Self-Improvement for Astrology Sign Aries
Self Improvement for the Astrology Signs
Aries
Initiative, Assertiveness, Goal Setting, Anger Management, Courage,
Leadership, Aggression, Pioneering Spirit, Competitiveness
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Showing Initiative
Page Eight
Excerpt from
How to Get Organized
What will get us organized once and for all? Such perfection is not possible. If it were, that would be your life -- making lists, making check marks, and transferring data and information around. There on your day-timer at 8:04 p.m. would be "Kiss my son goodnight." Intuitively we all know we don't want to end up there!
So what can you do that's helpful and reasonable? There are so many systems out there, you'd have to get organized to get organized to shop for one. Instead try these things my clients have found successful.

Showing Initiative
Page Seven
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The Time To Change Your Life is NOW.
Not tomorrow.... NOW!
If you find yourself in a place in life you don't like, and seem to be forever procrastinating on making a change, examine whether the three factors outlined here are secretly controlling your life. Determine ABSOLUTELY to make a breakthrough. Then use the blueprint given here to make the changes you need to make to take you where you want to go, AND away from where you don't want to be.
Do it today. Not tomorrow, but today. Why? Because tomorrow is just another today. If you don't start today, tomorrow will come and it will be today. And you will probably say the same thing then too. Tomorrow is just today, one day later.

Showing Initiative
Page Six
Excerpt from
Seven Steps to
Making a Difference in an Indifferent World
We live in troubled times where our peace and safety are often in danger. Most feel helpless and unable to affect the unfolding events in our present world. And yet many are uniting their minds, energy and actions in order to create a peaceful and safe world with dignity for all.
Some groups work politically while others spiritually or socially. Some focus on the poor or refuges, others on human rights, some on the politicians themselves who seem to be making the decisions. During this period of our evolution, it is so important that each of us makes his or her personal statement through thoughts words and actions.

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Improve Life
Page Ten

10 'Artsy' Activities That Save Business People From Burnout
Many people concentrate most of their energy and attention on business and become almost one dimensional. There are "artsy" activities that are just as valuable as work because they help maintain sanity and prevent burnout.
Life should be a balance. It should not be all work and no play. Play prevents burnout by re-energizing the spirit, relaxing thinking and reducing stress and tension. Even business people need to stop and smell some roses once in a while.

Improve Life
Page Nine
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5 Basic Rules of Life Design
One way to measure a great life design is how well it accommodates what you want to do. The goal should be to create a life with as few barriers and obstacles as possible. Safety measures such as reserves and boundaries benefit you, plus there are a number of conveniences that simply make a life more efficient and enjoyable to use.
Like a good room design, thinking ahead about who you are and how you want your life to function is a good place to start.

Improve Life
Page Eight
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With a Little Help from Grace
It's the 18th century. Slave running is a booming industry for England. British ships embark on a three-legged journey loaded with trinkets, liquor, weapons and cloth. First stop, Africa. The goods are traded for the "treasures" of African tribal chiefs: native men and women captured in wars against other tribes.
Like canned sardines, the "human cargo" is packed into the bowels of ships headed to the New World. Arriving in the Americas, slaves are exchanged for sugar and molasses. Completing the voyage, ships return to England with ingredients destined to be made into rum.

Improve Life
Page Seven
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Daily Dose of Stress Relief
Wouldn't it be great if there was a Daily Dose of Stress Relief that we could take every morning?
It's easy to get caught up in the hustle and bustle of everyday life and start to feel overwhelmed, frustrated, burned-out, and fed up. Stress is caused by a lot of things, but when you look closely, as often as not, it's the small things that drive you batty on any given day. Try these 4 ways to create your very own Daily Dose of Stress Relief.

Improve Life
Page Six
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Ten Ways to Add Abundance
To Your Mind, Your Life and Your World
Abundance isn't something you find from the outside. Abundance begins within and radiates outward. Find the ways that increase your abundance inside. Add time to your day, simplify, or make a difference in the world. Gratitude multiplies. Find something in these ten ways to add abundance to your life and enjoy the positive results it will attract.

Self-Assertion
Page Seven
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Responding to Criticism Without Being Defensive
In an actual war, to be attacked means to have our survival threatened. Thus, we might chose between surrender, withdrawal, or counterattack. When we feel attacked (criticized or judged) by others in conversation, we often move into that same kind of survival mentality and automatically defend ourselves.
But conversation is different than war. When we defend against criticism, we give more power to the criticism and the person dishing it out than is warranted.
While we might need to set some limits if someone is verbally abusive, I think we often ward off criticism far too soon, discarding anything that is valid, as well as what is invalid. The person's words may hurt, but they will hurt less, I think, if we ask questions, decide which pieces we agree with (if any) and which ones we don't agree with.

Self-Assertion
Page Six
Excerpt from
How to Deal With People
Who Think They Are Better Than You
However smart you are, you will need to know how to deal with people who think they are better than you. You are bound to meet people like this in your life. That is the case even if you are an internationally acclaimed scientist or a member of MENSA, because when people think they are better than you it is about them, not you.
So, in learning how to deal with people who think they are better than you, initially you need to fight your natural instincts to blank them. Get to know them better and find out why they feel the need to put others down. If they need a confidence boost, help to give them one, while at the same time protecting your own self esteem and self respect. If that fails or even makes them worse, they try showing up the arrogant person for what they are: people just like anyone else, with strengths and weaknesses. This will help you deal with them even if it doesn't help them to change their behaviour.

