Empowerment Articles

Collaboration is the here to stay; the days of “The Lone Ranger” are numbered and rightfully so. It is unnatural to live isolated with the old ‘survival of the fittest’ mentality and this was only a paradigm anyway. Disregarding others is like cutting off your nose to spite your own face. There is more than one way to live life. Be forewa ed however; the paradigm you create will show up as your “reality”. I can see around me people awakening to this truth.

Hopefully you’re ready to take on 2012 and planning how you’ll increase your wealth this year. If you’re not quite ready, there’s no time to waste, start getting prepared now so that can see the results you want. The sooner you’re ready to jump into action, the sooner you can watch your dreams manifest. Here are 6 secrets of successful businesses that will help sky rocket your wealth in 2012. 1. Know what you are offering and get it done early.

The way you see yourself, your perspective of who you are, plays a vital part in the way you act and the experiences you have in all areas of your life. If you have a low perspective of yourself or a low self-image no matter what situation, you'll find yourself being unsuccessful in whatever you attempt to do. So I ask you the question, "Are you a grasshopper or a giant?" If whatever situation you encounter you see yourself as being small among the giants, then you're already beaten even before you attempt to step forward.

My son wanted new toys so I responded by telling him he needed to get rid of some toys. At that time, he was 6- years old and he looked like I had told him he was to bed with no dinner. How do you explain making room for new toys to a 6- year old? We were sitting on the floor in his room playing with cars so I asked him to pick up two cars putting one in each hand, he did. There were other toys around the room, I picked up two toys, and said, “If you want new toys you have to let go of old ones. Do you want these?” I showed him the toys in my hands and he responded affirmatively.

4:49 AM … can’t sleep. Actually, I’ve been awake most of the night. I just finally decided to stop fighting it, make some coffee, and make good use of the time. Why am I awake and back to work when I just made my way to bed a few short hours ago; when my typical sleep ...

Have you closed your heart, afraid to let anyone in because you've been rejected, betrayed, let down by those you love and trust? The wall you now put up to protect yourself may very well be the wall that's keeping you from experiencing Unconditional Love. How do you open your heart to Love's embrace so you can allow the healing process to begin? 1) Become aware of the Source of Unconditional Love

Congratulations! So you have finally allowed yourself to recognize (even if just a little bit, like a tiny little whisper) the deep calling of your heart - that you would like to leave your job, write a novel, create a family, start painting portraits, really expand your business in order to reach more people, whatever it may be. But before you are even able to pick up a paintbrush, or make an hour of time in your busy schedule to write, you are bombarded by a slew of criticism whether internal or exte al.

You’re up at 6:00 a.m. to feed the dog, water the plants, get the kids up, fed and out, yourself showered, prepped and ready, zooming out the door for another day of hassle, deadlines, demanding bosses/clients/customers, too much to do in too little time, and the refrain that reverberates ...

Today’s graduates have a different style of thinking than those who passed out a decade ago. The entrepreneur culture has gained momentum. Youngsters feel it is better to create a job than find one.rnThe great thing about working as an entrepreneur is that you’ll quickly feel like you’re part of a family, and you’ll face the highs and lows of entrepreneur life with like-minded others.rnHowever, working as an entrepreneur comes with a whole lot of challenges.rnExpectat

In the September, 2014 edition of Ideal Insights, I wrote about habits (how they are formed and how they can be replaced). In that article, the emphasis was on the fact that a habit has to be replaced, not just removed. In my coaching and mentoring career, there have been countless clients who wanted to give up an unproductive habit. My emphatic message to them was that they must look for ways to replace that habit. If you are to get rid of a habit, please remember that a void will be formed.

Are you taking the right steps to manifest your desires using the Law of Attraction? A lot of the time you will see me discussing about the two methods of manifestation. In my opinion the two methods are: Feel Good Believe Your Desire When you feel good about anything at all, in that moment ...

You’ve done it, I know you have. We ALL have. You finally made that call, sent that email, did that THING and want instant results. Who doesn’t? And when you finally take that chance and put something out there, you want to know that you didn’t screw up. You want to know, “did it work?”. Whether it’s personal relationships, business or just a dream, you’ll rarely get your real reward right away. Instead, you have to wait, watch and remember that what you set in motion eventually comes back to you. Karma.

