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*Greg Clowminzer*
For the past 23 years Greg has been both a successful entrepreneur and passionate truth seeker. Today he dedicates his life to helping business with 5 or less employees get crystal clear about what needs to happen next in order to grow their business, increase profits and most importantly have a rewarding personal lif…

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Ahmed El Ibyari
• Ahmed is the coaching partner of Intellect Talent Development Hub “Intellect” in Qatar. Prior to working for Intellect , Ahmed was the founder of Ibyari Coaching Academy in Sweden. • Ahmed is a member of the “American University of NLP” as well as the “American Alliance of Hypnotists”. • Ahmed was an instructor at F…

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Aimee Reese
Aimee Reese has earned the reputation as a dedicated leader in the administrative professional industry. She expanded her horizons by obtaining her certification as a Professional Life Coach. Aimee has been working as an Administrative Professional at the C-Level for over two decades, she has learned the ins and outs…

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Aimee Yawnick

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Aldo Civico
Top mediator George Mitchell (Northern Ireland peace process) called Aldo Civico "one of the most innovative thinkers in the field of conflict resoltuon." Aldo is a conflict resolution practitioner, a certified life coach, an anthropologist and an author. He is the founder and director of the International Institute f…

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Alec Borenstein
Coach Alec has always had a way of understanding other people’s dilemmas, empathizing with them, and crafting workable solutions to ensure successful outcomes. From a very young age, Alec’s friends came to him to explore their most personal issues as he was able to listen and get to the root of their issues almost imm…

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Alex Ihama
My name is Alex Ihama and I am a Certified Speaking Professional and Executive Coach in Canada and the United States of America. In addition to many other roles I play in life, I am also a Management Consultant, Strategic Trainer, and the author of two internationally acclaimed books on personal transformation and exc…

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Alex Lloyd
Writer, and life coach who writes for various websites, including The Happy Hut, Expert Dating for Men and Relationship Help. Author of the book How to be Happy - 100 ways to change your life.

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Alvera Vayzer-Milberg, Ph.D.
I focus on people's thoughts and feelings in order to bring about change in behavior and life. I use a lot of goal setting that is very measurable and I do it in a very humorous ways. I also solve problems in a very natural and spiritual way. I believe in helping people reach their full potential and am very influence…

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Amanda Scocozzo
Amanda's passion and commitment to help people is nothing new. Amanda has had to find ways to keep her head up with limited guidance since her younger years. It began, coming home from nursery school with her mother. They were engaging in conversation, enjoying the day, when suddenly a car came out of nowhere making a…

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Amy Beller
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Amy Todisco
Amy is a catalyst for change for you! Amy is a Build Your Best Life coach and retreat leader. She’s also a nationally recognized green living & wellness expert for about 25+ years. She inspires and supports people in building their unique best life by helping them navigate the complexities of transition, and gain th…
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Ana Sarmiento
He tenido la oportunidad de vivir en 4 países y 3 continentes distintos. Aún cuando esto me ha dado la oportunidad de conocer otras culturas y ampliar mi visión del mundo, también me ha exigido mucho arnla hora de volver a empezar y superar nuevos retos. El haber aprendido a aceptar otras lenguas, normas diferentes a…

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Anastasia Netri
Anastasia Netri is a transformational coach who “doesn’t sugarcoat spirituality and personal growth in fluffy New Age cliches.” She is the author or "Self-Realization for Regular People: No chanting, yoga pants, or hard drugs required" available on amazon. Anastasia's flagship product is the Core Genius Map, the foun…

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Anastasia Pryanikova
Anastasia Pryanikova, M.A., J.D. is a lawyer, linguist, certified coach and the founder of E-Studio, LLC, a coaching and training company that uses neuroscience insights to help individuals and businesses improve communication and performance and effectively navigate conflicts. From a linguist exploring the language…

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Andrea Harvey
Certified Professional Coach and Master Practitioner in Energy Leadership With over 20 years in executive positions in training, development, and coaching of emerging and high potential talent for Fortune 100 companies, I’ve helped people manage through: Career changes (promotions, redefined job responsibilities, do…

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Andrew Davey
With 15 years of experience in the leadership, organizational, and individual development, Andrew brings his extensive knowledge of conflict management, systems, facilitation, and group dynamics to helping individuals, employees and entrepreneurs respond more positively to the difficulties and challenges that life bri…
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Andrew Dix

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Andy Andrews
Hailed by a New York Times writer as a "modern-day Will Rogers who has quietly become one of the most influential people in America," Andy Andrews is an internationally known speaker and novelist whose combined works have sold millions of copies worldwide. He has been received at the White House and has spoken at the…

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Anette Rosenzweig
I was born and raised in Denmark and came to New York City when Irnwas 18. My first encounter with a different culture left me so shockedr I hurried home. Even so the brush with the greater global community had me smitten and soo I was on the road again. Today, after many years ofrnliving in Lyon, France, I am the for…

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Angel True
As founder of True Results Coaching, Angel True believes that it is possible for everyone to live their passions and Create The Results You CRAVE! Angel has over 25 years of experience and training in interpersonal communication, self-transformation, leadership, and community development, 15+ years experience in busin…

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Angela Barnard
Before taking the leap to start my own business I worked in the highly creative Flavor and Fragrance Industry as a Leader and Flavorist. My academic background is Food Technology, Total Quality Management, Business Management, and Coaching. Today as a Life and Business coach, I help my clients tap into their true pa…

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Angela Gordon
ANGELA P GORDON UK based Life Coach is passionate about positive thinking. An in-demand confidence coach and inspirational speaker, motivator and teacher she knows positive thinking can turn lives around. She has also spent the last 14 years researching the secrets of success. A turning point in her life came through…

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Angela Watkins
Book Reviewer, Web Content Provider/Writer/Blogger, Researcher, Sunday School Teacher I review family-friendly, health, business, educational, marketing, financial and christian books. I prefer to review paper back/hard copy books. I will provide Work Shops to secular and religious organizations and religious organi…

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Anil Kaul

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Ann Boland
Who is Ann Boland? Ann is a sought-after Coach, Trainer and Leader in the ever-growing Personal Development, Leadership and Coaching industries. A 's love of the outdoors and her unique, experiential style of leadership bring her work alive. Clients experience powerful, hands on, learning in a fun and down to earth w…

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Anna Aparicio
Anna Aparicio is regarded as Ireland's top female NLP/Hypnosis Specialist Life Coach. Accredited and highly recommended by The Irish Institute of NLP and The Society of NLP, she has trained with the worls'd most renowned authorities in the fields of Neuro-linguistic Programming, Neuro-hypnotic Repatte ing, and person…

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Anna Goldstein
Anna Goldstein is a certified Life and Executive Coach. In 2006, Anna launched, Selfinthecity.com, an on-line lifestyle magazine to give free tips to live your best life now.

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Anne Bruce
Over the years, Anne Bruce has evolved from the best-selling author of several books in the field of human behavior and performance, customer service, leadership, and motivation, to an inspirational force and specialist in human development and personal growth. In her bestseller Discover True North: A 4-Week Approach…

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Anne Vidovich
I received my Master of Arts in Counseling Psychology from Notre Dame de Namur University in Belmont, Califo ia. It is here that my mission in life became making a difference in the lives of communities, families, parents, and children. I have worked as a group facilitator, family and child counselor, program coordina…

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Anne Wondra
Anne Wondra is in the life-enjoyment business. She is a life / wellness coach, creative muse, and workshop leader on life skills, like personal path finding, confidence, whole-life whole-person wellness, help from the hiring desk, and healthy relationships. Anne has a passion to empower and bring out all that is good…

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Annette Perez
After 23 years of learning from Anthony Robbins and being awarded scholarships to 2 of his live events I am very well versed in NLP and have much success with hypnosis. I am also in the frontier class of the new Coach training from RMT (Robbins Madanes Technologies) specializing in Strategic Intervention (the ability…

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Antonis Remoundos
Life coaching has first of all improved my own life. It helped me see what had stopped me each time I was in front of success, what programs from childhood were working when as children we had learned to give priority to grown-ups and suppress our natural mobility and curiosity to know and to conquer the world. I als…

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April Mims
I am passionate about helping people achieve their ideal work life balance. As a mother, student, wife, employee, Girl Scout leader, etc., I often found it difficult to manage everything. At one point in my life, I had a husband, three young children, was in graduate school, worked 50-60 hours a week, led a Girl Scout…
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Aurelia Williams
Aurelia Williams resides in Washington, D.C. with her husband, three children, and younger brother. As a certified life coach who received her Personal Life Coaching Certification from Coach Training Alliance and is accredited by the International Coach Federation, Aurelia feels truly blessed to be given the opportun…

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Awais Asif
My Life Coaching strategy is very simple... Ask Productive Questions! Because I believe some questions lead to answers but others lead to confusions. I also strongly believe that you have every solution already within you, it just needs to be brought up somehow and we can do that together. I can proudly be your assist…

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ayo olaniyan
My name is Ayo Olaniyan. I have been involved in coaching and personal development for over seven years. I am a certified Unitive™ Life Coach, having completed an Advanced Postgraduate Level tutorial in Unitive Coaching with the foremost UK Life Coach Charles Bentley PhD. I am currently studying for a Post Graduate…

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Barbara Wainwright
Barbara Wainwright -Co-Founder and President of Coaches Institute International and Best of Coaching www.CoachesInstitute.com www.BestOfCoaching.com (800)506-9479 Coaches Institute International is dedicated to providing the finest in life coach training to passionate individuals who are committed to making a pos…

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Barry Grimes
My name is Barry Grimes, I'm a Certified Life Optimization Coach and author behind The Personalized Life Blog, creator of the Optimize Your Life Course, Life Optimization after 50 and owner of Optimized Life Resources and Personalization Sensation. I enjoy traveling, spending time with my family, learning, creating p…

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Becky Richardson
Becky Richardson is a Certified Life Coach with a passion for teaching teen girls that they matter, they are lovable, they are magical and that they make a difference in the lives of those with whom they connect. Becky is also passionate about assisting parents of teen girls as they navigate the adolescent challenges…

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Bercedeh Stark
Bercedeh Stark Arasteh is a workshop leader, a transition coach, and a parenting teenagers coach. She empowers her international and local clients to reach their full potential when faced with a number of transition phases in their professional and private lives. She supports her clients to make best choices, powerful…

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Beth Peterson
Beth is a writer, vision facilitator and life coach. Her focus is on communicating about the ideas, attitudes, ways of being and ways of seeing that can help us to live more socially just, environmentally sound and spiritually fulfilling lives. Beth is partner in creative enterprise, h-u-m-a-n, http://www.h-u-m-a-n.ne…

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Beverlee Garb
As a body-centered life coach, Beverlee began to notice that our very early memories, many of which are experienced as traumatic by our young selves, are stored in our cellular memories. These memories, if not given expression, begin to vibrate out into the world and attract specific circumstances, situations and peop…

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Beverleigh H Piepers
From a very young age my caring, nursing instincts were obvious ... they even extended to caring for our neighbor's cat. My mother was, to say the least, horrified to find I had tossed my dolls out of their pram and placed a bandaged cat in their place. I must say the cat enjoyed being wheeled around, as he made no ef…

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Beverly Ventura
Beverly Ventura is a licensed Psychotherapist and Life Coach. Her background combines her extensive business background with her education and training in Psychology. She has worked in many different psychological settings in her career. As a Psychotherapist and Life Coach, she uses a combination of Solution Focused,…

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Biancia Tate
My name is Biancia Tate and I reside with my husband John in Lynchburg Virginia. My husband and I are the founders of the Hope Network, Inc/Hope Empowerment Evangelistic Worship Center which is an online ministry that provides spiritual support, hope and healing to survivors of trauma and/or crisis. We provide a Traum…

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Bill Nelson
Bill Nelson is an elite international sporting coach who has turnedhis knowledge of developing peak team and individual performance into aworld-class corporate consultancy, Total Performance Concepts Pty Ltd. Bill’s wisdom on the science of motivation, performance coaching andteam building has been utilised by busine…

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Bob Proctor
Bob Proctor is a lecturer, counselor, business consultant, and teacher, who explains how people can recognize their potential and achieve their goals in life. For 40 years, he has helped create lives of prosperity, rewarding relationships, and spiritual awareness. Born in northern Ontario, Bob stresses the ideas of po…

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Bobbie Baker

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Bonnie Collins
Bonnie holds a B.S.S. Degree in Psychology, and an M.P.A. in Public Administration. Her two years of coaching education are through Mentorcoach, a coaching school accredited by the International Coaching Federation (ICF). Her prior 26 years of combined experience in Mental Health, Vocational Rehabilitation Counseling…

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Bradley Foster
Over the past twenty years I have worked as a consultant and communication specialist for fortune 500 companies. After a stint at the Ontario College ofr Art and Columbia University, I collected degrees from, McGill University and the University of Toronto. I have taken and led a wide variety of business courses from…

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Brandon Melanson

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Brenda Boudreau

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Brenda Schinke
Brenda Schinke, a Master Elite Coach, was first introduced to the power of Life Coaching in 1993 when the curiosity of watching people walk on fire drew her to a local seminar to take a peek. What she quickly realized as she watched determined participants rushing back tornthe presentation after just a quick break, wa…

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Brian Allen
I have a vast experience in making changes in my own life and that’s why I will be able to help you in yours because I have been where you are now.

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Brian Brody
I am a (PCC) certified personal, business, career and executive coach who has been successfully helping professionally for over 25 years. I am the President of Ascend Coaching, an international author, psychologist and national speaker who was featured on CBS EVENING NEWS, NBC NEWS, INSIDE EDITION and many others. Wh…

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Brian Piergrossi
Father, friend, author, speaker, life coach, musician, singer, comedian, entrepreneur, and spiritual teacher. At the age of 20 years old, Brian was suddenly struck by a mysterious, debilitating illness, later labeled chronic fatigue syndrome, that lasted for years, leaving him in intense, daily, physical pain and t…

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Brian Reid

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Bridget Washington
Infused with radical Inspiration, Bridget Washington is a highly empowered life coach, writer, and speaker whose razor sharp direction, positive mental infiltration, and Godly edification will have you moving from the edge of the ordinary and plunging into the extraordinary life that God has ordained for you. Her ser…

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Brook Montagna
Brook Montagna, Life Coach, specializes in coaching individuals and groups to deepen their experience in life, to live boldly, and to manifest personal and professional success. Brook's coaching is grounded in mindfulness and helps clients develop focus, awareness, acceptance, peace and joy. Through Brook's coaching,…

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Bruce Mills
Hi, My name is Bruce Mills and I am the creator of Mills Way. I am a Life Coach, Motivational Speaker and Author. I have a passion for helping others. I started the MillsWay.com in the hopes of helping others live a happier life. My dad inspired me to create the Mills Way. He lead a life that anyone would be proud of.…

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Bruno LoGreco
Master Life Coach Bruno LoGreco has been empowering men and women since 2000 when he first began to apply his natural gifts for motivation and mentoring to helping others learn how to live happier and healthier lives. His education and the knowledge he fostered from his own personal quest for balance and healthy livin…

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Camille Scielzi
Camille Scielzi believes in Living Life Out Loud! Camille Scielzi grew up believing herself to be shy and introverted and always was a People Pleaser, often subverting her own beliefs to please others. Through self exploration, introspection, and behavior change, she now has lives an extroverted, self expressive life…
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Candido Trujillo
I specialize in helping people overcome stress, anxiety, fears, worries, perfectionism, shyness, mental blocks and obstacles to success and performance excellence. I work with students, professionals, performing artists, creative artists, athletes, and writers. I work with you to achieve your goals with respect, under…

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Capri Cruz
Being a life coach for the last ten years has allowed me to assist people with a range of situations, problems, and experiences to help create new direction in their lives. The primary contributing factors to great life coaching is having an understanding why our lives become what they do and how to change those aspec…

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Carl Bruggemeier
"There is no substitute for goal setting, planning, preparation and the continual pursuit of excellence in your life." - Carl A. Bruggemeier Communicator, Educator, Entrepreneur & Life Coach/Mentor Carl Bruggemeier - Mr. "B" - was born in 1950, raised and educated in the Midwest; he is the son of career military o…

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Carl Massy
Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInte etExplorer4 Carl Massy is the author of The Guidebook to Happiness and Founder of WorldsBIGGESTGym™, a dynamic personal development and life coaching company, that specialises in helping individual and corporate clients across the globe raise their default levels of health, ha…

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Carlo Camilli
Coach, consultant and trainer. I love helping individuals and organizations in setting and achieving their goals or in removing those blocks that prevent them from reaching what matters most in their lives. To achieve these results, I enjoy searching continuously for the most effective and efficient change models. T…

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CAROL SIMEONE DIP.LC (INST.LC) DIP.NLP
CREDENTIALS Diploma in Life Coaching with Merit. Approved and Certified Coach. Member of The Life Coaching Institute. Counselling Skills with Centra. N.O.C.N Certificate of Mentoring Skills with Sova. Certificate of Preparation Skills with Home Start, Helping Families Under Stress. N.O.C.N. A levels with Merit in Psy…

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Caron MacLane
Connector I thrive on connection and challenge. Connection with you and the opportunity to guide you through your challenges to your dreams. That is what makes jump out of bed in the morning. The opportunity to assist in moving you. Growing you. Opening you. And then watching you unfold. Teacher Teaching is part of…

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Carrie Fleharty
Carrie Fleharty by day is a mild mannered school librarian, but at night she's a word junkie. She is now a Personal Life coach, and Associate Editor of www.success.bz She intends to keep improving her life, and keeps challenging herself to become a better person. She thoroughly enjoys expressing herself through the wr…

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Carrol Roberts-Harrison
I am now doing coaching and presenting Seminars. See upcoming events. Body language in the business context; building rapport; and emotional intelligence. Corporate wellness is another passion. Working in a Company with 1000+ employees, it is extremely challenging and rewarding. We have just been voted the healthiest…

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Catherine Billam
Life Coaching can help you to achieve your goals and dreams and find greater fulfilment. Whether it is your career, your work-life balance, your relationships, your creativity or your deepest dreams, Catherine Billam will challenge and support you to take the steps you need to change your life. Catherine has been hel…
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Catherine Richardson, Ph.D.
What would make a corporate atto ey abandon all her professional training and previous ambitions to seek spiritual truth? Nearly dying might be a good enough reason…. Catherine Richardson is a former corporate atto ey who spiritually awakened following a near death experience. She found herself profoundly changed, an…

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Cecile Peterkin
Cecile Peterkin Career Coach. Career Mentor. Speaker Cecile Peterkin, a charismatic and inspiring woman is the founder and president of Cosmic Coaching Centre and ProMentoring Inc. Cecile has over 25 years training and experience in career and leadership coaching, mentoring, empowerment counseling, train-the-trainer…

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Celeste Davis
Celeste & Phil Davis own and operate The Wellness Workshop in Middle Tennessee, U.S. They specialize in coaching men, women, couples and families into a whole foods lifestyle. Their detox program, Give Your Body A Break also teaches time management, whole food and organic food information, and the effects food has on…

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Charity Limula
Born in Chipata Zambia (Africa) Raised in Lusaka the capital city of Zambia. After graduating from high school Went on to do advanced level in Nairobi, Kenya for two years then applied to a University in the United States to study Psychology. Enrolled in the Criminal Justice program, studied forensic Psychology. Duri…

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Charles Bentley
My Unitive™ approach to personal and professional life coaching has evolved as a result of many years experience in the field of human potential. After graduating as a pharmaceutical chemist at King's College in the University of London and registration as a member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, my subsequent re…

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Charles King
Charles king has had a varied and interesting career. He began his career as a US Army Artillery officer where he served for eleven years. His assignments ranged from Guided Missile Instructor at the prestigious Air Defense School at Fort Bliss, TX to Commanding officer and staff officer of the Army's longest range su…

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Charlie Moore
I am a Life Coach and Master Trainer with Fagan and Associates. I bring 35 years of experience with Sales Management and Business, I also have mentored people through The Neothink Society. I co-host 3 National Calls a week in the Soceity and I am one of 14 Mentors with Neothink. You will find me to be one to get to t…

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Cher Till
Hello everyone, My name is Cheryl Till, but everyone usually calls me Cher.I have a PhD in Philosophy, have been certified as a Master Life Coach, which means I teach Life coaching and certification. I also have studied Raw/ Vegan thru Dr. A Wigmore studies, and use my 27 years in the restaurant business as a chef an…

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CHERIE Scheurich
Cherie has a Ph.D. in Holistic Ministries (Spirituality), MA in Psychology, BA in Education, AA in Speech/Theater as well as numerous other diverse topics of study ranging from Marketing to Animal psychology, health and wellness, and training. Cherie draws from her diverse background to create articles with the goal o…

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Cheryl Gowin
Cheryl Eastlund-Gowin is a Life Coach. This is a second career for Cheryl; prior to moving into the counseling arena, she held an executive-level management position in corporate America. Cheryl has always enjoyed teaching and helping people. She brings life experience to individuals, couples and families as they str…

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Christina Brandt
Christina Brandt is a Master Certified Coach as well as a former human resources executive with experience in a variety of industries, in both large corporations and startups. She’s helped hundreds of people to determine their passions, strengths and marketable skills, and coached them through the process of defining…

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Christine Beardmore
Christine Beardmore is a licensed psychotherapist, relationship expert and Inspired Life Coach. She specializes in helping people in transition, especially those over 40, to make life changes that are truly life changing. Additionally, she is president and founder of the Inspire Children Foundation. She heads a team…

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Christine Laureano
Take Your Life from ordinary to Extraordinary! As a Mentor/Coach I collaborate with inspired and motivated women entrepreneurs who are ready to turn their unique talents into GOLD! What does that mean? Are you tired of feeling as if "they" have something you don't? I'm here to tell you that yes, "they" have IT. I hav…
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Christine Matthews
Mrs. Christine Matthews has been in the profession of helping others achieve their optimal potential in life for 9+ years. At Never Journey Alone Life Coaching Practice, she specializes in Personal Wellness coaching, where she motivates and encourages people challenged by life-changing circumstances. She educates and…

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Christoph Ebert
Welcome to the philosophy and practice of realize2actualize, dedicated to the exploration and pratical application of wisdom. My purpose as facilitator of learning is to guide my clients in the awa ess of how to learn the lessons contained in all of experience.
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Christophe Horvath
Christophe Horvath (BE/HU) is a highly enthusiastic, energetic and engaged social entrepreneur based in the Warm Heart of Africa. He works both as Primeast Southern Africa Consultant with organisations, and as Greater Life Coach with individual clients, in Malawi and the Southern Africa region. He has a strong passion…

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Christopher Edgar
Chris Edgar is an author, speaker and personal coach who helps professionals find productivity and satisfaction in their work using mindfulness and spiritual practices. Chris's book, Inner Productivity: A Mindful Path to Efficiency and Enjoyment in Your Work, is packed with exercises for developing focus and motivatio…

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Chuck Jennings
www.life-coach-chuck.com I have over thirty years professional experience focusing, mentoring, and motivating adults in their personal life transitions. I have forty years experience as a university professor and administrator. In the last five years, I committed my professional life specifically to life coaching, he…
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Cindy Powers Prosor
Cindy Prosor, a Spiritual Awakening Guidess, is a writer, teacher, speaker, entrepreneur and expert inner-peace coach. As a transformational leader, Cindy works with awakening women who are motivated to change their world from the inside out. Through her private and group mentoring and life-coaching programs, she guid…

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Cleopatra Jade
Hello, my name is Cleopatra Jade I am an Intuitive Relationship and Dating Expert specializing in advice that can assist you by fixing the areas of your love life that you are having trouble in and help you work on stagnant emotions, plus other areas that need attention. My goal is to show you how to get results so y…

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Clint Pearman
Clint Pearman, has been in the business of helping others achieve more success and and peace of mind in their lives since 1988. As the CEO/President of the Synergistic Coaching Solution, a life strategies coaching company, he provided coaching solutions to over 600 people. He has worked with some of the worlds leadin…

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Coach Rita
I am a Law of Attraction Coach, Meditation Coach, Energy Healer, Nutrition and Fitness Coach and Author based in the UK. I have been coaching for over 14 years. I love helping people move forward and discover the magic within them. I work with clients all over the world via Skype, telephone and face to face.

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Coaches 4 Success, Inc.
We are a pair of coaches with successful backgrounds in law, psychology, business, real estate, meditation, mindfulness, writing, entertainment, and fitness, fulfilling our other passion: ‘life coaching’. We are here to help you discover, explore or fulfill your life passion and purpose through life coaching. As such…

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Corinna Bowers
I currently live in beautiful rural middle Tennessee with my husband, three children, dogs, cat, goats, chickens, anad mini donkey. I earned both my BA in Communication and my MS in Counseling from Northern Illinois University. Prior to coaching I worked at a non-profit as a therapist counseling families, adults, an…

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Crystal Dwyer
Crystal is an author, speaker and highly skilled practitioner of Transformational Life Coaching. She graduated from Southwest Institute of Healing Arts in the fields of Hypnotherapy and Life Coaching and is Board Certified. She is an expert practitioner of EFT and NLP. She has studied with masters of the healing arts,…

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Crystal Moon Galen
I have been helping people live happier, healthier more rewarding and satifying lives for over 18 years. I have my masters in psychology and I have studied NLP, Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT), EMDR, energy psychology, Mindfulness and a host of other techniques that will get the fastest results possible for my clie…
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Daniela Bumann, Liberator
Hi, I`m Daniela! I`m a liberator, and I`m a Swiss entrepreneur with an adventurous positive spirit, dedicated to helping you become your BEST self.- Passionate entrepreneur, life-time learner and self-starter since 1993 (immigrated to USA in 1989)- In-depth life-long study in the areas of Positive Psychology, - Winner…

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Danielle MacKinnon
Soul Contract Intuitive, Animal Intuitive and Intuitive Coach, Danielle MacKinnon was recently named one of Bob Olson’s “Top 10 Best Psychic Mediums.” Using Soul Contracts as a foundation, Danielle offers a fresh perspective on breaking through blocks, managing relationships, developing intuition, spiritual growth, wo…

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Darby Barclay
Darby Barclay brings a unique blend of training and life experience to the world of coaching. Darby’s clients refer him to their friends, family, and colleagues as a leader who embodies the work of transformation and what is possible. Darby inspires his clients to breakthrough results in their businesses, relationship…
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Daria Verjans
Hi, I'm Daria – In my experience as a Life Coach, I have helped people tune into their core values, discover the career they really want, adjust to a new phase of life (like empty-nesters), improve their relationships and follow their happiness. I am a qualified Life Coach and a Master Practitioner of NLP. My interest…

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Darrin Wiggins
Darrin has been in the business of managing and coaching others for the past eighteen years. Almost a decade of that was being a manager and goal coach at lululemon athletica. Being guided and trained by people like billionaire Chip Wilson and inspirational people like Susanne Conrad pushes you to be better than great…

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Darryl Kenebrew
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David Bohl
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David Bonham-Carter

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David Krueger MD
David Krueger, M.D. is an Executive Mentor Coach, and CEO of MentorPath, an executive coaching firm to help professionals and executives write the next chapter of their life or business stories. His approach integrates the insights of psychology, neuroscience, and professional coaching to help clients move to new leve…

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David Mashbu
David Mashburn, M.Ed. has 25 years of combined counseling, coaching and teaching experience in the public school, university, hospital and private settings. In 1995, David earned a Master of Education in Counseling from Georgia State University and completed 2 more years of additional Post-Graduate Studies in Counseli…

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David Rude
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Debbie Dobbins
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Debbie Dodge
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Debbie Miles
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Debo Ogunrinde
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Deborah Hill
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Deepak Lodhia
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Dianna Good
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Dieter Pauwels
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Donald Gerard
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Donna Barnes
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Dr. Bess Permut
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Enzo Mucci
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Jessica McGregor Johnson
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Joanie Winberg
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Julie Melillo
Julie Melillo is a certified Life Coach based in Manhattan.She graduated from the Transformational Life Coaching Program at TheSouthwest Institute of Healing Arts in Tempe, Arizona. This certification program is accredited by the Arizona State Board forPrivate Postsecondary Education and the Accrediting Council forCon…

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Justin Mazza
Justin C Mazza is a personal development expert who has studied self-improvement for over fourteen years. He has read over 700 books pertaining to personal development, health and nutrition and metaphysical studies. Justin is also the owner of Mazzastick.com a website dedicated to personal development and achievement.

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Karen Donald
Karen L. Donald is truly a woman of personal victory. Overcoming battles of abuse, addiction and trauma, she is rising up as one of the most demanded speakers in the United States. As an established entrepreneur, she founded Karen Donald Ministries and Donald and Associates. As a trainer, International speaker and 20…

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Karen Fagan
Karen is a Master Certified Life Coach, trained by New York Times best selling author Martha Beck. Karen lives in Portland Maine and coaches clients throughout the country. She coaches people to awaken to the life they are meant to be living. Removing emotional clutter, providing clarity and creating Powerful Personal…

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Karen Mayfield
Karen Mayfield Karen is a CTA certified coach, Doctor of Metaphysics , creator of the Peace of Mind Principles online Coaching program and personal growth seminars, co-author in the Wake up Live the life you love best selling book series, and co-creator in the Wake up Women book series. Karen is also the former foun…

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Karen Parsons
For the past 25 years, Karen has helped thousands of successful, high-level professionals in hundreds of corporations. She has condensed decades of knowledge into her training and coaching programs, workshops, presentations and keynote speeches. “You cannot solve a problem from the same consciousness that created it.…

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Kate Bares-Cochrun
I love my work in this world. I love witnessing the unfolding and awakening of a Soul. The transformation that remembering ignites. I live to see the light come back into the eyes, filling from that deep, down place where self-worth has been uncorked! It makes my feet hit the floor in a happy dance when someone wants…

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Kate Siner
Dr. Kate, a Ph.D psychologist, provides world-class training in entrepreneurial and personal development for value-driven entrepreneurs and individuals who want to build a generative, highly profitable business that has a positive impact on the world as well as leads to a fulfilled life. Dr. Kate's clients come from a…

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Kathy Butler
Kathy combines her years of experience working with individuals and groups from differing socioeconomic backgrounds with a psychology background. (psychology degree) She spent many years in social worker type positions before discovering her love for Coaching. Kathy has trained with highly regarded organizations incl…

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Kathy Nelson
It was in her thirties and after a divorce when Kathy Nelson went to work at Nordstrom’s in Seattle. As a single mother in retail, she struggled financially living month to month. When she was introduced to the lessons of Rev. Terry Cole Whittaker, she awakened to the creative power within her and reclaimed the direct…

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Kathy Pike is the founder of the Mind Body Method (MBM), published author, speaker, coach trainer, leader in the field of Equine Facilitated Learning, and life coach, she brings over 15 years experience in the field of human development and personal growth. Her professional training courses include the MBM, a coach tr…

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Kathy Wilson
Life Purpose Coach, vibrational healer, spiritual teacher, author, Reiki Seichim Master... I am a multi-faceted, ever changing, always growing, eclectic conglomeration of a human being. Learning, and then teaching what I've learned, is my purpose this lifetime. It's more than my passion. It's what I live for. For me,…

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Keith Bray
Keith Bray is a Partner/Coach with Lindsay,Ontario based Coached To Success and Hope & Serenity-a division of Keith Bray Associates (1990). As well as completing university, Keith is certified as a Life and Addictions Coach and recieved master accreditation in 2010. Coached To Success and Hope & Serenity, two differe…

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Keith Jones
Keith L. Jones is a Life Improvement Coach and helps people achieve incredible success in all areas of their life... but especially with their relationships and wealth. Is there an area in your life you'd like to improve? Are you frustrated with your lack of success? Do you feel unfulfilled or unloved? Do you want…

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Ken Stofft, MA, CSB
Ken Stofft, MA, CSB has over twenty years experience in men's work, both mind and body, assisting men to embody their sexuality mindfully. His Somatic Coaching approach is a unique combination of verbal coaching, probing questioning, empathic listening, and bodywork based on touch, sound, movement, breath. Ken coache…

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Kenneth Brown
As clear as the call of a herald, is the voice of Ken Brown in this age of mediocrity. His message of hope, delivered across this nation, serves to propel the small and the great alike to pursue a new level of accomplishment. Infecting and empowering by words shared in due season, Ken’s insight and fervor engages all…

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Kerrie Hawkins
The world is an amazing place, with such diversity and cultures to explore and embrace. We should strive to make every moment count and to soak up the wisdom of others. Opportunity is all around us - from new careers, finding our work/life balance, or embracing our dreams and challenges and coming out strong, indepen…

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Kim Smith
Kim Smith is a Life Coach who is motivated by the burning desire to learn and master the skills for living a great life, so that he can in turn share that knowledge and wisdom with others who wish to do the same. He is positive, outgoing, warm and caring and his knowledge, expertise, and experience allow him to help…

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Kimberly Salvati
I guide and facilitate the growth of others through connection, conversation and providing recommendations on resources to move you further, faster!
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Kris Cavanaugh
Kris Cavanaugh provides coaching services to business owners and senior management who are feeling stuck or overwhelmed in their personal or professional life take back control by learning to become C.E.O. of their ENTIRE life. Unlike most Coaches, Kris employs a very business-like, strategic planning approach and str…

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Krista Roesler
Krista Roesler is professionally trained by the Adler Institute Toronto/OISE (U of T), a member of the International Coaching Federation and holds a degree in Psychology from the University of Toronto.
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Kristen Lauter
Founder of Holistic Healers Academy after truimphing through mercury amalgam syndrome and working for several dental training institutes who train internaionally. I teach enlightenment principles on subjects such as Law of Attraction and am a Certified Holistic Health Practitioner, offer accredited Holistic Health Pra…

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LaTalya Palmer
LaTalya Palmer, The Women’s #1 Life Design Expert and Founder of Phoenix Rising Success Coaching and Training-helps women who are transitioning in relationships and career use their feminine power to recover and thrive successfully after setbacks. LaTalya is a Life Coach, Trainer and Speaker. She is also a mom of 4 a…

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Laura Pickering
Veteran teacher, parent, grandparent, and mentor articulates specific, doable strategies honed over 40 years to bring out the best in others. Laura reveals the missing piece: teachers, parents, managers, receive NO TRAINING on how to mentor to inspire others to do their best. Laura was born the eldest of 4 children t…

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Laurel Vespi
Laurel Vespi is the creative energy behind stone circle coaching. Known for her bold, funky and creative style, Laurel partners with people who are ready to make something different happen in their lives or businesses. Not just talk about it, but take action to really create change. Laurel's areas of expertise includ…

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Laurie Geary
As a Personal and Professional Coach Laurie draws upon her (over 25) years of experience as a teacher, trainer, and author. She has led workshops and written extensively on Responsible Risk-Taking and Self Esteem Building having developed her own unique systems: Building Self Esteem with the 8-A System and Taking Resp…
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Leah Mazzola
Owner & Certified Professional Life Coach at Snug Agency: Life Coaching & Consulting. Founder & Facilitator of Youth Coaching Institute, LLC, a science-based life coach specific training organization for social change agents working with at-risk and high-risk youth. Founder, President, CEO, & CSO of Center for Juvenil…

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Lee Mickler-Creech
As the founder and C.E.O. of New Millennium Consulting T.I.A. International LLC (letustu itaround), Lee has spent the last twenty five years developing, starting and growing businesses. Structuring companies and building sales and marketing teams that bring tangible results to his companies and his client’s companies…

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Leo Richard
Naïve Optimist. Spiritual Strategist. 15+ Years Mysticism Meditation Teacher. Writer. Hi! My name is Leo. I am just slightly partial to improving the quality of life on planet earth. Born a highly intuitive person, I have learned to use these abilities in a lifelong spiritual journey for inner and global peace. Imag…

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Leslie Gail
Leslie Gail is a Certified Life Coach, Board Certified Health Coach and owner of New Life Focus Coaching. Leslie received her certification from Coach Training Alliance, along with a psychology degree from the University of Puget Sound. She is also certified from the Institute of Integrative Nutrition in New York City…
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Leslie Saul
Are you facing obstacles in your personal or professional life or relationships? Can you imagine living the life you have always dreamed? The time is NOW to become the master of your own identity. WELCOME TO YOURSELF! We all live in two worlds, the exte al and the internal. Although we can influence the exte al worl…

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Liisa Kyle
Liisa Kyle, Ph.D. is the go-to coach for smart, creative people who want to overcome challenges, get organized, get things done and get more out of life (www.LiisaKyle.com, www.CoachingForCreativePeople.com). Liisa Kyle is also an internationally published writer/editor/photographer who has written books about - mak…

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Linda Furiate
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Linda Luke
Linda Luke is a Life Coach with multiple certifications who has been helping people live their best lives since 2003. She has over 25 years experience in small business management and the dental field. Her unique combination of skills and experience are ideal for supporting individuals and small business leaders in cr…

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Lisa Boudreaux
I recieved my Ph.D. in psychology from The Chicago School of Professional Psychology in 1993, The Chicago School of Professional Psychology is the oldest and largest graduate university focused exclusively on psychology and behavioral science. From there I became interested in business and life coaching and attended T…

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Lisa Corkum
As the founder of Savvyvitality.com, Lisa Corkum provides proven strategies for personal development and coaching that will help you improve all areas of life, whether it’s weight management, well-being or purpose, starting where you are right now, today, without frustration and restriction. Along with Professional C…

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Lisa Lagerbom
I have been helping people understand themselves and the "ways of life" for about 15 years. I truly believe that everyone is more capable than they give themselves credit for. It is my life's passion to help people reach out for their goals, and then watch as they achieve them. Self-empowerment is one of the biggest t…

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Lisa Martin
Lisa Martin is “The Working Mother’s Coach” n nLisa Martin is a certified coach who inspires working mothers to know what they want and get what they want. n nAuthor of Briefcase Moms, 10 Proven Practices to Balance Working Mothers’ Lives, Lisa is a sought-after expert and speaker on work-life balance issues. She…

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Lizelle Le Roux
My Passion is getting to the Core of Self Sabotaging behaviours, and assist clients to release them, to free themselves to take action towards their goals. I am a Diploma Qualified Coach and Holistic Counsellor. I have self studied numerous books, courses, workshops and online knowledge bases over the past 10 years o…

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Lori Hamann
Lori Hamann, MSE, has been a life coach since 1997, empowering and inspiring others to personally evolve and create abundance in their lives. As president of Evolve Life Coaching, her mission and purpose is simply to raise people's consciousness so they may experience joyful living at its best. In her practice she us…

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Lori Lynn Smith
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Lori Radun
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Lorraine Edey
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Louise Hawkley
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Lyndra Antonson
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Lynette Crane
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Lynn Browne
"Transform Your Life on Your Own Terms!" Hi, I'm Lynn Browne - Reinvention Rebel, Certified Professional Life Coach and owner of Dragonfly Coaching Services. My mission is to help other women to transform their lives and reinvent themselves on their own terms. In so doing finding their life's purpose and living bala…

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Lynn Moore
About Coach Lynn The school bell rang at the moment I drew breath. And I have been and will be in class until I skip over to the Other Side and expel my final breath. And what a ride it has been so far! Who Is Lynn? The eldest of three siblings, the 2 younger, while in childhood, preferring the word "bossy" to "coa…

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Mandy Evans
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Manoj Roy
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Marcelina Hardy
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Marcia Bloomberg
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Margaret Hall
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Marianne Korten
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Marie Elena Rigo
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Marie Kirkland
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Marielys Camacho-Reyes
My name is Marielys Camacho-Reyes. I am a career and personal coach with over 10 years of experience in the human resources field working for the Department of Defense as well as the Department of State. These working experiences along with my educational background in psychology has given me the necessary tools to gu…
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Marilyn Stannett
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Marion Franklin
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Marjorie Geiser
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Mark Edgar Stephens
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Mark Howard
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Mark Susnow
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Mark Ward
When Mark was five, his parents caught him using his middle finger. In his defense, he argued that it was HIS middle finger and it could mean whatever he wanted it to (why should he subscribe to the definition of the masses?). It was clear to all that, like it or not, that a provocateur was born. Now, Mark has dedica…

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Marlene Gonzalez
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Marquita Thompson
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Martha Beck
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Martha Dawson
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Mary Halima Fleming
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Matt Rose
I am being guided down a path to be a Law Of Attraction Coach. Our main site is http://www.lawofattractioncoaching.net , I also am a professional SEO. My main site for that is http://www.oregonwebsolutions.com . I have been so fortunate to have been trained by some of the best in the world in both fields and look to s…

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Matthew Ferry
I am a revealer, illuminator & awakener. I use audio books, videos and coaching to present a point of view that creates instant transformation in peoples lives. My unorthodox approach has inspired thousands of people to seek happiness and peace while on their journey towards living a successful life. My in your face,…

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Melinda Be stein
Since 1986, Melinda Be stein has been a devout student of many forms of holistic healing and found spiritual meaning to life in 1992 when Hurricane Andrew destroyed her family home. As a mother, former wife, bookkeeper & former co-owner of a rare coin & jewelry business, Melinda and her family relocated to an orthodox…

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Melinda Sorensson
Melinda is a life coach who practices in Lafayette, Louisiana, USA. Melinda earned a Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the University of Hawaii at Manoa, is a published author, and taught as a university professor prior to becoming a Life Coach. Melinda is an Avatar® Master, and a Certified Life Coach. Melinda's clients rang…

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Melissa Cantrelle
I have always wanted to change things: to upgrade them into something better. That’s why I originally chose life coaching as a career: to help people upgrade the parts of their lives they didn’t like into something they preferred. I Was A Frustrated Life Coach For years I have tried many different ways to empower my…

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Melissa Magnus
I am Melissa Magnus, a busy mother with 4 children. I am also a certified Life Coach and NLP Practitioner. My mission is to help mothers to find their Purpose, and achieve their goals, while juggling their children and busy life. Also for her to feel fulfilled and enjoy her journey. The start of my journey as a mother…

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Melissa McCreery
Melissa McCreery, PhD, ACC, is a Psychologist, Internationally Certified Life Coach, and the founder of Too Much On Her Plate (http://www.TooMuchOnHerPlate.com), a company dedicated to helping women worldwide achieve their goals with health, weight and emotional eating. She specializes in helping smart savvy women who…

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Mhairi Gordon-Preston
You are in the right place if you're a professional woman and you: 1. want to get out of your job as soon as you can 2. are conce ed you won’t get other jobs because your current career is the only thing you're qualified to do 3. would like to do something you enjoy more, but you're worried you can't make as much mone…

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Mia Redrick
“My mother said to me when I had my son that being a mother is what you do — not who you are.“ — Mia Redrick Mia Redrick is the President and Founder of Finding Definitions, LLC. Finding Definitions, LLC, empowers busy moms to balance the rigors of parenting while providing them with essential tools for a mother’s pe…
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Michele Wahlder
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Michelle Bianco
"We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.”" -Tony Robbins Great quote!! Doing it is another story. I can tell you that words like this were foreign to me at one point in my life. And it is at that point in your life that you make a decision to either live your life in the past or live yo…
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Michelle Stimpson
LifeShine® is a leader in women’s personal & professional development since 2003 and the go-to source for women who are ready to make a positive change in their life. Owner and founder, Michelle Stimpson is an experienced Life Coach and trusted guide in the journey of joyful living, known for inspiring women to find…

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Michelle Weimer
Michelle Weimer is a personal transformation and success coach, with 25 years of experience in the self-growth industry. She specializes in creating awareness, teaching mindset mastery and empowering individuals who are fed up with being stuck in their current life situation so that they can achieve the lives they des…

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Mindie Kniss
As a coach, author, adventurer, dreamer and achiever, Mindie Kniss is living proof that even the biggest dreams are not just possible, they are DOABLE. Mindie began her own transformational journey in the year 2000, when she earned her Bachelor's Degree in Theology and worked for a Fortune 100 company. In 2006 she was…

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Mitchell Dahood
Mitchell Dahood, M.A. is the Founder of The Champions Heart, and has a Masters Degree in Spiritual Psychology, as well as certifications in Clinical Hypnotherpay & Therapuetic Imagery Facilitation. Mitchell specializes in empowering people around the world to free themselves from the limiting beliefs of their mind so…

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Monica J. Foster
Monica is known as The Life Beyond Limits Coach®. A vibrant amputee on wheels, she is a believe in living a life beyond limits, regardless of life's challenges. Specializing in working with people with disabilities, she is a certified Life, Life Purpose and Career Coach. She is also a Certified Vision Board Coach and…

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Monica Magnetti
Monica Magnetti is a professional Life / Business and Wellness Coach who works with people as they create balance and purpose in their lives and consciously make the choice to fully embrace their powerful selves. She supports individuals as they become the leaders of their own lives and take the steps necessary to lea…

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Moses A. Ojute
Moses A. Ojute, author of the best-selling book, "How to discover your divine destiny and total breakthroughs" is a Destiny Mentor, Business and Wellness coach, Counselor, International Speaker and author of twelve remarkable books. He has a divine mandate to help individuals all over the world discover their divine d…

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Nadeem Kazi
NADEEM KAZI PROFILE: Nadeem Kazi is one of India’s most effective & influencing motivational speakers. Nadeem has coached Indian Army, Audi, Porsche, Dell Lamborghini, Volkswagen, Skoda, John Deere, Reliance Energy FIAT, Endurance Technologies and many other renowned corporates and institutes. By now, he has conduc…

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Nancy Heimstra
Nancy Heimstra is a Cerified Life Coach, author, speaker and former Chiropracic Physician. She loves doing improv comedy and is a member of a local community theater troupe. Currently Nancy is in the process of re-discovering her love and passion for coaching and teaching. Stay tuned for articles and events.

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Nancy Powers
“Customized, Distinctive Training delivered with Exuberant Energy” Nancy M. Powers is a captivating keynote speaker, consultant, writer and professional coach. Nancy has a distinctive career as a national trainer and seminar leader. Nancy has spent the last 25 years as a successful entrepreneur, speaker, trainer and…
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Nancy Wagaman
Nancy Wagaman, MA, is an intuitive consultant who provides immediate insight into the core mental, emotional, and subconscious factors affecting any situation—and how to transform them to improve your inner environment, engage fully in life, and improve business results. Grounded in science, applied psychology, corpor…

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Niara Terela Isley
Hello! I’m Niara Terela, writer, artist and certified body-centered life coach. I am also an experiencer and researcher all aspects of extraterrestrial phenomenon, from government cover-ups, to spiritual expansion of consciousness. I was born in Califo ia and have lived many places… I now make my home in southwester C…

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Nickolove Lovemore
Nickolove Lovemore is a Life Coach and a Certified NLP Practitioner who is passionate about personal development. She delivers one-to-one and group coaching programs, personal development workshops, seminars and teleseminars. Nickolove's coaching clients are primarily women who are establishing themselves as entrepre…

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Nicola Bunting
Welcome to La Vita Nuova (The New Life!) personal and professional coaching! Are you a successful professional who feels happy with your life and achievements so far, but knows there's potential for even greater fulfilment and success? Do you enjoy your life and work, but know they could be even more amazing with the…

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Nigel Lewis
I am a life coach and behavioural consultant/trainer. I gained an honours degree in social and behavioural studies in 2004 and qualified as a teacher in 2006. I gained my life experience as a Police Officer for thirty years in one of Britains toughest areas. I spent 18 years as a sergeant supervising the problems face…

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Niquenya Fulbright
Over 10 years experience inspiring small business owners, entrepreneurs, executives, groups and individuals in a career or life transition to use their innate abilities to master their goals and achieve successes beyond their wildest dreams. Certified as a Christian life coach, the teachings from the Holy Bible, the l…

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Nova Reed
Nova Reed, M.A. is a Certified Life Coach, author, and speaker dedicated to helping others work through difficult transitions and realize their fullest potential. Nova developed the proven coaching strategies of Step Stones For Life® defining the universal steps needed to discover and strengthen the path to fulfillme…

