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ARTArticleLet Go and Make Way for the New!Happy New Year and welcome to the first article of the New Year! At a time when a lot of people are making resolutions and planning for change, it’s important to know that, in order to make way for the new, we may have to let go of thoughts, habits, views, opinions, relationships and so on which no longer serve us. When we do this, it’s amazing how quickly things can change. To give you an example, this time last year, my corporate clients were cancelling contracts like it had gone out of fashion, all citing the recession as their reason.ARTArticleMind the Gap: Living in the Space Between Loss and HealingOne of the most difficult phases in any life transition is the space of the unknown between a loss or change, and healing or new beginning. All life changes, even positive ones, entail a sense of loss or grief. For example, there is a sense of loss in giving up addictive behaviors like cigarette smoking, despite the fact that the change is a positive one. Even the change of getting a better job or promotion entails loss -- you might be giving up security, relationships and the comfort of the known in making such a change.ARTArticle***Holistic addiction treatment - Do you sabotage your recovery?Are you sabotaging your own recovery? How many times have you been in rehabilitation only to relapse back into the madness that you swore you would leave behind? You want to recover. You want to lead a recovered life, but in the end, the result is always the same. You sabotage yourself, your life, and return to addictive patterns of behavior. Holistic addiction treatment offers addicts the pathway to full recovery by treating the root cause of self-sabotaging behavior.ARTArticle***Holistic Addiction Treatment–Do your beliefs sabotage your recovery?What role do your beliefs play in your ability to completely recover? Do your beliefs disempower you? A belief is a perception, conviction, or opinion that you hold about yourself, a situation, event, or others. Beliefs are not necessarily true or fact-based, however, they are something we hold internally within your soul and spirit as a truth. Beliefs can be extremely complex, but when it comes to defining our behavior, our beliefs can drive us to make assumptions, react quickly, and make precise decisions at both a conscious and subconscious level.ARTArticle***Non-12 Step RecoverySince the 1930’s 12 step recovery programs have become the preferred method to treat alcoholism, drug abuse, co-dependence, or other addictive behaviors. 12 step recovery programs are deeply rooted within the belief that addicts are powerless over their addiction and the key to sobriety is avoiding the first drink or drug. These programs are based on abstinence because alcoholism and addiction are incurable diseases and there is no other alte ative. Some would say that 12 step recovery programs are based in fear.ARTArticleDo Lies Make You See Red?Many times a year parents come to me for guidance about dealing with their child’s lying. Usually the situation is that the child has been involved in some activity that she knows her parents disapprove of. It could be sampling the frosting on a birthday cake before the occasion, or talking to strangers on line or downloading songs on iTunes without permission to use the parents’ credit card. Parents are very upset about the problem behavior and about the lie. Often they are somewhat surprised when I recommend that they focus on the behavior the lie was covering up rather than the lie.ARTArticleEMDR as a Healing Tool in Traumatic GriefThe intense and painful experiences of grief are generally considered "normal." However, when those experiences are extremely distressing, unduly interfere with day-to-day functioning or do not subside to a manageable level over time, the bereaved may be experiencing complicated or traumatic grief.ARTArticleFrom Unfair to Fair - the Four Steps to Filling your Life with PowerPoliticians benefit by pretending life is unfair Life is not fair! complain envious citizens when they see someone with more than they have.ARTArticleHow Superstars Reach Their Goals: How We Can Reach OursAre superstars born or made? Do they have the genius of supreme achievement by an accident of birth, a favorable environment or from their own individual effort? Whatever the reasons, superstars are a different breed. They must succeed and they will succeed. They have an amazing capacity to dream big, strive even bigger and come through against all the odds. Can we learn to become better achievers by looking inside the minds of the big-time peak performers? Let's see what makes them tick and why they are able to achieve so much more and at a higher level than anyone else.ARTArticleHow's Your Mental Fitness? Take This Quiz and Find OutHow fit do you consider yourself? You can be fit in any number of arenas--financial, health, physical, etc. You consult doctors, financial planners, chiropractors, CPA's, tax analysts, bankers, stock brokers, nutritionists, tennis pros, golf pros, physical therapists, fitness trainers and anyone else who might be able to help you raise your particular fitness quotient. But have you ever