epiphany?

Eckhart, according to his own description, was an unhappy, neurotic, confused intellectual and his background was of that generation of Germans who are carrying around a lot of the karma of the Holocaust and Nazi Germany.

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He describes in his book an evening where he was ready to take his life. He said to himself, 'I can't live with myself anymore.' And then suddenly there was a kind of realization: Are there two of me here? There's the self that's so miserable that I can't live with, but what is the "I" that is observing this self?

It was a spontaneous process of what in the Advaita Vedanta tradition in India is called "self-inquiry." In other words, the question turned back on itself: Who am I? Who is this "I" that can't live with this self? And this produced a spontaneous form of self-inquiry that led very quickly to a kind of ego-death, where his personality died, his self as he had known it for 30 years, had died.

And he went into kind of a swoon, he describes it in the book as kind of what people describe in near-death experiences -- you know, going down through the tunnel, and so on. And then he woke up in the morning in a state of thoughtless awareness and happiness that never left him. And that was essentially his epiphany. It was a spontaneous death of the conditioned self, of the personality, of the ego.

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Upon waking he didn't know what had happened to him, because he had no background in spiritual work at all. He was a kind of strict rationalist, you know, a research scholar in Cambridge in England. According to his own description he had no points of reference for understanding his own enlightenment. All he knew was that he was happy.

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Meditation is a simple technique that, if practiced for as few as 10 minutes each day, can help you control stress, decrease anxiety, improve cardiovascular health, and achieve a greater capacity for relaxation.

Although meditation has been practiced for thousands of years, the meditative technique called the "relaxation response" was pioneered in the U.S. by Harvard doctor Herbert Benson in the 1970s. The technique has gained acceptance by physicians and therapists worldwide as a means of relieving symptoms of conditions ranging from cancer to AIDS.

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When our bodies are exposed to a sudden stress or threat, we respond with a characteristic "fight or flight" response. The ''adrenaline rush'' we experience is a result of the release of the hormones epinephrine (adrenaline) and norepinephrine. They cause an increase in blood pressure and pulse rate, faster breathing, and increased blood flow to the muscles.

The relaxation response is a technique designed to elicit the opposite bodily reaction from the "fight or flight" response -- a state of deep relaxation in which our breathing, pulse rate, blood pressure, and metabolism are decreased. Training our bodies on a daily basis to achieve this state of relaxation can lead to enhanced mood, lower blood pressure, and a reduction of everyday stress.

The relaxation response technique consists of the silent repetition of a word, sound, or phrase -- perhaps one that has special meaning to you -- while sitting quietly with eyes closed for 10 to 20 minutes. This should be done in a quiet place free of distractions. Sitting is preferred to lying down in order to avoid falling asleep. Relax your muscles starting with the feet and progressing up to your face. Breathe though your nose in a free and natural way.

During a meditation session, intruding worries or thoughts should be ignored or dismissed to the best of your ability by focusing on the sound, word or phrase. It's OK to open your eyes to look at a clock while you are practicing, but do not set an alarm. When you have finished, remain seated, first with your eyes closed and then with your eyes open, and gradually allow your thoughts to return to everyday reality.

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What is meditation?

Meditation is the practice of focusing your attention to help you feel calm and give you a clear awareness about your life. Eastern philosophies have recognized the health benefits of meditation for thousands of years. Meditation is now widely practiced in the West, with the belief that it has positive effects on health.

Two meditation techniques are most commonly used: concentrative and mindful.

Meditation usually involves slow, regular breathing and sitting quietly for at least 15 to 20 minutes.

People use meditation to help treat a wide range of physical and mental problems, including:

Most of these conditions may also require conventional treatment for best results.

People also use meditation to relieve anxieties from long-term (chronic) conditions such as HIV and cancer.

Since meditation usually involves sitting quietly for a period of time and breathing deeply, anyone who cannot sit comfortably or who has respiratory problems may have difficulty practicing meditation. Some people with mental health problems, such as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder or schizophrenia, may not be able to use meditation therapy effectively.

