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The focus should be on becoming a strong andinfluential personality — cultivate compelling communication skills, focus on building trust and learn how to expand and leverage your professional network.Abhishek Ratna
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The human mind’s innate ability to imagine and create ensures that we never remain stalled out in who we are. We constantly seek to amend our circumference and circumstances, craft and redraft our emotional, social, political, economic, and artistic being.Kilroy J. Oldster
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People must come to the understanding that they do not have a fixed identity. They have the power to identify and alter features of their personalities that they find negative or unpleasant.Lisa Firestone
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The root of identity crises: we seem to know a lot about ourselves, but we can't tell who we are. Realize your self!Stefan Emunds
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Remember, changing someone’s hang-ups is an easier task if stays in the realm of sex because the carrot at the end of this trip is– S E X! It’s not so easy to change other aspects of a man’s personality because the rewards aren’t as apparent and you can’t exactly screw the stupid out of someone.Roberto Hogue
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Sometimes it is very difficult to keep in mind the fact that the parents, too, have reasons for what they do-- have reasons, locked in the depths of their personalities, for their inability to love, to understand, to give of themselves to their children.Virginia M. Axline
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Human history is the ancient story of the umbilical conflict between a lone individual versus a cabalistic society. A love-hate relationship defines our personal history with society, where the suppression of individuality for the sake of the collective good battles the notion that the purpose of society is to enable each person to flourish. A conspicuous feature of cultural development involves societies teaching children the sublimation of unacceptable impulses or idealizations, consciously to transform their inappropriate instinctual impulses into socially acceptable actions or behavior. The paradox rest in the concept that in order for any person to flourish they must preserve the spiritual texture of themselves, a process that requires the individual to resist societal restraint, push off against the community, and reject the walls of traditionalism that seek to pen us in. The climatic defining event in a person’s life represents the liberation of the self from crippling conformism, staunchly rebuffing capitulating to the whimsy of the super ego of society.Kilroy J. Oldster
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Don't spend on your pleasures. Invest in your capabilities. Get better! !Uma Shanker
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People undergo several sequential steps in maturing from infancy including childhood, adolescences, young adulthood, middle age, and old age. Each stage presents distinct challenges that require a person to amend how they think and act. The motive for seeking significant change in a person’s manner of perceiving the world and behaving vary. Alteration of person’s mindset can commence with a growing sense of awareness that a person is dissatisfied with an aspect of his or her life, which cause a person consciously to consider amending their lifestyle. The ego might resist change until a person’s level of discomfort becomes unbearable. A person can employ logic to overcome the ego’s defense mechanism and intentionally integrate needed revisions in a person’s obsolete or ineffective beliefs and behavior patterns. The subtle sense that something is amiss in a person’s life can lead to a gradual or quick alteration in a person’s conscious thoughts and outlook on life. Resisting change can prolong unhappiness whereas .Kilroy J. Oldster
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Authentic people are instantly more likable and trustworthy, which makes building rapport with them a pleasure.Susan C. Young
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We crave real people and are delighted when we find them.Susan C. Young
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Own your truths–all of them. Be honest. Be genuine. Be straightforward. Be refreshing!Susan C. Young
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Allow your natural personality to shine through without pretending to be someone you're not, or you may be stuck with that label forever.Susan C. Young
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Walking in alignment with your integrity will help you stay on the right track.Susan C. Young
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There is a reason that the words natural, wholesome, and organic resonate throughout our culture today. Aim to be natural and truly who you are one-hundred percent of the time.Susan C. Young
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We've all met people who are beautiful on the outside, however, when they open their mouths to speak, they have nothing of substance to contribute.Susan C. Young
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Sometimes we meet folks who appear rather plain, yet when they speak from a heart of service, love, compassion, and wisdom, they instantly become respected favorites.Susan C. Young
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Authenticity is the litmus test for the honesty, transparency, and trust which are necessary for healthy relationships.Susan C. Young
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Authenticity respects the ebb and flow between positive and negative. The people who really know you will understand that you are not always going to be in a happy place and an occasional bad mood is acceptable.Susan C. Young
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By authentically sharing when things aren’t right you allow the people you care about to offer the support you may need.Susan C. Young
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Living in alignment with your true self enables you to cultivate transparency and unshakable authenticity.Susan C. Young
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Admittedly, there will be times when you must interact on a superficial level and adjust your behavior to fit in, go along and get along.Susan C. Young
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Not everyone is always going to like you. What impresses one person may turn another away. To thine own self be true.Susan C. Young
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Interestingly, being yourself allows others to be themselves. Even with crazy imperfections, being a bona fide genuine person is the best any of us can be–messy flaws and all!Susan C. Young
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Authentic people are so comfortable in their own skins they make us more comfortable in our own.Susan C. Young
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She is so secure in her beautifully imperfect self that she would welcome you with open arms, no judgment, and complete acceptance.Susan C. Young
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Do you generally feel uncomfortable around people whom you perceive to be perfect? Is there really such a thing as the perfect person? Of course not! Our flaws are often what differentiates us from each other, and no person is perfect.Susan C. Young
