You see…rather than create a state of duality, which stretches your attention between two separate worlds, wouldn’t it be better—and much easier—to simply treat your personal and professional lives as a single “whole”? This way you can use one all-encompassing mindset to help you create the life you desire throughout all aspects of your life—and not just one at a time. Of course, creating a well-balanced and well-rounded life becomes more possible when you approach self-mastery from the mindset of: professional personal development.

When you think about, your emotions, thoughts, and beliefs—and your subsequent actions that stem from them, you realize that they all play major roles in both your professional and personal lives. Even if you approach self-mastery from the single aspect of “personal” development, it only stands to reason that the same information and training that allows you to control and master your thoughts, emotions, and beliefs for personal gain can also be used for professional gains, too.

After all, “you” are the common denominator in your world(s). So it only makes sense that when you develop self-mastery skills and tools, you would evenly apply them throughout all aspects of your life. Therefore, personal development (a.k.a., self-improvement/self-mastery) is really a joint venture with professional development, hence the new term: professional personal development.

Now, there are plenty of programs that focus on each aspect as something unique and different. But as I’ve already indicated…why not approach self-mastery as one comprehensive mindset? You have nothing to lose—and everything to gain—with this method. And by doing so, you create a much fuller and more well-rounded life for you and your family.

Fortunately, I had a chance to learn this lesson very early on in my life because of my martial arts training. As a martial arts student—and then, eventually, as a martial arts instructor—I learned that there was no such thing as a part-time martial artist; just like there’s no such thing as a part-time parent or spouse, or even a part-time goal or ambition. So therefore, there are no “parts” in your life. You always have professional personal development.

Essentially, if you want to create something in your life, you have to be all “in.” There’s no such thing as part-time success. If you really want to create the live the life you truly want, you have to make the decision to become whole. Anything less would be limiting to your professional and personal goals, which already co-exist because of you.

So stay vigilant and keep looking for a self-mastery program that can help you address your (entire) life—as a whole—and not just the parts. Your professional personal development depends on this.

Steve Garcia — Creotology Personal Development Writer

In reality, your professional life is the same as your personal life. For example, if you’re focused and hard-working at work, you’re likely focused and hard-working at home, too. However, some people don’t see it this way and so they end up creating an unbalanced life in which one area is impeccable while the other area is in shambles.

With that said, professional personal development is actually sort of a misnomer, because in reality, you can’t have professional development without personal development—and vice versa.  In other words, you can’t receive personal development training and not instinctually feel the need to incorporate and apply those newfound skills into your professional world. Conversely, it’s impractical to not strive for excellence while at home.

Now, of course, you can always “choose” to ignore what you’ve learned and not apply it to the specific areas of your choice. But how does that make sense? It doesn’t!

Ignoring and forsaking one set of life skills for the other would be like wearing a sneaker on one foot while wearing a dress shoe on the other. Both feet are still part of the same body, but they don’t complement each other. And for you ladies…imagine trying to wear a high-heel on one foot while wearing a flat on the other. Can you imagine how off-balanced you would feel?

No matter how you look at it, everything comes back to professional personal development as your best chance for complete and total success. With the professional/personal life skills and mental tools you learn to develop, you can create the ultimate life for you and the people who depend on you (i.e., family, friends, colleagues, and co-workers).

There’s no better form of (self) investment that exists on the planet that actually pays you twice for the same money spent. In other words, the money you invest into your professional personal development education will also pay you benefits in your personal life. Talk about making your money, time, and energy working wisely for you.

So, if you feel like your world is little off balance, you might want to double check and compare your personal and professional practices. Here are a few things (but not all) to look for and consider:
(And keep in mind that every home scenario below is interchangeable with a work one.)

• Do you respond to emotionally stressful situations at home, but overreact to them at work?
• Is your office clean, tidy, and organized while your home closets and garage are in disarray?
• Are you hitting your work performance goals, yet you never seem to get anything else done around the house?
• Do you argue and fight with your family friends, but get along perfectly with your colleagues and co-workers?
• Are you completely focused while working at the office, yet easily distracted while working around the house?

It’s important to recognize whether or not you have an imbalance that exists in your life. But by taking some form of professional personal development training, you stand a much greater chance of success and happiness.

Enjoy the journey of self-mastery…but make it count everywhere!

Steve Garcia — Creotology Personal Development Writer

If you’re the type of person who can appreciate added value and double benefits, really consider what professional personal development training has to offer. The undeniable truth is that the life skills and mental tools you learn for your professional life can automatically be used in your personal life. While some people might overlook this point, it’s your job—as someone always looking for ways to improve your performance—to be smart and ambitious enough to heed this message.

