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- Getting Started In Your Twenties - by In the years following college graduation, I didn’t know exactly what I wanted to do.
I knew I had to take action (I had bills to pay; my parents were poking their heads in my bedroom door, “politely” asking when I was going to get a job; and more than anything, I wanted to figure out my plan, ...
Views: 4250(2 votes) - Stress Reduction, Health Maintenance and Anti-aging Can Be Made Simple With Daily Use of Magnetic Fields - by Magnetic field therapy is ideally suited for the treatment of many physical conditions and health maintenance. This modality is of great value because the person may continue treatment on her/his own over a long period of time if necessary. This decreases dependence on the practitioner, which ...
Views: 1747(1 vote) - THE TOP 10 STEPS TO GUILT-FREE LIVING - by Too many people live in a state of constant guilt. They feel guilty if they spend a cent on themselves. They feel guilty if they are not constantly at the beck and call of someone else. They feel guilty if anything goes wrong in the life of any of their loved ones, because, somehow, they should ...
Views: 1147(1 vote) - THE TOP 10 WAYS of ATTRACTING NEW PEOPLE, PERSONALLY and PROFESSIONALLY - by Whether you are attracting new clients for your business, have moved into a new community and want to make friends, have started a new job, or are open to romance, here are some ways to attract new people:
1. Smile.
I recently heard of a man who met his fiance when she gave him a friendly ...
Views: 1451 - How To Avoid Holiday Weight Gain - by This holiday season don’t be trendy – avoid the Seasonal Seven (the average weight most Americans gain between Thanksgiving and New Year’s). That’s one trend you don’t want to participate in!
Since the holidays are traditionally a time for fun and indulgence, you probably prefer not to think ...
Views: 1270(2 votes) - Take the Ride of Your Life! Create the Career of Your Dreams - by These days, countless professionals are yearning for a more fulfilling career that can give them both personal and professional satisfaction. They want the freedom to design the career of their dreams and the self-reliance to trust that they made the correct decision.
For many people, their ...
Views: 1156 - Controlling our Anger Before it Controls Us - by The emotion of anger has many purposes, some of which can serve us well. Anger can be used by others to confuse or control you. In conflict resolution anger is a useful emotion when used to support yourself against attack by others. Anger takes away your energy, because it charges you ...
Views: 4347 - How to Develop a Reflective Life - by When we think of prayer, we usually think of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam; and when we think of meditation, it is usually associated with Buddhism and Eastern religions. But underlying both of these is a process that is available to all human beings, and that is not tied to specific ...
Views: 1076 - Alone for the Holidays? - by Being alone is a challenge for many people. This challenge may loom especially large during the holidays if you are single or newly divorced and without family around you. Holidays are a time to share love, and many people end up feeling depressed when they do not have people around with whom to ...
Views: 1192 - The Five Conversations to Have with Your Spouse Before the Holidays - by Many people experience stress during the holiday season. Some get the blues, others find that the holidays don't turn out quite they way they had hoped. To make sure your holiday season creates more joy and less stress, have these five conversations with your spouse soon:
Conversation One: ...
Views: 1202 - Marital Wellness: A View from the Ledger - by A magazine article I read a few days ago provided advice to the married and those about to be wed. I recognized the author as a well-known psychologist and specialist in the field. The article that went on for five pages touched on numerous topics including the importance of compatibility, ...
Views: 1365 - Smoothing the Step-Parenting Transition - by Three years ago, when John and Julie Smith fell in love and decided to marry they wanted to know what they could do to ease the transition of their marriage on their children. Each had 2 biological children of their own, ranging in age from 8 to 16 and John and Julie knew that getting the ...
Views: 1687(1 vote) - What Matters? - by Beyond food and shelter, our next greatest need is to matter.
-David J. Walker
What can I do? Where do I start? How do you matter?
What would our contribution be, in some way, to making a difference? How would we go about helping the life of another person? How can we best help ourselves? ...