Over the past few weeks I have had the privilege of leading two transformational weekend workshops. I am always in awe of what an honor it is to be invited into people’s lives and have them share so openly about their past as well as the honest and raw feelings they have about themselves and their lives. Of course, we are also seeing so much of this in today’s culture – people, especially women, coming forward and sharing about the assaults, attacks, abuse, and secrets

Seventy percent of all workers hate their jobs. So says a recent Gallup poll. Job dissatisfaction not only causes absenteeism and employee turnover, but also contributes to lost productivity. Enjoying what you do can make the difference between merely getting by in business and excelling in it. The greatest satisfaction, and the highest income, accrues to those who pursue their passions. Here is how to find yours. First, make a chronological list of several peak moments in your life. Begin by recalling a particularly happy time before you started school.

Are there certain things in your life you absolutely dislike, but you still have to do? Then you are not alone. But what can you do? Here is what I suggest: * Stop fighting and get at peace with your current situation * Get clear about what you really want in life * From now on, focus and put your mind only on those things you really want and stop occupying your mind with those things that worry you and you no longer want to experience in your life. * Listen to your intuition, grab opportunities when they arise and take action towards realizing your dreams.

Your manager has announced that everyone will have to take a pay cut . . . or join the unemployment line. Aargh! You're barely keeping up with your bills as is. Or you're self-employed, and your competition is undercutting your prices in a way you can't compete with and still feed your family. ...

Are you ready to move past your struggles and feeling stuck, and joyfully leap into accomplishing your BIGGEST goals with ease, joy and success? Are you someone who knows you are bright, creative and self-aware but you have been too busy to be as in touch with your true self as you would like? Do you feel called to create change and inspiration in the world but are not quite sure how to get your plan off the ground (if you even have one...)?r

We tend to hold onto our experiences in life, cataloging them in our minds as “good” or “bad”, bringing them up to react to new experiences based on the old ones to avoid being hurt. We may take the emotions from these experiences and form beliefs out of them and they then become our TRUTH. ...

Most people think leadership is the task of guiding or directing others and the ability to plan and organize. While these are facets of leadership, there are aspects that have more to do with you than your ability to work with others. Before one can conce themselves with traditional training for leadership skills, it is important to understand that effective leadership qualities include:

There is strength in our words. We can give power to those words with the thoughts we think and the actions we employ. This a serious matter. This is one of the ways we create our own peace of mind or lack thereof. Have you ever thought about what you are thinking when you start feeling down, depressed, a little blue, sad, or any other negative feelings? If we examine they way we think I can guarantee that some of that negative feelings will begin to dissipate. How can we ge

Transformation feels scary. Why? It is mostly because we’ve been conditioned unwittingly to think of change as “life threatening.” Granted, we have an instinct for survival wired into our brain, yet we have a greater authority – conscious choice – that can temper the violence of this fear-response to change. If we do not realize that we can “rewire” our brain and change this perception, we will continue to act robotically. This would not be so unhealthy if we had not been programmed with so much fear and limitation in our thinking. Who wired us? Where does this come from?

Have you ever watched a child who is just learning to walk? Their sheer joy is contagious! The sense of amazement and accomplishment in their eyes reflects a special state of mind. In martial arts and many Eastern traditions, this is known as “beginner’s mind” – being fully engaged in the experience, fully present in the moment, without expectation or comparison. This is where true learning happens. Years ago, I practiced a martial art called Aikido. My sensei (teache

Having a successful career in an area that they are interested in is something that many people dream of being able to do. However, it can be a long, arduous road to success, particularly if you are working your way up from the ground. The good news is that there are steps that you can take in order to improve your career prospects, your earnings potential, and your future. When you watch reports on msnbc live streaming you often see stories about people who have made a huge

If there’s one thing I noticed about our sheltering-in-place time, it’s that complaining did absolutely nothing about it. Zip. Nada. Complaining about the lack of work didn’t magically produce more work, ditto lack of income. Complaining about the ordeal – pardon me, challenge – of home-schooling (especially if more than one child was involved) didn’t make it less onerous. Complaining about the lack of TP didn’t make it grow on trees. In fact, all complaining did was annoy wh

Recently in a yoga class - not a self-improvement class, and I say this because personal development classes is where one normally receives this type of "instruction" - the yoga instructor made a simple request: accept yourself. "Accept yourself just the way that you are and exactly where you are", he said. This means so much …to accept myself just the way that I am is to acknowledge that all is well and the potential for even better is right here and now. It is a peaceful command. It is full of promise and it is very empowering because of the hope that it instills.

