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- ***Get Out of the Book! - by Submitted on Mar 05, 2009 from Gail Lynne GoowdinThis weekend I had the pleasure of speaking on the topic of success at the Thin Air Summit in Denver. Part of the experience was a Q&A session where my friend Brian asked, “What do you do when you have a bad day? How do you get out of it?” Well, today is one of those times so I thought I’d ...
Views: 624 - ***Flying without an Airplane! - by Submitted on Mar 05, 2009 from Gail Lynne GoowdinThe past few days I’ve felt like I’m flying - and we haven’t even started our flight around the world on our Global Hug Tour yet! The synchronicity of life is kicking into full gear. Things are lining up so fast and the world is spinning, but all in a very good way. I’m blown away each day by ...
Views: 688 - ***Flash of Beauty Beach - by Submitted on Mar 05, 2009 from Gail Lynne GoowdinI was walking a deserted stretch of a beach that holds great magic for me each time I visit. Not only is the beauty unparalleled, but there is a special energy I feel when I visit here, almost as if this beach talks to me. That day I was looking for seashells. I felt that if took something ...
Views: 665 - ***Faith vs. Fear - by Submitted on Mar 05, 2009 from Gail Lynne GoowdinA few years ago I was working on an entrepreneurial project, living off savings. Some days were financially scary as I was learning to live on faith instead of fear. One day I was standing in the checkout line of my local grocery store, very aware the woman in front of me was taking a long time ...
Views: 846 - ***Don’t Worry, Be Happy! - by Submitted on Mar 05, 2009 from Gail Lynne GoowdinMaybe I’m just stuck on this title because I’m going on vacation in the morning. Maybe it’s because I’m going sailing in the Caribbean and I’m just getting into the attitude of the islands. Or, maybe it’s just what I need to hear right now too. Just a few days ago, I was walking on Pearl Street ...
Views: 631 - ***Create Grateful, Happy Ripples - by Submitted on Mar 05, 2009 from Gail Lynne GoowdinI usually start my day with all that I’m grateful for in my life and this morning is no different. This past week was an amazing milestone for InspireMeToday.com. In our 5th week after the launch we broke all our old records for visitors. We reached our greatest audience yet, received a lot of ...
Views: 660 - ***Change Isn’t Your Enemy - by Submitted on Mar 05, 2009 from Gail Lynne GoowdinWhy do we resist change so very much? I just spent the last hour coaching my good friend, Bob, on how to handle a difficult situation. He founded a company about ten years ago and is now ready to take it to the next level. His entire identity has been based around this company- he IS the ...
Views: 668 - ***Celebrate Your Moments of Success - by Submitted on Mar 05, 2009 from Gail Lynne GoowdinThis past weekend I was asked to speak on “Success” and immediately, my mind went to “S U C C E S S… that’s the way we spell Success!” Yes, I was a cheerleader in high school, in case you hadn’t already guessed it. I was right back in 11th grade with that inner mantra playing in my mind. I had ...
Views: 677 - ***Celebrate Life by Living it to the Fullest! - by Submitted on Mar 05, 2009 from Gail Lynne GoowdinToday would have been Randy Pausch’s 48th birthday. We were fortunate enough to have Randy Pausch as one of our Inspirational Luminaries on InspireMeToday.com. Randy, known for his “Last Lecture”, passed away in July from cancer. I know how special birthdays are, for I just celebrated my 50th ...
Views: 725 - ***Born to Fly! - by Submitted on Mar 05, 2009 from Gail Lynne GoowdinThis morning I woke up hearing these words in my mind. I reached for the computer and with my eyes closed, just started typing. I’m not sure where it came from or what I must have been dreaming, but I wrote it just as I heard it. When I read it later today I thought it wasn’t half bad, so I ...
Views: 504 - ***Biking Up the Hills of Life? Keep on Pedaling! - by Submitted on Mar 05, 2009 from Gail Lynne GoowdinYesterday my husband and I went for a bicycle ride through the outskirts of downtown Boulder. It was one of those picture-perfect crisp autumn days filled with clear cool mountain air, bright sunshine and Nature at her finest. The paved bike path meanders through city and wooded park areas, back ...
Views: 626 - ***Belief, Fear and Success - by Submitted on Mar 05, 2009 from Gail Lynne GoowdinDo you ever have one of those mornings when you wake up scared? Scared that you don’t know how you’re going to do something that needs to be done? I think we all share this from time to time. That feeling of uncertainty, that fear of the unknown, that discomfort with stepping outside of the box ...