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Every person with any level of drive and success run the same danger - tying who they are to what they do; tricked by titles that cloud true identity. Corporate was a set up if you were trained to believe that if you just follow the "rules of success"; get an education, get a good job, climb ...
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Is This Four Letter Word Hurting Your Business?
What’s stopping you from doing the things you know you want to do in your business? Not enough time and a lack of focus can be obstacles to taking action. But take a closer look and see if these are the real issues. Is it possible that you really do know what you need to do but that fear is ...
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Fight The Fear of Fitness
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What to Do If You are Afraid of Being Fired
If you hear or are told outright by your employer that some jobs have to go and yours “might” be one of them, what can you do about it? It’s a worrying prospect for many who rely on their regular income to cover mortgages, car loans, school fees, food bills, and all the other expenses of ...
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Are You Neglecting Your Network?
As a business owner you know a lot of people, and you continue to meet new people. This is your network. But what are you doing with it? How often do you connect with people in your network? Do you have a plan to stay in touch consistently and develop your relationships? If you’ve ...
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The 5 W's of Life
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How You Can Reduce Your Stress Level by 90%
If you're like most people, you probably think the stress in your life is something you continually have to monitor or manage. Think for a moment about the word "management". For me it conjures up control, systems, strategy or supervision. An underlying assumption within each of these words implies that by "managing" my stress I will develop a better way to deal with the inevitable. But what about the possibility that stress is optional? What if stress isn't something you want to keep around like a mean pit bull on a long leash?
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Can Your Website Do This?
The question isn’t whether or not your business has a website, it’s a given it does. The real question is this: Does your website allow you to connect and interact with visitors? If it doesn’t, you are missing out on an enormous opportunity to grow your business. A website that is nothing ...
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Do You See Through Your Client's Eyes?
It’s a big shock to realize that no one really cares about your business, at least in the beginning of the process. What people do care about, and want to know, is what your business can do for them. You can imagine that information about how long you have been in business or why you started ...
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The Secret To Adding Credibility To Your Business – Testimonials!
You may not realize it, but you already have a gold mine ofnendorsements waiting to be created. Everyone who is seriousnabout building a business and creating credibility uses thisnidea. What is it? Testimonials from your satisfied clients. Whether you are just starting out or have been in ...
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The Art of Non-Attachment
Attachment to anyone or anything betrays an underlying belief that there is not enough of the "good stuff" in the world. Being overly attached is a signpost of our fear that we might lose whatever good we tenuously have. But it rarely serves you well to hang on tight, attempting to keep whatever fragment of good is left in a life based on lack. Hanging on too tight constricts the flow of creativity, joy, appreciation, and most especially, peace.
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Are You Making These 5 Mistakes with Your Headlines?
It’s no secret that effective headlines are a crucial part of successful marketing. The big question is, how do you create effective headlines that command attention. Today, more than ever, attracting the interest of prospective clients is extremely difficult. Imagine you’ve written a great ...
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Parenting Advice for Your Child's Brain Development
It's easy to find parenting advice when it comes to changing your child's outer behavior. But wouldn't you also like to get parenting advice that helps your child grow from the inside - and make changes on the outside happen almost automatically? The positive parenting principles outlined in this parenting article will help your child to:
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How to Manage Your Acute & Chronic Stress
We all have to deal with stress. Some of us can handle stress better than others. But the more tools, knowledge, and skills that you have, the better off you'll be able at handling it. This guide will help you to improve your quality of life and your overall well-being, with some coping strategies. Stress can be either chronic (long term) or acute (short term). Let's discuss both.
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Loving Yourself: There's Only One Prerequisite
"What I am is how I came out. No one's perfect and you just have to accept your flaws and learn to love yourself."rn-Kelly Brook I'm going to be honest with you. I didn't always love and accept myself. In fact, even to this day there are still times when I don't love and accept myself. My self-esteem and confidence will quickly drop whenever this happens. And that's okay. I already forgive myself for it. Self-Acceptance
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How to Count Your Blessings
If you were requested to list ten things that you are most grateful for in your life, what would be included in it? Do have to think for a while, or do you know exactly how blessed you are? When you ask someone how they are doing, the answer would depend on the level of comfort between the two of you. It could either be an indifferent “fine” or you might get a list of complaints about what is wrong with their life and how they unable to get out of the rut they're in.
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How to Create a Happy & Authentic Life: Get Clear
"Getting Real is a very real thing and a very vital part of being successful and happy in our life and in our work." The above quote is from my article "7 Steps to Creating a Happy & Authentic Life," where we talked about what it means to Get Real and introduced the 7 Simple Truths for Getting Real & Staying Real as the foundation for creating a happy and authentic life. In this follow-up series, we will unwrap each of the 7 Simple Truths for Getting Real & Staying Real and share ideas about how to implement the truths to create a happy and authentic life. Simple Truth #1: Get Clear
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How to Have a Strong Firm Confidence
Be positive, repeat affirmations or even learn to love yourself are the automated responses most people and most websites on the internet give you. Only problem is these ideas and suggestions are way too simple. Being confident is a way to complexes idea to cover in a few sayings or actually even in one article. To thoroughly, explain building confidence would take years and years of research and thousands of articles.
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Writing Yourself Happy
“Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.” - E. L. Doctorow I have written and spoken many times about strategies for creating authentic happiness, and the recurring theme has always been “Happiness is not something you can pursue; it is who you are”.
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How To Pick A Career…The Easy Way!
What lights you up inside? What can you spend hours doing that doesn’t feel like work? Now, how do you feel about your current job? If its easier for you, use a satisfaction scale of 1 (least satisfied) - 10 (most satisfied). Really think about it and decide if that number is how you want to rate your life. Career coaching can help you pick a career, increase your productivity, and get promoted. Reaching your full potential influences everything from your bank account to your level of happiness.
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How Do You DO Happiness?
In one of my personal development workshops I get my students to close their eyes and imagine, in vivid detail, one of their happiest memories, and to fully re-living it in that moment. It is amazing to witness the instant transformation in their facial expressions and body language as their nervous systems kick back into happy mode. I then ask them what actually changed in the outside world while they were doing that.
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Work-Life Balance: 3 Keys to a Happy Lifestyle
How has your career affected the rest of your life? Are you happy when you go home and ready to connect with your family? The answers to those questions usually lie in your personal, work-life balance. The ability to manage your job duties with other aspects of your life such as health, hobbies, and family can have a large impact on your success and overall sense of fulfillment. People tend to feel discontent or stress when even one area of their work-life balance is off.
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So You’re interested in Life Coaching, But Are You Coachable?
Congratulations! You are interested in making changes in your life and serious about getting results. This involved deciding that you are ready to invest in yourself, your dreams, and goals. Or perhaps you’ve heard a little bit about life coaching and think it could be a good fit for you. Acknowledging that coaching can be transformative and take you to the next level is great! Now for the important question, are you coachable?
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I hate my job! 3 Questions For Being Successful in Your NEXT Position
Recent surveys show that 70% of people hate their jobs and most are actively looking for another one! Putting aside all of the specific reasons and circumstances, that’s a whole lot of unhappy people. It’s natural for professionals to feel that way because many people are wrapped up in their job, since it provides income to support their family and a sense of identity. If you’re working full-time, odds are you spend at least a quarter of all of your time at work! Life is too short to be unfulfilled, especially in your career.
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The Art of Having a Bad Day
A lot of personal development teachers and motivational guru’s like to drill home that the key to success is ‘State Management’, i.e. your ability to manipulate your physical and emotional being so that you are constantly aligned with success producing thoughts and actions.
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End the Epidemic of Low Self Esteem
Low self esteem is a widespread mental affliction; it has reached epidemic proportions. Almost all people carry this “virus.” Few are symptom-free. Typical indications of infection include anxiety, helplessness, depression and addictions to work, food, alcohol, drugs, and dysfunctional relationships (to name a few). In my work as The Thought Dr., I am privileged to get a peek into the minds of people worldwide. Thoughts of worthlessness are more common than we realize. We view our thoughts as our secrets. Few of us disclose to others our anguished beliefs about ourselves.
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How to have a great day!
Hello to you! Have you been setting and achieving your goals? You have? Great. That is a super way to have a great day. Tell me about your achievements via email to: serena (at) serenapyke.com I would love to share them in my next blog! So, let me begin: How to have a great day! How about I give you some top tips on how to have a great day, every day? You'd like that? Thought you'd be up for it. Give them a go over the next week. Top 10 tips:
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Rapport building
Rapport building is the key to a successful business This blog details the art of relationship management, rapport building and empathy in 8 simple steps. Having worked in a client facing role for over 12 years I have learned a lot about what encourages people to place their trust in you and what keeps them coming back to invest more of their time and money in you (your business). It is your rapport building ability.
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The Wisdom of Discovering Your Destiny and Divine Assignment
Studies say over 70% of all workers in their jobs are on the wrong jobs, leading to frustration, poverty and early death. In addition, 8 out of every 10-bank worker in across the world, when interviewed, said they are on the wrong job. They want to quit and do something else. They said God did not create them to live a caged life, confinement to cubicles. Many employees, company executives, and leaders of reputable organizations are consumed by restlessness, fatigue and confusion caused by not knowing the right business to invest in.
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Are you ready to catch your next wave?
What comes to your mind when you picture a graceful surfer on the crest of a huge wave.....exhilaration, harmony, connectedness, balance, beauty? What if you could approach your life with the same qualities, poised and ready to catch your next wave and seize all the extraordinary opportunities in front of you? The great news is that you can and let's explore how... Hawaiian surf instructor, Kahuna Bob, explains the importance of understanding the waves and how to catch them, while simultaneously learning the technique, maintaining balance, coordination, and confidence.
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Practicing Non-Attachment
As you would probably expect, working in the field of personal development I get to spend a lot of my time with people talking to them about goal setting and visualisation. I cannot over emphasise the power of positive intention when it comes to manifesting an amazing life, but there is a common trap that too many people fall into while “dreaming their way to success”. One of the most significant developments in my realisation of what true success requires is the notion of being non-attached to the object or outcome of desire.
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Rejection is a Gift!
Did I get your attention? You might be sitting there thinking, “Patricia, you are really pushing it! You are just plain crazy with your positivity by calling rejection a gift. Rejection hurts too much to be good for me in any way.” I can relate to your viewpoint because I used to feel that way too. All I ask of you this week is that you contemplate the ideas I share. You just never know how your perspective might expand if you do.
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What's a call to adventure and how do you know if you have one?
Listen for your Call to Adventure In a story, it's the moment when the hero or heroine is invited on a quest or journey, when the day-to-day routine of their ordinary life is interrupted by something disruptive, exciting, unsettling, different...
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Contemplating a career change?
I recently read an article online that stated the average person will hold between 7 to 10 jobs in a lifetime. Clearly, most people make many career changes during their working lives. This is pretty significant. Yet my coaching clients will often lament that they feel stuck in careers that no longer satisfy them, believing that they have no choice but to remain in roles that physically and emotionally drain them because they must “lie in their own beds”. After all, they’ve got bills to pay and need a steady paycheck.
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Overcoming Social Anxiety
There’s a fairly simple explanation for all social anxiety. It is caused by the unfortunate mental habit of “mind reading.” That is, we imagine what other people are thinking about us. “Do I look good?” “Do I sound intelligent?” Our unstated mission is “I must make them feel good about me!” When I point this out to clients, they always agree. Social events have become agonizing attempts to control what others are thinking of them. It is not just that they want to look good; they are terrified of looking bad.
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Improving Friendships - The Key To Strengthening Relationship Bonds
I’ve just arrived back from America where I was attending the wedding of a very good friend, and because I was the Best Man I had to give a speech. Now, I’m used to public speaking and facilitating large groups of people in my personal development workshops, so you might be thinking this was a doddle for me.
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A VISION ON HOW YOU CAME INTO THIS WORLD NOT KNOWING YOUR DESTINY
Before your Creator introduced you into this world and the generation that you are part of now, an event took place that you were not conscious of. It occurred in your nonexistence. Beloved, if you will agree with me, the spirit that gave birth to your being was without nomenclature. This means that, the spirit had no bearing to you at that point in question. Simply put, that spirit was undefined.
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From Mugshots to Motivational Spreaker
I didn’t start drinking until I was separated from my husband. I got the house, but selling it was the only way I could survive, so that is what I had to do. I had the summer to get the house ready and for the first time in my life, I was alone. I was suffering from depression, losing my world as I knew it, my family, my security, my collective identity. I just knew that I wasn’t equipped to make it in the world on my own. Marrying young, way to young, I never was able to define myself as an individual. I was a small part of a collective, part and parcel of a pair.
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Use Goals To Change Your Dreams to Reality: Six Simple Steps For Success
First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do. ~ Epictetus We all have dreams: visions of the possible, probable and seemingly impossible. Setting goals is the key to turning your dreams into reality. Goals help you recognize your progress and allow you to celebrate the process. Setting goals is one of the master keys to a successful life. Goal-setting creates results, yet less than 3% of the population will actually adopt the process. Every person is gifted with the ability to dream and to plan, to envision and create the life you desire.
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Uncover and Shine a Light on Your Buried Life
"The Buried Life," by Matthew A old This poem articulates the profound truths of our heart and soul, that often, sadly, bear so little relation to the superficial happenings and conversations of our days. It invites us to be true to who we really are, to share our genuine self with those we ...
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Divorce: Acceptance of Your New Reality
What do you think of people who are detached from reality? People that are seemingly living in a world of their own making? It’s unnerving to say the least as well as truly sad. Yet for those of us attempting to recover from a divorce, our inability to fully accept our new reality is not too far removed from living in a fantasy world. Non-acceptance of what our life is right here and now is the biggest obstacle to letting go and moving on after divorce. Initially I believe this is due to denial, which is part of the grieving phase that follows any major loss in life.
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Transforming Fear Into Success
What are you afraid of? Are your worries preventing you from getting things accomplished in your life? Everyone has fears and many people let those fears stop them from doing things that may prove to be worthwhile or even lucrative. How can you turn your fear into a positive force in your life? The first thing you need to understand is the fear itself. Why are you afraid? Is it a rational fear? A fear of snakes can be rational, while a fear of spoons isn't. Figure out if your fear is rational; if it isn't, try to understand why you have such an irrational fear.
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Finding My Inner Voice!
Everyone deals with struggles in life, things that happen which are out of our control. What is most important is how you confront these life struggles. Do you continue to live your life being miserable or do you take control, find your voice, and persevere? I, like all people in life, had my share of struggles. My biggest one was my battle with infertility. I call this a battle because the process was both physically exhausting and emotionally debilitating.My body had failed me. I felt like a failure to my husband, my family, and most importantly to myself.
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"You are the average of the 5 people you spend most time with."
"You are the average of the 5 people you spend most time with." - Jim Rohn Ever find yourself sitting at a table with a group of friends having a chat about how you’d love to be rich, or just have enough money to pay the bills? Most often the rest of the people at the table are in the same situation. Your group here are really like a council. A council made up of people who all have the same outlook on life. If it is one of constant struggle then the group will subconsci ously vote on all matters with the conclusion that everything will be too hard over come so why bother?
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Life Skills: Find Your Passion
When work, commitment, and pleasure all become one and you reach that deep well where passion lives, nothing is impossible. ~ Author Unknown Passion is defined as “powerful emotion” and “boundless enthusiasm”. When you bring emotion and enthusiasm to your lifework, negatives don’t matter. All things become possible. Your commitment to your passion will lead you to Wisdom in pursuing your dream. Have you ever heard of “the passion of Christ”? Do you really understand why they describe his persecution and death as His Passion?
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When You Find What You Want Inside You, You Will Find What You Want Outside You
One of Alan Cohen’s daily messages was this: Take time this week to look within. When you find what you want inside you, you will find what you want outside. - Alan Cohen What a great way to look at reviewing where you are right now and where you’d like to be by the end of the year. What do you desire for yourself? Write down your intentions. Take each one and determine what you would need to find inside yourself for that to manifest. What beliefs and behaviours will create your desired results?
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Being the Hero(ine) of Your Own Life
As I'm writing this afte oon, I'm half-reading Tennyson's "Ulysses," half-watching the New Orleans Saints play the San Diego Chargers at Wembley (on tv!) , and wholly reflecting on what to write to my lovely past, present, and future coaching clients that will inspire them amidst the daily gloom and barrage of economic news and headlines.
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5 Steps to (Re)Connecting
This started as an article to address women and feelings of isolation, but as I spent time with the topic, I kept coming back to the words “connect” and “connection.” Connecting, I thought, is the opposite of isolation, and if it’s the opposite, then surely it’s also the solution. One study I ...
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Relationship Tips - How to Manage Love with a Narcissistic Individual
I am sure you think as overrated the cliche that 'love is blind' - but neuroscience, this prodigy child of science, unveils with an almost cruel satisfaction that some areas of our brains shut down when love comes upon us, blinding the ration from the smart choices we should make. Brain scans ...
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Life Skills: Keep Learning
I don’t know why I didn’t know this. Looking back, I can see that it’s one of the most important things I coulda-shoulda-woulda done … if I’d known. Unfortunately, I didn’t really comprehend it for about two decades. We seem to think that a college (or high school) diploma represents the end of learning. After we get that all-important piece of paper, we pack up the books, get a J-O-B, and get on with living our lives. There’s nothing more to learn, after all. Yeah, there might be some specific job-related skills we need to know.
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Limiting Beliefs are Like Weeds
The other day I noticed a large growth of weeds in one of my gardens. I hadn’t noticed them in previous years but now they spoil the look of the garden and they are in the way of the new plants. As I was weeding, it occurred to me that the weeds are similar to limiting beliefs. They may have been around for many years and perhaps they didn’t interfere with us, but when we are ready for a different goal the belief is in the way of success and has to be removed. Some of the weeds came out easily with the bulb sitting near the surface of the ground.
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Start Living Green
In our world of bigger, faster, stronger, better, we often overlook what it takes to get that way. We act on impulse and will sacrifice our future for the day at hand. Have you thought about how your current actions affect the world around you or your future? It was the act of a small child ...
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The Real Divorce: Cutting The Ties That Bind
Your divorce decree is only step one in moving into a new life after divorce. The real divorce is the cutting of the emotional, mental and physical ties that still bind you to your ex-husband.
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De-cluttering Your Life Can Help You Move Forward
Do you have a To-Do list that is longer than your arm? Do you look at the list and think, “Wow I have so much to do! Why did I say I’d take on that project for the school?” A lot of people carry around with them a lot of “baggage” or “clutter” in their minds, on lists, in their purses, in their cars, and at home. Many people in today’s hectic world hold onto things that they say they should do but don’t. Whether it’s something that you need to take care of, or a phone call to that friend you had a fight with and want to apologize to.
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Tom And The Genie....A Modern Fable About Work-life Balance
This is the story of Tom, a CFO for a very large insurance company. He has bee CFO for almost 30 years. He has a lovely wife named Mary and two daughters who are still nin high school. Tom’s life is going well except that he is not happy. He has been working 60-hour weeks for 25 years and ...
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Recovering from Divorce: Honor the Truth
Do you remember the old adage that states there’s your side, there’s my side and then there’s the truth? If we were totally honest with ourselves, we too could see the truth of any situation. Once we accept that truth, we have the newfound freedom to gain clarity, discover our options and make real choices that are based in reality and not a subjective interpretation of what is. The past no longer runs the show. A world of possibilities opens that we might otherwise have missed.
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From Passion To Performance
Nigel Lewis is a Life Coach(www.coptionscoaching.com) who believes that many of us have the potential to be much more than we ever achieve if only we understood the importance of allowing someone to reflect back to us what we already know but somehow fail to realise. So where are you at this ...
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Kabari Walla
I was visiting my home country( India) and having arrived at the godly hour of 4 am was just about drifting into slumber land when suddenly I hear the shrill ear piercing shout, “ kabari walla- kabari walla, raddi paper, plastic, bottle …..kabari walla” ( Kabari wala’s are scrap dealers who buy ...
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Attend To Yourself Before Helping Others.
I was on the plane , on my way back from London and during the safety video demonstration; there is this scene where a young mother is shown putting on an oxygen mask and then reaching out for another oxygen mask to attend to her child. The scene is accompanied by a voice over saying “in case ...
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Work-Life Balance
"We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us." - Anonymous Quite a statement, isn’t it? However, I have to say that I don’t totally agree with it. I don’t think we have to completely get rid of the life we have planned. I believe ...
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Divorce Recovery: Are Your Fears Holding you Back?
Divorce turns our lives upside down. It throws us into a major life transition that is colored by intense feelings and emotions that can be debilitating. I believe that fear is the main culprit that holds us back from not only healing and letting go of our pain, but also from moving forward into a new life. So it is fear we need to identify and then overcome. Fear debilitates. It acts as a paralytic agent that keeps us stuck. It inhibits any real forward motion.
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Melting in Chocolate
Melting in Chocolate By Stacy Kamala Waltma A group of us were bathed in chocolate aroma last week as we toured the Scharffen-Berger Chocolate Factory in San Francisco. Our tour guide was an interesting man who had been with the Scharffen-Berger company for many years and had a lot of ...
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What Are You Tolerating?
Imagine having more energy or more time to focus on the things you really want. Imagine being able to move forward in your life without some of your current stress. Doesn’t that sound good? We all have things in our life that we just put up with or tolerate, for example, a cluttered desk, a ...
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Excellence. The search continues
Excellence – the path of constant and never ending improvement. Excellence is about being outstanding and about enjoying superior results. Excellence is about traveling the extra mile, leaving no stone untu ed, and never settling for what you currently have. Regardless of how amazing your life ...
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How Gratitude Can Change Your Life
Thanksgiving is right around the corner, the holiday that has its origin in the Puritan’s tradition of giving thanks for a good harvest. The Puritans weren’t the first in this regard. Many religious and societal traditions are based in the concept of gratitude. What all these traditions may or may not have known is that recent scientific studies point to a direct link between gratitude and a deep satisfaction with life.
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Stepping In Your Greatness
I was recently asked how I define greatness and for me it has always been a feeling or a sense of empowerment and peace. But to put it into words, to me greatness is being who you need to be for you, getting clear on what you want and being willing to take action in order to bring the things you ...
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Living With A Narcissist
Emotional Intelligence (EI), Narcissism and Private versus Secret As is often the case, what comes up for one of my clients tends to be a recurring theme for just about everyone I coach during certain periods of time and, as luck would have it, I lived with and was engaged to a ...
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Warming Winter Thoughts
The air is getting crisper and the leaves have almost finished falling. Winter is almost upon us. The changing of the seasons are timely reminders of the cycle of life and the need for change. What exactly is the message of winter? The message is that some times we need to let go. Some times ...
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Solutions To Dealing With Sociopathic Behavior
In my previous article called, Living with a Narcissist, I wrote about my desire to provide people with solutions to pathological behavior like narcissism, sociopathic behavior and co-dependency issues. In my research on this subject, I ran across this helpful article from Snow Lions ...
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Our Children's Future
We worry about our kids: their well-being and happy future are our main conce s in life. We long for them to be content and successful at whatever they choose to do. We hope that we’ll be able to provide them with the same kind of help that many of us have received from our own parents. But how can we ensure that we’re doing everything in our power to make all of this come to pass? We can, but there’s a process. First, take a few steps back and consider what we truly want for our kids.
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Finally Found The Time, What’s Next?
Have you ever postponed some thing you really wanted or needed to do until you had a long Wanna-Do List later that never got fulfilled? Have you ever wished for extra time to sleep a bit more, read longer, or do something different? After you’ve finally found the time, have you found yourself doing something else, like flicking through TV channels, spending most of the day in bed or on the couch feeling drained of energy?
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The Peaks and Valleys of Passionaite Living
There is a little known fact that what goes up must come down (eventually). It’s easy to get caught up in the highs of our passion and just as equally easy to get caught up in the lows of our passions. When faced with the highs we need to embrace them, and ride the wave as long and hard ...
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Home Business Entrepreneur’s "Time Out"
As a home business owner, I find great value in the informatio I read online in emails, ebooks, newsletters, ezines, articles and website content. However, being an online entrepreneur, I am sometimes bombarded with information (not all content driven) that can become an overwhelming ...
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Don't Settle for Less in Life
Don’t Settle for Less in Life by Shelley Stile/Life Coach What happens when a sense of dissonance is ignored? More likely than not, it will result in a life filled with regret and bitte ess. A good friend of mine, Pat, has been married for about twenty-three years. She and her husband have three kids, plenty of money and a beautiful home. There is abundance in their lives in terms of material items. They hardly talk with the exception of check-ins on the children’s schedules.
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Corpses And Daydreams
Depending upon one’s dexterity, there are many yoga postures which are considered to be beyond our current physical capacity like the sitting position of Full Lotus or the flexibility and strength required in the yogic posture of Pincha Mayurasana - Forearm Stand. Aside from yoga, if I asked ...
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Kabari Walla
Kabari walla I was visiting my home country( India) and having arrived at the godly hour of 4 am was just about drifting into slumber land when suddenly I hear the shrill ear piercing shout, “ kabari walla- kabari walla, raddi paper, plastic, bottle …..kabari walla” ( Kabari wala’s are scrap ...
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Divorce: Pain and Rebirth
Those of us who have gone through a divorce understand all too well the pain and grief we experience. We have lost our spouse, what we thought was our life partner, a loss similar to the death of a loved one. What is worse though, is losing all the many aspects of a life lived together as a couple and family. The fact is that many of our married friends cannot really understand that loss, which only serves to make us feel more isolated.
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The Cost Of Being Right: A High Price To Pay
The Cost of Being Right One of the highest prices we pay in life is the cost of being right. Some of us will sacrifice almost anything just in order to be the last one standing. A person who had been surrounded by their peers now sits alone, safe in the knowledge that he or she is right in their viewpoint even though they have alienated everyone around them. The ego is a mighty powerful entity left unchecked. Have you ever attempted to reason with a child who knows everything? It’s their way or no way at all.
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Advantage Of Using Passages In Meditation
I highly recommend using inspirational passages for your meditation and/or focused attention. First, it is training in concentration. Most of our mental powers are so widely dispersed that they are relatively ineffective. In focused attention, we gradually focus the mind so that when we meet a ...
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Do You Create Walls Or Bridges?
Marie* is a bright, innovative, creative woman who recently started her own consulting business after working for many years in the corporate world. She is proud of herself for taking the leap from employee to self-employed and has high hopes for her new business. One day while having lunch ...
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Follow The Recipe - Adding Happiness To Life
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Why Do We Wait For An Expert To Tell Us The Answers We Already Know?
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The Positive Power of Saying "NO"
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The Four Seasons of Life, The Four Seasons of Love
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If “Business” is Your Life Purpose Mastering Money, Commitments and Time Are Essential to You
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Happiness: Cut Out the Middleman
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Death, Divorce or Job Loss: 5 Keys to Help You Move past the Pain
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3 Simple Ways to Stay Productive & Limit Time On Social Media
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Gay and Single – Not Alone
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Does This ‘But’ Make My Excuses Look Big?
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In conversations with clients – I hear some of the most amazing one liners that help my personal growth. Today’s blog is a reflection on one such sentence. “Me: What has stood out for you in the past three weeks? Client: I now distinguish between reasons and excuses – that helps me in getting things done!”
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I wrote this note yesterday not realizing it was Ghandi’s birthday. It was in response to the death of 18 year old Tyler Clementi who killed himself after being “outted” on the internet. We have an opportunity to transmute this tragedy into one of leadership. Perhaps Tyler’s spirit agreed to perform this tragic role to elicit such a collective shift toward true leadership. ~ Here’s the note… When we see atrocities, our ability to teach a different way is being called forth that embraces and includes all with love and respect.
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Do you know it’s time for a change? Maybe you know its time to start making more money, but you don’t know how. Or you are at a job you know is draining your energy and sucking the life out of you. It’s even possible that there are two great opportunities in front of you, and you just don’t know which one to choose. Many people have a hard time making decisions, and it’s one of the most common topics I work with my clients on. It’s important to know that all of your thoughts and actions have lead you to the place where you are today.
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Are you feeling stuck? Maybe you’re in a job you hate, in relationships that aren’t serving you, or in a cycle of unhealthy behavior. If this sounds like what you’re experiencing, know that you are not alone! Many people have reached out to me looking for a career coach, because they feel stagnant and are not achieving the results they want in their life. Deciding to get support is one of the most beneficial things you can do for yourself. There is no shame in asking for help. In fact, this often saves time and money, while reducing the chance that you quit on your goals.
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How do you feel after chatting with your co-workers on the job? Are you upbeat, motivated, and inspired? Or are you tired, drained, and feeling unbalanced? Most people are not aware of how the interactions they have with others affects their energy, mood, and job performance. They wonder why they feel aggressive or dejected after speaking with certain people. How you chose to handle relationships with your colleagues has a large effect on your personal thoughts, feelings, and actions, which ultimately determine your professional growth at a company.
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Fear. Anxiety. Butterflies. Worry. Despite all our talents, creative people are susceptible to a smorgasbord of fears. Even Oscar and Grammy winners deal with stage fright. Pulitzer prizewinners sometimes go underground, ceasing to write another word for fear of not repeating their earlier success. Oddly enough, sometimes even good news (like having a big muckety muck read your screenplay) can strike alarm in the heart of an otherwise unflappable DaVinci. ("Omigod!
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Remember Lucy Van Pelt in the comic strip Charlie Brown? I woke this morning thinking about one of her famous lines, “I told you so, you blockhead!” Lucy was known for setting up a psychiatric booth in the neighborhood offering advice to her friends for five cents per person. Clearly she caught the entrepreneurial bug early but I’m not sure I’d want to get my business direction from her. : -) This got me thinking about how women entrepreneurs need to be cautious when seeking advice, coaching and mentoring on their road to success.
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As an Inspired Action life coach, my job is to assist my clients in action on their goals and dreams. This is not easy to do because most people have been trained to motivate themselves to take action. The problem is that motivation doesn't last. Motivation is like utilizing sugar in your body. It’s good for a short burst but it’s not sustainable energy.
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9 Game-Changing Tips for Women Entrepreneurs in 2014
At the end of each year, I take an inventory of my life and business to shine a light on what proved to be most effective for me. Here are my top nine timely tips for women entrepreneurs who are ready to make a Big Leap in 2014: 1. Exercise Empathy - If you have a dream of making a difference in the world or desire a leadership role, empathy is a valuable tool you'll need along the way. As the great leader Stephan Covey said, "Seek first to understand." Understanding and acknowledging someone else's situation is the foundation to change.
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Take Breaks to Get More Done
Want to get more done? Most multi-talented people have so much to do, we throw ourselves at tasks without taking breaks. We find ourselves, hours later, in a sorry state: our pulses are racing, our minds are fried and our ‘to do’ list seems longer than when we began. (“But how can this be,” we wail. “I’ve been playing sousaphone non-stop for four hours! Surely I should be disce ibly closer to Carnegie Hall by now.”) It may seem counter-intuitive but one of the best ways you can get more done is by taking breaks in whatever you’re doing.
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5 Easy Healthy Lifestyle Tips
Just thinking about shaping up, losing weight, or eating healthier makes many women exhausted. Changing habits is hard work, but sometimes we approach healthy lifestyle changes in the most difficult way possible. Instead of picking your biggest challenge, consider starting where you know you can be effective, where you can get some lasting bang for your buck, and where you can start growing motivation and momentum. Here are five relatively painless and struggle-free tips to help you create lasting healthy habits: 1. Get some zzzzzs.
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Life Coaching - 5 REASONS THE MIND GETS SO WORRIED
Last night I had one of those nights where my mind worried. Using my techniques I didn’t pay much attention. But I use to get gripped by the madness. Laying there not able to do anything about any conce because it’s midnight, I’m in my PJ’s and I’m trying to go to sleep for god sake!.
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Law of Attraction and Sick Kids
I answered this on Yahoo Answers and I thought you might enjoy my thoughts. “A friend recently introduced me to The Secret: Law of attraction, a concept I found extremely interesting. Upon further research, I found that it is strongly linked with the new thought movement. Both of these concepts believe that everything in our lives is attracted to us via our thoughts, so illness comes from negative thoughts.
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Life Coaching Tips to Make Happiness Automatic
My clients are generally the biggest of the big in their respective industries. Each of them has created massive success. Yet the process they used to get there often seems inapplicable to the other aspects of life like happiness or peace. The process is the same. You must create structures, systems, disciplines and processes that make your happiness automatic. Here are three tips that will start you on this process. 1. Gratitude. The Drunk Monkey (my nickname for the mind) is designed to look for what is wrong and try to fix it, kill it or avoid it.
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Fear, Anxiety & Resistance - Fears of Creative People - PART TWO
Fears are a natural part of the creative process. All multi-talented people experience fear, anxiety, worry and resistance at some point. After you’ve identified the true nature of your fears and resistance (see Part One of this series), you can then use proven techniques to manage and reduce them. Parts 2 & 3 of this series will cover how to overcome fear and how to manage creative fears. Approach # 1: Feel the Fear & Do it Anyway
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Time Management Strategies for the Multi-Talented
Time management is tricky for multi-talented, creative people. We have a lot of activities and tasks on our plates. And those plates are spinning. No sooner do we start project A when we suddenly get a great idea for project B and a key contact for project C calls out of the blue and…before we know it, the week is gone and there’s no disce ible progress on anything. How’s a DaVinci to give time and attention to everything? Which time management strategies allows you to get more done and make more progress in all your talents?
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Six Mistakes that Stop the Law of Attraction from Working for You - Life Coaching Program
As an executive coach, I notice one shift in mindset can translate to amazing results. As a life coach, I see people experiencing so much joy, love, peace and happiness in all areas of their lives – business, home, relationships with others, health. Setting the Law of Attraction into motion to achieve what you want can be a powerful force along this path. And I know this, and still I myself make mistakes. sr I made some big mistakes last year and I want to share the results with you.
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Sleep Your Way to the Top
There’s one slight shift you can make in your daily habits that could reap BIG rewards. In fact, this habit has been linked to better decision-making, creativity, health and even weight-loss. Do you know what it is? Sleep.
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Is it Time to Give Your Business a Good Spring Cleaning?
I'm sure you're aware of the old term, "spring cleaning"? Mother nature reminds us that before you add more to your life, it's always a good idea to let go of what no longer serves you. Like the leaves that fall from trees in autumn, room is made for the new growth that occurs every spring. I'm finding many women entrepreneurs feeling this way right now (including yours truly : -)). Evaluating your business is a smart move, as long as you're willing to ask yourself the right questions and give yourself honest answers:
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Life Coaching Tips - How to Eliminate Fear from Your Life
As a life coach, my job is to support my clients in getting inspired and empowered to take action on their most cherished dreams. Fear gets in the way.
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Overcoming Perfectionism - Shifting to 'Good Enough'
Perfectionists are, by definition, painfully hard on themselves. Perfectionism is a state of chronic dissatisfaction that takes a hefty toll -- and the sad fact is that few perfectionists realize what's going on. They see themselves as having 'high standards' and are blind to just how unhappy their 'standards' are making them -- and everyone around them. They can't understand how they can work so diligently and passionately -- and yet rarely feel truly pleased or proud with anything they do. Instead, very few things ever seem 'good enough'...and fewer feel 'good enough' for very long.
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Smart Women and the Race Against Time
Over the last few days, I’ve spent some time with women entrepreneurs who are all having the same challenge—the race against time or “time management.” Whether you are an atto ey, a fitness professional or a business coach, time is the like the elusive lover—you can never get enough! Here are a few comments I heard over the last few days: -- “I’m never able to get it all done.”rn-- “I can’t figure out which “to-do” should be done first.”rn-- “It only takes 10 minutes.” One woman entrepreneur is multi-tasking all day long.
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What To Do When Things Don’t Manifest - Life Coaching Programs
I’m sitting in row 20 seat E. That’s the middle seat at the back of the plane. This morning, not knowing what seat my assistant had booked me for this trip I wrote in my intentions, rather spontaneously, “I am so thankful to the universe for providing me with first class seats on the way up and back to Seattle this week… or something better!”
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Positive Ways to Deal with Tough Parenting Challenges
As a parent, there are many challenges that you must face and some of them may be particularly tough because you just aren’t sure how to deal with them. No parent knows how to deal with every situation because every situation is unique to a particular family.
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Life Balance - A Survey for Creative People
Balancing different aspects of life -- work, play, family, friends and more -- is difficult for many people. It's significantly more challenging for "DaVincis" -- creative people who are also juggling their many talents, projects and ideas. As I see in the vast majority of my coaching clients, Balance is a Top DaVinci Challenge for multi-talented people. This article is the first in a new series of articles devoted to helping DaVincis create, develop and maintain life balance. Let's begin by taking stock of your current situation. Self-Assessment: How Balanced is your Life?
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Motivation Tips - Stay Motivated on Long-Term Major Projects
The first week on a major projects is like love -- exciting and new. Your motivation is sky high. Maybe the second week too. But if you’re working on a major project over a long period of time, you are likely to find your motivation flagging at some point. It can be difficult to chip away at a major opus for an extended period of time. Especially when it's hard to see much progress. “What’s the point?” we may wail. “I’ve been working diligently on my novel all year but it’ll be years before it's published.” Here's are some proven ways to stay motivated on long-term major projects:r
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Do you know the angst of greatness, that sick feeling when you see your dreams sailing downstream towards a ravine that dares you to enter and retrieve them? Despite our obsession with success, we say little about the angst that eats when failure chastens and cheats. The Silent Treatment
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Is your focus making you a victim of the economy? – Life Coaching
The Drunk Monkey (your mind) is a survival machine. It’s job is to protect you from possible destruction. Therefore, it is totally addicted to the news. The news organizations have realized that sensationalized news hooks their viewers Drunk Monkeys. The news has no commitment to truth. It has a commitment to making money which means “selling advertising”. The more viewers the news organizations have, the more money these companies make. Clearly, there is a natural pull towards the sensational verses the truth.
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Fear, Anxiety & Resistance - Fears of Creative People - PART THREE
Fears are a natural part of the creative process. All multi-talented people experience fear, anxiety, worry and resistance at some point. Today we continue our strategies for fighting fear. After you’ve identified the true nature of your fears and resistance (see Part One of this series), you can then use proven techniques to manage and reduce them. Part 2 of this series presented three ways to overcome fear and how to manage creative fears. Here are seven more proven techniques to reduce anxiety and overcome fear in the creative process: Approach #4: Baby Steps
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Conquer the Fear of Going After Your Goals - Life Coaching Program
As an Inspired Action life coach, my job is to help my clients successfully transition from the life that they currently have to the life they want. This means confronting and conquering the fear of change. Think about it like this. Even though your goals and dreams are exciting to think and talk about, your dreams are usually much less exciting to implement. Dreams are new. New is hard. New is different. New means potential failure.
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Law of Attraction and Sick Kids
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Smart Women Have a Winning Offense
Recently my children’s little league baseball team was defeated---badly. At one point, I looked at another mom and said, “Please let the bloodshed end!” After the game, the coach brought the team into the dugout to review what worked and what didn’t work. He began with a review of the other team’s performance.
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What To Do When Things Don’t Manifest
I’m sitting in row 20 seat E. That’s the middle seat at the back of the plane. This morning, not knowing what seat my assistant had booked me for this trip I wrote in my intentions, rather spontaneously, “I am so thankful to the universe for providing me with first class seats on the way up and back to Seattle this week… or something better!” This isn’t normally something I spend too much time manifesting as I practice being in a state of Ridiculous Bliss where ever I am, regardless of the circumstances. But I know what my clients would say, “Where is your manifesting now Mr.
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How Do You Know If You’re A Goal Setter?
I have a short story for you today. Once upon a time a lovely lady named Judith, sat gazing out her bay window at the fields, streams and mountains in the distance. She sighed at their beauty and lamented the fact that she just wasn’t happy even with her wonderful surroundings. She needed something more in her life, but she didn’t know how to go about getting it, didn’t know how to start. In fact, she didn’t even know what it was!
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Are You Chained to The Desk?
As I write this, I'm 690 miles from my office in Los Angeles. Actually, I'm in Park City, Utah enjoying a glass of Pinot and writing to you. I'm here on a family vacation getting some much needed rest and a modified digital detox.
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Organizing Tips - Declutter, Get Organized & Be More Efficient
Have a million things going on? Want to be more creative and also be more efficient? Do yourself a favor: declutter and organize your space. You’ll get more done and you’ll be more creative – while avoiding distractions, procrastination and stress. Here’s an overview of the steps to take to organize your space for maximum creativity and efficiency: 1. Declutter. Get rid of what you don’t need. Give it away, throw it away, sell it – do what makes sense to get it out of your space. If in doubt, you don’t need it. 2. Organize what remains.
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Life Coaching Training - 3 Aspects of Inspired Action
People who are inspired seem to take action effortlessly while those who are not have to figure out a way motivate themselves into action. If things come easy you are inspired. If things are difficult you are not. If things are not coming easily, it’s probably because you are not inspired by what you are doing. Consider, if you are not inspired to do something it’s because you are not really interested in it. I often discover in the coaching process that people who have to force something to happen are trying to prove something to other people by taking the action.
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Discovering Your Unique Ability
“The man, who is born with a talent which he is meant to use, finds his greatest happiness in using it.” - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I’m sure you’d agree that most people spend a lot of their time doing things they’re not passionate about. As you read through the following four categories think about how much time you spend in each area. Incompetence: these are the activities that you don't do well and that you have no interest in doing. When you spend time in the area of “incompetence” there’s no potential for your growth, advancement, or fulfillment.
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Who Changed My Schedule?
Remember the Alice Cooper song, "School's Out"? The lyrics are running through my mind as I write this article. The last bell rang, the kids are running through the house at all hours of the day and their summer camps are spread all across town. My schedule has become a mere shadow of the nice, tidy, organized days I experience September through May. Sound familiar? I'm finding this is true for many women entrepreneurs so today's article offers a few coping strategies when summer arrives and suddenly it feels like your schedule has been hijacked.
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8 Steps to SUCCESS By Taking Charge of Your Life: Part 1 of 2
PART I - “Pre-Flight Check” What does “taking charge of your life” look like for you? Each of us has different ideas about what that is for us individually. One of the pictures (or visions) we may have when we’ve taken the reigns of our life is success in our relationships, family, business, career, finances, and so on.
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Coulda Woulda Shoulda – PART ONE: Costs & Benefits
Everyone has some regrets in life. What differs is how people deal with them. When you regret something you did – or didn’t do – in the past, do you engage in wistful Coulda Woulda Shoulda thinking? Do you fret about how things might have turned out differently ‘if only’ you would have taken a different course of action? If so, you’re hurting yourself.
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When Mama Doesn't Get "Me Time"
What exactly does “me time” mean? To each mom it has a different meaning. To some it means going out with the girls, to others it may mean being able to just read a book for a half hour. You might be thinking “sometimes being a mom doesn’t allow a lot of time for me”. Moms usually can find any number of reasons why “me time” just doesn’t happen very often for them. Some moms may use the excuses I’m too tired or I’m behind on things as it is. If I take “me time” I will never get caught up.
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Take Inventory of Life’s Transitions
In the month of February the focus was love. It feels so right to begi March – Spiritual Wellness Month by sharing how taking time out for self-care allows you share the best of yourself with your family and through your business. When you love yourself so much that you like yourself, you are better able to share the best of you with other people. Loving yourself often requires that you evolve even when you don’t feel like it. Your heart knows exactly what you require.
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***STORIES WE TELL OURSELVES
Do you remember your kindergarten teacher? I don’t remember much about her, except her name and the stories she told. Since then I’ve had many more teachers and mentors who have all contributed to who I am today. We learn from all of our experiences and from everyone we meet, some more significant than others. Although we don’t always remember their name, we usually remember the story they told us. When you are a writer, you’re always looking for that story or insight to share. It’s a gift when you hear such a story.
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5 Smart Solutions For Women Entrepreneurs on The Go
This week I'm writing to you from my childhood home in Charleston, West Virginia where I'm caring for my aging parents who are health challenged at the moment. Today, I'm going to share my best tips for running a business when traveling. With all the new gadgets and apps available to entrepreneurs today, business on the go is a snap.
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9 Conditions of Fear - Life Coaching Tips
Two months ago I published 10 ways you let fear get a hold of you. I continue this exploration with 9 Conditions of Fear. As a Life Coach, my intention is to demonstrate the conditions that make fear more favorable. In phase III of the Inspired Action Coaching process my coaches and I work with people to shift the conditions of life to support happiness and success. Consider this idea, “Your environment dictates who you are!” Most people have allowed the conditions of their life to set themselves up. Rather than being deliberate, they are accidental.
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Get Positive: Five Steps for Letting Go of Limiting Thoughts and Beliefs
What are some of the common thoughts that flash across your mind? Are they positive and uplifting, or do they focus on what is wrong and bring up visions of worst case scenarios? For many of us, our thoughts are a mixture of both. But, the real question is which ones do we focus on and believe.
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TO THINE OWN SELF BE TRUE
I am reminded by fellow coach Phil Evans of the following truth. The most common 'theme' that I introduce to new clients when working in the Life Coaching realm, is the critical importance of being true to oneself! It's just so darned easy to get into doing everything for everybody else, but sadly neglecting that important person in the mirror. Yep, too darned easy to put everybody else first; and eventually something will kick our butts as it tries to alert us of the need to look after that person also known as ME!
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How Inspired Action Life Coaching Leads to Bliss - Life Coaching
As an Inspired Action life coach, my job is to support my clients in living a life of happiness, joy, peace, and most importantly, bliss. The dictionary defines bliss as supreme happiness. Most people don't have an experience with bliss. Most people don't know what bliss even is. It is that state of loving life so deeply, so turned on, so much amazement about life, that you can hardly stand it. You are nearly brought to tears of joy in the moment, as you recognize how amazing your experience of life is. Bliss is what happens when you follow the inspired action life coaching process.
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How Happy People Deal with Anger - Life Coaching Tips
As an Inspired Action life coach, I support people with the process of transmuting their anger and moving back towards being happy, positive, fulfilled, and satisfied. This is not always easy to do, but many successfully happy people have created strategies that assist them in moving out of the anger and back to happiness again. Here are three of those strategies.
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Coulda Woulda Shoulda – PART TWO: How to Overcome Coulda Woulda Shoulda Thinking
Regrets often take the form of Coulda Woulda Shoulda thinking. Part One of this article described the costs of 'Coulda Woulda Shoulda'. Today, we’ll continue by discussing proven ways to overcome this pattern. 1. Recognize that everyone has some regrets in life – and see how they handle them.
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Becoming a socially connected introvert – without exhausting yourself
I read the introverts forums, I watch the comments, and I feel a little dismayed. “Why won’t people leave me alone?” “I don’t like small talk, so I avoid people.” “Being around people is just so exhausting that I spend all my free time alone.” “I hate even the thought of networking.” One gets the impression that all introverts are grumpy, asocial and even hostile to people who desire more stimulation and activity in their lives (OK, extroverts). Unfortunately, good health and success are tied to the high quality of the relationships we form. Isolation is not.
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Welcome to your Life
In designing our lives, most of the time we start with listing things that we want to accomplish, places we wish to go or things we wish to accumulate instead of how we want to be in our life. When we align ourselves with the essence, beauty, and truth of who we already are it is easier to recognize and select what we want in our life. To illustrate how easy it is to align ourselves to who we already are; just imagine that you planned a weekend get-a-way far away from your to-do list, technology and distractions.
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Why Goal Setting Makes You Freeze
A life coaching client wrote in, “I have a question, When ever we are asked what our dreams and goals are, I like freeze, I can never really come up with what my dreams are and can’t find goals that excite me., its like they have been suppressed for so long I don’t even know. Its like when ever that question comes Its like a kid taking a test and just freezes.” The Drunk Monkey Reins Supremer Several aspects of ourselves stop us from setting new goals. The biggest one is fear. The Drunk Monkey is trying to protect you from getting hurt.
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What Is A Breakthrough With Food and Weight Anyway?
If you are like many women who’ve spent a lifetime (or what feels like one) struggling with weight and overeating, words like “breakthrough” may sound like unrealistic hype. For many women who are worn out with food and weight struggles, a breakthrough may feel impossible. Why? Their current mindset is one of “struggle.” This question came up recently as I was talking with a new client. Breakthroughs with food and weight aren’t hype and I’ll tell you why.
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Life Coach Confirms Law of Attraction Visualizing Myth
Visualizing has been taken out of context. The many great men and women who told us about visualizing produced spectacular results. Taken out of context people began to assume that if you visualize, then you will get those results too. Not true. Visualizing is the beginning of the creation process but it is not a magic answer. When mega producers, elite athletes, and genius’ of the past have espoused the power of visualizing, they included it as a part of their process. Not the whole process. It’s the beginning of something you are going to create. Everything begins in the mind.
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Marketing You Online
Your Internet Dating Profile Marketing yourself in an online dating format can prove to be quite challenging. We are all very complex individuals and it is difficult to effectively state the intricacies of our total being in a few short paragraphs. Since your profile is essentially your first meeting, it is important to give serious attention to this aspect of your online dating experience. Taking care to choose the appropriate words and setting the right tone can offer a solution.
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7 Good Consequences of a Thriving Wellness Business
Do you dream of having your own private practice, so you can enjoy your family and friends, take more time off work, and do your life’s purpose? I would imagine your answer is yes! Quite often, though, something gets in the way of the initial vision of a thriving business. What I hear most often is that women (in particular) do things to hold themselves back, because they feel that if they get too busy, they won’t be able to enjoy their family and friends or take more time off from the business.
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Keeping Positive when you're around Negativity
"If our emotional stability is based on what other people do or do not do, then we have no stability. If our emotional stability is based on love that is changeless and unalterable, then we attain the stability of God." ~ Marianne Williamson Everything is energy, including our thoughts and emotions. Emotions are contagious. When you around someone and they are stressed, our natural reaction may be to feel upset too. Sometimes when you walk into a room, you can feel that the other person is stressed.
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What if barriers didn’t exist?
I heard a wonderful story last night, from a woman who has had a varied, interesting andfrom any standpoint, successful, life. Her secret? She didn’t know there was a glass ceiling! In fact, she wasn’t aware of most barriers that frustrate the rest of us.r
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2 Things You Must Do to Jump-Start 2010
There are two simple, but extremely important things that I've noticed most people do NOT do very often. The first one is acknowledge what they've accomplished. The second one is clarify what they really want. Most people have a tendency to focus too much on what they haven't yet achieved.
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Small Shifts that Make Big Differences
If you have been following the articles of the past several weeks, you have probably been making some big changes in decluttering your life and preparing for the New Year. So let’s take a moment to breathe… relax… and look at some small shifts that can make big differences. Just like any other change that we make in our lives, we receive the biggest impact when the change is aligned with our intentions. One of my intentions is to live with freedom and ease. I had the wonderful opportunity this week of experiencing one of these small shifts.
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Two small steps towards speaking confidence
If you are one of those people who feels uncomfortable about speaking up in group settings, take heart. It is possible to learn to be a relaxed contributor. One of my early clients said, “Oh, I know what you’re going to say – just take a deep breath and force yourself.” Well, no, actually. That’s a little like telling someone the best way to learn to swim is to jump off the dock and hope some life-saving instincts kick in.
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What is life was a multiple choice test?
If life was a multiple choice test, would you always pick the same answer? “Let’s see, it’s choice B. Guess I’ll go with that all the way.” At least in a real multiple choice test, you can see all choices – usually four – laid out and you may even ponder them before you mark your choice. In real life, we frequently act as if we see only one choice, even if we’re surrounded with more than four choices. Habit and stress conspire to make us believe there’s only once choice open to us – and we’d better take it right away, without pausing too much to think.
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Emotional Eating and Coping With Overwhelm
Overwhelm is something that we can’t always avoid, and it can be a major trigger for emotional eating, overeating, or bingeing. While it’s great to have strategies for staying out of overwhelm, sometimes–no matter how skilled or proactive or positive we are–overwhelm just plain happens. A colleague sent me a gift recently. She sent me a timer. She didn’t have to explain what it was for, because I know her strategy. She’s about getting big things done by making them do-able. That is such an important key.
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Smart Women Unplug So They Can Recharge
Over Memorial Day weekend, I unplugged completely from the online world and left the office behind. Even though I work out of my home, I made a conscious decision not to enter the office or think about anything having to do with business. I do this periodically because I know the dangers of staying "on" all the time can cause burnout, loss of motivation and derail creative thinking.
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Stepping into More
True freedom is having the courage to look yourself in the eyes and ask the important questions, to touch your own heart and the ability to touch your own heart and be the recipient of self love. It takes courage to realize that you are only on the edge of your comfort zone and are now ready to step outside of it and into a new you. This is “knowing” that you are ready for More! Like most of you, my last few weeks of the year were wrapped in gifts called release, love, growth and peace.
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Keep Your Face in the Light!
I love what I'm witnessing on this planet! In this wake of immense tragedy and wounding, more and more, we are "keeping our face in the light"! There is an unshakable, determined, collective choice to NOT be drawn into the fear and desperation, but to stand up taller and hold the lante high. I see heroes all around, on every corner, in every marathon, on every airplane, in every person who continues to live IN the world, rather than huddled behind closed doors.
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What do you say to a Dementor?
In my last article, “Watch who you share your pain with,” I described several kinds of people who only make your pain worse by saying the wrong things. I call them, collectively, Dementors, familiar to Harry Potter fans as creatures who suck all hope out of you. They may magnify your tiny symptom into sure death, or seemingly provide incontrovertible evidence that your dreams can never succeed.
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***The Magic Playground
Most of us have fond memories of playing at the playground when we were kids. There was the swing, the slide, the seesaw and playing in the sand. And most important the other kids. Once you felt safe, you let go. Before you knew it, it was time to go home. Some days you didn't want to leave.
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Are you carrying some introvert baggage?
Many people do; some of them are introverts, the others are extroverts. The basic definition of an introvert is of someone who is very sensitive to exte al stimulation and needs to withdraw periodically because our energy is depleted by too much stimulation, whereas an extrovert is someone who goes out and seeks stimulation, often social stimulation, in order to be energized. That being said, there are a lot of assumptions that go along with introversion, some of which I call “introvert baggage.” Not all of the people who carry this baggage are introverts.
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Is Your Team Working with You or for You?
A big part of releasing clutter this month in your business is keeping only what you absolutely love, use and need. The only way to do that is to take inventory of every area of your business including your team and how you work together. Your team can be either formal, informal, or a combination of both. It may include your lawyer, financial advisor, business coach, virtual assistant, as well as family members and colleagues that you can share an idea with and get immediate feedback. Whether formal or informal it is important that your team includes YOU.
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***The Gift of Relationship
The deepest principle of human nature is the craving to be appreciated. William James We look to relationships to satisfy this craving. It's our natural state to be loving. Unfortunately with the busyness of our lives we forget what that natural state is. There is nothing better than a great relationship. You feel that you belong. You feel empowered. You feel an incredible aliveness. But ultimately we have to learn to have a great relationship with ourselves. When we do, it enriches everyone with whom we meet.
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Change Your Perspective
I'd like to share a Yiddish Folktale that illustrates the power of changing your perspective... There once was a farmer who became very disenchanted with his life. He decided to go see his Rabbi for advice. The Rabbi asked him what was making him feel so bad and the man replied, "I just can't take it anymore! I have a wife and two children living at home in one small room.
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***Six Secrets for Finding Joy and Meaning in the Midst of Uncertainty
You might have your own definition of success. Success is more than making money. Success is more than being recognized in a career. It's about being happy. It's about liking who you are. It's about having loving relationships. But if you are successful in a career and don't have time to share your success with loved ones, you are missing out on one of the joys of life. With your busy lifestyle, you wonder how you can find that balance.
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Smart Women Live A Proactive Life
Yesterday, as I was on my way to pick up my kids from school, it occurred to me that I was feeling exhausted—I mean really tired. As I made a mental scan of my day, I realized that I had been in a “reactive” mode most of the day rather than a “proactive” mode. We do need to react to situations that occur in our lives as best we can at that moment, however, Smart Women know that living a “proactive” life where you plan, prepare, and practice conscious living is clearly more rewarding.
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Is Tech Stress Driving You Screaming Mad?
It’s official (in case you hadn’t already noticed): technology is raising our stress level precipitously. In fact, Mike Kushner, co-owner of a computer solutions company in Palo Alto, Califo ia, has paramedics ready to respond to calls from what he calls the “digitally desperate.” Some of that desperation is created because the hardware malfunctions.
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It's Just a Shoe!
Are you one of those people who feels a bit anxious when things get really, reaaaaaallly good? Do you habitually cover your proverbial head, waiting for the other shoe to drop? Ugh. Don't you just hate that? It's one thing to be awake and aware that the unexpected does and will occur, but to go through life braced for it, afraid to risk and truly LIVE? That's debilitating.
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Have you ever had a psychological sucker punch?
Have you ever had someone explain to you, coldly and logically, why your dream or vision is impossible, and can never come true? Well, I have. Most recently last week. As it happens, I had stopped focusing on my stress management programs during the last year, while I finished my book, The Confident Introvert, and developed programs based on it. But I went back to that topic and am now developing what I think will be a new, exciting, and very complete program, combining elements of stress and habit management that I don’t think have ever been combined in quite this way before.
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The WORST Habit for Women (& how to break it!)
In my work with women, one bad habit that I see creeping into their daily lives is Procrastination. This one bad habit can create a struggle in your business and wreak havoc on your personal life too. I have a bad habit of procrastinating on making timely doctor appointments. The result? My "aches and pains" increase and treatment time takes a lot longer - not fun and not smart.
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Want More Serenity? - Be Like Water
"Be like water, you pour water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You pour water into a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Be like water."rn- Bruce Lee <u>Reflections</u> I remember vividly being 14 years old in my high school swim team. What stood out the most about those days were the morning training sessions held at 6am every day. I remember arriving at the pool and staring at the surface of the water, amazed at its stillness – without a single ripple of movement. There was something that just intrigued me about seeing that still, ripple-free and calm body of water.
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Smart Women Can Learn a Lot About Business from a 3rd Grader
Recently my son Jack, who’s in 3rd grade, had to do a book report and I spent some time guiding him through the process. His teacher had asked the report to consist of 6 elements: Title, Setting, Main Characters, Plot, Problem, and Solution. This got me thinking about how Smart Women could use this exercise to create a clear and focused plan for their business and entrepreneurial dreams. Having a firm foundation is essential for any business to have sustainable growth and long-term success. What do you need in order to create a firm foundation for your Big Idea, Dream, or Goal?
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Life Coaching - How She Gained Respect
As a life coach I focus on a process I call, “Radical Responsibility”. It’s a term I borrowed from my mentor, Dr. David Hawkins author of Power vs. Force. It is the antithesis of being a Victim. Instead of asking, “Why is this happening to me?” you ask, “How am I causing this?” In truth neither question is better or worse, they just give you a different experience of your life. When you ask, “Why is this happening to me?” you are basically saying that there is a world out there that I have to deal with and I don’t like it.
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Business Owners: Four steps to help you truly make time for yourself...and how that benefits your business AND your life
Self- care and me-time are simply not indispensable. In fact, making time for yourself is actually an essential ingredient if you want to thrive in your life and your business. Here are four steps to creating time for yourself and the benefits they can lead to in your business and your life: 1.Examine your mindset about me-time. Are you still struggling with an inner critic who tells you that self care is a pie-in-the-sky luxury?
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4 Steps to Radically Improve Your Odds of Achieving Your 2010 Resolutions
The 2009 holiday season has finished and the world is beginning a new year full of amazing possibilities including a list of resolutions millions of people plan on accomplishing during 2010. According to the USA.gov website the following items are the most common resolutions people make year after year: Lose Weight, Manage Debt, Save Money, Get a Better Job, Get Fit, Get a Better Education, Drink Less Alcohol, Quit Smoking Now, Reduce Overall Stress, Reduce Stress at Work, Take a Trip, and Volunteer to Help Others.
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Can you change the past?
Can you go back and change the past, or are you stuck with what you remember? That’s the key: what you remember. The fact is, our brains are stuffed with memories, only some of which we retrieve, convincing ourselves we have a true and complete picture of the past when in fact we have a partial, often negative, picture of our history.
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Meditation on Life
My Background From the time I was a young boy, probably from about the age of 5, I was exposed to meditation through my grandfather mainly. I remember being really young, waking up before dawn to the sounds of “Ohms”, other chants and Hindu prayers. I remember waking up, walking half asleep towards where the sounds were coming from, and sitting behind him, watching him as he went through his normal morning ritual.
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Ignore the Labels and Do What Fits Your Personality
I read some advice from a business coach that really ticked me off: it advised coaches to “stop hiding behind your telephone and computer...” OK, so perhaps I am being oversensitive, because I do spend a lot of time in front of my computer and I prefer coaching by phone. The thing is, I am not hiding! I spend the bulk of my business time on the computer because: 1) I like it. 2) I am not limited by geography – I can connect to someone on any continent.
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A Life Full of Thanksgiving
As much as I love the holidays, there is something special and peaceful about the few days before they arrive. The quiet you feel just before all of the preparation begins and the visitors arrive. Before the anticipation of a meal well cooked and the welcomed sounds and smells of the holidays.
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5 Tips to Help Boost Your Biography For Success
One of the best action steps you can take in your business is to create a biography that showcases your expertise and gives you the credibility you need to stand out from the crowd. It will boost your business in so many ways. You want to have your biography on your website and all of your marketing materials. If you desire to do more speaking to grow your business, you'll want a killer biography for the event host to read before you step onto the stage.
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SIMPLE SHARE on WHY
SIMPLE SHARE on WHY Why did I feel it necessary to get "help" and get a coach? My simple story. In 1994 I hit a wall. I was "sick and tired of being sick and tired" emotionally. While my self-employment was earning me a good living, many things around me were going unglued and I was turning far more frequently to mood altering substances and behaviours to "escape". I did not really like who I saw in the mirror and felt a soul pain inside.
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Second Chance Living!
What is “Second Chance Living”? It is having another opportunity to start your life, love, happiness and success stories all over again. When I teach on second chance living, many people come and make the claim that their second chance has already come and gone. Not so, second chance living is a daily walk. 2010 is the year of obedience, sacrifice and restoration. All three have everything to do with how your year will look. Obedience to what we know is right for our lives. Sacrificing our leisure time, taking time to give for the cause.
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Life Coach Reveals Technique for Releasing Stress
What makes you nervous? Usually its some future The Drunk Monkey in your head is obsessing over. The way to get relaxed is to see it for what it is. The Drunk Monkey in your head, all that talking is just trying to keep you alive longer by avoiding potentially negative experiences. This is great! Good Job Monkey! The problem happens when it fantasizes about negative futures that don’t even exist. Or when it compares you to some elisive set of standards that don’t exist.
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Navigating Family Dynamics During the Holiday Season and Beyond
With the holiday season fast approaching, time spent with family increases. Add this increased time with the addition of aunts, uncles, grandmas, grandpas and cousins, and you can have quite an interesting family dynamic. The more people you have involved in any one situation, the more effort it takes to manage the different personalities. Last year in our home was Christmas as usual. My mom, brother and his fiancé were in town and staying with us, so our normal family of four became a family of seven.
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Are Introverts just too quiet?
I hear it often – in person, from clients, on the internet – “I’m told I’m too quiet, and need to speak out more.” I’ve had more than one client whose job review included that feedback. And the client says to me, “But I only speak when I really have something to say – and then it’s overlooked or discounted. So why bother?” Why indeed do introverts so often feel their ideas and offerings are swept aside by other, louder people? Is the ability to influence other people really based on the ability to speak louder than other people?
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Family Relationships
How many of us have been negatively effected by bad family relationships- past or current? There is no required school for parenting, and we don't choose our families. In my own case, family relationships had a huge impact on the negative feelings I had toward myself; and these started way back. I came from a family that was not healthy for me. My parents had lots of love, but were not able to show it. They argued and my father, on binges, drank too muck. My mother has never taken a drink, so who will ever know if she had a problem? By today’s norms, I was an abused child.
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MASSIVE INSECURITY
MASSIVE INSECURITY I just read an article by a writer named Lisa Kogan on this topic. It was a great reminder that massive insecurity is an affliction suffered by a huge cross section of the entire population. We with addictions think it is unique to us. I have believed for years that while many with addictions have MI, it is shared by millions of others. There is that word I hear in oh so many places. NORMAL. I don't think there is any such thing. There are many who have chosen a path of life recovery; a path that addresses Massive Insecurity.
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Self Care over the holidays
Did you have a green smoothie today? Did you workout today? Did you meditate today? no… I thought not… you were too busy? The holidays can be a very challenging time. You may have conce s about weight gain, family members, work, money, and all kinds of other things. The good news is that, even with all these conce s, you can keep your Self Care routine strong and vibrant during the holidays.