Views: 938(1 vote) - Do You Get Drained By Other People's Energy? - by (Adopted from Guide to Intuitive Healing by Judith Orloff,M.D.)
Growing up, my girlfriends couldn't wait to hit the shopping malls and go to parties, the bigger the better--but I didn't share their excitement. I always felt overwhelmed, exhausted around large groups of people, though I was ...
Views: 818 - WHY SELF TORTURE DOESN'T HELP US LOOSE WEIGHT - by This paper is a continuation of another paper of mine - 'Beautiful, Smart Bodies'. In that paper I referred to the wisdom of bodies and suggested the idea that the accumulation of over-weight by the body might be something of function, something positive that our bodies do.
Let us suppose, for ...
Views: 1501(1 vote) - GEELA'S FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES FOR SUCCESSFUL LIVING - by "Knowledge is power. Depending on how it's used,
it can create either heaven or hell".
- Anonymous
In order to ...
Views: 1136(1 vote) - Success Principles - by Principle I: Attitude
Tip 1: Look for the Positive Side
An important lesson to learn in life, as well as in the sales profession, is that everything that happens to us is for a reason. I suggest there is a positive reason for everything that happens to us. It may not always be as obvious as we ...
Views: 1902 - Discipleship: Created to become like Christ - by You were created to become like Christ.
From the very beginning, God's plan has been to make you like his Son, Jesus. This is your destiny and the third purpose of your life. God announced this intention at creation: "Then God said, 'Let us make human beings in our image and likeness'" ...
Views: 6594 - Ministry: Designed to make a difference - by You were put on earth to make a contribution.
You weren't created just to consume resources -- to eat, breathe and take up space. God designed you to make a difference with your life. This is one of God's purposes for your life, and it's called your "ministry" -- or service.
The Bible ...
Views: 2990 - Mission: You were made for a mission - by God is at work in the world, and he wants you to join him. This assignment is called your mission. Jesus said, "In the same way that You gave Me a mission in the world, I give them a mission in the world" (John 17:18, Msg).
God wants you to have both a ministry in the body of Christ and a ...
Views: 4521 - What on earth am I here for? - by Most people struggle with three basic issues in life. The first is the issue of existence: "Why am I alive?" The second is the issue of significance: "Does my life matter?" And the third is the issue of intention: "What is my purpose?" The answers to all three are found in understanding God's ...
Views: 3353 - Excerpt from Herb Cohen’s book “Negotiate This! By Caring But Not T-H-A-T Much” - by Setting Objections
Before you even contact the other side, think about your interests and concerns and what’s really important to you. This is necessary so you can formulate a content goal, which should be specific, precise, and measurable. It’s the what (substance) that you wish to attain in ...
Views: 3675(2 votes) - Grieving your Losses - by What is it about Grief & Loss that upsets us so much? Is it the heavy duty emoting that we have to do to get through our suffering? Is it the fear we have about opening ourselves to all this pain? Because, let's face it, it's hard down there, in the land of grieving where all those emotions toss ...
Views: 941(2 votes) - 4 Simple Steps for Reaching Your Goals - by Why is it that most people neve.r reach their goals? Why is it that those things you hold near and dea.r to your heart, the things that give you inspiration and hope, neve.r come true?
If you’re like I was a few short years ago, you’re probably stuck in the annual process of developing ...
Views: 2208(2 votes) - You Failed, So What: You Just Got One Step Closer to Success - by "Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm." – Winston Churchill
I talk to and meet so many people who say they’ve tried and tried to lose weight or save money or start a part-time business and have stopped short of achieving their goals. The reasons ...
Views: 4842(2 votes) - Empty Your Bag of Excuses for the Last Time - by It’s time for me to take off the kid gloves and give it to you straight. Here goes…
You will NEVER achieve anything in your life if you don’t stop making excuses for why you’re not as wealthy as you would be or why you’re overweight or why you can’t find someone to share the rest of your life ...