It only makes sense that if you were looking for a way to supercharge your life, wouldn’t you want it to be the most complete and well-rounded? Of course you would! Anything else would be like trying to build a high-performance race care with the most powerful engine, but with old, worn-out tires that couldn’t even handle the turns without the risk of a blowout.

No matter how you slice it, the fact remains the same: Having balance between both worlds equals a happier and more meaningful existence for you—and the people around you. When you think about it, that’s what success is really all about, right?

So, by using professional personal development training, you create a system of success that can help you in the long run. For example, learning how to better control your emotions and focus your attention might help you handle situations at work that would otherwise stress out most people. Maybe because of this, you get an extra sale or a promotion with a pay raise—all because you were able to focus and perform when others emotionally couldn’t.

And now, when you get home, those same skills can help you handle the stressful situations you’re likely to encounter with your spouse and children—and sometimes your friends. After all, some of the biggest headaches actually come from the people we love. And unlike with strangers, emotions tend to run higher with people we care about.

So maybe, you should really consider looking for a personal development program that specializes in professional personal development training. This subtle distinction could make all the difference in your world. And again, personal development is all about success and creating the best world for you and your loved ones.

So remember, when you enroll into a professional personal development program, you’ll definitely get more “bang” for your buck. This is one of those rare investments programs (into yourself) that actually pays double dividends—and you’re the direct beneficiary. So enjoy your journey, but make the most of it!

Steve Garcia — Creotology Personal Development Writer

Personal Development and How Beliefs Create Reality.

It has been my personal experience through my Personal Development training that it is really hard for people to accept beliefs create reality and not their experience in life. They do not like to accept the fact that experience is determined through perception and perceptions are filtered through the way we believe about something. I will admit that I see how this happens to many people; however, the truth is that we see the world through the prism of our belief systems. The belief formulates the DNA for whatever perception we are having about anything.

Personal Development deals with many aspects of whatever we have going on in our life, but for some reason overlooks the fact more often than not that beliefs create reality. The personal development mantra is all about how thoughts create reality. Thoughts come from our beliefs. So whatever we believe will come through as what we think. Thoughts are just random insights and processing information and trying to organize out adventures and under takings.

Beliefs are a totally different ball game. Personal Development should be all about helping you get your viewpoints in alignment to create the right thoughts so you can take the correct actions in your life. The shortest distance between two points is a straight line. This means the most effective ideas and thoughts will align your action into the quickest victory of your personal goals.

If you like, you can go to Creotology.com and under the tab that says ROC you can download a personal questionnaire of your mental blueprint. All you have to do is fill the questionnaire out and you will begin to see many changes and thoughts and even ‘Aha’ happening in your mind. You can even download my free Book The Teachings of Soke Draconis and The Universal Psychology of the Law of Attraction Book for free. This will be enough free information and exercises to get you started and on your way to many new discoveries about yourself and the world you have created for yourself.

As the world becomes a more competitive place to live in, we are naturally trying for a edge in our life’s that will allow us and our children to evolve and thrive. Personal Development is not only about your growth as a person, but also about other people who are beginning to train and to become Personal Development Instructors.

A Personal Development Instructor is called a Creational Master in Creotology Personal Development. It is a good thing to be sure that the Personal Development Course or Instructor you take on is qualified with some type of training that shows they are able to truly excel in life and are capable of accomplishing things that are in alignment with what you want to create or they have accomplished something higher than what you want and now you are inspired by them to try and do the same. In other words, your Personal Development Instructor should stretch you towards being more than you imagined you could have ever become.

This is easier said than done. Most Personal Development Instructors are just repeating the same information from one book to the next. While the basics stay the same (as in any well established system) you need to look for Personal Development Instructors that are on the cutting edge of information and transformational mental techniques. It is also important they be evolving themselves and not just resting on their past achievements. They must be trying to evolve and grow as well.

Self-awareness is a primary tool that we as humans have developed and know that we are not our thoughts or actions. Many people get caught up in the idea that they are what they think and act upon. However, this is not true. Most peoples actions and thoughts are on a sub-conscious level and therefore they are not even in control of their thoughts and actions. That is why a good Personal Development Course or Instructor will give you training to become more of a deliberate and conscious creator in your life. To become more of a conscious creator in your life does involve training and action in your life. You will have to study and test things in your life to see if they are worth your time or not, but, isn’t your life worth it?

