Welcome to the Twenty First Edition of the Carnival of Improving Life

Once again, another great week, keep the great articles coming! Thanks to all the submitters, and for all our readers, please enjoy the carnival!

This weeks Top Post Award goes to: James Feudo presents Personal Power: Should you Focus on your Strengths or Strengthen your Weaknesses | Overnight Sensation posted at Overnight Sensation. We all want to improve ourselves so this article compares focusing on strengths with improving weaknesses.

Finances

SweetTooth presents How To Manage Your Gift Budget: 3 Easy Tips posted at Shop Little Gifts.

Fitness & Exercise

Lazy Man and Money presents How to Pick the Right Gym posted at Lazy Man and Health.

Anuschka presents Yoga Newbie! posted at I Love Anuschka. know the types of yoga before you start!

Food & Nutrition

Kathy Hester presents 4 Simple Ways to Save Money on Food posted at Chow Spice.

AndrewB presents Can't Stop Eating? 3 Tips To Get Your Eating Under Control | Stop Binge Eating posted at How To Stop Eating. Ever feel helpless around food? Ever start eating a certain food and you just can't stop? Maybe you plan on eating on cookie. you grab the first cookie and all of a sudden you can't stop eating cookies. These tips will help you get your eating under control, especially around junk foods and comfort foods =D

Alex Bo presents 10 Nice Soda Alternatives posted at Drink Healthy Drinks.

Kristy424 presents Vinegar for your health? Eww!!! posted at Mishmash. A blog about vinegar and the health benefits you might experience from it.

Health

Silicon Valley Blogger presents 15 Fire Safety Tips To Protect Your Life And Home posted at The Digerati Life.

Personal Growth & Development

George L Smyth presents One Minute How-To - How To Make Ethical Decisions In Work And Life posted at George L Smyth. Clint Korver explains four simple tests you can use to ensure that the decision you make is ethical.

James Feudo presents Personal Power: Should you Focus on your Strengths or Strengthen your Weaknesses | Overnight Sensation posted at Overnight Sensation. We all want to improve ourselves so this article compares focusing on strengths with improving weaknesses.

Coach Peter Khoury presents Does Being Assertive Hurt Your Chances at Work? posted at InControl Coaching Blog. On being assertive and speaking your mind at work

Dawn Abraham Life Coach presents Is Surrender an Act of Strength or Weakness? What Do You Think? posted at Qualified Life Coach. Imagine what your life would be like if you truly understand how to simply let go and be the flow… Picture a life that is free, painless and happy. Surrender is one of my many self development tools that is available to you.

Liz Rosenbaum presents Self Acceptance Is Like A Muscle posted at Liz Rosenbaum Fitness. Exercise and resistance training is important for our physical bodies, but finding love and self acceptance for ourselves is just as important.

Donald presents Being Happy: Secrets of Happy People posted at Personal Growth Blog.

Richard Johnson presents Face Your Frightening Questions posted at Reaching A Better Place. An article on the benefits of facing your frightening questions.

Dr Martin Russell presents Working Through A Problem posted at Self Help Blog.

Lana presents Stuck in Being posted at Conscious Life Conscious Relationship. "Mere belief cannot be the point, because belief does not change us at the depth of our true need. Only what is revealed in our direct experience - in body, heart, and mind altogether, rather than mind only - can transform us."

Richard Onebamoi presents The Three Ps of a Test posted at SELF-IMPROVE-BLOG.

Sid Savara presents Positive Talk Creates Positive Action - How to Stop Talking Like a Loser posted at Sid Savara . com - Personal Development, Maximizing Productivity and Life Hacking. Every day we make many tiny decisions that affect our lives. One of the decisions we make almost unconsciously is the way we talk to ourselves, and the way our words affect our attitude and our action. I caught myself doing it yesterday when I considered going to the gym and then thought “I don’t want to do it.” Right away I decided that was it - no more loser talk, time to go work out!

Productivity

Kacper Wrzesniewski presents Getting Things Done with Chandler posted at KacperWrzesniewski.com. Chandler The Note-to-Self Organizer is a free GTD app running on Linux, Windows and Mac. Read the full review...

David presents Active Listening Tips posted at Physician Entrepreneur. A recent study by the Rand Corporation found that the overall care of the vulnerable elderly - those with chronic conditions that are not living in a nursing home or other skilled nursing facility - is inadequate.

Alaia Williams presents Solutions for Getting Started posted at One Organized Life Blog. This article provides advice for getting started - which can often be the hardest part of any project.

Patrick A. Sizemore presents Working in a Crappy, Interrupting, Distracting Place - The Fifth Dimension posted at School is Hard. Improving focus and productivity, even when forced to work in sub-par places.

Rigdha Acharya presents 8 “Must Use” Free Time Management Tools to Save Tons of Time posted at Time Management Blog.

Relationships

GP presents Cant We all Just git ?along posted at Manely Montana Memories-Come on Inn. Getting in our high season here, the rules of engagement.. can't we all just get along?

Andrii Kovalchuk presents “No feelings – no smile!” or “The importance of sincere smile” posted at EducoBlog.

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