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ARTArticleAn Organized Vacation is a Relaxing VacationSummer is here - the most popular time of year to go on vacation. While you may be looking forward to your vacation destination, you may be dreading the last-minute scrambling that typically accompanies your pursuit of relaxation. These tips will help make sure your trip is actually as relaxing and enjoyable as you've imagined it will be by helping you get organized before you leave.ARTArticleAre You a Money Avoider?
4 Steps to Make a Lot of ChangeAre you working your tushie off - always going, going, going and never getting anywhere?
Are you doing everything you can to grow your business or move up the corporate ladder yet are stuck on pause?
Are you uncomfortable or anxious when discussing money with your partner?
Are your bills paid at late or at the last minute?
Are your financial and business (revenue generating) documents disorganized?
Do you wake up in the middle of the night worrying about your financial future?
If you answered yes to any of these questions you may be a money avoider.ARTArticleAre You Anxious, Nervous, Worried or Stressed?Do you ever feel uncomfortable, anxious or tense? Are there things that you worry about – things that sometimes even keep you awake at night? Are you ever nervous or apprehensive? Do you get hassled or lose your temper easily? Do you feel that you suffer from stress? If you perceive yourself to be suffering from any of these afflictions, it is just that – nothing more than a perception. Because none of these problems is real – no matter how real they might appear to you, they are nothing more than creations of your own mind. You are letting your mind play tricks on you.ARTArticleAre you doing your part?It is important that we become better stewards of our planet. Here are some easy tips that everyone can implement.
1. Recycle more – Recycling one aluminum can saves enough energy to run a TV for three hours or a 100 watt light bulb for 20 hours. Each ton of mixed paper that is recycled can save the energy equivalent to 185 gallons of gasoline. If everyone recycled their newspapers, we would save 250,000,000 trees each year. We throw away over 25 billio
Styrofoam cups each year. Each month we throw away enough glass bottles to fill a skyscraper.ARTArticleAre You Stuffing Your Closets as a Compulsive Shopper?'Fess up.
If you're reading this blog you may be a shopping addict. There's a world of difference between someone who shops for necessities (even luxuries) or social enjoyment and the person who shops to deaden emotional pain. Which one are you?
Like a drug addict you use shopping to get you high, make you feel better about your self or circumstance if you:
- Go on buying binges when you are upset, depressed, lonely, stressed or antsy.rn- Kill time on eBay or other shopping websites.rARTArticleAre your possessions worth treasuring?Have you had, in your moments of contemplation, evaluate the possessions you have? Did you ask yourself if the things you dearly hold are really worth having? There are many possessions we want to acquire in life, but most of the time we found ourselves deeply attached once we have what we aspire. We have become blind to the important things that are really worth treasuring.
The most important possession to acquire in life has been a questio
I long to resolve. But there is a big hindrance in my pursuit for answers.ARTArticleAttitude: It All Starts HereAfter stumbling across the following article on Linked In, I totally had to reproduce it (with permission of course).
Author Colleen Slaughter (www.coachforauthenticleaders.com) shares a simple solution for worry warts that create so much stress for themselves it often leads to being seriously sick. Here's what she writes:ARTArticleATTITUDES THAT GUARANTEE SUCCESS. DO YOU HAVE WHAT IT TAKES?POT OF GOLD
A most glorious rainbow brightened up the Singapore skyline as the sunset. Students I was teaching wanted to stop and enjoy the rare sighting of the beautiful hues cascading between the skyscrapers. Exclamations of this is so lucky and rainbows mean good luck delighted the class and it took a good 10 minutes before we resumed again.
NO PIE IN THE SKYrARTArticleAwareness and an End to SufferingI recently spoke to a client who told me that he was plagued by what I would describe as useless thought – feelings of inadequacy, distractions, negative thoughts, worries, even fears. The first thing that I said to him was that, at the very least, he could count himself among the horribly small percentage of people who are actually aware that they are, in fact, having useless thoughts.ARTArticleBe Positive : Stop Negative GossipA client asked me recently “What would you have left to talk about if you took gossip out of the conversation?” A very good question, because most of us spend a large part of our time gossiping. It might be about little “harmless” things, like the neighbours’ behaviour, how someone down the road was caught with someone else’s wife, how the guy next door was caught drink-driving. Or how one of our children’s friends got drunk (and sick on the school bus). Most of us, to a greater or lesser extent, delight in gossip – particularly if it involves someone else falling on their face.