Self-awareness allows you to have a deep introspection of yourself and the ability to know if something is wrong or right for you. You learn to listen to yourself and not take things personally. When you fail at something you do not personalize it and lower your self-confidence by that event in your life. You learn that you can grow by your mistakes and failures and that you are more than you first thought yourself to be. A good Personal Development Instructor or Course will help you to easily see this and through your increasing self-awareness, you can become a larger more conscious persona and grow beyond your wildest dreams.

Personal Development and the Power of Self-Management

We talked yesterday about the Power of Self-Management and the power it can build for you into your daily life. So if we are going to explore the ability to Self-Manage ourselves to a level of fruition that produces the fruit we want to receive then we have to ask the foremost important question: Why do we believe that we have so little value? I believe this belief causes more pain and suffering than any other belief we can feed into about ourselves. It is very destructive course of action towards our self-confidence and ambition in life.

From the time we are children to pre-teens to teens to adults we are bombarded with people who lower our self-esteem and destroy our own personal sense of discipline and self-worth. Very little is done in school to help this situation. We were always perceiving another student doing better than us because they got a better grade a few times and we found out about it. Then we began to think in our minds, “That person is just smarter than me.” It continues all through school and even when our friends played with someone else and left us out of the fun we wanted to know, “How are they better than me?  I thought my friend liked me?”

Personal Development in the past has done little to fix this problem other than offer people an over inflated idea about themselves and one they cannot live up too at that. So we construct a reality in our own mind and try to assign value to ourselves there and sometimes we over do it. Don’t get me wrong, we must be able to have extreme self-confidence and to have high ambition. But we must have a sense of reality that what we believe we can do, we can really do. An over bloated idea about ourselves and what we “think” we can really do does not help our confidence level. In other words, what we think we can do we must be able to do. Delusions of your ability does not help your self-confidence.

Personal Development needs to teach more about the reality in your head becoming congruent with the reality you see in your daily life. It is hard to be objective in a subjective world. In fact, you can’t really rely on what others say about your results because they are skewed as well. Friends and family don’t want to hurt your feelings. You must test yourself in order to know what you can and cannot do. Or perhaps you need an expert Personal Development Coach to help you get the raw facts that you need in order to excel. Self-management is all about you having a worldview of yourself that is compatible with what you want to accomplish in life.

The personal development that you pursue should be trackable and verifiable with results that you produce. This way you will know how much better you are really getting at anything you want to excel at in your life.

The thinking trap that we get caught up with in our life is that we value ourselves by what we achieve in life. Your value as a human being is not determined by what you do or achieve in life. That only works in the market place. You have to value yourself independently of your achievements in life in order to stay balanced.

And good personal development course should teach you this distinction. Your value is not what you create. Your value is what type of person you are and how you treat other people. Many people will gain fame and think. “If it is this easy then it must not be to important because anyone can do this.” They can’t believe that they are good enough for the success and therefore begin to tear it down. Make sure your chosen personal development course teaches you this as well and you will see your self value go sky high and nothing will seem impossible to you!

Personal Development and the Time Management Factor!

Two things that are for sure in our lives – time and energy. Time and energy are the most valuable thing we have second only to our health. However, finding the time to do what we need to accomplish daily is a bit of a grind. I know I have experienced it and still do a little from time to time. But, I have learned some tricks through Personal Development I will share here with you.

The first trick is to know your energy times and the times that you are at your strongest. Everyone has a time of the day that they are their strongest and most energized. I like to do my most pressing matters during the early morning and get them out of the way. Also, don’t try to schedule a bunch of things everyday. Personal Development skills will help you time the effectiveness of your strongest point of focus and work from there daily. When you are focused and centered you will be amazed at the amount of work you can get done. I mean you will eventually hit the zone and even impress yourself.  Organize the things you have to do into most pressing to the least and take a few on everyday. By the end of the week all has been handled and you are ready for the new pressing matters. It is true that you should strive to be conscious all the time. However , there are times when a routine can be very helpful and productive.

If you’re able to just get up and do your morning work-out without even thinking about it; this is a good sub-conscious routine. It is worth keeping because it is result oriented and makes you healthy.  So not all sub-conscious behavior is bad. But, you do have to keep an eye on what is effective for you as an individual and what is not. When your are in creations that make you do things that are not productive and then you want to justify your actions with the cop out of lacking self responsibility; this is not a good thing at all and this type of Sub-Conscious programming should not be tolerated. Tomorrow we will discuss the power of your conscious actions.

