It is my grand pleasure to bring you this week’s Personal Development Carnival! I always enjoy reading all the bloggers in this arena and keeping up to date with what’s happening. It’s also a unique opportunity for me to learn about new personal development blogs. If you would like to host the carnival one week, contact Lyman Reed, the originator of this carnival.

As I reviewed the posts this week, I sensed a few trends. There were a few posts on setting sticky resolutions and still more on revving up your engine should you run out of motivation. The most thought provoking post was one on the correlation between health and wealth. (You’ll have to search for it ) To sum it up, the carnival is outstanding! Without further ado…

My contribution this week is a post on taking the complications out of spirituality called De-Mystifying Spirituality.

John Wesley presents Overcoming the Loss of Motivation that Follows a Surge of Productivity posted at Pick the Brain. Overcome the inevitable loss of motivation by understanding your emotions.

Lorenzo presents Channeling Inspiration posted at RealitySeeds. This method can be used to invoke and channel inspiration for a multitude of purposes, including creating new business ideas, speaking with customers or partners, writing inspired blog posts and articles, and bringing the best contribution during work meetings.

Caroline Latham presents Crosswords and Sudoku, Do I Need Anything Else? posted at SharpBrains. Learn how to exercise your cognitive skills by doing a diversity of activities - not just the same old thing.

David Maister presents Friendship Skills posted at Passion, People and Principles. The social skills that earn you the position of “trusted friend or adviser” are the same in a business situation as they are in a personal context. And the good news is that friendship skills are learnable.

Managing the Ups and Downs of Self Growth posted at Optmist Lab. We’ve all experienced it: times of tremendous personal growth followed by days, weeks, or months when we can’t seem to get away from our old patterns. This article will help you understand why sometimes a little “backsliding” is necessary.

Mark McManus presents The Law Of Correspondence posted at Build Your Life To Order. Similar to the Law of attraction, this powerful law should be understood and lived by anyone wanting positive change.

Laura Young presents Secrets of a Happy Marriage posted at Dragon Slayer. Someone told me once he thought good marriages were an urban myth. Broke my heart to hear that so I wrote this in response. Wonderful marriages can and do exist. Here are some thoughts to help you cultivate your own relationships.

Jane Chin presents Your Crucial Key To Success posted at On Careers and Life. If you had to identify one crucial key to your success, what would it be?

Josh Bickford presents Moments Of Greatness posted at Josh Bickford’s Reach For Magnificence. Need an example to follow? Open your eyes, they’re all around you!

Creating Optimal Experiences in Life posted at Life Training. Why is it that in the same experience one person can feel complete boredom, another anxiety and a third absolute elation? It really comes down to two variables: level of skill and level of challenge. When you understand how these two variables affect your experiences in life, you can then learn to create at will these optimal experiences or as some call it, flow.

Craig Harper presents Who Would You Be If You Weren’t You? posted at Renovate Your Life with Craig. We get to choose to be incredible, amazing, inspirational and exceptional human beings despite our life experiences, what the world or others have taught us, our situation or circumstances, our history, and the expectations of others.

Darren presents Self sabotage posted at Darren Hayhurst.com. Self sabotage, how to see it, how to understand it and how to stop it.

Silicon Valley Blogger presents My Business, Financial and Personal Goals For 2007 posted at The Digerati Life.

Wise Bread presents Bourgeoisie Guilt: Can I Conquer My Vanity for the Sake of My Sanity? posted at Wisebread. Andrea Dickson shares her secrets on how to regain financial sanity by conquering your guilt and vanity.

Larry presents Law Of Attraction: 7 Ways To Get Unstuck posted at The Believe Factor Blog.

Benjamin Yoskovitz presents Don’t Make The Same Mistakes George Constanza Did posted at Instigator Blog. A humorous look at how to play towards your strengths for personal success.

Charles H. Green presents A Better New Year’s Resolution posted at Trust Matters. What if you approached New Year’s Resolutions in a way to set yourself up for success?

Craig Wilson presents Raising Children - Part One posted at Driver Training for New Drivers.

Kirby presents How to keep your New Year’s Resolution! posted at Kirby on Finance.

Erek Ostrowski presents Debt-Free Living: Transforming the Debt Mindset posted at Verve Coaching.

Matthew Paulson presents Money = Happiness? The Math Doesn’t Add Up! posted at Getting Green.

Wenchypoo presents Traditional Food Preservation posted at Wisdom From Wenchypoo’s Mental Wastebasket.

Steve Peters presents How to Stick to Your Goals posted at Steves Goal.

2 Pennies Earned presents Just Ask posted at 2 Pennies Earned.

Robert Hunt presents Why Can?t I Touch The Sky? posted at My Self Development.

Evolving Times presents Focus on Debt in 2007 - NOT posted at Edward Mills.

Arun presents From Chubby to Studdly Part 1 posted at Your Daily Remedy. Here’s how I improved my health, and how you can too!

Karen Lynch presents As you Wish…Create your Life posted at Live the Power.

Karl Staib presents Our Honeymoon in Italy posted at 10,000 Swimming Pools Inside Our Minds.

Kavit Haria’s Blog presents Top 5 Things You Should Know About Hypnosis posted at Kavit’s Letters, Thoughts and Musings.

Maria Yu presents The Still Point, Great Silence, and Original Sound posted at Life.

SpiKe presents Trigger Lists: Focusing On Your Life posted at Organize IT.

Brandon Peele presents Sexuality and Identity posted at Generative Transformation.

Ananga Sivyer presents Negativity TV posted at Answers from Ayurveda.

Alan presents Is Being Overweight a Hindrance to Attaining Wealth? posted at Made to Be Great.

Almomento presents 6 Secrets of Personal Goal Setting posted at BurstCreativity.

Aaron M. Potts presents How Was Your Day? posted at Today is that DAy.

Raymond David Salas presents Using Visualization for Success posted at Zen Chill.

Chris presents Reflections on Being Defensive and Secretive posted at How to be Cooler.

Paul presents Becoming a Millionaire posted at Extreme Perspective.

Improving Your Life through Personal Creativity posted at Sights & Sounds from the Fifth Column.

Patricia presents What Matters Most: Lessons From A Tornado posted at Patricia.

What Stops You and What Will You Do About It? posted at International Student Personal Finance.

Chris presents Mimicry is Not the Path to Mastery posted at Martial Development.

That concludes this week’s Personal Development Carnival. Next week’s carnival will be hosted by Lyman Reed at Creating A Better Life. You may submit your posts via Blog Carnival. To host the Personal Development Carnival, contact Lyman Reed.

I do hope that you relished the carnival as much as I did. Have fun checking out the rest of the site and do come again.

In Spirit,
Nneka