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I am a recovering perfectionist, and like all in recovery, I do better some days than others!Susan C. Young
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Authenticity isn’t just about saying “this is who I am”–it is also about being flexible enough to recognize and appreciate the uniqueness in others–honoring the mutual respect for being authentic and true.Susan C. Young
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Why did I think that the mask was a better portrayal than my authentic self? We can get hidden under layers of illusion, can’t we?Susan C. Young
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As a young girl, I allowed my self-esteem to be determined by others’ opinions, and I devoted incredible energy tuning into how everyone else felt.Susan C. Young
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As a lifetime people pleaser, I remember trying to mold myself into the person I thought other people wanted me to be–all for the sake of being liked and accepted. It caused more pain than gain.Susan C. Young
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Do you really want people to like you for something that you’re not? It takes a lot of energy to pretend to be someone else for the sake of pleasing others.Susan C. Young
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The challenge of being authentic for people pleasers is that we really want people to like and accept us. Being vulnerable, however, requires that we come to terms with the fact that not everyone is going to like us, and that it is okay. Not everyone needs to like us.Susan C. Young
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Life’s most amazing moments between people are built on trust, communication, acceptance, and love.Susan C. Young
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The days of the pushy salesmen and self-serving narcissists are over. That type of behavior quickly alienates and pushes people away because it offends and can’t be trusted.Susan C. Young
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People must believe that you are real and are who you say you are, otherwise they will not want to do business with you, much less make the effort to move forward in starting and building a relationship.Susan C. Young
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When I meet someone who is truly genuine, I am drawn to their personality and find them easier to approach, engage, and interact with. They have no hint of false pretense, nor do I worry about hidden agendas.Susan C. Young
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Writers use both their blood and their brains to explore the darkest recesses of their pooling self. Writing allows us to harness the whimsy of the collaborative mind and body, pull our tissue apart like taffy, and expose the composition of our life sustaining organs. Telling our personal story forces us to account for any actions that made us laugh, cry, scream and shout, or hide behind a cloak of mootness. Critical examination of the self allows one to disintegrate the envelope of their present personality and make up a new imaging. .Kilroy J. Oldster
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Our attitudes and personal values create outcomes. The consequence of any venture shapes our evolving ethical precepts, and the product of a sundry of worldly experiences in turn establishes our personality.Kilroy J. Oldster
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Character modification requires active participation in challenging new experiences, but without reflection upon our encounters in life and the purposeful alteration in our base philosophy new experiences alone will not result in core personality changes. Our thoughts become our habits, and our habits reveal our character. Only by thinking and acting differently will a person attain the quality of character that they seek.Kilroy J. Oldster
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Our sense of self, formulated in large part by the untold number of cross-related connections that we make with our physical, social, and family environments, is reliant upon fitting into our social fabric. The educational environment, family relationships, peer groups, books, television, films, music, along with an assortment of other cultural events shape our emergent persona. Our successes and failures interacting in the world leave their collective imprint upon the wet clay of our forming brains. We are sentimental creatures who cling to past memories. We are inquisitive critters who venture forth from our protective dens to explore new territory. We are perceptive organisms equipped with five basic senses. We are sentient beings who can consciously organize our sense impressions into guiding ideas and useful principles. Our survival responses form a central cord of our emotions. We are receptive, compassionate beings that respond with both body and mind to global stimuli.Kilroy J. Oldster
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Man is slave of emotions when they arise, and master of them when they don't.Raheel Farooq
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As we go through life, we essentially grow a personality. Our personality branches out in many directions to assist us organize our thoughts, feelings, values, ideas, and coping mechanisms. Our exhibited behavior — the way we organize and deal with life — becomes an external representation of our central self.Kilroy J. Oldster
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We live by choice and by necessity. We choose the mechanisms that are essential to ensure satisfaction of our baseline survival. What labor we willingly endure in order to meet our minimalistic subsistence requirements and what activities we elect to pursue in order to mollify our desire for living joyfully and attain self-realization defines our essential self’s core personality.Kilroy J. Oldster
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The act of writing involves documenting and studiously examining interactions of all aspects of the self, the environment, and culture. Writing is an illustrious act of self-expression. Writing resembles a ‘coming of the age’ story because the ongoing process of defining a person’s personality and character is representative of the synergistic product of the continuous and cumulative interaction of an organic self with the world, the constant process of developing psychological, social, cognitive and ethical self.Kilroy J. Oldster
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Dissociative identity disorder is conceptualized as a childhood onset, posttraumatic developmental disorder in which the child is unable to consolidate a unified sense of self. Detachment from emotional and physical pain during trauma can result in alterations in memory encoding and storage. In turn, this leads to fragmentation and compartmentalization of memory and impairments in retrieving memory.2, 4, 19 Exposure to early, usually repeated trauma results in the creation of discrete behavioral states that can persist and, over later development, become elaborated, ultimately developing into the alternate identities of dissociative identity disorder.Bethany L. Brand
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Do not let other people invade your personality. Remember that every human being is a unique phenomenon, and worth developing. You will meet many who have no resources of their own, and who will try to fasten themselves upon you. You will find others eager to tell you what to do and think and be. But it is better to go apart and learn to be yourself.Upton Sinclair