Personal Development Stand for Something or Fall for Anything

My studies in Personal Development has led me to the discovery that if you don’t stand for something you will fall for anything. I believe this to be very true, however, it does require a little adjustment. You do need to be sound in your beliefs, but, you also must be willing to openly hear others without being offended or closed from an alternate understanding. If you are closed from hearing other beliefs then you probably are not very secure in your belief. The power of beliefs can change your world for better or for worse. But, what is important is that you are always willing to explore and listen with an open mind about other beliefs. There are a lot of different Personal Development courses that are out there and that are valuable. What is important is that you find the right course  that works for you.

You can be extremely glued to your viewpoint and still listen to what others are saying without being judgmental and defensive. In fact try all this week to listen to other people’s ideas about a subject matter and try and stay neutral about their belief. Just listen to their convictions and feel it and allow it to move on. Remember the real power of a belief is in how effective it is and if it helps to get you what you desire. A good Personal Development course will teach you that beliefs are what creates reality. If it does not, you may want to re-think spending your money and attention on pursuing that course.

Beliefs do create reality and are the DNA for your thoughts that become your manifestations. Creotology Personal Development will allow you to explore your beliefs and make you very happy that you did because this is where changes are made in Personal Development. Beliefs and thoughts, actions and proper thinking, all provide input for your outcome base of results.

Personal Development is all about you finding your passion and the principles that work for you. Creotology has that very exercise to help you discover your convictions and how to change them – allowing you to achieve your desires. The best part is that the exercise is free and there for you if you want to explore your consciousness and the beliefs that make them up.

The Personal Development of Meditation!

It is no secret to you by now that I am a Martial Artist of thirty years. Thirty years is a long time to have done anything. In fact, the only think I have done more than Martial Arts and Personal Development is living! However, in my personal pursuit to improve my mental abilities and enhance my character I have tried many things in the way of Personal Development (and I do mean many things). I have also paid a fortune in the pursuit of my Personal Development.  Whether it worked for me or not the lessons were still extremely valuable to me. In fact, all the accumulated experiences are what have made me what I am today. I still keep looking and developing myself daily and will always strive to do so!

Because of being a Martial Art student, teacher, and ultimately promoted to Grand Master status. I am asked often about meditation and how to do it. I do not believe there is a wrong way to do it as much as there may be a better way for you to do it. The point is, everyone is different and processes information differently. That is why many of us can look at something and have different beliefs about what we saw. Meditation is no different. How you process information and if you are more sensitive to feeling something or better at thinking things through or maybe you work better with colors or maybe sounds makes a major difference in the meditation you should do. I like to perform meditation that takes me in the accepted dimension of the object I am meditating on. I like to see the object in my mind and go into the object and exist there as the object in my mind. There are naturally all types of variations to this technique, but, once again, it is about what works for you. Doing many different types of meditations is best until you find a few that work well for you and brings you the feeling and experiences you are after.

Personal Development is an ongoing job and it is not something that you can hand over to another and say here do this for me and give me all the improvements you gain from doing so for me.  You must be active in your search and apply yourself so that you get the experience, knowledge and wisdom. Then you will find that your journey will come full circle…not only can you meditate with the best of them, you can also teach others your valuable knowledge and wisdom to help them in their Personal Development journey to the center of their consciousness.

Creotology Personal Development and the Power of Attention

Soke Draconis and I were walking down the street in our neighborhood enjoying the beautiful summer day.  As we strolled along, we were discussing Creotology Personal Development Institute and how the programs were evolving when we happened upon a large cat sneaking up on some birds enjoying a puddle of water from the previous night’s rain. Soke Draconis said, “Look at the incredible amount of focused attention the cat has on those birds. That is the type of attention that our students need to have in Creotology Personal Development.”

We stopped and watched what nature had designed and looked for the lesson in the moment. The cat readied itself, kept very low to the ground and moved in small little steps. With its ears laid back and everything about it very still. We could see that the cat was now focusing on the bird closest to him. Soke Draconis whispered, “The cat is going for the low hanging fruit. This means the bird he has picked is the closest for his success.” Soke’s remark sent my thoughts back to a class in Creotology Personal Development about focus and attention. Also, I think I have felt that type of attention in some mental procedures that we do in class.

The birds played and were oblivious to the predator that was about to pounce on their freedom. It was hard to watch, but nature is what it is! With a fast bolt, the cat leaped and successfully hit its mark.  As the other birds took off and the chaos cleared, there stood the cat with its bird and fruit of the cat’s rewards for a perfect and flawless attack. Once again, it was hard for Soke Draconis and me to watch the event. However, we came away with some keen insights. The insights were to stay focused on one thing at a time, look for the most available opportunity at all times, be patient and remain centered in your focus and whatever you do, do not jump the gun.