Of course,ARTArticleBeliefs Are Obstacles To Your Success And HappinessBeliefs Block Your Beingness (Self)
Lester made this statement when talking about beliefs, or as he called them, programs. What does it mean in the practical terms of achieving goals, having more money, and being happier? He said we are like a computer where the programmer has fallen asleep. Programs are long held beliefs that are really decisions we made consciously in the past and are now running unconsciously in the present. By the past he meant a very long time ago in other lives we have experienced.ARTArticleBelieving and AchievingHow would you feel about the proposition that you can achieve anything – absolutely anything – in which you can believe? Well, whether you realize it or not, that’s what you’re actually doing at the moment – you’re living the life that you believe you can live. Years of research in various fields of psychology lead to the inexorable conclusion that normal people perceive only what they expect to perceive and experience only what they expect to experience.ARTArticleBlog Online Marketing Strategy For Newbies On Gaining Online VisibilityThe expectation of most people when they launch a blog is to get readers. The tricky part especially for newbies is to determine the best blog online marketing strategies. The first thing to note is that marketing on the internet needs time and patience. There are millions of sites and many more are being added to this number by the minute. Therefore, to announce your presence it will of course take some duration.ARTArticleBusiness Leadership: Gaining Competitive AdvantageOne of the most important elements of ongoing business success is gaining and maintaining competitive advantage. Lots of businesses talk about it, lots of businesses strive for it, but very few businesses really understand it. Put simply, competitive advantage means being different – not just different from your competitors, but being noticeably different as perceived by your target market – and the difference has to be substantive, not cosmetic. And it is in substantive real competitive advantage that most businesses simply fail.ARTArticleCareer Choices: Deciding for YourselfOver the last year or so, I have spoken to a number of people who have found themselves at a crossroads in their careers through no fault of their own. Economic circumstances, being in the work place at the wrong time, employers using the excuse of the economic downtu
to re-structure – have led to many people finding themselves out of work at a time in their lives when they could, quite reasonably, have expected to be taking their foot off the peddle and relaxing.ARTArticleChanging Your Life – It’s Up to YouA long-standing friend recently recommended one of his best-loved self-help books to me – it was the latest in a long list of his recommended reading. In chatting with him, I enquired as to how he was getting on putting into practice what he was learning from all his reading. It emerged from our conversation that, in fact, he was a life-long student of living life to the full but was unlikely to ever actually try it.ARTArticleControlling The Dark SideWe all have a ‘dark side’ though most of us are afraid to admit to it. We prefer to think of ourselves of good people. That means that most of us are in, what is called by the experts, a state of denial. It is a state that the human race can no longer ignore, for we all can be murderers if we believe that is the only way forward; or we give in to, even for a instant, a simple angry emotional response.
• So what is the ‘Dark Side’ really?
• And what can we do about controlling it?ARTArticleConversations with V! - "L.A.W. of Life"Governing ourselves is central to being a good citizen of the world. Strengthened character, conformed conduct and adjusted attitudes are all critical to our proper growth and maturation. Perspectives and principles often vary, but there are common denominators of behaviors that foster healthy and harmonious development in everyone.
Since its inception, NBC’s 20-year, award-winning show, Law & Order has been my personal favorite. Recent news that the show has been canceled for next season, provoked thoughts about the void that the drama’s ending might leave.ARTArticleConversations with V! - Connecting & Cultivating a Woman's Intrinsic ValueWhether we call it a woman’s intuition, mother wit or simply common sense, women definitely have an internal wellspring of wisdom. We have an amazing capacity for insight and awareness. This wisdom is not that which we receive through academic matriculation, but it is intelligence that emits from the heart and spirit of a woman. It is a reflection of the Creator’s omniscience.
Just as biological DNA determines our physiological and, to some degree, our psychological make-up, wisdom is a component of the very fiber of a woman.ARTArticleConversations with V! - How You Can Enjoy an Enriching, Enduring RelationshipIn consideration of the myriad challenges to having an enriching and enduring relationship, it seems practically oxy moronic to use “healthy, romantic and relationship” in the same context.
