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- How To Accept Differences - by Submitted on Mar 01, 2011 from Dr. Rick SchaeferPerception 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 ...
Views: 2485(3 votes) - How to Know Who to Coach - by Submitted on Mar 13, 2011 from Dr. Rick SchaeferIf 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 ...
Views: 2172(5 votes) - How to Find a Feeling of "Oneness" - by Submitted on Mar 26, 2011 from Dr. Rick SchaeferIs 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 ...
Views: 1678 - What Exactly Is a Miracle, and Why Should We Even Care? - by Submitted on Apr 10, 2011 from Dr. Rick SchaeferThere 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 ...
Views: 1483(2 votes) - How to Think Differently About the Decisions You Make - by Submitted on Apr 10, 2011 from Dr. Rick SchaeferEvery moment seems to offer a choice, don’t worry about it; imagine both choices are perfect! Choice is constantly in front of us. We decide on a turkey or roast beef sandwich for lunch. We decide whether to park the car in the first spot we see, or head down the aisle hoping for a spot close ...
Views: 1311(1 vote) - How to Have It All Using Nothing At All - by Submitted on Apr 15, 2011 from Dr. Rick SchaeferThere 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 ...
Views: 1247 - How To Create Success In Every Area of Your Life - by Submitted on Mar 01, 2011 from Dr. Rick SchaeferThe recipe for success is completely an inside job. Here is the simplest plan for creating a new habit and completely transforming yourself: 1. Have a new thought 2. Repeat that thought 3. Create an action consistent with that new thought 4. Repeat that action 5. Repeat the thought and ...
Views: 1237(6 votes) - How To Finally Get Everything You Want - by Submitted on Apr 15, 2011 from Dr. Rick SchaeferYou can have everything you ever wanted if you choose to want everything you have. Think about it. It sounds like a paradox, but it is perfectly true. What do we really want in life? It’s really quite simple… we want relationships, health, money, and a career. We actually have all that. It ...
Views: 1219 - How Do I Lose Weight? - by Submitted on Apr 10, 2011 from Dr. Rick SchaeferWant a shortcut to getting into the best shape of your life? Then don’t start with exercise or diet! Instead, prepare a path that will accelerate all you do nutritionally and physically. With all major transformations in our lives, the most important first step is mental… creating a new ...
Views: 1201(1 vote) - When You Are “Satisfied” With What You Have, You Might As Well Be Dead - by Submitted on Feb 15, 2011 from Dr. Rick SchaeferWe hear a lot of messages that we should be less materialistic and just be satisfied with what we have. Well that simply is not our human nature. Every part of us… psychologically, physically, emotionally, spiritually… desires expansion and growth. If we finally achieve doing ten pull-ups, we ...
Views: 1177 - How to Successfully Create a Unique Success Habit - by Submitted on Mar 14, 2011 from Dr. Rick SchaeferThe recipe for success is completely an inside job. Here is the simplest plan for creating a new habit and completely transforming yourself. 1. Have a new thought 2. Repeat that thought 3. Create an action consistent with that new thought 4. Repeat that action 5. Repeat the thought and ...
Views: 1156 - What is Up With That Sinus Infection! - by Submitted on Mar 26, 2011 from Dr. Rick SchaeferBe 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 ...
Views: 1149 - How to Move From Disease to Wellness - by Submitted on Mar 13, 2011 from Dr. Rick SchaeferThe secret to conquering disease is by shifting from hate to love. I have noticed a common theme among patients who are working towards conquering chronic disease and chronic pain conditions. They have all moved their self-perspective from hating their bodies to loving their bodies, from ...
Views: 1123(2 votes) - Are You Ready for Love? - by Submitted on Jan 20, 2011 from Dr. Rick SchaeferIf you attract a lover right now, they will be just as screwed up as you are right now! People all seem to have a common question about relationships: “I want a lover who loves me completely, who supports me in my dreams and goals, who gives me moral support and boosts me up when I'm ...
Views: 1098 - What You Think About, You Become - by Submitted on Jan 21, 2011 from Dr. Rick SchaeferWhat you think about, you become. This sounds like a simple enough phrase, but it is really profound, and it penetrates every aspect of your life. It is always at work. Your entire being is based on your thinking. Every aspect of you: your mood, your level of happiness, your parenting, your ...
Views: 1094 - Finding New Love ... Start Today! - by Submitted on Feb 17, 2011 from Dr. Rick SchaeferI would like to help you discover new love today. Heightening self-love is the ideal pathway to loving others more. I am sure you have heard the phrase “You can’t give away what you don’t possess.” If you can increase the love you feel for yourself to a very high level, you will magnetically ...
Views: 1054 - How To Get What You REALLY Want - by Submitted on Feb 15, 2011 from Dr. Rick SchaeferIn this life whatever happens is never good or bad, it is all simply richly interesting. Have you ever had something happen in your life that felt like a bad thing only later to realize in the long run it turned out to be a good thing? I would like to share a story from my recent travels. I ...
Views: 1053 - How Much Attention Do You Give To Being Miserable? - by Submitted on Mar 26, 2011 from Dr. Rick SchaeferDo 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 ...
Views: 1044 - How To Use A Snow Day To Create Your Perfect Career - by Submitted on Feb 04, 2011 from Dr. Rick SchaeferWhen 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 ...
Views: 1039(1 vote) - How to Get What You Want Out of This Election: a Law of Attraction Perspective - by Submitted on Nov 04, 2010 from Dr. Rick SchaeferWhat is it you want out of this election? Do you want your candidate to win? Do you want the candidate you don't like to lose? Do you want the one to win who agrees with all your opinions and perspectives? With just your biggest issue opinion? Income tax? Abortion? Balanced Budget? Mass Transit? ...
Views: 1019 - Self-Love: using a childhood picture - by Submitted on Feb 01, 2009 from Dr. Rick SchaeferSelf-Love (Your Childhood Picture): Extreme Thought Makeover Day 6 Lesson Strengthening our own self-love is the pathway to having more unconditional love to offer to others, and the first step is to begin to see ourselves as worthy and full of potential. Today, find a picture of a child that ...
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