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By Ken DonaldsonRecently published1 topic

Personal Success Tips - Are You Tired of the Bull?

I have a few questions I'd like to ask you. Warning: They WILL make you think. They might even make you squirm a bit. They'll also invite you to take a few more steps into your greatness. Are you up for that? Okay...here we go... What would happen if you were pushed from the edge? Would you fall? Or would you fly? What would you do if you found yourself faced with a charging bull? Run? Or be like the matador and dance around it? What would you do if you fell into a deep darkness? Would you just give up?

Primary topic: Relationship Advice

Relationship Advice

1,036 views

By Ken DonaldsonRecently published1 topic

The Singles Scarcity Myth

Beware singles...you are about to be invited into a deception regarding the singles scene in your local area. According to the 2006 “Best Cities for Singles” research from Forbes.com (http://www.forbes.com/lists/2006/3/06singles_Best-Cities-For-Singles_land.html ), your home town may not be ranked very high on their list of the top 40 metropolitan areas.

Primary topic: Relationship Advice

Relationship Advice

1,027 views

By Ken DonaldsonRecently published1 topic

Life Success Strategies - Stress-less Success

The Eight Steps to Stress-less Success 1. Create a life vision and visit it daily. 2. Live from the goals that reinforce your vision. 3. Learn and implement your personal balance points. 4. Practice boundaries, boundaries and boundaries. 5. Participate in supportive communities. 6. Feed your mind, body, heart and soul. 7. Keep what is most important, most important. 8. Consciously breathe and smile. What is Flexible and Fluid, As Well As Being Before and After Hummingbird? “Take your work in life seriously...take yourself lightly.” ~ C.W.

Primary topic: Relationship Advice

Relationship Advice

1,023 views

By Ken DonaldsonRecently published1 topic

Personal Success Tips - Create A Whole Lot Of Passion, Power and Purpose!

Live according to your purpose, and you'll discover a natural passion for life; and within that, you'll feel a great deal of personal power. If you want to feel totally empowered, learn who you are and be 100% of you 100% of the time! You may need to do some soul-searching and uncovering in order to discover your true self and determine your bigger connection in life.

Primary topic: Relationship Advice

Relationship Advice

1,018 views

By Ken DonaldsonRecently published1 topic

Personal Success Tips - The ABC's Of Success

I like to make things simple, like the ABC's. It makes it easier for me to remember and therefore, live that way in my life. I'd like to share my ABC model with you. A stands for Attraction; more specifically the Law of Attraction. The Law of Attraction states that like energies attract each other. Positive attracts positive and negative attracts negative. Therefore, if you are putting out negative energy you will in turn attract negative energy into your life.

Primary topic: Relationship Advice

Relationship Advice

1,018 views

By Ken DonaldsonRecently published1 topic

A Chiropractic Epiphany

I had my very first chiropractic visit last week and in the midst of it I had a few “a-ha” moments. It never ceases to amaze me how Life brings forth a lesson or two in the most surprising and unlikely settings. First of all, the reaso I had never gone to a chiropractor before was because I could not imagine going through all the twisting, turning, pulling, popping and cracking that I “knew” there would be….Hmmmmm, sounds a little like fear huh??

Primary topic: Relationship Advice

Relationship Advice

1,009 views

By Ken DonaldsonRecently published1 topic

Relationship Success Tips - We Just Don't Know What We're Doing in Our Relationships!

To stop all this dysfunction and improve our relational intelligence we must all be willing to subscribe to philosophy and practice of healthy relationship choices and the skills which will support those healthy choices. This starts with you knowing yourself first and foremost! How?

Primary topic: Relationship Advice

Relationship Advice

989 views

By Ken DonaldsonRecently published1 topic

Relationship Success Strategies: Are You Accepting Or Settling?

When you know what you have to have in a relationship, not only are you going to feel more fulfilled when you have it, you’ll also find the relationship more sustainable. As a result, the relationship will have a higher likelihood of lasting and it’ll be less stressful because your relational needs are met at a much higher level. It is of the utmost importance to put a high emphasis on the deal-breakers. Again, these are the characteristics of relationships which are absolutely, positively non-acceptable.

Primary topic: Relationship Advice

Relationship Advice

988 views

By Ken DonaldsonRecently published1 topic

Personal Success Strategies - Living Your Life On Purpose - What Is The Purpose Of Your Life?

You have a unique purpose. You're here for a very significant reason. When you know your purpose and live according to it, you'll experience the passion of living your purpose, and you'll have the greatest opportunity to have an impact on all humankind. When it comes to discovering your life purpose, spend some time answering the following for yourself.

