The Art of Self-Development; Create Your Life with PD

Dieting, in all its different forms, is now a huge business - and most often, it has other agenda than improving your health or keeping you fit (which would generally be contrary to its business model). While you can seek comprehensive advice from a good trainer or nutritionist, the change in your lifestyle that will make the most difference doesn't need to be big or complicated. And it can be the...

Healthy self-esteem is the foundation for self-respect and confidence, each of which will build a better, happier life. There are several qualities that make for strong self-esteem, not least of which, paradoxically, is humility.

This is one of the "heavier" episodes. Drawing from CBT (or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy) it focuses on the relationship between cognition (mainly thinking, feeling, and beliefs) and taking action. It explores how these influence and strengthen each other and how understanding why we think and do things the way we do can help us positively transform our lives.

The fear of success is one of the greatest limitations we put on ourselves so we don't achieve what we have every right to get, even though this fear is something very different from what we commonly think. Understanding how this fear works will skyrocket our success, especially for those who deserve success the most - the most caring of us, who prefer not to ruffle any feathers, or who tend to pu...

Learning new skills and becoming better versions of ourselves is one of the biggest (and most addictive) pleasures life has to offer. One which will work amazingly well for us...as long as we put it in service of a greater good.

Sometimes we feel we're not measuring up, and that everyone else can see that. We might even feel helpless and isolated. When that happens, we often miss that the feeling can in fact be a blessing in disguise that can skyrocket our self-development to new heights.

Psychologists know there is much more to the human mind than we are consciously aware of. So do people with eidetic memory, people who have learned the method of photoreading, and any kind of geniuses and prodigies that we believe are "gifted". Understanding and making better use of the part of our mind that we are not normally aware of is the basis for a happier life better aligned with our value...

Post-traumatic stress disorder is a serious mental health problem caused by a single trauma or a number of traumatic incidents. While successful treatment generally includes working with a specialist, there is a lot we can do to better understand the condition, our triggers, and how our past can be better understood and used to live a better life in the future.

Being authentic means saying no at times - to ourselves and the people around us. Learning the process also means choosing guilt over resentment, understanding it, and letting it go.

There are moments in life when we feel helpless or overwhelmed - like we're not good enough, or we lost our way and there is no light at the end of the tunnel. Fortunately, this very feeling has information contained in it that can lead us to master the very thing that used to give us fear.

Many people like to have a lot of friends, but we know only some of them are really special. Let's see what it takes to be such a friend so that you can be that to the people that are special to you; most of all, to yourself.

This day and age gives us a lot to think about. We have our jobs and assignments, our mortgages, the future of our kids...All of these things lead us to live more in our thoughts about the past and in planning for the future than in the present. We become so torn between our mind and our emotions that we often end up trying to dissociate from the one thing that can lead us back to ourselves.

We like to believe that success in life is the result of hard work and talent alone, and that is simply not true. There is one much more important quality that we can all develop, and that is the ability to put your focus where you want it - and, even more importantly, to develop a system of putting it back where it belongs whenever needed.

Some of the most important life changes require more than just a realization. They call for the ability to move past our excuses and rationalizations and to do the work that will bear the fruit we want.

In sex and relationships, many of us didn't exactly get the best start, and we feel the effect throughout our lives. Let's take a look at one of the areas where openness and growth can help make all the difference in the world.

Growing up, many of us have been taught to be more cautious and serious and to downplay our curiosity. And for sure, there are times when being cautious is the right approach; but apart from the rare situations that warrant it, cultivating healthy curiosity brings much more benefits than anything else.

Most of us don't understand what good sleep does for us and just how important it is for our health and well being. Let's take a deeper dive into why your tonight's good sleep is one of the best gifts you can give yourself today and for many years to come. 

Sleep takes up about a third of our lives - or at least it should. Why? Because good sleep, just like good nourishment, is a pre-requisite for us to be at our best; to be healthier, happier and to live longer.

The 200th episode is a re-visit of some of the most important topics discussed on the podcast. While some of these concepts and tips may seem basic, this is exactly where the biggest long-term benefits come from.

Relationships can be hard work, especially when we don't have enough experience and don't know exactly what we are doing. While there are tons of tips and ideas on how to make a relationship strong, these ideas can be broken down to several key principles that, when maintained, will keep your relationship strong and healthy for life.

Intelligence is not just being smart. It is one of the most important and most transferable life skills that will help you do better in life and work alike.

Becoming your best self doesn't necessarily require studying a ton of books or going to fancy self-improvement workshops (or listening to sophisticated podcasts). It really is about going back to the basics - and making sure every part of your life and personality aligns with your life vision and purpose.

There is a key quality that makes us attractive and welcome in any crowd; one that we have access to as children and that we tend to lose when growing up, hopefully picking it up later at some point. It is indeed true that honesty is the greatest aphrodisiac. 

We all want that special someone waiting - we think - for us somewhere out there. You know, the One. The good news is, he or she really is there for us. The even better news is they're more than one. And best of all, we will attract them to our lives when we make ourselves ready for the relationship, and not a moment sooner.

Most of us grow up thinking we are not good enough being ourselves, that we don't measure up. This can be a healthy thing that drives us to be more active and achieve great things, up to a point. In excess, the same drive is exactly the thing that will limit us the most. Until, that is, we learn to balance the learned drive to always judge and criticize what we do and who we are with allowing ours...