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Smart Women Have An Attitude
Last week, the Women’s Club in my community celebrated men and women over the age of 90 by hosting a dinner and entertainment event in their honor. I read about this event in the local paper and was struck by one interview with a woman who was born in 1912 (she’s 96!). Her photo depicted a woman ...
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WE ARE "CREATED SELVES"
WE ARE “CREATED SELVES” Shakespeare said it, “This above all; to thine own self be true”. In a journey of life recovery, a transformation to a new and more abundant life, had not one of our real problems been true to our selves and selfishly so? For me the answer to this was yes; but I know today that the self-centered person I was true to was not who deep inside I was. I was being true to a “me” that had been created due to poor thinking and actions over an extended period of time.
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Smart Women Celebrate Their Independence
A few days each week I exercise with a few Smart Women in a park near my home that overlooks the Pacific Ocean. It's a beautiful setting that lends itself to taking your mind off the muscle pain and exhaustion from the workout! We are surrounded by magnificent sycamore and oak trees that stand strong and tall. The trees were planted and spaced apart in a very methodical way; however over time, they grew into their own independent and unique natural form with branches and limbs flowing in many different directions.
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Smart Women Know the Difference between a Job and a "Calling"
I am fortunate to spend time with a lot of Smart Women. A topic that comes up on a regular basis is this idea of a job vs. a "calling." What's the difference? How do you know what a "calling" is? Jobs are something that we do in our lives to keep ourselves and our families together. A "calling" ...
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It's Time To Change Your Focus
Have you ever noticed just how easy it can be to find yourself focusing on what you haven't yet accomplished? Do you know what I mean? You're lying in bed at night thinking about your to-do list and saying to yourself, "OH, I didn't get this done, and I didn't get that done either." Then to make matters worse, you pile on the pessimism and self-criticism with thoughts like, "Who am I kidding? I'm never going to catch up on this stuff.
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How to Manifest Your Desires with The Contribution Game: Applying The Law of Attraction
What is The Contribution Game? How will it manifest my desires? Who Will You Meet Today?
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Out of Balance?
Dick Cavett was quoted as saying "It is a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear" and Oscar Wilde said "To love ones self is the beginning of a lifelong romance”. Emerson said "Where there is no vision, people perish". I hit a point in my life where balance became a real issue. In working with clients and others I know I'm not alone. There was a balance in daily routine which made allot of sense. I certainly lived erratically. This area was addressed thoroughly at the treatment centre I attended many years ago.
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A SPIRITUAL LIFESTYLE
A Spiritual (not religious) Lifestyle Thought to Ponder . . .True religion is the life we lead, not the creed we profess. As I made a decision to do something about my life as it was back in 1994, early on I had the GOD thing thrown at me. Like most, I had attended Sunday school as a kid and ...
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The Key to Accountability
On last month, we looked at Daily Goal Setting and how this technique has changed my life and business. As promised, I would like to offer keys to your success with daily goal setting. One very important one is Accountability. In so many areas of our lives accountability has been and will always be a very important factor in living. Our parents or guardians held us accountable for daily living and chores. Our teachers have made us accountable for academic and extra curricula success and even our employers and managers, for professional success.
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What If You Were 5?
Attempting to set and achieve goals under stress and worry doesn't work. If the words in your head are saying something like, "I really have to have $5,000 before the end of July or I won't have the tuition to send Mary to College! What on earth is going to happen if I don't get it?
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Creating Memories
I love summertime because of all the simple pleasures and fun you get to have with family and friends. It is a time during the year when you can create wonderful memories and experiences for yourself and your loved ones. Some activities I always look forward to are picnics and barbeques, bike rides in the mountains, parties with friends, time at the pool, evening brisk walks, and last minute get together's.
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Relationship Goals Involve WHAT?
How are your relationships working for you? When it comes to relationship goals, here we find some of the most intricate challenges. Unlike most of your goals which involve yourself and inanimate objects or subjects such as your living quarters, your career, your money, your material items such as cars, clothes, your education, etc., relationship goals involve (shhhhh) other people. We can't control other people and we can't set goals for other people.
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Little habits can make big changes
As 2013 approached, I felt, as many do, that I was being given a clean slate, a chance to order my life better – if only I could stick to that plan. It has long been my dream to not only run my own business, meditate, and exercise daily, but also to resume practicing singing several times a week and to renew my study of French. On paper, it seemed doable. In real life, it never worked more than a day or so. Schedules slipped and slid; everything from small emergencies to illness got in the way.
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It’s Your Choice – Hand-Wringing or Strategizing
My youngest sister once told me (very insightfully)” “Face it, Jo; you’re not happy unless you have something to worry about. Once one worry is resolved, you just find something else to worry about.” She was absolutely right; I had to laugh at her observation. However it took someone else to point this out to me before I realized how much I let worry consume me. It was my habitual response to the unknown. I also realized that I did not want to maintain this habit anymore.
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EGO RUNNING WILD!
EGO RUNNING WILD! Thought to Ponder . . .The ego seeks the destination; the soul seeks the jou eyr What a deadly conflict I had going on for so many years, my ego searching for the destination and my forgotten soul seeking a journey! It made it hard to live in this skin of mine; seeking and achieving things that were never enough, yet a constant feeling of dis-ease inside. I remember well the day that a marriage counsellor suggested that alcohol and other mood altering activities may have a role in the breakdown of my marriage; the most important relationship in my life.
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How to Save Yourself from Drowning in the River of Thought
Have you ever thought of killing yourself? Seriously. I have. A number of times over the course of my life in fact. If you've never had that thought before you'll probably think it's crazy, but if you have, you'll know exactly how sad, lonely, and hopeless it can feel. Whether you can relate or not, here's something really interesting I've noticed... It's just a thought! Really. That's all it is.
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Why the Law of Attraction doesn't work
Struggling to get the law of attraction to work for you? Here are 10 reasons why it isn't and how you can make it work. 1 Your request wasn't clear and specific.
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Creative Visualization : 10/10 Positive Visualization Technique
Counting your blessings each day is essential for positive growth. God/Source/Universe is happy to provide for you as long as you are happy about what you already have. If you are dissatisfied with your current situation, that energy muddles up your intentions. The more dissatisfied you are, the more you get what dissatisfies you. Remember, this is an attraction-based universe.
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Are you bothered by public speaking?
Your work or life may require speaking in public. Some people think of public speaking as delivering a talk to a large audience; others think that two or more people constitute a large enough audience to be intimidating. Are you one of the rare people who is frightened of public speaking? Note the use of sarcasm here: actually public speaking has long been the #1 fear in the United States, just ahead of nuclear warfare. You are most emphatically not alone.
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Are you determined not to age?
We live in a youth-oriented society, where the fastest growing group, the Baby Boomers, learned, “Never trust anyone over thirty.” They’ve probably extended that limit by now; I haven’t checked recently to see what it is. 60? 70? We see ads everywhere for products and services to erase wrinkles, get rid of flab (painlessly and quickly), and make your teeth whiter than nature intended (without giving up coffee or red wine). So let’s look at a few facts:
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How Sharp Are Your Goal Antennae?
Remember when you suddenly had a great idea? Think back. What was it? Do you remember what you did with that great idea (a 'great idea' is a goal in its infancy)? If you grabbed hold of it with both hands and feet and parlayed it into something fulfilling and wondrous, then you probably don't need to read further. But if you didn't, and possibly regret it, the following could shed some light. Depending on your personality you may have done one or more of the following: • Processed it and processed it and may still be thinking about it months later.
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Smart Women and "Cravings"
A few days ago, my husband Greg and I had dinner with my good friend and smart woman, Diane Elander and her family. (http://www.dianeelander.com) Diane is a "food stylist." She is an artist who creates that appetizing, desirous emotion that you feel when you see her creations in cookbooks, magazines, and product packaging. When she pulled up her web site and we took a "tour" of her food creations, each photo made your mouth water and "crave" each dish.
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Is Martyrdom Fueling Your Overeating
Do you overeat when you are stressed or tired or overwhelmed? Do you flop down exhausted at the end of the day feeling like there is never enough time for you? Despite your best intentions, do you never seem to get to that exercise plan, that journal that you want to write in, or that fun project you really want to start? Do you ever feel like no one really understands how much is expected of you? Are you feeling resentful that there is never enough time to get to you? If you find yourself answering yes to any of these questions, it’s time to consider whether martyrdom is havi
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9 Game Changing Tips for Women Entrepreneurs in 2013
At the end of each year, I take an inventory of my life and business to shine a light on what proved to be most effective. Here are my top nine timely tips for women entrepreneurs who are ready to make a big leap in 2013: 1. Trust Your Instincts - It's essential that you hone your intuition and become comfortable making decisions about your life and business. Set a goal to practice being present more often and listen closely to your internal voice.
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I Have a Reason to Be PO'ed
It is true for all of us, there are times when S..T happens. It is how we respond to it that counts. I love to play golf. The golf course is such a window on life and an insight into the people who play the game. Spend four hours plus with a seemingly intelligent and balanced human being, let them put on a "Tiger Woods Casual" outfit (Tiger wears shorts when not playing tour events), put them in a beautiful setting and arm them with a club(s), little stationary ball and an objective to get the club(s) to direct the ball into a 4 inch hole with the least swings possible! WOW!
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Are You Hiding From Success?
Last week, I had the good fortune to speak to an amazing group of smart women at the Success Summit and Expo here in Los Angeles. As a speaker, you hope to present an idea or concept that will provide value to a group, although you never really know until you actually see how the audience reacts if you've chosen something worthwhile. Well, I'll share with you that one of my points hit home with many of the women in the room. I could see eyes wide open and heads nodding. Are you curious about what it might be? It's called Imposter Syndrome.
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Introverts: Answer 8 Questions to Break Free from Perfectionism and Get it Done
I have a not-so-surprising confession to make: I’m a perfectionist. If my correspondence is any indication, many introverts share this trait (and I suspect many extroverts as well). Perfectionism serves us in many ways: it motivates us to make our best effort; it results in high-quality, accurate work; it fuels our self-esteem (who wants to think of herself as mediocre?).
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Healing your Past
“There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.” ~ Washington Irving When you hold on to a grudge, or regret, you are holding on to negative emotions that can block you from manifesting good things in your life. To remove this block, You need to forgive and let go.r
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Be Open to the Moment
The last couple of weeks, being knocked flat by an infection bug, have certainly given me time to reflect on some real core issues. One great reminder has been the importance of the moment and keeping my mind open to the “potential” of NOW. Within now are answers. "Why not concentrate on the ...
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5 Ways To Develop More Patience With Children
Which of the following situations send you over the edge? You ask your child to do something three times and he is still not listening. Your four year old is having a complete melt down over something you see as insignificant. You've had a long day and your teenager won't stop arguing with ...
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3 to 1: What Life Coaching Is and Isn't
With the growing awareness of Life Coaching, more and more people are interested in finding out more. They get bits and pieces here and there but are still left wondering exactly what happens, how it works and how much it costs. As these things can vary quite a bit, one thing that is constant is ...
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Comfort Strategies to Replace Emotional Eating
A client just asked: “I know I use food for comfort and to soothe myself. What can I do instead?” That is such a common question—and one that can be so difficult to answer--especially in the moment. When we want comfort, food can seem like such a quick, easy, accessible fix. I recommend that you spend some time generating a list of possible comfort strategies. They won’t all fit in every situation, but options are always helpful.
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Redefing Work
Redefining Work More support for “The Creative Theory of Recovery” I’ve been privileged to walk this earth for a while, do some great things, travel and work with interesting and progressive people. I’ve also seen far too many talented people what I would call ...
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Smart Women Are 40, 50, 60 And Beyond!
Recently, as I was leaving my bank in Los Angeles, I saw a stack of magazines near the door, entitled “Life After 50.” And if you have followed the media trail this past week, it’s all about Madonna turning 50. This is a big deal in our society where youth typically rules. Here’s a woman who has ...
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Remembrance Day
Remembrance DaynI awoke this morning well before first light. November 11 is a special day in my heart. A day to remember times and people past, and remember with gratitude. I have been fortunate to live in a time in history were I have not been needed to serve in active military service. My ...
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Attitude: It's Everything
Attitude. A great word and it reflects in every aspect of our lives! "And we have ceased fighting anything or anyone -- even alcohol (or other addictions or destructive behaviour). For by this time sanity will have returned. We will seldom be interested in liquor (Or old behaviours).If tempted, we recoil from it as from a hot flame. We react sanely and normally, and we will find that this has happened automatically. We will see that our new attitude toward liquor (an others negative living habits) has been given us without any thought or effort on our part. It just comes!
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Are you listening to your body?
There’s an old story about a city slicker watching a farmer begin to train a mule. First, the farmer picked up a two-by-four and hit the mule over the head. Then he did it again … and again. The city slicker finally said, “I don’t get it. What are you trying to teach him?” The farmer replied, “I’m not trying to teach him anything yet; I’m just trying to get his attention.” Every day, your body and mind may be trying to get your attention before you have a big stress breakdown, resulting in anything from minor illness to a heart attack. Are you paying attention?
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Smart Women Ignite Their Fire
As I was getting ready for a day of skiing on a recent family ski trip, I had one goal in mind: Stay warm! I knew it was going to be cold and windy that day, and I wanted to make sure that I kept my body heat inside. This got me thinking about how Smart Women who are living a life filled with ...
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The Alchemy of Emotions
According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary alchemy means the following 1 : a medieval chemical science and speculative philosophy aiming to achieve the transmutation of the base metals into gold, the discovery of a universal cure for disease, and the discovery of a means of indefinitely ...
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Make It A Good Day?
When I got up Wednesday morning, I had a choice to make. I choose to make it a good day. There is enough craziness going on in this world, the talk of economic collapse, and gosh help us, elections on both sides of the border. Here in Canada, as far as leadership goes, I don’t find any ...
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Life Evaluation
There are a lot of unknowns right now in society and it is difficult not to feel the fear and uncertainty. No matter what your situation is, you are likely to feel a sense of camaraderie with others. The universe will sometimes provide circumstances to push you to take a step back from your life ...
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There Has Never Been a More Exciting Time to Live on Earth!
Are you among those who are Henny Pennying? Remember? Henny Penny, the ditsychicken who ran around the farmyard hollering, “The sky is falling, the sky is falling!” in the story we heard as little kids. To many of you, especially during the last few weeks of record setting market trends, ...
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Feature Article: Are You Living In Fear Of Losing Your Job; Tips On How To Transform Your Job In Times Of Recession.©
No one disputes it-- we are in a global economic slowdown, creating tough competitive challenges for personal and Feature Article: Are you Living in Fear of Losing Your Job; Tips on How to Transform Your Job in times of Recession.©nnprofessional growth. Organizations are getting flatter or ...
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That God Thing
As I reflect on the week that was, I can’t help but remember how many times a fear of god and not understanding spirituality came up. My own belief is that to have any real contented success in life, you need a “spiritual”, not necessarily a religious, foundation. Why do many ...
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Oprah and Emotional Eating
If you haven't heard yet, you will soon--it's everywhere in the media. Oprah has disclosed that she has regained weight she worked so hard to lose and that she now weighs 200lbs. My heart goes out to Oprah,as well as to the millions of women who struggle just like her. Today, on a morning news show, I watched two reporters banter back and forth about what they believe she should be doing to reach and maintain a lower weight. They discussed their certainty that slower weight loss, smaller meals, and more frequent exercise are just what Oprah needs.
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10 Tips for Increasing Your Effectiveness (No Matter What You're Trying to Do)
No matter how big our dreams, our time and resources are limited. Moving forward effectively is key. Once you've committed to accomplishing something and putting in the effort, you'll want to get the biggest return on your investment that you can, in the most efficient way. Here are ten of my best tips for increasing your effectiveness and achieving your goals–whatever they may be. 1.Be clear on your final outcome This may sound obvious, but it's surprisingly easy to skip this step. Be as clear as you can about what it is that you are working to accomplish.
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Smart Women Practice Gratitude
Last week, I was at my Mastermind Meeting and my good friend and Smart Woman, Chellie Campbell, mentioned that she had read an article on how expressing gratitude may be one of the keys to being a happier, healthier person. The very next day, I picked up a magazine which actually cited ...
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Honoring You in All Your Relationships
It's no secret that it takes two to create and maintain a healthy relationship. Although I would agree with this statement, I also know there is a lot one person can do to change the dynamics of any relationship. And since none of us have the power to change another person, it only makes sense ...
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Inside Man
In my latest book “Life” and seminar series, “ The L.I.F.E. Experience,” we bring home the point that Life is an inside job. We often spend our energy, time and money looking outside of ours selves for the answers, when everything we need is within us. Growing up my ...
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Smart Women Get Back On The Pogo Stick
The other day as we were driving to school, my daughter Jenna boldly stated, “Mom, for my birthday, I want a Pogo Stick.” This statement made me curious so I asked her, “Jenna, why do you want a Pogo Stick?” Jenna’s reply was “Mom, it’s easy. You just get on, fall off, get back up, and get on ...
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Why You Can't Just "Let Go" of a Limiting Belief
I am shocked at the number of self help and motivalional experts experts who tell people to let go of limiting beliefs and create new ones! I see it in books, on blogs and promotions of all sorts. Almost everything out there about limiting beliefs is filled with this nonsense. Why am I so ...
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You Aren't Wired for Happiness
You are a practicing Being Unstoppable! You are someone committed to having it all…right? You want the money, you want the freedom, and you want the joy of existence…you want to be inspired and in action on your dreams…feeling the exhilaration of being a fully engaged adult on ...
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You and the Economy: Taking Advantage of Opportunities
How are you doing? Do you feel stressed or overwhelmed? Maybe on the edge, but not sure the edge of what? It's hard to avoid listening and reading all the doomsday press and not let it get to you at times. According to the International Council of Shopping Centers, 73,000 stores will shut their ...
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Introverts: When in Doubt, Have Fun with It
I spend a lot of time making decisions. I suspect you do too. You know how it goes: you analyze the pros and cons (and you're so good at seeing both sides of every argument, your pros and cons come out dead even). You ask yourself whether each choice is aligned with your values (you ARE aware of ...
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How to Get Back Your Ex - A Surefire 3-Step Plan
When you first break up, you'll find yourself having all sorts of thoughts and emotions. This is a dangerous time for you! And... it's a time you shouldn't be making decisions about your relationship and how to get back your ex! It might seem strange that I'm telling you now isn't the time to ...
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Slowing Down When Everyone Else is Speeding Up
Extreme busyness is a chronic disease that afflicts many moms today. As a matter of fact, I was just listening to the One Month to Live DVD by Kerry and Chris Shook. They identified three passion busters. I'm not talking about sexual passion, although I'm sure your husband would love that. ...
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Smart Women Give Themselves Permission
Recently, I was having a conversation with a woman when she asked me a crucial question: “What are the steps I need to take in order to live a life filled with passion and purpose?” It’s really a 3 part process. When a woman is ready to create her own extraordinary life, she needs to first ...
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Step 1: The Mirror Told Me So
STEP 1/Twelve Steps Each year I like to run through the 12 steps as written in the book Alcoholics Anonymous. These steps were an adaptation of many works before them, and are a universal truth for all people who want to enjoy good mental Hygiene and an abundant life. They have been adopted by ...
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Transformation: One Shifting Perspective at a Time!
On January 31st, I had the honor and privilege of presenting the first of four half-day workshops, titled, “The Transformation Series.” It was held in Olympia, Washington, at Abundant Fitness Center (www.AbundantFitnessCenter.com). The work centered on the first two chapters of my book, “WHO ...
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Accepting Change
Change is a word we hear oh so often. Whether we like it or not, things are going to change; we can influence how they change, and whether the change has positive direction for our life. There is much that directly affects our own well being that is within our control. When the journey to a new ...
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P.R.E.P. Yourself for Success
"You've got to be tough to do the big things in life like taking risks, admitting mistakes, and changing bad habits. You've got to be tough to do the little things like biting your tongue, waiting your turn and putting up with fools. Self-reliance and self-confidence will demand your ...
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Relationships
With “Mother’s Day” just past, what a better a topic to think about than relationships? They have such a huge impact on every facet of life. My relationship (like many men) with my mother was a troubled one. I was the victim of abuse, and did not feel safe or like I belonged as a child. My ...
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Smart Women and The Academy Awards
Like millions of people all over the world, my family watched the Academy Awards on Sunday night. People watch “the Oscars” for different reasons. Some people watch because they enjoy the fashion show and like to see the costume choices. Some people watch because they can’t wait to see who won ...
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Intellectual Property: Trade Secrets, Copyrights and Trademarks
Many professionals have a lot of questions about protecting their materials and name. What they are conce ed with is what we call 'intellectual property'. Intellectual property can represent 70% of a company's value, so it is important to not only understand it, but to also understand how best ...
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Smart Women Visit the Magic Kingdom
Recently, our family took a trip to the "happiest place on earth"---Disneyland! As we made our way to the Magic Kingdom, I noticed a large sign hanging over the entrance that read, "Where old friends meet for the very first time." I began to smile. This got me thinking about how Smart Women take ...
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15 Quick Tips to Conquer Disorganization
Moms have an almost Universal need to be and stay organized. With all the hats we wear, it is increasingly more important to stay on top of everything and maximize our efficiency. Without organization, we drop balls, forget about important activities, increase our tendency to feel stressed, ...
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The Doctor's Opinion
"The Doctor's Opinion"nn-It Defies Psychologists Why Co-Creative Life Recovery may be the best option to those with addictions; it works for everybody! A spiritual awakening plays a key role in the recovery of a life ANY person wants. While it works for those with addictions, it works for ALL. ...
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Five Ways To Give Up Mediocre For Personal Best
With schedules and to-do lists jammed with a thousand things, it’s easy to begin lowering the bar for yourself. You convince yourself that just getting it done is more important than how well you are actually doing it. You start to trade performance or quality for completion. Sometimes you are ...
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Quick Fixes to the 3 Big Energy Zappers
Many moms today are running on empty. In the morning, we fill up on a quarter tank of coffee (or our equivalent gasoline), and then try and engage in activities that require a full tank. What happens when our fuel runs out? We get tired, irritable and just plain unproductive, due to our lack ...
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Bedevilment: An Interesting Word
BEDEVILMENTS (interesting word) Got this reading this morning, and the word bedevilment is one I have not seen in ages. So over to Mr. Webster. He says, "exasperating interference and trouble; a besetting with devils". The way he puts it, I know I have experienced it. Have you? The message: ...
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Impact on Family/Dad May Die
This week, I think I’ve gone through the most impactful and emotional occurrence of my recovery journey. I have watched death several times as people start, and then leave the journey to a better life. Addictions are a terrible disease. They kill. So does the impact of poor mental ...
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Give Up Your Righteousness
There are six billion people on this planet. Every single person has a completely different perspective. You know that every single person has had billions of experiences. Experience shapes our opinions, judgments, ideals, preferences, and ultimately our view of life. Every one of these ...
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Are You Afraid To Be Different?
Are you afraid to be different? After doing a coaching session this morning, and spending a weekend in what will eventually be our new home town, I thought the question asked and information shown below (Received from Express Coaching-Dr. Randin Brons) was right on the money! Unfortunately, ...
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Sleep and the Introvert Brain
You may have read or heard the expression that "introverts are wired differently." That means, among other things, we process information differently than extroverts. According to Marti Olsen Laney in her book, The Introvert Advantage, the introvert's brain is "dominated by the long, slow ...
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Redundancy - Disaster or Opportunity?
When your job is made redundant, it’s all to easy to see it as a disaster - as though you’re unwanted, unloved and you’ve been assigned to the scrap heap. Even if you’re quite happy to leave the job you’re in, and move on, you may go through a period of ‘mou ing’, of feeling rejected and ...
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Smart Women Prepare For A Successful Conference Season
Conference season for women entrepreneurs is in full swing! Over the next few weeks, I’m attending multiple events as a keynote speaker, as well as an attendee. This time of year is perfect to get out of the office and connect with potential business resources and new clients. The key is to be prepared for success. “Showing up” won’t get you the results you’re hoping for. The key is to show up with a strategy that works. Here are six strategies that are guaranteed to get you winning results when you attend conferences and events:
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Do You Overeat When Life Feels “Out of Control?”
Do you overeat when you feel like your life is out of control, when you feel overwhelmed, or when you feel stressed out? Examining the way you approach the issue of control in your life can have a tremendous impact on how you feel—and on your eating. One of my biggest rules for stress management is that when things feel out of control, it’s crucial to identify the parts of your life that you can control and take charge of these with purpose.
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Smart Women Create the Right Internal Environment
Last week, I was having a conversation with another smart woman and we found ourselves on a familiar topic to many people with children: schools and education. This woman has children in middle school and high school and she was sharing with me that the schools have two tracks in which to ...
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Live Longer, Feel Better, and Look Better: Is a Calorie Restricted Diet for you?
When I was working at the hospital, in the '90's, we accepted dietetic interns and one of those interns was a student from Singapore, whose husband was in medical school at the same time. Their plan was to return to Singapore to open their own wellness center. I share this because it was from ...
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How to Create and Keep Positive Beliefs
The importance of what we believe.... n n“Beliefs have the power to create and power to destroy”- a quote by Anthony Robins that I truly appreciate. Think of a time where you believed with utter certainty that you would achieve a goal? What were the things that you did to achieve that goal? How ...
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***Preventing Job Burnout by Creating Balance
• Does your work and life feel unbalanced? • Are you sick and tired most of the time? • Do you feel like work overwhelms you? You may be experiencing job burnout.
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Smart Women Are Like Harry Potter
Recently, my son Jack and I went to the local bookstore in search of the book Harry Potter 4. We have an agreement that we will read each Harry Potter book in the series together and then watch the movie. This has two wonderful benefits: One, I get to spend quality time reading a great series ...
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Getting it Up!
Always good to read something from Norman Vincent Peale, the king of positive thinkers! I know a ton of people in my life who can find a negative in almost anything, they are the "king" of BUTS. Yes, But. Heard the phrase? I've been in that space also. Normal (what's "normie"-seperate ...
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Life Coaching: When you Spot it, Acknowledge it
When you spot something synchronistic acknowledge it. Get yourself in high alert today. Be alert to the miracles that are happening. Notice how you think of people and they call. You think about something and it happens. You have this power. You have the power to influence reality. When ...
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Mirroring
A weekend just past and the first client of day completed, and my head turns to a technique known as mirroring. Funny, as I work with clients to bring out the talent within them, I find myself asking questions that I am, in part, asking of myself. It is true that we see ourselves in others. In ...
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Disappointment and Frustration?
How can disappointments be opportunities to grow? When we feel thwarted, frustrated or empty it is difficult - but not impossible - to see the positive side of our pain. It is from this type of situation we are trained to coach people to success- however they define success. Most ...
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Co-Creative Process Dreams
We are all blessed with two minds; one conscious that we react to and are aware of, the other, subconscious; a place where dreams dwell. A place of untapped possibilities. Just like high performing athletes, entertainers and business leaders, all of us can use coaching to take us to the ...
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Smart Women Develop A Mindset – “Ready, Fire, Aim”
This past weekend, our family went out to Palm Desert to visit my in-laws for Mothers Day. I had the opportunity to spend some quality time with Greg’s father, Lowell. I enjoy my “chats” with him. He loves business and marketing and always has great ideas. One of the topics we landed on was ...
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Obstacles to Success – Part 2
As mentioned in my last article, “obstacles cause us to lose momentum as we are trying to achieve our visions and goals. They often make us feel stuck. And sadly, the longer we feel stuck, the more likely we are to give up on whatever it is we were striving towards.” There are two kinds of ...
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Tonight, I Heard a Miracle
I’m very fortunate, the things I’m involved in and the new life I’ve been given allow me to be positive about life most of the time. I also have a sense of realism. I have had the good fortune to see tremendous growth in the lives of others on a frequent basis and in nearly ...
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Differences- Sponser/Coach
Differences:Sponsor / Coach Twelve Differences between your Sponsor and your Coach: As I chose coaching as my profession, and shared with others that I’d look at working with addicted people and those affected by addiction as a niche within my practise, some who have the honesty to be up ...
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The Power Of We | Life Coaching And Addiction Recovery
When I started on the journey to recover a life that was happy, joyous and free, and life filled with hope and serenity, I quickly learned the power of “WE”. While addictions were active in my life at the time, they were not the problem that stopped me from achieving the life I ...
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Your Coach, Your Recovery, Your Option
Using a Life Coach for Addiction Recovery A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and deadline behind it. As I went through a major process to determine what I wanted to focus on for the rest of my life, the answer finally came to me: Helping others. Specifically, coaching ...
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Smart Women Get Off the Fence
While driving along Sunset Blvd. a few days ago, I thought about a conversatio I had earlier that morning with a friend about how difficult it is for some people to make a decision. This process can be a challenge and create a lot of anxiety. I'm not sure if people are aware that "sitting on ...
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Simplicity
There is an old expression that rings true so often. “I could complicate the Lord’s Prayer”. Not withstanding that the Lord’s Prayer is a complicated document, I think we all know the intended thought behind complicating it. Often wonder how nice it would be to walk the ...
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Smart Women Understand The BLT Factor
Recently, my family attended a western-themed fundraiser to benefit our children’s elementary school. It was a fun-filled afte oon with various booths for the children and adults to participate in. Each booth had a different activity where you could try your skills. Walking around the event, I ...
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Thanksgiving
Here in Canada, we are starting our Thanksgiving weekend. While timing is great to get a long weekend, the name thanksgiving means so much more to me than three days were the work world shuts down; it brings gratitude to the forefront! Around me the trees are changing color. The reds in some of ...
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What is Greatness?
Greatness is simply rising to the occasion to meet the needs of the moment -- whatever they are. Ideally it is executing with accurate perception what is needed in the moment. Thus accurate perception and not heroic action is what makes the great great and the moment memorable. To the frantic ...
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Bankrupt of Faith?
Bankrupt of Faith? Ok Mr. Webster, your on! In this period we live in we all understand bankrupt, but what can you tell us about FAITH? On page 338 of this very thick editio I have, you state about FAITH:""trust, confidence; complete acceptance of a truth which cannot be demonstrated or ...
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Tools For Transformation
Who am I? What is my purpose in life? How can I find happiness? At some point in our lives we all find ourselves asking these questions. The answers come from a deeper level I call “spiritual.” To me, spiritual unfoldment means recognizing and expressing the divine nature in each of us. ...
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The 3 Word Approach To Mommy Evaluations
Superior athletes receive the MVP award. Oscars are given to the best actors and actresses. Business owners can earn a designation of "Entrepreneur of the Year". How often have you received the "Best Mom of the Year" award? I've never received that award, and I'm a good mom. We have one of ...
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GRATITUDE-HOW QUICK I CAN FORGET
GRATITUDE-HOW QUICK I CAN FORGET The last few days I have a wonderful opportunity to spend time at a golf club I belong to. Late yesterday we played a “fun” competition where the winners enjoyed a great steak dinner and those who finished second had beans. Nice beans, with franks, ...
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Things Don't Change; We Do
Things do not change; we change. --Henry David Thoreau For a man who is in the coaching business, and is on the life journey I’m on, I find the title statement PROFOUND. Think on it and see if you can see the depth of the thought. I spent a good portion of my life thinking I could change ...
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Life's Purpose Through Patience And Waiting
I've started to realize that waiting is an art, that waiting achieves things. Waiting can be very, very powerful. Time is a valuable thing. If you can wait two years, you can sometimes achieve something that you could not achieve today, however hard you worked, however much money you threw up in ...
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Are Your Expectations Growing? They Should!
I read something over the course of the weekend that was a good reminder and provoked some thought in me. A numbers of years ago, I was not happy with the life I was living, and addictions were playing too big a role in my daily living. I had frequent moments where there was obvious insanity in ...
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Smart Women Make Amazing Things Happen
The month of March is a very important month if you are a basketball fan. It’s “March Madness” and there are games from every team around the country participating in playoffs and finals all month. We are big basketball fans at our house. I was watching a game this week with my ...
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Powerless. Who Me?
POWERLESS. WHO ME? I’ve got a friend going for wedding #3 tomorrow, I’m best(questionable) man, and pre-wedding golf game. Thus an early post! It’s been a day to really think about powerlessness. Years ago, I came to realize that I was powerless over my addictions, and my ...
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Smart Women Keep Their Inner Door Open
Our family went to the Santa Barbara Zoo this past weekend. I love this zoo because it’s not overwhelming (you can see everything in about 2 hours) and Santa Barbara is a favorite spot of mine to relax. When we entered the exotic birds area, a sign on the door read, “For the safety of our birds, please close the inner door before opening the outer door.” That really made me chuckle. I thought, “Well, I don’t think the women will have too much trouble remembering this!”
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Vision- Got One?
There is a daily blog that I love done by a fellow named Patrick who resides in Michigan. It can be found under “Spiritual River” and is one of the best feeds I’ve been exposed to on the net! I am hoping Patrick and I find a way to work together, I love a lot of his ...
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Monotone- Recasting Vision For Your Life
Who do you think of when you picture someone talking in monotone? I personally think of Ben Stein who did the Clear Eyes commercials a few years back. His voice remained at the same tone throughout the commercial. He did not show any excitement whatsoever in the product he was selling. He was ...
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Smart Women Are Nutritious
Last week, on two separate occasions, I had the topic of what I refer to as “nutritious” people come up. I was speaking at a women’s convention and I asked them to write down at least 3 “nutritious” people” they have in their life right now. I also had a conversation with a woman in my Success ...
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Smart Women Are Nutritious
Last week, on two separate occasions, I had the topic of what I refer to as “nutritious” people come up. I was speaking at a women’s convention and I asked them to write down at least 3 “nutritious” people” they have in their life right now. I also had a conversation with a woman in my Success Circle about the difference between “nutritious” people versus those that can drain you and zap your energy level. You know the relationships I’m talking about-- right?
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Weight Loss That Lasts--The Importance Of Maintenance
The most consistently neglected part of the weight loss process is the phase of “maintenance.” Without solidifying our ability to maintain, our chances of creating lasting change in our relationship with food or enduring weight loss are slim.
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Concrete Resolutions
January is usually the month when people make resolutions for the new year they are about to embark on. We review and take account of what was done the previous year and what was not done; what we did accomplish or not accomplish. I believe it is absolutely a good thing to examine and take ...
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Live A Life Of Joy
Each and every one of us is capable of living a life of joy. No matter what our current beliefs or situations are, we are always capable of tapping into a strength that will bring about more peace and joy. Some of us become so preoccupied with our past, that we are literally unable to find the ...
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The All Important Opening
A lot of times we get wrapped up in our products. And why not? We've worked for months putting our business together and our products are what people want to buy. When it comes to putting together a sales letter we want to explain every little detail so our prospect can see exactly what they're getting when they make their purchase. Isn't this the way it should be? NO! The customer doesn't care about the late nights you spent meticulously researching your product. The customer wants to know just ONE thing: What's In It For Me?
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The Assumption Trap
A few months ago I was contacted to speak to a local women's association group. In the context of our communications, I was asked if I had a book, and if so, would I offer a discount? I assumed the client wanted a discount off my speaking services if some of their audience members purchased my ...
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Are You Dreaming Big?
So many people have wonderful dreams that are buried just beneath the surface--a book they'd love to write, a business venture they'd like to pursue, a race they'd like to sign up for, or a trip they want to take. If only. If only they had: more time, more motivation, more get-up-and-go. If only they weren't so busy, or if only they had--more money, more connections, more support. If only they could get organized, or if only they could get some time to think. If only they could figure out the first steps. Here's what I know: 1.
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First Steps-Do You Remember?
My parents and family have told me about my first steps. I certainly don’t remember them, but I am told I was an “early” walker. Seems I was early at trying a lot of things-booze, girls, dope, motorcycles, lying, stealing, cheating! I was not early getting into a journey of ...
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How Smart Women Stay Connected
I was sitting in a park recently watching my children play with their grandparents and all at once I heard this deep, booming voice from a distance say, “You must make contact if you want to stay in the game.” I turned to my left and saw a coach working with a girl’s softball team – instructing them on their swing and explaining the importance of making contact between the bat and ball at just the right moment. This made me think about the idea of contact. For me, contact is about making connections in the relationships I care about – both personally and professionally.
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Live Today-Things Change Quickly
I awoke this morning to a brilliant blue sky, and an awareness that something subtle had changed. I have a funeral to attend today. I attend meetings on a fairly regular basis. I am a creature of habit, and have been sitting in the same area of the meeting for years. I look around the room and ...
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Self-Reflection
-we all need it So far, it’s been a really interesting day. Things are now quiet, and I am reflecting on a few things that have happened lately. In response to one of my jou als, I got some very constructive feed back on content and approach, and some constructive feedback on my web site ...
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My Stroke Of Insight-A New Earth-Spiritual Experience
I was really taken by the Oprah web casts of A New Earth and Eckhart Tolle.It certainly added a lot to my spiritual journey, and gave me some great perspectives that I am using with others while coaching them through a process to help them awaken spiritually. I have continued to watch Oprah and ...
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Do It Because You Like The EFFECT??
Do It Because You Like The EFFECT?? I get some great stuff from friends who are in recovery from one thing or another, or just recovering from people and the past. The Following hit me right between the eyes. Can you relate? "Men and women drink (drug, overeat, cut, use sex, gamble, ...
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Formula For Failure
While reflecting on the early part of my life, seeing and understanding what happened, and looking at how things played out, it is apparent the people pleasing, the need to make others happy, has played a large role in my life. I see the remnants of this behaviour, learned at a young age, still ...
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What Is The Secret That Separates Successful People From Failures?
Quite frequently now, I'm having times when I am in complete awe of the power of the Universe. And I just keep saying "Wowww!" When I stay in sync with the big "U", which is more and more often now, and things happen to reinforce all that we are taught, I am reminded of just how simple and ...
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Can You Confess? And Why?
Can You Confess? And Why? One day this week, I had a response to a blog about being honest with yourself in taking a personal inventory. It was great to get a response; it’s nice to know someone actually reads what I write. The response was about being a former Catholic and the real ...
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Smart Women Know When To Let Go
Every day as I leave my house, I am drawn to a large tree across the street, with beautiful branches and leaves. For awhile now, it has been shedding its leaves. Yesterday I noticed for the first time that all of the leaves have fallen off, leaving the tree bare. Nature has a way of making room ...
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My Inside Versus Your Outside
What a great reminder I had today. This is something, without thinking about, I know I periodically do! How about you? They say you can’t judge a book by its cover, yet publishers spend a fortune to create great covers. As a person, for years, I did all I could to create a great exterior, ...
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Life Is A Game
Another weekend over, and some very good reminders and perspectives. I was very fortunate to get three golf games in on three days, and to have a chance to do something nice for my dear old mother. Friday we had a good buddy down from Peterborough. He is a great athlete, about my age, and has ...
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Smart Women Know How To Make Music
While on our way to school listening to a solo piano CD this morning, (it's a great tool that I use to calm everyone down after a hectic morning rushing to get out the door!) my 5 year old daughter Jenna asked me, "Mom, how do you make music?" It reminded me of when I was a little girl and my ...
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You Want The Big Life?
So You Want the Big Life???? Getting it through coaching Written by Gary Glasscock and Keith Bray Whether it is in life, sports, fitness, career, relationships, health, or executive performance, more and more people are turning to personal coaches to help them achieve goals they set for ...
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It Wouldn't Be Make Believe...
Sometimes you may be tempted to ‘give up’ on living your dreams, desires, and passions. Romantic relationships seem relegated to fairy tales. Familial relationships become a game of ‘trying not to offend’ or ‘let’s just get through this’. Relationship to self becomes a mantra stating, “That’s ...
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Tune In - Give The Gift Of Listening
Think of a time you were conversing with someone. As you talked with them you noticed the lights were on, but nobody was home. You may say they were in la la land or daydreaming. When was the last time you got the blank stare from someone? We have all probably experienced chatting with a friend ...
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When Was The Last Time You Flipped Your Switch
What are you thoroughly sick of? You feel that if it continues on in your life you are going to explode! You feel powerless in the grip of this, you don’t know where to turn and it’s all you can think of most of the time. You feel like you are going in circles and can’t break out into a ...
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Cut yourself some slack
How many of you feel that you have so many different responsibilities in your life, that you cannot possibly make it all work. You may be focusing on work obligations while trying to keep your household up and running. All of this running around creates a feeling of hopelessness. I have seen it ...
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5 Ways To Attract The Relationships You Want
There has been a time in my life when relationships were a source of great discontentment in my life. I worked around negative people. I didn't have a lot of the kinds of friends I wanted. I was in a marriage that was lonely and filled with conflict. Although today all my relationships are ...
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Patience. What Is It?
Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet. --Lida Clarkso We all want life to unfold according to our plan. After all, we are certain we know what's best for us. But hindsight quickly reminds us that few, if any, of us had included recovery in a Twelve Step program as part of our life's plan. ...
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Are You Hooked Like a Bass?
Technology Addiction? Tomorrows Pot? There is no doubt that during the later part of my life, technology in communications has exploded. Is it good or bad, and how many are becoming addicted? I’ve certainly had some comments about this on the Big Life web site in my Free From Addictions ...
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Tagged
I remember growing up we use to play a game called "tag". I am sure you remember playing this game with the neighborhood kids. One or more kids would count to 10 and then chase other kids to tag them and they would be what we called "it". The kids who were tagged were the next ones to count, ...
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Sick As Your Secrets?/Transparency
What a great reminder tonight, and it tied in to closing off my personal inventory. I, like many others, had secrets buried deep inside of me that I honestly thought I die with. No one ever had to know. Today I am aware that these secrets caused guilt and shame daily, and some I had buried so ...
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Climbing Your Own Mountain
Okay, sing along with me now….. “Climb every mountain, ford every stream, follow every moonbeam, ‘till you find your dream” Is there anyone, anywhere who has not sung or hummed (in or out of tune) those famous words from “The Sound of Music”? I can still hear the spine tingling tones of the ...
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Are You Ready For Change? It's Coming.
“The reality is that changes are coming . . .They must come. You must share in bringing them. --John Hersey Change. It's scary. It's hard. It's needed. Sometimes it feels good; other times it feels bad. But one thing is for sure: it keeps on happening. Just when our life seems settled, ...
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Avoiding Emotional Over Eating And Minimizing Stress: Practice Saying "No"
Being stressed, overwhelmed and over-tired is one of the primary causes of over eating. When we are worn out, we are much less able to resist temptation and much more likely to try to sooth or revive ourselves by over eating. My tip for minimizing stress-related emotional over eating: learn to say "no" so that you can say "yes." We can only do what we can do. Really. And, if we want to do it well, we should usually only try to do one thing at a time.
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Asset - Thinking About The Needs Of Others
We can be selfish people can’t we? We can get so focused and consumed with “me” that we do not pay any attention to the people around us. I think of a husband who is so wrapped up in his job or business. He works 60 plus hours trying to climb to the top or works hard to make his business ...
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Want To Get Rid Of Your Character Defects?
At this juncture of creating new footprints in the journey of life, I was well aware, more so tha I’d ever been, of my defects of character. Awareness is wonderful, but I wanted change that would give me a much better life. I wanted my defects gone! By this time, many things had changed ...
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Mini Makeovers
When we hear the word makeover, most of us think about transforming our physical appearance in some way. Just recently, for instance, I have toyed with the idea of growing my hair out. Perusing through the big hairstyle book at my local salon, I tried to imagine which hairstyles would look ...
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Prayer and Meditation. MEDITATION?
Prayer and Meditation. MEDITATION? --not just something bearded guys do on Asian mountains As I went through the steps, this meditation thing might have been the item I misunderstood most. I had been exposed to prayer since I was a little guy. I am surprised in my coaching, when clients and I ...
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Take Care Of Your Best Asset...You!
I have gotten pretty good at noticing when my body is in need of some down time. Especially this time of year, with all of the parties, shopping, and family get togethers, it's crucial to stop every now and then and just let your body relax. We all get so consumed with work, family and ...
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Experiential Training: Learning By Doing
Experiential Training Activities have been proven to speed up the process of learning and change for both groups and individuals. Physical, emotional, and intellectual involvement in change is the core of experiential education. The learn-by-doing model, used more and more frequently ...
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Create Life Theme
Ahhh.... the ubiquitous New Year's resolution. How many times have you developed a list of New Year's resolutions, which at the time sounded great, only to find yourself feeling less than enthused about it six months later? Have you ever felt guilty or depressed because you didn't achieve a New ...
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Live with No Regrets
"Live with no regrets" n A wish I have for all my clients, colleagues and friends is that they live a life of no regrets. Today however, I am specifically referring to the relationships in your life, including all the relationships in the past that you have unfinished business with. Are ...
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Astrological Vacations Tips by Zodiac Sign
We all enjoy and need a vacation from time to time. How does one know what’s the best location and amenities to fit our needs? Knowing your sun sign may provide you with just the right insight you are seeking. Normally when we vacation we are with family and/or friends. The sun signs may reflect ...
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Boost your confidence
Boost your Confidencen Are you fairly confident in your own shoes? When do you feel your best? When do you feel the most insecure? Even the most confident individuals go through periods of self doubt. I am pretty secure in who I am and what I believe, but there are plenty of days where ...
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Handle stress with ease
So, how stressed are you in your life? Are you on edge more than normal? Are you less capable of handling life's stressors? Do you feel your heart race when someone confronts you or when you feel personally attacked? Your body's response to stress can have serious consequences both on a ...
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Happy New Year!!
"Happy New Year!" I am sitting here in beautiful Colorado, as our second storm of the season has arrived. I have had plenty of time to think about what I want to achieve in 2007. Aside from planning for the future, it is just as important to review the past. You need to re-examine 2006, the ...
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7 Ways to Rediscover Your True Passion After Divorce
Going through a divorce is a very challenging time in a person's life. It is hard to adjust to being single again, as well as living "out of the habit" of being married, especially if you have been married for many, many years. Eventually, you begin to think about dating, but it is suggested ...
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Face Your Fears
Fear can be broken down into three categories: real (healthy), imagined (thought-based) and worry. Although fear can get in your way by interfering with your hopes, dreams and desires; fear is not always a bad thing. Admitting you’re afraid of something can be quite enlightening. It gives you a ...
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Want Closeness? ~ Avoid These 11 Intimacy Killers
As human beings, we all have an innate need to be close to someone. But sometimes the very thing we desire is the opposite of what we have. Some of us subconsciously sabotage the relationships we want because of our fear of intimacy. Sometimes we unknowingly and unwillingly drift apart ...
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After Divorce: Seven Ways to Rediscover Your True Passion
Going through a divorce is a very challenging time in a person’s life. It is hard to adjust to being single again, as well as living “out of the habit” of being married, especially if you have been married for many, many years. Eventually, you begin to think about dating, but it is suggested ...
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Movement is good for you
It’s now official: MOVEMENT IS GOOD FOR YOU. Oh, wait, you knew that already. And you’re doing it, right? Well, not right now, but as soon as you have time. Of course that time never seems to come. But what if regular sessions of movement actually helped create time in your life by helping you learn faster, and by making you feel more refreshed and vital so that you tackle tasks with zest and get them done quickly? Would that be a more powerful motivator for you? Or at least make you curious enough to try some of the suggestions coming from newer research on movement, such as:r
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The Transitional Roller Coaster
Everywhere I turn, women are in transition. Of course, the most obvious transition many of us are facing right now is back to school. But transitions are all around us, some of which are more recognizable than others. These are some of the transitions that have touched my life, directly or ...
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The Power of Gratitude
When my older son was diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, my first reaction was relief – I finally knew the reason for his behavior. However, I was also overwhelmed with sadness, fear and anger. I felt sorry for my son and for myself. Like many others in similar ...
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Understanding and Managing Anger
Anger is a normal emotion like any other emotion. Human beings are hard wired to experience anger as a means to preserve ourselves. Instinctively anger inspires one to fight, to defend or to take cover as it alerts one to a perceived threat. In this view, we can see how important anger can be in terms of our physical safety and overall security. Anger outside the realm of its primary purpose, increases the likeliness of one to lose control and jeopardizes the safety and security that it is intended to protect.
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The Law of Attraction Explained
The Law Of Attraction explained The law of attraction is a theory with overwhelming scientific evidence. It is said to be a law of nature (like the law of gravity). It affects our lives in a big way. With advances in quantum physics more and more people are now paying attention to it. If you've never heard of it, or want to learn more, read on. I love science, especially quantum physics and could go on and on about it, but I will try to keep it brief and simple as I can here :)
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Where's The Joy?
I have so many clients that from outside appearances seem to have it all. They may have successful careers, good friends, a good marriage, healthy and happy children, things that many others strive for. But the "happy" piece of the puzzle is missing. They don't experience joy, and they have ...
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Smart Women and Their Relationship With Money
Recently, I had the opportunity to spend the day strategizing with a group of smart women entrepreneurs from different parts of the world. It was an energizing day focused on topics such as effective marketing, clear messaging to attract your ideal client, time management and money. At one point, women were expressing the challenges they face in getting everything accomplished each day including running a business, managing a family, and hopefully time to squeeze in a little self-care.
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Smart Women, Skiing and Entrepreneurial Success
One morning last week, I was helping my 11 year-old son, Jack, get ready for a day of skiing during our family vacation. It was sunny, 55 degrees and gorgeous outside. I handed my son his face mask and he looked at me puzzled and said,<cite> "Mom, there is no way I'm going to need this today--have you looked outside?"</cite>
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Put your best foot forward!
Why is it typically easier to focus on our insecurities and flaws than to highlight our strengths and positive attributes? Do you feel uncomfortable tooting your horn every now and then? Why? It is far easier to compliment others than to turn the table on yourself. We all have natural abilities ...
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"Go ahead and make the first move"
"Go ahead and make the first move" So, my son is starting Kindergarten next week, a big step in his little life. Of coursehe is anxious, I am anxious, and my husband is anxious. Like any mom, I want to dowhatever I can to create a smooth and comforting transition. I thought it would ...
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A New Definition of Success
How do you define success? Would you consider yourself successful? Most people define success as achieving some preconceived, future condition in their lives. If I can raise my children to be happy and confident adults, then I will be successful. Or when I make $100,000 a year, I will be a ...
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Evaluating Other People
Build relationships and teams by giving value to your interactio This is the last of a series of articles on handling criticism constructively and without stress. Evaluating other people is something you will do all of your life, both formally, as a teacher, parent, or manager, and informally, as in personal relationships with your peers. Giving feedback to others is a skill that is really worth learning. It will make you more effective and powerful in all your relationships, particularly if you recognize that feedback isn’t always negative.
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Stress Relief Tips for the Holidays and Everyday From the Happy Wednesday Lady, Joanie Winberg
Stress Relief Tips for the Holidays and Everyday From the Happy Wednesday Lady, Joanie Winberg The American Institute of Stress reports that stress among Americans is significantly rising with approximately $300 billion a year lost due to stress-related illnesses. It has reduced productivity, ...
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Stress – it’s a matter of choice
It’s time for a reminder about the basics of good stress management, and especially about the skills you can easily master that will make you more stress-resistant – i.e., less likely to develop a stress response that you have to “handle.” Life should be about more than just “handling” negative events; it should be about freeing you to make exhilarating choices. Over the past few decades, information on stress management has mushroomed into a huge field. Yet, with all this attention, stress hasn’t gone away; it is now estimated that 85% of sickness is due to stress.
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Experiences we can't yet understand
"Experiences we can't understand" Has something ever happened to you, that you didn't understand at the time, but as time went on a reason for the experience revealed itself to you? Everything in your life leads to something else in your life. All of your experiences have led you to exactly ...
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Mindful or Intuitive Eating: Keys for Success
Mindful eating, intuitive eating, and conscious eating are all terms used to describe a way of eating that uses internal cues about hunger, appetite and fullness to guide our relationship with food. Being atuned to and able to listen to our body allows us to know what and when we need to eat. The focus is on learning to eat in a conscious way that helps our body to feel and function well. Dieting, restricting, counting calories or fat grams and focusing on weight are NOT components of mindful eating.
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Your Emotional Barometer - Release Stored Emotions Before the Storm Hits
Recently my client shared with me a scary incident she experienced with her body. As she was driving, her teeth and arms began to tingle, her vision tunneled, and her heart was pounding very fast. Fortunately for her, she was close to a medical clinic. Upon arriving at the clinic, she was ...
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Hassles and the havoc they can create
In the movies, we have often seen a character receive a shock, clutch his heart, and fall to the ground in a heart attack. No one thinks life’s daily hassles are dramatic, but in fact they can be just as deadly as a major shock. Real crises, such as having your house burn down, activate the stress response. So do hassles, those little everyday life events that temporarily frustrate. They also narrow our thinking so that we believe we are in a crisis when, in fact, we are not. They are much more frequent than real crises, and their effects seem to snowball.
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Highly-educated, highly-intelligent people can do incredibly stupid things
Stress can make even intelligent people screw up, look slightly crazy, and even undermine their health and well-being. It’s true: even highly-educated, highly-intelligent people can do incredibly stupid things under stress. Take the woman, who upon finding that her house was on fire, grabbed what she believed to be two important objects before she rushed out- of- doors. They were an old issue of Time magazine and one slipper.
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Do Not Allow Your Happiness to Depend on Other People’s Actions
When was the last time you felt sad or upset because someone did something that hurt you or disappointed you? I surely remember my last time. I was trying to prepare a delicious meal for a group of friends and when I was in the middle of it, one of my friends said these exact words… “Since when do you cook?” At that moment, my first reaction was to stop cooking and to send him packing, but I decided to ignore that little comment and continued cooking. Long story short; at the end, the dinner was delicious and the guy had to apologize to me for his tactless comment.
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The ABC’s of Reaching your Goals
No matter how determined we are at planning, resourcing and achieving all those wondering things we want for ourselves, or even others, sometimes we need a little nudge in the right direction. Or maybe its a framework to guide our thought process. Just something to help you get from A to B. You may be super organised and have your life planned out for you but just not reaching your goals, perhaps your life is flying past you and youre wondering why youre still doing what youve always been doing, despite your well thought-out plan.
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Motherhood is a Journey Not a Destination.
I am a mother and I know the tremendous amount of pressure we can put on ourselves to get X amount of things done in X amount of time all while managing to keep the house clean and getting the vitamins and vegetables down the throats of our little ones. At times it can become overwhelming and if you aren’t careful you begin to view your role as mother more as a destination rather than the journey that it truly is.
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You Mean Stress Is a Choice?
A week ago, I was awakened just before midnight by an alarming phone call. The security company was calling to tell me there was an alarm going off at the historic house I manage (on a purely volunteer basis), and asked if they should send a fire engine. “Yes, of course,” I gasped, surprised they would even stop to call me first. “What’s happening?” “I’ll call you back,” the voice said, and hung up. Groggy with sleep, facing a difficult day for which I was trying to be well-rested, I weighed my options.
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Holiday Hints at the Buffet for the Heart-wise
The holidays are a particular challenge for those of us who know we must be vigilant every day to maintain our health through good eating. (Actually, that’s pretty much everybody.) Here are some of the challenges, and how to meet them. The holiday party, with its buffet of delectable treats, many of them high-fat – cheese plates, crackers, cookies made with real butter, rich drinks such as egg nog – can be faced and handled by using some of the following tricks:
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Time Zones
The wellness expert I was speaking to after her talk commented that she had almost been late for the conference. “I was stuck in traffic,” she lamented, “and I was really stressed.” I asked her what she was worried about, given that the audience was a group of very supportive women who already knew and liked her. What would they have done had she been late? She didn’t know, but insisted it was a stressful experience. Why? There would have been no dire consequences; someone else might have spoken first, or everyone would have continued to network and socialize until she appeared.
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No Fault De-Stressing
85% of major illness is now attributed to stress. The figure is alarming because it implies that the responsibility for our well-being lies directly in our own hands, as in a way it does. People who already have a major illness feel dismayed, and even angry, about the new emphasis on “positive psychology,” and the idea that our beliefs and moods can affect our physical health dramatically. They feel “blamed.”
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8 Holiday Stress Busters You Can't Leave Home Without
The other morning I was having coffee with a friend, and we were sharing stories about our own sometimes intolerant parents. My friend has a grumpy and hard to please father that pushed one too many buttons this past Thanksgiving. “What did you bring those dishes for? What is that you made? It stinks!” My friend snapped and replied “That’s it. I am not bringing anything for Christmas.” Her father replied “Why, I like your cookies.” To which she replied “I am not bringing cookies either because last year you complained that my sugar crystals were too big!”
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Calm Mornings, Can they really happen?
How do you find time to create a little piece of calmness in your world? For me it is mornings. I purposefully wake up an hour before I need to be a wake. This allows me to take the time to getting up, I am not rushed, I get my 15-20 minute shower. I mean how often does that happen ever when you have teenagers in the house. I get to eat breakfast, which we all know is the most important meal of the day, you know. I can make lunch, saving my budget. But most importantly I able able to spend 30 minutes in just being quiet.
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Just Breathing
Pause, breathe, choose: I remind my clients (and myself) of this sequence frequently, adding that the response we make to a stressful event is our choice, not a given. To reach the point where we recognize other choices, it is important to be able to distance ourselves from the world and center on our own bodies and minds. Correct breathing is the key here. If you have ever studied voice or a wind instrument, you probably know how to do this already.
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Smart Women And The 4 Entrepreneurial Phases
When you start a new business or take action on a big idea that you've had brewing for a while, it can be a very exciting time. You begin to get a taste of what entrepreneurship can feel like; you’re in control of your own schedule, maybe you worked for someone else and you've escaped the rigid 9-5 routine and you've become your own boss - life feels good.
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Smart Women And The 5 Fundamental Questions for Business Success
I'm finding that many women entrepreneurs are reflecting on their year and a question that seems to be on the minds of many is: "What are tools and strategies I need for my business to take a big leap in the New Year?" As I reflect on this question, I realize the answer is two-fold. If you are serious about making 2012 the year that you soar in business and make big leaps in income, you must first ask yourself a few questions (and get honest with yourself about the answers):
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Quitting Prescription Drugs
If you suspect that you have a prescription drug problem, don’t stop taking the medication cold turkey. You may end up feeling sick and either going right back to taking it, or wind up in the hospital. Instead, there is a process in quitting prescription drugs. Before you start the process though, make sure you really do have a prescription drug problem. Do you have the signs of prescription drug abuse? • Taking prescription drugs belonging to someone else • Stealing or forging prescriptions for drugs • Taking higher doses of drugs than prescribedr
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Smart Women Make Decisions
I was watching the holiday classic, "The Polar Express" with my children recently and in the movie, Tom Hanks, who plays the role of conductor, said to Billy as he exited the train, "It's not as important to know where the train is going as it is to make a decision to get on the train." Very wise words indeed. Getting in the habit of making decisions will be one of the best decisions you can make in 2012!
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Exposing the Forces that Sabotage Us
‘Our shadow is waiting patiently for us to come retrieve our power from the dark recesses of our unconscious mind.’ Debbie Ford Self Sabotaging behaviours are in place, One: to confirm our Limiting Beliefs, to keep them in place, to keep proving them to be the truth. Two: to be loyal to ALL our Values. Ultimately to make sure we are SAFE. Resulting in,r
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***9 of the Most Tantalizing Self Care Tips Ever
Passionate Self Care One of the surest methods to stay on a focused, purposeful course in your business, relationships … in all of your life, is to take extra special care of yourself. Oftentimes what happens is exactly the opposite: everyone and everything else in our lives takes precedence over our personal needs. What happens then? Everything crumbles. Nothing works. The entire system shuts down. What is your idea of self care?
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Let a smile be your umbrella
November can bring gloomy days, rain, and even snow. Some people love this autumn weather; others are less enchanted by it. Add in a few ordinary life mishaps and you can create deep gloom. Here’s how to lift the gloom when you’re suffering from the “grumpies”, a discontented feeling that arises from a series of a series of small, unpleasant episodes that you are in danger of inflating into a really bad mood: Sit or lie down; take several of those deep belly breaths.
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SPIRITUALITY-SOME THOUGHTS
SPIRITUALITY-SOME THOUGHTS I work with people who simply put, want to make major change in their life. The reasons vary and may include addiction, abuse, stress, and depression. The common denominator is that the zest for life is not what they want and personal relationships are stressed or gone. Most of my clients do not love themselves. Life transformation and the recovery of the life you want is a process. My experience and learning tells me it is a holistic process and one that requires “outside expertise” to guide the journey.r
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Smart Women in a Wild Wacky World
With everything that's going on in the world right now, I hesitated to write this article. However, I felt called to share my reflections with you. There has been so much despair and devastation in the world lately that when something happens to us personally, we can try to shrug it off because "compared to what's going on in the world, this is minor." (This has been my "mantra" over the past week.) Although I believe this to be true, when something happens to you personally, it feels real and challenging. It can paralyze you and keep you from moving forward.
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Recapture Delight In Your Life
What immediately comes to mind when you think of rewarding or pampering yourself? Let’s say you’ve been under a lot of pressure and you realize you must find a release. I asked a client recently what she would do if she took time to pamper herself, and she didn’t know. She hadn’t thought about it in a long time. She was too busy taking care of everyone and everything around her. In talking to overly-stressed clients over the years, I have found that, when they finally realize they can, or should, relax, the first things that come to mind are often:
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Smart Women And The Tug of Transition
Recently, I attended a surprise 50th birthday party for a good friend from college. I had a fantastic time reconnecting with old friends and discovering new ones as well. One of the biggest Aha’s for me during the weekend festivities was the realization that most of my time is spent with entrepreneurs---people who have made the jump to self-employment and choosing to do it their way. Many of the people I spent time with at this weekend event were employed by someone else.
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Smart Women Make a Difference
I struggled a bit this week on what I wanted to share with you. I place a high value on making sure I give you timely information that you can use right away to take your life and your business to the next level of fulfillment, happiness and success. On the one hand, I wanted to write about June being the halfway mark in your business and now is the perfect time to take a mid-year inventory of what’s working and what’s not working so you can make the shifts necessary to meet your goals by the end of the year.
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The SECRET Truth Accountability Plays in Success
Accountability: Whether you love that word or hate it, it is invariably one of the active ingredients for personal and professional success. The importance of accountability is proven in corporate situations where the C.E.O.s are held accountable by a Board of Directors. They have to report to that board on a quarterly or annual basis, and if benchmarks previously set are not achieved – those C.E.O.s must answer for themselves and their actions. Accountability in Business and in Life
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How to Overcome Excess Stress
A moderate amount of stress can be a good thing. It can motivate us to stop procrastinating and to get things done. It can energize a project and, let's be honest, make life more exciting. Excess stress, however, can be damaging indeed. It can paralyze us, derail our progress and wreck havoc with our health and minds. When we''re over-stressed, we can make life miserable for ourselves and everyone around us.
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Falling Back into Old Habits: 5 Tips to Aid in Making your New Year’s Resolutions Successful (Tip 2:Reflection)
Starting out 2011, many of us would like this year to be different. We would like to eat better, exercise more, spend more time with our families, have better relationships, or whatever else might be important. In the beginning, our hopes and dreams are strong and might bring about short-lived successes but the problem is that these successes often do not last long. Many individuals find it easier to slip back into old routines because that is what we are used to and it alleviates the stress of trying a new behaviour.r
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Why You Might Just Be a Perfectionist | Perfectionism
I understand. You're not a perfectionist. You're just picky. Or 'hard on yourself'. Or you 'have high standards'. Or you like things to be done properly. Guess what? * If you're emails, tweets & Facebook posts are free of spelling mistakes, you just might be a perfectionist. * If you noticed the typo in the previous sentence, you might just be a perfectionist. * If you get frustrated fast when you are learning a new skill and haven't quite got the hang of it yet, you just might be a perfectionist.
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To Eat or Not to Eat!
To Eat or Not to Eat! We’re constantly surprised at how many people seem oblivious to smart food hygiene practices, simply out of ignorance- unless you’ve been taught these things or learnt through painful food poisoning experiences… most people simply guess what to do with food! Here are some basic tips you can start implementing in your kitchen, to get the best out of food quality, taste, and food safety. Is it safe to eat fruit and veggies with bruises?
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Falling back into Old Habits: 5 Tips to Aid in making your New Year’s Resolutions successful (Tip Number 3: Write Goals Down and View Daily)
Starting out 2011, many of us would like this year to be different. We would like to eat better, exercise more, spend more time with our families, have better relationships, or whatever else might be important. In the beginning, our hopes and dreams are strong and might bring about short-lived successes but the problem is that these successes often do not last long. Many individuals find it easier to slip back into old routines because that is what we are used to and it alleviates the stress of trying a new behaviour.
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The Courage to Change
