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- Help Your Older Parents Avoid Falls in Their Home - by A person’s home is their castle, whether it is an apartment, house or assisted living residence. It should be a place of rest, comfort and safety. Seventy-five percent of falls occur at home. Of these, 50% are caused by environmental factors.
Steps can be taken to help prevent falls and ensure ...
Views: 1506(1 vote) - Placing Your Faith in Reincarnation - by It's hard to believe in this wide universe that there is only one chance to live in a lifetime. There are many controversial issues surrounding the subject of reincarnation. Did occultists create these issues as an "idea" to steer people away from Christianity, did reincarnation exist before the ...
Views: 1553 - Want a Livelihood -- and a Life -- You Can Love? How to Turn Your Dream Into Reality in Five Minutes a Day and Other Tips for Ti - by You've already made up your mind that there has to be more to life than careers, cubicles, and commuting. Yet, the prospect of making a major life change when you're already feeling caught between a "clock and a hard place," feels overwhelming.
On the off-chance you don't win the lottery, your ...
Views: 840 - 10 Steps to Escaping the Job World and Creating the Life You Really Want - by Copyright, Valerie Young, Changing Course Newsletter
1. GET THE POINT - OF LIFE, THAT IS. How many of us will look back in our old age and wish we'd gone to more meetings or put in more overtime. The point? Despite pressure to "play it safe" by sticking with your day job ("...but dear, you ...
Views: 999 - Becoming Psychic and Being Different - by When I was young I had visions. I always thought that they were dreams even though I had them while I was awake. I would see a freind of mine in despair, or battling with colorful balloons and then find out that she'd been terribly sick. Or I would see my father carrying me up and throwing me ...
Views: 1199 - Discover What You Really Want - by To be effective in achieving your goals it is absolutely important to make them something that you really want. But how do you do that? Often uncovering your desires and dreams is a bigger challenge than making them come true.
One of the ways to spot what you want is answering the questions ...
Views: 944 - The Severance From Being - by We live our lives separated from Being.
We are divorced from the Being of others around us as well as from our own inner Being.
Animals, which we consider as inferior, are doing much better - they are never disconnected from their inner-being. In fact, each animal is an intact, united essence, ...
Views: 1445 - Is there anything new under the sun? - by While reading the Bible, I am always fascinated by the character of Solomon, the great king. His ambitions were pure. He asked God for just one thing - wisdom, and in addition to marvelous wisdom, he received tremendous wealth and worldwide fame. His writings inspire me to seek God's wisdom and ...
Views: 965 - Start Where You Are - by Of all of the truths I've learned in life, one of the most important is this: Ideas, no matter how good they are, are useful to me only in the proportion I use them. I need to make them personal. Every word of truth has to become flesh in me. I cannot rely on others to do that for me, just as I ...
Views: 981 - What Makes Us Whole - by Have you ever wondered why medical doctors are among the wealthiest professionals?
Have you ever thought why people so often buy into any new method, product or a technic that promises health?
The answer is evident: There is something in all of us that longs for wholeness. Whether consciously ...
Views: 1851 - What You Don't Believe Can Save Your Life - by Why is it so hard to believe that we are good and capable and trustworthy?
Perhaps it is because when we were very little, we came to believe that when we were freely and merely being ourselves, we were bad and thoughtless and, well, "broken". Yes, that something was actually wrong with us. ...
Views: 982 - Options to Motivation by Self-Flagellation - by Have you ever asked yourself questions like:
"Why am I in this situation, again?"
"Why am I with this guy/girl?"
"Why am I staying in this job that I hate?"
"Why do I put up with being treated like this?"
Just rhetorical questions, right? NO!
Isn’t it funny how we are much more ...
Views: 1621 - Unhappiness Is Optional - by Finding the Option Method was, for me, like finally finding a bridge I had been looking for. Option is a simple, yet amazingly powerful vehicle for getting from where you are to where you want to be.
And so I began the process of questioning my unhappiness, my discomforts...my issues, with ...
Views: 927 - 7 Principles of Creative Time Management - by Excerpted from chapter 1, "Creative Time Management: An Introduction" "Managing your time well means managing your life well. People who handle their time well do it creatively. They make short- and long-term plans, set and keep realistic schedules, take efficient and timely breaks, and view ...
Views: 2709 - Workplace Friendships or Office Romance - by Based on the extensive original research I have conducted for more than a decade on workplace relationships, casual not close or best friendships are preferable in business. Caution should also be exercised against revealing too much or too soon to a co-worker, superior, subordinate, or mentor ...
Views: 24006(1 vote) - How To Slash Your Grocery Bills In HALF! - by The "experts" tell me day in and day out that we are in a "recession" and that the economy is "sluggish" and that people are trying to save as much money as possible these days. But, you'd never know it by the money I see people wasting at their their local grocery store and supermarkets!
STOP ...
Views: 1245 - Get Motivated! - by Do you ever get discouraged on your road to success? Does it seem like you're always going 2 steps forward, 1 step back?