Views: 1707(2 votes) - WHAT PROGRAM IS ON YOUR INNER TV? - by What’s playing on your inner TV? Your inner TV is the screen in your mind upon which you create various scenarios. Perhaps the channel is “Reliving the Past.” Maybe it’s “Controlling the Future.” Is your channel on “Obsessive Thinking” where you are ruminating over and over about a situation or ...
Views: 1141(2 votes) - Is It Okay to Spoil Your Kids? - by None of us want “spoiled” kids - kids who are bratty, self-centered, demanding, inconsiderate. So, what spoils children and what doesn’t?
When I was raising my children, I was often told that I would spoil them if I didn’t let them cry - if I held them a lot. ...
Views: 1653(2 votes) - Turn Up Your Light- -Installment #16 - by Installment #16
Say “Cheese” for the Cosmic Camera
For over 20 years, David Hawkins M.D., Ph.d and author of Power vs. Force*, researched human energy fields. A psychiatrist since 1952, he established that each of our emotions has a specific value. His research “involved millions of ...
Views: 1905(2 votes) - Listen, Don't Hear: A.R.T. Your Way To Sales Success - by There is no better way to distinguish yourself from your competitors than to summarize your prospects' needs- out loud- after probing, and prior to your presentation.
When you summarize, you prove you listened, not that you heard.
What's the difference?
Hearing is simply not being deaf. ...
Views: 1070(2 votes) - Brag! - by CHAPTER 1
Bragging Myths We Live and Die By
It ain't bragging if you done it.
-DIZZY DEAN
Myth #1:
A JOB WELL DONE SPEAKS FOR ITSELF
It's not my father's workplace anymore, or even the one many of your mothers may have entered in the 1970s or '80s. The days of job security in exchange for ...
Views: 1237(1 vote) - Searching For The Feminine Divine - by I always had a sense that if there was a God, there had to be a Goddess. Host-Hostess. Steward-Stewardess. Actor-Actress. In my heart I knew there had to be a yin to the yang I grew up knowing as the Divine source of all that is. I just did not have clue how to find Her.
It wasn't until I ...
Views: 3399(1 vote) - "E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL" WE NEED YOU! - by How can a fatherless boy be comforted by a wrinkled puppet?
At the first sight, there was nothing physically attractive in this puppet. As a matter of fact, his appearance scared everyone, including the little boy, Elliott, who played the major role in the movie E.T.
E.T. features ...
Views: 1494(1 vote) - TO LOVE OR NOT TO LOVE - by When I was a child, and living in Portugal, my father took me to see a movie about the life of Jesus Christ. Sometime, during the movie, I started to think that I did not like those bad guys. I realized that they were going to hurt Jesus. So, I start to yell.
"Run away, Jesus. Run! Run!" I ...
Views: 1364(1 vote) - Turn Up Your Light- -Installment #15 - by Turn Up Your Light installments are excerpts from my forthcoming book, The Passage to Freedom. There is no cost to you. Please accept them only if you want them. If not, click Reply, ask to be removed, and presto, tis done! If you have received this as a forward, and want to receive installments ...
Views: 1002(1 vote) - Turn Up Your Light- -Installment #14 - by Turn Up Your Light installments are excerpts from my forthcoming book, The Passage to Freedom. There is no cost to you. Please accept them only if you want them. If not, click Reply, ask to be removed, and presto, tis done! If you have received this as a forward, and want to receive installments ...
Views: 1117(1 vote) - Turn Up Your Light- -Installment #13 - by These installments are excerpts from my forthcoming book, The Passage to Freedom. There is no cost to you. Please accept them only if you want them. If not, click "Reply", ask to be removed, and presto, tis done! If you have received this as a forward, and want to receive installments directly ...