THE COURAGE TO CHANGE Courage: The power to let go of the familiar.rn--Raymond Lindquistr Letting go of the familiar really does require courage. Why? Very simply, the thought of change evokes fear. Fear of what? Only YOU can answer for you. Let me pose three very simple questions to you. If they really get you thinking, let’s talk about them. What self esteem issues or addiction related issues are your biggest challenges? What will happen to you and what will it cost you if you don’t deal with them? What do you want instead?r
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7 Steps to Creating a Promotional email to Draw Clients to You
An early step I take with my Platinum clients is to walk them through having a marketing conversation with potential clients so they quickly start to grow their business. One of the effective strategies to set up that conversation is to send out a promotional email. You don’t need to feel you have to wait to get your website set up or start up an electronic newsletter; all of us have a list of people we can contact. And, if you don’t have clients, it’s one of the easiest ways to GET clients!
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AM I INSANE?
AM I INSANE? I had not thought this question out very well back in the 90’s. While I did crazy things, the life I was living would have indicated that at times I was nuts, but no one would have considered me insane. I had a responsible job, a family, a home, two or more cars, no debt, volunteered time to causes, etc. Yet a voice inside kept saying “Keith your nuts” and I fought it. Sure I drank too much at times and drugged some, sure I used other people to make me feel good; but then, wasn’t this “normal” for people in my position? The voice inside said “NOT”.r
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RENEWING YOUR MIND
DO YOU THINK THINGS OUT? So, you want to transform your life from where it is today to something much different, something you know inside that life should be for you. If that be the case, do you truly think things out? I am not a follower of any religion but have read many “great” books including the Bible. There is an interesting passage in Romans 12:2 where St. Paul says “They are transformed by the renewing of their minds”. It is the concept of renewal and transformation that really interests me. Want a better life then there are some things that must happen.r
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How To Finish Up 2010 Strong – Or Not At All
The final weeks are upon us for 2010, and many people are left wondering how much of a shift for improvement they made over 2009. Here are just a few questions you can ask yourself in order to gauge your response… * Was 2010 the year you broke through major barriers that previously held you back? * Was this the year you focused on major self-improvement? * Did your business do better this year (performance, revenue, growth, etc) over last year? For some people, 2010 has been a struggle and trying time. For others, this has been the year of their life! So how about you?
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Why to Take an Information Vacation - and How
Are you an information addict? A news junkie? A Facebook frequenter, a Twitterer or devotee of other social media? A slave to your PDA or fancy phone? The costs of this information addiction is well documented. No wonder it's becoming chic these days to 'go off the grid' for a period of time. There are many good reasons to take breaks from the electronic aspects of our lives. This is especially true for creative and multi-talented people (a.k.a. DaVincis).
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SELFISHNESS
Selfishnessr Every now and again I reflect back on my life to a time before I started what I know call a “co-creative process of life recovery”. There were many negative qualities that were at work most of the time. One that I really regret is selfishness. I wanted the world to see me as a caring unselfish person. Many of my actions were just that-they looked caring and unselfish. The truth was, all too often, I did things with a motive-what was in it for me? I know this in retrospect.r
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2011-POSITIVE CHANGES?
2011-POSITIVE CHANGES? May you LIVE all the days of your life-Johnathan Swiftr Another new year. Another year entered into with the best of intentions. Ever look back and really measure the changes you planned to make in 2010 and where you sit today? For most, their resolutions are but a fading dream about 2 weeks into a new year. My grandmother drilled it into my head- the road to hell is paved with good intentions.r
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ATTITUDE ADJUSTMENT
ATTITUDE ADJUSTMENT After a number of recent conversations and happenings, coupled with self reflection, I think the biggest change in my life over the past number of years has been an attitude adjustment. Years ago, it was far too easy to fall into the negative. One of my symptoms was frequently knocking others, finding the bad in them. Another was a sense of gloom that could take over the sunniest day. The gloom through me frequently into procrastination, I just couldn’t get things done unless my back was against a wall, and even then I was often late with “stuff”.r
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Passionate and Fully Self-Expressed
"Practice what you preach" "Be your authentic self" "Living in integrity" "Actions speak louder than words" What the heck does that actually mean? In this advanced technical world where most communication is electronic, where you may never even meet your best friend in real life and have a face to face conversation... how do you create a REAL version of yourself. How do you not get caught up in the illusions and exaggeration, how do you live passionately and fully self-expressed?
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How A Little Stress Leads to More Stress …and what to do about it
A little stress goes a long way, because it leads to more stress, until you don’t know how to stop the whole process. But there is some good news. An estimated 10% of stress is due to what happens to us such as job loss, accidents, major damage to our home, to ourselves or to a loved one. Here’s the good news, though: 90% of stress is created by our reaction to that 10%! And those reactions can be under your control. Here are some of the ways stress leads to more stress:
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Falling back into Old Habits: 5 Tips to Aid in making your New Year’s Resolutions Successful
Starting out 2011, many of us would like this year to be different. We would like to eat better, exercise more, spend more time with our families, have better relationships, or whatever else might be important. In the beginning, our hopes and dreams are strong and might bring about short-lived successes but the problem is that these successes often do not last long. Many individuals find it easier to slip back into old routines because that is what we are used to and it alleviates the stress of trying a new behaviour.
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DO YOU OWN YOUR LIFE?
Do you own your life? "The meaning of life is to give life meaning." -- Ken Hudgins When we own our lives, we accept what we've inherited and the experiences we hold in our memories. We also claim our right to create new conditions if we're not happy with what's come before. We assume responsibility for changing what does not suit us. We acknowledge our own special talents and skills, and truly comprehend our right to enjoy the journey. In short, we embrace the meaning and purpose, the mystery and the beauty of our lives. Do you feel that you own your life at the moment?
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SELF-RESPECT = SELF-ESTEEM. Want some?
Self respect = Self esteemr Last week I had the opportunity to talk with you a little bit about the meaning of RESPECT. Ultimately, in the addiction world, we have to add SELF into the equation. How important is self respect/self esteem and have I got it?I have had the opportunity to interface with multiple thousands of people who have addiction issues or have been directly impacted by addiction. I have worked individually with hundreds. Let me make a bold statement: “I have never met an active addicted person who has good self esteem (or self respect)”. Chew on that one.
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How To Stop Compromising
Do you find yourself always saying 'yes' to other people's requests? Are you up to your eyes doing errands for others because you just cannot turn them down and say 'no'? Looking back on your life and the decisions you made in the past, Have you pursued a path – career or personal – that was different from what you wanted simply because that's what was expected of you? If you answered yes to the above then you, and several hundreds of thousands of people in this world, have a stronger than normal desire to please others over yourself.
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KNOW YOUR DREAMS
KNOW YOUR DREAM You've got to create a dream. You've got to uphold the dream. If you can't, go back to the factory or go back to the desk.rn--Eric Burdonr Way back when, back when I made a decision to go into the “people helping” business as a profession, I had a dream. I formulated the dream through guided study and guided reflection. The first ad I put together for my new business revolved around the “Create a dream” theory and then making it happen.r
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PEOPLE PLEASIN' TIME
PEOPLE PLEASIN’ TIME OF THE YEAR I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.--Bill Cosby I am so blessed to have the space I do to work in. Today my view through my windows is of crisp white snow and snow clinging to mature cedars at the back of our property. The view reflects the positive state I’m in a majority of the time, and I am ete ally grateful for the changes in my life that allow me to see the beauty all around me.r
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Simple Pleasures | Treat Yourself Well
To what extent are you enjoying your life? If you’re feeling more burdened or stressed than delighted these days, ask yourself: what simple pleasures can you give yourself? And when was the last time you did so? We humans have a curious tendency to find creative ways to deny ourselves simple pleasures. You should hear the convoluted excuses my uber-talented coaching clients devise as to why they couldn't possibly, say, sit outside watching clouds for half an hour. It'd be funny if it weren't so sad that they are denying themselves such basic human treats.
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Quick Stress Reduction Strategies for Busy Women: Express Gratitude and Find Your Happy Spot
When you are in a vicious cycle of too much stress, too many demands, and too much on your plate, the most effective stress busting tips are the ones that you’ll actually be able to implement and that can create a shift in how you feel—quickly. This strategy is one of my favorites. It’s simple, and it won’t bog down your to-do list.r
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TIGER GETS HONEST!
TIGER GETS HONEST “At first I didn’t want to look inward. Frankly, I was scared of what I would find—what I had become. But I am grateful I did examine my life because it made me more grounded tha I’ve ever been; I hope that with reflection will come wisdom.” –Tiger Woodsr This is the first indication that I’ve had that Tiger Woods is starting to “get it”. He must have been working with more than a swing coach!r
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GOT TRUST ISSUES?
TRUST ISSUES? It’s amazing how many people I run across that have major trust issues. The causes vary. In the information below, you will find some thoughts on dealing with trust issues, and issues of trust that come up in relationships. If you conclude that self-esteem or “the past” are the primary contributors to your “trust issues”, we should (www.hopeserenity.ca) talk! We can offer some suggestions that will help you deal with these issues. Enjoy the information and I hope you find it helpful! How to Solve Trust Issues in a Relationship
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Don’t Wait, Be Happy Now
So many times my clients say to me, “Well, Matthew, you know, this is just a means to an end. I’m doing this business. I’m doing this project because where it’s going to get me is where I want to go.” You know what I say to that? Means to an end equals suffering. It means suffering today. And you don’t have to do that. You don’t have to get involved in a project or do an activity today because hopefully, someday, it will turn out better so that you can be happy.
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A FREE GIFT-LIFE CHANGING-NO STRINGS
WANT A SHOT OF HOPE? (How’s Your Spiritual Life?) Someone sees that word “spiritual” and the mind says “oh no, more religious crap”. That someone, back then, was me. For those who are familiar with my blogs, you’ll know I like simplicity and often turn to the good book written by Mr. Webster to get definitions I can understand. It puts us all on a level playing field. Today’s word is HOPE. I talk to so many people who tell me their life is lacking in “HOPE” and they want more.r
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When It's Time to Let Go
As an intuitive guide, healer, counselor and spiritual life coach, Kate has facilitated personal growth, transformation and soul awakening throughout Texas and the U.S. since 1992. Through her own life journey, as well as her experience as a spiritual "midwife" to others in their healing, she has developed a very REAL and powerful approach to life as a CHOICE.
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The Importance of Gratitude
As a child, whenever you were given something tangible (gifts) or intangible (compliments), you were taught to always acknowledge it by saying 'thanks' or 'thank you' because it was the right thing to do. You were being polite. But did you know that being thankful or grateful has other effects on the body as well? Research has shown that gratefulness is good for your health and mental well-being.
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AT THE END OF YOUR ARM
AT THE END OF YOUR ARM The best place to find a helping hand is at the end of your own arm. --Swedish proverbr Every now and again a quote comes to you that is just so obvious but true! There are so many looking for help, looking to others to “fix” them and take responsibility for themr Getting help does start at the end of your arm; it sure did for me. We are entering into a period of time which for many of us is supposed to be “Joyous” and fun no matter what your religion. For many this time of the year has a strong religious component.r
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Having a Job Does Not Make You Happy
Getting a job will not make you happy. I know many of you think that it will, but it won’t. In fact, I was reading a survey done by Deliotte Shift. It was a index survey, and they discovered that eight percent of the people who are employed today are dissatisfied with their job. Why? Because happiness is not a set of circumstances, happiness is a skill set that you take on. It’s a set of disciplines. It’s a discipline of being optimistic. That’s a discipline.
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Quick Stress Reduction Strategies for Busy Women: Download Your Brain and Get Grounded
If your head is spinning with all you have to do and the feeling of too much on your plate, here’s one of my favorite quick stress relief tips. Download your brain and get grounded. Holiday stress, worries about money, the pressures of work or running your own business, managing schedules, and trying to figure out how to fit in time for exercise—all those thoughts and conce s require a tremendous amount of energy. When you get busy, or your stress level gets high, it’s too easy to fall into a pattern of chasing your to-do list and reacting to your life.
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IS ADDICTION A DISEASE? GOT IT?
IS ADDICTION A DISEASE? I certainly have my own thoughts on this question. Understanding the “disease” nature of addiction, because it gave me peace of mind, saved my life. Trust me; I’m not trying to be dramatic. From being free of active addiction for over 16 years, I know that the disease can be kept in remission. It took action on my part to get to the place where things are in remission. I belong to several professional “discussion groups” and offer you the following from one of them:r
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Quick Stress Reduction Strategies for Busy Women: Learn to Pause
Busy, high achieving women tend to be hard workers who expect a lot of themselves. Stress, a crowded schedule, and a never-ending to-do list, are common side effects. Overload, worry, and too much to do can lead to stress eating and emotional overeating, weight gain, insomnia and sleep difficulties, and neglecting the healthy habits and routines that help you fight stress in the first place. This is obviously not a recipe for success.
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You Know What You Should Do, It’s a Never Ending To Do List
You know what you should do, but there is something else that holds you back. You “should” eat better, you “should” lose weight, you “should” exercise, you “should” start a budget and make more money, and...and...and...think about all the things that run through your head on a daily basis, there is always something that “should” be done, it’s a never ending to do list. Whether it’s to make yourself or your surroundings better, sometimes to even try and make someone else better. Often times the ideas of what you “should” be doing are coming from exte al influences.
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Willpower Isn't All It's Cracked Up To Be: 3 Ways to Upgrade Your Mindset
You have probably heard over and over that you need to set goals, I talk about it, and so does everyone else in the coaching and wellness bubble. We also talk about mindset, and some may even tell you to rely on willpower. Proper goal setting is only one part of achieving your health goals. And just changing your mindset and setting goals is made to sound easy. Well, that part is, but what isn't easy is actually following through.
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Weekly Reminders - Maintain Momentum on your Creative Projects
As a multi-talented person, you've got a lot going on. It's very easy to be pulled in multiple directions, pretty much every day. Sure, you intend to write that novel/update that reel/submit that painting to the juried competition...but then the car battery dies and your sister gets sick and your buddy needs a favor and suddenly it's Friday and you haven't spent five minutes on your most important creative project. To keep yourself on track, establish the habit of using regularly scheduled weekly reminders of your talents and creative projects. WHY BOTHER?
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TOP 10 REASONS I USE
TOP TEN REASONS I USE From my friend Patrick Meninga at “Spiritual River”, I want to share this article with you. If you see yourself in it, you need to talk with someone before you become a statistic! The Top 10 Excuses that Addicts and Alcoholics Use to Justify Their Addiction – and Why it is All BS Excuse #1: “I have to drink/use drugs in order to work or continue to be successful.” Oh really? Is that why you…. Perhaps the real truth of the matter is….rn…your career actually suffers due to your addiction, rather than being empowered by your drinking or drug use.r
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Powerful Gratitude Exercise – Life Coaching
So what actions can you take today to immediately take advantage of the power of gratitude? The first thing that I’d recommend is something that I recommend to all of my coaching students when they come to me. That is the 10/10 visualization process. I’ve coached 8,000 people over the years, and most of them have come to me in some sort of stuck state. That’s generally where people come to me. They’re stuck in some way, and one of the quickest ways to get unstuck is through a process of gratitude and visioning, and that’s what the 10/10 visualization is.
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How Do You Love the Work That You Do?
How do you love the work that you do? So often the work that you are doing doesn’t feel like it is necessarily your life’s purpose. And yet, you were drawn to this work. If you’re interested in finding work that is your life purpose, and you don’t feel like you are there yet, there is a way to get there. You need to actually begin to accept, appreciate, and honor the work that you do.
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Smart Women Have a Clear Message
A few weeks ago, while vacationing with my family in Park City, I injured my low back ice-skating with my daughter Jenna. It was quite painful and required me to lay low for a couple of days. I watched a few movies, did some reading and caught up on emails. Some of the email promotions really “pulled me in” and got my full attention, while I found others far less interesting, causing me to leave the promotion quickly. What was the difference? What caused me to “linger” or “leave”? This got me thinking about how Smart Women have a clear marketing message.
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Information Addiction - Costs of Excessive Internet Use & Social Media
Are you are an information-maniac, a news junkie, a social-media butterfly? If so, you might be hurting yourself more than you think. The costs of information addiction are many and profound. Alas, I know this not only from personal experience ("Hello, my name is Liisa and I'm an info-holic.") but also from many of my coaching clients who share this malady. Let's face it: multi-talented, creative people are, by definition, interested in many, many things. We appreciate ideas. It's natural to want more. And more. But there's a point after which, the pain outweighs the gain.
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Smart Women Use Speaking to Grow Their Business
A few weeks ago, I took some time to evaluate where most of my clients come from and the two areas where I consistently receive highly qualified clients are referrals from happy clients and public speaking. It’s essential that you spend your valuable time doing the things that consistently bring you the clients that you love to work with. This week, I’m going to focus on public speaking as I get many questions from Smart Women on this topic.
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Forgiveness & Self-forgiveness - How to Get Over Regrets
One of the most effective ways to overcome regrets or to overcome events your past is to forgive yourself and others for whatever happened. Forgiveness and self-forgiveness aren't always easy, but the benefits of doing so are many and profound. This article highlights the benefits of forgiving yourself and others as well as providing some detailed tips for doing so. (Please note that this material is excerpted and adapted from my co-authored book, 'Happiness Awaits You').
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Productivity & Efficiency Tips for Creative People
"Productivity" has kind of a bad rep -- it smacks of automation and soullessness. But honestly, do you know of any successful creative person who isn't productive? By definition, successful talented people produce works in their chosen media. The cousin of productivity is efficiency -- which basically means making good use of your time. I'm not talking about scheduling every moment of your week. I don't mean turning yourself into some kind of 'Type A' whirlwind. What I mean by productivity and efficiency is doing more of what's really important to you -- and less of what isn't.
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Bullying in the Workplace: Who Bullies Whom?
Over 40% of employees in the workplace have experienced bullying, a persistent pattern of behavior that intimidates, degrades or otherwise undermines the wellbeing of the target. Bullying is four times more prevalent than sexual abuse, and, according to a study at the University of Manitoba, the outcomes for victims of bullying are worse than are those for sexual abuse victims. So who are the bullies? And who are the targets? It’s easy to envision a quiet, introverted person as the victim of an outgoing, brash person. But it’s not that simple.
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***The 6 Steps to Design Your Life
Here is a simple, effective, easy to follow 6-step process so that you can design your life with greater trust and accuracy. After a thorough research process, I’ve uncovered 6 key steps that unfold during the process of creating your dream life. The research came from a compilation of data from thousands of clients and students over the past 15 years. Specifically, I focused in on those who were successful in breaking through their glass ceiling through spiritual healing.
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Single Moms, What Would You Do With $1,000?
What would $1,000 mean to you? Could it change your life? As a single mom, the decision to attend college may not be easy. You make a list of the pros and cons for going back to school. You really want to go. You know in the long run it will benefit you and your family, but you feel a financial burden. You're doing okay now with the money you have, but when you go back to school, you won't be able to work as much or you'll have to take out student loans.
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Karate for the Head Or Heart?
Many years ago, when I was teaching karate, I could usually tell how well my students would perform from their motivation to learn in the first place. Often it was just a passing fancy, an ego trip, or a belt. But for others it was a burning desire.
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The Special Force of Mentoring
Having a mentor I an integral part of getting where you want to go and achieving what you want to achieve, as fast as possible, with the fewest mistakes. I consider mentors to be key components of maximizing your Conquering Force.
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Passion, The Signpost to a Fulfilled Life
Passion is such a buzzword right now, so many times I have people come and say to me, if I only knew what my passion was I could change my life and be happy. It is like they are some big secret, something that is hidden from them that if they could only see everything would be great. Having specifically worked with passions for a while now I have to reveal a secret – your passions are not something that are hidden away from you, something to be discovered that you haven’t previously allowed yourself to see.
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The Value of True Friendships
Everyone wants, and needs, friends-especially close friends. You can never say that you truly just want to be left alone, that you don't want or need to have any close friends. It's a Core Desire for human beings to interact with others-to like and be liked, to love and be loved. Close friends permit you to open up and have fun. They like and accept all the things that make you you-the good, the bad, and the ugly. True friendship allows you to feel safe with another person, to be accepted by others-in spite of the things you do wrong and in spite of your idiosyncrasies.
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Single Moms Welcome to Motherhood
Being a first time mom changes you. You can't help but have it change you yet you are still the same person. I'm still the same goofy, adventurous, sarcastic, Type A personality person I was before. I still like the same things and talk to the same people. I'm still driven by passion and the desire to help others in their quests. I still long to find the man of my dreams (wherever he is) and experience that everything-I-do-I-do-it-for-you kind of love.
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Are You Limiting Your Thinking
The more interesting and enlightening you are, the more people will welcome you into their lives and the more opportunity will abound. Learning is not limited to going to school or getting a degree. It's surprising that many people stop feeding their minds after a certain point. For some, that point is high school graduation; for others, it's graduating from college. A large university once took a survey of its recent graduates and found that 90 percent hadn't read a single book since they'd left the university.
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Single Mom Learning the Basics
B and I go on our second play group to a music sensory, and I'm not sure how it's going to go. The first play group with other moms and kids we went on two weeks ago could have gone better. There were about 25 moms everywhere and even more kids. I was overwhelmed, and he was over-stimulated.
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Discover How to Identify Your Core Desires
Core Desires are those things you have your heart set on- what you want to be, have, or do most. One might think that identifying these Core Desires would be easy, but people often tell me, "I don't know what I want, please help me." This dilemma affects people of all age groups and crosses all political, social, and economic lines. People tell me that they don't know what they want to be, have, or do when they "grow up." They are still searching. NO SENSE OF OBLIGATION
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Only Another Mom or Single Mom Understands
Do you ever have those days or even though moments where you find yourself saying, "Only another single mom would understand?" Whether it's your baby rolling over for the first time, your child going off to kindergarten, or your teenager dating, there are just some things that only another mom will understand. When I was single and childless, I thought I understood. I thought I got it. When my friends with kids would say they were busy, I always thought, Really? Aren't we all busy? When they would say they were tired, I thought, Yeah, so am I.
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Single Mom Finding Love
As another year winded down and a new one begins, I feel a sense of pressure. Don't get me wrong I'm excited to see where this next year leads, but there's this thing creeping up. I have successfully pushed it away before, but I feel it coming again. I used to work in a restaurant, so every New Year's Eve I would always be working. This year so much has changed. One of those things was that I committed full time to my business, and that's made all the difference in my life and success. Since I didn't work New Year's, it's my first one where I could actually make plans. But I didn't have any.
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An Athlete After All
Growing up I truly did not believe I had an athletic bone in my body. Participation in sports was not praised in my household, particularly by my father, who seemed to have a personal vendetta against any and all jocks, particularly those of the football-playing variety. The very unkind words coming from a fellow third grader (who shall remain nameless) during a game of gym class volleyball didn’t help either.
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Living the Balanced Life
Family life is always in flux, and sometimes these changes can be subtle, or take place over time. It is easy to say that we all need to achieve balance in our lives, but it can be hard to do-especially when we think balance means spending equal time in each area of life. Mothers can't comprehend how to achieve balance with just one child, let alone three or four. Likewise, career people often feel that they are too busy to achieve balance-that their job controls too much of their time.
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Your Relationship is a Dance
Have you ever marveled at how a couple dancing can flow with grace and energy and then your eyes shift from seeing them as singular entity and you distinguish the distinct movements of each person? While as a couple the dancers display harmony, each dancer also expresses his or her character and gestures that are their own. Each person has their own essential way of moving, yet the two dancers move in union, their steps inform one another and there’s creativity and play in their interactions.
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Is Anyone Really Winning? Competition in Relationships
"I win!!!"
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Actions and Attitudes and Fiscal Fitness
Henry Ford once asked one of his young automotive engineers, "What is your life ambition?" The young man said, "I want to become very rich." A couple of days later, Ford approached the engineer and instructed him to put on a pair of glasses, which instead of having glass lenses had silver dollars in the frame. Then he asked the engineer, "What do you see?" "Nothing," the guy replied. Having made his point, the auto giant said, "Then maybe you should rethink that ambition of yours." The man had money right in front of his eyes, but he couldn't see it.
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How To Get Out Of Your Own Way
The other day, I was at another birthday party for a one-year old. (I didn't realize so many people I know had babies around the time I did.) I start talking with a couple about babies, as the wife is holding my son. I ask if they are ready for one. As the lady says yes, her husband shakes his head no. I ask, "NO?" He replies, "I'm scared."
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The Face Of Single Moms
When I read a recent article citing single mothers for the recent decline in newspaper sales I was appalled. I couldn't believe Chris Powell, the Managing Editor of the journal Inquirer, actually blamed single moms for his not being able to sell more newspapers. What shocked me even more than his blame is his description of single moms...
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Single Moms, How to Get More Time
How important is your time? I know, I know, it's important. You likely don't have enough time in your day, but how are you using the time you have? Are you doing the dishes by hand when you could be running the dishwasher. It may cost you a few more dollars a month, but are those few dollars worth the time you spend on doing dishes by hand? Or is doing the dishes manually your downtime? Is it relaxing? Does it allow you to be calm and peaceful?
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Where Are You Looking For Success?
Success is not found somewhere out there-success resides inside, for each of us. You already have what it takes to succeed in life. You were born with all you need. Your birth certificate doesn't come with any guarantees of success, but when you were born you came fully equipped with talents, abilities, desires, and choices. As you grow and progress through every stage of life, you discover that there are things you really want-things you now have your heart set on. As you identify those things and make wise choices, your success is assured.
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When Tragedy Strikes Kids
My heart is sad. You send your kids... your babies off to school. You entrust others to watch over, care for, and feed them. It would never occur to me that food my child may eat would be tainted. How does this happen? How are people that irresponsible and careless? That something so preventable would kill 22 children and leave several others seriously sick?
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You Will See Results Pursuing Your Core Desire
When trying to disce your Core Desires, pay close attention to the responses and emotions elicited by the Search Question. You could overlook a key phrase, comment, or feeling if you are not careful. Emotions are not always easy to sense or detect.
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Conquering Single Moms' To Do List
On certain days, you know what today holds…school, work, pick your kids from school, making dinner, doing homework, and then getting to sleep later than you expected. As a single mom on other days you wake up and you pull yourself out of bed, knowing it's going to be that kind of day…a crazy, chaotic day. You wake up in plenty of time to get ready, yet you find yourself leaving late…again. You're stressed driving your kids to school. You're moody and cranky. It's going to be a day alright.
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New Single Mom and Baby Sleep Habits
I love sleep. Before having my son, I would sleep ten hours a night... and even sometimes take a nap. I love sleep.
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3 Ways To Get Your Baby To Sleep Through The Night
seven months old, that all changed. He went to bed later and woke up two hours earlier. I was NOT a fan!
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Why not me?
Humanity is born with an inquisitive nature. Why in some cases is this delightful nature mysteriously concealed in discouragement? Discouragement is a negative habit some people develop through repetitious pessimism. So why does pessimism exist. Why is there such diversity in the perception of life if we are truly one people? Can we qualify, quantify and clarify the human dis-ease? I believe the answer to this question along with the answer to a great life is a simple, "YES!" My wife uses the term, "If, Dog, Rabbit," to describe the profound questions of life.
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Single Mom's Life Plan
When things first happen, they don't always appear how they should be. They may seem daunting or scary. They may not be what you want or how you planned. Life may not be working the way you envisioned it would. I had a plan for my life. I have always been career driven. Even before I graduated from college, I knew I wanted to be someone... to do something spectacular. Who and what that was, I didn't know. I just knew I wanted it... almost desperately.
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Willingness to Fall
I love to watch my daughter learn to walk - her tentative steps grow more confident each day. About half of the time she makes it across the room to whatever piece of furniture she can grab and about half of the time she falls on her bottom. There are times when she cries out for me when she lands or gives up and crawls to her destination while other times when she looks slightly startled and then stands back up again and continues walking. Each day she’s more likely to do the latter.r
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Single Mom Who Has To Do It All
I left the house yesterday in time for a meeting. I was so proud of myself that I had managed to leave in time, with my son in tow. I reversed out of the driveway and made it as far as the mailbox, when I realized I had a flat tire. Not just a flattening tire. I'm talking a completely flat-don't-bother-trying-to-go-anywhere flat tire. Lucky for me, my mom lets me borrow her car. The problem is I don't have the phone number of the lady I am meeting. So I have no way to tell her I will be late. All I can do is hope she is still going to be there when I finally arrive (which she is).
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Can A Single Mom Catch A Break?
I spent the night at my dad's house, because my sister lives there and is going to watch B as I attend an all day conference in Austin. I get up about 5 am and lucky me, B gets up at that same time once he hears me stir. He has never woken up at this time, but he refuses to go back to sleep, so I prepare a bottle. I'm in a hurry, because I'm supposed to leave at 545 am (or that's my goal) not anticipating B to wake up (isn't that always the case though?).
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The Source of Motivation and Determination
When a person persists at a task, we say that person has determination or motivation. But where does that determination come from? Some would say it comes from dedication, commitment, or sense of duty. But I believe that Core Desires are the sole source of both the determination and the motivation that are critical for success. If you are not pursuing a Core Desire, you won't be very motivated or dedicated. You won't pursue something relentlessly unless it is a Core Desire.
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Words to Encourage Forgiveness (part-one)
Have you ever had a moment that you needed to be forgiven? I have had many along the way. There is something healing within that process, when it is genuinely given or received. Forgiveness is not forgiveness if we seek it or gives it from a negative place, or to show we are better than, or to be socially/politically correct. Regardless if you are the giver or receiver of forgiveness, if you are still mad, pissed off, or have negative feeling toward the other person; you most likely did not have a real encounter with forgiveness in that particular moment.
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9 Lessons from 2009 – A Year In Review
In 2009, we’ve seen some extraordinary events and were dealt some harsh pills to swallow. We’ve experienced great hope and happiness as well as great pain and suffering. We’ve felt the highs of hope and the results of recession. There are many lessons to learn.
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Consciously Choose Your Social System
We human beings are social beings. Oftentimes, we forget that we are social beings. It is important to remember this, not just when there is a loss of some sort in our lives but all the time. When you are too busy pursuing your career and financial goals, you loose your ability to connect with other human beings. How are your social connections? If you work for a large company, are you aware that company is a social system? Your community is a social system and if you have a large enough family, that is a social system. Are you aware of the social system that you belong to?
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The Amazement of A Child
Everyone who has met a little child has seen it; the amazement of a little child. The child sees a bus, and gets all excited about it, it sees a dog, and can’t sit still in its pram. It sees things that we grown-ups are all too blind to notice; it expresses its enthusiasm with the whole body and is deeply disappointed when we cannot share its experience. We have long ago got used to dogs and buses and we weed out all the irrelevant details we pass by every day. We have forgotten how thrilled and amazed we once were about these things.
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It's Okay to Mess It Up
If I told you to go out and try something new and mess it up, could you? When I first heard that suggestion, I cringed. I grew up as a perfectionist, and messing something up did not fit into my view of the world. When we want to make changes in our lives, we need to try new things. Trying new things means that we might mess it up as we figure it out. Going into business for myself, I have been slowly learning how to do something and mess it up. I will be honest with you: some days it's hard to stomach.
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Do You Pay Attention to Your Thinking?
It’s so easy to get caught up in daily life that we often go through it without thinking. I find this rather funny. So much of life can just run on auto-pilot. When our lives are running on auto-pilot, where’s our mind? When I began to pay attention to what was going through my mind, I was fascinated... and a little freaked out. I noticed that when I felt anxious, I was thinking some terrible, nasty thoughts.
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5 Common Excuses to NOT Donate to Charity
During our daily lives or in the midst of extraordinary circumstances, we often come upon worthy causes to donate to. However, because of one of any number of reasons we fail to make the donation. When you give even a little bit to an organization that helps others, you are making a positive impact. Just as multiple rain drops can cause a flash flood, your few dollars combined with the few dollars that thousands and millions also donate can change lives. So, why do good people hold back from donating when they really want to?
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Working through Distractions
Distractions are a part of life, and struggling is totally human. When we’re struggling with something, we often seek distraction to avoid sitting amidst the frustration. In moderation, distractions can keep us from burning out. However, allowing distractions in for too long stops us from reaching our goals. I was recently working with a client I’ll call Janet. She’s a business owner.
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Keys To Reinvent Your LIfe
Usually in midlife there are some major events that occur that trigger the need for you to reinvent your life. Here are some guiding principles that will be your constant companions in this life reinvention project that you are going through. You are an amazing person of resource, power and strength: Repeat that statement and make it your mantra. You may feel a little beat up and you may not know it, but I am here to tell you that I know that you are an amazing person. How do I know? I know because I know that you have an Inner Genius within you that you may not have fully explored.
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The Chakra System Extends Beyond Your Body.
As you discover and understand the body’s chakra system, you will discover values principles and tools that will enable to you to create the life and business of your dreams. Your Chakra system refers to a system of energy flow in your body. Your body is intuitive and it speaks to you. You experience many feelings in your body but you may not be aware of them. The Chakra system is an Ancient Sanskrit tradition that addresses the flow of energy in the body. Each of the seven chakras speak to where emotions can lodge in your body energetically.
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There's Always too Much to Do
I had a great realization the other day, thanks to one of my friends. There will always be too much to do. This may sound like a funny realization, but it completely changed my perspective. I was fretting about my to-do list, which was growing faster tha I was tackling it. I also had plenty of things I wanted to do that I was too afraid to write down, fearful of making my list even longer. I was feeling quite overwhelmed! For some reason, I thought that when I left my corporate job to coach full-time, I would have excess time on my hands.
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NOW is the Time to Renew the Self
A new year means new beginnings, an opportunity to renew the self. A time to start fresh, we enjoy creating resolutions and setting new goals. The energy of a new year brings a renewed sense of hope as many people look forward to making personal changes in their life. The pure positive vibration of hope for new adventures, new opportunities and new life experiences is nature’s most transforming medicine. Hope energizes the body at a cellular level.
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Use Your journal To Record Your Experience.
It is important to incorporate jou aling into your daily life. The purpose of a journal is to draw out what is within you. Jou aling is a wonderful process because it combines both left brain and right brain activities and synthesizes both experiences. Writing tends to be logical and sequential. Yet, when you get lost in it, your right brain creativity kicks in. You may want to keep several types of jou als. You may want to keep an unlined journal and a lined journal. This is where you get to be creative in your life.
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Serving Your Mission
If you have a mission in life, I bet you have days where you’re thrilled to be serving the greater good and days when you’re not sure you’re going to accomplish what you’ve set out to do. We’re bound to encounter obstacles that slow us down or make us feel like we can’t get where we want to go. Every new challenge is a chance to learn something new about why we’re here and how we can serve the world. Growing through challenges Hard work, negativity from others, and waves of doubt are things we will encounter on our journey.
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Forgiveness: Words to Encourage You
Have you ever had a moment that you needed to be forgiven? I have had many along the way. There is something healing within that process, when it is genuinely given or received. Forgiveness is not forgiveness if we seek it or gives it from a negative place, or to show we are better than, or to be socially/politically correct. Regardless if you are the giver or receiver of forgiveness, if you are still mad, pissed off, or have negative feeling toward the other person; you most likely did not have a real encounter with forgiveness in that particular moment.
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What brings us to a point of change?: Words to Encourage You
What brings us to a point of change? The answer to that question can be extremely complex when we explore all the events that occur in our personal lives and the impact of society and the environment and a hundred other variables outside of our control. It is human nature to ask the question, “Why?” And it is human nature to want to make sense out of our experiences especially when those experiences are negative.
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Friends Thanksgiving – a New Tradition
In addition to spending Thanksgiving with your family this year, why not start a new tradition and have a “Friends Thanksgiving”? This is a great way to spend time with and honor your friendships, and the families of your friends. As an annual event, your friends and their children will be excited year after year as the event approaches and everyone can spend the day together once again. My friends have been gathering for Friends Thanksgiving for 7 years in a row. Here’s how we do it. There is normally a core set of friends that host the event.
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In the New Economy, You Need a Job & a Business
The current recession has proven that just having a job is not enough anymore. Millions of people around the world have lost their jobs and now have no income stream. Multiple streams of income is the safest way to ensure you and your family’s financial health. In good times, you’ll have income from your job and from your business. If you are the victim of a layoff, you can use your business as backup income.
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Two Steps to Guaranteed Success
Life offers few guarantees. Some days I wish I had a sure-fire plan to make my life turn out exactly as I want. I bet you have those days, too. Wouldn’t a guarantee on everything be great? Perfect boss. Dream house. Well-behaved children. Steady income. Luxurious vacations. It would be so easy if they were just guaranteed, wouldn’t it? Think about it for a moment. If you were six years old and learning addition and you were guaranteed a perfect score on your test, would you keep studying? Some of you may, but not everyone would.
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Too Busy? Quick Tips to Tone It Down
It seems like everyone is far too busy. Too many things going on, places to be, details to remember, things to do. When we are busy to the point of exhaustion, we lose touch with who we are and what is important to us. We are on automatic pilot and don’t have time to think about what we want or what would make us happy. We just go-go-go onto the next thing without another thought. Are you wondering if this busyness is “normal,” or if things are too complicated in your life?
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Resolution Slip-Up
Do you have a resolution for 2010? Now that we’re half-way through February, how’s your resolution going? My two 2010 resolutions are “listen” and “allow.” For me, resolutions are not about a hard, fast, painful commitment to change. Rather, they are like a light that shines on my life to help me find a new way. I’ve noticed a few slip-ups on my resolution, yet I believe it’s perfect.
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What Love Isn't
We’ve been misled. Seriously misinformed where love is conce ed. Most of us have been taught that in order to love we need to share our hearts – give our heart to someone else. In other words, someone comes along and we “fall” for that person. Our heart opens, we yearn, we court and then, if everything works out, we share. At this point we have to let the person into our heart and we go into their heart. Now we each have a part of our heart sort of disconnected, and we’re housing a piece of another’s. This is how we often view love. Does this sound right?
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Being First
“You must be the change you want to see in the world.” Mahatma Gandhi “Being first” - now there is a provocative phrase. It can mean varied and different things, depending on your perspective. Being first can mean winning a contest of some kind, being victorious. It can mean putting yourself at the top of the list and ensuring that you look after your own needs first. Being first can mean getting away from the “to do” lists and activities and taking reflective, quiet time to nurture your spirit. After all, we are human beings, not human doings.
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Do You Want To Be Motivated Or Inspired
You hear how important it is to be 'motivated'. Have you ever wondered why many people set goals and do not reach them, and why so many New Year's resolutions go unfulfilled? The key is what lies behind the goals, the resolutions and the motivations. Motivation is about willpower and specific achievement. Motivation is mental and logical, and is usually exte ally driven, either by the expectations of others, by fears or by problems. For example, you may have sales quotas, or a bonus structure at work intended to motivate you to produce results.
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5 Tips to Success
What is the definition of success? Is it breaking even or making a sizable profit after twelve months? Do we put so much into the end result that what gets us there ceases to matter? Success starts in allowing yourself to dig deep to identify what you need to do to get you where you want to go. It is having the courage to be honest enough to yourself to know that there are no limitations as to how successful you can be.
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Creating Your Own Job Description
Today I was coaching someone who wants to make a career change. Besides the advice of asking her to recall what she loved to do as a kid that made time fly, I told her to go to a place where she could imagine what having her dream career would feel like. Not what she'd be doing, specifically, just how good it would feel.
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How Coaching Helps Multinational CEO’s Run Effective Board Meetings
In the present day business world, business leaders face more pressures than ever. And the dynamics of today’s business world requires that multinational CEOs remain on top of their game in every stratum of their jobs so as to stay ahead of contemporaries and competitors. Ideally, modern business leaders have had to contend with rapidly changing markets, technologies and workforces, increased financial and legal scrutiny . . . and more.
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You Don't Get to TIVO Your Life
The first book I read by Erma Bombeck was "If Life is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits". I was hooked after that. And when her poem, If I Had My Life to Live Over came along, I was even more inspired by a woman who could write such a profound poem after being diagnosed with cancer. Ms. Bombeck's poem encourages us to live each day in the moment, take nothing for granted and enjoy the abundance we have been given. Ms.
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Have You Figured Out Your Reality? Are You SURE?
“The reality is…” Years ago, when I was first engaged in my training to be a professional life coach, I learned in a pretty dramatic way how the use of this simple and fairly pervasive statement was a sure-fire way to keep me from creating life as I actually want it. The phrase itself is brilliantly seductive; I mean, who wants to argue with reality? Well, in the interest of serving what I believe to be my purpose, I’m going to give it a valiant effort. How often do you find yourself using the phrase, “The reality is…”? And what’s it generally in reference to?
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How Do You Measure Pleasure?
Love, money, laughter, accomplishment, & fame are what we typically think of when we want something pleasurable in our lives. But do they really bring us pleasure? Within all of them lies a way to find temporary or permanent pleasure.
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Faith in Action - Dreams Can Come True
Henry David Thoreau said, "If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavors to live the life which one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours" and I have found this to be true. There is power in action. Not undirected action or staying busy to avoid your feelings, but action toward your dreams. We all have dreams. Some so buried or latent that we may not even remember what they are, but we all have dreams. Now is the time to take them out, dust them off and begin taking steps toward bringing them into reality.
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Your Giant List
The following is a list of things I'd like to get done, preferably in the next 16 to 22 minutes: * Read the growing pile of extremely interesting-looking books that is currently residing on the floor next to my couch (including The Power of Now, A New Earth, The Conscious Heart, The Lightworker's Way, The Artist's Way, The Vein of Gold, and My Stroke of Insight) * Redesign my website to reflect new testimonials I've received, updated packages I'm offering, and lots of other things I can't think of right now * Come up with a new format for my blog that includes ALL of the thing
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Personal Healthcare Reform: Physical, Emotional, Intellectual & Spiritual
Healthcare Reform in the United States has been getting a lot of press lately, and one thing seems certain; we continue to place a monetary value on life. Something that should be a right is being used for extreme profit and individuals all across the world pay the price. No matter where you are in the world, you cannot count on a government or privatized healthcare system.
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Creating Space for MORE in Your Life
One of the words that is used a lot in everyday conversation is the word “but.” Usually, it’s considered to be a pretty benign word, or at least that’s my impression given the way in which it’s carelessly bandied about. I mean it’s a fairly small word, seemingly innocuous enough. I think, grammatically-speaking, it would be a conjunction, although I’m not really sure of that, so don’t quote me. All this being said, what I want you to think about for a moment is the inherent meaning of the word “but”. When you use this word.
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Regrets: Reliving the Past with a Twist
In all of our lives, there have been circumstances where things turned out differently than we thought they should have when looking back. Regret is when we feel sorrowful for those results and wish that something different resulted. Regret is born from our non-acceptance of what has happened. Though we cannot change what has happened, we hold the wish for something different in our minds. We may think that we should have done something differently to avoid the situation all together or to change the results. However, our suffering over what has happened is what we create right now.
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Five Steps to Vibrant Health and a Better Quality of Life
They say that knowledge is power, so here is some knowledge about food, dieting, and health to empower you for life. Although this information is good for everyone, I’m particularly directing it to all you Baby Boomers, people who are roughly ages 45 – 65. If you are a Baby Boomer, you are well into midlife, you are most likely 20 – 70 lbs overweight, and you are probably experiencing some sort of chronic illness or pain, as well as some physical and mental deterioration.
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Getting and Staying Connected
In today's fast-paced world of business and personal life we have a number of ways in which we can get and stay connected with each other. Through the wonders of technology we can connect across the globe instantaneously through satellite, e-mail, telephone and cell phones. We can precisely know the location of a person or vehicle anywhere in the world with the aid of a GPS system. We have PC's, laptops, Blackberries, palm pilots and other electronic devices that allow us to connect, schedule, read e-mail remotely and be as up-to-date as possible.
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Conquer Your Fear
There are a lot of frightened people out there. We tend to allow our minds to go to the worse case scenario, and then come up with new ways things could get worse. This state of mind only makes our fears appear more real and present. These fear-based images and self talk can be so powerful ...
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Personal Financial Crisis – Personal Spiritual Solutions
The financial markets are extremely uncertain. Last week we had the worst week in DOW’s history and Monday we saw the greatest gains ever. People are losing their homes due to foreclosure or the value of their house is now less than what is owed on it. Layoffs are on the rise. Business ...
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Living Life or Waiting to Die?
An anonymous member writes: “I am going to give (name deleted) your phone number - it's her turn to take care of herself.”nn… when we have done everything we know (and God knows we give it everything) … except permission … permission to believe it’s okay to ...
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Excuse Me, Who Made You What?
This article is all about personal responsibility. When it comes to living your life in alignment with who you are and what's important to you, it is imperative that you take responsibility for all aspects of your life. Feelings, responses, actions, reactions, choices -- these all fall under ...
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The Importance of Being Dog-like
Being present and staying in the moment is a key for success. I’ve done my best to stay present, but was humbled by someone during a coaching session the other day – a dog I’ll call Sparky. My client asked for information about Sparky who was ill. During the sessio I was able to connect with ...
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Are YOU The Reason Why You Suffer?
I have a good friend that recently decided to move her family back to her home state. To save money, she and her husband decided to live with her mom and dad temporarily. They both found jobs, and everything was looking good for them. She then began putting a lot of unnecessary pressure on ...
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Why People Stay in Abusive Relationships
The news that R&B singer Chris Brown physically abused songstress Rihanna placed domestic violence in the spotlight once again. The drama that is playing out in front of millions of people between these two young celebrities is lived by millions of people around the world. This is not just a ...
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The 48 Laws of Power Through Spirituality
Best selling author Robert Greene wrote the wildly popular book, “The 48 Laws of Power”. The book teaches you step by step how to attain power (by the author’s definition) through intimidation, fear, scape-goating and deception. It provides historical references to how each law was effectively ...
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The 8 Rules to Losing Weight Permanently
Most of us have gone about weight loss the wrong way. We view it as a "problem" that we must fight to resolve or cure. In actuality, weight gain is the result of our short term thinking and our life style choices. If you are serious about losing weight and keeping it off, it's time to make the ...
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"Down Time" is Remarkably Uplifting
I recently returned from an 11-day vacation in Costa Rica with my husband. This was a real vacation. No computers. No cell phones. No plans for spiritual or work retreats. There was no one to meet and nothing to do but play for 11 days. I was so looking forward to it that I wasn’t expecting what ...
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Why The Rich Get Richer, the Poor Get Poorer & the Middle-Class Stay Stuck in Recessions
Depending on your economic status, you are either having the time of your life, struggling to survive, or frustrated by stagnation and an inability to do anything. Right now, the rich are like children in a free candy store. The poor are fighting to keep their children fed and fear becoming ...
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Leadership
What is Leadership? Leadership covers many skills including, the vision, influencing, change, confidence, motivation, strategy, integrity, personality indicators and more... General Many believe that 'leaders are born and not made'. It may be useful to be born with certain qualities that ...
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Energy Flows Where Attention Goes...
A member of a group that I manage said: "When we step back and view what is occurring from the bigger picture, we see very positive changes unfolding in many, many areas around the world." My response - “I agree!!!" Upon reading this, I’d like to hear your thoughts … Our ...
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The Beauty of Imperfection
Being a lifetime perfectionist, it’s taken a lot of bumps and turns in the road to accept the perceived imperfections within myself and in life. I’ve learned that it’s the imperfect qualities that often set us apart from the pack, define who we are and teach us. Laughing at my mistakes is a ...
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A Vision Without a Plan is Just a Dream: 5 Steps to Realise Your Vision
You have done a lot of visioning work and inward searching to find your life's true calling and purpose. You are excited about your newfound clarity. You are willing to move out of your comfort zone and take the necessary action to make it happen. But, you are unclear about what your next action ...
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Begin At The Beginning - Changing Your Life
Are you ready to change your life for the better? Then let’s get started! Regardless what it is that you want to create or experience, you need to start at the beginning. As all of the best wisdom of our day suggests, a clear dream and focus are necessary to start your journey. Buy a small ...
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Valentine’s Day Recessionomics
We are in a world wide economic downturn. This Valentine’s Day won’t be about the size or the price of the gift one receives. Materialism in this economy would be irresponsible. More of an emphasis must be placed on truthful expressions of love this Valentine’s Day. So, how can we express our ...
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Choosing Your Attitude
It can be a challenging time when our world as we know it shifts beneath out feet. One of my favourite quotes is: Don't worry about having the carpet pulled from under your feet; learn to dance on a shifting carpet. That's the key right now, and it all depends on where your focus is and what ...
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Relationship Sabotage
You may be pushing your partner out of your life. Your fears, guilt, doubt, past experiences and feelings of unworthiness may drive you to doing and saying terrible things to the one you like or love. Whether you are doing this consciously or unconsciously, you could be pushing away the ...
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Coaching for Growth
Coaching proves to be one of the most essential components of our lives right from the day that we become aware of the environment surrounding us. Coaching is very essential for the normal growth of the child. Coaching for growth will also apply to an individual who wants to grow in his career ...
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End Recession Depression
Joblessness, loss of investments, and lack of available credit with no end in sight are all ingredients in creating recession depression. Top economists predict that the recession will deepen in 2009 and will begin recovery mid 2010. So, what can we do to keep ourselves optimistic during this ...
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10 Love Relationship Don'ts
Are you currently doing things that may be negatively affecting your love relationship? We don’t always understand the impact of the things we do or say until it’s too late. It’s important to avoid the things that inadvertently hurt or push our partner away. Here are 10 things you should never do in a love relationship…ever! 1. Don’t stop falling in love over and over again
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Who Am I?
The question that is the gateway to spiritual enlightenment Having been a coach for many years, in addition to having been involved in the training of at least 1400 coaches worldwide, I have come to the conclusion that one of the greatest skills that we, as coaches, possess and need to perfect is the ‘art of the question’. In fact, one could say that another definition of a coach is Master Questioner. It is important to remember that the quality of our life is determined by the quality of questions we ask ourselves. Some people ask themselves very mediocre questions indeed.
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The Realities of Life
For many people, much of life consists of trying to keep a balance, as though they are fighting to keep on their feet amidst a vast crowd of people who are pushing and shoving them around. It seems that life demands we become professional jugglers. We want to do our jobs well, to bring up our children well. To romance our loved ones, to spend time with friends, time with our family and time with ourselves. In this complicated world that we have created, we also want to take care of our homes, our cars, our bodies, our heads, our hearts, our souls.
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Finding Joy
Lately I’ve noticed a behavioral trend occurring among clients, my friends and myself. We are recognizing the importance that joy plays life. The problem for many of us is that after being workaholics and Super moms for years, we don’t know what real joy is – or how to find it. I have always ...
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Bust Mental Blocks With Positive Self Talk
Your reality, ultimately, is a reflection of your thinking; particularly, when your thoughts are expressed through speech and writing. From birth you are programmed like a computer. Data and programs go in and stay there unless you make a decision to purge them. Sometimes you are unaware that ...
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If You Want to Grow, Say No!
As the #1 Online Life Coach, the biggest questio I'm asked by the successful entrepreneurs I work with is "How do I get to the next level?" My answer is simple: say, "No" to 80% of your deals. We have all heard of the "80/20 Rule", but 98% of all entrepreneurs do not follow it. They are deathly ...
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Moving Beyond Overwhelm
At the rate in which people are constantly and quickly moving from one project, social event, relationship, freeway, party, job, etc. to another I feel like we are really a race of Humans Racing rather tha Humans Being. Also, in the age of information, whether we are at home, the office, the ...
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Accelerated Learning
Having been a self-development trainer for many years I have come to the conclusion that when looking at the many life skills that humans need to master in order to mould for themselves a joyous, fulfilling and creative life, accelerated learning skills are probably the most important of all. ...
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Rising Above Fear in a Time of Global Recession
Some tips and insights to overcome fearful thoughts and emotional states that cause you to contract from others and from your own sense of resourcefulness and joy: 1) Leap! Liberation and empowerment always come dressed in paradox. If you find yourself contracting and holding back and holding ...
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Retirement Investment: Investing in Energy and Creativity
Investing in your retirement we usually talk about money, but well in advance and more importantly we need to invest some time to plan ahead, to give yourself a second chance to figure out what you should really be doing with your life. Pre-retirement is a good time to invest in useful guidance, ...
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My Life Coached? What's the Point?
That's usually the response, along with a puzzled look on their face. How could a life coach possibly help me, I don't have any problems with my life? Life Coaching isn't just about solving problems. It's about making your whole life better. It's a way for you to hone in on the things that are ...
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Re-Writing Your LIfe's Story, Part 1: From Should to Could to Will
We're 4 weeks into a new year, and many of you have likely given up on whatever new year's resolutions you set. Don't beat yourself up; new year's resolutions are inherently fraught with barriers to success -- but that's not what this article is about. Instead, this is the first in a series ...
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The Need for Training
If IFAs and Life Assurance Companies are to compete effectively with the direct sales channels that are trading today and with the many more about to appear in the next 24 months then they must first realise exactly what they have to do. If they want to keep, never mind increase, their market share they must grow, and grow effectively. In fact to stand still is to slowly die because their market share will slowly be eroded. If their aim is to increase their market share they have to come to the realisation that this can only be achieved by recruiting new people.
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How To Bring Spirituality Into Your Personal Relationships
When it comes to spirituality and our personal relationships, common themes will emerge. Whether we are discussing a marriage, a work relationship, or the relationship between a stranger and ourselves, the themes of acceptance, control, respect, and “it takes two” will emerge over and over ...
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Feelings: Tools to Expand Our Lives
Feelings are very underrated. In my book, Unlimited Life: Limiting Beliefs and Belief Busting Power Truths, I discuss how our beliefs define us. I discuss in the book, and in past articles how limiting beliefs prevent us from creating the life that we desire. A question that comes up often is, ...
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Is It Me? (I'm Afraid So)
This morning I had a bit of a hiccup with my first grader. As she inspected the lunch that I had made for her, she announced that she no longer likes the vegetarian chicken nuggets that have been the main staple of her diet, for the last 4 years. I calmly told her that, after all, she has ...
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Enzo's Top 5 Relationship Fix Tips
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Dating...Who Hypnotizes Whom?
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My Coaching Shopping Cart - Finding The Right Goods- Part I
MY COACHING SHOPPING CART – Finding the right goods –Part In© 2008 Hyacinth E. Gooden-Bailey, M.A. Let us start off by making certain stakes very clear. Coaching is a conversation. It is a conversation between and among equals. The coachee is a fully capable and resourceful person, just ...
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The Beauty Of A Bookcase - Creative Ways To Use Your Bookcase!
Do you have an old bookcase in your house? Perhaps it’s stuffed with books, papers & magazines. Perhaps it’s empty, or maybe it’s so full of “shtuff” that you’ve forgotten that it’s even a bookcase! A bookcase can be a handy and creative piece of furniture … if you let it. Sure, you can ...
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Karma
These articles are derived from excerpts from the book How To Find Your Way Back Home All rights reserved Copyright © 1984 by Bess S. Permut © TXu 171-962 First Published in the Arizona newspaper : FOOTHILLS CHRONICLE (no date shown) Karma Dr. Bess S. Permut Focus columnist We cannot live ...
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If It Makes You Happy....Can It Be That Bad?
Stress. We hear about it everyday. We know it happens to the best of us. We may not be able to define it but we know it when we see it. Usually, when we think about it, thoughts of hectic schedules, frantic days, unpaid bills, and unretu ed phone calls come flooding our minds and start ...
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Do Not Accuse People of Negativity
These articles are derived from excerpts from the book How To Find Your Way Back Home All rights reserved Copyright © 1984 by Bess S. Permut © TXu 171-962 First Published in the Arizona newspaper : THE FOOTHILLS FOCUS July 23, 2003 Do Not Accuse People nof Negativityn"Judge Not Lest Ye Be ...
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Self Help Meditation - A New Way to a Better Life
Self help is about individual improvement and about the manner in which you can improve yourself, your state of existence and your life. It is connected to many different categories such as health, wealth, happiness, relationships, self esteem, abundance, and the list goes on. It is a concept ...
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The Pendulum Swings
When I decided to leave the Midwest and return to my home state of Oregon I was heart broke and expecting my oldest daughter. My mother insisted that I come home. Even at twenty one I let her make many decisions for me, especially regarding the relationship between my daughter and her father. ...
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Seeing Beyond Exte als
Seeing Beyond Exte als copyright 2007nby Dr. Jeanine When I was a child, I enjoyed watching the 1960s comedy television program The Munsters. For those of you who did not see the original show or the re-runs, the show featured a family of monsters who encounter the same problems as other ...
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7 Ways To Say Yes To Your Dream
How often have we lost our focus, allowed others and circumstances to erode our confidence, lost our authentic voice in the midst of pleasing others, delayed pursuing our passion, and feel stuck in less that joyful lives? As women, we tend to push our dreams aside risking frustration, anger and ...
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What Is A Balanced Life?
A hot topic in the media currently is work/life balance, as if we all understand exactly what that means. And we think we do, as we knowingly nod agreement at the latest pundit's advice on gaining a balanced life. What is a balanced life? It may be easier to tell you what it isn't. A ...
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Your Future Is Just 15 Degrees To tTe Left
The Law of Attraction has become a widely used phrase in the metaphysical, spiritual and holistic communities for some time now. Although this rock-solid law of the universe has been around since the beginning of mankind, it is just recently that mainstream America has begun to take notice and ...
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How to Think When Things Disturb You
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The 10 Smartest Steps Between Setting Goals And Achieving Goals
To efficiently achieve goals which you want to set, and enjoy the process, let's look at some smart steps to be taken. 1. FOCUS your innate creativity on one, two or three well-defined goals. If they are clearly in view, keep revising as necessary until you get there. 2. IDENTIFY your purpose, ...
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Ponderings ... Road Signs
Some of us take those road signs for granted - maybe a bit presumptuous at times - such as a sign stating the speed limit. I ignore it and speed on by - - or how about not paying attention and missing the exit which perpetuates me backtracking. Such is life - or is it? With me being ...
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Maximized Human Potential And The Law of Love
Maximized Human Potential and The Law of Love By Dr. Jeaninenwww.SimplyDivineSolutions.comncopyright 2007 11-10-07 I’ve noticed that some of my clients and friends have humorously begun to call me “Dr. Love”. It is a nickname that I thoroughly embrace. What could be a more complimentary ...
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Whats Your Aim In Life
Have you ever been asked the question, “What’s your aim in life?” Have you ever understood what the person asking the question meant? It’s quite a powerful question because it is a pretty direct and incisive way to ascertain what your purpose in life is and what you aim to achieve as a goal. ...
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Step Into Your Power
How do you verbally express or demonstrate by your actions how you feel about yourself? Is your speech peppered with negative talk, self doubt and your behaviors sabotaging? If so, you will remain stuck and in a constant state of “overwhelm”, confusion, stress. When you use words ...
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The Power Of Your Thoughts
We listen to our thoughts all of the time. Notice your thoughts – if your thoughts – go ahead and quickly close your eyes and notice your inner dialogue. Are your thoughts supportive and in alignment with your idea of happiness and in pursuit of your goals? Or are they more ...
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Twelve Dynamic Self-Coaching Tips For Vibrant Living
The following tips are only valid if reviewed repeatedly because they are easily forgotten as we get busy ‘living’. They are clustered here mainly so that you can get a handle on them one at a time rather than try to decipher a whole book of philosophy or theories which leaves you lost and ...
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Another Answer To Cancer
You may already know that cancer cells become dormant in a body that has an internal pH level of slightly above 7.4. You may also know that cancer cells die in a body that has an internal pH level of 8.5. But what many people don’t look into is how we can create this type of internal ...
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The Happiness Habit
'Most people are about as happy as they make up their mind to be.' Abraham Lincol I'm happy. My Email software has developed a frustrating problem, it's been raining for days, the car has sprung a leak which will be very expensive to fix - and I'm still happy. How can I tell? How can anyone ...
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Love Mercy
THE FOOTHILLS FOCUS October 8, 2003 Love Mercy DR. BESS S. PERMUT Focus Columnistnn On taking office, former President Carter used the words from Micah in his acceptance speech: "What doth the Lord require of me but to do justly and to love mercy and kindness, and to walk humbly with my ...
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Forgiveness and the Burdens of Life
THE FOOTHILLS FOCUS August 13, 2003 Forgiveness ¡V Burdens of Life DR. BESS S. PERMUT Focus Columnistnn The Creator lives close to each of us, within us. Do not allow anyone to erase that thought from your mind. Do not accept any teaching that says the Creator does not exist. The truth ...
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Life's Board of Directors - Who Sits on Yours?
So much has been in the news recently about boards of directors, seemingly to be asleep at the wheel while major corporations crumbled. Most boards are designed to provide oversight and guidance to the direction of a business. Good or bad, boards of directors effect the direction of a ...
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Your Beliefs May Be Your Stumbling Blocks to a Better Life
If you want to make life improvements, what you believe about life may be your biggest stumbling block. As a self empowered person working to build a better life you may need to adopt the saying that believing is seeing. If you're a person who believes that seeing is believing, you may be ...
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The Leaders of the Future: Why Coaching Will Help Them Get There
The word ‘coach’ can either signify a means of transport or a tutor or person who provides guidance and instruction.(Although we know that real Coaches do not advise or dictate). While different meanings entirely, they still have something in common and that is to help and encourage people to move forward. And that is exactly the role that coaches have in the lives of leaders, they facilitate growth and help to build up individuals to become the leaders of tomorrow.
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5 Habits of the Highly Mediocre
At last, the closely-guarded, little-known habits of the highly mediocre are exposed! After years of unscientific research and observation, we reveal the powerful daily habits in this article. No longer will the highly mediocre have the corner on status quo. By developing these habits, we ...
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Scheduling for the Real Mother (time for a nap)
Have you ever had one of those weekends where you were just having too much fun? You attended three 8-year-old birthday parties, went to dinner with friends, cheered the Dodgers at a game and hosted a brunch with the extended family – only to wake up Monday morning thrilled at the thought of dragging yourself into the office, to REST. Sometimes we group our “fun activities” in such a way that we are having so much fun, we are too exhausted to enjoy any of it.r
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Forgive and Forget
Someone did you wrong and you’re angry; you’re not justnangry, you’re plotting a way to get even.You can’t wait tonsee that so-and-so, and turn the tables on him. Nations do that, too, on a larger scale; Israelis attack Palestinians in retaliation for a Palestinian ...
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How do you seek validation?
We all have a need for validation -- being told a job was well done or being told that we are valued, wanted or attractive. n Some people have a greater need to be validated than others. n Do you find yourself being drawn to situations or experiences in life where you feel needed? n Check the ...
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Choose a stressless lifestyle!
Choose a stressless lifestyle? That's very easy to say. Yet it is so important. Our health should be our # 1 priority. We all know that, and still we keep hearing about yet another work mate who is now on the sick-list for several weeks to come. The book stores are filled with books on stress ...
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Too Busy To Be - SNEAK PREVIEW: Excerpted from “Balance Your Work and Family with Less Stress and More Fun!”
What is the cost of efficiency? I recently started to realize that although I value efficiency and organization, I have lost some experiences along the way due to my commitment to my LIST. We are constantly making choices in life, and when we choose one option, we eliminate many others. That is to be expected. However, it is useful to know what we are choosing so we can continue to make new choices if our commitments or goals change.r
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The Age of Reason (Does that exist in the life of a working mom?)
Does this sound familiar? In addition to showing up at work, doing a fantastic job, keeping hearth and home moving along with enthusiasm and brilliance (and looking great all the while,) you maintain a second career as social secretary to your children. This is the reality of many working moms and for the most part, all is well. We handle it with grace and flexibility. And then, there are times when our child throws another ball into the collection that we are juggling, and we must say no in order to maintain our sanity and the equilibrium of the family.r
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What You Do Always Counts
Abstract: Answering the question of who am I is the key to personal growth and reaching full potential. Observing what I do is what counts in my personal growth. I am what I do. Coming out of the library the other day, I saw a man in front of me with a tee-shirt emblazoned with the words, "You ...
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The "Doer's" Guide To "Being"
Nothing is working, what should I do? Have you ever had that unsettling thought? What happens when you wake up and nothing seems to be working in your life? There is no immediate crisis, but you feel “out-of-step.” Now, because you are a “doer”, you will begin to take a mental inventory of ...
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Stress Management: A Matter of Life and Health
It's common sense that we all need to manage our stress. But, did you know that managing stress effectively is a matter of life and of health? The Stress Response is a series of biochemical events in the human body designed to help a person respond to some sense of danger in the environment. ...
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Time Management Techniques
Often, people look back on their day and wonder where the time has gone and why they were not able to accomplish the things that they needed and really wanted to. While it’s certainly true that there are only a limited number of hours within a day that people can use to accomplish the things that they need to do, it’s often not a question of managing your time but more of an act of managing yourself.
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Use of coaching to achieve goals!
How can you stay on top of things in such a fast changing and progressing environment? How will you manage to attain both personal and organisational goals? How will you maintain your levels of performance in the fast paced fast moving and ever-changing world of work and how will you ever be able to take on new and ever changing challenges and targets ? The answer to these entire questions is- HIRE an executive coach for yourself!
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Having a Vision
For the last 20 years I have read many times that it is very important to have a vision for whatever you want in your life. Perhaps you’ve heard the same – without vision there is no way you can work out your pathway to your destination. Over the years I have worked with my clients on creating a personal vision – what they would like to have their life look and feel like when they have brought everything into balance. It is always much easier to work out the steps you need to take, when you know where you are going.
