Why Reaching Goals Together Is Important?

A Shoulder To Lean on In Personal Development

When you are trying to better yourself, one of the worst things you can do for yourself is to try and do it alone. It can be very difficult to do anything by yourself, whether it is losing weight, learning a language, or trying to quit smoking. Having someone with you can make it much easier to fulfill your goals not only because you will have support, but because you will have someone to push you as well.

When you are accountable to no one, it can be easy to not do what you want with reaching your goals. If you are trying to lose weight and have to exercise, it can be easy to choose not to exercise if no one will be watching you and ensuring you do. As a result, you end up just not doing it, and that leads you to failing in your goals. However, when you are accountable, you have someone paying attention and they will call you on it if you do not accomplish the goals you set out.

If you don’t go exercise, they will ask why aren’t you exercising. If you start smoking, they will ask you why you started. Eventually, you will reach your goals to show the other person that you can indeed do it.

However, it is not only about keeping you honest. When you are involved in personal development, it can be had to feel as though you are making progress. You may become depressed and if there is no one you can talk to, you may end up failing in your quest of personal development. Now, if you have someone with you, they can talk with you and work with you to ensure that you do feel motivated and as though you are making progress.

When someone is there telling you that you can do it, that you are going to reach your goals, well it is like having a personal trainer for your confidence. Just like a regular personal trainer who helps you tone your muscles and get fit, a confidence personal trainer keeps your self-esteem high, and keeps you wanting to strive towards your goals. They are very valuable to have, and they can help you achieve everything that you want.

It is not always easy to reach our goals and often our biggest enemy is ourselves. We will get down on ourselves, get depressed and think we just are not going to make it. As a result, you may feel as though there is no chance of ever having success. When you have someone who is a shoulder you can lean on, you have someone who will keep you going and give you that little push that gets you towards the end zone. They are also the ones who keep you going when you are feeling lazy because they feel a sense of accomplishment when they help you reach your accomplishments.

Who is your confidence personal trainer?

To streamline and minimize blog maintenance, I will be discontinuing maintaining the Simplepersonaldevelopment.com website (however, I will still hold the domain). I will gradually move all articles from this site to Ahmed Dawn Dot Com. This article originally published on the above website on Sep 30, 2010.

The Spring 2009 Toronto Small Press Book Fair

The Spring 2009 Toronto Small Press Book Fair

First Published: June 14, 2009 ADawnJournal.com

The Spring 2009 Toronto Small Press Book Fair took place at the Toronto Reference Library, 789 Yonge St. Toronto, ON, M4W 2G8. From 9am-5pm on Sat, June 13, 2009. I participated in this event, and I am posting two video clips for your viewing pleasure. The weather was nice (23 °C little wind) and lots of visitors attended the fair.  The Small Press Book Fair featured lively entertainment such as eclectic readings, performances, raffle draw etc. For the first time in our 22-year history, the TORONTO REFERENCE LIBRARY agreed to host the 2009 Toronto Small Press Book Fair! This was a Unique Opportunity To Meet Canadian and International Celebrity Authors Under One Roof. Celebrity authors such as Kieran Furey, Kildare Dobbs, Goran Simić were featured.

I like attending this kind of event, and I encourage entrepreneurs to join any events like the one we had today. It presents an opportunity to meet many other like-minded people and it will increase your networking capability which is very important.

The video was done with a MoviePix MP5A4 HD cam. For more pictures and video clips, visit A Dawn Journal on  Flickr, and YouTube. Also, visit The Toronto Small Press Group Website for more info.

How To Start A Personal Development Plan

Learn To Accept Change

It may not be very easy to exactly pin point where personal development would begin or end. But we could comfortably say that anything that involves an aspect that could lead to your own individual transformation can get included in personal development. This all revolves around a resolution that one makes to try and become a better person than they were yesterday. When we get to look inwards, we try and improve the person that we discover, as opposed to when we try and compete with another individual. Personal development is all about you against any form of mediocrity you find in you and would like to see an improvement.

Those who have undergone any form of personal development training realize the importance of beginning by writing down all that you are and what you intend to do about it. It does not have to be anything complex. The simpler it is the easier it becomes to relate with it and accomplish. When you put things down in pen and paper it helps your mind to actually clarify them to make them realties. And since this kind of plan is personal, it should not appear as if it is cast in concrete, so there should be freedom and flexibility as and when circumstances allow.

