Personal Development Blog

Thanks God, my Google AdSense account has been restored. They have cancelled my membership about one year ago, so I was pretty worried about that.

What I am going to do now is to concentrate on Internet marketing and Make Money Online themes, and make promises online to keep them intact.

I invested a few months of my time last year into getting as much knowledge of this as possible. I went astray off the beaten track partly due to my failures with Google and different real life troubles.

Nevertheless I am ready to go on, and to achieve my ambitious goals in the year 2008.

There has been a considerable timeout in my blog. What did I do meanwhile?

I went on with my work in Stay In Ukraine company, I met a lot of new friends, I started my fitness program by subscribing to Sportlife, I have been learning French for 4 months, I went on playing football indoors.

I read a dozen of books, and am on the verge of more consistent blogging.

I hope to see all my readers back for more in-depth articles about personal development.

Today I finally installed the Do-Follow Plugin! I published a D-List of websites earlier, and that is truly helpful for anyone striving to promote his or her website by commenting on other blogs using WP. If you do not know it, the WP has an evil “nofollow” tag that disallows search engines to index your comments link. The solution comes in the form of ‘do-follow’ plugin that can be found here.

 If you want to help fellow blogger and actually incent or persuade them to leave more comments on your blog (and thus increase traffic to your place), you can install this plugin and declare it to others.

I experienced some hard time lately, and am on the threshold of a new period of my lifespan. I feel I am changing, little by little, losing much and gaining, hopefully, still more.

There is nothing wrong with undergoing severe trials, that is what we in this world must be prepared for any time. The crucial point is our reaction to these.

Do we feel depressed and want to run away? Or do we stand up and fight for our happiness that we deserve? Do we?

I think so. I do not think that life is a struggle and we have to suffer. Actually we ourselves decide whether to suffer or not. And we ourselves are responsible for our success or failure.

What does not kill you makes you stronger is a nice slogan I want to publish today.

Recently I got a letter from Mr. Alex Shalman, telling about his Personal Development project. I was happy to read come of his articles and would gladly recommend his work for my visitors.

Please visit his blog and read about how to improve your life.

“The moment I start hating a man, I become his slave”, a quote from Dr. McMillen, is a beginning of another article.

I made a break in postings on my Personal Development Blog in July. I travelled to Bulgaria for two weeks and published a diary of my trip in Russian on http://bulgaria.alexradich.com/ .

Lately I had some difficult time, so I did not have enough time and peacefulness of mind to write. I am on my way to recovery, and am going to publish a lot of new articles.

My vacation pictures can be found here:

http://www.alexradich.com/images/2007_07/ 

Please come back to my site, and you will find a lot of interesting stuff here!

I did not publish during last couple of weeks as I prepared to travel and now I am in Bulgaria for about two weeks. I keep diary of my trip, in Russian, and am making a lot of pictures, so I am likely to publish parts of it here.

So what my impressions to this moment are:

The season is too short, so people need to earn as much money as they could to survive for the whole year. There are not enough working places in Sozopol, so many young and talented people leave their hometown.

There seems to be less number of Ukrainians and Russians than last years. I hear Russian speech only from time to time, and there are mainly Bulgarians, and to some extent Polish and German people rambling around.

The spirit of hospitality is there. My hosts are very friendly people, and I feel the welcoming atmosphere, despite a few envying people.

The beaches are well kept, but the water in the Central beach is dirty from sea plants and sand. It is a little gulf overunindated by people.

I will be back in Kiev in Saturday, 21st of July, so I will continue with more articles.

Next week I plan a two-week Bulgaria vacation. I usually go there every year, and enjoy its beautiful country full of sun, sea and hospitable people. Even though Crimea is near, and I can reach Yalta or Miskhor in less than 12 hours by car, I prefer to go abroad.

So the first reason is:

1) Hospitable People

Do you know Soviet style type of service? Oh, I experienced it just yesterday. We needed a sanitary technician to fix a small problem in a toilet in one of our rented apartments. We called house management and listened to harsh language. It seems they do not care whether we are satisfied or not, very rough. After a few unsuccessful attempts to reach them we called a professional service, and a man agreed to help for 35 USD. He came and fixed the problem in two minutes. We still paid him, and he was polite for such an easy money. So in Crimea the staff is rarely polite, and the prices are skyscraping.

In Bulgaria I feel many people preserved a natural hospitability. I do not say that Ukrainians are not hospitable but many people who provide services are not motivated not trained to do it well. Bulgarians are more friendly.

I do not hear Russian swearing in Bulgaria. It spoils the feeling of vacation. Russian so-called MAT (rush abusive language) is rarely to be heard in Bulgaria.

These people are so hospitable and I respect them! Thank you, Stoyan, thank you, Polya!

2) Nice Seaside

Sozopol, a little town on the southern part of Bulgarian seacoast, is located on a small peninsula being washed by Black Sea on three sides. Whenever you go, you see nice sand or rocks, and blue water. There are two beaches, Central and Harmany, the first being shallow, and the latter is wider and deeper.

3) Nice Cheap Food

To dine in a restaurant does not usually cost more than 5 EURO. You can see this here:

4) Nice Cheap Accommodation

The room with all necessary equipment, fridge, bathroom, balcony in New Town cost about 15 EURO a night.

5) Architecture and Environment

I love rambling in Old Town seeing all these old houses.

Come here and enjoy!