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Those Pesky Doors!
I wrote on Facebook recently that when one door closes and another opens. One of the comments was that not only was this true but many times the door that opens is, more often than not, a better door.
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War Effects of Soldiers - Symptoms of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
"PTSD is the fear controlling you. Exposing your fear is controlling your PTSD!" – Anthony Parsons. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, otherwise known as PTSD, is defined as a condition in which a person experiences enduring physical or psychological symptoms after an extremely stressful event or series of events. In World War I, this problem was known as Shell Shock. During World War II, this was called Combat Fatigue. Now, it is known as PTSD.
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Domestic Violence Victims and Soldiers--What Do They Have in Common?
“A battlefield is a battlefield. I don’t care where you are fighting it. Unless you have lived through fearing for your life on a nightly basis, you cannot imagine what war is like." - Dr. Gayle J. Hall. A victim of domestic violence fights for her life on a daily basis, just like a soldier on the front line of combat fights for his. Now, this may be difficult for soldiers to understand and may even make some angry. They may say, “I sure did not see any women out there on the front line with me when I was at war. What the hell! How can you possibly compare the two?”
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What is Up With That Sinus Infection!
Be careful what you say, because once it’s out there you can’t get it back. Be careful also what you don’t say, because there are effects from holding it in. A client of mine, I will use the name Tom, called for a health consultation and reported he was having his fourth sinus infection within the year. He had no history of sinus disease prior to that, and otherwise was quite healthy. He had been trying to avoid antibiotics this time and wondered if I had any ideas.
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Forgiveness - Freeing and Comforting
Forgiveness – freeing and comforting I’ve heard a lot about the importance of forgiveness. You probably have too. But what I heard this past week about a benefit of forgiveness, I had never heard before. And it might change - well - everything. Story: The effect of forgiving your bullies
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How To Accept Differences
Perception is far more important than reality. My seventeen year-old son James and I were talking about playing tennis this weekend and our focus went to how it feels to hit a tennis ball with the racquet. I described it as similar to swinging a badminton racquet with the strings and the sweet spot removed from the grip by a stem. He described the feeling as similar to swinging a ping pong paddle with the strings and the sweet spot connected and adjacent to the grip.
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How Much Attention Do You Give To Being Miserable?
Do you realize how hard we work at most everything we have in our lives? We carefully choose everything we eat, whether it is choosing from a menu, from the aisles at the grocery store, growing our food, or preparing a meal. We carefully choose so that each meal is just to our liking. Some of us know our bodies well enough that we choose foods that will help us feel the best nutritionally and have the best energy throughout our day.
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How to Have It All Using Nothing At All
There is nothing that has ever been done that hasn’t also been done with nothing. That is the nature of our Universe. We have an infinite number of tools to help us accomplish any task. We have an infinite number of nutritionals and pharmaceuticals to aid in any illness. We have an infinite number of doctors, coaches, counselors, and therapists to help us feel better.
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Are You in Control of Your Own Life or a Victim of Circumstances? You Can Change All That.
Are You in Control of Your Own Life or a Victim of Circumstances? You Can Change All That. Many of us have “Good Days” and “Bad Days” and most of it is out of our control. Or is it? Sometimes we get out of bed and something bad happens right away and we might say, “It’s gonna be a bad day.” The day has barely started and we have already written it off as hopeless. On the other hand, after many days of rain, the sun is finally shining and we feel re-energized and ready to tackle anything.r
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How to Know Who to Coach
If you are reading this, you are open to learning. If you are open to learning, you most likely have desire to teach others as well. As coaches and teachers, we so much want to help people. We hear them mention something and suddenly we really want to share with them all of the wisdom we have gained with regards to that subject. We share all we know, and try to get them to commit to following our recommended plan of action for them. Funny, many times they are really not interested in doing that.
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How to Find a Feeling of "Oneness"
Is it possible to see the world from outside of our single physically-focused perspective? Isn’t it amazing that we spend our whole lives inside one single body? We always look out through just one set of eyes, hear through one set of ears, taste with one tongue, and touch with one set of hands. We feel with one set of emotions, move with one pair of legs, and always, always exist in only one single location on this amazing planet.
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lessons to lea
'Letting Go' The biggest lesso I have had to learn was to 'Let go'. To trust in all that I had done so far. Trust in the process of creating and then 'Let go'. Believe that I had done enough so that I could allow my mind to wander onto other things. So that I wasn't constantly thinking of all the ways my ideas could/should/would work. I still haven't fully learned to because there is the issue of trust, but I am learning to. Do I trust the Universe to do a better job than me at creating my life's desire?
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What Exactly Is a Miracle, and Why Should We Even Care?
There are two ways to live your life - one as though nothing is a miracle, the other as though everything is a miracle. -- Albert Einstein Is it just a random event that the Earth rotates perfectly on it’s axis and orbits perfectly around the sun? Is it just a coincidence that the planet maintains it’s atmosphere and temperature perfectly to sustain human life? Is it really out of your control that you couldn’t find a parking spot close to the mall?
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Relationship 202
Relationship 202 There are a million books out there on relationships – every conceivable kind of relationship. Many were probably written by authors about what they think should work. Some books are written by professionals based on the stories from their clients. Fewer still, like Dr John Gottman’s Love Lab, are based on scientific research. On top of that, everyone has an opinion on what you should do to fix your relationship problems. So what do you do and where do you turn?r
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Give Your Best Through Color Analysis In looking Good
Understanding how and why seasonal color analysis can enhance your life through helping you to make the best color choices is worth finding out about! Without it, even the simplest task of choosing what clothes to wear can sometimes take you forever, and even then you are not sure that they are right for you. Color analysis plays a large part in every area of our lives: From waking up in the morning and looking at the sky, to see if it will be a good day for you, to looking at yourself to see if you look vibrant and healthy or weak and pale.
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About Courage and Respect: “I do not agree with what you have to say…”
“…but I’ll defend to the death your right to say it.” Voltaire May Rep. Gabrielle Giffords recover. May the families of the injured and dead in Pima County, Arizona find peace and renewal. May we all resolve to promote non-violence and mutual respect. As a hypnotherapist, I find my contention that language is inherently hypnotic to be confirmed in sad and tragic ways in the news on a daily basis. This most recent tragedy is forcing us to look at the level of violence we have cultivated in our political dialogue and at our growing tendency to demonize those we disagree with.r
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Home Business For Women And Cosmetics
Women Empowerment does not only come from working in large companies, wearing fancy clothes, managing a team, having your name plate on a desk with your position carved on it. Right now, it is also manifested by women who wish to get more out of life, the work life balance and who work from the comfort of their homes. As Technology evolves it brings along more and more opportunities particularly in home business for women.
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How To Use A Snow Day To Create Your Perfect Career
When you have the perfect career, work can become more fun than even having fun. This morning my entire world has turned into a winter wonderland. It is a complete miracle of nature. The foot of snow and the brisk winds have created an artistic swirling re-design of the physical world around me. Smooth white curves and peaks and valleys replace the usual stiff lines of roads, homes, and sidewalks. It looks like a still picture of waves on the ocean. It is truly breathtakingly beautiful.
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What Does It Mean to “Create Your Own Reality”?
Have you ever wondered what is meant by the statement, “You create your own reality”? Some people feel empowered when they hear this statement. Others think it is ridiculous BS. Those who feel empowered by it sometimes lose their empathy and compassion. They may go around challenging people: “Why do you think you manifested this cancer you have?” making people who buy into that idea feel horrible about themselves. But there is a sane middle ground here. Let’s take a deeper look:
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What Do Prince William, Sarah Palin's Alaska & Cat vs Gator Have In Common?
In the midst of a faulty economic recovery, high unemployment, continuing foreclosures, and the prospects of inflation or hyperinflation, people around the world continue to focus more attention on things and people that cannot and will not help them in their daily lives than on the work that needs to be done to get their lives back on track. So, what do Prince William, Sarah Palin’s Alaska & Cat vs Gator have in common? Distraction!
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How to Resuscitate Your Dying Goals
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The Shock of It All- Living with The Threat COVID 19
Can the COVID-19 Pandemic Get Worse? Almost everywhere we go and everything we do has been altered by conce s about the Coronavirus. It is downright shocking, upsetting, and frustrating. Many people are bored and feel trapped at home and are getting stir crazy. How can we cope with the shock, the stress, the upset of these times? 1. Observe how you feel
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How To Keep Your Mind Clear & Creative
If you are like most people, you may often feel as if your mind is tormenting you and there is no escape. Ironically, when the torment is very vivid, our mind is actually dull, lacking in clarity and creativity. Of course we can’t enjoy our mind in such a state and we feel trapped because we lack the clarity and creativity to get out of it. Actually, it can be quite easy to “escape” if you follow these tips:
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5 Ways to Exude More Joy in Your Daily Life
Are we born with the gift of joy or is it something we learn throughout our lives? If we are born with joy as children, do we start to lose it over time if it’s not practiced?
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Why Gardening is Good for You
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Bringing out the best
Bringing out the best Ponderings... by Glenda Gibbs Several years ago I was working with a couple who were deciding whether they wanted to continue their marriage or bring it to an end; they chose the latter. Both were conce ed about the family gossip. They didn’t want to feed it so what were they to say? I suggested for them to share they were ending their marriage because they were no longer bringing out the best in each other. I also suggested they didn’t need to say any more or less.
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How your perception is being shaped by your beliefs
Are you tired of continuously trying but never succeeding? Do you sometimes feel that the harder you try the further you get from your perceived destination? It's not because you don't have enough willpower or because you are lacking something. It's because your subconscious beliefs, thought patterns, and emotions don't support your conscious wishes and desires. The beliefs that you hold are the foundation of the perception that you have of yourself and the world around you.
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7 Things to Consider when Choosing a Career
By exploring the following points and answering the questions, you will gain clarity on who you are and what type of career would suit you the most. 1) Your True Naturer Who are you at your core? Uncover the natural talents that you were born with. What comes easy for you? What can you naturally do well? This is something we overlook very easily but if you were to ask a friend or family member, they would be able to tell you with no hesitation. There are also online sites where you can learn about personality types that can reaffirm your unique nature. 2) Skills-Past Experiencesr
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What is holding you back in life?
Have you ever wondered why some people get great results, while others don't? Why is it that for some, achieving goals is easy, while for others, it's a struggle? It all has to do with your subconscious beliefs. Your beliefs are the foundation on which your thoughts, behaviours and actions are built. Some of your beliefs are conscious, and you are aware of them, while others are hidden, nonetheless controlling your decisions and the choices you make every day. So how do you find your subconscious beliefs if you are not even aware of them?
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Don't Believe Everything You Think!
I have come to see over the years of supporting people create the life they want that one of the biggest obstacles to changing your life can be your thoughts. As soon as you decide on a change up surge all the limiting thoughts beliefs and decisions you have made about yourself, the world, the employment market, anything to do with your career, your relationships, what you can and can’t do, any limitation you can come up with. A while ago one client I had said the most powerful thing she had learnt through coaching was not to believe her thoughts!
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What Makes You Beautiful In Mind, Body And Spirit?
Getting married is the most enjoyable feeling ever and now that I have a son, I feel so fulfilled. But changes will always happen, some will make you happy and others will haunt you… And there is one change that is starting to haunt me now!
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Finding a New Job in the Summer
Finding a new job in the summer seems intimidating to many people. The prospect of job hunting, only to be rejected, keeps potential workers from realizing some of the best opportunities available. Summer is often the best time to make a career change. What you Need to Know If you want to find a new job this summer, think positive. Many career resources are available. With effective job search techniques, the occupation of your dreams may be just around the corner. You need to know that: * Summer is a good time to revive your search strategies * There is less competitionr
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The Yoga of Productivity, Part 2: Awareness and Allowing
In the last article in this series, I talked about some yoga asanas, or poses, that can help us restore our focus and motivation as we work — without even getting up from our desks. In this article, I’ll speak more generally about how yoga helps us develop what I call Awareness and Allowing — two capacities that are key to giving us the efficiency and enjoyment we want in what we do.
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Calling Out Our Doubts
I admit it — I have moments when I doubt the value of everything I do in my life. I doubt whether I’m really interested in my work. I question whether the relationships in my life are worthwhile. I seriously consider whether I’d prefer a life of solitary, cave-dwelling meditation. I think doubt is wonderful.
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5 Super Simple Steps to Connect with your Inner Wisdom of Success
In the last issue of Core Connections we talked about the vital importance of making the connection between you and your Inner Wisdom. To clarify what your Inner Wisdom of Success is, consider this. Before you started this journey called Life, your Spirit created a “blueprint” that among other things, contained all the questions about all the challenges and obstacles you would encounter during this lifetime, as well as all the answers and solutions. Then you tucked this blueprint away somewhere deep inside your soul, in a place only you could access.
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"Authentic Marketing," Part 4: An Awareness-Building Exercise
In the last part of this series, I suggested that we can actually enjoy marketing when we’re able to tap into our natural compassion and conce for others. As I said, I think this often requires us to let go of the ways we protect ourselves from getting hurt when we interact with another person. For example, if we’re at a networking event, and we’re worried that others won’t take seriously what we have to offer, maybe we’ll loudly brag about our products and services, not letting anyone get a word in edgewise.
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Personal Coach Tips on Avoiding Procrastination
Perhaps the easiest thing to do in the world is to procrastinate…but only if there were no deadlines that exist. With tons of work waiting for your attention and action, there’s just no way you should waste time. Below are some useful tips that will help you stay focused throughout the day: #1: Evaluate How You Use Your Time
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It’s Not What You Say; It’s HOW You Say It!
I was working with a client recently who was terribly challenged by a very old block that forced her to hold back from expressing herself freely and authentically.
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Productivity And “Pushing The Moment”
I shudder a little when I think about some of my old working habits. One of these habits was to do what I now call “pushing the moment.” When I’d be under time pressure, or I just wanted a task off my plate quickly, I’d tighten up my shoulders as I worked — as if I were physically trying to push the project to completion. Not surprisingly, my shoulders used to get sore pretty often. Today, when I work with someone who’s looking for focus and motivation in what they do, we often discover they’re doing the same thing.
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Four Ways to Gain More Self Confidence
Lack of self confidence affects women more than men because of the way we’re wired. Women have been wired to be more intuitive and nurturing than men, and therefore the hormones and other factors in a woman’s brain affect the way she sees herself. Her intuitions and sense of nurturing also cause her to worry and care more about how other people see her. But, there are ways you can gain more self confidence despite your hormones and wiring. 1. Recognize that you lack self confidence. Before you can overcome lack of self confidence, you must recognize what it is.
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Teenage Girls Need Our Help!
The other day I met up with a friend of mine for breakfast. As we were chatting and catching up, the conversation of teenage girls came up and she mentioned that her high school aged daughters were experiencing some difficult times in school. It seems that one of her daughter’s friends has taken up a practice that is becoming more and more prevalent in our teens these days.
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Decision-Making Tips from an Expert Personal Coach
Making a decision is regarded as one of the most difficult things all of us have to do every single day of our lives. It is also one act that defines an individual who has a role of a leader. Although it is given that managers and company leaders are the ones who should make huge decisions, not all of them are open to this idea. In fact, many leaders of organizations don’t seem to have the guts to decide on very important matters. If you feel that you need to work with a personal coach to learn how to make important decisions, then by all means you should do it.
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Life Coaching Tips for Boosting Concentration at Work
For those who have attention deficit hyperactivity disorder or ADHD, keeping themselves focused and efficient in their jobs can be very difficult. The distractibility, restlessness, and limited attention span can have severe effects on how a person performs at work. If you have this condition, you may of course rely on medication. But there are certain things you could also do to boost your concentration at work so you may be more productive. Having life coaching sessions with an expert could truly help as well. Here are some tips on how you can stay focused at work:
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Life and Career Planning: How to Live Your Life to the Fullest
Being able to live your life to the fullest seems just too good to be true. For many of us, it is a big struggle to reach their full potential, be it personally or professionally. What makes things even more complicated is that failing in one aspect of our live can have a significant effect on our success in the other aspects of our lives. If you want to make the most out of life, you must go back to the basics and address certain issues that you think were trivial. Here are some tips on how you may start living a happier and fuller life:
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Self-Improvement Achieved in 51 Words!
How would you describe yourself in 51 words? How would your friends describe you in 51 words? How would you describe your job or business in 51 words? How would you describe your relationship in 51 words? What are your key 51 self-improvement words? While this takes a little soul searching, it is not as difficult as it sounds!
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4 Habits That Will Help You Achieve Happiness and Fulfillment
Happiness… this is what you want, what I want, and what everyone else wants. Interestingly, while we all want to attain happiness in our lives, so many of us are clueless as to how they could be happy in their lives. Perhaps this is because it is too easy to take for granted what we have right now, and we, instead, keep looking for the things we think could give us fulfillment. If being fulfilled for you is a difficult thing to do, consider making some changes in your life. What you will read below are some tips that have helped many people become happier and more likeable.
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Factors to Consider When Making an Important Career Choice
What if you were given the chance to hold a higher position in your company but you have to choose between two of them? This is indeed a rare scenario and you should feel really fortunate if it happens to you. Having multiple good options is a great boost to your confidence, but of course, you will still feel the pressure of having to make a decision as to which of those choices you should grab and which one you ought to let go.
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How to Not Let Stress Take Control of Your Life
It is an undeniable fact that millions of people are experiencing stress in life, be it a short-term or a long-term one. Being stressed out is an unpleasant feeling, of course, but what many of us don’t know is that stress can also have a serious effect in our health and how we perform at work. The good news is that stress is very much manageable as long as you know what techniques to use. In this article, you will get to know more about stress, how it affects you, and how you can manage it. What is Stress?
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How Your Personal Values Can Affect Your Life and Career
It is very common to hear from career experts that you should define your values first before you could set your career path. This may sound easy, but you actually cannot define your values without knowing what they are actually. Well, your values are comprised of the things you think and believe are essential in the way you work and live your life. Your values are what should help you identify your priorities both at work and in life. It is also your values that you can use to determine whether the things that are going on in your life are part of your plans or intentions.
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Learning the Art of Persuasion
Even if your job is not to sell, there will come a time when you will have to persuade someone. Persuasion happens not only between salespeople and their potential customers. As a manager, for instance, you may need to persuade your subordinates to perform at a higher level. And if you think you have a brilliant project in mind, you should learn how to persuade your boss to take on it. Needless to say, the ability to persuade somebody is a desirable one, and something that you can actually learn and develop.
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The Importance of Emotional Intelligence among Leaders
When talking about a ‘perfect leader’, we easily think of someone who seems to be always in control. This person never allows his temper to overcome him no matter how difficult the situation is. You may also imagine a perfect leader in a person who is trusted by his staff because she is someone who knows how to listen to her subordinates and has the ability to make informed decisions. If you try to analyze such traits of a good leader, you will realize that it takes a high level of emotional intelligence to become a perfect leader.
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How to Please Your Boss to Have a Better Working Relationship
Your boss is the one to manage all the things that you do on a daily basis. He or she has complete control over many aspects of your work, such as the amount of work assignments you have, the possibility of you being promoted, your salary raise, and so on. But apart from these things, your boss can also affect how satisfied you will be with your job.
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7 Ways to Flex Your Willpower Muscles!
Willpower will be one of your most trusted companions and counted on to help you during your life optimization journey. To be successful it is important that you train and nurture your willpower. Willpower is the muscle that allows you to look beyond short term pleasures that will ultimately hurt your life optimization journey.
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How to Remain Calm Under Pressure
Patience is something that many of us find very hard to acquire or develop, perhaps because it is way too easy to just be impatient. But do you know that when you lose control of your patience, you hurt not only the people around you, but yourself as well? Impatience can cause your stress levels to increase, which we all know can be very unpleasant and harmful to us. What’s worse, not having patience can ruin your relationships with other people. What we are going to discuss here are some strategies that will help you become more patient.
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How to Stop Sabotaging Yourself
“That’s too difficult, I can’t do that!”, “There’s no point in trying because I will fail anyway.” If you find yourself saying these things quite often, then you are someone whose personal mission is to destroy your own confidence in yourself. This isn’t unusual, though, because there are many of us who are just too cruel to themselves.
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Ideas on How to Create a Solid and Cohesive Group
Did you ever have to manage people who just can’t seem to put their trust on one another? If yes, then you have an idea of how draining and difficult it is to build trust among your team members. And while there isn’t any way you could do this easier, you really have to try to achieve this goal.
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Stay Energized to Remain Productive
Have you ever felt like you just don’t have the energy to make it through the day at work? There are days when it seems too difficult to keep your eyes open and stay focused, and all you would want to do is sleep or take a nap. While it is natural for any human being to feel tired or exhausted, this condition is not what you want to be at when you’re at work. When you lack energy, you are likely to be irritable and make bad decisions. You will also find it challenging to meet deadlines and finish urgent tasks.
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How Effective Are You At Work?
Do you think you are being effective at work? While it is common for most of us to believe that we are perfectly effective, this isn’t always the case. In fact, we all have certain strengths and weaknesses that have a direct impact on how we perform at work. If you could tweak some of your skills, you will find that you can be even more effective.
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3 Questions to Ask Yourself Every Day to Change Your Life for Good
From the time we're small children, we are not taught a lot about how we work: how our mind works, our thoughts, our bodies, our brains, etc. The reason we're not taught this is because the loving, well meaning parents who gave birth to us didn't know either, not to mention the rest of society. In classrooms we're taught that being able to memorize information and repeat it back is revered, and that if we make an "F" we are in fact, a failure. And so the story goes, throughout our lives.
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3 Ways to be more authentic in your business
I've been a coach for several years now, and I have had plenty of times that I've felt like a big phony. I have had my moments where I'm preaching one thing and practicing another. There are times I've experienced intense fear about being "found out": such as being caught eating burger king after talking about the importance of good health all day. Oh yes, I sure have done it.
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How Business Owners or Managers Should Communicate with Their People
As a manager or a business owner, you have the burden of making sure that there is effective communication within your business or company. But this is no easy task at all. Can you actually sleep at night feeling so sure that your staff understood the critical information you shared with them? Do you feel assured that they will produce results according to what you are expecting them to? While it may seem impossible to have a perfect flow of information within your organization, there are things you could do to make sure you could communicate with your people effectively.
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Your Guide to Finding the Right Supplier for Your Business
For any small business, one of the toughest things to do is to expand overseas and find reliable global suppliers. A smart entrepreneur makes safe choices and smart decisions, especially when it comes to finding a supplier for your business. This is easier said than done, though, but by following these steps below, you can rest assured that you can choose a supplier that will give you the best service. Through this guide also, you will find help in ensuring that your business will move on to the path towards success. #1 Study your options well before closing a deal.
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How to Utilize IT to Offer Top Level Customer Service
More and more businesses are becoming reliant on the internet to remain competitive on the international market. What the web does is make them available and operational 24 hours a day and 7 days a week. This has clearly made technology an essential aspect not only of the sales process, but also in offering quality customer service. However, it is important that businesses, regardless of their size, realize that technology alone will not enable them to give their customers top quality customer service.
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Things That Happy People Do Not Care About
If you are serious about becoming a better and happier person, what’s important is that you keep your focus on your main goal, which is to be happy. Once you find your own happiness, you will instantly be a better person in every aspect of the word.
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Being True to yourself
Sometimes in life, we think we are being our authentic self. We get up in the morning, go to work, do what is expected of us and come home and then do what needs to be done and finally relax and go to bed. So many of us, day in and day out play this role 5 days a week and then the weekend comes and we finally get to be who we really are and enjoy.
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How Aspiring Entrepreneurs Should Use Their Internship
It is definitely very easy for student entrepreneurs to get caught up with their startup during summer because they feel this is the perfect time for them to attend to the many aspects of their new businesses. And so, having a day job is not a very popular option for them. While it may seem that joining an internship is a waste of time, there are many useful things a starting entrepreneur could pick up from this endeavor. Follow these tips so you could take full advantage of your internship:
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Important Ingredients to Turning Your Passion into Business
Having a job or career that requires you to do something you are passionate about will certainly encourage you to work harder. However, this alone doesn’t offer any guarantee that you will be successful, especially if your plan is to turn your passion into a business. At the end of the day, it is imperative that your courage meet with good business opportunities. When this happens, you may witness how passion integrates with business sense. While it won’t be that simple to succeed in a business founded on your heart’s desires, it is definitely not impossible to achieve.
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Top Investments Entrepreneurs Should Not Miss
As an entrepreneur, you must be willing to spend your time and money on improving your business, but do you really know which of your investments are actually worth your resources? By first opening your mind to what can boost your revenue will help you come up with the smartest decisions for your enterprise. Below are the most recommended business investments entrepreneurs should make:
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Tips for Finding Quality Hourly Employees
Despite the fact that hourly employees make up the majority of the workforce in most developed countries, employers are still unable to find enough candidates who are qualified for the job. Not only that, companies, big and small, often fail to retain their best workers long enough to capitalize on their investment.
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Inexpensive Ways to Boost Customer Loyalty
For most businesses, especially the startups, acquiring customers is one big concern. But while entrepreneurs must know how to gain new customers, they shouldn’t forget the importance of retaining the loyalty of their existing customers. This is definitely a bigger challenge, basically because it can be very costly on the side of business owners. Our goal here is to teach you some very inexpensive customer retention strategies. How to Improve Customer Loyalty
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What are your Priorities?
We all have many things we want to get done or feel we need to get done. How do we balalance our time for things we want to do, for relationships, work and more? Most people need to work to pay their bills. Most people have family, friends and hobbies that they want to spend time with. Some people like to exercise to watch TV. There are many things we like to do in a day. Sometimes we lose track of what is most important. Without balance we can lose focus. Here is a good story I was sent the other day: 3900 Saturdaysr The older I get, the more I enjoy Saturday morning.
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Book Review: The Traveler's Gift: Seven Decisions that Determine Personal Success
Only a few months ago, he was a successful executive. Now he’s a desperate man. But a divine adventure is about to unfold. Join David Ponder on an incredible journey that will help you discover the Seven Decisions for Success.
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Helping people find a lasting relationship
Wouldn’t it be nice to have a guide or map to a relationship like a golf course has for a golf hole? The below info or guide I got from a friend on Facebook and wanted to pass it on. Many of my friends really liked it and said that it helped explain why things their past relationships have ended. I hope if you are in the dating world that it can help you make a better decision on a life partner.
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Be a Dream Promoter
Dreams are like the Candy above, they make you feel good. So are you a dream promoter or crusher? Do you support your dreams and dreams of others or do you crush them like stepping on a grape on the floor? I really work on not being judgemental of others dreams. I do hear everyday from people knocking other people down or talking behind their back about the others dreams.
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Keeping Your Team Together
FOR MORE THOUGHTS FROM THE SUCCESS ARCHITECT FOLLOW BILL ON TWITTER! visit www.twitter.com/coachbillnelson I have always believed that the strength of a team is the team itself. The people within the team, between them pretty much determine the success or otherwise of the team. Each individual brings a particular strength to the team and for that matter no doubt a particular weakness.
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Find your Daily Inspiration
As you probably can tell that I am passionate about golf. Anyone who plays golf or bowls knows that there are times when your mind can get you down. There are times that you wonder if you ever golfed or bowled before because nothing is working or you may have a good round or game going and want to keep it going. Another situation may be you need to hit a risky shot or have a tough spare to pick up and your mind sometimes gets in the way.
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Questions to Guide You in Searching for a Job
No job search is easy. It takes quite a lot of time, patience, effort and commitment in order for you to succeed in finding a job that will make you more satisfied than your current job. If you have just started your search for a new job, you may be tempted to grab just any opportunity that comes your way. By not taking into consideration the career you want as well as the methods to use to achieve your goals, you may find yourself taking the wrong career path.
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Choose to be Positive Today
Why not Choose to be Happy today instead of mad. We all can choose the minute we wake up if we want to have a great day or a bad day. Once you get out of bed why not tell yourself that today is going to be a great day. Talk about some things that you are going to accomplish today. It is so much better to choose to have a great day. Something good to read when your wake up could be the Optimist Creed.
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How Well Should You Handle Office Romance?
Mixing business with pleasure is a very bad idea, according to many. However, staying in the office and working long hours have become so common that the workplace has eventually turned into a place where potential lovers meet. Career experts explain that while it is true that you can't choose with whom you may fall in love, you should be extra careful in dealing with office romance. If you are not able to handle the relationship properly, things can end up really awkward between the two of you as well as for the people around you.
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5 Tips on How to Deserve a Pay Raise
Every year, an average employee is expected to receive an average pay raise of 3 percent. For top performers, another 1 percent of salary raise is given. While this would clearly not make a huge difference, a lot of companies are still struggling to offer their workers such a raise. This is not surprising, though, considering how terribly the economy is still struggling. Therefore, you must appreciate every bit of raise you are to receive. Nevertheless, there are things you can do to make sure you are in a position to ask for a raise that is significantly higher than average.
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Simple Job Interview Etiquette that Means a Lot
If you are currently searching for a job, you must have searched the internet for tips on how you can have a successful job interview. It is also likely that you have read various materials regarding the important job interview etiquette. Most of the elements of proper etiquette during job interviews may not matter much to you. However, it is these little things that can help you have a good and positive impression with the hiring manager or human resource personnel conducting the interview.
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How to Avoid Getting Too Overwhelmed by Work
Even the job that you have long wanted can turn into a nightmare if you find yourself having more tasks and responsibilities than you expected. And when you start missing deadlines and getting assigned additional projects, things can get so much worse. These could even result in you having a negative score in the employee performance evaluation or even getting fired from your job. It is the common instinct of employees to keep their struggles to themselves because they don’t want to look or sound like a big failure if they speak about their difficulty keeping up with all their work.
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How Optimism Is an Important Asset
Before entering the workforce, it is common for young people to study calculus and other higher academic subjects. While there is no doubt that training in such fields is valuable, it is also very important that young workers learn the idea of optimism. It can definitely be very beneficial for an individual to know what it is that actually motivates people to give their best in whatever they do. When you start to figure it out, it will be easier for you to apply it in your own life by finding your ultimate motivation.
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Is It Right to Make Money Your Biggest Priority?
Money is not a bad thing at all, of course. It only becomes evil when you start to make earning and accumulating a lot of money your purpose and goal in life. So is making money the main reason you are alive? You would initially say “Of course not!” This seems like a really easy question to answer, but if you try to take a closer look at your own goals and dreams, you may be surprised to find out that money is indeed what’s driving you to do whatever it is that you do.
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Unique Qualities That Make Women Great Leaders
For many people, the success of a woman is primarily out of “luck”. While it is true that luck is the ultimate game changer, it isn’t enough to make a woman a great leader. A woman becomes a true great leader because of her dedication, perseverance, commitment, and intelligence. These are the traits that help women excel in the corporate world where they are not so often expected to do well. So what characteristics do you need to possess that become a successful and effective woman leader?
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Inner Wisdom: The Most Powerful Personal Development Tool Known to Womankind
The idea of Personal Growth and Development, in my opinion, is about building and strengthening your relationship with your SELF. It’s about understanding your SELF better, and improving your SELF-awareness. The better you understand how you tick, what your unique needs are, and what works for you (and what doesn’t), the happier and more fulfilled you will be — and the easier life will flow for you. An integral part of building this relationship with yourself is to make the connection with your Inner Wisdom.
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Ensuring the Success and Effectiveness of Organization Change
Change management is a well-defined approach that aims to ensure that whatever changes are implemented in an organization will be thoroughly planned and smoothly applied. Most importantly, this approach should guarantee that the benefits of the change will be lasting and will be achieved.r
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Professional Mentoring - A Tool for Workplace Diversity
As the worldwide economy becomes more strained and the demand for expertise in the workplace increases, people will be relocating from different cultures and countries, in order to provide for their families and establish careers. Individuals will be spending the majority of their waking hours side by side with men and women they wouldn’t normal associate with in social situations.
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The Top Ten Mistakes Made in Job Interviews and How to Avoid Them
You did it! You impressed your future employer to the point where they called you in for a face-to-face job interview. This is your chance to go in there in person and shine. Now that you’ve been given this opportunity, it’s critical that you don’t waste it. Here are the top ten mistakes made in job interviews and how to avoid them. 1. Dressing Dreadfully: According to a Careerbuilder.com survey, the single most common mistake made by candidates in job interviews is inappropriate dress.
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Career Tips to Revamp Your Resume and Kick Start Your New Career
Over the last few decades, there has been an ever-increasing trend of people switching careers at least once rather than staying with one company for their entire working life. Recently, this trend appears to have accelerated dramatically. Whether you have decided to switch careers to fulfill your life’s goals or you’ve been forced to do so to maintain an income, here are some career tips you should keep in mind as you attempt to get acclimated to your new life, along with ways of presenting your resume that will accentuate your skills and get employers’ attention.
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Self Improvement Tips for Overcoming Obstacles Part 1
It is not uncommon to find people who respond differently to the very same situation. For example, when any of us are held in a heavy traffic, most of us would react with frustration, anger etc. while few might handle the situation with strength. The manner in which we deal with even minor incidents have great impact on the progress we make in our lives and determine how we overcome the obstacles to achieve the progress. A life coach can help to deepen the self-understanding of your self.
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You Can Do What You Commit To
Each day is your opportunity for a fresh start. Whether your top goal is to lose weight and fit into your skinny jeans, get out of debt and financially plan, get over your x-boyfriend and find your soul mate, finish an old project and learn a new skill or discover how to find more balance and clarity in your life – there’s no better time than now. Making changes is simple…the challenge is staying committed to action when you fall off track. We all know it’s easy to exercise for day, a week and sometimes even a month, but remaining dedicated, consistent and persistent is the ha
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Change Your Attitude to Grattitude
When you're feeling down, you blame your friends, family, and spend your time thinking about what you want but don’t have now. Your ego (your mind and awareness) tells you stories about your past and based on your interpretations of your past, you doubt yourself and worry about your future. “What if I never have….?” 90% of our thinking is negative and we spend way too much energy thinking about what we don’t have. Shift your thoughts to a positive perspective and be thankful for what you have in the present moment. When you focus on what you have, you instruct the brai
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Let Bad Habits Fall Away
As summer ends and autumn begins, the sun sets earlier and the days get shorter. Trees prepare for winter as their leaves change colors and eventually fall to the ground. Nature responds naturally to the changing seasons. Let today, the first day of fall, inspire you towards personal growth. It’s time to let go of what no longer serves you and take on new challenges and responsibilities. Despite your desire to make positive changes, you may feel stuck in bad habits and resist making a change.
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Friends Are Like Bras
Friends are like bras... close to your heart and there for support. I don’t know who said it so I can’t give credit. I love it though, don’t you?
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Making Bold Moves for Bigger Results
In this time in human history, it is becoming more and more important for people to tap into the power that they have inside. The days of being comfortably numb for many of us are over, and we are being called and challenged to evolve. In order to make this happen, we're going to have to start making some bold moves - and that can feel quite scary. Bold moves may bring up fear, but consider the alte ative. For most of us staying the same is no longer an option - and in fact may be an even more frightening idea.
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The Consequences of Truth
There's a part of all of us that we hide from the world. Some parts we're aware that we hide, and some are so far buried that we don't even know what we're hiding anymore. During my own growth as a person, a soul, a coach, and a teacher, I have come face to face with more of my "stuff" in the year 2009 tha I have in my whole life. It's been amazing what I've uncovered, but I tell ya - it's not always been a "roses and rainbows" process.
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On Love & Consciousness in Action
This is my summary of the philosophy behind consciousness coaching: "Consciousness, the observer, is our True Self. Being fully present to our highest aspirations and greatest dreams as human beings, we can take action and have impact on the reality around us, independent of our thinking and feeling, simply because we are committed to it. It may not feel right, our thinking may rebel against it and our ego may resist, but we can do it because we are committed to it.
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Divine Team Building
In our last issue of “Core Connections” we talked about the importance of building a strong and dependable support system consisting of carefully chosen friends with whom you can depend. That was part one of creating a Power House support system. Part two requires creating an inner team of support. When we set out to create a life and business that we love, are passionate about and fulfills us, we often feel like we are doing it on our own. At times it can be very lonely and isolating.
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Are You a Shopaholic?
I read somewhere that women will spend on average 8 years of their life shopping! It was something like 25,000 hours over the course of a 63-year life span. For someone who is more like a shop-a-phobic than a shop-a-holic, this is a staggering concept to me. One out of 20 women cannot control their urge to shop. Whether they need the item or not!
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This Time Next Year
Where were you on this day last year? What were you doing? Who were you being? What were your challenges, your triumphs and your failures? What were you proud of? Where are you today? What are you doing? Who are you being? What are your challenges, your triumphs and your failures?
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"Lessons From Littleton"
I loved my community in Columbine - Littleton, Colorado. I moved there in 1985 to work, live and raise my children. I picked this place because it is beautiful, has nice homes and is a down to earth suburb with grounded family values.
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Breathing through Christmas
Christmas time is a wonderful time of year with shopping, parties, cantatas, children’s programs, numerous Christmas parties, families and much, much more. We love this time of year, and yet some of us loathe this time of year. If we took the time to ponder the reason why people loathe it, then we would find that the answer would probably be the same as most everyone else. That answer is: “I’m way too busy, and there isn’t enough time.” Take a breather, and think about the season in a new way.
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Preparing for the New Year and A New You
Now that the busiest time of the year is over, many people find that they are tired and worn-out from all the hustle and bustle. It can be a wonderful time of year, and it can also leave you exhausted, just when everyone is talking about New Years Resolutions. Where is the energy going to come from to make all those changes? In traditional cultures the winter is a time to be dormant - a time to be still and quite, so that we can go inward and nurture a deeper connection with our Spirits.
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Energetic Boundaries for Conscious Living
Have you ever felt ,or has anyone ever told you ,that you are “too sensitive”? Perhaps the real problem is that you have not learned to manage your energetic boundaries. Do you feel drained after being in groups of people? Are you a healer that feels exhausted after working on just a few clients? Maybe just being around a coworker who is angry or depressed effects your mood. Learning to strengthen your energetic boundaries could give you more energy and peace in these situations. What are Energetic Boundaries and what's the big deal?
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Self Start Your Self-Confidence
1. Learn from your setbacksr We all experience disappointments and setbacks from time to time, and it is human nature to become discouraged at those times. But, you can turn setbacks into positive experiences if you view them as learning curves. Meet your challenges head-on, and focus on the outcome - not the obstacles. I like the cliché which is currently doing the rounds, namely ‘don’t make disappointment or failure your permanent address’. Wise words, methinks. 2.
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Family Relationship
If we were to dissect the superficial front of families we would find, strife, jealousy, fear and hatred and no holiday within the family feels like a blessing. Love brought families together. Love that binds the family together is often taken for granted, by the parents and the siblings. When grown adult families come together, then everyone needs to remember that they are adults, and not children. I have posted a saga of two families One family focuses on abundance, gratitude, blessings and love. The other family focuses on power, individual differences, lack, and fear.
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3 Ways to Improve your Mood Instantly!
First of all: Laugh out loud! When was the last time you had a really good belly-laugh? I mean the one where you are shaking uncontrollably with laughter and the tears are streaming down your face? I'm guessing that, for most of us, it's been a while. When we grow out of childhood, there don't seem to be that many things we find uncontrollably funny. So let's go find some! Make a note of five things that make you laugh out loud. For me that would include: Laurel & Hardy movies; Tom & Jerry cartoons; Bob Newhart video clips, Monty Python and Irish comedia Dara O'Briain.
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4 Reasons Why Your Business May Be Failing - And What to Do About it
9 out of 10 businesses make it past their first year. Why does this happen? 90% of people? It's not that there is anything wrong with these people, that they can't do it, are not smart enough, or any of that. I know one thing for sure, a person is not given the desire for something without the tools to make it manifest. So what's the problem?
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Accessing the Love Connection
Dating can be a very interesting or frustrating time in one's life. When we are in a relationship, we always wonder where this relationship will lead to. Everyone wants some kind of commitment from the other person and we all do things to make sure that we are not wasting our time with a particular person.
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Are You Having Fun Yet?
When I ask new clients what they would like more of in their lives almost all of them include "more fun" to the top of the list! I think that's true for all of us really. So why aren't we having more fun? See if any of these reasons look familiar to you: 1. We take ourselves much too seriously. 2. There are other, "more important" things to do. 3. We think it will cost a lot. 4. We are too tired. 5. We don't have time. (WE DON'T HAVE TIME?) 6. We'll look foolish. 7. It's too hard to plan. The reality is these are just excuses.
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How to Find Your Happy Place
I always wanted a tattoo growing up. I thought they were so cool. Of course my mother forbade me until I was 18 and "out from under her roof". I wound up waiting until I was 34 and my sister Missy and I went together to get them. We had both put a lot of thought into what we wanted, knowing it would be there for...well...ever! The message that I wanted to share with the world in the form of artwork on my body was the Chinese symbol for Happiness. Why Happiness? For me that sums it all up. If I'm happy then everything else in my life is on track.
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Is it Fear That's Holding You Back?
Trust me when I tell you I understand what it's like to be so scared of moving forward that you actually become paralyzed with fear. So you do nothing, and pray that the courage comes soon. Three different occasions come to mind for me right now.
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Thinking How Others See You
At such a young age we begin to seek out approval from others. It begins as toddlers looking to our parents for approval, as adolescents it's our friends, and once we enter the working world it's all of the above in addition to our boss and colleagues. It seems we are constantly seeking out the approval of others. In my yoga class a few weeks ago the instructor quoted a sociologist whose teachings he had studied.
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Invest in Your SELF, the Payoff is HUGE!
When I first started my journey to clean up my life and build and strengthen my relationship with myself, I started by investing in resources that would deepen my learning. I bought lots of books about self-healing and personal growth & development. Some books I read more than once to be sure it all sank in. Once I finished those, I began attending adult education classes, seminars and taking personality tests. Then I hired a coach.
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Business, is it the way out?
Business the way out Not too long ago, I discussed the United States' deterioration with friends of mine. I had expressed that we are no longer the world’s greatest country, and that upset them. As I presented valid reasons to support my thoughts, I started to realize that most of society feels the same way. They do not realize what is truly happening in the realm of mankind. At one point during our chat, one of my friends mentioned that whatever happens in our Nation’s capital does not affect her. I believe she feels this way because she’s a
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Junk, Stuff and Health
Each day I park in my driveway, and wish that I could park my car in the garage. Each day I say to myself, "You need to get rid of this stuff. You don't need it, and you're not using it. Either take it and give it away or sell it at a garage sale. Just do something." Have you ever had those exact thoughts. Maybe you have a storage unit, and you think, "Why do I have a storage unit. I don't need it, and besides that takes money away from me and my family." We Americans are known for our stuff. We like to have the newest gadgets, and keep our mementos from years and years of collecting.
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The Secret to Your Authenticity
The first time I heard someone talk about 'living an authentic life' I was sitting in the audience of The Landmark Forum. This concept was new to me. I had not yet begun my coach training, and this whole idea of living one's truth was foreign. What do you mean live my truth? I am who I am.
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Each Day Begins Anew
Each day we wake up with the chance of making today the best day of our life. We have the choice to have a good day. We must use our free will and choose to have that best day of our life. How can we do this each morning as the alarm wakes us from our dreams? About three weeks ago, I woke up and it was raining. No, it wasn't just raining it was a pouring rain. Rain and I don't exactly get along especially after days and days and days of cloudiness and rain. This particular morning was one of those mornings.
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Life is Downstream
I have a picture on my desk that was given to me by a friend. It is a close-up of a stream in Sedona, Arizona and in it is the rush of the water and a few rocks. Obviously when I look at it, I can almost hear the water and see the white of the stream as it flows downstream. When I get upset or uptight about life, I can look at this picture and know that life is meant to be lived as one. In other words we need to let go and be in the flow and in the moment. We, humans are made to encounter stress, but how we deal with that stress is entirely up to us.
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Are Women Really that Unhappy?
“Since 1972, women's overall level of happiness has dropped, both relative to where they were forty years ago, and relative to men. You find this drop in happiness in women regardless of whether they have kids, how many kids they have, how much money they make, how healthy they are, what job they hold, whether they are married, single or divorced, how old they are, or what race they are.
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How to Write Your Personal Mission/Vision Statement to Achieve Your Goals
I recently spent some time revising my personal vision/mission statement for my career coaching and mentoring practice. While doing this, it occurred to me that the visio I have for my work is closely related to my personal vision. Having a job that reflects my personal vision is powerful because it has allowed me to create a business life for myself that truly reflects who I am. Companies know all about vision and mission statements and getting their employees on board. Vision and mission statements propel the company in the direction that they want, and ultimately towards success.
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Negotiating Your Severance Package - Should You?
Given that the economy is nowhere near as strong as it could be, more and more companies are looking at layoffs as an option that will help them to stay in business. No matter how great you are at your job, there is a risk of the company eliminating your position - and if that happens, it’s likely that they will offer you a severance package. What many people don’t know is that negotiating a severance package is possible. Before you really start thinking about negotiating a severance package however, there are a couple of things to consider.
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Sending Your Inner Critic to the Beach
An Inner Critic is often an active, vocal member of the community of characters that exists inside each of us. Despite the Inner Critic’s starring role, it can still take some time and practice to distinguish its voice. This aspect of our selves has been providing such a continuous running commentary for so long that it has become an entrenched part of our mental clutter. Once we do start to stand apart from the Inner Critic; to recognize its voice, to focus on its tone and hear its messages, we may well find that the Inner Critic can be a formidable adversary to our personal growth.
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Overcoming Barriers to Self-Love
If you’re on a path of personal development and spiritual growth, it’s near impossible to bypass the many signposts pointing us in the direction of self-love. For many of us, these messages and milestones come up again and again as we grapple with the challenges of what it is to truly love oneself. Some of the biggest obstacles we face are the negative assumptions attached to the concept of self-love. We fear that if we follow the signs we might end up in the depths of the narcissist’s pool instead of scaling the heights of the Masters.
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Setting Goals Is Setting Yourself Up For Success
Have you ever been curious as to why some of the people you graduated with achieved mind blowing success while you are still stuck in the same job as high school? It all comes down to the fact you have just been dreaming about success and they have been setting goals to get success.
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Be The Best Person You Can Be
Self-improvement is an essential part of life planning, but understanding what it even means and actually applying it to your own life, can be difficult. There are so many things you can do and plan for to make changes to your life that it can be overwhelming. I want to offer you some steps that will hopefully make your journey that much easier.
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5 Keys to Breaking Unwanted Patterns
We all get stuck in patterns, many of us are reliving something over and over that has been with us since childhood. Some patterns can feel as if we are in some kind of nightmarish prison and unable to leave. We'll watch ourselves getting up at 3AM and eating leftover cake or cookies night after night (wait - that's not JUST me, right?), ending up in the same relationships over and over - hoping each time will be different, ending up in the same kinds of jobs or money situations over and over, and not having a clue on how to break the pattern and step into a new (and better) one.
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Growing Roots in Adopted Homeland
New country, new life, new challenges. A person experiences all of these things when he or she decides to migrate, regardless of whether the migration is internal within one's own homeland, or far away to some distant foreign country. Because living in a new place can be an incredible experience, many people choose to give it a try for a year or two and then end up staying in their country of choice forever. Others, however, have a more difficult time. Try as they might they miss the comforts and familiarities of home and never feel like they fit in.
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In The Moment
I do Bikram Yoga. It’s also called “hot yoga”. It is called that because the class is conducted in a room that is heated to about 105 degrees. However, depending on the number of bodies in the class, and the time of day, the room can even be hotter. Bikram Yoga is one of my favorite things and it is also something I resist. I love it because of how healthy I feel after I am done. And when I do it regularly without a break, I feel better in every way. I feel strong. I feel flexible. I do not get aches and pains. My neck doesn’t “kink up”.
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Write Down Your Goals and Create Success
You should always write down your goals, no matter how small they seem. It is no secret that successful people passionately set goals to achieve the lifestyles they have. They understood the importance of recording all their goals and creating compelling visions for their lives.
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Goal Setting Failures – No Such Thing
Goal setting isn’t easy and I am not here to tell you it is. Success is something you earn after putting in the effort to plan, refine and execute the vision you have created for life. Do not fool yourself into believing that with just a plan of action it will be a smooth road to living your dreams. You will experience roadblocks, obstacles and resistance from all around you. The feeling can be overwhelming and make you want to throw in the towel. The truth is most people do quit as soon as they experience their first set back or complete utter failure. They just give up and quit.
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What Happened to the Baby-Boomers
What Happened to the Baby-Boomers? I remember graduating from High School in 1968 and like every class graduating, we felt like we were going to change the world. Well, we did change the world, but is the world a better place? You have to answer that question. Personally, I don’t think so.
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Eating for Profit - How Food Impacts Your Bottom Line
I must confess that I was teaching what I'm about to share before I practiced it myself. As they say, "teach what you need to learn"; that was certainly true for me. I'm pleased now to share this with you from a place of real, bonafide experience. What I'm about to tell you has changed my life in a more profound way then just about anything else I've ever learned.
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Sacred Life Sacred Treatment
Once in a while an event will occur either directly or indirectly in our lives which will cause us to reflect on our humanity. Do we treat each other with a sense of honoring that each person is sacred? If not then we need to do just that. Human life is fragile, and we need to protect that life as best we can. We can do this, and it's not very difficult to do. It requires a bit of decency, a realization that everyone has their own problems, that dignity and integrity should be shown to all people we encounter; no matter what race, creed, social-economic background or sexual orientation.
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Where Does Your Organic Garden Grow?
Haven you given much thought to where to plant your organic vegetable garden? It’s a very important first step. You don’t want to go through the hard work of creating a garden designed to grow healthy organic food only to find out that there is some toxic substance (such as lead dust, paint chips, stain, or some other toxic product) that was scraped, sanded or power washed off your home and now sits in your soil. First, let’s define what it means to grow organically.
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10 Minutes of Gratitude Goes a Long Way
10 Minutes of Gratitude Goes a Long Way by Anne Vidovich, M.A. Claim Your Life Coach www.claimyourlifenow.com Gratitude is one of the best intentions you can hold in a day. It not only makes you feel happy for what you have, you actually begin to have more people and things to feel thankful for. In addition, you begin to feel happier and more fulfilled. The following are some gratitude tips that you can integrate into your day in as little as ten minutes:r
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Yes You Can
We live in a world where quitting is now a widely acceptable option. Everyday, people quit the goals they spent years dreaming about when the accomplishment may just be around the corner. People quit schools without graduating, quit their jobs without another job offer in hand, and quit their weight-loss program without attaining the healthier body weight that they set out to achieve. Even sadder, and more rampant than ever, people quit their marriage without seeking the counselling and coaching that is required to make it work.
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Are You Wondering if You Are Living in Your Strengths?
If you are effectively living in your strengths then chances are you are happy. If you are living in areas in which you are weak, and perhaps wondering what on earth your strengths are, then you could definitely find more happiness by finding out your strengths. When you are clear what your strengths are, then you can figure out how to use them. When are using your strengths constructively every day, you will find more satisfaction with yourself and with your life. Let’s look at the first step, how to find out your strengths.
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The Female Energy Shift
I remember back in 2003 when I finished reading "The Da Vinci Code", Adam and I had a great conversation about the book and our different interpretations of its meaning. What I recall was how strongly I felt about the power of female energy. I said to Adam "Can you imagine what our world would be like now if our History were governed and led by women?" Think about that for a moment . . . We all have characteristics of both the male and female energy in us. Female energy is nurturing, the energy of Home, oneness, and the inner aspect of things.
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Self-Belief
Self Belief Your level of self-belief in not set in stone. We can be flexible and change. Remember you were born into this world with no sense of what you could and couldn’t do. Then the world started to teach you to limit yourself.
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Why Personal Coaching?
Suppose you really want to make major improvements in your life, then a Personal Life Coach is a must. Maybe you need as we say a helping hand to make even minor improvements in your life, then a PLC would be a good person to find. The best kept secret of the world, and successful people are the other people lending a hand in their lives. The rich, and the not so rich will always be by your side working with you, but will hold you accountable to your goals that you have set. More often than not the person who makes the changes will have a tendency to be slack with their achievements.
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I am Just a Human Being
I am Just a Human Being I have been thinking about this a lot over the past year and I am wondering if anyone else feels this way. Are you tired of always being put into certain categories? For example, I am a 62 year old, so the government will categorized me into a Senior Citizen, a Caucasian, a Male, Middle Class, White Collar, a College Grad and who knows what other categories that I would fit into, according to the Government. When will I be listed as just a Human Being?
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It's the Release that Teaches
It’s the Release That Teaches! “That’s not fair!” “You promised!” “Why won’t you listen to me?” “Why should I change, what about You?” *Are you tired of the same old stuff day in and day out? *Are you sick of being the only one who is changing? *Do you wish people would simply “Get It”? *Do you want to Let Go of past, present and future limiting thoughts and feelings so you can move on with your life? “How is your Let Go!!!
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What If...Enough Wasn't Good Enough?
The other day a client emailed me with an update and ended with "So thanks for the crappy assignment. It was great."
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Is Your Image Helping or Hurting Your Bottom Line?
We all want to live in a world where people don't judge each other, we're all looking for the inner beauty, and clothes don't mean anything. We're evolving - but today, the truth is it does matter. A lot.
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Personal Best
Obtaining your personal best is a goal for each of each day. One would think that most of us would strive to be our personal best. Each day we find people who just settle for status quo, and who seem to care about their own problems. Have you seen those kind of people in and among us? Maybe you're one of them, but the truth is that you can change and find your personal best. To achieve our personal best is to decide to be someone of worth, and each day we put our best foot forward. We have the ability to choose to take each task no matter how mundane the task.
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14 WAYS TO OUTSMART YOUR BRAIN TO SPEND LESS
14 WAYS TO OUTSMART YOU BRAIN TO SPEND LESS David Krueger MD 1. Don’t use credit cards. In numerous studies, individuals spend significantly more—on average 23%--when using credit cards vs. paying cash. Credit cards make money an abstraction, as well as relegating payment to a future time. The immediacy of real money makes it a real consideration. 2. Estimate expenses in detail; pay in cash. Studies at the Robert H.
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3 Keys to Developing Inner Productivity
Looking at the number of books and articles on organization and time management available today, you'd think the market for productivity strategies was close to saturation, and the demand for more would be dropping. But this doesn’t seem to be true. Instead, it seems like a new book, article, or seminar on productivity comes out every day. Why are people still hungry for productivity advice, even with so many techniques on the market?
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I Am Fed Up of Life
A funny topic you may say, but i took a poll today only to realise loads of people are so fed up of many things, for various reasons. Some people are fed up of their jobs, men, women, children who don’t listen to instruction, parents, economy, financial status, bills, spouses etc. There are so many things that make us fed up. We make statements like, i feel frustrated, undervalued, sick & tired etc.
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Help! I'm Drowning Under Pressure!
There are many situations & circumstances that give rise to pressure.
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How To Use Personal Branding For A Competitive Edge
Before you can learn much about how to use personal branding for a competitive edge, it’s important to have an understanding of what personal branding is. Fortunately, it’s possible to take a look at the way many successful people have used personal branding to get a feel for what it is and how it can work for you. Personal branding is something that has been done by a number of well known people.
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Should You Hire a Professional Resume Writer?
When you are looking for the chance to get ahead in the workplace - meaning, when you want to find a job that’s better than the one have or you just want to be sure that you can get in the door and work your way up - one of the most important things that you can do is to have a great resume. Simply put, if your resume doesn’t grab the attention of the recruiter, HR person or manager, you are unlikely to get the interview.
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Gratitude
Gratitude Most people believe that each day is a gift and that we should be grateful for it. How many people actually are grateful for each day I don’t know, but I would guess that it is not as much as it should be. How many people enjoy each day, realize that each day is different and we should be happy every day.
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The qualities for success and high performance in Leadership
We live in a high-speed, complex and paradoxical world. High performance leadership requires an approach that meets today’s global challenges. Today its less about finding solutions and more about creating new patters. It’s less about redistribution of skills and more about fostering creative processes. It’s less about competition and more about collaboration. Our present demands a new kind of leadership.
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Job Searching And Staying Marketable In A Recession
Job searching is never fun, nor is it something that is particularly comfortable for the majority of people out there. It can be frustrating, but ultimately, it can prove to be an extremely rewarding experience. There are additional challenges that exist, however, when it comes to job searching in a recession. The term recession is likely to be as frightening to many as a job search. Because of this, it's important to remember that there are ways to simplify job searching in a recession.
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15 Sure-Fire Ways & The Top 10 Questions To Ask For A Successful Job Interview
Here are some tips for a job interview that will help you come out of the process on top. When you walk into a job interview, the product you are selling is YOU. In order to successfully sell yourself, you must market your personal brand. That is, you must build a reputation that qualifies you, and only you, to successfully fulfill the job requirements. The job interview is your time to shine – your time to sell yourself and your abilities. In order to do that, you must have faith in your personal brand.
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Are You Sabotaging Your Job Search?
When you’re looking for a great opportunity - a chance to advance yourself within your field or a chance to find a completely different position over the course of your job search – one thing is certain: when you have goals for your job search, you are going to want to be sure that you are able to achieve them. Unfortunately, there are a number of things that most people do while they are in the midst of a job search that sabotage themselves. There are a number of things that you can be doing that will sabotage your job search.
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Belief Changing Techniques
As soon as we commit to making our personal growth and development a priority it can seem as if all our old patterns and limiting beliefs come out of the woodwork in their attempts to maintain the status quo. The voices in our head get louder and it can feel like an all out battle is going on in our minds. Thoughts like: "I can't do that!" "What makes me think I can have this?" "I don't deserve to be happy, rich, thin. That's for other people, not me!" "I'm not smart enough, attractive enough, experienced enough . . . I'm not enough." But here's the thing: They are not true!
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The Dreaded To-Do List Dilemma - To Do or Not to Do?
Every person has a different to-do list experience. It works great for some, and does nothing for others. There are some people that actually get frustrated and overwhelmed by their never ending to do list. Most people have had that experience at one time or another. Especially if you have a busy life with a lot to do. Oh, wait - that's nearly EVERYBODY.
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Take Control
Take Control Now that the election is over and the dust is starting to settle, I started to think about the next 4 years and how it is going to get worse (I hope I am wrong). There was over 2 billion dollars spent on this election only to get the same results, nothing changed.
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Overcoming Jealousy
Jealousy is an emotion experienced by people all over the world, but when you have it you may feel as if you are completely abnormal or out of control. Overcoming jealousy for most people is often a matter of finding sensible practical strategies to help you deal with the insecure thoughts and ...
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Becoming a Life Coach
As a life coach of some years standing, I am frequently emailed by people with queries about becoming a life coach, so I have recently put together a regular newsletter with information about the kinds of considerations which I believe you should take into account before you try to launch yourself into a coaching career. This article gives an introduction to some of the preliminary issues that it may be worth you bearing in mind if you are thinking of being a personal coach.
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3 Cool Tips to Help with Work and Life Balance
Ah, the illusory idea of work and life balance. Most of us are so far removed from living a balanced life that we don't even think it's possible. How could we, when it's so rare and we never see it. Work life balance seems like it's one of those "urban legends", you know - a friend of a ...Ah, the illusory idea of work and life balance. Most of us are so far removed from living a balanced life that we don't even think it's possible. How could we, when it's so rare and we never see it.
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Transitioning Through Change: Women and the Challenge of Global Living
As a woman who has gone through a number of transitions for two lifetimes, I have lived through the uncertainties, difficulties, tensions and risks associated with being uprooted from one's comfort zone. As a professional coach, I've found personal affirmation from other women whose own stories ...
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Improve Your Life By Changing Your Food!
“Bob”, a current detox client, was thrilled as he recounted the results his first week of eating raw fruits and vegetables. “I just left my medical doctor’s office. I have been on (diabetic medications) for 5 years, 4 heart medications for the last 2 months and a gout medication. Today my ...
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What Are You Craving?
Last night I sat on the patio with a group of friends enjoying the beautiful Tennessee evening. The conversation gravitated to food, diet and exercise which then went into self-condemnation about will power and making wrong food choices. Most of the women felt powerless to overcome strong food ...
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Finding hope and showing true courage when facing lifes struggle
I was walking down the road this morning & different thoughts, ideas, scenarios kept flashing across my mind. I was thinking about my family, wife, son, mentors, friends, work, in-laws etc. After so many thoughts, i came up with this topic ‘True courage is fighting/facing your battles ...
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Sacred Body: Body as Your Temple
In the New Testament of the Holy Bible is the text about our bodies as a temple. "...that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own." 1 Corinthians 6:19. Many have discussed the debate about our physical bodies belong to God ...
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The Truth About Goal Setting
"The entire purpose of your goals is the step it's causing you to do today. The purpose of your goals is the awareness you must attain, the lessons to be learned, the power inside to be remembered in order to manifest the goal you desire. It's not about getting the carrot, it's about the muscles ..."The entire purpose of your goals is the step it's causing you to do today. The purpose of your goals is the awareness you must attain, the lessons to be learned, the power inside to be remembered in order to manifest the goal you desire.
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Letter to Bully
Dear Bully, What makes you think you can treat other people the way that you do? What inside you tells you it is OK to ridicule, push around and threaten those that cross your path? What do you gain from it? Do you really get that? Or are you fooling yourself?
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Green Your Office, Your Pocketbook, AND The Environment
Growing up in New York City and living in Boston for a while, I couldn't help but notice how many office buildings were lit up like Christmas trees all night long. Even as a kid, this seemed extremely wasteful. Who needed all of those lights at night after the cleaning staff was gone, the mice? And, what about all of those copy machines, faxes, computers, water coolers, refrigerators, etc. that were left plugged in when nobody was using them? Very wasteful indeed.
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If Worry Worked, I'd Weigh 115 lbs and Be a Multi-Millionaire
I believe that people are sent here to learn particular lessons in each lifetime. I know for me, part of what I'm here to learn in this life is trust and balance. I also believe that the way that we learn these lessons is by overcoming the opposite experience. I've been worrying all of my ...I believe that people are sent here to learn particular lessons in each lifetime. I know for me, part of what I'm here to learn in this life is trust and balance. I also believe that the way that we learn these lessons is by overcoming the opposite experience.
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What's Your Worldview?
Albert Einstein said that the most important question we will ever ask ourselves is this: “Is this a friendly universe?” I love Einstein! He was a genius. (Actually, he really was a genius!) I also love that question. It helps me put things into perspective. There are so many things that ...
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Does Seeking Perfection Lead to Overwhelm?
Today I am going to share a personal story with you as I feel it is an experience many of us can connect with. I would ask that you find a quiet few moments to read this article and reflect on its meaning to you and its application to your life. As the days fly by and winter turns to spring, ...
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Career Tips - Is there a Bright Side to Job Loss?
With the current economic climate, more and more people are hearing the news and finding themselves conce ed that they could be faced with job loss. On one hand, these individuals who are afraid of losing their jobs are looking for career tips that will help them to become invaluable in the ...
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Career Resources – How to Survive a Job Loss
Given the situations that exist within the economy, more and more people are conce ed that they will be facing a job loss. Despite the fact that being out of work can be a terrifying prospect - after all, so much relies on having a paycheck and even just the consistency of a schedule and ...
