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New View, New You, New Life - by Rob White5 Primal Principles of Communication - by Rob White- Reclaim Your Independence - by Each year we celebrate the 4th of July, Independence Day, in the most magnificent ways! With beautiful parades that involve the whole community, elaborate picnics and amazing fireworks this day has become one of the Nation’s greatest holidays. And while it is very important to look back and ...
Views: 793 - How to use an excuse! - by Every article you've ever read on excuses has probably been negative. I am going to show you how you can use an excuse to buy you some time and change your life.
Over six years ago I walked into my attorney's office and explained to him how my life had become a mess. I had gone from early ...
Views: 707 - Triumphing Over Tough Times - by Right now many people are facing tough times. Life as we once knew it has changed and we may find ourselves confronting situations we have never dealt with before.
While we might not be able to control things that are occurring in the world, we can control how we react to what is happening. ...
Views: 631 - Writing a New Page - by Each new year is laden with possibilities like the pages of a new journal. At the beginning of a new year, many of us make resolutions. However, we often make the resolutions quickly with very little thought as to what is or isn’t working in our lives. As a result, the resolutions usually fail, ...
Views: 539 - Moving Beyond Your Comfort Zone - by Many professionals have attained a high level of competence in their particular fields. They have learned a lot in their careers and they have a good sense of what works and what doesn’t. Some individuals have become so good at what they do that they can successfully perform their jobs “with ...
Views: 988 - Going with the "Flow" - by This whole idea of change is founded on a single principle:
CHANGE IS ALL IN YOUR MIND.
First comes a desire or need to change. Then comes an
attitude that permits it. Then come behaviors that lead
to it and support it. And finally, change happens -- or at
least you realize that it has ...
Views: 582 - Been There; Done That - by “There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work and learning from failure.”
General Colin L. Powell
In October 2000, I bought my first Internet marketing program to promote. I paid $20.00 for the program; $179.40 for an autoresponder for one year; $64.99 to be ...
Views: 723 - FABS Part 1 and 2 - by Have you heard of the FABS? The FABS are quadruplets; they are not identical but they are very, very similar! The FABS are: Fear, Anger, Blame and Shame. This quartet love to arrive, uninvited, at people's houses and literally stay forever. They will certainly stay as long as you allow them to; ...
Views: 737 - Sorting Emotional Laundry - by This week has been a real roller coaster at my house. A lot of emotional dirty laundry is piling up at my door. As much as I would like to not answer it, that isn't realistic. Avoidance of troubles is not the answer. I long ago learned that it you let that stuff pile up, soon you won't be able ...
Views: 928 - Leap?And The Net Will Appear - by In 1994, my life hit rock bottom. My husband was addicted to crack cocaine, my 17 year-old son had just gotten his 15 year-old girlfriend pregnant, we were about to get evicted from our home, I contracted a life-threatening illness with no health insurance and my Mother died very suddenly, and ...
Views: 902 - Swimming Upstream... - by One of the biggest lessons that I have learned in this life is how futile it is to fight inevitability. Life is change; if we stop changing, we stop growing. Life is never going to go exactly the way that you want it to. Something is always waiting to pop up and bite you. The more that you ...
Views: 909 - Swimming Upstream... - by One of the biggest lessons that I have learned in this life is how futile it is to fight inevitability. Life is change; if we stop changing, we stop growing. Life is never going to go exactly the way that you want it to. Something is always waiting to pop up and bite you. The more that you ...
Views: 545 - Making a Difference - by Making a difference in our life and the lives of others does not require special skills, experience, education, social status, age or sex requirements or any other society-labeled qualification. It calls only for a sincere desire to do so.
You may be a bank teller, hotdog vendor or sales clerk ...
Views: 748 - Making It Happen! - by ABSTRACT: Have you ever wondered who you really are? Take a moment and reflect on yourself as a person. Be brutally honest. Consider who you are and how you live. Are you where you want to be? Who controls your personal power? Is decision making easy? What is your level of stress? How do ...