Do you believe you can have it in your life? Most of us would like to believe that, but at the same time we have a little voice in the back of our minds that prevents us from experiencing what it is that we want: “You’re no good at this... Who do you think you are?... Don’t ...

Let's begin with a quick review of Ergonomics.nn ERGONOMICS: n1: An applied science concerned with designing and arranging things people use so that the people and things interact most efficiently and safely - also known as biotechnology, human engineering, human factors.n2: The study of the problems of people in adjusting to their environment; esp., the science that seeks to adapt work or working conditions to suit the worker.n3: The design characteristics of an object resul

Far too many people are over complicating the Law of Attraction. They think that because they haven't been able to make it work for them that it has to be hard and difficult to make it work. “There must be something more. It can't possibly be that simple.” The truth of the matter ...

Have you ever stood face to face with indecision? You consider taking another step, turning and running, only to find yourself doing neither? There you are seemingly stuck with an insatiable desire to be somewhere else and yet unable to move. What is it that is required to close the gap? Many avoid it as if it is an option – consciously or unconsciously. Some will go to extreme measures to circumvent while others are adept at nonchalantly slithering out of its way. The very mention of the word typically triggers a shudder at minimum and paralyzing fear at the other end of the spectrum.

This morning, as I hiked up my mountain trail, I was joined by Samson, a big dog who lives near the foot of the trail. He set off up the mountain with me, sometimes walking with me, sometimes running to check things out just off the trail. As the trail got steeper, though, he started walking in front of me, and would frequently just stop.nnIf you’ve tried to hike up a steep mountain and had to suddenly stop and detour around a big dog, you know how frustrating this can get

Imagination is the fuel of creation! I have never been one to pay too much attention to the influence of planetary forces upon us but recently, on the morning of a full moon, I was feeling very discouraged and put it down to the magnetic pull between the moon and the earth. I needed to make a decision and was waffling. So I sat very quietly attempting to focus on the present moment and to encourage my troubled spirit when the following message popped into my thoughts: if I can imagine it then I can be, do or have it.

Working moms get a bad rap. They are damned if they do and damned if they don’t. Do or don’t what? Everything! The working mother is busting you-know-what to be everything, everywhere to everyone. Face it – that’s impossible even for Wonder Woman. Every working mother I know at some time or other has felt run down, exhausted, overwhelmed, unnoticed, and unappreciated. I know I have. Well, there is something you can do about it. Sure, you can take time for yourself - away from the wanting, nagging and expectations. That may help, of course, it will!

You already have the answers. Remember the story of the farmer looking for gold? He sold his farm, traveled out west, mined the rivers for years and never found gold. Back home, at his old farm, the new owner found gold in the river that ran through the farm. You already know the answer. The answer is within. If you know the question, you know the answer. It may not be in your head, your head may give you misleading answers, but your heart knows. You heart knows the answer, and knows the right answer. Why do people avoid the answer their heart gives them?

“What value can I offer today?” I often ask myself this question to put myself in the frame of mind of service. Not that I really need to be reminded that the career that I have chosen for myself as a life coach is one of service, but to put myself in the frame of mind of creating value for others daily. Before I could do that freely, however, I had to understand what value really means.r

You were terminated from your job. Oh, how you hate that word – terminated! Why don’t they call it like it is: you were fired! Unjustly, for no good reason (other than the boss wanted a job for his new love interest), with virtually no warning. You--who gave 10 good years to the company. You of ...

You're going along in your relationship for 7 years now, it's a little on the hum-drum side, but hey! No major fights, no major hassles, and yes, you're way past the honeymoon stage, but what can you expect? You're both busy with work and the kids, church or community activities, what with one ...