Strategies for Success
Page Five
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Blast Procrastination Excuses
It's easy to get overwhelmed when you look too far down the road. It's important to know what direction you're headed in, and what the final product will look like. But it's equally important to keep your eyes right on the road in front of you.
Stay focused only on the next few steps. Just one wall to paint, just one year of taxes, just one pound to lose. A building is built brick by brick -- so are your successes.

Strategies for Success
Page Four
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Steps to Extraordinary Personal Wealth
Develop wealth consciousness! This is a conscious, specific desire to be aware of money, to have money, and to use money to reflect your values and your priorities. Some of us virtually choose poverty because of our refusal to take responsibility for how we handle money. Others, live as misers and never use money to expand their horizons and develop their lives. You can decide to have a healthy, exciting and profitable relationship with money. Choose wisely. Start today!

Building Self-Confidence
Page Three
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How To Build Self-Confidence To Improve Your Life
One of the best personal attributes one can have is self-confidence. A positive relationship with others fosters a sense of self-worth that contributes to the image you have of yourself. Even if you are shy and retiring, you can develop the self-confidence you need to propel you from obscurity into a place of honor within your circle of acquaintances.

Taking Risks
Page Three
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How to Manage a Transition Successfully
I work with clients in transition. Some of the transitions are chosen, such as retirement. Others are involuntary transitions such as losing a job or being forced to change careers because of a disability.
We all have a different "set point" for our ability to handle changes. It has to do with our natural temperaments, and also the way change and ambiguity were handled when we were children. Why "ambiguity?" Because more than anything else, transitions involve the unknown.

Strategies for Success
Page Three
Excerpt from
How to Get Anything You Want
"The Kids" Are the Key
Excited to experiment with my passion, animal communication, I'd found a job at a dog kennel, exchanging 25 hours a week of labor for an apartment. It was a good deal for me. But after two years of working with barking dogs, I longed for more peace, freedom and flexibility than the kennel allowed.
"There's no way," my mind insisted, "you'll ever find a better situation than you already have." Multitudes of emotions were stirring inside me. Doubt. Sadness. Resignation. My ego personality was gaining momentum in its "logical and emotional sales pitch." My thoughts were trying to convince me to stay right where I was so I wouldn't be disappointed when I failed to get a better job and home. Thank God my spirit wasn't buying the mental spiel!

Setting Goals
Page Twelve
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Three Proven Ways To Leverage the Big Power of Small Changes
Successful people set ambitious goals. But the high standards and lofty visions necessary for great success can sometimes be daunting. You may want to run a marathon, lose 50 pounds, or build a business empire, but you may quickly find yourself overwhelmed if you mentally focus on such ambitious goals.
The result can be procrastination, or even depression. Clinically depressed people often have goals that far exceed what they feel they can really accomplish. As a result, they often get stuck in a "paralysis of analysis" - finding themselves unable to initiate actions because they feel they need new skills or more information.

Setting Goals
Page Eleven
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Aim For Your Star
Are you disappointed, discouraged and discontented with your present level of success? Are you secretly dissatisfied with your present situation? Do you want to become a better and more beautiful person than you are today? Do you want weight loss, or an end to food obsession? How about inner peace?
Yes, you can have what you want! Of course you can. But accomplishing your goals while at the same time feeling inner peace means doing things differently than you've done them before. For example, if you been on every diet in the world and they haven't worked, what makes you think the next diet is going to be the answer?

Setting Goals
Page Ten
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Three of Life's Essential Truths
Don't wait for success, and don't wait for tomorrow! Live your life the way you want to live it. You are in charge of your schedule. You are in charge of who you hug, how much you smile, what you think about, and how much you learn. Of all the creatures on earth, only humans get to choose how we will live our lives. Don't blow it! Live well. Focus on the things that enrich your life. Learn. Grow. Every day, be happy.

Self-Acceptance
Page Two
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Being Tender With the Ugly Parts of Yourself
We don't like to think about our "ugly parts," do we? By ugly parts of course I mean those aspects of ourselves we perceive to be less than perfect. For some it might be physical flaws like acne, jiggly thighs or a persistent pot belly no matter how many hours we spend in the gym. For others there may be emotional issues like fears, phobias or low self-esteem.
One lesson I keep having to learn over and over in my own life is that the more I resist these aspects of myself, the more I hate them and push them away and try to ignore them, the bigger and more dominant they become. My resistance gives them power over me.

Getting What You Want
Page Three
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Bolstering Beliefs
At some time in your life you have probably used affirmations or other positive self-talk to change an attitude, opinion or behavior. The more you have done this, the more you know that sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't.
What makes the difference? Why are there times when you only need to say the affirmation once and your whole life changes? And yet you repeat other affirmations religiously for days, weeks, months and sometimes even years and nothing happens?
I believe that the difference between positive affirmations that work and those that don't are the underlying beliefs you hold regarding the topic at hand. If, for example, you want to experience a loving relationship and your underlying beliefs support the idea that you are lovable, then the door open to allow a relationship in. If, however, you don't really believe that you are lovable, or worthy, or good enough, that belief will negate all the positive energy you expend to create a loving relationship.

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