Views: 551 - ***Bejeweled and the Game of Life - by Submitted on Mar 05, 2009 from Gail Lynne GoowdinWhat do you do when your mind is so full of stuff that you find it just zipping from one “to do” to another? Occasionally, I do something mindless, like play the game Bejeweled. In flying to my son’s college graduation on Friday, I had some time on the airplane and thought I’d get lost into a ...
Views: 636 - ***Be the Change - by Submitted on Mar 05, 2009 from Gail Lynne GoowdinYesterday our 44th president was sworn into office. Regardless of who you may have voted for, I think we would all agree that something’s going on in America. The air is abuzz with possibility and hope. For me, this is the first time I’ve witnessed people come together regardless of age, ...
Views: 553 - ***Are You Living Your Dream? - by Submitted on Mar 05, 2009 from Gail Lynne GoowdinWhat’s your dream? Are you living it? Take just a moment, close your eyes and bring that dream into your mind’s eye. See it. Feel it. Really look at the details. Notice how the completion of this dream makes you feel so full of joy and elation from your success. Feels pretty good, doesn’t it? ...
Views: 602 - ***Are You Living in the Red or Green? - by Submitted on Mar 05, 2009 from Gail Lynne GoowdinI’m sure you’ve heard how our thoughts become things? We’re taught we should not only think happy thoughts, but also FEEL the joy from our thoughts, and that’s how they manifest in our life. Since thoughts, in an untrained mind, can often appear random, sometimes it seems we don’t have any ...
Views: 495 - ***Abundance Is All Around You - by Submitted on Mar 05, 2009 from Gail Lynne GoowdinI tried an experiment this week. This is my seventh blog in seven days. I originally started writing at the beginning of this week because I had something to say. It quickly became a question of how many concurrent days could I write… as one day gradually grew into seven. Yesterday I had the ...
Views: 556 - ***2009 - A Time for Giving - by Submitted on Mar 05, 2009 from Gail Lynne GoowdinHappy New Year! As we enter into a brand new year, I’d like to share a short story with you in the hopes that it will remind you of what you already know. A few months ago I volunteered to help the homeless. As we were preparing goodie bags to distribute, a young homeless man walked in. He was ...
Views: 543 - Healing Prayer - Spiritual Thoughts - by Submitted on Jul 15, 2009 from Michael BlitchteinMy life experience has made me think that some healings occur in a very short period of time, while others demand perseverance, patience, persistence and being firm in our faith. Trust in God or good helps us overcome difficult moments in our earthly experience, but often because of ignorance of ...
Views: 4399 - Go for the Gold: Be the Best You Can Be - by Submitted on Mar 05, 2009 from Monika KleinThe Olympics are now over but I can’t help thinking how amazing those athletes were. Such dedication to a dream and pride at all the effort they put into it. Not everyone there was a Michael Phelps and they were all masters. They gave so much to their dream as well as to their country and to us ...
Views: 693 - We Really DO Live a Dream - by Submitted on Mar 05, 2009 from Elsabe SmitSometimes I am astonished at the information that has been available to us for years and years, and how we have to first struggle with our lives before we find the information and things suddenly fall into place . . . I have been wondering for a very long time about giving people clairvoyant ...
Views: 775 - WakeUpLive.com presents: The Decision - by By the time I was nine, I was already overweight. I didn’t feel like I was as good as the “thin” girls. By age 14, I had started the “dieting roller coaster.”
I tried diet after diet but was never able to permanently lose weight. With every failure, my self-esteem dropped lower. I kept ...
Views: 723 - Start Small. Finish Big. It’s that Simple. - by Submitted on Mar 05, 2009 from elizabeth cassidyHow many of you slipped in behind the steering wheel of your parents’ car for the first time and just drove away? Okay, maybe a few of you. But how many of you ended up denting a fender and then had a lot of explaining to do? How many of you sat down in the first grade and wrote a best selling ...
Views: 1809 - Giving Eases Emotional Pain - by Submitted on Mar 04, 2009 from Harvey McKinnonOne of the hardest things for an adult to hear is that a friend of yours has cancer. You've probably already had this happen to a friend of yours, perhaps even a relative. I can pretty much guarantee that as you age it will happen more and more. Perhaps the only thing that’s worse – hearing a ...
