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

We carry our past limiting beliefs over into our adult lives, without questioning them - because they are mostly unconscious. Typically, this happens from our earliest years all the way to the last days of our lives. The ability (and discipline) to revisit and adjust each one of these beliefs over time can have a dramatically positive effect on your life and all that you do.

Do you know what the Golden Rule is? What about the Platinum Rule? The quality of social relationships with the people around us has a major impact on the life-changing opportunities we encounter, our quality of life, even our life expectancy. As long as we do it on our own terms, we benefit the most when we benefit people the most.

Most of us live cluttered lives of lack of clarity, lots of distractions and of the agendas of other people who have other goals than what's best for us. This episode is about what cleaning up your mental and physical space have in common with special operations training (and Star Trek) and how it can supercharge your clarity and focus in your day to day life.

In western societies we tend to fear death and push it away from sight, often while living lives of unacknowledged fears and anxieties. In other, usually happier and more positive cultures, they accept, even celebrate death. As much as we tend to avoid the fact, accepting our existence as finite can help us become sharper, happier, and much more clear on what matters in our lives.

From the time you were born, you have been creating a blueprint for your later failures and successes. Let's look into the principles involved to change what no longer works for you, adjust what you need, and make sure you're prepared to make your life truly your own.

Life is a journey to explore, to learn from and make your own. As you venture forth, don't forget to enjoy the hills and the valleys, the shade and the sun. Because sometimes you'll stumble, but you’ll always grow in the process.

If you're past early teens and you're still alive, it is very likely thanks to one or more inventions that have been made thanks to science. Physics, to just name one science, is all around us, and yet, we rarely think about it. We don't need to know much, but just grasping the basics can give us more appreciation and can enhance our skills and abilities in the physical world.

There are different kinds of psychological tools that people and companies use to change your opinions, do something they want you to do, or reach for your purse or wallet. Let's learn about some of the most important ones that you can use for good.

We carry a brilliant thought machine with ourselves everywhere we go - one that we can use to make ourselves utterly miserable or to achieve anything we want. Learning how to use it properly in any situation makes all the difference in yours or anyone's life.

Being "woke" is in vogue, for better and sometimes for worse. You can help another person be more included, or you can commit - and be punished for - an act of biased opinion or "micro-aggression" that you never thought was there. This day and age brings new challenges in rightful dealing with serious injustice, sometimes in trying to mend issues that are better solved otherwise, and at times to d...

"Fear of success" is another one of the important challenges that you can face to improve your life and relationships - one that is not so easy to see, and that when dealt with properly can supercharge your life success.

Have you ever felt trapped, or engulfed, in your relationship with your significant other? Fear of Commitment is one of those things we don't usually understand until later in life, after it has done a lot of damage. It is one of the challenges that when tackled well can literally transform your life.

"Quantum healing" in any form is a made-up pseudoscience that allows many charlatans to make a lot of money on your lack of knowledge of the physical world. But can it still work? Technically, yes. Why? The answer lies in the power of your own mind.  So, should anyone believe in it? Opinions will vary, but objectively speaking, no. For one thing, any attempt to link these metaphysical practic...

Many of us have been taught - often times through naming, shaming, and sometimes being manipulated early in life - to take personally what other people say about us and what we do. This is why the ability to stay cool and take what people have to say as useful information, without being negatively affected by it, is one of the shortest and most enjoyable parts of your path to success.

The thing that will empower you most in your life and work is not self-improvement per se. It's not studying, it's not affirmations, and it's not other people telling you how great you are. It is systematically doing new things, getting real-world feedback and making changes in your performance to get the desired result, no matter what others think. This is a simple, foolproof formula that only th...

Creativity is one of the gifts that we all get the day we are born. What we do with it makes all the difference in the world. The happy and successful among us will find ways either to keep it alive, or creatively rediscover it.

Cyber crime is on the rise. As vulnerable as our internet ecosystem can become, the mistake you end up paying through the nose for usually happens between the chair and the keyboard. Learn about the tricks cyber criminals use and what you can do to make sure you stay safe.

Have you ever heard the saying "The way you do anything is the way you do everything"? In this episode we'll go beyond the surface of what makes you strong and give you practical tools for you to support yourself in everything you do in life.

Contrary to what we tend to believe, the truest power in relationship comes not from making the other do things for you, but from giving them the love and connection they need, while keeping our passions alive and well.

Fly like Superman, create a whole world of your own, or just have a good night's sleep. A dream can be a great time to do things you can't easily do in your common waking life.

Often times we do the instinctive thing while believing it is the right thing. Then we shut the doors for us to making better decisions and creating better experiences...sometimes for good. The sooner you can take control of your own biases, the sooner you can make happen the things you never thought possible.

Do you ever lie to other people, or to yourself? Do you, in fact, lie a lot? Answering these questions truthfully requires a lot of honesty and integrity because of the bad rep liars get (mostly for a good reason). Even as sometimes lying can be a good thing.

There are different kinds of psychotherapy, but all of them, in the hands of a skilled professional (and sometimes this can be you), are one of the most profound tools that you have to empower yourself.

Starting a new activity - or just doing things differently - every once in a while can change your mental hard-wiring more towards making changes and improvements. Small changes to our day can always make the day more interesting, not to mention more productive and memorable.

Leaders come in all shapes and sizes. While there is no one size that fits all, the best leaders can learn the most useful leadership skills and develop these along with their character.