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Attracted to Love and Wounds?
You bring love and an honest commitment to your relationship. You are attracted by your partnerâs well-meaning heart, his or her good looks as well as their personality and engaging mannerisms.nnEven though you may not realize it, you also bring the wounds you suffered as a child to your relationship. And you may also not realize you are probably attracted to someone who you believe will give you a different outcome for these wounds. nnSimply put, you become attracted to so
October 8, 2007
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5 Ways To Find & Maintain Financial Success
There is a common belief, or myth, that having money, a lot of money, can compromise your integrity and the pursuit of earning money is not a noble or decent endeavor. However, keep in mind that money, per se, doesnât define your character, but rather your true character is defined by how you use and spend the money.nnSimply put, money itself is not bad or evil. In fact, having money can empower you and will lead you to finding important resources that will help you with be
September 27, 2007
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It's About Time
One of the most important books in the personal development and self improvement space is Stephen Covey's classic The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People . The principles outlined in the book are indeed timeless truths. In the book, Covey said there are three basic steps you must take to get what you want out of life.n n1. Understand you can achieve successn n2. Define what success represents, for youn n3. Organize you life around its achievementn n nThese steps are not a sec
September 25, 2007
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I Believe
I Believe- There are no accidents without value. No matter how difficult the circumstances in life, we can grow and learn from what happens to us â everything happens for a reason. Taking the time to find the value in these events is up to each of us.nnI Believe- You can not change or heal what you do not acknowledge. For real and lasting growth to occur, we must first come to terms with our reality and see it for what it really is in order to reframe it and learn from it.n
September 23, 2007
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Better Health Leads To Greater Happiness
Just as setting small and attainable goals are the building blocks for achieving success; living a lifestyle of making good health choices leads to greater and more sustainable happiness.nnThe cliché âYou are what you eatâ does resonate with pieces of truth and common sense. There have been several health and fitness studies over the years that suggest people who are overweight, smoke and drink excessively have a predisposition to experience more bouts of depression than
September 22, 2007
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Purpose - Powered by Passion
What do you want the epitaph on your tombstone to say when you die? Many would be satisfied, if not relived, if their epitaph proclaimed, âI Survived.â Others, perhaps you, want more out of life than just going through the motions, day after day, and simply surviving.nnTo live a life of purpose, and on purpose, empowers you to be whatever you want to be and to do whatever you want to do. When your lifeâs purpose is powered by passion, you are able to stay on course even
September 20, 2007
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A Parent's Gift
From the time your child is born until the time he or she is ready to walk out into the world no longer tethered to your side and free from your reach, your most important job is to improve the generational status, and perhaps legacy, of your family of origin.nnSimply put, the greatest gift you can ever give your son or daughter is to break the cycle, to some measurable level, of any dysfunction that has festered in your family for far too long.nnWe are all products of our en
September 18, 2007
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When You Feel Like Giving Up
The enemy waits and listens for your desperation. When you are at the end of your rope and can no longer see or feel what hope looks like, the enemy of your soul pounces on your confidence, shreds your dreams, and will cast a very dark shadow of doubt over what you want to be or do in your life.nnThe enemy does not want you to be successful. It delights in breaking you down to the point you surrender and exclaim things like, âWhat was I thinking, I canât do something like
September 17, 2007
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Finding Happiness at Work, part 1
Summer may not be over until another couple of weeks, but with the Labor Day holiday in the United States behind us, now is the time many of us turn our attention from the relaxing and slower pace of the summer season to the more structured and focused time of when our children go back to school and we go back to rolling up our sleeves at work.nnOur jobs and careers can be both a great place for personal satisfaction and accomplishment as well as frustration and disappointmen
September 11, 2007
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Coming Into My Own
Part Six in the “Coming Into Your Own” Series nnIn the first five parts of the “Coming Into Your Own” series I highlighted different people with different backgrounds and with different points of view. The one common thread that ties these people together is their passion, not just to live life on their terms, but to live a life each can truly call their own. The motivation for doing so is to claim, or to reclaim, something just for them – someth
September 8, 2007
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Find Your Own Truth and Happiness
Part Five in the âComing Into Your Ownâ Series nnTruth exists for each one of us. The key is to find your truth. Too often, we are influenced by the expectations of our parents and culture to define what we consider to be our true nature, or true calling in life.nnFor many of us, finding our own truth is a process and it can take time. We look for it and sometimes we even rebel and shun the truth of others in order to come into our own truth. To run alone from the pack ta
September 5, 2007
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Finding My Value in Spite of Relationships
Part Four in the âComing Into Your Ownâ Series nnFor most of us, the need to have productive and intimate relationships is very important. We work on improving our marriages and friendships and sometimes, although unproductively, we try to work on others, too.nnWe often think we will be happy when our relationships are happy. This thought process is really backwards. In other words, our relationships will be happier ones when we are happier with ourselves. A big piece in
September 3, 2007
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