Self-Help Personal Growth

Once again, it’s time to look at what brings random people to my random blog. I’ll even try to be helpful and try to answer your mind-boggling searches. negative letters to parents from teacher –Don’t see this too often, seems teachers can’t really get too negative in letters to parents anymore. Long ago, a teacher could write a letter to a parent outlining all the social, mental and emotional problems about a troubled student. The parent often looked at this with compassion and... Read Full Story

How we feel about ourselves is more important than how others feel about us. (From The Book of Positive Quotations by John Cook, Steve Deger and Leslie Ann Gibson) “What You Think of Me Is None of My Business” is the title of a book published in 1979 by Terry Cole-Whittaker a minister who founded an independent New Thought church in San Diego, California. I read this book several years ago and I have never forgotten the title. Going through life constantly perturbed about what others think... Read Full Story

Your favourite sleeping position can, apparently, give deep insights into your personality. Following a report last year by Professor Chris Idzikowski, director of the UK Sleep Assessment and Advisory Service, scientists now believe that common personality traits are related to our favourite sleeping positions. O.K. so if you want to analyse the personality of a partner or loved one, make a note of the way they go to sleep (assuming this wont cause too much embarrassment…!) and then take a... Read Full Story

I have spent a great deal of my life searching for happiness. I have primarily looked for it in romantic relationships, which only concluded in divorce, certainly not in money or possessions, because fortunately I am not particularly materialistic and I struggled for years to change my wonderfully dysfunctional family until one day I stopped and watched my child at play. It occurred to me that we are reborn every single day and we are given a chance to start over and be a better person. This... Read Full Story

Recently I was in on a discussion about Senator Ted Kennedy and his recent diagnosis with brain cancer. This kind of cancer, I am told, leads to fairly certain death, usually within a year. The discussion lead to his involvement in the 1969 Chappaquiddick incident in which Kennedy drove his car off a bridge late one night and his lone occupant, young Mary Jo Kopechne, was drown. Kennedy, for various stated reasons, some very suspect, did not report the accident until the next day and only... Read Full Story