Mastery is developed in the silence and becomes evidence in our reality. So then, what action steps can we take to master our lives with Spirit Guidance? Let's look at some action steps now. Step #1 - Habitual Entrance into the Silence

I just had a conversation with a friend about the idea of finding love. She said that you can't find someone to love without being able to love yourself first. In fact, many people say that. As I was driving home from my visit I was reflecting on this statement. I feel we all have aspects of ourselves that we don’t like or that are fragile. We have qualities and faults that are certainly not perfect.

You know that old saw about the constant husband-wife battle over who puts the toothpaste cap back on and who leaves it off? What's with that? Why is it so true?! And how can something so simple be so hurtful? Your husband knows perfectly well you don't like to sleep with the windows open, yet ...

Is your life full of lemons or lemonade?nnExpressing your Inner Wizard is about seeing lemonade instead of lemons rather than making lemonade out of lemons. If you believe that your self, your environment and the world is made up of lemons then most of what you see will be - lemons! Your mind will be constantly on the look-out for lemons to prove your internal, unconscious, belief system – your Inner Critic - is RIGHT. The world is full of lemons and lemons are what you

In this day and age a lot of families are living over their means, spending what they don't have, racking up debt (especially credit card debt) and not paying attention to how much they spend. Because of this, a lot of what is being earned in the home is used to pay this debt. In this article I aim to give five tips, for families like this, that will empower them to save money.

The process of making decisions is a skill that can be developed and learned like any other skill. By practicing the critical thinking that is necessary to make complex decisions, you will become better at making all decisions. By learning how to make good decisions, you will avoid mistakes and get rid of blocks to reaching your true purpose and aim. To make good decisions consider the following:

I’ve had a number of clients and students ask, “Is the process any different when positively energizing an office or business versus a home?” “Are there basic principles you can follow when using Feng Shui for a business client versus a home client?” Or, “why would you even consider energizing the relationship and health areas of a business? I understand how that is important in a family but how does energizing those areas relate to the business environment?” The answer to t

God Who is the maker and possessor of heaven and earth. He is the One who created us out of dust of the ground. Is it hard to believe that nothing is impossible with Him? I believe there is a problem within the body of Christ with our thinking. We relate to God as if He is one of us. We have bought God down to our level. Where is the reverence for God? Where is the awe, majesty, and the honor which He deserves? Just because we feel puny we relate to God as if He is puny.

A real change leader is courageous in dealing with personal growth - changing one's self. Let's be clear here; personal growth is not about 'fixing yourself'. It is about learning and growing to reach more of your true potential. A leader will need to acknowledge her or his fear and keep moving forward anyway… leading the way. This is simple, yet not easy - at first. Facing change may not be without doubt or uneasiness; still, the more one comes from a place of confidence and authenticity, the more likely courage will be the response instead of denial.

You scrimp, you save. You wash dishes, mop floors, endlessly pick up dropped sweaters, backpacks, skateboards, CDs, dirty dishes. You help with homework, chauffeur regardless of how tired you are or how early/late/inconvenient it is. That’s on top of your 40-stretching-to-50 hour work week. Does ...

We all know we control our thoughts. Have you measured your results of those thoughts recently? Are you thoroughly pleased with yourself and the world around you? If so, patent it quickly, as it could indeed be our next new and favorite breakfast cereal! Life is guaranteed to change each and every second; be honest with your feelings and determine is some of them require reconditioning; new habits and beliefs to reap abundance.

A recruitment agency is a sales organization. It is there to make a profit. As such, his advisers are normally given the high sales targets because of these consultants, naturally, have to concentrate on candidates who can sell to companies or to appeal to customers seeking or actively recruiting for. Not just a recruitment agency you already have a database of people with appropriate work requirements, but are waiting for an opportunity to hold office immediately. Recruitmen

What you think about expands...so think differently. Consider this.rnYour thoughts and fears are like outdated operating systems and programs that jam up your mental space, drain your energy and cause your machine to crash. Believe it or not what you think about can cause you to be either a success or failure each and every day. But you can always upgrade by getting into action.rnRight now. Declarations are a great way to shake things up.rnQuick and painless, they can set you