Views: 614 - Managing the Human Machine - by ABSTRACT: Would it be terrific if you could really live your beliefs and values? Is a higher quality of life important to you? Can you see the advantage of being self empowered? Are you looking forward to blending your vision and purpose with your: team, partner, coworkers, family, community...? ...
Views: 606 - Reframing Your Personal History and Letting Go of Your Fear to Grow - by What does it mean to reframe your personal history? Reframing means looking at the same situation differently, so that it no longer has a negative affect on you. In order to reach a goal you’ve never had, you have to become someone you’ve never been. This means letting go of old beliefs, fears, ...
Views: 1385 - Focus of Our Attention - by "A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones."
- Lord Chesterfield
The focus of our attention determines our life experiences. Where we put our attention, we put our energy. Where we put our attention, we put our consciousness. We seed the ...
Views: 705 - Ending Poverty Consciousness - by "For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred."
-John W. Gardner
Definition number 1 of "poverty" in the American Heritage Dictionary is: "The state of being poor; lack of the means of providing material needs or comforts." It is further defined as "deficiency in ...
Views: 921 - Conquering Your Fear - by Submitted on Jun 13, 2007 from Adebola Oni"Whosoever has conquered fear has conquered failure." Fear is a powerful word that has stopped a lot of people from living a meaningful life. So many dreams have been aborted just because of fear and so many people are living below their potentials because of this same fear. To achieve so much ...
Views: 1546 - Do You Avoid Conflict and Confrontation At All Costs? - by Submitted on Jun 13, 2007 from Beth Banning and Neill GibsonDo you avoid face-to-face conflicts and confrontation? Would you love to create more cooperation and respect in these crucial situations? Read on to discover more than simple conflict management skills. The authors reveal secrets that can replace your stress and tension with connection and ...
Views: 1133 - Len McNally's Seven Point Strategy For Life - by Submitted on Jun 13, 2007 from Len McNallyLen McNally's Seven Point Strategy For Life Everyone, or almost everyone has the potential to live a life far removed from where they are today. While life offers no guarantees the judicious application of the following principles can get you started on the road to becoming everything that ...
Views: 632 - You're As Old As Your Thoughts - by Submitted on Jun 12, 2007 from Joyce Shafer, Book Doctor“You are old, Father William,” the young man said, “And your hair has become very white; and yet you incessantly stand on your head—do you think, at your age, it is right?” (From the works of Lewis Carroll) George Berkeley said, “Our youth we can have but today. We may always find time to grow ...
Views: 730 - Find Your Opportunity - by Submitted on Jun 12, 2007 from Gini GreyWhat is the opportunity facing you right now? When life is flowing smoothly and we are feeling confident and serene, we are open to new possibilities and we see the opportunities blossoming in front of us. Yet when things are sluggish or we keep hitting up against a wall, a shadow seems to creep ...
Views: 969 - Be a Failure...To Succeed! - by Submitted on Jun 12, 2007 from Joe KahlerI bet you have never had anyone encourage you to be a failure before! Seriously, learning to fail forward will catapult you to success and happiness. The key to understanding failure is that when you fail YOU ARE NOT A FAILURE! Take the “you” out of failure. It is not personal and it has nothing ...
Views: 1309 - What's Wrong with this Picture? (Changing your Life with the Avatar Course) - by Submitted on Sep 01, 2009 from Lori BrenckmanI often forget how miserable I was before I did the Avatar Course. No matter where I looked in my life, things seemed pretty bleak. Don’t get me wrong, just because I was miserable doesn’t mean I was a failure -- I was very successful according to worldly standards. My wife and I owned a ...
Views: 3268 - Magically Manifesting your Heart's Desire in your Life - by Submitted on Jun 11, 2007 from George LockettYOU CAN CREATE the wealth, love and abundance your heart has always known is its birthright. This is the time to wake up to who you really are. Your success in life flows through your imagination and your willingness to see your Self as being one with all that is in the universe. You have ...