thought about the level of your mental fitness?ARTArticleManage Your Mind to Manage Your Time: 28 Tips For Working Smarter, Not HarderAre you working longer hours but getting less done? Are you being asked to do more in less time? Beginning to feel like a hostage at work? Productivity problems can make you feel incredibly stressed--and then you're just spinning your wheels. But there is help. You can use your mind. You can soon be winning the mental game of personal productivity. Peak-performing sales professionals work smarter, not harder. They want to achieve to the maximum in business and then go play. Here's how you can do that too. 1.ARTArticleSanity before SuccessSanity before Success! One common cause that brings clients into coaching with me to stop anxiety spoiling their lives, is the ever-increasing cultural expectations to do more, be more, have more and faster! This is fuelled by the feeling that unless we earn a certain income, and possess the right branded goods, then we are not worth very much.ARTArticleThank you so very muchTomorrow is Thanksgiving and I'm blessed to be celebrating it in New York with family and friends. This seemed like a good time to say thank to YOU too! Since my partner, Ralph started working on a project in New York several years ago, we have been lucky enough to spend a few months here each year. We have made a lot of wonderful friends and have been very welcome here. Our nephews live here too with their lovely wives and children, and their families have taken us to their hearts as we have taken them to ours. Thanksgiving is a favourite celebration for us.ARTArticleThe Art Of Leadership: Beyond The Nuts And Bolts Of Managing"Hold yourself responsible to a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself."rn--Henry Ward Beecher "The new leader is a facilitator, not an order giver."rn--John Naisbitt Volumes have been written about the MBA-driven attributes of top business leaders. You know these traits. These are the button-down, rigorously mandated strictures of executive leadership that every "proper" leader shall possess. Many companies train their executives in the firm's laws of leadership.ARTArticleThe Mental Game of Personal Achievement: Reach Your Goals Like the SuperachieversWhat rating would you give yourself on personal productivity? Do you have a systematic plan for improving your effectiveness in your daily work? Superachieving business people and athletes know what it takes to motivate themselves, maintain focus in the face of obstacles and drive forward to the completion of their vision and dreams.ARTArticleThe Mental Game of Success: Winning the Game of LifeSports champions know how to win and accomplish their dreams. They have learned the secrets of winning and success in sport. The mental game concepts that follow are familiar ones in the sport world. Let's examine these principles and laws of winning in sport and see how we can apply them to our daily lives. Championship sports stars know what these principles mean, honor them and apply them in their training and competitions: 1. Second Effort. Making that extra effort can make the difference between winning and just barely losing.ARTArticleThe Paradox of Success: Is There A Downside To Winning?How can being a success possibly be a problem? Don't we all want to be winners? In fact, there are potentially negative consequences in achieving our goals and in being known as a successful person. Let's take a look at this paradoxical phenomenon and formulate some strategies to deal with the inevitable challenges that surround anyone who strives for success. What are some of the paradoxes of playing the success game? 1. In order to succeed big, you could become a workaholic, a very common downside. 2.ARTArticleThe Twenty Most Dangerous Myths About Peak PerformanceWe all perform in some way every day. In what arenas do you want to perform better? To improve your performance abilities, you need to know, understand, recognize and be able to avoid the myths surrounding performance. Top performers are so fine-tuned in their disciplines that they have seen all the traps, pitfalls and blind alleys about performing, and have devised methods to overcome them to be able to sustain high levels of performance under all adverse conditions. We call these people peak performers. Why are these myths dangerous?ARTArticleWhat Makes Peak-Performing Teams Tick? How Leaders Can Win The Mental Game Of CoachingNot all teams are created equal. Some teams clearly ARE better than others. They get more done, and with less squabbling. Still, there are instances of teams performing heroically even though they may all dislike each other. Keeping in mind there are various definitions of teams and their purposes, we can paint a fairly clear picture of what we WANT in the ideal team. Here are 17 things we know that peak-performing teams have in common. 