Take heart! Your simply in step with the natural rythm of progress! Progress toward your goals is never going to be a straight line, there are always bumps in the road to ...
Views: 924 - Double Your Living! - by I want you to know the beauty of life.
I want you to AWAKE, and see that people want to connect with you. I want you to finally realize how desperately you want to connect with other human beings, and then........and then........
To distinguish, to see clearly, the 100 barriers we ...
Views: 952 - Are YOU chasing what you REALLY want? - by When I speak to an audience on the topic of "Create A Life You Love", we look at the things people spend most of their time on, and then compare these to the things they really want. Do you think the two are aligned? NO WAY!
You're either aligned or you're not. There is a unique set of values ...
Views: 1123 - ACKNOWLEDGEMENT - Change Your Life With a Simple Habit - by Following on from The Training Cycle, readers sent in some very thought provoking requests for cyber coaching. Below you can read selected issues sent in by readers, and the coaching I sent back!
Invitation: If you send your (very brief!) relationship issue/problem to lifecoach@instructor.net, ...
Views: 1254 - The Key to getting lucky! - by When Gary Player arrived in the United States in the late 1950s, he was already becoming known as a “world traveler.?His schedule was at first limited; nevertheless, he quickly made an impression on many of the home-grown pros, and soon developed a reputation among them as a "lucky" golfer. As ...
Views: 2275 - Relationship Corner - by Following on from The Training Cycle, readers sent in some very thought provoking requests for cyber coaching. Below you can read selected issues sent in by readers, and the coaching I sent back!
Invitation: If you send your (very brief!) relationship issue/problem to lifecoach@instructor.net, ...
Views: 1103 - Invalidation vs Respect - by (My thanks to CoachCampus who have given permission for me to publish this extract from the CoachCert?training program.)
The Merriam Webster Dictionary defines the verb RESPECT as: "to consider deserving of high regard" or "to refrain from interfering with". It defines the verb INVALIDATE as ...
Views: 1474 - When You Wish Upon A Star! - by I recently overheard a group of four young golf pros talking about what it takes to be a champion. As it happens, the discussion was not limited to golf. They were talking in more general terms. Who are the people destined to make it to the top in golf, in business or in life? What is it, these ...
Views: 1746 - The Dennis Walters Story - by At 24, fresh out of college, Dennis Walters had all the traits of a champion. He had been dreaming big dreams since childhood, and he was ready to take action. That year, he had finished eleventh in the US Amateur Championship and had led his school to its fourth consecutive collegiate ...
Views: 5229 - Why Bother Training People? - by People love to make a contribution to us. If given a chance to do the right thing for us, or to please us, they usually will. Unfortunately, they don't always know what we want, or their attention is elsewhere. OR, in the past when they've done something for us, they haven't "won" from the ...
Views: 1079 - Finding Your Perfect Partner - by The mistake is to go looking, before cleaning up your own "back yard". The mistake is to seek someone because you're so desperately lonely, and don't feel happy with your own company. You may find a partner using this approach, but it often won't last, and will rarely lead to fulfillment. ...
Views: 1004 - The Up Spiral; The Down Spiral - by Summary: If life is anything short of amazing right now, find some Positive Actions to give an Up Spiral a chance of finding you!
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The stock market is said to jump up and down at random. I do not believe this is true of life. Instead, we instead follow spirals ...
Views: 1189 - Money - The Lie Revealed - by It's probably not what you're after at all (and you
think it is).
When you're clear on WHY, and HOW MUCH,
getting money can be easier, and much more fun.
Focus on the REASON for money! What lifestyle do you want?
How much is enough?
Suppose you got clear today that your ultimate ...
Views: 932 - Design Your Perfect Lifestyle - by Following is an extract of the 'Perfect Lifestyle' Program. (Better still, you can currently download the full Program free of charge at www.life-coaching-resource.com. Look for the "Design Your Life" option.)
Instructions: Print out the following, and create a picture of your ideal lifestyle ...
Views: 1203 - Is Peace a priority for you? - by If you had 20 people who constantly demonstrated how much they love and adore you, and then you won 20 million dollars, would you find it easier to relax?
Unmet Needs
Isabel Parlett (a coach) defines Inner Peace as "the absence of need or drive".
We constantly scurry, or worry, because of ...
Views: 1042 - Truth-Telling (Lies and With-holds) - by "Every with-hold you have from someone, is a brick in the wall between you."
Do you tell the truth? What percentage of the time? 100%? Or 90%? And when you do tell the truth, do you tell 100% of it? Or 90%?
"You look great". "I don't mind". "Yes, sex is good". "Everything's fine at home". ...
Views: 1124 - A lesson from Tiger, Focusing on Your Core business! - by As Tiger Wood’s sank his last putt to win the 2000 US Open by 15 shots, promoting some to suggest that the USGA ought to flight future tournaments, a thought crossed my mind. While David Dvaul takes time off to go snowboarding or Phil Mickson reminisces about how great it is to spend time at ...
Views: 1293 - SOMETIMES LIFE IS JUST "TIRED!" (Making It During The Blahs) - by How do you spell "Life?"
