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- Feeling Overwhelmed? Simple Solutions for Busy People - by Submitted on Feb 05, 2012 from Talia ManaThere’s no rule that says you have to be a superhero. So much has been written about amazing individuals that achieve the impossible – they juggle full-time jobs, study, run a business, raise children, run a household, coach the national cricket team and write a novel in their spare time. Anyone ...
Views: 19345(7 votes) - The Sky's The Limit - by Submitted on Mar 18, 2004 from Cynthia KozakHelen Keller said that life is either a daring adventure or it is nothing. For your life to have meaning, you must take risks. They allow you to grow and move forward with your life. Life without risk isn’t living at all—it’s just staying in the same place doing the same thing. I’m no ...
Views: 1296(1 vote) - Simple Feng Shui: Eight Quick Ways to Redecorate for Your Spirit - by Submitted on Mar 16, 2004 from Susie CortrightThe ancient Chinese art of Feng Shui is making a comeback in the modern world. But is it really possible to change your attitude just by rearranging your living space? Many people say yes. Feng Shui is an Asian philosophy that dates back some 5,000 years. Practitioners strive to find the proper ...
Views: 2957(1 vote) - Giving It Your Best - The William Hung "American Idol" Success Story - by Submitted on Mar 15, 2004 from Josh HindsNever underestimate the power that comes from following your passion. It never ceases to amaze me what can happen when we put action to work for us and go after the things that we hold a true desire for. I'm not sure if you are familiar with the story of William Hung (www.williamhung.net) or ...
Views: 1585(1 vote) - Emotional Baggage is the “Stuff” hidden in the closets of your mind - by Submitted on Mar 15, 2004 from Wayne MisnerEmotional Baggage is the “Stuff” hidden in the closets of your mind We all have some kind of “Stuff” cluttering our lives. It is so easy for the psychological “Stuff” to accumulate. It can come from childhood disasters, broken relationships, etc. We store this “Stuff” in closets, attics, ...
Views: 1201(1 vote) - Stay in Touch - for Stress Relief - by Submitted on Mar 13, 2004 from Susan DunnStaying in touch … we say it so lightly, yet it’s an important concept for our wellness. Staying in touch with others, staying in touch with ourselves, and staying in actual physical touch with our lives are all important. One of the ways to reach relaxation and give ourselves some relief from ...
Views: 1649(1 vote) - Answers from Africa - by Submitted on Mar 12, 2004 from Maggie WahlsMy two trips to Africa were not only a cultural shock but also the scope of disease and death that I witnessed was hard to talk about when I returned home. If people did not have AIDS then they had cancer. As I walked through the Masaba Hospital in Niarobi, Kenya and looked in the eyes of the ...
Views: 1272 - Why You Must Stop Setting Goals - by Submitted on Mar 11, 2004 from Maya FrostMy goal in life is to have no goals. They get in the way of true progress. Plenty of successful people swear by goal setting. They're praising the wrong behavior. Brain research tells us that the goals don't matter--it's the intention that gets us where we want to go. Intentions and ...
Views: 1067(1 vote) - The writing of Acronyming POWER Your Life! - by Submitted on Mar 11, 2004 from Tom WrightAfter thirteen years of what I had considered to be a good marriage, I came home one day to be told, "I want a divorce." Monotone voice, flat expression. Where did that come from? One wife, two children, a thriving business, property, and possessions, I could see problems here. At first I ...
Views: 1428(1 vote) - IT'S YOUR DAY - by Submitted on Mar 07, 2004 from Subhashis Das GuptaThey say that if you fail to plan, you plan to fail nowhere is this more appropriate than in our own lives. There have been numerous occasions when we open our eyes in the morning with sluggishness, groan at the beginning of yet another painful day and allowed the snooze button to control our ...
Views: 1265(2 votes) - Adopting Humility - by Submitted on Mar 05, 2004 from Mary AllenHUMILITY - Here's an emotion I'm striving to embrace more fully, because I haven't gotten it all figured out. Humility is a beautiful and powerful emotion, but perhaps misunderstood, overlooked or even avoided by the masses. It is viewed as "weak" by some. Those that practice humility know its ...
Views: 2528(1 vote) - Evangelical Skepticism: Pursuing Your Right To Be Wrong - by Submitted on Mar 04, 2004 from Maya FrostMichael Shermer speaks with the energy and passion of an evangelist, so it's not too surprising to learn that he used to be one. What is surprising is that he has made a 180-degree turn in his approach to belief. As a college student at Pepperdine University, he knocked on doors to spread the ...
