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Differences between Internal and External Locus of Control: Which Do You Have?

By Janey Davies|2020-02-26T18:42:26+02:00February 26th, 2020|Categories: Personal Development, Self-Improvement, Self-Knowledge & Personality Tests, Success Skills|Tags: behavior, failure, happiness, perception, personality, positive thinking, self-confidence|

When something goes wrong in your life, do you tend to blame yourself or someone else? Psychologists call this type of ‘blaming’ or ‘attribution of success or failure’ our Internal and External Locus of Control. Sounds complicated, right? Well, it’s not, and it can affect how happy your life is. So what is this locus [...]

3 Signs of Perfection Paralysis and How to Overcome It

By Becky Storey|2020-02-24T13:22:51+02:00February 24th, 2020|Categories: Personal Development, Personality, Self-Improvement|Tags: anxiety, failure, perfectionism, procrastination, stress, work|

I think it would be fair to say that we’ve all struggled with perfection paralysis at least once in our lives. We’ve all wanted so badly to be perfect that we haven’t been able to do anything at all. It is a fairly common experience to be so afraid of being less than perfect that [...]

6 Signs You Are Self-Sabotaging and How to Stop This Toxic Behavior

By Sherrie Hurd|2020-02-20T16:20:54+02:00February 20th, 2020|Categories: Psychology & Mental Health, Self-Improvement, Self-Knowledge & Personality Tests|Tags: behavior, mental health, negative thinking, relationships, self-confidence|

Unfortunately, we can sometimes fall into self-sabotaging behavior. There is more than one reason for that. At the moment, I feel as if I am sabotaging my life. Just when I think everything is okay, another boulder rolls down the hill and flattens me again. But it’s not a real boulder, it just feels like [...]

4 Psychological Skills Truly Smart People Have

By Janey Davies|2020-02-19T20:16:09+02:00February 19th, 2020|Categories: Personal Development, Self-Improvement|Tags: communication, intelligence, perception, positive thinking|

Some people just seem to sail through life, don’t they? They face problems with determination, successes with humility, and are just all-around likeable, smart and decent folk. Perhaps they are using psychological skills that we don’t know about? There are certainly lots of life hacks that people use in order to get ahead. For instance, [...]

5 Signs You Could Be an Insecure Overachiever and How It Ruins Your Life

By Becky Storey|2020-02-18T17:24:56+02:00February 18th, 2020|Categories: Personality, Psychology & Mental Health, Success Skills|Tags: criticism, mental health, perfectionism, personality, self-esteem, stress, work|

An insecure overachiever is someone who constantly strives to do better but never feels like they reach it. They tend to believe that their worth is based on their job, work or career. As a result, they are not confident in their achievements and crave praise to remind them that they are good enough. This impaired [...]

Mental Laziness Is More Common Than Ever: How to Overcome It?

By Becky Storey|2020-02-16T12:37:23+02:00February 16th, 2020|Categories: Brain Power, Psychology & Mental Health, Self-Improvement|Tags: concentration, goals, intelligence, motivation, nutrition, personality|

We live in a modern society where information is available constantly. We’re able to instantly access what’s going on in faraway countries and we can immediately see how millions of other people feel about it. This is causing more and more of us to develop mental laziness. Instead of thinking for ourselves, we’re allowing others [...]

7 Signs of Oldest Child Syndrome and How to Get Over It

By Sherrie Hurd|2020-02-15T13:28:53+02:00February 15th, 2020|Categories: Personal Development, Self-Improvement, Self-Knowledge & Personality Tests|Tags: childhood, family, perfectionism, relationships|

Being the oldest sibling can be tough. After all, you were the Guinea pig, the one your parents used to learn how to be a parent. I guess that sounds kind of mean but think about it. Unless your parents worked at daycares or one of them babysit other children, when you, the oldest child [...]

10 Things Parents of Genius Kids Should Do, a 45-Year Study Reveals

By Michelle L.|2020-02-13T13:35:24+02:00February 13th, 2020|Categories: Education, Self-Improvement|Tags: childhood, genius, intelligence|

Parents all hope that their children will become the Albert Einsteins of the modern world. But raising genius kids takes quite a bit of effort. Bringing up a child prodigy is no mean feat. The task overwhelms a parent with both fear and wonder. How is a hassled parent to cope with a little brainiac? [...]