Views: 518 - Life Balance and the Need for Solitude--Lessons from Nature - by Submitted on Feb 28, 2009 from Dr. Mary Beth FordWe seek many things in this world to bring us happiness and inner peace. We set goals and work hard to achieve them. But in doing so, we often neglect our inner needs--the desires of our spirit. We struggle with the push-pulls between inner and outer worlds. Quiet time alone renews us and ...
Views: 3747(6 votes) - Some Thoughts on Thoughts: Don’t Worry, Be Happy. - by Submitted on Feb 26, 2009 from Chuck JenningsEckhart 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 ...
Views: 804 - Academic Probation, a Summer Alone, and a Bowl Full of Blueberries: A Tiny Life Lesson - by Submitted on Feb 26, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesBefore we get to know each other any further, I think it best to get one of the best-kept secrets about me out in the open right away: I failed grade 10 math class. It was not really due to my inability to learn. It had more to do with my ability to dream away my time, thinking about my future. ...
Views: 888 - Humility, Faith, and Grace: Qualities of an Overcomer - by Submitted on Feb 26, 2009 from Gilbert James2 Corinthians 12:9: "And He said to me, 'My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness.' Therefore most gladly I will rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me." Humility Humility is the genuine acknowledgment of one's weakness, ...
Views: 4192 - A Phoenix Rising - by Submitted on Feb 25, 2009 from Rose CampbellIn the latter part of 1988 through the year 1990 the entirety of my world burned to ashes. I do not make that statement lightly. However it is only with the goggles of hindsight could I see how that total meltdown freed me so that like a Phoenix I could arise from the ashes I had been buried ...
Views: 927 - Don’t Die with a Million-Dollar Idea Still Inside You! - by Submitted on Feb 25, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesDid you know that you were brought to this earth for a specific reason? You are the only person who can fulfill the purpose and mission for which you were born. What is your purpose? What is your mission? You have within you the ability to create anything that you can imagine. The fact that you ...
Views: 1260 - Inspirational Tennis - by Submitted on Feb 25, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesI was lucky to get some serious inspiration from sports. I played baseball, but tennis was the sport at which I excelled. There was an annual Labor Day Tournament where, heading into the event, I was the second seed, and my doubles partner—now a tennis pro and the former coach to Andre ...
Views: 722(1 vote) - Just Breathe - by Submitted on Feb 25, 2009 from Francine Larson“Our lives can change with every breath we take.” –From the movie, Where the Heart Is. This phrase comes to my mind often. The verb change carries with it so much power, so much mystery and most of all, so much truth. How many of us have said “one minute he was fine, and the next minute, he ...
Views: 1141 - Why Swim with Sharks When You Can Swim with Dolphins - by Submitted on Feb 25, 2009 from Chellie Campbell“Why do some people always see beautiful skies and grass and lovely flowers and incredible human beings, while others are hard-pressed to find anything or any place that is beautiful?” —Leo Buscaglia There are three kinds of fish in the sea: Dolphins, Sharks and Tuna. Dolphins are ...
Views: 1146 - Self Perception - How We Perceive Ourselves is Based on Our Self Beliefs - by Submitted on Feb 25, 2009 from Helen WilliamsThe pathway forward towards happiness and authenticity is not determined by something outside ourselves. It's determined by our own thinking, our own inner process, our self perception. So if our way forward feels blocked, it is blocked by the way we perceive ourselves, by our fears and how ...
Views: 3664(2 votes) - What the Heck Is Wrong with Her? - by Submitted on Feb 24, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesI had learned to cringe when I heard the word September. This response was constantly reinforced by friends and family who knew my history of repeated calamities, mostly in September. Some of them seemed to relish asking the rhetorical question, “What’s it going to be this year?” They knew it ...
Views: 735 - Just Believe - by Submitted on Feb 24, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesIn midwinter of 2000 I was conducting a seminar at a beautiful resort in southern Florida. The focus of the seminar was to break limiting beliefs and create new ones to bring prosperity and abundance into a person’s life. At the end of the last day I went to my hotel room, and as I entered, I ...
Views: 635 - Bring Your Dream to Life in Seven Focused Steps: The “Heroes” Story - by Submitted on Feb 24, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesHave you ever had a big exciting dream but not taken the steps you needed to make it a reality? Maybe you said to yourself, “It’ll take too long” or “I’ve never done this, I don’t know how.” Do you currently have a product you would like to produce, a poem you just need to write, or a children’s ...