Views: 1316(1 vote) - When Spirit Guides - by Have you ever wondered about your spirit guides? Who are they? Whatrole do they play in your life and spiritual development?
My spiritual awakening began when I was six years old and gravely illwith pneumonia. I fell into a deep slumber and quickly flew through atunnel toward an incredible ...
Views: 2016(1 vote) - What's On Your Shift List? - by Submitted on Mar 03, 2004 from Keith VarnumThe most happy and successful people on earth have a personal Shift List. They probably don't call it by that name, but they have one. How do I know? Because these folks are enjoying their journey on our challenging planet! A Shift List is simply a list of activities and attitudes that have the ...
Views: 1018(1 vote) - How'd They Do That? - by Submitted on Mar 03, 2004 from Keith Varnum"How'd they do that?" I asked myself time and time again in my youth. As a journalist and documentary filmmaker, I witnessed ordinary people performing extraordinary feats on countless occasions. I documented individuals in moments of crisis and emergency going beyond the limits they and ...
Views: 1088(1 vote) - Are You Heart Smart? How to enhance your emotional quotient - by Submitted on Mar 03, 2004 from Michelle CastoYou don’t have to be Albert Einsten to be smart, although having a high IQ has been associated with being intelligent. Having a high IQ means that you are “head smart.” If you have a high IQ, you are good with book knowledge, including theories, facts, figures, etc. There is another way to be ...
Views: 4275(1 vote) - The Listening Continuum—How Do You Rate? - by Submitted on Mar 03, 2004 from Susan RosenbergOne day in the 1960s, a little girl named Ginny was playing outside her apartment in Stamford, Connecticut. She said something to her 4-year-old playmate just before the girl launched a fist-sized rock at her. Ginny cried out and ran home, her forehead bleeding. Her mother rushed her to the ...
Views: 1564(1 vote) - Listening Better Than 25% Energizes Your Life - by Submitted on Mar 03, 2004 from Susan RosenbergYou’re feeling more tired than you used to. Your get-up-and-go got up and went, and you can’t put your finger on how to get it back. You hardly have the energy to try. Author and educator Dr. Linda Page (“Stress and Energy”) recognizes that low energy has a significant impact on health. Low ...
Views: 997(1 vote) - Most of Life Is Rowing - by My grandfather was a man who lived a rich life. A shipbuilder by trade, he was one of 11 children born in rural Nova Scotia.
Grandfather was a quiet man, a deeply religious man and, perhaps most of all, a person of significant character. Once when I was in high school, my grandfather invited ...
Views: 2175(1 vote) - What Colors Is Your Passion - by The buzzwords today are “Follow your passion, do what you love, work in your strengths.” However, many are still searching for their passion because they are lacking a system that helps them discover who they are. The buzzword makers assume it’s easy to find your passion because they magically ...
Views: 1946(1 vote) - Learn to Love Your Body - by Submitted on Mar 02, 2004 from Susie CortrightTwenty-four percent of women and 17 percent of men say they would give up more than three years of life to be thinner. That’s according to a poll conducted by Psychology Today magazine. At the same time, studies show that half of American women overestimate the size of their ...
Views: 1283(1 vote) - Remembering and Rebirth - by Submitted on Dec 17, 2011 from Mark EarlixEverything that we go through in our lives is meaningful. Everything we have experienced is important, though not everything is necessarily there to do homage to or dwell upon nor to try to work it out again and again... Until we finally give up to the next dilemma. What is needed will ...
Views: 1644(1 vote) - Socrates, Politics and Axe Murder: A Look At Gay Marriage - by Submitted on Feb 25, 2004 from Maya FrostThis week, I attended a reading by Christopher Phillips. He is the author of Socrates Café: A Fresh Taste of Philosophy, and has been described as the "Johnny Appleseed of philosophy" because of his penchant for starting meaningful dialogues with groups around the world. He was there to ...
Views: 1229(1 vote) - The 5 Words That Are Ruining Your Life - by Submitted on Feb 25, 2004 from Sopan GreeneHow would you like to stop feeling like your life isn'tgood enough? (I realize advertisers would go broke if this happened, but it's better for you!) Imagine feeling joyful, whole and complete when you look in the mirror at the end of the day. What if I showed you how you're consciously ...
Views: 1073(1 vote) - The Top 10 Reasons people don't live a prosperous life - by Submitted on Feb 24, 2004 from Sandra Baptist -If it were easy, everyone would do it; everyone would have it. That "IT" is prosperity and we're all trying to achieve that stage in our lives where wealth, health, success are a daily part of our lives. So what's the problem? Why aren't some of us living a prosperous life? Read on, my ...