Primary topic: Relationship Advice

Relationship Advice

976 views

By Ken DonaldsonRecently published1 topic

Relationship Success Tips: Getting The Love by Finding The Safe Harbors From Life's Storms

When I was about 12, I watched one of the old Clint Eastwood westerns where he plays the role of the hardened cowboy: Very little emotional expression, very few words, a tough-as-nails attitude, an occasional fight, some woman to fall in love with him and then, at the end, he leaves town to ride off and disappear into the horizon of solitude. I thought this was what real men were like and, without truly realizing it, I subconsciously took on this image.

Primary topic: Relationship Advice

Relationship Advice

975 views

By Ken DonaldsonRecently published1 topic

The ABC's of Success

A stands for Attraction; more specifically the Law of Attraction. The Law of Attraction states that like energies attract each other. Positive attracts positive and negative attracts negative. Therefore, if you are putting out negative energy you will therefore attract negative energy into your life. Likewise, if you are putting out positive energy you will attract positive energy into your life. So the question is: What vibration are you sending out?

Primary topic: Relationship Advice

Relationship Advice

975 views

By Ken DonaldsonRecently published1 topic

Do You Have a Safe Harbor?

I have been involved in a number of groups over the years and I have found them to be extremely helpful in my life. Groups are one of the foundational pieces of having a balanced life. Whether it is a support group, a recovery group, a mastermind group, a planning group, a creativity group, or whatever type of group, you will always get more from a group then you can by yourself.

Primary topic: Relationship Advice

Relationship Advice

960 views

By Ken DonaldsonRecently published1 topic

Life Success Tips - Success And The Law Of Attraction - You Gotta Live Large!

How big can your life be? What I'm asking is: How big is the space you live your life in? What restricts you from growing as big as possible? Is there any chance you've already outgrown your old life? Just how big is your life, and how big can it be? As you're pondering those questions, think about this in another way: Just how bright can your inner light shine? That inner light of yours was given to you to brighten up the world.

Primary topic: Relationship Advice

Relationship Advice

950 views

By Ken DonaldsonRecently published1 topic

What Goes Down (Sometimes) Comes Up Again

This is about the law of gravity inverted...sorta. Nature always strives to create balance, which is otherwise known as homeostasis. Examples would include day and night; high tide and low tide; summer and winter; and, of course, up and down. Gravity, however, seems to create a skewed dimension because it pulls everything down. In day-to-day life terms, especially from an emotional perspective, the “down” energy can seem as powerful as gravity, and henceforth, very challenging. I was thinking about all this as I was hiking in an area yesterday known as the Tuolumne Grove.

Primary topic: Relationship Advice

Relationship Advice

920 views

By Ken DonaldsonRecently published1 topic

Personal Success Tip - Creating Accountability Circles, Peer-Leaders and Your Personal Posse

Have you ever noticed that every successful person has a team with whom they surround themselves? For example, the head coach of any sports team has countless assistants and trainers. Every CEO has a board of directors. Of course, the President has his cabinet, as well as numerous other advisors and consultants. And what about you? Who is in your cabinet? Who are your assistant coaches? And who is on your board of directors? Do you have anybody? One big reason people have difficulty accomplishing their goals is they try to do all the work on their own.

Primary topic: Relationship Advice

Relationship Advice

919 views

By Ken DonaldsonRecently published1 topic

Transform Addictions For A Life Of Passion, Power And Purpose

Live according to your purpose, and you’ll discover a natural passion for life; and within that, you’ll feel a great deal of personal power. If you want to feel totally empowered, learn who you are and be 100% of you 100% of the time! You may need to do some soul-searching and uncovering in order to discover your true self and determine your bigger connection in life. All this requires is a willingness to become more aware, to heal and/or regain yourself, and claim your greatness.

Primary topic: Relationship Advice

Relationship Advice

901 views

By Ken DonaldsonRecently published1 topic

Values: It's An Urge, But it May Not Be Very Important

To continue our discussion on Values, just because something is Urgent doesn't necessarily mean it's important. Conversely, what’s vital refers to something central and internally crucial; something you literally can’t live without, not just for the moment but over time. In fact, vital comes from the word for life itself, like vital organs—heart, brain, blood. What’s vital may have less pressure and feel calmer than what’s urgent, but it’s much more crucial for your long-term survival and well-being. What’s vital to you feeds your life force.

Primary topic: Relationship Advice

Relationship Advice

879 views

By Ken DonaldsonRecently published1 topic

Exactly Whose Life Purpose Are You Living?