Views: 1167 - Overcome Challenge - by Submitted on Jun 11, 2007 from Rob McBrideIdeas about motivation and inspiration change over time. During the 1970’s and 1980’s pundits advocated a positive mental attitude as the key to achieving goals and insuring happiness. The mere act of thinking positively, we were told, would cause what we wanted to magically appear. Recently, ...
Views: 1716 - How To Spot A Liar - by Submitted on Aug 18, 2010 from Kathy Thompson“I’m going out with Sam,” your spouse tells you in passing. “I just wanna take the car to the library,” your son or daughter tells you. “No, I didn’t leave the coffee pot on,” your co-worker insists. How do you know when someone is lying to you? Here are eight tips to help you. 1 - ...
Views: 1050(1 vote) - Simplify Everything: Make room for what is to come? - by When we think of simplifying our lives, we often think of getting rid of “stuff? Time to empty the closets, make a trip to Goodwill and maybe re-arranging our schedules. This is one level of simplifying and it’s great because whatever we do in our external world is a reflection of a shift on the ...
Views: 863 - Affirmations Transform Your Life - by Affirmations are powerful transformational tools. They are simple, clear and positive statements that are repeated often that replace thoughts and beliefs that do not support your wellbeing. Transforming your beliefs and thoughts leads to a change in behavior. We all learn from repetition. That ...
Views: 794 - Unhook yourself from the future and the past? - by 5 tips to put your life in tip top shape
Do you want to run after what you want or would you rather attract your desires to you? You have the power to become the magnet around which your life's desires manifest. Here are some tips that help transform you into the magnet:
1. Attraction ...
Views: 796 - Making Miracles - The Chewy Surprise Inside - by In the Bible, there are many recorded instances of miracles occurring. In the Old Testament, Moses is said to have brought plagues of frogs and locusts upon the Egyptians, parted the Red Sea, and rained "manna" from the sky. Likewise, in the New Testament, Jesus said is to have turned water ...
Views: 695 - IT TAKES MORE THAN TALENT TO SUCCEED ?10 STEPS TO CREATING ALL THE SUCCESS YOU WANT WITHOUT STRUGGLE, SACRIFICE OR SELLING YOUR - by A number of years ago I read a book by a (now very famous) author in the self-growth arena whose name you would instantly recognize. It was his first book, and as I slowly turned the pages I was in awe. It was horrible! Bad grammar, hard to follow, rambling - he had made every writing mistake ...
Views: 942 - Why Affirmations Don't Work (And What Does) - by Naturally, given a choice, it is more beneficial to one¡¯s peace of mind and well-being to recite and think, ¡°I am a worthy, deserving person,¡± than to dwell on its opposite. But, and let¡¯s be honest, haven¡¯t you read ad nauseam about the power of positive thinking and the glorious benefits ...
Views: 675 - Interlude: Reflections on Relationships - by A dear friend, who unexpectedly arrived in Chicago for an interview, and I recently met over gnocchi and ravioli. The impromptu occasion was a wonderful opportunity to exchange updates on the life events and new awarenesses that had gelled over the past few years since we had last seen one ...
Views: 742 - Empowerment of the Feminine - by Submitted on Jun 07, 2007 from Christan HummelOver 2,000 years ago, our planet experienced a “pole shift” not a magnetic pole shift, but one which had as powerful an influence on all of life on the planet: a shift in polarity from the Yin based Goddess traditions which had ruled for almost 35,000 years, to a new Yang oriented, ...
Views: 832 - No Condition is Permanent! - by Submitted on Jun 06, 2007 from Adebola OniSome weeks back, I watched a video titled, “No condition is permanent:” by one America’s top speakers, Rene Godefroy. The message was based on the story of this man right from childhood. Space will not permit me to state everything that I heard from this message but I will try ...
Views: 2927 - Getting Lucky - A Strategy - by Submitted on Jun 06, 2007 from Steve GillmanGetting lucky is more probable when you have a certain way of approaching situations. This particular frame of mind is the good-luck-generating attitude expressed in the following quote: "If you view all the things that happen to you, both good and bad, as opportunities, then you operate out of ...
