Straight Talk: Dealing with the Mother-In-Law || STEVE HARVEY




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It’s not uncommon for a woman to have tension with her mother-in-law. So what’s the best way to handle the stress?

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Learn How To Become A Winner To Yourself

Admitting that you need to work on yourself is a big step. Here is a collection of tips to get you started on the right track.

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Improve your life by cleaning up “your world.” Avoid being messy and living and working in a cluttered environment. By keeping your spaces clean and in an orderly fashion, you can find everything you need. You will no longer stress out about things being lost. This can bring a sense of calm and peace to your mind.

Make sure that you set up action areas in your home or office. These are places that are designated to one action each so that you can perform this action and then move onto the next one. For example, you can set up an area for filling orders, an area for boxes that need to be shipped, etc.

Give yourself a routine. Depression and similar negative moods can be caused by boredom, stress, and a wide variety of other things. Creating a routine for yourself and sticking to it can eliminate many of these factors. You will stay busy and accomplish far more with your day, alleviating potential guilt.

Make sure you protect yourself. Having an excellent set of healthy defense mechanisms against the world’s troubles means you’ll be more likely to stick by your convictions and make good on your promises. Your worst enemy can be yourself, so turn your own worst enemy into your own best ally.

Realize the trade-offs of saying yes to people. Every time you say yes to one thing, you are, without speaking, saying no to many other things. When you give time to one thing, you take it away from other activities you could have done. Choose to say yes to the right goals in your life and you will automatically be saying no to the less important things.



To improve on your personal skills, explore alternative forms of communication that you do not ordinarily use. If you usually rely on text messages, instant messaging, or email for a written word – try writing and mailing a handwritten note or card by snail mail. For a spoken word – use the telephone – instead of the help of a computer to communicate to someone and improve your one-on-one skills.

Contribute to a social or environmental cause that is bigger than yourself. Whether it’s a mission trip, serving-line at a night shelter, or leading games for underprivileged children, you are sure to learn new and positive ways to develop yourself and your love for serving others.

Reward yourself for positive behavior. Whether you are actively trying to lose weight or trying to better your time and distance on your morning run, recognize when you have made an important improvement and reward yourself accordingly. A new outfit or a trip to the salon would be a real incentive to work until you achieve your goals.

One way to control your feelings of anger is to ask yourself whether your anger or reaction will have any impact on the source of your rage. Chances are very good that you will discover that whatever it is that seems so important now, has little or no bearing on what happens in the future.

Accept that change will take a long time. Instead of trying to overcome a huge goal like losing 50 pounds, you should break it up into smaller, more short term goals. This will help you to feel as though you are accomplishing something week by week and keep you more motivated to finish your bigger goal.

Having a coach, mentor or hero to look up to will help you on your road to personal development when times are tough. Without question you will sometimes falter and having a trusted figure to refer to in some way, will give you the positive energy you need to overcome the obstacles. Keep their phone number handy if your guru is a personal friend or keep the book at the ready if it is a favorite author but always have instant access to your personal source of inspiration.

There are many wonderful self help books out there that can help you with many different issues. Read the review of a book that looks interesting to you, and see if other people have found that helpful. Many books also have workbooks that give you exercises to do as you read along.

When working on personal development, it is always best to break large tasks into smaller steps. When you have a large task that needs to be done, it may seem impossible to accomplish. This can make you less motivated to actually do the task. When you break the large task into smaller steps, your goal will seem more attainable.

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A great personal development tip is to be sure you regenerate your body on a regular basis. You should exercise your body to gain strength, endurance, and stamina. These characteristics are what allow your body to regenerate itself. Therefore, you should aim to exercise regularly for those aspects, not for vain reasons.

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When it comes to personal development you need to be sure that you are being the best you can to yourself. This is important because if you do not treat yourself well and if you lie to yourself then you will never grow to be the entire person that you potentially may grow into.

Watch videos, read books, and listen to interviews with personal development gurus like Wayne Dyer and Dave Ramsey. Even if you do not agree with all of their philosophies, you can use the information and knowledge they provide to improve the areas of your life that you are working on.

The arts are a splendid way to expand personal development. Practicing an art richly enhances the quality of life. When you lift a paintbrush and begin to apply color, you are integrating mind and body, developing eye-hand coordination, and drawing upon depths of understanding you didn’t know you had within you.

Use these tips for a little while and write down any changes to your thoughts or behaviors. Be kind to yourself!



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