Personaldevelopment Stories

Title for Wattpad: Finding Your Why: A Journey to Meaning (This is the Wattpad edition of my story-based workbook: Transform Difficulties into Triumphs in 30-days: A Story-Based Workbook - 2019). Let's Connect! I encourage you to vote, comment, and share with others who may benefit from this journey. Your participation not only enriches your own experience but also helps create a network of support for those who may be struggling. Together, let's embrace our stories, acknowledge our pain, and celebrate our power to choose how we respond. Thank you for being part of this transformative journey! Warm regards, CarolK ☁️ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Passing Through ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ☁️ Even the darkest clouds eventually drift away... Every journey begins with a single step. Sometimes that step is taken in darkness, guided only by the faintest glimmer of hope. This workbook emerged from my years as a Viktor Frankl practitioner and academic, but more importantly, from countless conversations with people searching for their own light in difficult times. It was written when I could not continue with my PHD due to ill health. Each day offers a new pathway to meaning - through stories that resonate, questions that challenge, and exercises that guide you toward your own answers. From Nelson Mandela's unwavering spirit to everyday moments of transformation, we'll explore what gives life its deepest purpose. This isn't just another self-help book. It's a companion for your journey, rooted in both academic understanding and human experience. Whether you're facing personal challenges or seeking deeper meaning, these pages offer daily touchstones for growth and reflection. Join me in discovering not just how to endure, but how to find purpose in your unique story. Content note: This work was originally published in 2019, reflecting years of academic study and practice as a Logotherapy practitioner, and studies in philosophy.

A quiet story of strength, self-choice, and becoming whole again.

✨ Start your reinvention journey here✨ [https://thenextstep-book.com/] Some moments in life don't announce themselves with thunder and lightning but they arrive quietly, in the space between who you were and who you're becoming. *The Next Step* is written for anyone standing in that space. It's for the people who feel the weight of change pressing against their chest, who know they can't stay where they are, but don't yet know how to move forward. This is not a book about overnight success or empty motivation. It's a raw, honest playbook for reinvention, that includes real people I interviewed in a guide for rebuilding your mindset, reclaiming your direction, and taking deliberate steps toward a life that feels fully yours. Through reflection, practical frameworks, and deeply human insight, *The Next Step* meets you where you are and walks beside you as you transform uncertainty into momentum. Because reinvention isn't about becoming someone else - it's about finally becoming yourself.

Poetry that resonates with your soul. Words written to motivate and inspire people to overcome hardships, heartbreaks, and pain. Expressing life experiences through poetry to transform lives and encourage others to continue fighting on their journey to greatness. No journey is a straight line but hopefully my words can motivate others to keep fighting for their dreams.

"What is life?" is a self-help and personal development book written from the perspective of a young man who seeks to provide answers to the deepest questions about life, pain, discipline, empathy and love. Throughout this book, I share my personal experiences, lessons learned, and reflections on how to face daily challenges and achieve a winning mindset. Through topics such as the importance of taking the first step, resisting pain, overcoming fear, and understanding the value of empathy, I seek to inspire those who, like me, feel lost at some point in their lives. My goal is to help readers discover their own path to improvement and understand that, even if life is difficult, there is always an opportunity to improve. This book is not just a set of advice, it is an invitation for everyone to reflect on their own lives, know themselves better, and embark on a journey of personal growth. We all have the power to change our reality, but the first step always depends on us.

Extract from The Entrepreneur-White Ball Thinking by D.F. McKeever

Are you a teen and tired of being stuck in a rut, bored with your life and want to get out but don't know where to start? Are you sure there must be more to life than just studying, while watching your childhood dreams go down the drain? Have you heard of "Personal Development" but don't know what it is or what you need to do to achieve it? Then this book is for you! Certified Life Coach Oliver Chapman's "Personal Development Quick-Start Guide - For Teens!" is your quick and easy blueprint to getting started on living your dreams and becoming the person you've always wanted to be. Starting with foundational concepts that explain why your life is the way it is right now, Oliver goes on to outline what differentiates the rich and successful from the poor and average and the basic steps you need to take to get where they are, starting today! This book is designed for the absolute beginner who has no idea where to start or what to do. It gives you the framework of what needs to be done to achieve your dream life and covers the different issues you need to consider to take the achievement of your life goals seriously. At just over 40 pages, it is packed with information with no fluff or filler, with not a word wasted - short enough to finish quickly, provide you with the framework to decide what needs to be done first, then get on with your busy life. If you're a teen, then get started on living your dream life today and get the blueprint every rich, successful person follows, in order to realise your life goals and achieve the life you've always wanted!