As a human relations expert, I am often asked, “Is it possible to have an “ideal relationship / mate?” The desire to have that special someone who compliments, comforts and fulfills us is a fundamental human need. In pursuit of the desire for intimate emotional connection, the primary focus tends to be placed on identifying the qualities that an “ideal mate” must have in order to be acceptable to us.ARTArticleConversations with V! ~ Do You See What I See...Some say "Seeing is believing". The question is, does the accuracy of attentiveness influence perception? In this Conversation with V! you'll receive 8 vision enhancers to sharpen your awareness for greater life abundance.
Do You See What I See...
Have you ever wanted to have a full blown pity party? You know…in those moments when no matter how hard you try, things are just not going your way. In the times when it seems like you are channeling “Badluck Schleprock” (a character from one of the Flintstone cartoon series), a pity party may seem quite apropos.ARTArticleConversations with V! ~ For Greater Success – Much More is Required of You!Globally we are facing tough times. But even in the midst of misery, you can have the confidence in knowing that no matter what happens – you can make it! – you will stand!
In order to stay focused and fruitful during life’s rough spots, it is critical to build an infrastructure that will support you through the storms. There are certain choices that you are going to have to make that will greatly affect your outcome. How you respond to your tough times, will determine how you come out and where you’ll end up.ARTArticleConversations with V! ~ Love - Work It Out!“There is no excess to love” Ralph Emerson
Getting regular exercise is important to our physical and psychological well being. Even though it had been a while since I last exercised, in my desire and determination to continue achieving my fitness goals, I recently started to work out again.
I actually love exercising. I like to perspire. I love the feeling of calories being released from my body through my sweat glands.ARTArticleCrazy People – Crazy RealityStop watching the news! Stop reading newspapers! Indeed, we have to keep up with important developments in the news but, beyond that, normal people wallow in bad news, love discussing bad news and being the first with bad news.ARTArticleCultivating Healthy Relationships In Marriage And Preventing BreakupsTo foster good relationships in marriage, it is important to have forecast. Sometimes when challenges arise in a relationship those who are unable to cope choose the easy way out; and that is to breakup. To avoid this it is important to prepare yourself for the challenges ahead that are bound to rock your marriage.
Whenever problems occur, the attraction and appreciation that was once there in most cases is lost. During these times you may view your partner more of a burden than an asset. However, true love is not mere attraction.ARTArticleCuring Your Own DepressionEven though the effects of depression might be all too real in your life, depression is not real. If you’re suffering from depression, you’re only imagining it because depression is the direct result of your subconscious mind’s obsession with useless thoughts that were impressed upon it during your formative years. I know that this may seem completely unreasonable to anyone who is trapped in the dark by depression – or, indeed, to anyone whose life is deeply affected because a loved one or family member suffers from depression. But it is a psychological fact.ARTArticleDesperate Times Call for... Simple MeasuresFrom talking to clients in various countries, from talking to radio talk-show hosts, from following the latest news it could be said that we live in desperate times. And, as the old saying goes, desperate times call for desperate measures. No they don’t. What people need now is a sharper and clearer understanding of the reality of the here and now, rather than continuously wallowing in the perceived desperation of today’s apparent reality.
My last sentence is a deliberately loaded one. The normal person doesn’t see or experience reality. The normal person perceives their own version of realARTArticleDO BOOKS HAVE A FUTURE?REAL REALITY
I like teaching IELTS (International English Language Testing System) because we deal with current events and practical issues. I also like it because it is a test of English where every aspect of life is analyzed from the point of view of past, present and future. This is a wonderful opportunity to think about how far we have come as a civilization and how far we may progress.
WHAT IS YOUR FUTURE?ARTArticleDO PRAYERS AND BLESSINGS WORK? YES BUT NOT EXACTLY HOW MOST HUMANS WOULD LIKEPeople sometimes ask me to pray for them. I always do. But sometimes they wonder: why did I not pass that exam when you were praying and blessing me. The answer is perhaps that was not to be for you at that particular time. Possibly a greater lesson is needed in your life and that is the lesson of humbleness or the lesson of proper preparation. Or perhaps a greater blessing is on the way. There is an expression: Repetition is the mother of skill, so actually if you enjoy the journey of doing something again you could actually learn and benefit more from your endeavors.ARTArticleDo Self Affirmations Work?Do positive self-affirmations actually work? The short answer is ‘No’ – unless you have a few years to spare and a heavy-duty supply of perseverance. The problem is that self-affirmation is directed at the conscious mind and, unfortunately, your conscious mind has absolutely nothing to do with the way you behave, how you react to people and in situations, how you view the world or, most importantly, the view that you take of yourself.