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In the midst of a faulty economic recovery, high unemployment, continuing foreclosures, and the prospects of inflation or hyperinflation, people around the world continue to focus more attention on things and people that cannot and will not help them in their daily lives than on the work that needs to be done to get their lives back on track. So, what do Prince William, Sarah Palin’s Alaska & Cat vs Gator have in common? Distraction!

WHERE TO FIND SERENITY I'm sitting here on a rainy Thursday morning, at peace with the world. I was to have played in a golf tou ament this morning, and was quite looking forward to it. In days a decade and a half ago, having the event canceled by rain would have ticked me off and disrupted serenity. So would have many of the other major set backs I have faced over the past fifteen years.

The ability to move on after your divorce entails the letting go of the past with its emotional baggage and negative emotions. If you can accomplish this feat then the heavy burdens you have been carrying will lift and you will experience the liberation of freedom: the ability to move unimpeded towards whatever goal you establish for yourself. Think of slavery. Picture a person wrapped in chains. Now think of those chains as having specific labels attached: blame, resentment, resistance, anger, denial, sadness and confusion.

With so many wealth and business gurus out there, how's a person to know what is real and what is not? Today's knowledge campaign trail is filled with new renditions of very old songs but are all worthy of an attentive ear? The problem presents itself in deciding which wannabe prophet we want ...

Perhaps the easiest thing to do in the world is to procrastinate…but only if there were no deadlines that exist. With tons of work waiting for your attention and action, there’s just no way you should waste time. Below are some useful tips that will help you stay focused throughout the day: #1: Evaluate How You Use Your Time

If the recent news has been any indicator, we are becoming an increasingly digitized and virtualized culture, with one glaring and fatal flaw: our inability to realize just how vulnerable our real lives are to the impact of our digital footprint. Look at Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, whose ...

The first time I ever paddle out on my board and sat waiting 15 minutes for a wave to come along, I knew I had found a place of peace, tranquillity, healing and oneness, just like I experience when practising yoga. Nothing else exists when I’m in that place. It is if I’ve made a special agreement with the ocean that I have permission to let go of everything and just be with this dynamic force of nature.

Did you make New Year’s resolutions this year? How are they coming along? If you’re like most people, you may not have implemented all the essential components to ensure your success. Smart goal setting is possible if you put into practice these five necessary steps. 1. You’ve got to ...

Most of us are quite willing to make a New Years resolution, but how many of us really achieve our goals? According to Wikipedia the sad fact is only about 12%. It’s such a low success rate one wonders if it is even worth the effort of trying. If you are starting to feel this way - take ...

In my last two posts I discussed what does a life coach do and the benefits of coaching. The third typical questio I get as a Life Coach is “What happens in a Life Coaching Session?” Each Life Coach has a different process and methodology. I choose to describe a personal coaching session by answering the following three questions 1.Where is it conducted?

There will always be a need for marketing lead generation campaign. No matter what the industry or market you are in, you need to take a more active approach in gathering B2B sales leads to your business. This business necessity makes it more important for you to maximize your business’ ability to attract business prospects. Perhaps additional investment in soft skills and complaint handling will help your marketing team increase their effectiveness during the sales leads c

Creative Driven Lifer Creative Driven Life what does that mean? I believe it means the life that we all were looking for and the reason we came to Neothink. A life without mysticism, a life driven by creativity, a life driven by integrations.

Owners of small businesses, have to have their particular goals in terms of running and growing their businesses. It is vital that they have a clear idea of what short term and long term goals they need to achieve, which should include funding, increasing profits, gaining more customers, and expanding their business. Goal-setting can be considered a simple process, but the challenge is how to make sure your business goals are specific, measurable, and most importantly, realistic. Below are the important aspects of a small business every entrepreneur should look to improve:

There is nothing like a truly happy love relationship! This level of relationship isn’t reserved for the lucky or the favored. Happy relationships have certain things in common. If you know what they are, you can find or create happiness in your love relationship. Here are the 6 Essentials for a Happy Love Relationship. Everyday Zen Happy love relationships have peaceful exchanges all day long. It’s never anything major. It’s a way of talking and being with your partner that is balancing, calming and fulfilling.

How to Have a Stress Free Christmas I’d like to meet the person for whom Christmas is all good fun, peace on earth to all and general contentment. Even though children generally have nothing to arrange or organise Christmas can still become quite stressful.

I conducted two workshops at the PTA Leadership Summit in Dallas. After my first session, an attendee came up and talked to me. She said she had a dream, she just didn't know what it was. She was entering a new phase in her life, in her early thirties, and just settling in after a divorce, and she wanted to know how to discover her dream... her passion. She didn't know where to start.

I’m sitting in row 20 seat E. That’s the middle seat at the back of the plane. This morning, not knowing what seat my assistant had booked me for this trip I wrote in my intentions, rather spontaneously, “I am so thankful to the universe for providing me with first class seats on the way up and back to Seattle this week… or something better!” This isn’t normally something I spend too much time manifesting as I practice being in a state of Ridiculous Bliss where ever I am, regardless of the circumstances. But I know what my clients would say, “Where is your manifesting now Mr.

I recently had a conversation with someone that began, "I'm not going to do that anymore." Being the action-oriented person that I am, I asked, "That's great! How are you going to pull that off?" The person on the receiving end of the question took a moment and said, "I don't really ...