Exactly whose purpose are you living? If you aren’t living your life on purpose, then you must be living it accidentally. People who live accidentally ALWAYS end up settling for less than satisfactory lives. So how about living your life with purpose and on purpose? Besides, you’ll sleep better at night knowing just who the person is you’re sleeping with every night. In other words, you’ll know yourself thoroughly and intimately. Your Personal Compass and a Life of Purpose Life has targets and distractions.

Primary topic: Relationship Advice

Relationship Advice

826 views

By Ken DonaldsonRecently published1 topic

Success Coaching 101: Inspire Your True Essence

One of the essential qualities you need to heal from old, self-limiting beliefs is the permission to be unique and different. Give yourself permission to be the true you. What truly inspires you and motivates you? What is it you feel the most passionate about and what are you most driven by? What is it that you’ve always wanted to do but maybe haven’t given yourself permission to do? Yeah...all those. All those dreams you’ve disregarded because of the excuses you’ve fed yourself...“I’m too old”...“I’m too young”... “I don’t have enough money”...

Primary topic: Relationship Advice

Relationship Advice

822 views

By Ken DonaldsonRecently published1 topic

A Prayer for All

I have often wondered about the possibility of one universal prayer that would break through the barriers of all the different religious beliefs, and somehow connect everyone and not offend anyone…..tall order, huh??!! After all, if we were able to all connect like that, then I suppose we would have to give up war and other life-threatening dis-eases (oops, sorry, a little sarcasm just slipped out!!). As I have thought about that more and more, what keeps coming to me are prayers that I believe the indigenous people of the world might use.

Primary topic: Relationship Advice

Relationship Advice

802 views

By Ken DonaldsonRecently published1 topic

I Dare You...

I dare you to read this ALL the way through to the end. Then, I dare you to take the appropriate follow-up action. Yes...I dare you! I dare you to go stand in front of the mirror and ask the man or woman you see, "Who am I?" I dare you to ask the question, "Who am I?", until you answer it with a purpose for your life so rich and so deep it will give you chill bumps and adrenalin rushes just to think of it. I dare you to then create a vision for your purpose so compelling that it will automatically pull you into it faster than the speed of light. I dare you to ask yourself, "W

Primary topic: Relationship Advice

Relationship Advice

799 views

By Ken DonaldsonRecently published1 topic

F.E.A.R.-Yes, Or F.E.A.R.-Less

What do you fear, and how real are your fears? The most common fears I see and hear from clients (and others!!) include the fear of rejection, the fear of failure, the fear of change and - believe it or not - the fear of success. As real as these fears may seem, most of them are only imaginary (not real) and totally made-up (fantasy). I like to refer to these made-up scenarios as stories. Part of our humanness includes an amazing ability to make up stories and assumptions, and then to believe them and fabricate some F.E.A.R.: Fictitious Events Appearing Real.

Primary topic: Relationship Advice

Relationship Advice

793 views

By Ken DonaldsonRecently published1 topic

Living Your Life on Purpose - What is The Purpose of Your Life?

You have a unique purpose. You’re here for a very significant reason. When you know your purpose and live according to it, you’ll experience the passion of living your purpose, and you’ll have the greatest opportunity to have an impact on all humankind. When it comes to discovering your life purpose, spend some time answering the following for yourself. Get a pen and some paper and write down your answers as best as you can, spontaneously, right now and then go back to them often over the next couple weeks. • What really turns me on?

Primary topic: Relationship Advice

Relationship Advice

788 views

By Ken DonaldsonRecently published1 topic

Don't Let Your Barometer Direct Your Compass

Huh??!! Let me explain...A barometer is used to measure atmospheric pressure. This pressure change helps weather forecasters to predict what weather conditions might be forthcoming. Barometric conditions are always changing; therefore barometric measurement is always fluctuating. A compass, on the other hand, is used to determine direction. Since our North Pole has a natural magnetic pull to it, the needle of a compass will always point in that direction. True North is constant, and therefore, a compass reading is consistent, fixed, and yes, literally, always True.

Primary topic: Relationship Advice

Relationship Advice

773 views

By Ken DonaldsonRecently published1 topic

Winning Success Strategies: The Same Actions Will Always Get You The Same Results!

The ego-driven smaller self tends to live in the predicting-the-past-and-forgetting-the-future mode. What this refers to is the tendency to believe the past will always repeat itself in the future and therefore, no real change can happen. The ego tries to compensate by making you feel as if you need to be driving yourself to try to be something more than who you really are. It’s as if who you actually are isn’t good enough, which prevents you from being your true self. I’ve heard people refer to this as trying to drive your car by steering your rear-view mirror.