Views: 609 - Where Two or More Are Gathered: The Inordinate Value of Support Systems In Our Lives - by Submitted on Jun 05, 2007 from Kim LoftisI saw a statistic recently that startled and saddened me. It stated that more than 25% of Americans feel lonely. When I saw this, I thought to myself, "No wonder there are so many feelings of sadness, hopelessness and depression in the world!" When we don't have friends with whom to share our ...
Views: 880 - You Never Have to Get Over Anything - by Submitted on Jun 05, 2007 from Christy MurphyImagine this. You are depressed, grieving or have suffered an injustice. People are concerned about you. Friends are worried. A well-meaning person decides to dole out some tough love. You hear the words: Get over it. It has other aliases such as move on or let it go. It might be prefaced ...
Views: 538 - I Have A Dream - by Submitted on Jun 04, 2007 from Donna Webster" I Have A Dream" By Donna Webster When life gets tough and the road is long, and it seems there is no light. When the dreams you had somehow seem lost, don't ever give up the fight. When you think your life doesn't mean a thing, you must realize we all have gifts. Look inside yourself and ...
Views: 1026 - Drama! - by Submitted on Jun 04, 2007 from Noelle NelsonYou’ve had a rough day at work. You’re beat, all you want to do is go home and chill. You get to your car--only to see one of those horrible orange devices clamped to your rear wheel. You’re horrified! What’s this? Then you read the ticket neatly tucked under your windshield wiper. Your ...
Views: 1001 - People Are Not Pegs - by "...start thinking of yourself as an artist and your life as a
work-in-progress. Works-in-progress are never perfect. But changes can be made...Art evolves. So does life. Art is never stagnant. Neither is life. The beautiful, authentic
life you are creating for yourself is your art. It's the ...
Views: 667 - The Top Ten Steps for Tapping into Courage - by Aristotle believed that courage is the first of human virtues
because it makes the other virtues possible.
Courage is a muscle that can be strong and established
through exercise or it can grow flaccid through lack of use.
Here is an exercise to help you build your courage.
These steps ...
Views: 1214 - The HOW Behind the WOW - by Imagine you have been working at uncovering your Purpose, you have done the reflection, connected the dots of life and WOW, it hits you. "Yes! This is my Purpose!" You look back over your life and indeed, it all lines up. This is what you have been expressing or trying to express in all contexts ...
Views: 688 - Regrets, I have a few... - by "Gee, I feel so bad. I really should have done this, and when I think back, I really wish I'd never said that to her, and if only I had jumped at that opportunity, maybe I wouldn't be in this situation ..."
Regrets. I don't know many people who are not carrying
around a few. Just thinking ...
Views: 644 - Perfect Action - No Mistakes - by Everyone has had setbacks before. Normally, most people find a way around, over or through their setbacks. But then, there are those who begin to believe in their mistakes. They begin to give their mistakes life by constantly reliving them. Ernest Holmes says "if the belief in the necessity of ...
Views: 1047 - The Uncertainty Principle - by Two sailors ran into each other in a pub. Over a few beers, one of the men told the other about his last voyage: "After a month at sea," he said, "we discovered our masts had been eaten through by termites! Almost nothing left of them."
"That's terrible," said the second sailor.
"That's what I ...
Views: 699 - Think Strong - by Some people are emotionally stronger than others. They can take a lot of stress and strain without falling apart, while others collapse into a whimpering heap at the smallest things.
The main difference between an emotionally weak person and an emotionally strong person is what they think when ...
Views: 893 - ONE SACRED MOMENT IN TIME AND SPACE - Essay poem - by We have entered this human body for a short, scared moment on Planet Earth.
Each moment is precious At each moment we make choices on how to navigate our soul through time and space.
Our soul seeks to experience love in the human form, in physical reality.
Each choice determines our past, ...
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