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Career Change in an Economic Downtu
When a lot of the news about the economy is anything but positive, many people focus on making sure that there is stability in their lives. In an economic downturn, after all, there is ample stress about keeping the job that a person has - particularly in industries in which there are a number ...
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Team Building Benefits When Team Members Coach Each Other
Businesses that consistently perform at the top of their game often have one thing going for them that less successful companies don't: a strong team. Because of this, businesses that are looking for the chance to take a larger hold within their markets are going to want to look into team ...
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Do you want it all?
Do you want it all? Most people do but just don’t know how to go about it. They are either too lazy to go after it or just don’t care anymore. Wouldn’t you love to have all the money you ever needed, a great relationship, a beautiful home or homes, having a career that you love and feeling great everyday.
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Job Searching and Staying Marketable in a Recession
Job searching is never fun, nor is it something that is particularly comfortable for the majority of people out there. It can be frustrating, but ultimately, it can prove to be an extremely rewarding experience. There are additional challenges that exist, however, when it comes to job searching ...
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Negotiating Your Severance Package – Should You?
Given that the economy is nowhere near as strong as it could be, more and more companies are looking at layoffs as an option that will help them to stay in business. No matter how great you are at your job, there is a risk of the company eliminating your position – and if that happens, it's ...
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Are You Sabotaging Your Job Search?
When you're looking for a great opportunity - a chance to advance yourself within your field or a chance to find a completely different position over the course of your job search – one thing is certain: when you have goals for your job search, you are going to want to be sure that you are able ...
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Job Loss: If You’re Fired, What’s Next?
Often, when it comes to job loss, it feels as though there is no immediate next step: once your desk is packed up, there's little to do other than to go through the grieving process. Job loss, just like any loss that you will experience, means going through the process of shock and denial, ...
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15 Ways to Win at Job Interviews
When you walk into a job interview, the product you are selling is YOU. The interview process begins when you accept the interview, and ends when the employer decides to either hire you or look for someone more suitable. The more you are able to communicate professionalism with personality, ...
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Finding a New Job
The new realities of securing employment in today's changing world require a new belief. Designing and planning your career, and taking a proactive, self-directed approach is the success formula. The resume is a critical part to your career design. October issue of Recipes for Success we ...
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Resume Writing
This September I spent two days doing Resume Assessment at The National Job Fair and Training Expo in Toronto. 400 Job Seekers received free resume assessments from nine Resume Writers. There was a 2-3 hour wait for this service that was available from 10 a.m. - 8 p.m. Since a resume is critical ...
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How to Leverage the Strengths of Four Generations through Mentoring
Established businesses are going to find themselves in an interesting position; with some workers staying with the company longer and putting off retirement (those who are over the age of 62), baby boomers (those in their mid-40s to early 60s), members of "Generation X" (those in their late 20s ...
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How to Keep Employees Happy, Boost Morale and Reduce Stress During an Economic Downtu
One of the primary conce s that businesses have these days is simple: it's all about determining how to keep employees happy. No matter how stable your company is despite the economy, your staff will have conce s and uncertainty and financial stresses. Unfortunately that stress is something ...
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How to Hire the Right Person During an Economic Downtu
For some hiring managers, an economic downtu can be an exciting time: there's a greater applicant pool, more interest in the positions offered and a greater number of resumes making it into their in boxes. However, this can be a bit overwhelming – especially because it's still essential to ...
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The Effect of the Economic Woes and Wellness in the Workplace
Turning on the television and watching the news at the end of the workday used to be a way to catch up on what happened while workers were in the office. These days, however, with the focus of much of the news being on the current economic crisis, workers are having more trouble separating ...
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How to Create a Strong Leadership Succession Plan with Mentoring
Succession planning is often the key to a company's long term success. With succession planning, business owners will find that they are able to work with the leaders in their company, to hire those prospects that will be a great fit for the company and who will be able to learn, grow and be a ...
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Mentoring in the Workplace
Employee mentoring programs are becoming increasingly common in both larger and smaller businesses. Just as large corporations will find that there are a number of advantages to having a corporate mentoring program, smaller businesses will find that mentoring in the workplace offers a number of ...
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Passing the Leadership Torch
There are a lot of things that can shake up a business; one of the most prevalent of these is a lack of succession planning. Simply put, in order to run smoothly, there needs to be consistent business leadership and it is, on many levels succession planning that helps to maintain consistency and ...
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Missed Opportunities and Your True Potential
Linus, famous thumbsucker of Peanuts’ fame, once said, “There is no heavier burden then one’s true potential.” I have addressed the issue of being stuck many times in this forum and am constantly confronted by individuals who are stuck in their situations and lives. Even when presented with ...
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Communicate, Communicate, and Communicate
As I was listening to an audio speech by Chris Weidner I became aware of a problem. Sometimes we feel that we've beat a subject to death. As leaders we feel we've stated the need, the change, the information to everyone and everywhere. Because we've stated the intention over and over again we ...
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Your Money Relationship
"I don't deserve to earn more money." "Money is the root of all evil." "Rich people are greedy" "Having and earning a lot of money isn't spiritual." "Money is power, and power corrupts." "It's better to give than to receive." "Wanting to have a lot of money is selfish." "There's never enough ...
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Vacation, Relaxation, and Intermission
A respite or a scheduled time off from work, school or any activity happens to be the official definition of vacation. I ask you how many times do you truly believe when taking a vacation that you totally take off from such activities, and deviate from the normal every day-to-day nose to the ...
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Toxic Chemical Found In Some "Green" Products
Most natural and organic shoppers are aware that there are toxic synthetic chemicals in conventional products. That's why we pay the extra money and often go out of our way to shop at natural food stores. But, what if you can't trust that the "greener" products are truly safer and healthier? A ...
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Some Thoughts on Thoughts: Don’t Worry, Be Happy.
Eckhart Tolle, in his book A New Earth, points the way to a renewal of spiritual consciousness. At the core of this renewal is a refocusing away from our self-absorbed ego toward our true selves in the Now, our Source Being. Tolle contends that our ego uses thoughts to feed itself, and it ...
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3 Ways to Create More Free Time
Effective time management is something that eludes most of us. As a culture, at least in America, being "stressed" and "overwhelmed" has become entirely too commonplace. Healthy balance between work and play in someones life is rarely seen. As I work with more and more Home Based Business ...Effective time management is something that eludes most of us. As a culture, at least in America, being "stressed" and "overwhelmed" has become entirely too commonplace. Healthy balance between work and play in someones life is rarely seen.
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13 Days & Counting: A Solution for Those Who Wallow
It's so easy these days to wallow - to get stuck in that endless loop of 24/7 gloom and doom. Losing a job, worrying about making ends meet, wondering if you'll be able to retire when you planned to...according to the news, this is all everyone's doing. I started to feel myself get caught in ...
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Five Steps to Smart Goal Setting
Did you make New Year’s resolutions this year? How are they coming along? If you’re like most people, you may not have implemented all the essential components to ensure your success. Smart goal setting is possible if you put into practice these five necessary steps. 1. You’ve got to ...
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Physiological Benefits of Meditation
When I was growing up in my predominately Euro-protestant mid-weste culture, eastern philosophies and religions were at best a distant curiosity colored by our naïve stereotypes made worse by popular post WWII generalizations about “Orientals”. Among those stereotypes, we dismissed meditation ...
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Live More Positively
You’re having a good day. Your child comes home from school and whines about the bad day they had. Then your spouse comes home from work and complains about the day they had at work. Everyone is in a bad mood, and pretty soon so are you. Does this sound like a situation you have quite often? ...
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Why You Should Know Who Your Teenager’s Friends Are
You may very well know some of your teenager’s friends already because they grew up together. But, as they grow into their teen years, most lose some of those friends and gain new ones to take their place. You might be wondering, at this point, if it’s worth getting to know their new friends or ...
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Preparing Your Teenager and Yourself for Dating
At some point, your teenager is going to want to start dating. This will happen whether you want it to or not. Keeping your teen locked up from the concept of dating is not going to make for a healthy relationship between you. It’s important that you work through the teen dating scene with ...
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Negative Thoughts: Your Ultimate Downfall
No one is perfect. We’re all human. Each one of us has had a negative thought at some time or other in our lives. Negative thinking can be damaging to our self-esteem, and can begin a cycle of thought and behavior which leads us to set ourselves up for failure. For example: Perhaps you’ve been ...
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Super-Sizing Your Teen’s Self-Esteem
Your teenager may go through times where their self-esteem goes up and down; especially if they’re being teased by their peers. You may want to find ways of raising your teen’s self-esteem to a higher level to help them cope with their issues. Here are some ways you can do just that: Take the ...
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Stress Tips For The Working Mom
Stress is a natural part of life. We all experience it at some time another from various types of situations. The working moms can find themselves at the very top of the stress ladder. They experience more than one type of stress. They have the stress of their own personal lives, stress from ...
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Collective Consciousness: The Most Powerful Force of the Law of Attraction
Collective consciousness is one of the subjects of sociology. Homogeneous groups of people, whether of religions, ethnicities, political parties, or nations will tend to adopt shared ideologies or social standards that permeate and govern their attitudes and behavior. For example, most ...
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Successful Resolutions
The ultimate success formula begins with clarity. Now that the New Year is upon us, many of us have made resolutions or have written down what they want to attract for the year. In other words you have determined what you want and desire. The question is why do you want that? What purpose ...
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Successful Resolutions
The ultimate success formula begins with clarity. Now that the New Year is upon us, many of us have made resolutions or have written down what they want to attract for the year. In other words you have determined what you want and desire. The question is why do you want that? What purpose does ...
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Live a New Life Story™ of Wellness
Live A New Life Story™ Of Wellness Mentoring Life Story Changes Why Is Change So Difficult? In studies of coronary bypass patients, when their lives are at risk unless they adopt healthier lifestyles, how many do you think change their habits? Only one in nine. Changing behavior is difficult. ...
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Teachers, Educators, and Wealth
If you ask a teacher about their wealth they will probably inform you that they aren’t in teaching for the money. They are teaching to enlighten the young people of the day. They want to see society improve, and they truly care about people. However, teachers do not make much money in the ...
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Simply Ask
This year is the year for change! Are you procrastinating on starting a business, making a career move, making time to spend with the ones you love, taking better care of your health? Remember, only you have the power to change your life. So, what are you waiting for? By 2010 what will you ...
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Five Positive Attitude Tips Guaranteed to Boost Your Mood!
Need some positive attitude tips to help you get back on the right track? These tips are guaranteed to reframe what’s important to you and make you feel good about yourself. Practice using them and you’ll find yourself with a great habit that just might change your life…for good! Positive ...
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Missed Opportunities in Life
Missed Opportunities n(Written in the early morning alongside a pond in Northern Califo ia on the Sonoma coast) Linus, famous thumbsucker of Peanuts’ fame, once said, “There is no heavier burden then one’s true potential.” I have addressed the issue of being stuck many ...
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The Path We're On
Most people when they hire me want to talk about their pasts and futures. As humans, we seem to keep excellent mental records of our lives as we have lived and as we want to live. It can be difficult in this high speed and stressful world of ours to see ourselves where we are. As a life ...
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They Loved You as Best They Could
They loved you as best they could. One thought I hear from many of my younger clients and students is that when they grow up they will never be like their parents. One issue I work on with many of my older clients is an attempt, often unconscious, to fix their mother or father. They may not ...
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Rote Writing with a Twist
Do you remember way back when you were in elementary school, the big pencils, Big Chief Tablet ®, crayons, with a very strict teacher? When you were caught talking too much or throwing paper and that strict teacher made you write 100 times: “I will not talk in class” or “I will not throw spit ...
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Making Commitments - The Power of Choice
I woke up on January 1st, 2009 at 7:15AM. The alarm clock went off and I thought about hitting the snooze. A voice deep within roared with a boom and said, "What are you committed to?" I had made a choice to start the new year not with a party, but a good nights sleep. I choose to wake ...I woke up on January 1st, 2009 at 7:15AM. The alarm clock went off and I thought about hitting the snooze. A voice deep within roared with a boom and said, "What are you committed to?"
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The Light in the Dark
In these times, many of us find ourselves overloaded with self help techniques and information. It is a wonderful time, and there are many people right now that are feeling more powerful than ever before because of all that is available. Most self help strategies center around one particular ...In these times, many of us find ourselves overloaded with self help techniques and information. It is a wonderful time, and there are many people right now that are feeling more powerful than ever before because of all that is available.
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Helping Troubled Teens
At times, even when using the best parenting tactics, teens may need outside help in order to get over their problems. It’s important to know that there are many useful resources in your community that can be called upon when your teen’s depression or anger issues become out of control and more ...
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Humans or Computers?
My name is Brian Allen; I am 50 years of age in time as we know it, but my attitude towards life is one of many, thus making me timeless. Our thoughts are so important to us on a daily basis. What we think about most of the time is exactly what manifests in to our reality. When we change our ...
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What Thoughts Drive You or What Drives Your Thoughts?
Look closely at the title of this article. You’ll notice a question. Before we get into what drives you, let us examine the question. Thoughts…Where do they come from? Think this through and give yourself plenty of time. I firmly believe I have the answer, and that is thoughts come from the ...
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Empty Elevators
I got a call from an old friend this morning, informing me that his aunt passed away. She was a lovely woman – generous, kind, and funny, and I hadn’t seen her in many years. I went to the wake, and was transported back into a crowd of people I’d known in my early 20’s. ...
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The Illusion of Perfection
When you hear the word "perfect", what do you think of? Most definitions of perfect are something along the lines of "being entirely without fault or defect". So many of us are walking around trying to be perfect in some way. We want the perfect job, the perfect partner, the perfect body, or ...When you hear the word "perfect", what do you think of? Most definitions of perfect are something along the lines of "being entirely without fault or defect". So many of us are walking around trying to be perfect in some way.
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The Hardest Part Of Getting Things Done
Have you ever noticed that the hardest part of getting things done is starting them in the first place? It’s true. We’ve all felt the dread of that looming project, where, say, you’ve got to kick things off with a phone call but you just can’t get to dialing. Or how about when the house is a ...
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5 Steps To Move From Conce To Content
Many of us spend a lot of time being conce ed about every aspect of our lives and often miss out on the sweet feeling of contentment. Conce causes stress, anxiety, and upset, while contentment elicits feelings of peace, confidence, acceptance, and fulfillment. That sounds like a great place ...
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5 Signs It’s Time To Slow Down Fast
It wasn’t too long ago that I was close to hitting the breaking point in my own life - but I had no sense of this at the time. You see, when you’re flying high on success, you don’t always recognize the warning signs of an impending crash. What ends up happening is that the pressure to be ...
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7 Steps To Achieve Anything You Desire
Do you believe you can have anything you desire? Some people do, and they seem to have a knack for going after what they want and getting it. They appear to have some secret that whatever they touch turns to gold. While others struggle with achieving their desires and seem to meet with ...
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Thinking is not Meditation
Meditation is the art of being still, and centering oneself to communicate with the sacred witness. Many people confuse thinking with the act of meditation. Yes, one gets quiet, and one does hear the thoughts of the mind, but that is not meditation. The mind would really like to control you, ...
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Clinical Hypnosis as an Intervention of CBT
Clinical Hypnosis as an Intervention of CBT By Cherie Scheurich, Ph.D., LPC, CHLCnnn Clinical Hypnosis is NOT a state of trance beyond consciousness or control. It is not a form of brainwashing; nor does it have the capacity to force one under the power of another. For the most part, those you ...
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The Truth About Bad Habits
The other day, I was sitting in my bedroom faced with a decision about whether to go exercise or go to the coffee shop. I used to exercise every day. Lately, so much in my life has shifted that I somehow, without even noticing, got out of the habit of daily exercise. It's been nearly three weeks ...The other day, I was sitting in my bedroom faced with a decision about whether to go exercise or go to the coffee shop. I used to exercise every day. Lately, so much in my life has shifted that I somehow, without even noticing, got out of the habit of daily exercise.
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Give Up The Story!
Who would you be without your story? Who could you become if you gave up the story of who you think you are? Who you think you are is a mere spec of who you really are. You think you are your history, your experiences, your education, your body, your mind……but you are much more! I discovered ...
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Are You Waiting?
Is your career, job, relationship, marriage or life not what you expected? Is your vitality being zapped? Are you bored and tired? Ever get the feeling that something is going to come along and change the course of your life? That you are destined for something great? More money, or success, ...
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6 Goals for Singles to Strive For
Do single people really have goals that are different from married couples? Certainly they do when it comes to relationships. Yet, their career goals may be similar, as are their personal and health goals. However, because of their single status, unmarried folks have more time to focus on ...
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6 Personal Organization Tips That Will Save Your Life!
It’s really not that hard to stay organized once you get there… but the getting there can be a challenge. I’ve often wondered if some of us are born with an organizational gene and others are born with a messy gene. It seems some people have a knack for keeping order everywhere around them–in ...
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8 Pitfalls of Managing Your Own Business and How to Overcome Them
What an exciting venture – to start, run, and manage your own business! Maybe you have a talent that you are offering as a service to clients such as massage, consulting, or financial planning. Or maybe your business is selling a product like clothing, wines, or information products. ...
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Actions Speak Louder Than Words: Focusing on What People DO Instead of What They SAY
Didn’t know what the Presidential candidates stood for? With all the rhetoric– and misrepresentations and omissions of fact that you’ve heard from both candidates, it’s tough to tell what their real beliefs are. Not to mention the fact that the press/media being accused, and then admitting to ...
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Can Work Life Flexibility Make You a Better Conversationalist?
Do people consider you shy and quiet? Laid back, chilled out, or the strong silent type? Ever felt anxious, or maybe just unenthusiastic about conversing in a group? Sometimes, when we’re out mingling, we simply have nothing to say. We can’t talk about the way one of our family members drove us ...
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Economy Survival Tip: Treat the Disease, Not the Symptoms
There’s a saying in recovery/treatment/12-step programs that goes: “TREAT THE DISEASE, not the symptoms.” What are the diseases causing your stress? The current economic “crisis”? The political race? The politics in your office? Your son’s report card? Making your next credit card payment? You ...
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Get Your Think On: How to Act With Intention
To act with intention simply means to act consciously, with complete awareness in what you’re doing, and why and how you’re doing it. But although the concept may be simple, it is not always easy to put into practice. Our minds are designed to work from habit and conditioned responses - it’s ...
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Help Your Kids Grow Up Strong
Does it take a family or a village to raise a child? This question became the subject of great controversy during the 1996 presidential election with the publication of Hillary Clinton’s well-known book, It Takes a Village: And Other Lessons Children Teach Us. But somewhere between the two ...
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How to Remain Calm in a Crisis
In today’s fast-paced, get-up-and-go world, crisis situations are bound to happen. What should you do when a challenging situation arises? More importantly, how can you remain calm in order to deal with the situation to the best of your ability? Knowing the ropes when faced with a crisis will ...
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How to Deal With Overbearing Personalities
Well all have those people in life who are just a little bit wearing on the spirit. You know who I mean. Their intentions are good, yet they always manage to stir things up. Sometimes it feels like you can’t get anything done when they’re around. They’re criticizing, they’re correcting, they’re ...
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You're Only As Young As You Feel: How to Stay Young at Heart
I don’t remember who said “age is only a state of mind,” but I truly believe that. We know getting older is inevitable, but aging doesn’t have to be. Chronologically we age each year, as our physical bodies deteriorate, but mentally how we age is up to us. And even some ...
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Keep It Simple - Van Morrison Style
Van Morrison has released a new album entitled Keep it Simple that happens to be in line with my own values, and with the Slow Down Fast coaching philosophy. I came across a review in Rolling Stone that summed it up powerfully: “At this point in his career, Van Morrison is less interested in ...
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Learning from Celebrities about Work Life Balance
Suzanne Somers used to work 16 hours a day, six days a week, but not anymore. “It’s not worth dying over business,” she says. “They’re not going to say at my funeral, ‘and she worked harder than anyone.’” Somers, a former star on Three’s Company, is now a best-selling author and the entrepreneur ...
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Note to Your Inner Child: Childlike and Childish Are Not the Same Thing
These days, the self-help books and life coaching newsletters are full of people advising you to get in touch with your inner child. And they have a valid point, if their advice is taken correctly. However, too many people confuse connecting with their inner child and living irresponsibility or ...
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Off the Beaten Path: How to Build A Better Vacation
Vacations, it is often said, cause nearly as much (if not more) stress as they’re supposed to alleviate. Add to that fears of global climate change, growing awareness of environmental issues associated with travel, and the aggravation and crowds that tend to converge in popular spots, and the ...
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Subprime Lifestyles
By now, everyone who hasn’t been hiding out under a rock has heard about the subprime mortgage fiasco. Banks lent money to people who didn’t qualified for it by using twisty, unethical strategies like “liar loans” (literally falsified loan applications, which is otherwise known as loan fraud), ...
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The Difference Between a Dad and a Father
Are you a dad or a father? A dad is someone who not only physically helped to create the life of a child, but also supports that child with the basic necessities (food, clothing and shelter) and provides guidance and advice to see his child through life. A dad demonstrates that he loves his ...
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Warning Signs: How to Know if it’s Time to Escape Your Life
Life is often a whirlwind of activity. Your work obligations, social life, and family activities often pile up, leaving you feeling buried beneath a never-ending list of to-do’s. Left unchecked, this sense of being overwhelmed can run rampant and cause mental, emotional, and physical damage. ...
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What Does Your Digital Footprint Say About You?
If the recent news has been any indicator, we are becoming an increasingly digitized and virtualized culture, with one glaring and fatal flaw: our inability to realize just how vulnerable our real lives are to the impact of our digital footprint. Look at Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, whose ...
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From Struggle to Success - Where Do I Start?
This is the ultimate transition that most people want to be going through. Do you want more success in every sense of the word? Do you want more money, love, happiness, and, above all, freedom? To understand how to be more successful, you must begin with understanding why you are not. I ...This is the ultimate transition that most people want to be going through. Do you want more success in every sense of the word? Do you want more money, love, happiness, and, above all, freedom?
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The Complete Startup Guide for the Black Entrepreneur
I would call it "The Road Map to Biz." This book has very easy to understand information as well as website references in the Appendix. I would agree and call it the complete guide. Remember that no two businesses are the same. I reviewed this book in 2005 when I was Bella's Business Coach Host/Editor (The author sent me his book). I would recommend this book to anyone who wanted to know more about how to set up a home business, small business, and cut the time surfing/searching the web.
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Gratitude
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Mindful Holidays, Part I
Did you ever try to remember details about past holidays and find that they all blur together? When I noticed this, I realized it was partly because my family celebrated exactly the same way every year. More importantly, I recognized my tendency to become less mindful as I got caught up in ...
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Do you need a Life Strategies Success Coach?
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Ebenezer Scrooge Had a Life Coach?
When Charles Dickens provided Ebenezer Scrooge with the ghost of Christmas future, he created what may have been the first literary description of a life coaching experience. When Ebenezer’s poltergeist showed the old fellow a view of the future, he was employing a powerful tool used by ...
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Please Smile, Thank You
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Alter the Course of Your Life in an Evening
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Passion is the Gas on Your Road Trip to Success
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Mindful Holidays Part II
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Four Surefire Steps to Keeping Your Resolutions
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Bio Cellular Communication
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Is It Meditation Or Prayer
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The Circle As A Tool
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Perception Makes A Difference
Having perception means that you have the ability to attain understanding and awareness through the senses. Now perception is a mental image an awareness or consciousness of the observation or result. When looking at the definition of perception you hope that everyone perceives the same ...
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Cellular Level Bio-Communication
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Emotional Investments
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Blame, Guilt, & Worry
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The Secret Of Life
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Conventional Apples: The Fruit With The Highest Amount Of Pesticide Residue
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Goals To Action
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Organic Food Reduced Pesticide Levels In Children Down To Zero
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Soy: Wonder Food, Or Bad For Your Health
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Toxic Chemical Found In Some "Green" Products, Surprise, Surprise!
Most natural and organic shoppers are aware that there are toxic synthetic chemicals in conventional products. That's why we pay the extra money and often go out of our way to shop at natural food stores. But, what if you can't trust that the "greener" products are truly safer and healthier? A ...
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A Jewel - Colors - Numbers
Exodus 26: 1, 4, 6, 19, 20, 31, 32, 36, 37n Exodus 28: 4-22, 28, 31, 33, 36, 39, 41n n Verse 1 - MOREOVER thou shalt make the tabe acle with ... ten ... curtains of fine twined line, ... and blue, ... and purple, ... and scarlet: ... with cherubims of cunning work shalt thou make them.n ...
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Opportunity Magnified: The Value In Seeing What Others Miss
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Whose Essence is it any way...?
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Cheap Treats: No- And Low-Cost Ways To Give Yourself a Boost
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Separate Your Needs From Your Desires
In life, there are those things we need, and those things we desire. Where we really screw ourselves up is when suddenly the things we desire, in our minds become things we need. Needs are those things that provide for our daily existence – food, water, shelter. Human love and companionship can ...
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Exercise Can Make You Happy & Healthy
If you thought exercise was merely a necessary evil to keep your body slim and healthy, you’re missing some essential elements of what exercise is about. If you thought exercise was something you had to squeeze in between the demands of life and work because it’s supposed to be “good for you,” ...
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The Power Of Focus To Reach Your Goals
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How To Use Creativity To Carve Out Your Niche In Life
Creativity can be the act of bringing something new into this world. Or it can be the uniqueness of each person that sets them apart from others. In the first instance, you may be creating something with your hands like painting a picture, or with your mind like writing a book. Even though in ...
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Intentions differ from desires, and consciously focusing on your intentions can go a long ways toward achieving success. Simply put, intentions are goals. Another way to look at intentions is as thoughts that help us fill a need. The need can be such things as money, property, love, or ...
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What To Do When Your Life Is Falling Apart
Your marriage is on the rocks. You lost your job. Your best friend isn't talking to you. You hurt your back. You are one month away from foreclosure on your home. Your child is sick. Your father died. Any one of these experiences is traumatic. More than one occurring at the same time could put ...
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Become A Savvy Consumer: Save Time, Energy & Money!
Whether economic times are abundant or tight, it's always an advantage to be a savvy consumer. And whether or not your budget is abundant or tight, it's always beneficial to know how to shop effectively. I remember reading The Millionaire Next Door and was surprised to find that a common trait ...
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Become The Change You Want To See
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How To Get The Attention Of People Whom You Want To Emulate
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Who do you think you are?
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Our nation is going through some troubling economic times right now… but you do not need to follow suit. The economy today is a horror story of financial bailouts and golden parachutes. Is the government going to bail you out if you make some not so good decisions? This is why you need to ...
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Are You Focusing On The Message? (What The 2008 Presidential Election Can Teach Us about Living on the Offense)
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What To Do When You've Outgrown The Club Scene
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Fatten Up Your EQ: 6 Exercises To Improve Your Emotional Intelligence
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Chicken Little Spotted On Wall Street: Market Up...Market Down...Stress UP!
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10 Great Productivity Web Sites
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Is This The Real Thing? 5 Questions You Can Ask To Find Out If Your Relationship Is The One
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Trick Your Mind Into Saving Money
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What Is Life Coaching? Am I Ready To Be Coached? And How Do I Choose The Right Coach?
The Life Coaching business is fairly a new phenomenon in the personal development realm. Although people have invested in mentors, therapist, and personal trainers for a number of years, the title “Life Coach” has only been around for a short time. A Life Coach is a trained ...
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The Waiting Mindset: A Mindful Productivity Tool
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Getting Comfortable With "Selling Yourself"
In literature on changing careers or starting a business, one theme you’ll often hear is that the key product you’re selling is yourself, and that you need to fully believe in yourself if you want others to be interested in what you have to offer. If you’re not confident in your ability to run ...
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Find Life Balance in 3 Simple Ways
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Together We Lost 132 lbs In 4 Months!
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Procrastination -- The Anxiety Coping Mechanism
Studies have been conducted for years on procrastination and the results of those individuals who repeatedly put off important tasks in their lives. Some studies go so far as to correlate procrastination to a person’s innate fear of success, using it as a coping mechanism to combat anxiety that ...Studies have been conducted for years on procrastination and the results of those individuals who repeatedly put off important tasks in their lives.
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Don't Take It Personally!
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HAVE YOU GOT YOUR GAME FACE ON ?
Each and everyday in someway your competitive resolve is tested. Your response to that competition will affect not only you but others around you. Are you ready for that competition or for that matter do you even acknowledge that there will be competitive demands on you? As I said, today will ...
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We Lost 132 lbs In 4 Months By Detoxing!
By the time I was 48 I weighed in at 240 lbs, double my marriage weight 30 years prior. At 42 my body age was predicted to be 67 through a true body age test at my workplace. The news was devastating but I knew I felt about 67 already so it wasn't a surprise. Recently diagnosed with Type 2 ...
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The Differences Between Clinical Therapy And Life Coaching
Though both psychotherapy and life coaching strive toward a common goal: a healthier and happier life style for the individual; there are some very specific differences in the process for how the changes occur. In addition, the clientele is somewhat different. Discussing the similarities ...
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Strategies For A Successful Career Change
Research has shown that the average adult changes careers at least 3 times during their life (and often more than that). That figure makes sense when you consider how much we grow over time and that a career spans at least 40 years. Over time our values, priorities, and interests change and we ...
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The Magical Way to Get Clients for Your Coaching Practice
Do you ever worry about not being able to get clients? Well -- how do the successful coaches with thriving businesses do it? The fastest way to accelerate is to model what works for successful people! A while ago I worked on an e-book of interviews with ten hugely successful coaches with ...
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What Coaching Really Is
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The First Step To Clients
Getting people to go from 'hello' to 'let me sign up as your client' can be a big ask - especially when they don't know what coaching is! So I always suggest you do an 'Introductory' or 'Exploratory' session first - no cost and no obligation. But how do you offer this so that they say 'yes'? In ...
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Entering The Coaching Field
So you're considering a career as a life, business or corporate coach, but wondering what's the best way to enter the field? Do I need to do a training course? Do I need to get accredited? Where will I get clients, and do I have what it takes? Most coaches agree on the best way to begin a ...
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7 Steps To The Ideal Exploratory Session
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Dealing With Difficult Coworkers
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Fnding Your Dream Job
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How To Stop Work From Feeling Like Work
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Five Reasons To Be Grateful For "Difficult People" In Your Life
Much has been said about the positive effects gratitude creates in our lives. Learning to be thankful for what we have today, and the learning experiences we’ve had in the past, empowers us with optimism and joy that help us pursue our goals. For a long time, I agreed with this idea generally ...
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How To Lose Weight You Can't Lose
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How To Lose The Weight You Can't Lose.
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Are You Stuck In A Rut And Can't Get Out?
Many of us get to a point in our lives or careers where we feel frustrated, stuck and unable to move. And we just don’t know what to do about it. Some people call it being stuck in a rut. Regardless of what you call it, getting beyond the impasse is necessary to get you back on track and ...
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How Coaching Can Save The World
How Coaching can change the world. We live in a world where it seems that nothing is going right, nothing makes sense, violence is out of control, people are very unhappy, and this country is turning against the principles of our constitution. We are losing our rights and we are losing ourselves. It is not politically correct to be an individual, we must be a part of the group, or go with the trend.
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Mom, Don’t Forget About You
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Overcoming Obstacles, Challenges, And Disappointments
Let’s face it – life is filled with obstacles, challenges, and disappointments. The way that we handle them makes all the difference in the outcome and how we move on. Any successful person will tell you that, at one time or another, they have been faced with some type of obstacle or challenge ...
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Transforming Stress: 5 Tips to Transform Your Stress
Our lives are filled with stress. It is all around us, everywhere we look. There are deadlines to meet, unexpected traffic jams, overloaded schedules, and difficult people. The negative effects of stress have been well documented over time. They include high blood pressure, insomnia, ...
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10 Tips To Taking Care Of Your Most Valuable Asset - You!
Have you ever thought of yourself as your most valuable asset? Think about this for a minute…where would you be without you? We find time to take care of the other valuable assets in our lives – our families, homes, relationships, etc. Most of us have been brought up to believe that taking ...
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Avoiding Failure: How To Stick With Your New Year’s Resolutions
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Living With An Attitude Of Gratitude
Creating an attitude of gratitude is one of the easiest steps we can take to improve our lives. The happiness that we create for ourselves by showing our appreciation has far-reaching effects, both for ourselves and for those we come into contact with. The potential for gratitude to spread ...
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The Power of No
In today’s society, we all seem to be over-scheduled and running ourselves ragged. We are continually running at an unrelenting, non-stop pace, hoping things will slow down soon. Rather than slowing down, it seems as though there are more and more demands on our time. Many of these requests ...
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5 Tips For Overscheduled Moms: How To Find More Time In Your Day
Being a mom requires us to play many roles throughout the day. We’re mom, wife, caregiver, employee, housekeeper, chef, and taxi driver. And the list could go on and on. It’s no wonder that we’re so stressed out and tired all the time! Rather than looking forward to the future when our kids ...
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What Kind Of Lessons Do SuperMoms Teach Their Kids?
If you hear someone described as a “supermom”, immediately you think of someone who is good at everything that she does. She is the mom who manages her household flawlessly while working a full-time job and carpooling kids to after-school activities. A “supermom” is a mother who puts the needs ...
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Reconciling Mary And Martha: Finding Balance In A World Of Busyness
"Now as they went on their way, he entered a certain village, where a woman named Martha welcomed him into her home. She had a sister named Mary, who sat at the Lord's feet and listened to what he was saying. But Martha was distracted by her many tasks; so she came to him and asked, "Lord, do ...
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Writing Your Personal Mission Statement
Companies use mission statements to let people know why they are in existence. Their mission statement could include information about who they are, what they do, and how they do it. Although corporate mission statements vary greatly, each serves as a guide for the company, its employees, and ...
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Affirming Your Success
Do you ever listen to your inner voice? Amazingly, that inner voice can guide us to a richer, more fulfilling, and more successful life. How, you ask? Really it’s quite simple – we just have to take the time to listen to this voice. Sounds easy enough, doesn’t it? But in reality, our ...
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Reiki Away Negative Energy
Trees have roots. Leaves grow, and during autumn, they change color and fall to the ground. Events from your childhood to now have given you emotional roots that have piled up, affecting your ability to maintain a sense of well-being. To clear some of the emotional stress, try Reiki (pronounced ...
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Feel Good Naturally
There are times when we allow ourselves to wallow in self-pity, doubt and fear. It’s a marvelous day when we realize that we are in control of our thoughts and feelings. We can actually choose to feel things! Here are some things that really feel good to me. As you think about these ...
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Encouragement - All We Need
While we all agree that we could use just a little, regular dose of encouragement from the people around us, we hardly receive any - and most likely hardly give any, too. And of course, we blame this "oversight" on our busyness, our lack of time, our forgetfulness. In fact, the word ...
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When World's Collide
GEORGE: This is not good. World's are colliding! George is getting upset! [Inside Jerry's apartment -- Jerry sits on the couch listening to George.] GEORGE: Ah you have no idea of the magnitude of this thing. If she is allowed to infiltrate this world, ...
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Structured Procrastination
You probably know what procrastination is, but have you heard about "structured procrastination"? This definition, from Stanford philosophy professor John Perry, casts structured procrastination as something even "productive" people tend to do: "The list of tasks one has in mind will be ordered ...
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Are You Being True To Yourself?
As this country is turning more and more to collectivism (where you are part of a group, that has no rights, and that you must sacrifice for others) or are you part of a smaller group fighting to be a individual and staying true to yourself.
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Living A Life Of Voluntary Simplicity
We've all heard of "simple living," and we see the magazines and the news articles and the web sites. I often advocate what I call "voluntary simplicity," by which I mean determining what's important to you and designing a life in support of your values and beliefs. Many people, when they think ...
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It's Never As Bad As You Expect
Dr. Daniel Gilbert, a Harvard professor of psychology, has done some ground-breaking and very intriguing research into the science of happiness. Dr. Gilbert has discovered, for instance, that we don't enjoy things as much as we expect. This research has an interesting opposite side, which is ...
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Take What You Need And Leave The Rest
You've probably heard the expression, "Take what you need and leave the rest." This sentiment is often heard in connection with meetings and with other people's opinions, in terms of taking what you can use from what is said, and leave the rest. Another take on this, from the Mind Petals blog ...
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What's Your Motivation?
It's become a joke to wonder "what's my motivation?" like an actor, when we have something in front of us to do and just can't seem to get it done. We may complain that we just can't get motivated to do something. What we usually mean by this is just that we don't want to do it right then, or ...
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How To Live Stress-Free By Saying “No”
We all know the adage, “A mother’s work is never done.” In fact, this could become a modern-day mother’s theme song since we all have overbooked schedules and everybody wants something done yesterday. We teach our children from a young age that it is impolite to say the word, “No,” which was a ...
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Coping With Your Teenager’s Mood Swings
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The Importance Of “Family Time”
As a parent, you are familiar with the concept of “family time,” but have you ever sat down and thought about why it is important and the benefits it brings to both you and your children’s lives? Many of today’s families are very busy. Most households need two incomes to survive. Some parents ...
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Why Would You Listen To You?
Think about how many times and in how many situations you or someone else has raised the issue that the person or people being spoken to aren’t really listening to what is being said:-nno A parent talking to their childno A boss talking to a subordinateno A teacher talking to a studentno A ...
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Happiness Is Scientific? Who Knew?
Let's say you eat out at your favorite Chinese restaurant every Friday night. You have cashew chicken every Friday. Your spouse has a different dish almost ever week, though occasionally choosing a previous dish again, after a few weeks. Your spouse says, "You should try something different." ...
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5 Ideas For Managing Change
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Why Time Management Is Overrated
If you visit any library or bookstore, you'll see shelves full of books on time management. It seems we all want to "manage" our time, "get control" of our time, and start doing "what we're supposed to, when we're supposed to." With the exception of meetings and conferences that really need to ...
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Workplace Unhappiness 2: Nip Those Bad Feelings in the Bud, Boost Your Subjective Well Being
In a recent discussion on my REFLECTIONS blog, we explored the concept of SWB or Subjective Well Being - your current evaluation of your unhappiness in the workplace. We determined that while many outside factors are often to blame for that "defeated" feeling that so many people experience at ...
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Workplace Unhappiness 1: Isolating the Source of Your Misery
In a recent blog post entitled The Secret to Happiness, I touch upon the concept of Subjective Well Being, or SWB for short. Subjective well being refers to an individual’s current evaluation of his or her happiness. It includes: • The sense of satisfaction one feels with one’s life, both in ...
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Workplace Unhappiness 1: Isolating the Source of Your Misery
In a recent blog post entitled The Secret to Happiness, I touch upon the concept of Subjective Well Being, or SWB for short. Subjective well being refers to an individual’s current evaluation of his or her happiness. It includes: • The sense of satisfaction one feels with one’s life, both in ...
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Workplace Unhappiness 2: Nip Those Bad Feelings in the Bud; Boost Your Subjective Well Being
In a recent discussion on my REFLECTIONS blog, we explored the concept of SWB or Subjective Well Being - your current evaluation of your unhappiness in the workplace. We determined that while many outside factors are often to blame for that "defeated" feeling that so many people experience at ...
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Making Room For More Happiness in Your Life
Unhappiness has many faces. The enraged driver in the car behind you, red-faced, fists flailing and horn honking. The exhausted parent at the grocery store who can't seem to get the kids to sit quietly in the cart. The disgruntled worker slumped at his desk, mindlessly internet-surfing the hours ...
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Opportunity Cost, and the Art of Making Better Choices in Your Life
My son attends Cornell University, where I have had the pleasure of meeting and talking with Professor Robert H. Frank, author of The Economic Naturalist: In Search of Explanations for Everyday Enigmas. One topic that Professor Frank covers in his writings is the "opportunity cost" or the ...
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De-Stress Your Busy Life
There is an epidemic in cities everywhere and the epidemic is stress. We see the signs/effects of stress everywhere. Communities, support systems, self-care, parenting, spirituality, and physical health are being negatively affected by our responses to being overwhelmed, stressed, and ...
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Productivity, Efficiency, Effectiveness, and Focus - Doing The Next Right Thing
There has been an exponential explosion of information available for increasing personal productivity, so much so that it’s become known as productivity porn (or, for those active on the Net and looking to avoid spam blockers, productivity pr0n). Productivity Pr0n consists of those ...
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There's A Better Way? Who Cares!
I've recently been asked by my coach and several coaching clients the question: "What could someone have said to you when you were working 80+ hour weeks, and enjoying every minute of them, to convince you that there was a way to live a more balanced life?" To answer this question, I've had to ...
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Happiness Or Fulfillment?
We often hear someone say they're "happy and fulfilled" at a new job, with a new living situation, even as a new parent. And they surely are, or believe themselves to be, happy and fulfilled. But I wonder sometimes what we mean by these terms. Let's start with happy. Most people use the word ...
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Do You Have A Strategic Lifestyle Plan?
Every business has, or should have, a strategic plan. It endows the business with the fundamentals from which to exist and grow. In its simplest form, a strategic plan means realizing an organization's ultimate goals. Strategic planning should not be mistaken ...
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I'll Be Happy When
We seem to spend a lot of time predicting what will make us happy (we call it daydreaming) and what will make us unhappy (we call it worrying). What we're really doing is wanting. We "know" what we want and don't want, and what will make us happy and not happy. And sometimes we're right, of ...
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Finding Inspiration
Creative people are often asked, "Where do you get your ideas?" or "Where do you get your inspiration?" What people usually mean by these questions is, "How can I find my own inspiration?" The surprising thing about inspiration is that it rarely comes when you're sitting on the beach waiting ...
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Getting To Know Yourself
Most people think they know themselves pretty well, but how well do you really know yourself? Do you know exactly how you feel about certain things and why, or do you tend to judge how you feel by how you think you should feel? Are you comfortable with your feelings and the "inner you," or is ...
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It's All About Passion And Purpose
Productivity seems to be the Holy Grail of the twenty-first century. We spend tons of money, and even more time, on things like effectiveness training, time management, planners, goal setting instruction, and general productivity tips. And many of us pour all that time and money into careers ...
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The Truth About Information Overload
There's good news and bad news about "information overload." The bad news is, you probably have some overload effect in your life. The good news is, it's probably not as bad as everyone says it is. There is, in fact, much more information available to us than at any other time, and that won't ...
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How To Become Assertive
The way you act towards other people can be categorised into three types of behaviour: Passive, Aggressive and Assertive. If you tend to act passively then you may be seeking to avoid conflict, often at the expense of your own needs. If you tend to act aggressively, you may go to the other ...
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Relationship Coaching - What To Do If Your Relationship Isn't Working
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Sleeping Well - Some Simple Tips
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Making Life Changes and Breaking Habits - Is Willpower the Only Way?
We live in a society which puts great emphasis on success and failure and the related concept of willpower. Often people tend to think they should be able to make changes easily - that it is only a question of willpower. The problem with this is that if you don't succeed as quickly as you'd like (and most don't) then you can feel that you are a failure.
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What is Life Coaching? - Setting Goals to meet Needs and Bring Outcomes
One popular definition of life coaching is that it is a method or practice of helping people to achieve goals. At the time of writing this is the kind of definition which appears in the internet encyclopedia Wilkipedia. There are aspects of this definition which is helpful – for example, it draws attention to the following features of life coaching: * Coaching is a forward thinking pragmatic approach as opposed to some forms of counselling which are more conce ed with looking back into your past
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Life Coaching for Problem Habits: A Model of Change for Life Coaches to Use
This article looks at how a model of how people make changes proposed by the psychologists James Prochaska and Carlo DiClemente can be used by life coaches as a framework for structuring coaching intervention, particularly in situations where a client is seeking to break away from a habitual form of behaviour which is creating repeated problems for them. Prochaska and DiClemente’s model has been applied to working with a range of habitual problems, including: - Smoking or misuse of alcohol - Difficulties in relationships where there are repeating patternsrn- Lack of assertivenessr
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Anxiety, Phobias and Post Traumatic Stress – An Introduction to different Anxiety Disorders
Everyone experiences nervousness or worries at some time in stressful situations. For some people, anxiety can take on a different dimension, including outright fear and panic, or a disabling daily condition, which is affecting your capacity to live the life you want to. Anxiety Disorders can ...
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Recurring Nightmares - What Can You Do About Them?
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Career Change – Making the Big Leap
Often people contemplate a change of career with some trepidation, holding fears such as: - Will I be able to achieve what I am aiming for?rn- What if I don’t earn enough money?rn- Will I regret my decision? One common tool for helping you to decide whether you are right in wanting to change jobs is for you to draw up a list of costs and benefits of making the decision to make a big leap into a new career.
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What is Unitive Coaching?
Unitive life coaching is an entirely non-directive approach that establishes a creative co-operation between the client and the coach. By encouraging the development of innate self-awareness and uniquely personal modes of expression, our clients are enabled to discover valid solutions to what ...
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Sleeping Well - Some Simple Tips
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Time Management: the Secret to Life Balance?
Each year, companies shell out thousands upon thousands of dollars to send employees off to time management seminars. They bring in outside consultants who specialize in time management issues, to get their teams up to speed and drive sales more efficiently. Do you ever feel like you could use ...
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Relaxation Techniques for Stress and Anxiety
If you are feeling anxious or stressed or having difficulties sleeping, relaxation techniques can be useful in helping to calm your mind and body. The following are some relaxation techniques you can try. Ideally, if you can, practise one or more of them on a daily basis. The techniques are ...
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Anxiety and Stress Management - Some Relaxation Techniques
If you are feeling anxious or stressed or having difficulties sleeping, relaxation techniques can be useful in helping to calm your mind and body. The following are some relaxation techniques you can try. Ideally, if you can, practise one or more of them on a daily basis. The techniques are ...
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School’s Out for the Summer: Do You Know Where Your Teen Will Be?
All of the stress associated with the school year has begun to dissipate and now is the time for all good teens to break out and use their free time to engage in summertime fun. Do you know what your teen plans to do? Has your teen obtained a summer job, or will he or she spend the entire time ...
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The Art of Changing Your Mind Before You Change Your Life
In a recent issue of my newsletter, Lifestyle and Workstyle REFLECTIONS, I touched upon the concept of a strategic lifestyle plan. Much like the strategy an entrepreneur might use to develop a sound business model, the strategic lifestyle plan serves as a tool to manage one's life more ...
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The Benefits Of Having A Personal Coach
If you have been watching the news, reading magazines, or even overhearing conversations while in line at the post office or grocery store, you may have heard about something called a “personal coach”. More and more people are turning to personal coaches each day; if you have ever wondered what ...
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What is Social Anxiety?
Social anxiety, also sometimes known as social phobia, is a condition in which you experience high levels of anxiety about being criticised by or judged in a negative way by others. In some surveys as many as 10% of people have been found to suffer from the condition, although it was not ...
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Intuition and the Unitive Approach
The majority of life coaching approaches just scratch the surface of our human existence. They try to change the way we think, and hope that this will alone produce lasting results. Experience proves, however, that in common with the other forms of brain-washing and self-hypnosis so prevalent ...
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Certified Coaches Federation Offers Life Coach Training in Newport Beach, July 28th and 29th
To listen to this article... http://www.certifiedcoachesfederation.com/PRWebEpisode535981.mp3nnCertified Coaches Federation is conducting a 2-day life coach training and certification course for professionals who are ready to transition into a new career, or just want to add a new management ...
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5 Reasons to Become a Life Coach
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So Your Teen is Having a Baby
According to recent data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) the number of teen pregnancies are falling to 40.4 births per 1,000 women aged 15-19 years. While those statistics are good news, they don't really mean much to a family ...
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Well Balanced Moms Have More Fun
Or should I say “Well Balanced Moms Are More Fun”? Let me ask you… When was the last time you had lunch with some girl friends, or went on a girl’s night out? When was the last time you went on a romantic weekend getaway with your spouse? If you can’t remember, we definitely have to talk. It’s ...
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Packaging and Marketing yourself - "Brand You"
Branding is a process started by large corporations like Nike as part of a marketing strategy in the 1980’s. It is a concept which had them selling their customers an image and an idea. Soon, along with the pair of running shoes you were buying, you were also buying into the concept, and "just ...
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Resume Writing
This September I spent two days doing resume assessment at the National Job Fair and Training Expo in Toronto. 400 job seekers received free resume assessments from nine resume writers. There was a 2-3 hour wait for this service that was available from 10 am - 8 pm. Since a resume is critical ...
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Avoiding The Morning Rush
It’s stressful isn’t it? Having to get all those things ready, trying not to forget anything, not to mention bickering kids, tantrums about what to wear or the sleepy head who doesn’t want to wake up. No, the morning rush isn’t any fun but luckily there are a few things you can do to bring ...
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Focus On Teen Strengths: Turn What You Love about Your Teen Into a Strong and Lasting Friendship
Focus On Teen Strengths: Turn What You Love about Your Teen Into a Strong and Lasting Friendship Oh, that Emma, thinks Mum. I can’t believe her. She’s only 15 and all she does is play video games. She used to be so active. Now she won’t try out for sports or join a club at school… She won’t ...
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Your Career in 2007 – Get a Fresh Start
As the New Year approaches, have you thought about your career goals? What worked to years ago in planning and managing your career will not work for your career development in the 21st Century. Managing your career in the 21st Century requires preparation, career goal planning and career ...
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Interview with Bob Proctor on the Law of Attraction
Bob Proctor is an icon in the Self Improvement industry. For 40 years, Bob Proctor has focused his entire agenda around helping people create lush lives of prosperity, rewarding relationships and spiritual awareness. After rising to the position of Vice President of Sales at Nightingale-Conant, he established his own seminar company. Bob Proctor now travels the globe, teaching thousands of people how to believe in and act upon the greatness of their own minds.
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Relationships and Self Esteem - What to Do if your Relationship isn't Working
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Is Willpower the Only Way?
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Multitasking & Stress Problems
Multitasking is a topic which has been much in the news recently. In layperson's terms it involves trying to do more than one thing at the same time. The phrase originally comes from the world of computers, where engineeers could devise systems flexible enough to perform several tasks at once. ...
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Recurring Nightmares - What can you do to deal with them?
Nightmares can be caused by a number of different things. For example, your nightmare might be caused by:nn- Having a particular kind of food or drink before sleepingnn- A side effect of prescription or off the counter medication that you are taking nn- Anxiety about your ability to control a ...
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How to Fast-Track Your Practice (the 'Mentor Coach')
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How to Have That Courageous Conversation
In this article I'll tell you why having the courageous Conversations in your life is the most important thing you can do for your spiritual growth, and for your freedom and fun on this planet. And - I'll tell you how to have them. What is a 'Courageous Conversation' (CC)? A CC is the one you ...
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Make Your Life Easier?
'Have you read the Art of War?' someone asked me once. Fighting someone to get your way is definitely a valid strategy. But you don't need me to tell you about that one - we've all been arguing and manipulating to get our own way since we were born! And you may have noticed - often when you ...
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In a Rut? Ready for a Career Change?
Are you unhappy at work? Tired and lacking energy and drive? Don't worry, you are not alone! Studies in the US show that up to 70 percent of the workforce is unhappy with their job at any given time. We all feel dissatisfied and frustrated with our jobs at times. So, how do you know when the ...
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Setting Yourself up for Success
Most people want to be successful in life. But success can mean different things to different people: making more money; spending quality time with your family; or learning to play a musical instrument. Since success is personal, defining what it means for you is the first step to achieving ...
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Learn to Say No
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Too Much To Do? Too Little Time
Hey - Did someone press the FFW button? Have you ever felt like someone just pressed the Fast-forward button on your day and before you know it the day is over and you are sitting there wondering what you've accomplished? I love to organize and with working Part Time outside of the home and ...
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Change Your Life With a Simple Habit
Change Your Life With a Simple Habit You've worked for hours on dinner - doing the bestnyou can - and he says ...................nothing. How do you feel? Feel like cooking tomorrow night? What if he says: "Jenny, I really appreciate you taking the time to cook. Aside from the food being ...
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Personal Life Coaching and how it can help you
Coaching is an effective process used to support individuals in creating something new for themselves. I work side by side with my clients’ coaching them by providing perspective and support for self-knowledge as they accomplish their business and personal goals. I help women achieve balance ...
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Design Your Perfect Lifestyle
We often fall into the trap of thinking we have to wait until retirement to have our life be just right. (Of course, in retirement people often get bored.) So stop waiting! This article is written to help you design your ideal life. n Then ask the question: What would it take to have this NOW, ...
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Tips on boosting your self-confidence
How you feel about yourself truly does affect your interaction with others. It truly saddens me when I hear women using negative talk when referring to themselves. We aren't born with self confidence but it is something that we gain throughout our lives. There are many things that we ...
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Living according to your purpose, the meaning of life, which is to give birth to that which is alive in yourself!
The meaning of life is life itself, which for us human beings means to give birth to that which is alive within us. This we need to uncover since we have lost our awareness over that which is real and true within ourselves. As we are all are unique human beings we come equipped with a wide ...
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Packaging and Marketing yourself - 'Brand You'
Branding is a process started by large corporations like Nike as part of a marketing strategy in the 1980's. It is a concept which had them selling their customers an image and an idea. Soon, along with the pair of running shoes you were buying, you were also buying into the concept, and "just ...
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Stratagies for boosting your child's self esteem
Self esteem in an important quality for all children to have. As parents, you can help to boost your child's self esteem by following the steps below: Model good self-esteem: Express through your actions and words that you respect yourself. Children are wonderful at imitating what they see ...
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Making a change in your life - What it takes...
Get honest and focused about what you really want. This will bring clarity to where it is best to put your time, energy, and resources. You must also face the fact that the biggest obstacle on your way to achieving success is you. Brian Tracy said,"The potential of the average person is like a ...
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The Career Athlete - What it takes to manage your career
Managing your career, just like managing your life, requires preparation and ensuring that your time is directed meaningfully. Don't wait and see; make things happen. Just like athletes who prepare for the "big game” or a marathon, designing your career requires goals, planning, work, and above ...
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Five Effective Interview Questions for Hiring Managers
While it is usually very easy for hiring managers to determine just what the wrong questions to ask during an interview are it can be much harder for them to come up with the right ones. Asking effective interview questions is a skill that every great hiring manager has to possess though, as a resume only ever tells half of a candidate’s story. Here are five great questions that can help a hiring manager get a much clearer picture of who the person sitting across from them really is and how suitable they might be for the position they are applying for:r
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Writing Your Personal Vision/Mission Statement
Copyright 2003, Cosmiccoachingcentre.com I recently spent some time revising my personal vision/mission statement for my coaching practice. While doing this, it occurred to me that the visio I have for my work is closely related to my personal vision. Having a job that reflects my personal ...
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How Goal Setting Can Help to Increase Your Self Esteem
The process of goal setting can have a positive influence on your self esteem. Yes, it’s true. From business people to philosophers, we’ve seen and heard of people whose self image has vastly improve once they’ve started to work towards a goal. So what is goal setting? Goal setting is a method used to help motivate your performance while trying to achieve something you want. For example, your goal may be to save for a vacation. You might proceed to make a plan in order to save for the vacation. Goal setting can help you by: • keep focused and motivatedr
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Inventory Control will help your bottom line
Doe’s your backroom look like this? How much money could you be losing with a backroom like this. If your business is small, large or a home business you can benefit from having less Inventory of Merchandise or Supplies on hand. It can not only improve your Gross Profit but also lower your labor and more. Here are five areas that can be improved by getting control over your backroom. 1. Increase Gross Profitr
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Managing Generation Ys
Generation Y is largest generation behind Baby Boomers. Often referred to as Millennials or Generation Next, these workers, born between 1982 and 2000, are just now entering the marketplace and seem to be creating quite a stir in companies all over the world.
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Are you Empowering your Middle Management?
As a leader in your company, if you’re frustrated with your middle management, you have only yourself to blame. The success or failure of middle managers rests upon the support of upper management and how well both parties work together. For middle management to do their jobs properly they must first understand the company’s Mission, Vision and Goals – something they cannot do without the guidance and modeling of upper management.
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Uncertainty in Life
When I thought about writing this post, I gave it the title 'Uncertainty OF Life'. But soon after, I was compelled to dig deeper in my mind....I felt, Life itself is not uncertain! so this is not fair to call it that way. So, I confidently changed it to 'Uncertainty IN Life'. What is the difference between the two?? The first one means, uncertainty comes built-in. Just like you buy a car and there is a built-in navigator in it. The second one means, it is not built-in, as you install the navigator after you got the car. What is this 'Uncertainty'?
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Asking Questions - Dealing with Challenges
Everyday, as we walk our daily routine, there is a constant internal dialogue happening. Whether we are working, relaxing, having meals or taking a walk, our mind is prevailed by this never ending chain of questions. It is very significant to ask questions and it is very important to try to answer these questions. But we must be very careful because Some questions lead to Answers, others lead to Confusions.
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Businesses want a Full Parking Lot
I have worked with Grocery Chains, Grocery Stores, Ice Businesses, Insurance Companies, Bread Company, Online Businesses and Home Businesses for over 30 years. One of the main things they all have in common is that they all want a full parking lot. It doesn’t matter if they have many store fronts, on-line website or a home business they all need customers to succeed. They all need to keep growing each year by finding more customers and filling up their parking lots.
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Spiritual Computers /Spiritual Minds? What’s the connection and Why?
Our thoughts are so important to us on a daily basis. Especially as we have on average about 70,000 of them in any 24 hour period. What we think about most of the time is exactly what manifests in to our reality. When we change our thoughts we will indeed change the world we live in, and will also have a knock on affect to the people we interact with. If you want confirmation of this then I will give you an example… Why is it that a vicious person lives in a vicious world and a happy person lives in a happy world? It’s the same world so why is it different? It isn’t!
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Understanding Divorce Through Spirituality! Part 1 Of 5
Hello every one its me, Brian Allen here once again after a long rest that I have needed to incurred to recharge and regenerate my energy into giving my readers some further guidance in using spirituality when being faced with divorce. This will be of great help when dealing with divorce either for the first time or even second time around. I thought about condensing the main points into one post alone but as this is such an important issue or point I have decided to divide it into 5 parts this being the first of the Five.
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Confidence in love: How to find true and lasting love ~ part 1
With January behind us and Valentine’s day fast approaching, a lot of people are starting to feel the sometimes inescapable pressure that comes with being single at this time of the year. And whilst many singletons take it in their stride, professing to be single by choice and celebrating singledom, millions of people all around the world are finding the search for true love a rather arduous task.
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Confidence in love: How to find true and lasting love ~ part 2
7 billion of us on Earth, and yet so many people feel so alone. With more avenues than ever to connect with each other, quicker than ever before, many people find it harder than ever. We can Skype, twit and poke people on the other side of the globe. So far, yet so close. So close, yet so far. We can internet date, speed date, blind date… and still, so many people have no one to love.
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Getting Back into the Work Zone
After the Holidays Winter vacation time can be so relaxing, at times, maybe even lazy - sleeping in, spending time with the family and eating way too much. But now that the holidays are over and the kids are getting back to school, it’s time to rev up your work zone before the spring. So, how can you transition back to work, no matter the time of year, after you’ve been off and enjoying the freedom of no schedule? Set the Stage
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The Skinny On Fasting To Lose Weight
Intermittent fasting is a well researched way to lose weight healthily and quickly while maintaining muscle tone and boosting health. Intermittent fasting involves cycles of feeding and fasting. Contrary to what you might think, this is not a new fad or concept. Our ancestors fasted naturally when food was scarce or when they returned from a failed hunting trip. To this day, many religions and cultures use fasting as a way to cleanse the body and soul. There are multiple health benefits to intermittent fasting. BENEFITS OF INTERMITTENT FASTING
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Stuck? How to get unstuck and thinking clearly again
Sometimes, and for no apparent reason at all, we get stuck. It’s like something breaks inside the engine of our brain, keeping us from moving forward. We feel the symptoms, we can’t seem to think clearly, make decisions, or get motivated. We wrestle with problems, understanding concepts or are unable to take action. Unfortunately, we can’t open the bonnet upstairs and fix things, but there are some simple things we can do to clear our mind and get our brain juices flowing again. DON’T FORCE THE ENGINE
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How to become a stronger person
Early today I made a comment on Facebook: I tell you one thing you need in order to change your life: you need to be stronger. Straight away, I received comments saying “it’s easier said than done”, and asking “how is one to be strong when things are bad?” It is, easier said than done, and it’s not necessarily an easy thing to be strong when things are not going our way, but I believe you can become a stronger person.
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Confidence in love: 5 tips to find your soulmate
Hundreds of books have been written pointing out the differences between men and women. Some suggesting that we come from far apart planets, it’s obvious that tour physiology differs and that since man lived in caves we’ve been brought up to fulfil different roles in society, and so, yes, we can think and behave in different ways sometimes. But we can choose to focus on all the things we don’t have in common, or all the things we share. And our results, when it comes to love, dating and relationships, will be determined by which one of these positions we choose to stand on.
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3 Tips to Beat Depression and Increase Life Satisfaction
Your life satisfaction can affect every aspect of your life – how you approach things, how you interact with others, how much you enjoy anything you do and so much more. When you are not satisfied with your life, research has shown that you are more susceptible to depression, an often debilitating disease whose tentacles can have far-reaching and detrimental effects on your well-being. The lower your life satisfaction, the higher risk you have of depression. Likewise, if you suffer from depression, you are more likely to feel dissatisfaction with your life.
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How to Become a Life Coach
How to Become a Life Coach As a Life Coach, one of the questions that I am most commonly asked is how to become a Life Coach. Whether it is in a social gathering, a formal event or TV or radio interviews, I am often confronted with the question of how to become a Life Coach. It seems like everybody would like to be one . . . and we should!
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New Year Resolutions: where you've Been going wrong ~ Part I
It is that time of the year when a lot of us reminisce about what we have accomplished over the past 12 months, and, start thinking about new goals and objectives for 2012. We’ve been making New Year Resolutions since as far back as the year 153 B.C. and yet, we still have trouble with them! Recent research shows that while 52% of participants in a resolution study were confident of success with their goals, only 12% actually achieved their goals! Here are some of the most popular resolutions you may identify with: Losing weight Getting fit Eating healthily
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New Year Resolutions: where you've Been going wrong ~ Part II
Here's part II of "New Year Resolutions: where you've been going wrong". If you haven't read part I yet, make sure you do that first! Mistake #6 Failing To Plan We say we want to do things, but often we leave it to chance, or to God… to actually get us to do them. I believe nothing happens by chance. As they saying goes, if you fail to plan, you plan to fail. You need to devise a plan, fast! Otherwise, how are you going to make sure you do the things you want to do?
