Personal development is all about improving the quality of your life - not just in specific areas like health or wealth, but in all areas including spirituality and relationships as well as abundance and prosperity.

Every personal development coach has a different angle, or a different philosophy, but they are all teaching the same basic principles of how to improve the quality of your life.

NLP (or Neuro Linguistic Programming) is probably one of the more popular and well known techniques involved in many personal development programs. NLP has many uses and is very effective at helping us:

• Build the relationships we need and attract the right people into our lives
• Enhance our career prospects and create abundance in our lives
• Boost our motivation and desire to grow
• Create a happy and healthy self-image
• Improve our communication skills

I recently started using NLP techniques in my life to boost my self confidence and help me overcome some debilitating anxiety symptoms. But before I got started, one of my problems was knowing where to start - there's so many different programs out there I was lost in a sea of information overload.

But as luck would have it, I virtually "bumped into" a Master NLP practitioner who suggested I grab a free copy of his latest book called Magic Hats, and use that as my guide.

I won't spoil the plot for you (it's a great read by the way) but you learn about 5 different colored magic hats. Each hat has a different meaning and consequently helps you change and improve a different aspect of your life.

So far I've mastered the yellow hat, and I'm so happy with my new life that I literally feel I'm going to explode sometimes.

It took me about 30 minutes to read it cover to cover, and it's now something I can (and do) use in my life everyday. The fact that it's free is wonderful (I like free) - as you never really know with personal development programs if they really do work, or are just some hocus pocus spiel with smoke and mirrors.

As Confucius said - a journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step - make your next personal development goal be to take that first step in the right direction - click the link to grab your free copy of Magic Hats now.