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Continue Reading November 29th, 2009

What Are the Features of a Personality Quiz?

A quiz is a set of questions a person answers to assess his knowledge or character. A personality quiz is a test designed to reveal some aspects of a respondent’s personality.

A personality quiz is less scientific and more entertaining than a personality test; yet it is often taken seriously. It can be used to identify some traits of character or possible behavior under certain circumstances.

There distinguish several types of a personality quizzes: (1) character quiz (aiming at determining some aspects of a person’s character), (2) behavior quiz (designed to predict how a person is likely to behave in a certain situation). (3) relationship quiz (assessing two people’s compatibility), (4) funny quiz (the one that is made solely to entertain the test takers).

Despite the vast number of possible types and usage a personality quiz usually adheres to the following features:

• it aims at revealing some aspects of a human personality;
• it is often of an entertaining nature;
• it consists of a set of questions;
• each question has a definite number of answers;
• the number if answers to each question equals the number of the quiz results;
• each answer matches the certain result;
• there are no right or wrong questions;
• the result is estimated based on the key.

March 22nd, 2009

Using Anger Management to Keep Anger at Bay

Do you seem to find yourself fuming at your children all the time, every neighbour seem to annoy you, your spouse and you are constantly at each others back and your seething anger doesn’t seem to boil down? Have you ever been known to just blow your top at the smallest thing? Chances are high that if you’re having problems controlling your emotions like anger you will be losing your friends, family and probably soon enough, your job.

Not keeping your anger in check will be one of the biggest obstacles in your personal development and career advancement. If we don’t manage our anger we will never be happy. Anger could let you lose your job because it impedes the growth of personal as well as professional relationships. Anger leads us to be prone to mistakes because we cannot think straight and anger can cause us our health because it contributes to stress.

More and more people are being opened up to the dangers and perils of anger, that’s why anger management classes and sessions are becoming increasingly popular.

While there are some people who can easily handle their anger, there are those who find a hard time keeping it in check, they are the best candidates for anger management.

Anger management allows you to be happy; you can throw all the hatred away that comes with anger. Anger management classes teach you to love and respect other people, letting you have a different perspective of life.

If you learn to accept the flaws and mistakes of other people, you will learn to forgive. Realizing this will minimize the magnitude and frequency of your anger.

While anger management is not a miracle procedure, it will take a couple of sessions and the determination of the person to make it succeed. Live a better life; anger management will be able to help a lot.

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July 1st, 2008

Cooperation Gives Good Returns

Cooperation is an essential ingredient in the plan for a successful and satisfying life.

At work a good balance of friendliness with superiors, peers, and subordinates is very important. It can provide new opportunities as well as an increase in self-confidence and enjoyment of the workday. Cooperation is equally rewarding after hours with casual encounters, friends and family.

By listening and making an effort to see others’ viewpoints, there will be less pressure to perform and tasks at hand will be made easier. Good results will come more naturally. We can hardly learn anything when we are speaking but when we are listening there is a good chance that we will hear something that will broaden our outlook and improve our knowledge. The other person will appreciate your attention and will be friendlier and also more receptive. Everyone should benefit.

“He will succeed if he remains firm in principle and goes beyond selfish considerations to mingle freely with those who do not share his feelings, as well as those who do.” - I Ching

Easy on the criticism! When we criticize others, we make ourselves look bad. When we gossip we imitate the snake and gain just that kind of reputation. Do you trust someone who makes a habit of gossiping? The next time you are ready to criticize, pause for a minute and begin to consider the positives of the person or situation. Perhaps you will change your mind.

“If we had no faults we should not take so much pleasure in noting those of others.” - Duc de Rochefoucauld (1613-1680)

Be friendly and be interested to get ahead and to feel good about life.

© Read Ken McIsaac’s 32 KEYS About Life at http://www.32keys.com or his articles on marketing and consumerism at http://www.axiom.ws/unethical/

April 11th, 2008

The Mind, Information, and Attitude

Information is flowing to us at a great rate. The radio, television, the internet, advertising, newspapers and magazines are giving us information all day. We also receive information from the people we associate with in our daily lives. This article discusses some of the ways that our minds, both conscious and subconscious, process and use that information.

Our conscious mind is active whenever we are awake. Within the conscious mind are the abilities to think and reason. However, just because we have the ability to think and reason, does not mean that we always actually do that. For much of the time our conscious mind is in a passive state, just accepting all the input that is coming in, and not evaluating that information at all.

What happens in our conscious mind is interesting to us sometimes, but makes no difference to what happens in our lives. It is only when the conscious mind takes some information, and passes it to our subconscious (sometimes called nonconscious or unconscious) mind, that it has an effect on our lives and the results we get from our lives.

However, the subconscious mind has no ability to think or reason. It simply takes whatever information is fed to it, and acts on it. It makes no difference to your sub-conscious mind if the information is helpful to you in getting better life results or if it will do the opposite. But it makes all the difference to you.

Unfortunately many of us do not understand how and when this information is passed to our subconscious mind, and are also not aware of how the subconscious mind uses the information to produce the results we get in our lives.

For the purpose of this short article, if you can accept that some of the information coming to you has an effect on the results you get in your life, then the important question is ‘How can I control this process so that more of the results I get are positive?’

Fortunately there is a simple answer. If you exert more control over the information that you receive, then you start to exert more control over the information that arrives into your sub-conscious mind. In turn this gives you more control over the results you get.

So how do you do that? Simply put yourself in a position where you expose yourself to less neutral and negative information, and more positive information. How do you do that? Evaluate the information that is flowing to you, and reduce your exposure to information that is not likely to contribute positively to your results.

When you start to look at your sources of information you may find that some of the people in your life are not a positive inspiration to you. Should you dissociate yourself from them? Not necessarily, but spend less time with them and do it less often. The same applies to television programs that are not uplifting or thought provoking, and to newspapers and magazines.

Similarly identify people who you aspire to be like in some way, and find out how to spend time with them. Identify reading material that will give you insights into life or help you grow as a person. Biographies of successful people might be a good example. Listen to self development CD’s when you are travelling.

What you expose yourself to, and focus on, expands. Become a censor of information that you allow yourself to be exposed to which is not helpful in achieving the life results you want, and a promoter of information which will help.

Tony McGlinn runs personal development programs, writes and is a personal coach and consultant. You can visit him at http://www.mypowerfulmind.com/page/page/1653324.htm for more information about achieving the results that you want in life, in every area of your life. Be sure to sign up for the regular newsletter.

April 6th, 2008