Primary topic: Relationship Advice

Relationship Advice

760 views

By Ken DonaldsonRecently published1 topic

The Rite of Your Right to Write (Just Doing the Write Thing!)

Okay, now that I’ve thoroughly done my little play on words, let’s take a look at the power and magic that comes out of writing. Whether you are writing goals, to-do lists, or your life vision; healing letters to yourself or others; jou aling; or just some creative expression, you make your world bigger and much clearer by using your “sword and shield”: your pen and your writing tablet. When you write a list of goals or things to-do, you create a higher likelihood of accomplishing those deeds.

Primary topic: Relationship Advice

Relationship Advice

744 views

By Ken DonaldsonRecently published1 topic

Anger and Hurting and Fears….oh dear!!

Have you ever thought about how ill-equipped we are to handle our emotions? I know, that is a terribly negative opening statement, but really think about it…how many people do you know that are really okay with all their emotions and the expression thereof? I suspect not many; at least that has been my experience. But then again, how often were you instructed with the skills and attitudes that would result in healthy emotional processing and expression? Not much, if any, is what I have heard from many hundreds of people.

Primary topic: Relationship Advice

Relationship Advice

737 views

By Ken DonaldsonRecently published1 topic

Going Out Of Your Mind To Find Your True Sanity

Bear with me for a moment on this one, it really does make sense. Einstein once said, “We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them." I have found this to be so very true. You can’t do something over and over in the same way and get a different result, correct? This means you must somehow expand your thinking to create a new approach and a different solution.

Primary topic: Relationship Advice

Relationship Advice

731 views

By Ken DonaldsonRecently published1 topic

Are You Tired Of The Bull....

I have a few questions I’d like to ask you. Warning: They WILL make you think. They might even make you squirm a bit. They’ll also invite you to take a few more steps into your greatness. Are you up for that? Okay…here we go… What would happen if you were pushed from the edge? Would you fall? Or would you fly? What would you do if you found yourself faced with a charging bull? Run? Or be like the matador and dance around it? What would you do if you fell into a deep darkness? Would you just give up? Or would you allow yourself to go through

Primary topic: Relationship Advice

Relationship Advice

724 views

By Ken DonaldsonRecently published1 topic

Creating Happiness Through The Value of Vision

What is Your life vision? "Give us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for - because unless we stand for something we shall fall for anything."rn~ Peter Marshall Vision gives your life a target. That target represents everything you want to do, be, and have in your life. In other words, it's everything that's possible. When you live according to what's possible, you'll achieve your highest greatness, be prosperous beyond your wildest dreams and you'll also have the highest possible positive impact on humankind.

Primary topic: Relationship Advice

Relationship Advice

721 views

By Ken DonaldsonRecently published1 topic

Awesomonious

Don't bother looking it up in the dictionary. You won't find it there. It's a Kenism. One of those unique and spontaneous terms conjured up from the depths of my Creative Soul. What does it mean?

Primary topic: Relationship Advice

Relationship Advice

681 views

By Ken DonaldsonRecently published1 topic

Attraction, Action And The Art Of Prosperous Living

The Law of Attraction, if you will excuse the pun, can be quite attractive. Narrowed down to its basics, the Law of Attraction means: You will reap whatever type of energy you sow. If you engage in and put out negative energy such as pessimism and cynicism, then you’ll get negative energy back. Likewise, if you engage in and put out positive energy such as hope and optimism, then that, too, will be returned to you. You may recognize this as karma, of which it’s basically the same perspective.

Primary topic: Relationship Advice

Relationship Advice

651 views

By Ken DonaldsonRecently published1 topic

The Law Of Attraction - You Gotta Live Large!

How big can your life be? What I’m asking is: How big is the space you live your life in? What restricts you from growing as big as possible? Is there any chance you’ve already outgrown your old old life? Just how big is your life, and how big can it be? As you’re pondering those questions, think about this in another way: Just how bright can your inner light shine? That inner light of yours was given to you to brighten up the world. It can do neither you nor others any good if you quench or conceal it, for any reason.

Primary topic: Relationship Advice

Relationship Advice

603 views

By Ken DonaldsonRecently published1 topic

Relationships - We Can't Continue To Do What We've Been Doing!

We can’t continue to do what we’ve been doing! Statistics also show nearly one third of American women report being exposed to some type of abuse at the hands of the significant other in their committed relationships. In reality, one out of every three is a grossly conservative figure, since the vast majority of abuse is never reported.

Primary topic: Relationship Advice

Relationship Advice

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