1. All teams experience conflict. The successful ones manage it and succeed in spite of it. 2. All teams have weaknesses.ARTArticleWhat's a Mental Game Coach?Tiger Woods has one. So does Andre Agassi. Almost every college pro team, major league pro sports team and Olympic team has one. Virtually every pro golfer and pro tennis player has one. What do they have? A Mental Game Coach. These top sports stars are smart. They're good already. Even great. Some are all-stars and superstars. Why do "they" have a mind coach? They want to maintain their excellence. And, they want to get better.ARTArticleWhy does President Obama want to Attack Syria? Part 1Why has President Obama Threatened War on Syria? Syria's president, Bashar al-Assad, has been murdering his own countrymen for years. A couple of years ago, some Syrians citizens objected and started the civil war in Syria. This has claimed a lot of innocent lives, yet al-Assad is clinging to power and has no intention of resigning. He's definitely a nasty piece of work.ARTArticleWhy does President Obama want to Attack Syria? Part 2President Obama's commitment to Peace President Obama evidently wants to bomb Syria. But why? He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009 for his commitment to world peace. His response this week to those who believe he wants to attack Syria in order to defend his own credibility? "I didn’t set a red line. The world set a red line." So Obama’s desire for war is not for his own credibility.ARTArticleWhy does President Obama want to Attack Syria? Part 3See a far more comprehensive introduction to the motivations behind this subject in part 1 and part 2 of this series. Does President Obama really want Peace? There are plenty of issues that President Obama could spend his time on which would improve America and give you a better quality of life. But he instead wants to go to war with Syria. Fortunately his plans are being upstaged by Russia and events in Britain and other countries. Would he like any Awkward Issues Buried and Forgotten?ARTArticleWriting - the perfect medicine for tired, busy mumsThere's no escaping the fact that children take up time. In fact, they tend to take up so much time that there can be little left over to focus on yourself. Babies especially are incredibly demanding and their needs can become all-consuming. Even the most organised and efficient mums admit to days when they have fed their kids junk food or sat them in front of the TV just to get a minute's peace. Personally, I find when my baby finally falls asleep, I am so conce ed at how to make the most of this brief gift of time that I mostly end up getting nothing much done at all.ARTArticleWriting your way to a mindful existenceWriting your way to a mindful existence Do you find yourself overwhelmed by the pressures of modern living? For some people, stress is so commonplace that it has become a way of life. They live life at a fast pace, constantly rushing to meet deadlines, complete tasks and fit as much as possible into their day.ARTArticle***Codependent Recovery – Has their addiction become your addiction?My loved one has only been sober for 1 month. Why aren’t they answering their phone? Did he/she relapse again? Oh no…not again. You call. They don’t answer. You drive by their favorite restaurant; their favorite bar. They aren’t there. You call their friends. No answer.ARTArticle***Holistic Addiction Treatment offers a healing pathway to sustainable recoveryExperiencing a traumatic life event can often leave us feeling both mentally and spiritually debilitated. We are often unable to clearly see the road to recovery. Instead, we may find ourselves looking inside the hole of a deep abyss of bottomless pain. Somewhere along the way, we chose to “fill” the abyss with everything and anything to make the pain less; to make the sadness and the suffering go away…if only for a moment.ARTArticleHow To Treat Cold Sores And Fever BlistersIf you see or feel small blisters on your lip and/or around your mouth you could very well have a fever blister or cold sore. Examine the reddened area. You may find small blisters that are cracked or leaking a clear fluid and then, hopefully, scab over in just a few days. Medically, they are known to heal in 10-14 days. Before we attempt to define a treatment for cold sores or fever blisters we really need to understand just what causes them. I know some of this is going to sound scary, but it’s important to know.ARTArticleOnline Therapy - What Might You Discover About Yourself?Online therapy - also known as e-therapy, e-counselling or cyber-counselling – involves a therapist providing support over the Internet. But does it work? How does it compare to face-to-face therapy? And is it worth a go? Firstly, does it work? The short answer is yes. Much like face-to-face therapy, the value of online therapy depends on: 1. The skill of the therapist. 2. Having the ‘right fit’ between the therapist and client.ARTArticleYour Child Doesn't Like Your Great Solution? It's a PuzzleHere’s a scenario I see often in my work. Parents are having difficulty with their child over Problem X (doing homework, getting up in the morning, getting ready for school, or managing time on electronics). Parents join me and the child for a meeting about this, and the parents have been thinking about the problem and have come up with a proposal. Very often these bright and successful parents have really good ideas. They say, “I’ve been thinking about this, and here’s what I want you to do from now on.

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