Meditation is not thought to have any negative side effects or complications alone or when combined with conventional medical treatment, but it is not considered appropriate or safe for acute, life-threatening situations.

Always tell your doctor if you are using an alternative therapy or if you are thinking about combining an alternative therapy with your conventional medical treatment. It may not be safe to forgo your conventional medical treatment and rely only on an alternative therapy.

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Meditation is an approach to training the mind, similar to the way that fitness is an approach to training the body. But many meditation techniques exist. So how do you learn how to meditate?

In Buddhist tradition, the word meditation is equivalent to a word like sports in the U.S. Its a family of activity, not a single thing, University of Wisconsin neuroscience lab director Richard J. Davidson, Ph.D., told The New York Times. And different meditative practices require different mental skills.

Its extremely difficult for a beginner to sit for hours and think of nothing or have an empty mind. But in general, the easiest way to begin meditating is by focusing on the breath an example of one of the most common approaches to meditation: concentration.

Concentration meditation

A concentrative meditation technique involves focusing on a single point. This could entail watching the breath, repeating a single word or mantra, staring at a candle flame, listening to a repetitive gong or counting beads on a rosary. Since focusing the mind is challenging, a beginner might meditate for only a few minutes and then work up to longer durations.

In this form of meditation, you simply refocus your awareness on the chosen object of attention each time you notice your mind wandering. Rather than pursuing random thoughts, you simply let them go. Through this process, your ability to concentrate improves.

Mindfulness meditation

Mindfulness meditation technique encourages the practitioner to observe wandering thoughts as they drift through the mind. The intention is not to get involved with the thoughts or to judge them, but simply to be aware of each mental note as it arises.

Through mindfulness meditation, you can see how your thoughts and feelings tend to move in particular patterns. Over time, you can become more aware of the human tendency to quickly judge experience as good or bad (pleasant or unpleasant). With practice, an inner balance develops.

In some schools of meditation, students practice a combination of concentration and mindfulness. Many disciplines call for stillness to a greater or lesser degree, depending on the teacher.

Other meditation techniques

There are various other meditation techniques. For example, a daily meditation practice among Buddhist monks focuses directly on the cultivation of compassion. This involves envisioning negative events and recasting them in a positive light by transforming them through compassion. There are also moving meditations techniques, such as tai chi, chi kung and walking meditation.

Benefits of meditation

If relaxation is not the goal of meditation, it is often one result of it. Back in the 1970s, Herbert Benson, MD, a researcher at Harvard University Medical School, coined the term the relaxation response after conducting research on people who practiced transcendental meditation. The relaxation response, in Bensons words, is an opposite, involuntary response that causes a reduction in the activity of the sympathetic nervous system.

Since then, studies on the relaxation response have documented the following short-term benefits to the nervous system:

Contemporary researchers are now exploring whether consistent meditation practice yields long-term benefits, and noting positive effects on brain and immune function among meditators. Yet it is worth repeating that the purpose of meditation is not to achieve benefits. To put it as an Eastern philosopher might say, the goal of meditation is no goal. It is simply to be present.

In Buddhist philosophy, the ultimate benefit of meditation is liberation of the mind from attachment to things it cannot control, such as external circumstances or strong internal emotions. The liberated, or enlightened, practitioner no longer needlessly follows desires or clings to experiences, but instead maintains a calmness of mind and sense of inner balance.

How to meditate: Simple meditation for beginners

This meditation exercise is an excellent introduction to meditation techniques.

1. Sit or lie comfortably. You may even want to invest in a meditation chair.

2. Close your eyes.

3. Make no effort to control the breath; simply breathe naturally.

4. Focus your attention on the breath and on how the body moves with each inhalation and exhalation. Notice the movement of your body as you breathe. Observe your chest, shoulders, rib cage and belly. Make no effort to control your breath; simply focus your attention. If your mind wanders, simply return your focus back to your breath. Maintain this meditation practice for 23 minutes to start, and then try it for longer periods.

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