The good news about a successful self development plan is that you can actually begin today or as soon as you finish reading this article, and it really may not matter how fast or how far you go. You can take your baby steps by building on what you learn on the first day you decide to do something about yourself. You need to learn how to make your agenda into a goal that can be broken down into small achievable steps. The advantage of doing this is that when you achieve one small feat, you have the incentive and motivation to move on to another one with the knowledge that you can actually make because you will have results on your side.

As a good student in the self development school you can save yourself a lot of valuable time and energy learning from the examples and experiences of other people. If people have made mistakes from particular choices you can get to avoid such because experience may never be the best of teacher. Someone said if you let experience be your only teacher, time will teach you the bitterly cold truth, but will take your youth in exchange. One of the easiest ways to learn from other people is by reading self development books and picking all the golden nuggets you find in there to make them your own.

If there is one thing that you must realize and take real note of, is that the only consistent thing on earth is change. Learn to accept the fact that change is inevitable and you will be best placed to survive if you can anticipate change and be able to adapt to it as soon as you realize it is there to stay. People all through history have had to change their belief systems and their ideas about many things and systems. You can imagine that if it were not for change, all the development you see today would simply be in the minds of people.

To streamline and minimize blog maintenance, I will be discontinuing maintaining the Simplepersonaldevelopment.com website (however, I will still hold the domain). I will gradually move all articles from this site to Ahmed Dawn Dot Com. This article originally published on the above website on Nov 27, 2010.

Toronto Stock Exchange Has Launched A New Portal Called TMX Money

TSX Launches TMX

First Published: June 15, 2009 ADawnJournal.com

Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) has launched its new financial portal “TMX Money.” Visitors will be able to access a series of new features and investment research tools to make informed investment decisions.

Some of these tools are:

– Stock screener
– Financial calculators
– Stock Market glossary
– Customizable ticker
– Business news
– Exchange Traded Funds (ETF) portal
– And much more

I like ETF portal the most. Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) are growing in popularity and opening up new investment opportunities and possibilities. I encourage you to check out TMX Money’s ETF section as it provides helpful ETF information. Visit TMX Money for more information.

How To Get Out of Your Comfort Zone

Breaking Out of Your Comfort Zone

When you are trying to become confident and reach your goals in personal development, it can be important to get out of your comfort zone. By getting out of your comfort zone and enjoying it, you gain confidence and self-esteem, which is very important if you want to better yourself. In order to get out of your comfort zone, you need to do the following:

1. First of all, don’t be afraid of looking stupid. That is one of the biggest things that holds people back. Just be stupid. Make a fool of yourself, jump around and act dumb. Whatever you need to do to break the ice. You will find that not only do you enjoy it, the consequences are not going to be anything near as bad as you though they would be.

2. The only thing to fear is fear itself. This is very true and you should live by this adage. If you are afraid of something, face it. If you do not like spiders, get surrounded by spiders. If you are afraid of heights, go up to the top of a skyscraper. By doing this, you will realize that most of your fears are groundless and if you can conquer them, you can conquer anything.

3. You need to take pleasure in change and the unknown. You can never know what is going to happen around the corner, but that does not mean you can’t be ready for change when it comes. When the change comes, embrace it and embrace the unknown that it brings. When you do this, you free yourself and you create something for yourself that can be very rewarding. Just accept that there are unknown things and be happy with that. You will find that in the end you are much happier with yourself as a result.

4. Be ready for risks and do not always be afraid of them. Many people do not want to take risks because they are afraid something bad will happen. However, there is just as good of a chance that something great may happen. Sure, not all risks will work out but if you don’t take any risks, you won’t get any rewards. As a result, you need to be ready for risks as they come and you need to take those risks. Get comfortable with the concept of risks and do not be afraid of them. With risk, you may lose something and sometimes that can be very hard to deal with. However, you may also gain something. Look at risk like love. In love, you may lose out and end up having your heart broken, but if you do not take the risk to find someone special, you may never know the joy of finding your soul mate.

Getting out of your comfort zone will help you realize your dreams and achieve things you never thought possible. You just need to be ready and prepared to get out of that comfort zone.

To streamline and minimize blog maintenance, I will be discontinuing maintaining the Simplepersonaldevelopment.com website (however, I will still hold the domain). I will gradually move all articles from this site to Ahmed Dawn Dot Com This article originally published on the above website on Sep 7, 2010.