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Dealing with backhanded compliments
Sugar coated insults, or backhanded compliments are insults disguised as compliments. Sometimes a backhanded compliment can be inadvertent, other times the intention is to belittle or condescend. “You drive well for a woman!”, “you’re very clean and tidy for a guy”, “wow, you look amazing in that dress, it really hides your tummy!”… most of us have been the target of a sugar coated insult or two in our lives. These can leave us confused, frustrated, even angry, and often not knowing what to do about it.
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Happiness: why you should give up everything to enjoy something
Every day is full of little happenings that bring us happiness: getting home form a hard day at work and slouching on the couch, a hug from a partner, a call from a friend… it is the little things that are determining factors in our estate of mind. We need these to minimise the hardships we overcome every day. But do we and should we always rely on these to make us happy? The ability to enjoy the little things in life seems to have become a rather elusive quality. We want more, bigger and better, and we want it now.
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Bacteria in your stomach could be making you fat!
Typically bad nutrition and lack of exercise are blamed as the main causes of obesity. Some say it is as easy as: if you eat too much and you don’t exercise enough, you get fat. However, experts say that theory doesn’t explain every case. Now we know that the bacteria that live in our intestinal tract could be keeping us overweight as well as causing other health conditions.
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You Can Enjoy That Holiday Party!
It’s that time of year again. Time for the barrage of holiday parties. There are the nice, small intimate gatherings. We like those, right? And then there are the large, “I don’t know anyone here” parties that make us nervous. We check our phones to look like we are doing something, to hide the fact that we wish we could be anywhere but here. Social anxiety. Unless you’re the president of the United States, you have it. Some of us seem to be great at handling it but most of us have it in one way or another.
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Career Change after 40 - How to Market your Experience
Making a career change over 40 isn’t any easier than it was in your 20s or 30s. Whether your decision is based on your desire to finally pursue your dreams or a need to find a new career path due to an ever-shrinking market or faltering industry, making a career change in mid-life can leave even the most confident job seekers asking themselves, “How do I find a new career?”
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The Battle for Talent is Heating Up, Are You Ready?
This is an interesting time in the history of business - workplace dynamics are in the midst of a huge shift. Baby Boomers in their 60’s are running into the challenges of managing the very different needs of those in the Y generation. In fact, so much focus has been placed on these two sizeable generations colliding in the marketplace, that the generation in between them, Generation X, has been largely forgotten.
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Claim Your Life
Isn't it time to Claim Your Life? We are not victims or bystanders in our lives. We have control over our behavior, how we respond to circumstances and people in our lives. When we live through passion, soul, authenticity, and abundance, we attract more of the same. When we look at and observe our thoughts and actions, and decide to think and behave in the highest ways possible, we are being conscious and aware.
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Struggling to Surrender
It is not uncommon for those of us in the healing profession to simultaneously be experiencing the exact same things our clients are experiencing.That’s one of the greatest gifts, I find, in being a healer, we heal in others that which needs to be healed in our self. Recently I have noticed a common thread in my conversations with almost every client, the illusion of control has been running the show and nothing is getting done other than frustration, self-sabotage and negative self-talk.
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What are you Thankful for?
The above is a photo of one of my son’s guitars. I am so thankful of having a healthy Son and a healthy Daughter. I am thankful of so many things that I keep a list of them in my office. Do you have a list of the things you are thankful for? November is a even better time to make your list than ever before since Thanksgiving day is coming soo November 24th.
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A New Definition of Happiness
THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS Happiness. It’s a word we hear about all the time. It’s something that we work for, that we work to achieve. Yet day by day we seem no closer to attaining it. Happiness eludes us. Yes, we’ve had moments when we felt happy. Perhaps it was a wedding. Or a birth of a child. Or it was that other night, when we were hanging out with friends, or spending time with family. In those moments, we felt happy, truly, deeply happy. Transcendent almost. And then it fades. Darkness ensues. The happiness is gone. In its place will often be a vacuum.
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Love Unconditionally
My Mom and Dad were married over 50 years and had a great marriage and strong love. They had a Relationship for Life until my dad passed away in 2008. I wrote a book in the honor of my dad and the life he lead, it is called Mills Way to Richer Living. He did what relationship excerpts and marriage prep classes tell you to do he put my my number one in his life. She was above us kids, his job, his hobbies, his folks and brothers and sisters. That is what you will learn from relationship experts and marriage prep classes but people sometimes lose focus on this.
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Floating in Lotus Position …
I recently listened to a guided visualization that brought me to a ‘Temple of The Masters” where I was to meet up with my Higher Self. The next thing I see in my mind’s eye is this 12 foot tall woman dressed in white flowing garb and she was literally floating about 6 inches over the ground.
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Creating your Destiny
We can create our Destiny by using our Minds and showing effort. Effort is so important in anything we do in life. For instance if you don’t show any effort at work, how successful will you be? If you don’t show any effort in your relationships, how successful will they be? If you don’t show any effort towards staying healthy, how healthy will you be? So with the power of your mind and putting effort towards your destiny anything is possible. Here is a theory called T.I.F.B.R.D or The Equation of the Mind. Devin Hastings introduced it to me.
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How To Get Over The Fear Of Rejection
As humans, being rejected is one of our biggest fears. This fear sometimes keeps us from doing things that we want to do, or that we need to do in order to improve our lives. One of the inherent needs we are born with, or that maybe we acquire during out childhood, is the need to be liked and accepted.
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About Happiness And How To Be Happier
“Happiness Doesn’t Depend Upon Who We Are Or What We Have; It Depends Upon What we Think” Happiness… our ultimate goal. But should it even be a goal, or a daily habit? Thousands of books have been written on the subject, seminars taught, articles published, debates debated… yet a lot of us, as Bono would say, still haven’t found what we are looking for. Is it about money, material possessions, status, achievements…? It seems not. What’s one to do if one gets to have all the things one ever wanted (not always easy but possible), and one still isn’t happy, what then?
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“Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.” Lou Holtz
In life you have one of 2 situation. The first situation is something that is totally out of your hands and there is absolutely nothing you can do about it, like death or an earth quack. This is where you should know that blaming people and the nature and cursing won't get you anywhere, this is where you should accept and start to search for the message behind such event. Maybe the message will be something like, take better care of your health or drive safe, or give time to your family. With each of those events what you can do it to take a step back and think.
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5 foods for lean legs and happy faces
Lean but not too skinny, and not to muscly either. Slim hips, cellulite free and toned thighs, small calves, skinny ankles… When it comes to talking about our legs, we seem to have what we want pretty clear. We all have different body types and are genetically predisposed to store fat in different areas in our bodies. However, studies show there is direct correlation between the type of foods we eat and where in our bodies we store body fat.
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Sugar: Ditch it and improve your physical and mental health
Sugar is a name given to a class of edible crystalline carbohydrates, mainly sucrose, lactose, and fructose, characterized by a sweet flavour. In food sugar almost exclusively refers to sucrose, which in its fully refined form primarily comes from sugar cane and sugar beet, though is present in natural form in many carbohydrates. Other refined sugars used in industrial food preparation are glucose, fructose or fruit sugar, high fructose corn syrup, dextrose, maple syrup, malt syrup, honey, etc.
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The vaccine you must get!
No, I’m not talking about the infamous and autumnal flu vaccine, even though I have already got an email and text reminder from the doc… I’m talking about a different type of vaccine; this one is made of 100% natural ingredients and has been proven to induce a quick and comforting feeling of contentment, almost like happiness itself. I prescribed it to a client a few weeks ago. He went for it and took it like a man. I’ll tell you what happened…
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How to get Motivated: 4 NLP strategies that work
/mo·ti·va·tion/ 1. The reason or reasons one has for acting or behaving in a particular way 2. The general desire or willingness of someone to do something 3. *My own definition: the art of getting off your butt and getting stuff done Because here is the thing: you may have a burning desire to do something, you may have the best will in the world, you may even know all the reasons why you should do it… but if you haven’t done it yet, don’t be surprised.
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Depression: the most powerful ways to overcome it
The other day a client told me he had been taking anti-depressants. I didn’t know him to be depressed, so I asked if he had been diagnosed. He said he went to the doctor because he’d been having trouble sleeping and he’d been stressed out, and the doctor prescribed anti-depressants. I was shocked to hear this. He said he’d been taking them for a few days, but that he’d been feeling even worse than before, so he stopped taking them. This I was not shocked to hear.
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How to Effectively Manage Your Time While Working from Home
It's hard to beat working from home. When you work from home, you have the ability to work around the things going on in your life. You don't have to worry about asking for a day off if you need it or taking a sick day. However, although there are many great benefits of working from home, you won't be able to fully enjoy these benefits if you don't know how to effectively manage your time.
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Be Grateful for Your Gunk
This month has kind of felt like I’ve been walking through sludge! I’ve been experiencing some growing pains and bumping up against some really deep inner barriers. The kind of stuff that drains your energy on all levels, physical, emotional and spiritual. I bet you know exactly what I mean, don’t you? Over the past week or so I’ve started to come out of it. The proverbial light at the end of the tunnel was not a train, as I had feared, but it was a brightly lit candle illuminating the path of my future.
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Growing Pains Suck!
Please pardon my choice of words I hope I didn’t offend you. I just couldn’t find a better word to describe what I am experiencing right now. I remember as a kid when my legs would hurt my mom would say, “Oh you’re just experiencing growing pains.” I thought, OK that makes sense, a small price to pay to get a little taller. Now as I experience them, I don’t feel the same willingness to comply as this pain, the pain of growing not taller, but wiser, brings on a whole new level of discomfort!
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Improve your Public Speaking
It is but obvious for everyone to be stressful before delivering a speech to an eagerly waiting audience. But how is it that some of us are able to mesmerize their audience while others are not able to deliver that good? The answer is hidden in the fact as to how much effective practice has gone into the preparation. Between the actual speech, and the first time you decided to give a speech lies the most important time. How good you make of this period determines whether you receive deafening applause or disgusted frowns.
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Use the Lazy Days of Summer for Career Success
Maybe you’ve recently graduated, are in mid-career shift or are recreating your life after economic downtu - whatever your story, if you’re looking to launch your career to greater heights, there’s no better time than summer. While your peers may be thinking of taking the summer off from the job search, you’d be best served to take this time to lay the groundwork for your future. Unemployment Lines Await
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Fear Not The Unknown
Referring back to the email I sent out a few weeks ago about those things that keep us from making the changes in our lives that we SAY we want to make, I would like to briefly touch upon the third most common excuse: “I’m scared of what I might find out.” Could it be that we are so numb by our current way of being that we would rather play it safe and maintain our mediocre status quo than risk going through some tough times for the gift of experiencing life and all her magnificence?
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Common Sense With A Spiritual Aspect On Divorce! Part 1.
Hello, I have seven parts to cover on the above title this is the first part: Its just seems so easy these days to get married and when it doesn’t work out for what ever reasons then just get a divorcé. Well yes in theory but it’s not as easy as that as you may or may not know. I guess because your reading this then you have your own reasons but let’s face it it’s not a good place to be in your life and will have huge knock on affects if you do not approach it all with a plan in hand.
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Common Sense with a Spiritual Aspect On divorce! Part 2
Hello again and welcome to part 2 of 7. This part is based upon so called friends as promised in part 1. Please understand that this next part is in no way meant to offend you or any of your friends. It is however meant to make you think about a few aspects of how friends can influence circumstances in many areas of our lives.
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Common Sense with a Spiritual Aspect On Divorce! Part 3
Ok so the answer to your marriage is a divorce! A divorce from what? As strange as this question may sound I need you to analyze what it is you are actually divorcing. You see when you mention divorce the first thing that naturally springs to mind is “I am divorcing the other person” but are you? Before you answer this question or even if you have already done so in your mind consider this.
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Common Sense with a Spiritual Aspect On Divorce! Part 4
So now you are divorced on paper its official and every one says “you should have a party and celebrate”….. Why? Is it really some thing to celebrate? Let’s look and see. So many people are like sheep, they feel if they don’t do the normal thing or the popular thing then they will lose face. So they carry on doing what every one expects of them to, even if their heart is not in it. Maybe they fell into the same trap initially as well with the engagement ring stuff followed by the “well we are engaged now so lets plan the wedding” etc.r
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Common Sense With A Spiritual Aspect On Divorce! Part 5.
Hello every one and welcome to part 5 of my 7 part blog that looks at divorce with lots of common sense but with a spiritual aspect to it all. Ok so now we are single and we shall treat this part as if we are now looking to hook up again, find a partner, love or any other label you wish to put on it. Before we move on I would like you to know that the label you choose in deciding what it is you want to find will have a huge impact on what you will actually experience in your life.r
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THE C FACTOR: BOOST YOUR SELF-CONFIDENCE with NLP
Women, and men, of all ages and backgrounds come to my coaching practice: singletons looking for love, young professionals looking for a job, career or life direction, business people with public speaking fears, a lot of people struggling to lose weight… The common denominator is usually low self-confidence and a lack of self-belief.
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10 KEYS TO BUSINESS CONFIDENCE
This past year I’ve thoroughly enjoyed coaching clients starting business ventures. New coaches trying to find a suitable niche, young businessmen and women with organisational and time management issues, a lovely lady starting a franchise, a self proclaimed entrepreneur with lots of ideas but no action plan… a lot of them sharing similar fears and insecurities: Am I good enough? Do I know enough? Where do I start, and how? Is this the right time?
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Common Sense With A Spiritual Aspect On Divorce! Part 6
As time moves on in this 21st century what was once a taboo idea of dating on-line with the internet has now become acceptable it’s quick, easy and accessible to all providing you have internet connection and the time to go surfing. Well so it would seem! Any one can join any site fill out a profile and go fishing but be warned it's not as easy as you might think for many reasons and here are just a few you might want to consider. People are people, which means every one has a very different idea or agenda of what the site is meant to do or deliver.
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Need help dealing with difficult people?
Dealing with a difficult Person can be as hard as a buried ball in the sand. Is dealing with difficult people as challenging as they claim. Can you remember that last time that you had to deal with difficult people? Personally I hate arguments but I have never managed to evade them fully. You must have realized that the society is made up of this type of people, people who will always cause stress to you.
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Pay it Forward
I like the idea of paying it forward, meaning that when you help make one person’s day better, they will likely go on to make someone else’s day better, then that person will likely go on to touch someone else’s life, and so on and so on. Wouldn’t that be awesome if everyone just cheered one person up every day? Or just made one person’s day better? Think what our world would be like after that. It could be a much happier world. Think of the infinite principle of doubling that. Pay it forward twice, means: Day 1 — you touch 1 life Day 2 — you touch 2 lives
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Struggle is Nature’s Way of Strengthening You
I recently watched a show on TV where two men were stranded on an island together, and the one younger man was going through detox from his drug addiction. The older man knew of the younger man’s dilemma as he was holding a stash of his drugs. In a moment of compassion the older man showed the drug addict a moth in its cocoon beginning to break free. He explained that he could easily set the moth free by aiding it in breaking through the cocoon. Yet, in doing so he wouldn’t be helping the moth at all, for it would be too weak to survive.
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Create the Life Your Desire with Clarity and Focus
Whether it is a powerful career, financial abundance, better health or a fabulous relationship, what is most important in achieving what you desire? Many of us look to the how as the most important component to creating the life of our dreams. I’d like to offer another perspective.
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This Doesn’t Make You a Bad Parent
I remember watching Cheryl Richardson tell Oprah that women must start putting themselves at the top of their own priority list. Even above the needs of their children. I also remember watching the audience; perhaps for the first time ever, boo a guest of Oprah’s. Now this was about ten years ago and while many women have begun to see the importance of self-care and putting their needs ahead of others, most women still have not gotten the message.
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What Will You Choose?
I believe we are in the beginning of a massive change on our planet. Many of us are starting to awaken. We are shifting from an old paradigm… away from fear, setting down the belief that we live in a scary world. We are beginning to expand our awareness from our physical bodies and our ego minds and awakening to a higher truth. This truth is we are something much greater than our bodies and our egos. The Old Paradigm
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Who Do You Want to Be in the Future?
“What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: Our life is the creation of our mind.” ~Buddha Did you know that you are where you are today because of yesterday’s thoughts? You’re feeding your tomorrow with what you’re thinking today. You are actually creating your future! Are you aware of how you’re feeding your future? Most of us are unconsciously feeding our future. Consider this…
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Who’s in the Driver’s Seat of Your Life?
Let’s say you’re ready to leave an uninspiring job that is not in line with your values. Part of you knows how to gather valuable information, helping you to responsibly make this decision. From here, you check out the job market and work on your resume. You begin talking to trusted friends and determine your financial resources. From this place, you know how long you can survive with what’s in your cash reserves, making calculated choices based on your information.
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You’ll See It When You Believe It
What are your dreams, wishes and hopes? Do you desire a new romance, more money or a better job? How do you actually achieve that which you desire? It all comes down to what you truly believe. You may begin with a desire, but the fact is your beliefs are stronger than your desires. Your beliefs are creating your “reality” whether you know it or not. Let me explain.
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Forgiveness Begins with Our Self
If we truly want to live a happier life, we must dig deep and learn to forgive. Forgiveness is the most precious treasure that we can give ourselves and each other. When we are willing to take responsibility for forgiveness, we are guaranteed a life of peace, gratitude, wisdom, expansion and growth. If not, we are destined to a life of blame, resentment, pain, self pity, guilt and anger.
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5 Reasons to Identify and Honor Your Values
Imagine you could… do what brings you the greatest joy, be with the people you love, and use your natural talents and gifts. That’s exactly what happens when you live in accordance with your personal values! 1. When you honor your values you are honoring yourself. There is a flow, ease and joy in your life when your activities and choices are congruent with your values. You enjoy an internal sense of rightness. 2. When you understand your values, they keep you on track. It’s easy to make the right choices for your own life, every day.
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A Simple Meditation Practice
In this crazy world we live in, it is easy to get caught up in the negative turbulence around us. With today’s rate of unemployment, financial markets dropping, and sky-high mortgages, we can easily get caught up in the stresses of life. No matter how chaotic things seem, I know of a “life raft of peace” that we can retreat to whenever we desire. Here is a simple meditation practice that will help you find inner peace and reconnect with what is really important. Imagine what you can attract from this place! 1. Find a room, or a part of a room, where you can have privacy.r
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Money is Just an Excuse
Last week I sent out an email asking for your response to what holds you back from making the changes in your life you say you want to make. I am so grateful for the responses I received. I was also interested yet not so surprised at the answers. The top three reasons were:
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How FAT Can Make You Cleverer, Healthier and Slimmer
Did you know that 60% of your brain is fat? THE FUNCTIONS OF FAT: - Source of energy - Building blocks for cell membranes - Building blocks for homones - Help vitamin and mineral bsorption - Control blood pressure - Regulate body temperature - Boost immune system - Optimum brain development & performance GOOD FATS V BAD FATS: - Monounsaturated fats: Nuts (not peanuts!) pecans, almonds, seeds, avocado, virgin olive oil, - Polyunsaturated fats (omega-6 & omega-3):
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TIME MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES: Get more done, better and faster
If you think there are just not enough hours in the day to do everything you need to do, if it often seems as if you are chasing your tail, if you are underperforming, or stressed out, and don't know what to do about it, this could be just what you need. To this day I am always shocked when I discover most of the clients I coach on time management have no organisational systems in place whatsoever. My clients are usually super busy entrepreneurs, self starters, business people trying to juggle career and home life... but they have no plan! And when you have no plan, anything can happen.
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Job Interview Success: 6 Tips To Get You The Job You Want
In the current economic climate, we find ourselves with millions of highly intelligent, overqualified job seekers around the world fighting for the same jobs. Millions of Curriculums Vitae’s emailed every day, followed by millions of phone calls, followed by millions of interviews, followed by rejection and disappointment.
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Choose Love - Forgive Yourself!
What is the first thing you do when you realize you’ve made a mistake or let yourself down? You know what I’m talking about. Maybe you said you would be somewhere for someone, and then you forgot. Or, you want to lose weight, but you couldn’t resist that piece of chocolate cake last night. Or, you are trying to reconcile a relationship, but the last time you got together you said something you regretted. We’ve all been there.
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The Power of One
There is a story our Rabbi shares every year during the High Holy days.
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Oh MY God!
I was raised in a predominantly Jewish neighborhood and attended Hebrew school, became a Bat Mitzvah and continued on to complete Confirmation. I was very active in my Temple community as a member of the youth program and even became a Para-professional. Which meant I assisted the Special Education Hebrew teacher during the school year.
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Your Greatest Commodities
If you want to develop just two aspects of leadership then these are two of the most important. 1. Develop a vision for the future. 2. Get those you lead excited about and committed to that future There is so much to consider when planning and strategising the way forward. But today rather than focus in on what that strategic plan will look like, I would like to draw your attention, focus and understanding to what are your most valuable commodities By this I mean; what are the things you are going to need which will allow you to do your job?
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The 5 Factors Of Team Culture
Culture is to an organisation what personality is to an individual. It allows people on the outside to see what the organisation is and what it stands for. It allows the people within the organisation to be constantly reminded about who they are, what they are about and what is important to them. If it's what it should be, a culture can help take the team both individually and collectively to level of understanding, performance and commitment that they are unlikely to reach by themselves. In this day and age culture means so many things to so
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5 Strategies For Overcoming Failure
Here are five strategies to help you overcome failure. As always, these are in no particular order. So with that said, let’s go: 1. Stop avoiding failurer The more you avoid failure, the greater are the chances that you will become involved with it. The reason is that the more you try not to fail, the more reserved you will become in your approach; and the more reserved you become, the more your approach will be from a negative perspective. I am always talking to people about “Running towards what you do want, rather than walking away from what you don’t”.
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Where Will Your Success Come From ?
"Is your success because of your system or inspite of it?" This is a questio I ask people each and everyday. Some don't mind the question being asked where as others absolutely loathe having to answer it. Success or lack of it can come about for a variety of reasons. Some good and some not so good. The most important aspect is that your success has come about because of what you have planned,what you have followed through on and what you are committed to. You have made your success happen and have not had it handed tor
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The Key To Brain Power And Enhancing Your Performance
Do you find it hard to focus or concentrate on the task at hand? Do you ever get brain fog, can’t think clearly or retain information? Do you tend to over analyze things or get mood swings for no apparent reason? A lot of my clients do. Housewives, students, successful business people, young professionals… men and women of all ages and backgrounds experience a lot of the above only too often.
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Social Networks: Are they destroying our social skills?
The blockbuster movie Avatar conveyed the heart warming message that we are all connected to each other and to mother Earth. And it seems we are; maybe not in the romantic slash holistic sense I got from the movie, but in a scarily futuristic and cybe aut kind of way. It seems we flew mother Earth’s nest to move in with our lover, the Mac Book.
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Motivating For Success
One of the most common challenges you will face in becoming successful is creating and maintaining motivation. The challenge isn't about wanting to be successful but about overcoming the fears and minor road blocks that get in your way. Every day in both little and big ways you face a constant barrage of challenges. Fears of failure, solutions not working the way they are supposed to, alte ative objectives of collaborators and your own clarity on the correct course of action. All of these issues can add up to a frustrating and overwhelming weight that holds you back and slows you down.
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6 Questions To Focus Your Success
Success can be elusive and often feels like a moving target. What's more is that it can also be a matter of perspective. Your opinion of being successful is different than your friend's or coworker's definition. But what is most important to know when actually talking about creating success is: "How will you know you have arrived?"
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Are You Needy Or Greedy?
At first the words needy and greedy bring up uncomfortable thoughts about corporate indifference or bad relationships but let's take a step beyond that. Just for a moment consider these words in the framework of your mindset for success. The question that will be asked with this perspective is "How is your mindset limiting your success?"
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6 Reasons You Fail
(The following is an excerpt from the free ebook From "Surviving" To "Thriving": 6 Reasons You Fail & 6 Steps To Success) So the question now is “What gets in the way of creating your thriving success?” Let’s talk a little bit about this!
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Achieve Your Personal Goals
If you want to know how to achieve your personal goals in life, but you feel overwhelmed about knowing where to start, know this: Reaching goals in life can be achieved if you have a plan. A very effective way to develop and succeed in your personal goals is to engage a life coach. A life coach can assist with goal setting. Your coach can keep you on track by breaking each goal down to the nitty-gritty and by enforcing accountability. In the meantime, in order to achieve your personal goals:
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Don’t Ever Give Up On Your Dream!
I very clearly remember a moment in October of 2009 when I was on the verge of giving up on my dream. I was stuck in a place I had been stuck in many times before and I couldn’t see a way through it this time. I was holding on to the end of the rope and wondering if it would be easier to just let go.
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How to Use an Informational Interview to Get Hired
There’s a lot of great job interview advice that’s available when you’re looking to get hired, but for those who are looking for a new job, sometimes the best advice isn’t conventional. One example of the less common advice involves looking into less common job interview techniques and options like the informational interview.
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There Is No Such Thing As Competition!
I remember being told as a child, “You are something else. When you were made they broke the mold!” I thought this was a bad thing because of the context in which it was said. I was usually misbehaving and this was part of my reprimand. As an adult I take that as a compliment! There is no one like me, never has been, never will again. I am completely unique and special and when I leave this Earth, there will be no replacing me. Ever.
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Growing Into Our Humanity, Part 2: The Myth of the Bulletproof Life
Once upon a time, my goal was to lead a life that was completely criticism-proof. Once I had the “right” job, credentials, relationship, and so on, no one would ever accuse me of falling short in any area. I’d get nothing but respect from everyone I worked with and knew. Of course, this plan didn’t quite pan out. As wonderful as my job and education may have looked to the world, and as hard as I worked, there would always be someone who’d come up with ways to find fault with me — whether it was a client, boss, intimate partner, or someone else.
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Embracing Writer’s Block, Part 5: Emptiness Is Fleeting
I do something kind of unusual when I’m writing. (I know, shockingly enough.) I keep a journal of what I’m feeling and thinking when I’m faced with writer’s block. To an outside reader, this journal would probably seem painfully repetitive, because it talks about the same worries again and again. Some common themes are: * “I think I had the last decent idea of my life a few days ago, and the well has officially run dry.” * “I’m not sure I have the brain cells left to do this kind of piece anymore.” * “I’m never going to finish this article — I might as well delete it.”
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From Self-belief to Confidence
When coaching clients, my focus is to help them get from where they are to where they want to be in the quickest and most enjoyable way. But no matter what challenges they present me with, most of the time, it all boils down to a lack of confidence and self-belief. People want to feel good, they want to do things to improve their lives, but fears and insecurities of all sorts blur their minds and freeze them into inaction, often for months and even years.
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Are the new parameters of beauty destroying women's confidence?
Hair extensions, fake lashes, filled pouts, whitened teeth, pumped breasts, stick on nails, Spanxed hips, 6 inch heels… size ten women killing themselves to be a size eight, and size eight women putting their life at risk to be a size zero. All so we can all look like each other, be accepted and feel good. Only all the paraphe alia, wasted time and money doesn’t seem to be doing the job. Instead, it’s freaking out men and turning more and more women into insecure girls.
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Put a spring on your Self-esteem
It’s spring! Flowers blossom, trees bloom, landscapes boom with summer colours, animals and insects awaken from hibe ation, and we…well, why not make this the time we start to love ourselves more? It’s time for Self-love!
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What You Focus On Relaxes
A common idea in personal development circles is that “what you focus on expands.” For instance, if you’re feeling sad, focusing your attention on your sadness will only make you sadder. Instead, you need to distract yourself from your sadness by visualizing rainbows, playing with your cat, or doing something else to take your mind off what you’re feeling.
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Growing Into Our Humanity
I used to be in search of a book, workshop or practice that would, in a matter of hours or days, change me forever. I’d stop doubting myself, my relationships would always go smoothly, I’d become courageous enough to always say how I felt, and so on. I had this goal in mind, consciously or not, with every self-help book I bought, workshop I attended, and spiritual practice I tried. “This is going to be the one,” I’d say to myself. “This teacher will transform my life and end my suffering, once and for all.”
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Take Your Career To New Heights With NLP
In such a challenging economic and workforce climate, career development means different things to different people: getting that first job, keeping your current job, returning to the workforce after a long hiatus, dealing with redundancy and unemployment, starting an entrepreneurial venture… Having personally been in all these situations, I wish I would have had a mentor back then, a coach, a book, someone or something to help me through the process more quickly and with more ease.
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5 Tips to Releasing Emotions for Emotional Freedom
For many of us, we are in a time of transition. The loss of a job, a loved one, a home or a relationship is never easy. Even if your transition was a conscious choice, it will almost always bring emotional turbulence and discomfort. This discomfort can feel constricting and tight in your body. It can stop the flow of inner peace and happiness So, what is the best way to deal with this emotional roller coaster? You have a choice. You either deny it, fight it and try to control it, or accept it, feel it and let it run its course.
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Finding What Matters
As a life and career coach, the number one questio I'm asked by prospective clients is "How long is this going to take?" When I reply, "I don't have a clue, but you do," people get a little freaked out. So, I remind them about each of our roles in creating a life and career they love.
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Characteristics of a Mentor
The more that businesses start looking into mentoring and the advantages that it offers, the more that they are going to want to focus on the characteristics of a mentor. In order to develop a mentoring program, it’s important that you are bringing the right people on board to get the program started.
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Crossing Boundaries with Mentoring
Diversity in the workplace is extremely valuable - provided of course that all of the members of your team are making a strong contribution and are willing and able to learn from what others have to offer. After all, workplace diversity brings together those with different levels of education and experience; workplace diversity allows those who are fresh out of school to work alongside those who have had industry experience for a number of years and enables women in the workplace to contribute to the company by offering a different prospective along with the work that they put in.
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Difference Between Mentoring and Coaching
When some business owners and corporations start looking into mentoring programs, there is some initial confusion about what mentoring is. One of the biggest confusions that they have is identifying what differentiates mentoring from coaching and why mentoring can be so much more effective.
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How a Corporate Mentoring Program Prepares Employees for Success
In business, making sure that you are taking steps to ensure your company’s continued success is important. One of the best steps that you can take when you want to know that your staff members have what it takes to keep things running smoothly is to implement a corporate mentoring program. Rather than a more traditional training program, you’ll find that a corporate mentoring program: * Ensures that new employees ,whether they are new to the business or simply new to a specific department , know to whom they can turn whenever they have a question.
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How Corporate Mentoring in the Workplace Strengthens Employee Relations
Have you ever looked around your business and thought that there was something missing? Have you ever walked into the employee cafeteria to see clusters of your staff - the same small clusters that form in individual departments? If you have, or if you’ve simply noticed that the more that there are generational divides among your staff, you need to know that mentoring in the workplace could be the tool that brings everyone together.
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Transitioning New Employees into the Workplace with Employee Mentoring Programs
Hiring new employees is a very different experience for different companies. In some cases, there are challenges because of diversity issues and cases in which there are conce s about whether or not the fit will be right - especially when the company is hiring someone younger to lead a department rather than looking to those employees who have been with the business. In other cases, however, it is remarkably easy to transition new employees into the workplace, and often this is the direct result of having employee mentoring programs put into place.
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Use Mentoring with Team Building to Achieve Strong Teams
Whether you are a fan of baseball, football, soccer or basketball, one of the things that you’ll notice is that only the teams that work well together are able to come out on top. As you strive to achieve all the goals you have set for your business, one of the things that you’re going to want to take a closer look at is company team building.
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Which Generation in the Workplace is More Able to Handle a Recession?
Businesses these days are in a unique position in which there are four generations in the workplace. First, there are those who have been working for years and who, in better economic times, would be close to retiring. Then there are the Baby Boomers who are approaching retirement and, in many cases, caring for aging parents and working with their adult children to pay off student loans. There are also the Gen-Xers (30-somethings, mostly) and members of Generation Y. Each of these generations is going to be impacted by the economic recession.
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You Can’t Fake It Till You Make It!
You’ve heard that while you’re trying something new, you can “fake it ‘till you make it”. That may be true for a short while and in certain situations, but I’m here to tell you if you are living by that rule in your day-to-day life, then you are in for a rude awakening! Eventually it will catch up with you and all hell will break loose. And you will be looking at the pieces of your broken life wondering what on Earth happened.
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Embracing Writer’s Block, Part 4: We’re Creative In Every Moment
There’s a lot of advice out there about “how to be creative.” On the surface, this sounds great — everybody wants to come up with useful and profitable ideas, right? But when I look more closely at this kind of advice, and what drives us to seek it out, I feel conce ed.
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Relationship With Self Creates Relationship With Work
My focus used to be on helping people find fulfilling careers. Like many of us, I assumed that, as soon as we find the “right” career — something we’re passionate about, that pays the bills, that gives us a flexible schedule, or has whatever else we’re looking for in a “dream job” — we’ll get the joy we want out of our work.
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Are You Leading a Double Life?
Do you ever feel like you are leading a double life? When you are “out there” in public, networking, at work, with clients or just socializing with friends, you are one woman. Then when you are alone, behind closed doors, looking in the mirror or hiding under the covers, you are someone completely different? I was talking to a close friend just yesterday and she said as soon as the elevator doors opened up to her floor at work, she puts on her “happy face” and leaves all her troubles on the elevator behind her.
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How To Teach Our Children Health Coping Skills
Healthy Coping Skills are: Knowing that we control our own lives: if we have a conflict or failure, we can change the situation. There is no such thing as a mistake. If we learn something from an experience, it is a lesson. If we cannot get what we want, we can make a situation the best it can be. Sometimes we have to accept that a situatio IS the best it can be, even if it means the acceptance of loss and the experience of pain. Pain is temporary; pain passes with time.
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Your Inner Wizard
Over the last month I've been doing a lot of work to clarify my business ideas and practices. In the process I stumbled across (or rather was led by my own coach to) this idea of the "inner wizard". For me the inner wizard is the idea that we all have a little magical ability inside us that we can tap into at any time. Several years ago my friend Serena remarked to me "Magic is the art of conceiving of reality differently in such a way that it comes to pass." This quote immediately came to my mind when talking about my inner wizard.
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What Can You Say "Yes!" To?
I recently made a commitment to a 21-day community phone-based meditation. I was a little conce ed about making this commitment as the call was at 7am - a bit early for me. But I was excited about the meditatio I'd experienced and was looking forward to joining the meditation community that was being created.
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The Most Powerful Word - NO!
In our society the default answer to nearly every question is "Yes." Advertising is all geared towards getting us to say "Yes - I need that." We phrase our inquiries looking for yes: "Would you like more coffee?" "Would you be interested in joining me for dinner?" "Would you help me move next week?" "Would you mind if I asked you a personal question?" "Do you love me?" With such a powerful default answer ingrained in us it can be very difficult to say anything else - often leaving us feeling trapped, guilty, or frustrated as a result.
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From Trauma To Empowerment
At first I just thought they were yelling at each other like they do so often. Then they got louder and then it started to sound like something was about to get dangerous. Growing increasingly annoyed and then conce ed I finally looked out the window to see what my next-door neighbors were doing. Smoke was billowing out of the back basement window. Their house was on fire!
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Merely Human?
A few years back a friend remarked to me after a particularly rough day "I feel human today." I laughed and amusedly asked "Don't you normally feel human?" She replied "No, usually I feel like a dragon!" I remember at the time feeling a bit confused and wondering what I normally feel like, what I would like to feel like and what it might be like if I felt different.
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Powerfully Manifest Your Fullest Life Yet
The other day I wrote myself a love note. I was feeling a little down and I needed a pick-me-up. It was simple really, and it only took me about 10 minutes. I hardly thought about it either before or after I wrote it. When I shared it with someone a few hours later she just looked at me with a dead-pan serious stare and said "That is the most beautiful piece you have ever written. I'm stunned." I was a little taken aback at the power and plainness of her statement and it inspired me to read it again more slowly. Then I was stunned.
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Use Holiday Parties to Network
Many people view the holidays as a "slow" time for any business, except retail. A time when businesses prepare for year end, putting new projects on hold and instituting hiring freezes until after the holidays. But viewing this as a time to put away your business cards and shelve your resume could be a big mistake. The holidays are a great excuse to network and because of the often relaxed and jovial atmosphere of a party, you can be poised to make a lasting impression in a much more personal way.
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How Self Confidence Impacts Your Leadership
Coaching clients in senior roles is often necessary because they lack self confidence. As a result, they are not seen as leaders. Instead, they all seem to have one quality in common. They all have a fear of making the necessary decision required of their position. Self perception affects everyone in both their personal and professional lives. However, for individuals in positions of authority, it’s important to understand how self confidence impacts your leadership. Why Self Confidence is Vital in Leadership
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The Job Interview Question Hated by Most: “Tell me about yourself”
When you are looking for a job, being called in for a job interview is very exciting. Out of all the applications submitted, there is something about yours that stood out above the rest. You have made the final cut. Then, you realize that the interview will determine whether you are employed or back to sending out more resumes. What can you do to ensure job interview success? What do you say? How do you answer that inevitable question: "Tell me about yourself"? Prepare, Prepare, Prepare
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The Creative Resume
I recently volunteered to review a client’s resume. She was applying for a job at a large Financial Institution. She had her artistic husband design a very creative resume, which showcased his graphic design skills. The resume looked great, if she was applying for an artistic position. You want your resume to be memorable and stand out from the others in the pack, but the design should match the position you are applying for and the company environment.
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Manage Yourself for the Career You Want
"Your past cannot be changed, but you can change tomorrow by your actions today." - David McNally
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The Path to Your Divine Purpose
I’ve said this many times before and I will repeat it many times again, it is my core belief and the essence of my philosophy. The relationship you have with your Self is the foundation for all the other relationships in your life. If you don’t have a strong, loving relationship with your Self, you will continue to experience struggle in other areas of your life. And when you do experiencing that struggle, the first place I will always encourage you to look is inside. You will find your guidance there.
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Embracing Writer's Block, Part 3: The Creative Test of Faith
I used to believe that I shouldn’t sit down to write unless I had a compelling vision of what I’d say. Unfortunately, this attitude was the reason why, for many years, I didn’t do any creative writing. Sure, I wrote a lot, but only when somebody else (1) gave me a subject to write about and (2) was willing to pay me a bunch of money or give me a good grade. Eventually, I started taking a look at why I had this mindset. Why was I reluctant to just sit down and see whether any interesting ideas came up?
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Being Angry and "Being Spiritual"
In the past, when someone said something to me that I found insulting or disrespectful, I tried to avoid reacting angrily. I told myself I was probably just being thin-skinned, and that the other person probably didn’t intend to hurt me. Besides, I said to myself in “spiritual” jargon, the anger I feel comes from my ego — my identification with my body, my accomplishments, my possessions, and so on. In reality, I am all that is, I am consciousness itself, I am Atman. How could pure spirit take offense at anything? By letting myself get upset, I dishonor my true nature.
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Each Person Is A Prism, Part 2: Valentine's Day Edition
Well, as advertisers are helpfully reminding us, Valentine’s Day is just around the corner. For me, as for many other people, this can be a time of irritation. This isn’t because I’m what our culture calls a “single guy.” I enjoy that, actually. It’s because this is the time of year when I get to hear people lament how long it’s been since they’ve bee “in a relationship,” or since they’ve done whatever other romantic thing they think they should be doing. One Person’s Romantic Comedy Is Another’s Horror Movie
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Divorce and Its Effect on Children, Part II
This article is the second in a five part series of articles that looks at divorce and the children involved in the divorce. This article provided a discussion on the effect of divorce on children.
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How is Your Heart?
I just love the DVR, don’t you? Over the holidays, during some much needed down time, I caught up on some of my favorite shows, including Oprah. (I had close to 15 shows in the queue!) One day I was watching her interview with the Aussie Country Music star, Keith Urban, who is married to Nicole Kidman.
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NLP, Your Car, And Blood
Ok so go with me on this… if your car is your brain, and petrol and water are the fuel that make your car run smoothly, then the fuel that makes your brain run smoothly are the foods you eat, the drinks you drink, and the thoughts you allow yourself you have. I’ve written before about the correlation between food/drink and your thoughts. To simplify, food turns into thoughts and thoughts turn into feelings. And… thoughts turn into feelings, and feelings affect your physical health. Digest that! Yes, it’s all connected. The body-mind connection is not just a yogic concept.
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Beyond the "Elevator Pitch"
We hear a lot in business literature about how it’s important to have an “elevator pitch” — a prepared speech about our business that’s so concise we could deliver it to someone on a brief elevator ride. We’re often told to memorize our elevator pitch and practice it in the mirror, making sure we look and sound appealing and confident. This may sound great in theory, but in my experience, when someone delivers an elevator pitch to me, it’s pretty obvious and painful.
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Part I - Divorce and Children, Change in Cultural Attitudes
This article is the first in a five part series of articles that looks at divorce and the children involved in the divorce. This article examines the change in cultural attitude toward divorce.
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New Year's Resolutions: Why you shouldn't bother
Ah New Year’s Resolutions… gotta love them! Every year we swear we are going to lose weight, quit smoking, cut down drinking, get organised, achieve our business goals… we talk about it with conviction, even stubbornness… this is it, next year will be our year, starting on the first of January. Really? You are actually going to start on the first of January?! I’ll believe it when I see it! According to research only 12% of people who set new year’s resolutions actually go on to achieve their objectives.
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The January Blues: what is it and how can you beat it?
It’s all over. The festive season is behind us and it is back to normal now. Or is it? For a lot of people January is a dreary long month. Waiting for the next lifesaving pay check is bad enough, but then there are the long nights, the cold days, the new year with all its expectations, and the post christmas blues. Symptoms can range from simple grumpiness to depressing thoughts. Mood swings, feeling low, lethargy, insomnia, stress, bloatedness, sluggishness… add to those a cold or flu and there you have it: the January blues in full swing.
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What Would You Create If No One Could See It?
To help us find a compelling direction in life, self-development writers often tell us to ask ourselves “what we’d do if we couldn’t fail.” For example, we might ask, what kind of book would we write if we knew that whatever we produced was destined to be a #1 bestseller? I’ve taken to asking myself basically the opposite question: what would I create if I knew no one would ever care about it? In other words, what would I do if I knew I would fail? Believe it or not, this question has been much more helpful to me in finding the direction and motivatio I want.
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Rhonda Byrne's The Power: Is the Packaging the Problem?
A common reason people attack The Secret (and now, Rhonda Byrne's sequel, The Power) is that it promotes a self-centered and "consumerist" attitude. Byrne, critics say, encourages us to focus on "manifesting" luxury cars, expensive shoes, and so on, rather than on helping others.
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Thoughts on the Mankind Project Lawsuit
Many of you probably read the recent story about the atto ey who sued his law firm, claiming his boss demanded that he attend the ManKind Project’s New Warrior Training Adventure, a weekend workshop for men, and penalized him when he refused. I won’t comment on the merits of the suit, or the specifics of the workshop (I haven’t taken it). I think the press coverage, and what it says about our culture’s attitudes toward self-development and sexuality, raise much more interesting issues. This Is Headline News?
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The Threat of Therapy?
Earlier, we talked about personal development critics' common claim that personal growth ideas promote an unrealistic sense of personal responsibility. Here, I'm going to respond to critics who take the opposite view -- that much self-help writing actually teaches people not to take responsibility for their lives. A frequent criticism of personal growth is that it encourages people to sit around whining about their emotional issues, rather than getting up and accomplishing something in the world. Is Therapy Just A Blame Game?
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Charisma: can it be learnt?
Have you ever failed to come across the way you wanted to when you needed to the most? Did you ever find yourself struggling to make a good impression or persuade the person you’re talking to whether in social situations, at interviews, or at presentations? Does speaking to an audience or someone new make you anxious, stammer or get all sweaty? You are not alone! Over the years I’ve helped hundreds of people with low self-esteem, lacking confidence, and not being able to communicate effectively.
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Neuro Hypnotic Repatte ing: what is it and what can it do for you?
According to Richard Bandler, creator of NHR, most of the problems and things that people do and bad feelings that they have work automatically but they weren’t there when you were a baby. These are all learned behaviours, and when you hypnotically repatte someone what you are basically doing is teaching them not to get to what they don’t want to get. Richard says that archival memory systems always have to have up-datable memory where you put new information in front of old information.
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The Circumcision Ban and the New Atheism
You've probably heard about a recent campaign in San Francisco, Califo ia to put a measure on the ballot banning circumcision. I think this campaign illustrates some of the troubling assumptions people are increasingly making about spirituality in our culture, and I'm going to look at some of those assumptions in this post.
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S.A.D? How to beat the winter blues
Anyone who knows me knows I am not a fan of winter. Understatement! Come October I turn into a bit of a bear (metaphorically speaking) and all I want to do is hibe ate. Wake me up on the first of May when the earth comes alive; when I can see the world in multicolour, hear the birds sing, feel the warmth of the sun on my face, and I can walk around in shorts and flip-flops! No amount of Halloweens, Christmases or Easters could ever make up for my beloved summer.
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Growth As An Opiate, Part 5: Self-Development And The “War On Envy”
The idea that societies with more economic inequality -- whether in terms of income, net worth, or something else -- are less moral is nothing new. In the past, people have usually made this argument from a philosophical perspective -- for instance, John Rawls' famous argument that, if you designed a society from scratch, with no idea where you personally would end up on the economic scale, you'd choose a society where inequalities were only allowed if they benefited the worst-off.
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Seeing Life As A Celebration
You may have heard the old story of Sisyphus — the man condemned by the gods to push a boulder up a hill, only to see it roll back down and be forced to start over, for all ete ity. I think this story is a wonderful illustration of how human beings often suffer. We’re convinced that, in some way, we need to be better than we are, and we’re constantly struggling to improve. But somehow, we never seem to “get there” — perfection dangles just beyond our reach.
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Finding Compassion Through Selfishness
There’s a part of me that doesn’t care about you. It’s not here to solve your problems, lend you an ear, or serve you in any other way. It looks out for me and me alone. Isn’t that a terrible thing? Actually, I don’t think so. In fact, I think acknowledging I have a “selfish” part — and, sometimes, doing what that part wants — is key to experiencing, and expressing, real compassion for people. I Used To Be Such A Sweet, Sweet Thing
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Isn’t There More to My Life Than This?
Have you ever woken in the middle of the night feeling anxious about your future and wondering, “Is this all there is? Have I reached my peak and it’s all downhill from here?” Do you feel that tightness in your chest or the emptiness in your stomach that you’re not doing ‘it’ right, that you won’t ‘make it’?
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Dating within a Budget
One of the biggest expenses is the entertainment expense. Whether you are single or married you may go on dates from time to time. Most single couples may go out three or four times a week and married couples may go out one to four times a week depending on if they have kids or not. I have met with so many people and entertainment expense has been a expense that they didn’t realize how much they were spending on it. There are many dates that people can go out on and it won’t break your bank. Here are some ideas; Dating Ideas on a Budgetr
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What is the Gray Divorce?
Let's take a moment to reflect on the show "Everyone Loves Raymond." In one episode, Debra notes the striking image of her in-laws, Marie and Frank, sitting silently at the lunch table. This scene prompts an important question: Is this portrayal of communication simply Hollywood, or does it reflect real life? Interestingly, a British study on communication among married couples suggests this depiction holds. The findings indicate a trend: as marriages progress over time, the amount of conversation couples engage in during meals decreases.
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What is the Gray Divorce?
Let's take a moment to reflect on the show "Everyone Loves Raymond." In one episode, Debra notes the striking image of her in-laws, Marie and Frank, sitting silently at the lunch table. This scene prompts an important question: Is this portrayal of communication simply Hollywood, or does it reflect real life? Interestingly, a British study on communication among married couples suggests this depiction holds. The findings indicate a trend: as marriages progress over time, the amount of conversation couples engage in during meals decreases.
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“Authentic Marketing,” Part 5: A Personal Share
“I teach people how to use mindfulness practices, like meditation and yoga, to focus while they work. I help them bring these practices into their in-the-moment experience of working — to go beyond just using them on the yoga mat or the meditation cushion.” This is a correct description of what I do. Unfortunately, it also tends to make people’s eyes roll and/or glaze over. I know this all too well, because I delivered this “elevator pitch” many times. What’s more, for many months, I kept describing what I do in this way, even though I knew it was boring and confusing people.
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Creativity and Boundary-Setting, Part 2: The Limits of Boundary-Setting
As I’m sure you’ve learned firsthand, when we let people see our creative work, we risk getting criticized. But criticism by itself, I think, isn’t a problem. It only becomes problematic when we take responsibility for the critic’s suffering and anger. My Criticism Fantasy I’ll give you an example from my own life. While I was writing my book, I had a nagging tendency to imagine ways people might attack it. A very specific “worst-case scenario” kept coming to mind.
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Confidence Versus A "Confident Image"
I’ve been doing a lot of speaking recently to groups of job-seeking professionals, and predictably I tend to get questions about dealing with job interview anxiety. But if I get the chance to explore the issue more deeply with people, I often find that they’re not really interested in reducing their anxiety. Instead, they want to convince the interviewer they aren’t anxious.
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Letting Ourselves Be Seen
I think that, to some degree, we all have a love/hate relationship with being seen — with letting another person see all the parts that make up who we are, whether it’s our joy, anger, grief, ambition, or something else. On the downside, if we show the other person parts we usually keep hidden, and they leave, we’ll feel hurt. The more of ourselves we let them see, the more pain we’ll experience if they decide not to be with us.
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On Playing To Our Weaknesses
We hear a lot in personal development circles about how it’s important to “play to our strengths,” instead of wasting time trying to improve our “weak” areas. I want to rethink that notion a bit in this post. It’s probably true that we all have our natural aptitudes. It’s hard to dispute, for example, that some people are born with body types that make them better athletes. But sometimes, when we see ourselves as “bad” at some activity, it’s simply because we don’t like the way we feel when we’re doing it — not because of any inbo lack of talent. The Making Of A “Weak Point”
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Embracing Writer's Block, Part 2: Content Needs Emptiness
I’ve written before about how it’s helpful, when you’re facing writer’s block, to just sit with that sense of creative emptiness, and allow it to pass away on its own — rather than beating yourself up for being uncreative, or distracting yourself from the emptiness by playing Minesweeper. When we learn to just let the writer’s block be, instead of resisting it, we get more inspired and productive in what we do. In this post, I want to expand on why this is. One thing I often say is: “If you can’t be with emptiness, you can’t be with content.” Emptiness and Procrastination
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Fear and Self-doubt: Get rid of them and go achieve some things
Why is it that some people achieve seemingly impossible things while others shy away at the smallest challenge? Why is it that only a tiny percentage of the world population go on to accomplish some extraordinary things in their lifetime, while the rest simply tick along from birth to death? I wonder what it is that we are so afraid of, and how we can break through the barriers that are keeping us safe, but not necessarily happy, so that we can go accomplish some amazing things.
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What, You Too!
Have you ever seen this quote from C.S. Lewis, “What you too! I thought I was the only one!” Frequently people say, “I’d go to a counselor except I don’t want people to know I have struggles.” Implying they are the only one with a struggle; see if you can find a person with a hurt, habit, or hang-up similar to yours in the following stories. I married a wonderful woman who I know God made just for me. But when she needed me most, when she was faced directly with a dilemma, I did not come to her rescue. I was not the man God made me to be for her. I feel overwhelming guilt.
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What, You Too!
Have you ever seen this quote from C.S. Lewis, “What you too! I thought I was the only one!” Frequently people say, “I’d go to a counselor except I don’t want people to know I have struggles.” Implying they are the only one with a struggle; see if you can find a person with a hurt, habit, or hang-up similar to yours in the following stories. I married a wonderful woman who I know God made just for me. But when she needed me most, when she was faced directly with a dilemma, I did not come to her rescue. I was not the man God made me to be for her. I feel overwhelming guilt.
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Fighting Like Cats and Dogs
Have you ever said to your kids, "You two fight like cats and dogs!" Is that true or do they just fight like normal brothers and sisters? Now ask, do your children know how to resolve, forgive and grow from their fights?
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A Life Coach Can Be Your Personal Cheerleader
Life is good. You see that simple phrase emblazoned on clothing and you can’t help but smile. But life can also be challenging and often gives us a multitude of questions or situations that we don’t know how to handle.
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4 Easy Steps To Romancing Your Self
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***Motivational Tool: Mental Snapshots - Find Out What Is Missing
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Tell Me More About Celebrate Recovery Appomattox
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The CR Door
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The Importance of Character Education for Children
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Are you ready to be authentic
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Treat Your Intuition as a Partner
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Celebrating Your True Self Enables You To Actualize Your Dreams
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Leadership Styles: Fear Vs Respect
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Self Questioning: Setbacks and Solutions
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Goal Oriented Life Coaching Practice
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5 Keys to Peaceful Celebrations
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Personal Coach: 4 Things You Should Do to Improve Performance at Work
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Life Coaching: How to Deal with Temperamental People at Work
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Life Coaching Tips for Becoming an Inspirational Leader
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How do we move forward?
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Creative Driven Life
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Spending for a Career Coaching Program Is a Valuable Investment for Your Career
According to a saying, “Sometimes you need to spend money in order to make money.” This is true, especially for business people, but it’s not only them who should invest to make profits. This saying applies to your career as well. In order for you to move up or advance in your career, then you’ve got to invest in yourself. However, there are also certain limitations as to until when you should spend. It is wise to spend when: a. You feel that a particular brand name can make a huge difference.
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How Can a Bad Boss Be Useful for Your Career Planning?
You have a boss who’s narcissistic, mean, incompetent, and just plain unlovable. But instead of letting your boss’s unpleasant behavior affect your productivity and happiness in the workplace, why not turn it to your advantage? It is almost impossible that you will ever love your boss’s bad behavior, but then again, you can’t just let it get the best of you. There are things you can learn from his or her bad behavior, actually. Read on to find out how. 1. You can look smart
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Life Coaching Lessons on Living Your Life to the Fullest
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Seek Help from a Personal Coach When Dealing with Envy in the Workplace
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Life Coaching for Achieving Work and Life Balance After the Age of 60
With the advancement in technology, it has been noted that people are living healthier and life expectancy is increasing. It is for this reason also that professionals of today are able to work much longer compared to the earlier generations. Many older people are also actively seeking a career at a later stage in life. Just because you are in your prime doesn’t mean you need to stop doing what you love doing, especially in relation to your work or career. It is important, however, that you keep the right balance between your life and career if you want to stay healthy and happy.
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Self Love for the Self Employed: Tips from a Spiritual Life Coach
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Self Confidence Begins with Self Acceptance: Tips from a Spiritual Life Coach
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Creating a Life Vision: Tips from a Life Coach
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Business Coaching: Negative Effects of Not Investing in Employee Training
Training employees definitely costs time, money, and other company resources. In most cases, a third party is even necessary to provide job training to employees, which results to additional costs, unbilled hours, as well as missed time. Many employers often hesitate to spend on training employees partly because of their past training experiences, too. It could be that training was done poorly, or the focus of the training just didn't help. Needless to say, failed employee training comes at a huge cost, which is why businesses are often not willing to invest in it.
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Do BE Do BE Do.... Getting Things Done While Being Mindful: Personal Life Coach Tips
TO DO Lists help us to remember important tasks that need to be done. List making is a great tool for focus and efficiency that I recommend as a personal life coach. And I acknowledge the list makers of the world, like myself. Lists really do help with productivity! But have you noticed that these To Do Lists can become ever present in our minds and thoughts? Often wondering what we’ve forgotte TO DO, what we need TO DO next, and what tasks need to be added to the list? It becomes important to not let our To Do Lists take over our state of being!
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Mindfulness Practice - Why Do It? Ideas From A Mindfulness Coach
If you are new to mindfulness practice, congratulations on finding one of the most powerful practices for a better life! I know this because I began mindfulness practice and study over 20 years ago and have worked with 100s of clients to change their lives through mindfulness practice, and all of us feel it's the most important change. We agree that mindfulness practice is helping us face life's challenges with more wisdom.
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Altruism
Now there is one word—a single word—which can blast the morality of altruism out of existence and which it cannot withstand—the word: “Why?” Why must man live for the sake of others? Why must he be a sacrificial animal? Why is that the good? There is no earthly reason for it—and, ladies and gentlemen, in the whole history of philosophy no earthly reason has ever been given.r
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Passion
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Thoughts
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6 Reasons Your Life Coaching Experts Always Recommend Taking a Vacation
We should admit it - we are now more conce ed about our livelihood, jobs and careers than anything else. This could be explained by the fact that we are all just bouncing off from the recession, which made us all realize the importance of everything we have. The problem, however, is that the harder we try to use our time being productive in our job or business, the more we forget the important things and people in our lives. Yes, you need to work hard, but you also need to take some time off, too, and take a vacation. Here's what vacation can do for you:
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Why Working Abroad in Your 20s Is Beneficial for Career Planning
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Are You In Love or Just Attached?
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Life Coaching Advice on How to Avoid Office Politics
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How Does Your Attitude Affect Your Life and Career Planning Success?
When it comes to being successful in one's life or career, many of us think that those who are blessed with intelligence or high IQ are the ones who are likely to achieve success. There is new research from Stanford University, however, that challenges this belief. According to psychologist Carol Dweck, a person's attitude is what can better determine his or her success than their IQ. Dweck explains that there are two categories for people's attitudes - a fixed mindset and a growth mindset.
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Why Your Business Coach Wants You to Learn Self-Regulation
Self-regulation is your ability to keep your impulses and disruptive emotions in check, and also to think before doing something. It is also one of the 5 elements of emotional intelligence (recognizing your emotions, managing your emotions, understanding other people's emotions, motivating yourself, and managing relationships). Emotional intelligence is a very important skill that every leader has to possess in order to be effective. Emotional intelligence allows you to be aware of your own emotions, and also of the feelings and needs of other people.
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Why Does Sleep Matter?
Sleep allows your brain to have a much-needed break from all the stresses of your day. When you sleep, your mind is rejuvenated so it could process information. But the biggest question is how much sleep you actually need. While everyone's needs vary, research shows that adults who get to sleep for 8 hours a day tend to be healthier, and have lower mortality rates compared to those who sleep more or less than 8 hours.
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Life Coaching: What to Tell Yourself When You Don't Think You Are Good Enough
Life is too good and too short to keep whining about your problems and difficulties. There's no way you can get the best out of life when you keep looking at your defeats and refusing to see the brighter side of your life. While it's impossible for anybody to be happy all the time, you shouldn't allow yourself to dwell on the negative things around you. Whenever you feel you are just not good enough, be sure to remember these things: 1. The present is more important that the past or the future
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Saboteurs and Mood hoovers: how to deal with them
A friend of mine recently lost over two stone. She went to visit her best friend, who she hadn’t seen in a while, expecting a big reaction to her very visible transformation. What did she get? Nothing. No shock, no excitement, no recognition, no pat on the back, no “well done”… nothing. When she told me about her disappointment at her friend’s reactio I wasn’t surprised.
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Tips that Will Help Improve Your Quality of Life and Even Career Planning
When it comes to self-improvement, it is too easy to find advice online or get tips from people you know. The question is always if you could put them into practice. For my part, I should say that it’s always a challenge to follow the advice I give other people on how they can improve their lives. But of course, I make an effort and really try hard to do so every single day. Here’s a list of my favorite self-improvement tips that you can freely use to make positive changes in your life: Always try to have a good start.
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Knowing Why You Got Fired Is Good for Your Career Planning
Nobody ever wants to get fired, of course! Getting terminated from a job can damage not only your reputation, but your confidence in yourself as well. Although this is a forgettable moment in your life, there are things you should learn about yourself also through this experience. Whatever the reason may be that you lost your job, it is important that you recognize them so that you would know what you should work on to become a better professional. Here are the possible reasons you got fired: 1. You’re not the right fit. It’s as simple as that.
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Life Coaching Tactics for Dealing with Backstabbing Coworkers
As you change jobs and even careers, you will come to a realisation that people really come in many different colors. Many work as hard as you do and are even kind-hearted. Of course, you enjoy being and working with them. Unfortunately, there are also those who have negative personalities. The worst kind of people you will come across are the backstabbers.
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Personal Coach Tips on How to Overcome Laziness
Is there really a way you could stop being lazy and become a bit more productive? By surfing the internet, you will surely find tons of tips and pieces of advice on how you can avoid being lazy. However, such steps may not always be suitable for everybody. Thus, it is important that you find a formula that will work for you. Besides, life is about discovering new things about your surroundings, and yourself as well! These tips on preventing laziness really worked for me, and I hope they will work for you too. 1. Beware of the time robbers.
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Achieving Self Awareness with the Help of a Personal Coach
Self awareness is knowing and understanding your own personality, which includes your thoughts, strengths, weaknesses, beliefs, emotions and motivation. By being aware of yourself, you are more able to understand how other people perceive you. Why is it important to develop self awareness?
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Why Bringing Home Work Is Bad for Your Career Planning
Although many people find nothing wrong with the practice of taking home unfinished work, many also don’t like the idea of letting work intrude their personal lives. If you consider home as an extension of your workplace, it is likely that you won’t be able to reach your full potential. It is also a misconception that being productive means being willing to let go of your free time just to complete your unfinished tasks. Below are the reasons you should never bring home your unfinished work: 1. You’re going to bring home spilled over problems.
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6 Simple Life Coaching Tips to Avoid Wasting Time in the Morning
If you’re someone who hates waking up early in the morning, then it must be a real struggle for you to get out of bed and start the day right after sunrise. Well, waking up in the morning is a tough challenge even for a morning person actually. Below are some tips we hope you find useful if you’re trying to be efficient during your morning routine so that you may avoid getting late for school, work or any of your appointments. 1. Avoid hitting the snooze button.
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A Personal Coach Advice on Avoiding Burnout at Work
Much has been said already about how we could keep the balance between our personal life and work life. However, not all of the advice you get can actually match with your personality and lifestyle. While it is true that focusing too much on work and having very little time for your personal life is not good for your well being and even for your performance at work, not everyone is willing to change a routine they’ve long been used to. What’s worse, forcing yourself to work less and play more can leave you more uncertain and stressed out in the long run.
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Life Coaching: Signs that Your Work and Life Balance Is Awful
Is there anything you can do to be able to keep up with your busy career while at the same time having time to do what you have to do for yourself, your family and your friends? Is there really a way that you can just relax? Keeping the balance between your work and personal life is so important if you want to live a fulfilling life. Without this balance, you will be putting your personal relationships at risk, as well as your personal development and even your sanity. But how are you supposed to recognize that there is something wrong with your work-life balance?
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Secrets of the Happiest People in the World – Tips from a Personal Coach
How great it would be if there was a machine that could identify the things that can surely make a person happy…but there isn’t! Nevertheless, it seems quite easy for us to tell if a person is happy or unhappy. Thus, if you want to live a happier life, it won’t hurt to know what happy people do in general, so you could perhaps apply some of them in your own life. Their habits may not necessarily make you happy, but they can be a great source of inspiration for you. So what do happy people do? 1. They don’t consider wealth as their only source of happiness.
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How Does Being a Traveler Make You an Ideal Job Candidate and Even a Personal Coach?
If there is one thing that you will not often see in a resume, that will be the travel history of an applicant. Now you may be wondering why being a frequent traveler is an advantage you can actually have over other job applicants. Read on to know why. Why Are Travelers Excellent Candidates for a Job? 1. Their personal growth doesn’t have any limitations or an end.
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The Only Way Out, Is In
Today I am celebrating the first anniversary of an epic adventure and journey in my life. I was slowly emerging from a very painful and soul-destroying experience that left me feeling battered and beaten. I did not know my up from my down, felt unrecognisable to myself and at times felt like I had reached the end of the line. There was a fantastic support network around me but my inner numbness and broken spirit did not always allow me to see the extended hands of love reaching in my direction.
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Why Does Your Personal Coach Emphasize the Importance of Sleep to Succeed in Your Career?
We all know how difficult it is to concentrate and get work done when you couldn’t even keep your eyes wide open. It’s true that not getting enough sleep can make you feel tired and sluggish the following day, but this is not the only way lack of sleep can affect you and your work. In fact, worse things can happen to you and even your career. Here’s how sleep and lack of it can affect how you do your job: 1. Sleeping too little leads to more sick days.
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Play the Ball, Not the Man