Views: 8856(1 vote) - What's your clutter keeping you from? - by Submitted on Feb 22, 2004 from Linda DessauSo you might be asking – what is clutter and why should I care about it? Clutter is essentially anything you don't need, don't want and get no joy from seeing. There might be 100's of items in your home or office right now that could be cleared away. The cost of having a lot of clutter around ...
Views: 1254(1 vote) - Telling the Hard Truth - by Submitted on Feb 22, 2004 from Linda DessauWatching television’s “sitcom’s”, I can’t help but notice that most of the plots revolve around the same theme – someone being afraid to tell someone else the truth. We saw it in the years that Ross loved Rachel, that Niles loved Daphne, or that George hated Susan. We saw it in virtually every ...
Views: 4616(1 vote) - The Dynamic Power Of Listening - by Submitted on Feb 21, 2004 from Larry HochmanListening. It's a simple act...one that doesn't get a lot of attention. On T.V. they compete to see who can be seen and heard the most. Same thing on the playground. And in the meeting room. And in the Friday night watering hole. And in Congress. And in the P.T.A. meeting. Guess ...
Views: 2060(1 vote) - Disabled now enabled because of " The Artist's Way - by Submitted on Feb 18, 2004 from david hartI was injured very seriously and was told I would never walk again. I began painting and creating art at age five and sold my first work at age 14 for $400.00 I was injured at age 38 and had lost all hope while I lay in a hospital bed. I had never really succeeded with my art and music. I was ...
Views: 1038(1 vote) - Life’s an Illusion… - by Submitted on Nov 24, 2009 from Gene SimmonsI’ll get right to the point. Life is not necessarily what we think it is. And no, I’m not going to extrapolate this to the extreme to try to convince you that we really exist on some obscure planet in a distant spiral galaxy and that all of this we’re experiencing as “Life” is only a dream. ...
Views: 1285(1 vote) - How to Help Someone on Crutches - by Submitted on Feb 16, 2004 from Susan DunnThis is from my personal point of view, having just broken my ankle, but what other point of view is there? People have offered to do every one of these things for me, and I’m so grateful and will be passing it on. I should preface this with the fact that I’ve offered people help from ...
Views: 1434(1 vote) - Twelve Winter Blah-Busters - by Submitted on Feb 11, 2004 from Susie CortrightFeeling stuck in a never-ending winter? Declare an early spring with these quick ideas. 1. Bust a friend's blahs. Take her out for coffee or a glass of wine, or offer to take her kids while she enjoys an hour or two alone. Such a simple gesture will brighten your own day as well. 2. Indulge ...
Views: 1879(1 vote) - Open, Full and Imperfect: What You Must Know About Your Heart - by Submitted on Feb 10, 2004 from Maya FrostLast Friday was National Wear Red Day, an intentional opportunity to wear a red dress as a symbol of awareness of the fact that heart disease is the number one killer of women in America. I didn't wear a red dress, but I did get my very first electrocardiogram. I wish I could say that I had ...
Views: 1208(1 vote) - Matching Your Outsides With Your Insides - by Submitted on Feb 10, 2004 from Melanie VotawCopyright 2004 We all expect ourselves to act on what we believe is right and avoid those actions that we deem as wrong. Sometimes, though, we don't live up to these expectations. Why? The primary reason is the failure to carefully examine our beliefs about right and wrong – or what I will call ...
Views: 1214(2 votes) - PICK YOURSELF UP - AND GET GOING AGAIN - by Submitted on Feb 09, 2004 from Roy BurtonThere are very few of us, if any, who have never gone through a period when everything seems to have ground to a halt, when ideas have dried up, when our friends have abandoned us, and when life in general seemed to be going down the tubes. It would be so easy at this time to wallow in a trough ...
Views: 1525(1 vote) - Love is in the air - by Submitted on Feb 07, 2004 from Giuditta Tornettafrom her book “Joy In Birthing: Daily Inspiration for a Natural and Painless Childbirth” I confess -- I am bizarre! I look for places where I can feel that love is in the air. Sometimes I go to the airport arrival gate just to bask and be in the presence of love. Looking at people’s ...
Views: 1203(1 vote) - Dynamics of Bioenergy Medicine & Healing - by Submitted on Nov 25, 2010 from Michael CohenRaphaYad Bioenergy Healing is the dynamic technique that is at the cutting edge of Bioenergy Medicine and Healing. Throughout a persons life emotional and physical traumas as well as conflicts impair the connections in their body. These in turn cause blockages and cellular degeneration, ...
