Self-Improvement Archives

How to Improve Your Nonverbal Communication Skills

Humans communicate both verbally and nonverbally, but we tend to focus on words, which often don’t accurately represent our emotions. In fact, at least 65% of our communication is nonverbal. Nonverbal communication can include signals such as eye contact, gestures, body language, facial expressions, and even one’s posture. So, how can you work to ensure that your verbal and nonverbal communications are in sync? How can you accurately read and interpret others? And how has the COVID-19 pandemic made nonverbal communication more difficult? Continue reading to learn how to improve nonverbal communication.

Becoming a Daring Leader: The 2 Pillars of Courage

How do you become a daring leader? Why is grounded confidence essential to daring leadership? You become a daring leader by approaching your work with curiosity and facing your vulnerabilities with confidence. Grounded confidence is what helps you face up to tough decisions instead of running away or hiding behind defensive behaviors. Read more about what it takes to become a daring leader.

How to Overcome Limiting Beliefs About Money

What’s your idea of money? Do you believe you aren’t capable of earning past a certain benchmark? Do you think of yourself as a person who doesn’t have what it takes to achieve financial success? Your limiting beliefs about money are the result of negative conditioning you adopted throughout your childhood—the more you engage in this type of thinking, the more you associate money with the feeling of powerlessness. As a result, you’re incapable of achieving the financial success that you want. In this article, we’ll talk about how we form and then hold on to limiting beliefs about money,

Seth Godin: Tribes Quotes on Leadership & Community

What are some of the most compelling quotes from Seth Godin’s book Tribes? What are their context and meaning? Tribes by Seth Godin is a book about creating and leading a tribe—a group of people connected by an idea and a leader. It contains practical insights on leadership, community, and society. Keep reading for some thought-provoking quotes from Seth Godin’s Tribes.

Why Are You Poor? Because of Negative Conditioning

Do you feel powerless when it comes to money? How did you inherit your limiting beliefs about money? What attitudes and ideas about money did your parents model? If you’re not happy with the state of your finances, it’s because you’ve been negatively conditioned to have a poor mindset. This negative conditioning is the main reason you are poor: it impels you to act in ways that move you away from financial success. In this article, we’ll explore how negative conditioning works, and how negative conditioning may have led you to develop a “poor mindset.”

Why You Should Prioritize Connection During Sex

What role does connection play during sexual intercourse? How can focusing on a quick release ruin your intimate life? In his book The Way of the Superior Man, David Deida stresses the importance of connection during sex. He asserts that you should be fully conscious during intercourse and aim to please your woman, and not just yourself. If your only goal is sexual release, then a woman won’t be satisfied with you as a partner. Continue below for David Deida’s advice on practicing conscious sex.

How to Build Your Net Worth: Leverage Your Money

How do rich people grow their wealth? What role does mindset play in wealth building? The route to wealth is to leverage your money through investments that create long-term growth. Building your net worth starts with adopting a future-oriented mindset about money: you need to think of the money you earn as seeds that you can plant in order to grow more money for your future wealth. Here is how to build your net worth in five steps, according to financial educator T. Harv Eker.

The Most Inspirational Books for Women, by Women

Are you looking for inspirational books written by women, for women? How can reading these inspiring women’s stories help empower you to live your best life—whether it be your personal life or your work life? In this guide, we’ve put together a list of the most inspirational books for women and split them into three categories: memoirs, personal life, and work life. Most of the authors on this list struggled greatly in life—from childhood traumas, to racial inequality, to workplace discrimination—and managed to come out the other side even stronger. And now they want to encourage you to do the

The Superior Man’s Guide to Appreciating Women

What does The Way of the Superior Man say about appreciating women? What core values will set you up to have a strong relationship? In his book The Way of the Superior Man, David Deida provides advice on how to appreciate women and feminine energy. Deida also gives advice on how to spend time with both older and younger women while remaining respectful. Continue below for Deida’s thoughts on appreciating the gifts of femininity.

How Your Money Mindset Defines Your Level of Wealth

How would you describe your mindset about money? Do you often mismanage your money? More generally, what role does mindset play in financial success? No matter how hard you work to accumulate money, or how many financial books you read or seminars that you attend, your finances cannot improve unless you improve your mindset. This is because your mindset will always find ways to sabotage the way you handle your money if the amount rises above your financial setpoint. In this article, you’ll learn how your money mindset is an accumulation of thoughts and beliefs that you picked up throughout