Let me ask you a question, what is the best advice you have ever received from a boss or leader that you admire? For me this is easy to answer as I think back to my most admired and respected boss Rudy McLean. Rudy had many years of leadership experience within the corporatio I worked for and when he took over our division as Managing Director; there was that underlying fear of “a new broom sweeps clean.” Some people also had the attitude that he had to prove himself, as he had no specific knowledge or experience within the industry we worked in.
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How to Ask for a Reference Who Will Help with Your Career Planning and Job Search
The references that you include in your resume when applying for a job that you really want are so valuable. Putting a name of a reference who cannot be reached can definitely cost you the job you’re trying to get. As a matter of fact, most hiring managers use the provided references as a basis for choosing between equally experienced and skilled job applicants. Before we talk about the things you should do to ask for a reference, you should understand first what you should NOT do. These are the following:
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Tips from a Personal Coach on How to Stay Healthy with a Desk Job
Millions of employed individuals work at desk jobs that require them to sit almost the entire day while using their computers. While this kind of job seems really easy and not physically demanding, there are several ways it can also jeopardize the health of workers. If you want to stay healthy with your desk job, here are the things you should do: 1. Pay Attention to Proper Sight Lines
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6 Resilience Tips I Learned Climbing the Pyrenees on the Camino
In life, we all have mountains to climb. Some are literal others figurative. Today I would like to share with you six lessons I learned climbing the Pyrenees during my Camino Francés pilgrimage in 2014. The official route of the Camino Francés begins in the little town of St. Jean Pied de Port nestled at the foothill of the majestic Pyrenees in France.
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Business Coaching: How to Conduct Meaningful Exit Interviews
Do you ever wonder why your top employees are leaving you? Do you want to know what you could have done to convince them to stay with you instead? Well, a good exit interview can give you the answer to these questions. On the part of employees, exit interviews are often the last serious form of interaction they have with their soon-to-be ex-managers. Thus, they typically see it as a chance to talk about their experience working in your company, and perhaps to let you know what things you should pay more attention to in order to keep the satisfaction levels of your employees high.
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Personal Coach – Simple Yet Effective Ways to Keep Your Workspace Organized
When it comes to being organized at work, many of us believe that it should start with having a clean and well-arranged workspace. This doesn’t mean, however, that you should spend the first hour or so of your day trying to organize things around you. It will be a waste of time if you go on cleaning up your desk and organizing your files right before you start work. Read on to learn some useful home organizing tricks that will help you spend less time de-cluttering workspace. Whether you work in an office or in a home office, these tips will be helpful:
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5 Life Coaching Tips We Should Learn from Warren Buffet
Warren Buffet is without a doubt one of the most successful investors in the history. He is known for his savvy investments that have earned him billions of dollars. Although he literally has got nothing to worry about in terms of his finances, because he’s got lots of money, he must be very preoccupied also taking care of his huge investments. So many of us would wonder how he manages his life considering the huge amounts of money at risk.
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Personal Coach: Self-Help Tips for Anger Management
Contrary to what many people believe, anger management is not about suppressing or internalizing anger. It is just a set of skills that you need so that when you recognize that you are becoming angry, you will be able to deal with the situation in a more positive way.
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Executive Coaching: Can You Be a Great Leader If You Are Shy?
Managers are generally authoritative, daring leaders. On the other hand, shy people are likely to hold back, be reserved in conversations, and even avoid social interactions. A very interesting question now is whether or not shy people can be effective leaders. If you are a shy type and you happen to be promoted as a manager, there is no doubt that you will be facing some serious challenges. To be successful, it will take conscious effort on your part to work on your leadership skills every single day.
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TELL ME WHAT YOU ATE AND I WILL TELL YOU HOW YOU ARE FEELING
If you think that the foods you eat and how you feel have nothing to do with each other, it’s time to open your mind, and close your mouth, to certain foods, that is. I remember my recent visit to Spain, where, for the umpteenth time I heard my own mother complain about how crappy she is feeling pretty much all the time. And for the umpteenth time, I told her to stop eating so much bread, pasta, potatoes and sugary foods, or quit whining. Her response is always the same: Don’t be silly, we’ve always eaten these foods – she said. Always? – I asked.
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Feeling Like A Fraud?
Carolyn Myss says that every time you take action to grow, the very next thing to occur is self-sabotage. Every single time! I don’t know about you, but that doesn’t add to my willingness to move forward. Yet moving forward I must, so let’s take this self-sabotage thing on straight away. For me it’s that feeling of being a fraud. Every time I decide to play bigger and put myself out there to serve more, I hear that voice inside say, “I wouldn’t do that, they’re going to find you out!”
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Mentoring is the Answer to Diversity Initiatives in your Organization
Never before in the history of mankind has the world been more mobile. People are constantly moving, in search of better opportunities. International relocations, for improved employment opportunities are also more common. As a result, the workplace is becoming more diverse every day; and, it’s important to see these differences as an asset, not a liability. Thus, mentoring is the answer to diversity initiatives in your organization. Mentoring Enhances Workplace Diversity
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The Magic Behind The Curtain
We are always surrounded by unseen resources just waiting to support our every desire. I call it The Magic Behind The Curtain. It’s the Universe, our Spirit Guides, Angels, God, family and friends who have passed and many other energetic beings who are always available to help us on our journey.
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Searching for Future Leaders in your Organization?
Are you searching for future leaders in your organization? Before advertising a new position, look within the office walls first. With attention to mentoring and leadership development, any organization will benefit from leaders that have the knowledge required and the best interests of the company at heart. The Positive Impact on the Organization
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To do or to Be? – The five Essentials Of Transformational Leadership
In this article we look into the 5 essentials of transformational leadership, which really is all about the basic yet profound inquiry: "who do we need and want to be, so that we can take the right actions that will transform the reality around us?" "Be the Change you want to see in the world" Mahatma Gandhi
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Stress: 5 ways to minimise this silent killer
Do you have trouble sleeping or find it really hard to relax? Do you feel overwhelmed by people and things in your life? I am not surprised. Most people I coach are so stressed out they don't know whether they are coming or going. A lot of them sleep badly or not at all. Their eating habits are out of control. Many find it a struggle to maintain or lose weight. They also feel like life is passing them by, that they lack the time, energy, confidence or motivation to do everything they need to do.
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Fears and Phobias: How to get over them so you can get on with it
Today I find myself collecting spiders to use with a client with a phobia. I’d usually spend most of the time either ignoring them, killing them or sweeping them off my walls… but today I am actually actively looking for them. Who would have thought! I used to fear them myself once, but now, I really don’t see the point. Do you suffer from a paralysing phobia? Are irrational fears keeping you from living a normal life?
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2009 - Your Goals - Your Future
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The Art of Stretching Time
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Moving Through Fear
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De-Clutter Your Life
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How a Success Coach Can Give You the Edge to Succeed
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How to Be a Simply Irresistible Salesperson!
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Are You a Coaching Candidate?
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Theory of Counseling
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Finding Personal Power Under Verbal Attack
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Are You Remembering To Breathe?
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Recovering Your Destiny
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The Highly Contagious "Disease Of Busyness"
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I Think I Can. I Think I Can. Can I? Your Mental Train Ticket to Self-Empowerment
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Message In Your Body
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Time Management Tips
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6 Tips to Relieve Back-To-School Stress
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Why there is no real Definition for Stress!
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WHAT ARE THE SYMPTOMS OF STRESS?
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Dreams Deferred
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Do You Have Computer Back - Chronic Neck, Back & Shoulder Pain?
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Being Presidential In Your Own Life
He has awoken us to our greatest power. Are you Presidential in your own life? What better time is there than to ask this question? I highly encourage you to watch Obama victory speech if you haven't already. His victory speech is very powerful! One of the many things he said was this "I ...
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Women Healed of Life's Experiences
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Why Are Mothers Overwhelmed - Three Of The Biggest Mistakes That Mothers Make
A client asked me recently, "What do you believe are the most common reasons that mothers are overwhelmed?" I thought about this great question and decided to share with you my response. I'm giving you my top three here. Enjoy! Mothers are overwhelmed and over scheduled due to the variety of ...
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Moms, Are You Living The Good Life?
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Definitions in Stepfamilies
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How To Know If You Need A Life Coach
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Eu Prayer
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How To Be Happy - Simple Steps To A Much Happier You
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Words Are Powerful - Do Your Words Help Or Hinder?
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Five Tips On How To Keep Your New Year Resolutions
Last year an estimated seven millio Britons made a New Year’s resolution. But 25 per cent had given up within a week and 39 per cent of resolutions had been abandoned by the end of January. A new year is a good time for a new start, but keeping change going is harder than you’d ...
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A Child's View Of Death ...Linda's Story
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You're Grieving? ...Oh Just Get Over It!
My work as a life transition coach brings me into regular contact with folks who are trying to get over something: the loss of a job, the death of a spouse, parent, child or pet, the end of a marriage, the end of a career, the realization that life has passed them by. It doesn’t really ...
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What Is Creativity? ...And How Do I Get Me Some?
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This Isn't Going To Be Our Parent's Retirement
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*** 30 Days to Manifesting Your Desires.
There are so many resources on the market today that will tell you how to attract more money, better health, a new life partner and so on. With so many choices, you can easily spend a small fortune trying to figure out which method, technique, or affirmation will help you manifest your desires. Why not simply work on manifesting the best method for manifesting? Have you been using the law of attraction but not having much in the way of results?
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Stop Being a Toxic People Magnet
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Achievement: A State of Mind
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Achievement - A State of Mind
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How Do We Make Choices: Free Will Or Hardwired Brain?
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How to put your anxieties to bed--Sleep Tips
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An Invitation To Forgive
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Boundaries
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Action To Goals
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What Do You Work For?
Whether you read books by Stephen Covey, Rick Warren, Oprah Winfrey, or Bill Cosby (and the many many others) we find that the number one problem for people living extraordinary lives is discipline. This discipline is usually split in so many directions or paths in our lives that being able to ...
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Having It All: 7 Things You Must Know
Boy, did I learn a valuable lesson. Your life can be exactly what you've always wanted it to be. I learned this lesson the hard way. In spite of spending years pouring over self help books and tapes, not so very long ago I was absolutely miserable. In a very short time I managed to turn my ...
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8 Sure Fire Steps For Achieving Your Goals
I don't know a thing about you, and I'll bet that there are goals that you have set for yourself that you are having trouble achieving. You set the same goals year after year. A prime example of this is the New Year's resolution. It is generally excepted that these resolutions are to be made to ...
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What Life Are You Living: Your Best Life Or The One You Happen To Have?
There is a life that is meant for you. A life that is filled with all the good that you want for yourself and for others. That life is your dream come true, it is your best life. So many people are not living their best life. They live lives of quiet desperation. They believe that they don't ...
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Live Your Passion: 7 Sure-Fire Tips
There is a version of your life in which you are excited about each and every day. Your feet hit the floor in the morning and you are raring to go. Each and every moment of your day brings you new joy and excitement. This is what it means to live your passion. 1. When learning to live your ...
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A Guide To Taking Action And Creating The Life You Want
There is a life out there with your name on it and it is beyond even your wildest dreams. I can barely express in words how much I want for you to love your life! I want so much for you to experience the sublime joy that is yours when your life is your own. I however, can't do it for you. Only ...
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Receiving Your Divine Messages
Have you ever imagined that you are receiving Divine messages and guidance all the time? That you are continually guided in everything that you do? Whether you realize it or not, you are consistently receiving Divine messages. Maybe you doubt the validity of what I'm telling you. Maybe you're ...
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Start To See Your Own Beauty Today
It has become the norm in today's society to see our flaws instead of our beauty. It seems like anytime anyone looks in the mirror anymore all they see is what they would change. They see love handles, they see flab, they see rolls, moles, and freckles. It seems that finding the good in one's ...
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Authentic Relationships-Creating Greatness
What is ‘authentic relationship’? How great is your relationship with your partner or spouse? Your communication? Your intimacy? Your sex life? n n As in so many areas of our lives, people settle…they settle for going along, they give up parts of themselves, become ...
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What is Relationship Coaching?
Relationship coaching is a field that likely started when the first shaman or priest talked with the first "couple" or partnership conce ing their relationship, how they relate to each other and who they want to be! In more recent times, the field of "family therapy" has blossomed with the ...
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Eroticism: A Welcome Gift!
Eroticism… mmmmmm… the word itself brings up images, fantasies, feelings. What is eroticism? Where does it show up in our lives? What is ‘erotic’ for each of us? David M. Schnarch, PhD in his landmark work "The Making of the Sexual Crucible" defines eroticism as ...
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Moments of Truth
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The Gift of Choice
Today I offer you a gift; a gift that you have always had, and you may not even know it yet. This is a gift I speak of in my inspirational talks; a gift that is central to much of my coaching; a gift I celebrate in my life daily, a gift that continues to unfold; this gift is the gift of ...
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If you TRY, maybe you won't Quit Smoking!
I stopped smoking myself on a Christmas morning more than 20 years ago with no planning, and no side effects. This was after many years of smoking up to 3 packs a day. It was a miracle, and I know that God orchestrated a Divine Healing for me. I also know that my subconscious mind planned it for ...
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Is Your Perfectionism Screwing up your Budget? Here's how to Step into Success Slowly and Simply
Perfectionists have impossibly high standards. And impossibly high standards make things impossible, setting up a never ending cycle of procrastination, overwhelm and discouragement. With finances, it usually starts with some “expert” advice. For instance, financial experts say that we should save 20-40% of our income. They will tell us how much to budget for a clothing allowance. They’ll give us a surefire way to pay off our debt. Now, these are all great goals. They look great on paper, and they work well for some people.
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Creating Balance with just Two Steps
Have I mentioned that I used to be a dance teacher? Balance was a physical quality back then. Something that all the dancers strived for. Some days it was elusive and their performance would be off the entire class. Other days they felt strong, their steps were clear and precise, and they felt anchored to the Earth. As a life coach, I still haven’t gotten away from balance. So many of my clients -- especially the women -- want balance in their lives. The start feeling frazzled and overwhelmed and balance seems to be the elusive answer.
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"3 Ways to Fulfill Your Hearts Yearning"
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Awaken Your Rock Start Performer? Qualities to Peak Performance and Success
Are You a Rock Star Performer? Regardless of the industry you are in, you can have Rock Star Power! Now, I'm not talking the Hollywood celebrity kind, I'm referring to the people who tend to give extraordinary service with their work and with those around them. You influence, you love what you are doing, and it radiates out from you. You are the kind of person that does more than expected; you are likeable and people want to be around you. Do you have Rock Star Power? I'd be interested to hear what your immediate response was.
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Buffet Time Management
You can usually spot a highly creative person because they are usually starting too many projects at once or often paralysed. Time management frequently bedevils creative types. Whether it’s keeping focused on projects or just getting the stuff of life done, a bubbling cauldron of chaos is usually close at hand. Being creative myself, I’ve struggled with my own three-headed hydra: disorganization, distraction and bedlam. I’ve spent entire days wandering down blind alleys, doing things I really don’t have to do, goofing off and generally being unproductive.
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Back to Basics
Allstate -yes the insurance company - started in 1931. It was the depression, not exactly the best time to be starting a new business. Since then, the company has gone through 12 recessions. Their view was, keep it simple, serve people and look at the basics to running a business. The message from Allstate was, when people get over the fear of the situation, and the magnitude of the effect, they tend to go back to the basics as well.
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How to Be Unstoppable: 5 Steps to Becoming Your Unstoppable Self!
What image comes to mind when you think of an unstoppable person? Is it someone who’s untouchable; maybe it’s someone who’s sitting on top of the world without a care in the world; someone who’s not plagued with procrastination issues; or maybe even an super accomplished superhero in the sky with a “U” on their chest. Being unstoppable is not an unreachable state. But it does require you to build certain qualities, take one step at a time, and be willing to accomplish the goal despite of challenges, delays or detours in life.
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Three Essential Ingredients for Business Success and Growth
When I switched from educator to entrepreneur I quickly realized that I had to grow rapidly. I had so much to learn if I wanted to be successful in my new coaching business. For starters, I needed to get over my fear of public speaking; learn how to market my business and figure out how to build a referral network. Growth is inevitable and essential in today’s world where things are changing and moving faster than ever. We have a never-ending demand on our time and energy to learn more, be more and do more.
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Emotional Attaching
Many years ago I was crying on the shoulder of one of my dear, wise friends about... what else... a man I'd been dating who'd done me wrong. She let me go on for a while as I told her in graphic detail about this latest in his history of being a rat. And I reminded her of several instances in the past when he'd exhibited his ability to be a complete you-know-what. After I'd described, with great emotion, six or ten of these incidents, she held up her hand to stop me.
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Your Body, the Living Oracle
Your body is a phenomenal piece of work. Not only does it carry you through your days in this world, it has functions that you rarely think about or perhaps don't even know about. Your Body, the Living Pendulum For example, did you know that you can use your body as a pendulum? Not only is it easy and simple to do, it's quite accurate. Here's how you do it: 1. Put your feet together. This is to give you a less stable base. You want your body to be able to easily and freely move back and forth. 2. Ask your question or state a choice you're considering.r
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The Goldilocks Syndrome
The Goldilocks Syndrome Definition: An extreme sense of entitlement. Expectation of Manna falling from heaven without acknowledgment or gratitude. Named for the ungrateful character in Goldilocks and the Three Bears.CIMG2448 Twenty years ago, when my three year old daughter christened our tortoise Goldilocks, I always thought it was a very odd name for a beast with no visible hair on her gnarly body, blonde or not.
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Yoga and Surfing - Soul Mates
The first time I ever paddle out on my board and sat waiting 15 minutes for a wave to come along, I knew I had found a place of peace, tranquillity, healing and oneness, just like I experience when practising yoga. Nothing else exists when I’m in that place. It is if I’ve made a special agreement with the ocean that I have permission to let go of everything and just be with this dynamic force of nature.
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Going Organic - The Easy Way
Have you ever wondered if you should buy into the organic way of life. After reading Beth Greer's Super Natural Home; finding out that the author had escaped a major operation to her neck and shoulder where a lump had grown, I decided to investigate further. The author avoided surgery after going to a retreat to think over her prognosis. During this retreat, she was introduce alte ative ways of living and she started eating organic foods. Within a month the lump was gone. This is the lump that three doctors had no other solutions for but to operate.
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Are you ‘you’, or the ‘you’ you have chosen to be?
Yes. You are right. This IS an oratory challenge with some mind gym thrown in as well. So for your final (gym) repetition, I challenge you to reread the heading, but this time inserting ‘me and I’. It now reads…“Am I ‘me’, or the ‘me’ I have chosen to be?” Still feel like your head is in the clothes dryer? Then let’s add some new words to the statement so you can see where this is really heading. Am I ‘me’, or the ‘me’ I have chosen and accepted that I need to be (in order to feel safe, loved, accepted, or significant)?
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7 Ways Your Words Sabotage Your Business Growth and Relationships
The growth and success of your business depends on building trusting relationships with other people. Ask yourself this one simple question: Do my words pull people towards me or push them away? This question requires a willingness on your part to honestly evaluate how you use your words and to what degree they build trust and respect. I warn you that what you discover may sting a bit.
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How to Identify the Saboteurs that Limit Your Success
While at a fund-raising event for "at-risk" students, I was captivated by a youth who had tattoed the phrase, "I am my worst enemy," across his chest. I struck up a conversation and discovered that he had already learned this vital lesson: Your mind can be your best friend or your worst enemy. He had decided to literally and forever etch it into his life to keep the lesson fresh and ever present.
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How to Overcome Insomina
Insomnia is an inability to sleep, not depending upon the number of hours which you sleep, but on the quality of your sleep and also on how you feel after you have woken. So, even if you are sleeping those ideal eight hours during the night and feel tired after the slumber, you may be experiencing insomnia. Most of the time people suffering from insomnia yield to medication as it provides fast results and is convenient. However, medicines can become addictive and a point is reached when you cannot do without them.
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Adding Joy To Your Holiday
Though the holiday season is thought to be a joyous time by all, many find the time betwee Thanksgiving and Christmas to be stressful and emotional. As a helping professional, I have observed the approaching holiday season as both a joyous time, as well as a time filled with heartache and family conflict. The holidays often surface emotions from the past with greater intensity. Unresolved conflict, hurt, and past regrets are heightened with the approaching end of the New Year.
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Stuck in Rut? Need a Change? Try Working With A Life Coach
If you are looking for support in order to achieve your goals, a life coach is the best option. He will mentor you and show you the right path. Are you pondering on any of the following points as we fast approach 2010? * My plans never ever come to fruition * My brain generates wonderful ideas but I am unable to take action * Though I know my goals in life, I don't know how to achieve them * I am unable to find time for things that I sincerely desire to do Now, stop procrastinating and start creating a plan to reach your goals.
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Mindset Shift - Promises versus Goals? How To Succeed and Transform
"Sometimes it takes a lot of courage to keep a promise." We must have written or set goals for a number of things in our lives, but how many times have we been able to actually follow through them, only to nod our heads in sadness for not accomplishing them. According to the basic human psychology, when we set goals, we subconsciously forego them because we are not committed to them. On the other hand, we make promises to keep them, mostly because failing a promise may lead to bigger embarrassments.
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The Five Most Common Mistakes in Parenting Teenagers
I have three teenagers and I have made all these mistakes. My eldest daughter does not want to tell me where she goes. I have to call her cell phone and drive around like a detective to figure out where she might have been. It was like a nightmare. I cannot get my son to stop playing computer even when his O-level examination is less than two months' away. My relationship and communication is thrown out of the window. These are the mistakes I made. Listening to other parents with teenagers I realised these are the most common mistakes many parents with teenagers made.
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Parenting Teenagers - How to Have Respectful Teenagers
Most working parents find being calm and peaceful a challenging feat. Unless, you are living your passion, enjoying your work and it does not feel like work to you. Otherwise, going to work becomes a chore. You dread to go to work. You come home stressed and tired. Do you think you could talk calmly to your teenagers? Do you think you could show respect to them? If you are looking or expecting for respect from your teenagers, you have got to first respect them. This is a time where they watch you like a hawk.
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5 Love Languages of Teenagers - How to Find Out Your Teenagers Primary Love Language
These are the 5 love languages of teenagers written by Gary Chapman. Thanks to him that I became more observant of my teenagers' behaviours. 1. Affirmations 2. Physical Touch 3. Quality Time 4. Acts of Service 5. Gifts Driving your children from one place to another is an act of service. A great opportunity to have a dialogue. Even if it is only for 10 minutes. You will be surprised that you understand your child better. No distraction unless you are listening to the radio. Switch it off and the silence is golden.
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How to Let Go of Worry and Fear
Worrying occurs when you allow your fear based beliefs to spiral out of control. Next, one fearful thought has escalated into a large number of thoughts that will have you believe something terrible is about to happen to you. If you are anything like me, then you have done your fair share of worrying. I’ve had times when I would worry about almost everything, as if all events were somehow under my control. Later in my life I noticed that worry was a big waste of my time and energy. Soon after, I began researching and implementing new ways to manage my worry.
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An Essential Tip for Maintaining Great Relationships
Before I started writing this short article, I paused to consider just how much of my personal and even business relationship building I was doing old school, face-to-face, person-to-person. I was pretty shocked when I realised just how much of my communication is via email, instant messaging, Skype, text messaging and telephone calls on my mobile phone. At a rough guess, I figure at least 80% of my communication is not face-to-face. How does your communication percentage look?
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Learn how to ‘Unfriend’ negative emotions before they take up residence
5 Simple Steps to stopping Negative Emotions before they get out of control. Obviously the question is not a question, but an obvious – “Of course I would and now tell me HOW!!” To the right is a simple 5 Step Strategy for how to take an emotion that is starting to rear its ugly head, and put a lid on it before it gets out of control. The reason why we want to stop this, apart from the obvious, is that when our negative emotions take over, they hijack our brain and ability to use it most effectively. They sort of make us a little dumber! Not where we want to be.
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The matrimony betwee Money and Happiness
Talk about a loaded topic. But what the heck it is a topic that is one of the top three issues I deal with, when working with any new client. MONEY. MONEY. MONEY. A pretty big 5-letter word that is interwoven into our identity, self-worth, belief systems, and our short and long-term happiness. So what are the experts telling us?
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‘Simple is as Simple Does’ Forrest Gump
Simplifying Your Life to Increase Your Happiness. I have been doing a lot of reading of late on neuroscience and brain functioning, which are fascinating subjects as I am sure you are thinking as you read this ;-) . One of the things I have been particularly interested in is what over-stimulates the mind and what are some of the things we can do to slow things down a bit and bring more peace and harmony into our lives. I am not sure about you, but I love a bit of peace and harmony in my daily life.
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The Skinny on Milk. Is milk a ‘health’ food?
I was recently on a Facebook page for Personal Fitness Trainers and the question came up “What are your REAL THOUGHTS about MILK?” and it turned into a slugging match, which eventually lead into name calling and character assassination. It is a very emotional subject as nutritional preferences are closely linked to core beliefs, personal identity, and group identity (which ‘group’ you belong to).
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Reboot Your Emotional State after a sh#tty day in only 15 minutes
Here’s the scenario. Through the course of a day you just can’t get into it. You labour through the day. You get a bit of stuff done but the feeling you have as you come towards the end of it is that life sucks a little bit. You are not all doom and gloom but you do feel pretty average, pretty overwhelmed and pretty much like you had a very uninspiring and unproductive day. Before you fall asleep, you just hope that tomorrow is going to be better. In fact, not just better, but bucket-loads better. And then tomorrow comes and…
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Are you Trading your Intuition for Information?
I had to share this inspiring conversatio I had with my business girlfriend, sister in success and mentor- L. Denise Jackson. We were pretty excited about upcoming events and projects we were working on and a topic close to my heart came up. Women who are freaking GENIUSES but don't implement what they know because they think they don't know enough. If you talk to one of these women you would think that she was the greatest gift to human kind, she could certainly find the remedy for somebody's issue.
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A Model for Success
If you're looking for the ultimate model or surefire system for success, you will be disappointed. It's like trying to achieve the impossible task of building the perfect house to meet everyone's needs and personalities. The good news is that much like the solid architectural requirements for homes, there are countless and diverse principles for success from which to build your customized action plan for success. Below is a menu of highly effective success strategies that can be applied to your situation and your goals. SUCCESS STRATEGY A:
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Feeling More Energy and Looking Good
Look after your entire body in addition to caring for the body is the most essential thing you could do for you. A finely tuned and properly managed body is important for two reasons: I. It encourages a sense of well-being as well as overall health. II. It appears good to yourself as well as others too. All the visible aspects of the entire body – your skin, your hair, eyes, hands and fingers, and also teeth – and also your overall body shape, are effective reflectors of how healthy you might be. Nevertheless they don’t, typically, care for themselves.
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Don't Worry about Your Fear
Stressing happens once you allow fear centered thoughts spiral out of control. Next thing you realize, one scared thought has escalated into a multitude of thoughts that have you thinking that something bad is likely to happen to you. In case you are just like me, you then have done your own fair share of being anxious. I’ve experienced instances when I would likely keep worrying about almost anything, as though just about all circumstances were some how under my influence.
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Keep Your feet on the Ground by Staying Grounded
Do you ever have trouble keeping present in the physical world or does your head roam aimlessly? When an electrician wires a building for electricity they must ground the system to protect it from an improper movement of electricity. A grounding rod is placed outside into the earth to reduce the buildup of static electricity. This leads to a static discharge.
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How to Deal With the Ego
The ego is a part of one’s emotional layout whose prime responsibility is to safeguard the self. The ego is not real in physical terms, which means that you can’t taste, touch or smell it, however it still perseveres. The ego is not good or bad, it really is only a survival system existent within you to ensure you stay safe and protected through your lifetime. Whenever a baby or young child is not getting its needs fulfilled it would cry, protest, or have a temper-tantrum.
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The Secret To Being Unstoppable
We were not designed knowing how to be in the Now. After we outgrew the relatively simple delight of just being a little child, we forgot what genuine happiness is; and our mother and father are unable to instruct us the best way to reinstate that valuable sort of self-sufficiency, because they equally had fallen asleep to its presence within them. And then, evidently, we were by no means educated regarding this in school.
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Losing Your Job - Some How To Deal With Stress Tips
Life Playground Newsletter - September 2009 Greetings Playgrounders.... Spring is in the air, for those of us that live in the southern hemisphere, that is and it is time for excitement, birth, renewal and for some of us out there... a time to be made redundant or get laid off!! Two of my clients got asked to leave their jobs over the last couple of weeks. One of them had a great payout and now has the time to think about what he wants to do with his life.
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Who are your principle advisors?
Now let me just say up front that I am bound to annoy your friends, parents, brothers, sisters, aunties and uncles with this short article; but what the heck. I have been bugging my own friends, parents, brother, sister, aunties and uncles for about 40 years now; so at least you could never say that I discriminate! Actually here is the lesson (before the first lesson): turn everything around (like above) so all you get, and give yourself, are compliments. This is actually the 5th time I have started this paragraph because I can’t think of a nicer way to say what I am about to say.
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Choosing Relationships
I asked myself a question the other day. Which is the harder relationship to manage; intimate relationships or business relationships? Are all relationships essentially the same thing or ‘same same but different’?
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Coping With Change
Life-changing events can send a jolt through your well-being, creating a state of unbalance and stress. A major change in your life such as the death of a loved one, losing your job, a divorce, or a major financial change can pull the rug right out from under you, leaving you facing in a ...
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Living a Complete Life When You Are Sensitive
One day on the way back from visiting some friends out of town, I turned on my favorite radio station. Like every Sunday it was playing a play list; nobody was talking. After a while I noticed that although I was listening to music I really love and that usually stirs up emotions, this time I ...
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Life Coaches Make Life Easier: Retrain Your Brain to Avoid Emotional Hijacks
Why hire a Fearless Living Life Coach? Because we make life easier. Back in the old caveman days, there wasn’t much stress beyond basic survival. For survival, primitive humans relied on their amygdala. This primal part of the brain thinks in black-and-white; either the caveman was safe or in ...
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3 Simple Tools to Make Yourself Happier
For many people life is a burden, a big effort, every day and every moment they have to prove their value, well not just their value, rather their right to exist. It is not so much the experience and the knowledge from living that lead them to this situation. It’s rather an unconscious way of ...
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How to Be Positive - Stay Away from Negative People
Today is a good reflection of how far I have come from negative thinking to positive thinking and positive actions. I was coaching a client who is processing her breakdowns in a stuck state, the feeling of confusion whether the forward actions is going to create the result she wanted. It ...
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Secrets to Successful Parent and Teen Relationships
Even as a Life Coach, I have my challenges with my three teens. Talking and having regular conversations is the key element for successful parenting. Just this morning when I had the same stuck state with my youngest daughter now 14. I tried to stay as calm as I can. I was grieving how I got ...
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Success Boosters and Busters for Entrepreneurs
I am always on the hunt for powerful strategies for success and I have found some of the best success tips in the strangest places. I recently discovered three tips while watching the auditions for the television program, So You Think You Can Dance. I saw that those who dared to dream, set ...
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Being Highly Sensitive and being “Special”
In 1996 Elaine Aron created the term “Highly Sensitive Person” or HSP to describe and study a big part of the population (and also higher animals) that has different ways to deal with stimuli, information, thoughts and emotions. This term is neither metaphysical nor spiritual, is very practical and very scientific and has to do with psychology.
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5 Steps To Goal Completion and Achievement
The Importance of Taking Action No Matter What - Just Do It Its been a while since I wrote. Hope all is wonderfully in your world. As we enter the last quarter of the year, thought it was time for an email and some sharing. Lately I've noticed that people are already saying things like "Leave it to next year", "Tomorrow", etc and I want to say today is, please don't wait! Tomorrow Never Comesr There is no truer statement than tomorrow never comes (aside from "we all pay taxes!"). You can't plan to be happy tomorrow, that's in your power to decide right here, right now.
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Who checks Facebook before you get out of bed?
Hey Friends, Wanted to send out some thoughts on achieving what you set out to do daily. With everything at a fingers touch or click away, I found that every now and then we can easily lose focus on what we need to complete that day (myself included!). The result of losing focus is that the day flies by and you still have tons to do on your list.
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How to Survive the Emotional Baggage of the Holidays
The holidays can be the most stressful time of year. There is travel, family, friends, presents, decorations, work deadlines, too much food, and not enough time! This year we have the added pressure of an economic crisis. All the while, TV keeps telling us that this is “the most wonderful ...
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Making New Years' Resolutions That Stick
Making New Years’ Resolutions That Stick “This year, I resolve to make more time for myself in my schedule.” Sound familiar? Every year we make New Years’ resolutions with the idea that we will make ourselves into better people if we just make a resolution. If we could ...
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Self-Love and Seeing the Real You (in Just Two Steps)
How often do you see the real you? Over the past week I spent four nights in LA, one night at my home in Wisconsin, and then two nights in Indianapolis. Each place had a bathroom and each bathroom had a mirror. In the Los Angeles mirror, I looked like a zombie who had the immediate need or a ...
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Book Review: Being Genuine
Thomas D’Ansembourg, Puddle Dancer Press, 2007 Being Genuine is simply stated, one of the best books I have read all year. It very clearly and effectively conveys a process for communicating with others in a genuine and non-judgmental way. Thomas D’Ansembourg is a student of ...
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Step into Your Goals: Momentum=Success+Acknowledgments
Most New Year’s resolutions fail within the first few weeks. How are you doing? Or do you skip making resolutions altogether, because you're afraid of failure? Real, sustained change can be a challenge. Many of us start with a vision that ignites us. That momentum carries us for a little ...
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Don’t Give up on 2009, You’re Just Getting Started
You begin each year with the boldest and sincerest of intentions. You set goals and get excited about the possibilities that lay before you. However, as most of you know, it doesn’t take long for doubt and frustration to seep in. You may be overwhelmed by the ever growing list of things that ...
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Life Coaching for Anyone Who is Open, Honest and Willing to Explore Their Potential
Life coaching for anyone who is open, honest and willing to explore their potentials. Life Coaching for anyone who is open, honest and willing to explore their potentials. A Jou ey of Self discovery to Self LovenI guess it is divine timing that I am writing these articles to share with you ...
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Flying High
There are times in life when things seem challenging and you have to use so many tools to get yourself on track. And then, there are times when you know you are doing great: you’ve set goals, visioned the ideal outcome, organized your actions, and are taking major steps in the direction you ...
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Embracing Change
Over the past six months, my life has changed in leaps and bounds. I got married, got pregnant, and moved out of a small NYC apartment into a four bedroom house on ¾ an acre of land in North Carolina. I am loving every minute of it! Meanwhile, I have some good friends who have wanted to move ...
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Can You Accept it Again?
"Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart." ~ Marcus Aelius Aurelius Acceptance, especially self acceptance, is one of the most profound ways to unshackle old, destructive thinking that holds you back from a ...
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Being Your Own Boss: What Kind of Boss are You?
There is a distinct pleasure in getting to say, “I am my own boss.” There is no one else to tell you what to do, when to do it, or how. Being a small business owner or solo entrepreneur, you get to call all the shots. All this power can cause you to puff out your chest, stand tall and proud, ...
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Relationships: 7 Steps to Building Intimacy
Maybe you’ve been with each other for some time and feel your relationship is not the same anymore! You feel you’re on different wavelengths! You really want the relationship to last yet you’re not sure how to bridge the gap between you and your partner so you can create the intimacy, passion, ...
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A Jou ey of Self Discovery to Self Love: Day 2
Did you get to jou al what you really really want in life? It would be easier if we break it down into different areas of your life. Did you write something about what you really want: In the area of work In the area of your income In the area of relationship In the area of your family In ...
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The Art of Mindfully Changing Your Luck
Are you lucky? Or do you ever think to yourself: that’s just how it is; I live under a dark cloud; it never comes easy; this always happens to me; it’s just been one of those days; life’s hard. Studies show that 10% of our lives is completely random. The other 90%, according to psychologist ...
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What Keeps You Up at Night? Middle-of-the-Night Techniques to Create Success
I’m posing this questions, as I sit here at 1:00am, to bring some thoughts into form. What does keep you up at night? For most, stress is the big factor. Stress about work, finances, relationships, family, what do I do with my life now. Any of this hitting home? We fight to stay in bed and ...
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Yes, Oprah, Today’s Moms Have Unrealistic Expectations. Now Here’s What They Can Do About It!
"We hear from mothers all the time who say they feel alone. They feel overwhelmed; they feel sometimes inadequate. And you say you're afraid to admit the truth for fear of being judged," Oprah said on her April 6 show The Secret Lives of Moms. The show goes on to reveal that the one universal ...
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This is Your Brain on Fear
This article is excerpted from the brand new online workshop for my book, An Inner Jou ey: Living Your Life Purpose. Enjoy! This Is Your Brain on Fear There is a part of your brain that exists solely for your physical survival. It's called the "reptilian" brain because it's been with us for ...
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Healing Your Life
Do you feel a compulsion to act in a certain way? Do you abuse food, cigarettes, drugs, or alcohol? Do you feel depressed, down, low on energy? Do you have a constant struggle with your health? Most people would choose to improve their lives, improve their health, improve their abundance ...
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Releasing Fear, Phobias, And Aversions
n“So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself -- nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.” Franklin D. Roosevelt First Inaugural Address March 4, 1933 What are ...
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What Is Stopping Me From Being Organized?
Do you feel stuck? Do you panic at the thought of anyone touching your things? Do you have piles of paper, and “stuff” that you never touch? Is the thought of getting things organized putting you into an anxiety attack? Do people offer to help you get cleaned up and organized ...
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Why Should I Take An Energy Healing Class?
Have you ever wanted a little magic in your life? Have you wondered how you can help yourself or your family feel better in between doctor’s visits? Have you wanted to have more personal power in your life? Energy healing is taught in many different forms. Over the many years in my ...
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When You Want To Help After A Natural Or Manmade Disaster
Sensitive people often feel led to DO SOMETHING when they hear of a plane crash, an earthquake, a terrorist attack, the extensive wildfires, or even families devastated by war. Good for you that you are interested in helping the families after the difficult circumstances that you heard about ...
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Deep Coaching: A Guide To Self Directed Living - Preview
Table of Contents Symbols iv Table of Contents vnPrologue vi 1. Harnessing The Power of Change 1 2. Self Assessment 15 3. Creating Your Vision 38 4. Charting Your Path 64 5. The Jou ey Begins 76 6. Motivation – Keeping Your Edge 105 7. Checking In 119 8. The Jou ey's End 132 Appendix A ...
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Self-Esteem And Confidence - Reinventing Yourself Through Inner Strength
We have all felt those moments when we doubt ourselves, usually when someone has made a judgement about what we have done or said. We have all felt rejection. We have all been made fun of - the focus of some ridiculous comment, joke or situation. When that happens, what goes through your mind? ...
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Ready for Change?
Time to Changer Consider when you really want something that was tantalising out of your reach. Perhaps as a child there was a special toy you wanted for your birthday, a new bicycle maybe; perhaps you wanted to learn to ride a bicycle. As an adult has there has been a time when you really wanted something expensive that was just outside of your budget – a designer handbag, a new car? How did you work to get those things? As a child you may have used all your parental pester power, perhaps you saved your pocket money and did extra chores to earn the reward.
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Yes, But...
The New Year is normally associated with new resolutions and optimistic thoughts of positive life changes. It is a time when we take stock of our lives and look to the past to see where we have some from and look to the future to see where we want to go. However as you will know sticking to New Year’s resolutions is not easy and requires continuing motivation and tenacity to succeed; something that seems to dry up quite quickly hence the need to start all over again the next year. So what happens? Why do we fail in our attempts to change our life so often before we really start?
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How To Be Happy Being You
Personal Acceptance What does acceptance mean to you – being resigned to something or finding peace within ourselves by ‘going with the flow’? When we accept something we take it at face value without question. Acceptance of others and our lives can be very difficult. We don’t like the way other people behave, we may not like the way we are, physically or mentally. The idea of acceptance being resignation to your lot seems to contradict a lot of what we try to achieve through self development and personal coaching.
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Creating Your Ideal Relationship
Ahhh, February! The time of year when shiny, red hearts appear in store windows, and cupid smiles down at you while you eat an egg and cheese sandwich at your local coffee shop. Every where you look, there’s chocolate and flowers, champagne and strawberries, diamonds and lingerie, even ...
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I'm Good Enough, Smart Enough, And Gosh Darn It...
What are affirmations? Affirmations, as we are referring to them here, are statements of the possible positive present. Yes, fears, doubts, and imperfections may also exist, but when declaring an affirmation, you are choosing the positive perspective. Since history shows us that “where ...
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Personal Peace
What image or thoughts does the idea of peace bring up for your? First thoughts of peace are of quiet, calm serenity. For most of us with our modern busy lifestyles it may well be a rare thing. A nice relax in the bath, a pleasant walk on an spring day or a day out somewhere with a friend all contribute towards giving you some peace. Taking the concept of peace deeper makes us think of a time without strife, arguments or fighting. The ideal of people living together in harmony and showing respect and dignity towards each other also comes to mind.
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Responsibility: Over To You
The idea of being responsible often conjures up images of dull but sensible people, of commitment, ties to others and being boring, lacking spontaneity, being weighed down and generally other views around lack of freedom. For some the idea of responsibility rings alarm bells and sends them running, others feel it as a shackle that ties them down and some people just never seem to accpet it. To have responsibility according to the dictionary "is to be responsible", which is further defined as "liable to be called to account, morally accountable for actions".
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Tips For Parents Of Teens
Just when you got the parenting thing down, your child goes to sleep one night and wakes up an adolescent. Adolescence seems to happen ove ight, bursting at the seems with emotions, drama, power struggles, and turmoil. A rebalancing act within the family structure to accommodate a budding adult ...
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Living A Balanced Life
Would you like to live fully with vitality, health, and prosperity? The secret to living a content, happy, and productive life is finding balance. Realizing the state of being balanced includes emotional stability, physical strength, spiritual harmony, and the means to decide. The decision to ...
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Stress Reduction Made Simple
Stress: “A physical, chemical, or emotional factor that causes bodily or mental tension and may be a factor in disease causation.” (Webster’s Dictionary) Reduce: syn: DECREASE, CONQUER Stress Reduction relies on the individual’s ability to remain or return to a state of balance. The ...
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Communications & Relationships
With all my five years of learning about self development, simply put, it is all about our communications and relationships. Think about it, isn’t it all about our daily communications and our relationships with our boss, colleagues, subordinates, friends, spouse and children and parents? ...
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A Little Self-Care Goes A Long Way
Spring is a great time to focus on well being and self-care. What have you done for yourself over the winter? (Besides loving every minute of those comfort foods!) Well being means supporting yourself physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. It's time to release old energy and make ...
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Acknowledgments Are Simple Acts Of Inspiration
What inspires you...a smile from a stranger, watching someone being kind to another person, a co-worker receiving accolades for a project well done, or a parent giving their child hugs and kisses just because. Acknowledgements are fuel for empowerment! How do you feel when someone ...
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Giving Your Fears Time Off
Facing your fears can make you stronger. What about this statement is true for you? When you have faced a fear, how did you feel? Looking deeper into what you fear and working passed that fear may bring about tremendous shifts in you. We have a tendency to let fear grip us and sometimes ...
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Create And Use 10 New Habits
Creating this new daily routine will keep you focused, clear, balanced and motivated to move forward. These are things you do each day, which will support a positive change in your behavior and lay a foundation for fundamental shifts that will greatly improve your life. Key Points · n· Only ...
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40 Winks To Clarity And To A Better You
On March 16, 2008, 60 Minutes ran a segment on sleep call The Science of Sleep; it explains what can happen if we don’t get enough. This really made me think. In our lives, we focus on our careers, our families and our many endeavors first. We realize that we put ourselves last. We know we need ...
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It's Your Life, How Do You Want To Live It?
Your life is moving at a remarkably fast pace. You get up, get ready and start your day. Are you out the door, bracing for rush-hour traffic, heading to work? Are you rushing to get the kids ready, lunches and backpacks packed, and off to school? Have you been up for the midnight, 2am and 4 am ...
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Mindful Doing
Here's something to contemplate - like I haven't given you enough to think about! How do you move through your life? Do you do each activity that arises just to get done, without really thinking about it. You have things you want to do, but do you become really present in the process? I have ...
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Chance, Luck and Opportunities
The dictionary defines luck as "(chance as bestower of) good or ill fortune, fortuituous events affecting one's interests, person's apparent tendency to be (un)fortunate". "Phew," some of you will sigh with relief..."it's not my fault that I'm unlucky then, its all down to chance!" Well, let’s consider what chance is first.
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Whats The Point Of Gratitude?
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Do You Talk a Good Talk?
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Ladies, Empower Yourselves and Become Wealth Creators
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Have you Forgotten Your Dreams
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Sensitivity is Power
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Fear and Control
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Making A Positive Change - Why Resistance Is Part Of The Process
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Breaking the Habits that Hold You Back
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Hello! Are You Listening To Your Life?
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V Is for Victor
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Acceptance
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Getting Clear
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Wake-Up Call: It's Time To Change
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Ten Tips On Living In the Present Moment
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Harmony Through Conflict
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When Friends Die
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Make a Difference Day?
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Coaching: 5 Limiting Habits that block you from success
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Leadership: Passion and Balance
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Creating A Soulful Life
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Men: Sex, Trauma, and Embodiment
Over the past 20 years plus I've work with thousands of men. Over these years men have confided in me about the traumas they experienced, the addictive behaviors they engaged in to numb these traumatic experiences, and the sex they dived into to escape their fears around intimacy and trust. Many of these same men, like myself, were running away and simultaneously attempting to gain 'control' over their lives.
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Passion In ACTION...
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I had been thinking about writing for a while, however, it wasn’t until I discovered a true purpose for my writing, that I was able to really take action in bringing these words to you. I have always known deep down, that when I speak from the heart, the words seem to flow magically, like a ...
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Boiled Egg Memories
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Obesity - What is the Answer?
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Motivation Never Lasts: 5 Questions to Change Your Life
I do enjoy motivational speakers. Their words act as a blast of positive energy but just as the perk of coffee fades and the charge of a Red Bull diminishes, so does motivation. Somewhere along the way, we must find motivation from the inside out. Yes, it is great to have reminders but when all that reminds us is from the outside, we feel we are on a long deserted highway and our fuel tank is on "E". We are praying that we will find a gas station before we run out of gas. I often get labeled as a Motivational Speaker- nothing could be further than the truth.
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Finding Clarity - Dealing With An Addicted Loved One
It was 15 years ago and my life was different. Growing up I didn't plan on being a drug addict. I came from a good family, parents who loved each other and their kids. As a matter of fact this year they are celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary. All the love and good upbringing didn't matter as my dreams were replaced with a constant pain that could only be numbed by a drink or a drug. I woke everyday with the thought that this day was going to be my final day of using and ended each night chasing my high. Rock bottoms were replaced by a lower low. And this was my life for 8 years.
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Loving and Living at Our Greatest Depth
It just feels safe. We just seek protection. Our intention is not to hurt anymore, almost at any cost. The feelings of pain, disappointment, unanswered questions all weigh upon us and we must seek relief. As a defense mechanism or a survival skill we cut ourselves off from the pain's source. We choose to disconnect from the depth of our pain so we can manage ourselves through life. Time passes and wounds heal. The sting fades and ability to function returns. We have seemingly been able to return to the routine of life but something is different.
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I only have to look at a Hershey bar ........
I only have to look at a Hershey bar ….. People who say, “ I can eat anything I want and I never put on any weight” are right aren’t they? So are those who say, “I only have to look at a Hershey bar and I gain pounds!” What is it that you are saying about your body and the way you look? The beliefs we have about ourselves are so powerful that they can actually shape our reality.
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Breathwork, Embodiment & Male Sexuality
Many men, if not most men, have been trained to follow a definite stereotypical archetype as we progress through childhood into young adulthood. We are taught to embrace a 'hero/warrior' style of life. "Chest out, stomach in, shoulders back" way of moving through our world. It's an unnatural way for men despite the recent imposition of it upon us. By embracing it we lose contact with our natural way of breathing, our natural instincts of compassion and service and intimacy, and become the 'heros/warriors' that we think is the natural way for us.
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CAN YOU TRUST HIM?
Trust is vital in a good relationship, and of all the ingredients that create a really good relationship, trust is a biggie. How much should you trust? How soon should you give this trust? Are you jaded by some past jerk that lied to you or cheated on you? You don’t want to judge someone by another’s bad behavior, but.................... There are many men out there who have roving eyes and many who have roving bodies, you need to realize that every man is not a stinker. We have to get over our hurt and be open to new love. Don’t punish a new guy for the actions of a past guy.
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HOW TO USE THE UNIVERSAL ENERGY
From all I have read and envisioned, there is a Universal energy from which all things are made. This energy fills the entire universe. When you form a thought in your head, you tap into this energy, and you actually can create that which you are thinking about. We all have the ability to create a thought and actually cause the subject of the thought to be created. To activate this ability, we must learn to harness our creative mind. Typically, we function with our everyday competitive or conscious mind.
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How To Get What You Want Out of Life
We all have adversity at times in our lives. The thing is to face it, deal with it, then let it go. If you can fight off depression and any feelings of discouragement that can emerge in life, you will have a much better chance at attaining your goals. Yes, it takes hard work, discipline, dedication, a true desire, a lot of help and some luck to reach the top, but a willingness to overcome adversity is most important. Aim high! Don't be afraid to set big goals in life. To be successful, you have to be able to see success ahead of you.
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I only have to look at a Hershey bar ….. People who say, “ I can eat anything I want and I never put on any weight” are right aren’t they? So are those who say, “I only have to look at a Hershey bar and I gain pounds!” What is it that you are saying about your body and the way you look? The beliefs we have about ourselves are so powerful that they can actually shape our reality.
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Unleash The Inner Flea In You: Tapping Into Your True Potential
In the late 1800's a popular attraction was a Flea Circus. "Trained Fleas" were kept in a cigar box. When the lid would open, the fleas would jump in the box. So what do you have in common with an ordinary flea? The interesting fact about the fleas in the flea circus is that they never jump out of the box. They would only jump the height of the cigar box even though they had the potential to jump 8 to 10 inches. They were trained by keeping the lid on the cigar box for a long time. They would jump up, hit the lid and bounce down.
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Embodying My Sexual Energy
A number of years ago "Jeff" came to me feeling shut down. He was in his early 50s, and felt nothing in his entire pelvic floor and stated he felt his feet were like wood, numb. He also reported feeling very little sensations throughout his body. He was partnered with a man about 20 years younger than himself. There was no sexual life between them. Jeff also was in recovery for over 20 some years. He reported to me that, since he entered recovery, he gradually began to feel numb all over.
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Embodying Your Energy
To embody one's life takes courage and deep breathing. Breathing into your belly = relaxing = full pleasure experiences. Yoga or Buddha breathing, which any vocalist knows well, means to breath into the belly instead of the shallow, militaristic style which most men, at least, have been trained to do. Hence, breathing into our chest simply holds the tension that we want to release in our lives. Breathing into your belly provides much needed oxygen and from there you can spread your energy to every cell, system and organ of your body.
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"Getting" Your Soul Contracts to Start Breaking Through Barriers
Whenever I give a lecture or teach a class – no matter if it’s a class in soul contracts, intuition, animal communication – two of the most common questions I receive are “How do I know what my Soul Contracts are?” and “How can I master my Soul Contracts?” I love these questions as Soul Contracts are my absolute favorite thing to talk about, look at, examine… In my world, they yield as much information as a Numerology or Astrological reading except that they also provide information on how to shift things more positively (numerology and astrology don’t do that yet!)
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America is going through a Job test! So, what is a Job test one might ask? If you read your bible, you will meet a man named Job who was a righteous man but, in one night, he went from being very rich in both earthly and spiritual wealth to having nothing. Why, one might ask, would God allow a man to lose everything an
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You have lost your job and, now, you, as a person, feel lost! Losing a job is like a death whereas, one loses so much more than just an income. One loses security, co-workers who become like one's second family, meaning or purpose for one's life and a lifestyle for work has so much to do with everyday life. Those who a
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When I look at this economic crisis, I see that people are losing the one thing that always made them feel safe and that is their security. One feels secure when they know that, what they have in their possession will not be lost such as their job, their home, their car and their bank account. But, what happens when a
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Candido Trujillo, PhD, LMHC
Peak Performance Coaching, Life Coaching, Personal Counseling Services. I specialize in improving performance, stress management, and anxiety treatment in students, professionals, performing artists, athletes, and writers.
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North Dallas Online Marketing
This site offers internet marking services to local small businesses. Our mission is to create and/or expand online presence for traditional offline businesses.
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LifeSuccess
LifeSuccess coaching and consulting. FREE Mind Over Cancer Teleseminar monthly. Indiviadual and group coaching. FREE consultations.
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Bobbie's Joy, LLC
Open yourself up, remove your blocks and live your life from a place of complete abundance in Every way! This page lists all my favorite and recommended links.
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Cleopatra In Vegas
I am an Intuitive Relationship and Dating Expert specializing in advice that can assist you with your by helping you makeover love life. Therefore, if you are suffering from stagnant emotions in your love life, I can show you how to get results so you can be successful in dating and relationships.
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I AM A COACH CERTAINLY
Website of Life Coach / Nature-Coach Life Coaching, Counseling, Nature Coaching
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David Mashburn, M.Ed. - Pastoral Counseling | Psychospiritual Therapy | Life & Career Coaching
David Mashburn, M.Ed. provides pastoral counseling, psychospiritual therapy, and life & career coaching services by partnering with you in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires maximum personal and professional potential.
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Rawq Your Health
Raw/Vegan lifestyle coaching,raw vegan recipes, easy, step by step program to get you healthier.
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Theta Healing Transformation
Eric Richardson is life coach and facilitator. His website details the services he offers if you wish to experience health, happiness, prosperity, and true connection with others and the Divine.
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Life Coach Capri
Learn to Discover and Reflect your Greatness! Techniques for Personal Development with the ultimate goal of helping you excel in life beyond your current expectations. Resources and private coaching to those desiring special wisdom. Tell me what you want and I can teach you how to get it!
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Greg Clowminzer - LinkedIn
Social networking site for business networking.
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Life Coach Toronto - Guy Reichard
Life coach & executive coach in Toronto helps people dissolve the limits holding them back, while expanding their realm of possibilities and deepening their levels of self trust, courage and commitment to living their best, authentic life. The site/blog is full of info about coaching and personal development concepts.
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Professional Business Coach and Life Coaching | Greg Clowminzer
Finally, A Support System for Mastering the Challenges of Spiritual Awakening, Growing Your Business, and Deepening Your Relationship
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Faith M. Davis, writing for holistic life
I offer copywriting & marketing for the holistic and spiritual industries.
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Coach en Linea
A Coaching Blog in Spanish. Noticias frescas del mundo del Coaching y sus aplicaciones.
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The Quality of Life Advisors Group
We provide premium personal coaching services guiding you in achieving and maintaining your peak levels of performance in all areas of your life. Through the use of concise, practical and highly applicable tools and techniques, we teach our clients how to manifest and maintain their highest quality of life.
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www.unleashyourgeniusnow.com/home
This coaching site is a static that contains the following: opt in page, about page and allows visitors to access blog, free report, coaching information and contact information.
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Warrior Priestess
Kathy Wilson, Warrior Priestess, offers pathways to assist you in spiritual growth and enlightenment. The Interdimensional 12 Strand DNA Activation, Tarot readings, Reiki classes, and spiritual mentoring and coaching, are among the paths you may choose to enhance and expand your spiritual life.
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JJ the Life Coach
JJ Frederickson-CFLC changes lives by making the powerful connection between stress and the caveman brain. She is a life coach and trainer with the Fearless living Institute and one of WTMJ's Life Coaching Expert on Milwaukee's NBC affiliate.
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The Confidence Architect™| Private Practice
Private Practice of V. Ivana Foster, M.Ed, Certified Life Coach specializing in Subconscious Restructuring® and Confidence Coaching for individual, singles, couples and groups.
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Take Life from ordinary to Extraordinary! with Christine
Take Life from ordinary to Extraordinary!
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WorldsBIGGESTGym™ Life Coach Training
The WorldsBIGGESTGym™ Life Coach Training Course in Bali is one of a kind. It is a complete immersion course and has been developed by an expert trainer and strategist to be one of the most complete Life Coach Training Courses on the market.
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Sensitive Coach
Many sensitive people live their life in low self esteem because they were not accepted, especially as children. My job is to help them discover their real value, and empower them to live their lives fully.
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Susan Brown Coaching
Susan Brown Coaching is a website that offers free assessments, free online course, blog, THRIVE formula and life and career coaching services.
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Presenter, Speaker, Life Coach, Executive Coach and Business Start Ups Coaching
Life Playground offers people the opportunity to get become all they want and desire through a program of life skills offered by Janet McNally
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Carl Massy
Author and Life Coach, Carl Massy, provides life changing coaching services either in Bali or remotely, through the amazing Personal Development programs at WorldsBIGGESTGym™.
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BeCa Do Life Coaching
BeCa Do Life Coaching is all about helping you to make the best of your life. Follow the steps described on the site to improve your life or get in touch with Jacky for assisted help.
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Alun Jones - Talking to people... changing the world
Alun is a Change Facilitator... helping people to create and generate the life they know is possible, with ease and joy.
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Make Life Work for You
Find out and work through the information on this site to improve your life for ever.
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Your Stairway to Wealth
Your Stairway to Wealth is about teaching women entrepreneurs how to claim the wealth they want by building their own business with energy and ease and, by sharing their gift with the world they help others. Private Coaching, Group coaching, products, free assessments and 6 lesson ecourse.
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Mindset Coaching is Self Awareness, Self Responsibility & Self Leadership
Mindset Coaching is about shifting your belief; A process of unconditioning, reconditioning and to create a new you which is transformational.
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Step Stones For Life - Life Coaching, Relationship Counseling, Health & Wellness
Discover your path to fulfillment with Step Stones For Life. Improve your relationships, productivity, health, vitality, clarity and personal success with Life Coach Nova Reed.
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Prosper with Purpose: Life reDirection Strategist
Would you love to have your pie and eat it, too? Helping women who want it all do so with more sanity and joy.
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Giant Steps Coaching
Do you need help finding clarity about where you are right now and how you got here? As your Life Coach I help you define and align your beliefs, values and goals and get you moving toward a life that is deeply satisfying and exciting.
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Christine Laureano Coaching
Women Entrepreneurs – Are you tired of feeling like “they” have something you don’t? Taking Your Life from ordinary to Extraordinary Mentor/Coach Christine Laureano collaborates with inspired and motivated women entrepreneurs who are ready to turn their unique talents into GOLD!
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Dr. Sally Witt, Dachshund Rescue of Bucks County (PA) & NJ
Because I am no longer working, I do use some of my day to help with www.doxierescue.com and www.blog.doxierescue.com as their Volunteer Coordinator of Social Media.
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Mazzastick.com
Mazzastick.com is a blog that pertains to personal development, health and nutrition and metaphysical studies.
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Kingsbridge Coaching
At Kingsbridge, we specialize in developing the art of authentic leadership for exceptional, self-directed executives. The men and women we coach are extraordinary; some have the vision of a mystic, others embody the spirit of a warrior, and many bring both talents to their life work. All are authentic leaders.
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Women's Life Transformation System-Fuel your life with Power, Sensuality and Success
Log onto http://www.freaksuccesssystem.com for your FREE Coaching Program "5 Simple Steps to Becoming the Beautiful, Sensual and Successful You-So you can Create your Ideal Life"! FREE
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The Champions Heart
The Champions Heart empowers individuals and organizations around the world to free themselves from the limiting beliefs of their mind, so they can connect deeply to the passion and purpose of their heart.
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WisdomCoaching
Creating the career, the business, and the life you want.
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Jane Saylor, Life Coach
Assisting people in loving life!
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Dr. Kate Siner
Personal Development Mentoring and Programs
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Souls At Play Productions
Souls at Play was created with the intention of assisting individuals achieve what they desire in life. Through collective efforts and creative minds what we aim to accomplish becomes complete. Your passion is your purpose, your sub- purpose is to be healthy and happy and give back to the world with which you live.
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Joyce Dillon
Through customized workshops, seminars and one-on-one coaching, she shares with you how to create extraordinary health and well-being, how to integrate daily mind-body skills to better balance one’s life, and how to simplify daily activities to decrease stress.
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Dr. Kate Siner
Personal Development Mentoring from Ph.D Psychologist
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The Soulful Life
This site, and my business, is dedicated to living life from the perspective of the SOUL rather than the perspective of the physical being.
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How To Recognize Your Soulmate
Site offering books, CDs, dealing with self help relationships and lectures workshops and information to help individuals optimize their potential.
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How To Psyche Your Way To Wealth
psychic site with free self help articles, books and consulting services.
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Coach Curran
An international training and development company that works with individuals and corporations to realiize their full potential
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GetLifeCoaching.com
Visit us online to learn more about Get Life Coaching, view up coming events, read testimonials, register for programs, and request your complimentary coaching session with Joe White.
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Transitio Power
Coaching men who want to embody their sexuality mindfully. I coach men transitioning into their 40s and beyond; men entering midlife. Beliefs, values, self-image shift. This is often confusing, lonely, and intense. I provide a safe space to explore. www.transitionpower.com/blog
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Marketing & Blog Expert
Small Business Coaching For Starting Up A Business:Coach Curran helps small business owners and entrepreneurs boost profits while maintaining a happy and balanced life. Access 7 Free Videos. Act Now!
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Coach Curran's Blog
Health & Wellness Blog
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Habitfixer.com
Habitfixer.com offers help, advice and support to anyone who is wanting to change their habits.
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Danielle MacKinnon
Danielle MacKinnon is an Animal Intuitive and Intuitive Consultant. Her website features podcasts, interviews and tools including free podcasts on developing intuition and spiritual clarity. Sign up for her e-newsletter on her site to receive the latest updates, links, news and information about products.
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Danielle MacKinnon
Danielle MacKinnon is an Animal Intuitive and Intuitive Consultant. Her website features free podcasts, past interviews and tools including her newest products: a downloadable Pet Psychic class as well as various other simple yet entertaining audio programs.
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Danielle MacKinnon
Danielle MacKinnon is an Animal Intuitive and Intuitive Consultant. Her website features free podcasts, interviews and tools including her newest product: a downloadable Pet Psychic class. Sign up for her e-newsletter on her site to receive the latest updates, links, news and information about products.
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The Conscious View TV Show
Our show is designed to experientially demonstrate what is possible when a team of consciously oriented professionals from various areas of life are connected to their truth AND then to each other in a dance of consciousness and personal power.
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Real Coaching Radio-TV Network
RCRN is a multi media social broadcasting network. It features prominent coaches from around the world in seven different disciplines essential for life balance, our segments include: Health, Finances, Relationships, Personal Growth, Environment, Career, Spirituality & a new segment Self-Published Authors.
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New Media Radio-TV
We are "New Media Specialists"-Marketing and Branding Experts, finding creative ways and using creative tools for your content to be easily found, distributed and shared on the Internet.
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You Group Consulting
The Y.O.U. ULTIMATE LIFE TOOL™ "CUTTING EDGE Human Assessment Technology for Creating Perfect Relationships in Business, Home and Life".
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Hope Network
We are an online ministry that provides educational support, hope and healing after trauma and/or crisis.Through our online ministries, we rebuild faith, restore confidence and renew hope after trauma in Jesus Christ.
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Hope Network, Inc.
We are an online ministry that provides educational support, hope and healing to survivors of trauma and/or crisis. Through our online ministries, we rebuild faith, restore confidence and renew hope in Jesus Christ after trauma/crisis.
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