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hey
i really need help on this task
please help me. this is for my personal and professional development assignment
thanks in advance

Personal learning & self development indisputably contribute greatly to one’s sense of self, awareness of others, and increased self confidence. I believe this leads to an open heart and happiness. These qualities, whether voluntarily or otherwise, one transforms to others, consciously or otherwise.

So Do well for you; do well for all human beings.

Good luck with your assignment.

im a 17 yr old teenager and i feel that i dont have leadership qualities and lack confidence. how do i improve in these aspects?? please help…

read "Art of War" by SUN TZU

This will give you the knowledge you lack, which in turn will give you the confidence you desire.

For many years now I have been an avid reader of self help books like the Granddaddy of them all, Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill. This has made me a bit of an expert on self help books. I would like to know what particular aspect of self help other people are interested in?

How to "seriously" be happy – like sometimes i feel as though i’m never satisfied when people I know tell me that i have everything….

What are some ways that people gain self confidence?

Self confidence/self esteem comes from within. You must stop thinking about what other people think of you. You must look at yourself, and be happy with the person you are. You are the only one who has to live with you, so you had better be sure that you like yourself. If you dont, or are having problems liking yourself, maybe you should seek out a psychologist for some help. It doesnt mean you are crazy, it simply means you may need some help learning how to love yourself.

Go to Barnes and Noble or Borders or a Library, they actually encourage you to look at their books… and they don’t charge anything for it! Unless, of course you want to buy it.

Out of all the home improvement shows from yesteryear to today. Who do you respect the most? And please don’t say bob he is a host a salesman at best.
For me it’s Tom Silva because he knows his stuff and can actually do it.
lol doc I forgot the sitcom genre. I enjoyed Tim the tool man as well

Norm is an icon
Mike Holmes personally I have not seen his work but a mentor of mine watches his show. I will make an effort to view his next episode.

my hero Norm Abrams, I have his picture framed in my office.
Mike Holmes is just a blow hard, have you ever seen him work? neither have I

There are so many self-help and self-hypnosis CDs out there to help shyness. I cant decide which one to try. Has anyone had success using this and which is the best one? THANKS

They are a scam. Self and shyness only support the issues. Try group and shyness. I took an Arguementation course in college to help me.

http://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/Lewis25.html

Wow, this one made me read it twice. I think there is a little truth in some of the points but it’s how it’s worded to women that I find demeaning. I mean… when I get married I want to love my husband and be kind and romantic, but it’s bc I choose to and not bc it’s some kind of duty. This reminds me of an article from the 50’s on how to be a proper wife.

I can’t really understand, since that each human being is responsible for his or her own fate, and personal development techniques provide us some way to work through it.

But why are certain people saying that this is a bad thing?
After all its purpose is genuine good, are those critics not striving for excellent themself?

There’s always going to be critics and haters for everything and everyone. I mean, look at how many "God bashers" there are. You can even find people saying water is a bad thing, go figure.

A lot of them, however, probably just got sick and tired of trying something they learned from some self-help guru and failing. So they find it easier to just bash the whole industry. By making self-help a bad thing, it somehow makes them feel better about not living the life "self-help" promised they would experience.

Then there are people who are just skeptical, mainly out of fear of having their hopes up and seeing it crash. So they say those self-help people are just out to scam everyone and none of that stuff works, etc. They place blame on "it" and not themselves.

So don’t even pay attention to those people. Keep improving yourself everyday. One day you will live the life you want while those people will still be bashing and complaining.

I have to write a 4 page paper on Frida Kahlo’s personal growth.
any quotes or sources or previous essays or anything is much appreciated.

don’t worry i will fully and correctly site everything.

thank you.

I hope these sources are helpful to you…

http://www.pbs.org/weta/fridakahlo/

http://www.aaa.si.edu/exhibits/pastexhibits/kahlo/hispanic2001.htm

Mexican painter. She began to paint while recovering in bed from a bus accident in 1925 that left her seriously disabled. Although she made a partial recovery, she was never able to bear a child, and she underwent some 32 operations before her death in 1954. Her life’s work of c. 200 paintings, mostly self-portraits, deals directly with her battle to survive. They are a kind of exorcism by which she projected her anguish on to another Frida, in order to separate herself from pain and at the same time confirm her hold on reality. Her international reputation dates from the 1970s; her work has a particular following among Latin Americans living in the USA.

The above is a brief excerpt from a database called Grove Art Online (you may have access to this source via your local library Web site).

I would also recommend looking for access to JStor (a database for journal articles) at your local library Web site.

http://lists.webjunction.org/libweb/

In addition to the continual pain of her body’s failing, her marriage to Rivera was punctuated with many infidelities–including his affair with her younger sister Cristina–many breakups, one divorce, and countless reconciliations. Often reproduced, for example, is her self-portrait The Wounded Deer (1946). Like Saint Sebastian, the deer with Kahlo’s face and the horns of a cuckold keeps going in spite of the many arrows sticking in its sides. There is much blood. A theme which inspired a number of her paintings was her inability to bear children and the agony of miscarriage and loss. The instruments of a hospital stay, in these and in other works depicting medical treatment, become, like the instruments of the passion, symbolic of the tragedy of human suffering as well as the futility of its attempted cure.

As in the traditional art of Mexico and its customs, blood and death are acknowledged, met with, become companions in Kahlo’s art. Injury and death are shown without sentiment and with a constant irony. Her use of the Mexican ex voto style, in which little messages appear in painted garlands, is ironic in that it makes use of the Catholic faith which inspires the images but holds out none of the naive hope which gave them birth.

Her deliberately chosen, seemingly primitive style was a part of this Mexican identity, though it is anything but primitive at base. It provided a distancing from the pain in the paintings, which increased the psychological impact as well as emphasizing her devotion to the Mexicanidad, which to her was deeply significant.

"Frida Kahlo." Contemporary Women Artists. St. James Press, 1999.
Reproduced in Biography Resource Center (another subscription database to which your library may provide access)