Views: 1125(1 vote) - Creativity - by Human beings by nature are creative. We have however, recorded everything that has happened in our past and linked it to our creative process, leading us to erroneously form the point of view that the creative process itself is a function of our struggling, our painful past or our "neurosis". ...
Views: 1165(1 vote) - Harry Potter Has Nothing On Us © - by Have you noticed how hard we strive to look better, to make more money, and to get ahead? Who decided we had fallen behind? No wonder millions of people are on Prozac, 50% of our marriages fail, and road rage has become a common phenomenon. We push so hard to “be somebody,” we forget the ...
Views: 1057(1 vote) - SPIRITUAL AWAKENING - by It has always been important for me to find time to be alone. I recently decided to spend a full day alone at a local retreat house. I would read, journal, pray, reflect, and end the retreat by meeting with my spiritual mentor.
It was perfect timing for me to reflect on all the inner ...
Views: 1163(1 vote) - Hooked on the Pain: Exercise Addiction - by While most of the country is concerned with the epidemic of obesity and a sedentary lifestyle and rightly so, exercise addiction on the other end of the spectrum needs attention, too. Running on a treadmill for hours, spinning out of control or climbing stairs that lead to nowhere, exercise ...
Views: 5646(1 vote) - Training Lesson: Using Your Mistakes To Springboard To Success Adapted From Success For Dummies - by Each of us at one time or another has thought about how wonderful it would be to have as much foresight as hindsight. Then we could avoid making mistakes! Not only is that hope unrealistic, it's also unwise. Mistakes are often the springboard for major accomplishments. Here's a good example: ...
Views: 1214(1 vote) - Reach your goals automatically with positive habits - by Did you know that habits are incredibly powerful tools for personal growth and success?
Think about the habits you have now and how they affect virtually every aspect of your life. Your weight and health are determined by your eating habits. Your relationships with people are determined by your ...
Views: 1075(1 vote) - WORK AS A PLATFORM FOR PERSONAL GREATNESS - by In this age of whitewater change, too many people see work as a means to an end rather than as a means to personal greatness and self-actualization. We see work as a place we go to "put in the hours" and to generate income to pay the bills and deal with the responsibilities that life presents to ...
Views: 1696(1 vote) - Do You Treat the Dishes Better Than Your Cash Flow? - by Copyright Philip Campbell, CPA - All Rights Reserved
Cash is the lifeblood of every business. Cash is what keeps your business alive. It is a very precious asset that must be treated with the care and attention it deserves.
Always remember, Cash Is King, because No Cash = No Business.
One ...
Views: 1129(1 vote) - Chapter One: The Deadly Duo: Depression and Depression Fallout - by Love and depression speak different languages. Every man and woman in a relationship touched by depression comes face to face with this unpleasant truth. Although each believes that he or she is living through a unique situation, the behavior of both parties conforms to a predictable pattern. ...
Views: 2615(1 vote) - Declare Independence from Fear - by The belief that we can think and act in such a way that fear will be banished from our lives is a dangerous fairy tale, a fiction that contaminates personal responsibility and leads to reckless reactivity or paralysis. As long as we cling to the need to send our fears into exile, as long as we ...
Views: 1178(1 vote) - Are You Digging Your Grave With Your Mouth? - by It was 25 years ago when I first heard that question. Bob Proctor stood on a stage, I was eagerly sitting in the audience and he asked the question: Are you digging your grave with your mouth?
I must admit, the first time I heard that question I thought "how morbid!" and "what kind of a ...
Views: 1697(1 vote) - The Vacuum Law of Prosperity - by The universe cannot put good into your hand, until you let go of
what you are holding in it.
If you walk down the beach, you leave footprints in the sand.
But give the wind and the waves a few minutes, and those tracks
will be filled in. Just as vegetation will cover a field and an
agenda ...
Views: 8540(1 vote) - As the World Turns - by If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same, it would look something like the following.
There would be:
57 Asians
21 Europeans
14 from the Western Hemisphere, both north and south
8 would be Africans
52 ...
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