Views: 887 - Are You Following Your Divine Guidance? - by Submitted on Nov 15, 2013 from Dr Kelli - The Angel Whisperer®What have you been receiving time after time but ignoring? How many times have you followed your guidance? The angels are giving you guidance all the time; do you notice their guidance? What have you been receiving time after time but ignoring? You probably have been receiving this guidance ...
Views: 1179(9 votes) - Flying High - by Submitted on Feb 24, 2009 from Jessica SabatiniThere 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 ...
Views: 836 - Vibrancy of Colour - by Submitted on Feb 24, 2009 from Caroline RowlandsColour is so deeply imbedded in our psyche that it's like the air that we breath… we don't notice the power, until it is gone. Can you imagine seeing the world in monochrome? Do you feel a sudden unmistakable sinking feeling at the thought of no colour in your life? The intimate relationship we ...
Views: 1928 - Claim Your Personal Power - by Submitted on Feb 24, 2009 from Jenny MannionThis topic of our own personal power has come up so much in my life over the last few weeks that it was impossible NOT to write about. Yes, it has meant me facing some of my own personal demons but it is well worth it! WE — yes, EVERY single one of us are powerful beyond anything we have ever ...
Views: 3281 - Feeling Good – How We Do It - by Submitted on Nov 09, 2010 from Helena EderveenEmotions are very complex experiences connected to our mental, physical, and spiritual makeup. Though we generally consider these properties to be one, they are essentially three different parts of our being and are generally responsible for the day-to-day challenges most of us face. If we ...
Views: 2115 - Witnessing Greatness - by Submitted on Oct 04, 2010 from Alicia MarieKen looked puzzled when he asked, ”Why are you crying?” I had not even noticed that my eyes had pooled with tears and one was slowly making its way down my cheek. He and I had just spent a day practicing, designing and training for his new workshop. I have been coaching Ken by phone for months ...
Views: 1145 - Be Inspired - From Rags to Riches Leadership - by Submitted on Feb 19, 2009 from Theresa-Maria Napa“Each of us has that right, that possibility, to invent ourselves daily. If a person does not invent herself, she will be invented. So, to be bodacious enough to invent ourselves is wise.” – Maya Angelou Where does leadership originate? What makes a good leader? There are a multitude of ...
Views: 871 - Connecting with Inspiration and Choosing Inspired Action - by Submitted on Feb 19, 2009 from Karen VizerInspiration is the basis of inspired action and is often overridden by our intellect when we are focused on the stresses of our daily lives and the subsequent demands of “doing.” From this viewpoint many of our choices are unconscious as we may operate on “automatic pilot” doing what we think we ...
Views: 534 - Power and Force - by Submitted on Feb 17, 2009 from Matthew FerryWhen you get the vital difference between power and force, you will engage in a process that will assist you in releasing fear and unlocking unexplainable joy. As you let go of forcing your life, living with “have to do” and “need to do” you suddenly discover that ...
Views: 602 - The Warrior, The Monk and The Mountain - by Submitted on Feb 16, 2009 from Dax MoyThe warrior sat on a mound of stones atop the great mountain, his head in his hands and his chest still heaving with the exertion of the last stage of his climb. His black hair, now flecked with grey, clung to his face just as his clothing stuck to his body from the combination of the ...
Views: 1227 - Blueprint of Your Destiny! - by Submitted on Sep 01, 2009 from Rachel MadorskyDifferent sources, which have survived the centuries, bear witness to the invisible and often impalpable reality behind appearances. Engravings found on the walls of Pyrenean caves reflect the work of healers, as do descriptions in ancient Egyptian scrolls. The methods of treatment that act upon ...
Views: 967(4 votes) - Fatal Teen-Related Car Accident Inspires Healing - by More than 5,000* teens are killed in car accidents each year, leaving family, friends, teachers, and others who loved them behind to deal with grief, anger, mortality, and the pain of unfulfilled possibilities. Alicia Afterimage (ISBN: 978-1-60060-242-9, $19.95, 144 pgs, pub date: September ...
Views: 1763 - How to Survive the Days Ahead: Living Joyfully Through Challenging Times - by Submitted on Jul 01, 2009 from Susan HaidFailure. Stress. Chaos. Confusion. Doubt. These are words that describe life for most of us today. The changes that lie ahead for all of us demand tremendous courage. We are amidst a struggle that never seems to end. Chaos has become a regular part of our existence. We want to know how it will ...
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