Answer: Dry Corn Flakes.
Sometimes life is like that, isn't it? Not that it is terrible or even terrific.
It's just goin' -- and that's the point!
I really don't know what you call these times. Maybe you could call them "dry cereal days."
True confession: I'm ...
Views: 900 - Is it possible to transcend subjectivity and see things as they really are? - by The following is an excerpt from LETTER TO EARTH (Random House/Harmony 2000) by Elia Wise.
"LETTER TO EARTH establishes viable foundations for a science of consciousness. The theories it presents substantiate and unify the work of generations of intuitive thinkers and writers." M.F. Schlitz, ...
Views: 2443 - Motivation & Music - by Spoken tapes and lectures, books, and articles are the best motivational tools on the commercial market for self-improvement and productivity. Unfortunately, they are the ONLY tools that attempt to increase productivity, improve attitude, and offer increased vitality.
That is until the ...
Views: 1692 - Play the Ball - Not the Man! - by What's the point of any of this? Where is the meaning in my day-to-day life?
That's the nagging question that bothers me every single day. And I don't have the answer?yet. I'll tell you what's helped though.
Keeping a personal journal online.
Let me explain. Everybody says that keeping a ...
Views: 2968 - How a Three-Letter Word Can Kill a Good Relationship - by My friend Steve came up with this profound comment as we were about to tuck into the gastronomic offerings before us in a crowded downtown restaurant. I raised my eyebrows.
Well, on the face of it, Steve sure wasn't kidding. He lost no time in matching words with action as he attacked the ...
Views: 1662 - New Idea? - Don't Jump the Gun! - by Five years ago, an international consultant, specializing in employee involvement and team development, published a story relating to workplace communication that is heartwarming and damning at the same time.
In 1981, Peter Grazer was working as the project engineer on a construction project ...
Views: 1140 - You Win...I Win... Can We All Win? - by John, a young man who had been married for six months, was beginning to feel a little cheesed off with the institution - of marriage. He confided to his best friend, Gary, that married life - well, at least, *his* married life - was not all that it had been cracked up to be.
"It looks like you ...
Views: 988 - Subtle Danger Signals on the Domestic Front - by If you've been around long enough, you're aware of the many things that can play havoc with domestic peace, even where the parties concerned aren't short on goodwill, and have the best of intentions.
High up on the list of culprits here are poor communication habits, either on their own or in ...
Views: 928 - Give-and-take: Really a Recipe for Success? - by A woman once visited a counselor to ask a question about her marriage. I have a funny feeling that you might not be especially impressed with the answer she was given.
All the same, I'll take my chances. I think my shoulders are broad enough.
I stand by the counselor's response 100%.
The ...
Views: 1026 - Giving Is Not Giving In! - by Recently, a reader of my ezine inthe UK (let's call her Sally) e-mailed me with a seemingly desperate plea for help.
"For the past few months, I have been attending a course in communicating," she began.
"We learned some techniques for assertiveness, and with strangers they work. But the ...
Views: 2136 - Empathy in Communication - by Empathy is vitally important in good communication. Many people confuse empathy with sympathy, but empathy is much more.
My dictionary defines it as "the quality or process of entering fully, through imagination, into another's feelings or motives." In the fullest sense, it implies putting ...
Views: 25457(1 vote) - Closing the Feedback Loop - by In previous articles, I spoke a little about the supreme importance of becoming a good listener. I went as far as to suggest that listening was the most important communication skill of them all.
It should be so simple. Yet, it's not simple.
As we all know, the ability to listen is not a ...
Views: 1014 - For Pete's Sake - Tone Down the Noise! - by "Noise" is what communication specialists call any interference or disturbance that confuses a message, or competes against communication.
Obviously, if we want our communication to be effective, we have to be continually on our guard to detect such noise. When we find it, we must drown it ...
Views: 1072 - Labeling is Disabeling - by A small town, somewhere in the world, was managed by a town council of seven or eight members. The council normally met once a week. One member - let's call him Bill - would invariably stroll into the council chamber exactly ten minutes after the time scheduled for the meeting.
For Bill's ...
Views: 824 - Why am I still so fond of Mrs. Mann, and how can you benefit from her wisdom? - by At the moment, the bits and pieces that are coming to me are about 15 other kids and myself sitting in a circle playing "Doggy, doggy, where's your bone?", making make-believe boats out of card-board brick blocks, and taking naps on the sailboat blanket mom had hand-stitched my name on with ...
Views: 1475 - Have You Got the Time? - by It seems the hustle and bustle of everyday life can easily consume our time and leave us with nothing but a used calendar and the thought "Wow, where did the time go?" if we're not careful. It's very easy to get caught up in responsibilities, work, and just plain everyday life.
In college I ...
Views: 1012 - Communication Skills and Relationship Advice: Reward Yourself For the Rest of Your Life - by Verbal and especially non-verbal communication is often over-looked. Using these simple ideas could bring you more meaning, fulfillment, and success in life. Ever heard?
"We need to talk."
If you're like most people you just got chills. Why? Because usually this phrase has an implied ...
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