Hogwarts Legacy Fanfiction Dove Astoria is a Hogwarts, Ravenclaw alumni who has recently graduated from The Tanami Hall School of Higher Voyance. It has been eight years since her days at Hogwarts. By chance, or by fate she returns to Hogsmeade during the winter holidays to help an old classmate. Thank You, and Blessed Readings!

Have you ever felt down and out before? Have you ever needed a boost to push you in you life, career, relationship, etc.? Have you ever wondered how to fight your comfort zone to push success? If you can answer yes, then you have reached the right spot. This book is full of quotes that will push your limits, challenge your fears, and break that comfort zone that holds you back.

Many people read about people's success story's. Others read about how many have nothing. This book is about the pursuit of success in the fitness industry. It's about the growth of Leadership, personal development, sex, love, the good, the bad, and ugly. I am sharing my story of my pursuit to success, when even my success is not guaranteed. It's real time, and I hope this story/bio can be relatable to many other fitness professionals and/or people looking to get into the fitness industry. I hope my experience saves time, energy, money, and even pain for future professionals. Trust me, I wish I had someone coach me in my journey early on.

⚠️ Caution: Read at Your Own Risk The 48 Laws of Power isn't a regular self-help book - it's a glimpse into the hidden rules that shape the world. Some lessons are sharp, cunning, even ruthless. Handle them carelessly, and you could make enemies or stir envy. ⚫ But that's the point. It's not about cruelty; it's about seeing clearly, understanding human nature, and moving through life with strategy. Each law is a tool - clever, sometimes sneaky - to protect yourself, influence others, and stay ahead. Step into this world if you dare. Watch, learn, adapt, and move wisely. 🕯️

This is going to be one of my MOST important writing on Medium . Here's why: They said wisdom only comes with age. Can't be true anymore. If only I could rewind time, this is what I would say to my younger self: Choose your friends wisely. Your circle is a direct representation of your future. Your friends directly influence every area of your life consciously and unconsciously as well. Place yourself in the right environment. If you want to thrive and if you want to grow into the best version of your life. Look around you right now, is the environment making or breaking you? If you're still in your school or university realm, please join communication clubs such as Toastmasters or etc. I know there are tons of organizations out there with specialized niche but here's what I am about to say: "If you know how to present yourself through the way you speak, you are about to win BIG in life. Really big." Take care of yourself. Put yourself first. Look after your overall being. If you brush and polish yourself daily, trust me one day you're going to be the brightest star in the sky. Invest in personal development from the very young. "The greatest and safest investment in this entire Universe is always going to be you. Invest in yourself and you shall receive the highest return ever." If you can apply these 3 key wisdoms into your life trust me you are about to bypass or even reach to your destination within the shortest run. Comment on what's one advise you would give to your younger self? Yours, Asrajjit Kaur

if fair folk elegy was about my retreat in the deepest recesses of my imaginative mind, this will be about my transition to reality. it's fun to be inside your head and hibernating in a safe space but it doesn't stop the clock from ticking or things from happening and this is how i struggle to keep in touch with the world. Ivory and Evergreen brings out the feelings that bloomed from the aftermaths of my own heartaches.

This phrase encapsulates the idea that achieving significant rewards often requires taking chances. It implies that playing it safe and avoiding risks will limit potential success and growth. This concept is widely applicable in various fields, including business, investing, personal development, and everyday life decisions. It encourages a mindset that embraces challenges and uncertainties as opportunities for progress and achievement.

A quick inspirational message to everyone. The main audience tag will be middle grade, but that's just availability. This is really for everyone.

So you've decided to dive in head first on your journey to positive thinking, great... but now what? This book will heighten your awareness to the limitless possibilities and opportunities you have at your fingertips to living your true authentic life. As you read further on I hope you remain open-minded to how our thought process can change our lives in unimaginable ways. The power to live your best life is already within you and this book is designed as a gateway to manifest those powers into reality. We all have the strength, determination, and willpower to change our habits into more spiritual ones and live the life that you have always dreamed about. It is up to you to accept the challenge, because mental harmony is one that takes perseverance to achieve. No matter the case, have faith that throughout this book, "Choose Happy", you will be uplifted and realize your unlimited potential towards mental clarity and harmony.

Frozen War is a collection of poems I wrote a couple of years ago and I just wanna share them to you. Poems 1. Pinkish Gradient Laid Across The Road 2. Stand Alone 3. Unbenevolent Approach 4. A Speck Of Ignorance 5. Unfortunately I was Tarnished 6. What it Feels 7. Turn Over 8. State of Freedom 9. My Mother, My Queen 10. Dark Propaganda Gushed Through The Wall 11. Frozen War 12. Soul Seeker

A collection of haiku's all for the self.

The Mastermind Alliance The great entrepreneur and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie shared with Napoleon Hill what he called the Power of the Mastermind Alliance or in its simplest form the power of Positive Friends.