A self-fulfilling prophecy is when a person’s expectations about a situation come true due to changes in their own behavior. It is a psychological phenomenon that can play a role in mental health.

The St. Lucie Habitat for Humanity second annual Building Hope Breakfast on Nov. 8 at Tradition Town Hall was a tremendous success, in part, due to three Habitat homeowner testimonies shared on how ...

Self-help is a helpful resource for students who are motivated to do their own work, often focusing on small changes students can make to improve their lives. Self-help strategies can help students ...

Self-affirmations can help increase your self-worth and motivation. With regular practice, you can shift your focus toward your strengths and adapt to new circumstances more easily. Self-affirmation ...

Self-evaluation is a necessary component of being successful — both in the corporate, professional sense and in terms of personal growth. All employees have to fill out a performance evaluation at ...

In times of doubt and uncertainty, many Americans turn to self-help books in search of encouragement, guidance and self-affirmation. The positive self-statements suggested in these books, such as "I ...

For most of human history, the world has been a zero-sum game. Your neighbor’s gain meant your loss. If he had more land, it meant that you had less land, and thus less resources. But after the ...

This essay explores Charles Dickens's vexed relationship to self-help. Popular self-help texts, such as Samuel Smiles's 1859 Self-Help, offered hundreds of examples of men who succeeded through their ...

On the eve of each new year, people commit to making lifestyle changes they believe will usher in personal satisfaction and happiness. But while an entire industry exists to help people meet these ...

In The Age of Anxiety, W.H. Auden observed that we human beings never become something without pretending to be it first. The corollary is more prosaic but, regrettably, at least as true: We humans ...