Views: 2964(1 vote) - One-Minute Wake-Ups - by Submitted on Feb 06, 2004 from Susie CortrightWe all get frazzled. We all get overwhelmed and snappy. And we all need to re-center before we share that feeling with the rest of the world. Here are a few one-minute "wake-ups" that will help you to re-focus on what's important. - What are you thankful for? List as many "gratitudes" as ...
Views: 1287(1 vote) - Humor, Optimism, and a Laugh at Getting Older - by The great American comic George Burns once opined, “You can’t help getting older, but you can help getting old.” I, too, believe that looking at getting older with humor is a miraculous opportunity to laugh and stay young at heart.
I wrote my first book, “A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To ...
Views: 1561(1 vote) - THE PERSONALITY’S BROKEN LEGS - by It is important to begin to realize that our personality is just like our body. It is not our true self, but rather a vehicle, or "mental body", through which our true self, the soul, is expressing itself. We tend to be more detached from our physical bodies than from our «emotional body» or ...
Views: 1083(1 vote) - The SIX Common Myths in Personal Development - by Submitted on Feb 05, 2004 from Danish AhmedMythology can be intriguing to study. The stories that are portrayed in myths may be fictional, but there is usually some truth that has allowed the story to be passed down from generation to generation. That's what "myths" are -- they are not completely true or completely false. Here we will ...
Views: 1136(3 votes) - WHAT STOPS US FROM CLARIFYING OR LIVING ON PURPOSE - by Recently during an interview for The Inside Success Show,(http://www.TheInsideSuccessShow.com), the host, Randy Gilbert, asked me,"What is it that stops people from knowing and living their purpose?"
What a great question, I thought, in part because I knew the answer.
Here are the 4 primary ...
Views: 1234(1 vote) - The Top 10 Benefits to Knowing & Living Your Purpose - by As the founder and director of an organization with a name like Life OnPurpose Institute, I guess it's not surprising to hear me say that I feelthat one of the most important matters that anyone can do for themselves andthe world is to become clear what their true purpose in life is and to ...
Views: 3008(1 vote) - Seize the Mentoring Moment! - by Once upon a time, greed and ruthless ambition ruled the Halls of Business. Maybe not really, maybe not in every case, but such was the common perception. You made it to the top of the corporate ladder by climbing on the backs of others. If someone seemed to be gaining on you, well, you crushed ...
Views: 1864(1 vote) - Project Life - by Submitted on Feb 02, 2004 from Katie GramesIn order to reach a goal of any complexity, it is useful to have a system to get there. Project Management Methodology is successfully used for decades for very different types of projects, from constructing a power plant to building and implementing software. This same methodology can be ...
Views: 1021(1 vote) - Good Vibes/ Bad Vibes - by Submitted on Feb 01, 2004 from Maggie WahlsHave you ever walked into a store or business and felt uncomfortable there for no apparent reason? Have you ever walked into a store all happy and left quite frustrated? Have you ever wished your house could feel happier? The process called energetic clearing can make a significant improvement ...
Views: 2448(1 vote) - How Stupid Can People Be? - by Submitted on Nov 24, 2009 from Gene Simmons“I can’t believe she did that!” “What the hell is he thinking?” “Any idiot would have better sense than that!” “Are they all taking dumb pills?” “What’s the matter with these people?” “Why am I working with a bunch of morons?” “He doesn’t have the sense God gave a goose!” Do any of ...
Views: 1460(1 vote) - Death Upon Us - by Submitted on Dec 24, 2011 from Mark EarlixFor the past many years, many people have asked for a response of what so many of them are currently going through… as they feel the sadness and separations in life in the season of this time of year… and as some are just beginning to come forth from it. In the winter season, from the ...
Views: 1585(1 vote) - What is Happiness and How to Achieve It? - by Submitted on Jan 29, 2004 from ashok kumarTrue happiness is such a rare commodity that the whole of the world is continuously seeking it and failing to find it. All the people, who we consider to be the best in their fields, are seeking it too and failing to acquire it. The most brilliant of the scientists, the most gifted of artists, ...
Views: 22622(5 votes) - Secrets of Sound Sleep - by Submitted on Jan 27, 2004 from Susie CortrightA single good night's sleep can rejuvenate your mind, body, and soul. Here's how to get one tonight: IN PREPARATION - A regular exercise routine will help you fall asleep faster and wake up feeling more refreshed, but experts don't recommend vigorous exercise fewer than three hours before ...
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