In life, I have come to accept the fact that there are questions of mine that will never be answered to my satisfaction if at all. I have come to accept the fact that some things in life are beyond my comprehension and I must trust or have faith that certain occurrences are indeed outside the realm of human reason.

In addition to spending Thanksgiving with your family this year, why not start a new tradition and have a “Friends Thanksgiving”? This is a great way to spend time with and honor your friendships, and the families of your friends. As an annual event, your friends and their children will be excited year after year as the event approaches and everyone can spend the day together once again. My friends have been gathering for Friends Thanksgiving for 7 years in a row. Here’s how we do it. There is normally a core set of friends that host the event.

New Year's resolutions tend to fizzle out sometime in the first six weeks of the year and attempts to make healthy lifestyle changes often die on the vine. One of the biggest stumbling blocks for many busy women who want to make changes is finding the time to actually make them. Here’s a questio I was asked in an interview recently: “How do we justify taking time out for a workout or a healthy lunch or to work on that novel we want to write when our to-do lists are still a mile long? This question is really getting at the mindset we have about taking the time for these things.

Creative, holistically minded people work in circular patterns, often experiencing life in more of a spiral than a linear fashion. Contrary to popular belief, there is nothing wrong with this pattern. In fact it is essential for creative expansion and it must be honored as part of the creative process. Without the help of linear goals, however, the circular approach to life and work can spiral out of control, so much so that the highly creative person runs around in circles feeling overwhelmed and achieving very little. I call this the "creative tornado".

"Character isn't inherited. One builds it daily by the way one thinks and acts, thought by thought, action by action. If one lets fear or hate or anger take possession of the mind, they become self-forged chains." -- Helen Douglas How do you feel about anger, in yourself and in others? How do you deal with it? Anger is powerful energy. If we are afraid of this energy, we may attempt to deny or hide it.

How great it would be if there was a machine that could identify the things that can surely make a person happy…but there isn’t! Nevertheless, it seems quite easy for us to tell if a person is happy or unhappy. Thus, if you want to live a happier life, it won’t hurt to know what happy people do in general, so you could perhaps apply some of them in your own life. Their habits may not necessarily make you happy, but they can be a great source of inspiration for you. So what do happy people do? 1. They don’t consider wealth as their only source of happiness.

Have you ever been so passionate about your business, so in love with your business that you’ve stayed up late, maybe most of the night to work on an upcoming project? Have you gotten up early because the spark of an idea woke you up without the need of an alarm clock? What I am describing is the love you have for your business and living a life of choice. Most of all our choices are based on creating a lifestyle of joy and freedom.

As for the above question, the answer is a resounding yes. To start with, you cannot start generating qualified sales leads if you do not have a concrete plan in generating them. You need to understand the market first, study the trends, and identify prospects that will most likely do business with you. In order for any sensible lead generation campaign to take place, you have to come up with a good marketing strategy. There are just so many factors that can affect your busin

FISHING POLE-FOOD FOR LIFE Yesterday, I had posted something that asked for input and answers to a couple of specific questions. I am still looking for more input, and thanks to those of you who did respond. I got one great reminder and I have to remember it, and it may be a great reminder for you to. I love to help people. I can be guilty at times of trying to “fix” their surface problem. This depends on the “role” I am playing in the person’s life. The great reminder was a parable.r

Do you overeat when you are stressed or tired or overwhelmed? Do you flop down exhausted at the end of the day feeling like there is never enough time for you? Despite your best intentions, do you never seem to get to that exercise plan, that journal that you want to write in, or that fun project you really want to start? Do you ever feel like no one really understands how much is expected of you? Are you feeling resentful that there is never enough time to get to you? If you find yourself answering yes to any of these questions, it’s time to consider whether martyrdom is havi

Maya Angelou writes that "you can tell a lot about a person by the way he/she handles three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights." I can add a fourth thing to the list: you can tell a lot about a person by the way he/she handles being stranded abroad and finding other ways back home when a volcano erupts and airplanes don't fly because of volcanic ash! Like many other people all around the world, in April I was stranded abroad because of volcanic ash and had an exciting 45+ hour journey home with my family.

I'm going to do it! How many times have you told yourself you're going to do something and then a week goes by? Then a month? Maybe even a year and you still haven't done it? It's not that you don't want to do it, but life gets in the way…or so you tell yourself.

What comes up when you think about the beginning of a new year? Perhaps it’s fear, optimism, stress, or creation. These are all very natural thoughts to have when considering the unknown. Many people end one year thinking about all of the changes they want to make and form resolutions to achieve future goals. New years resolutions can be inspiring and motivating, but sometimes they can be daunting and overwhelming. The key is having a process to turn your resolutions into reality. Working with a life coach can help you transform your career and life to create the success you want.

There are times when we allow ourselves to wallow in self-pity, doubt and fear. It’s a marvelous day when we realize that we are in control of our thoughts and feelings. We can actually choose to feel things! Here are some things that really feel good to me. As you think about these ...

Finding a new job in the summer seems intimidating to many people. The prospect of job hunting, only to be rejected, keeps potential workers from realizing some of the best opportunities available. Summer is often the best time to make a career change. What you Need to Know If you want to find a new job this summer, think positive. Many career resources are available. With effective job search techniques, the occupation of your dreams may be just around the corner. You need to know that: * Summer is a good time to revive your search strategies * There is less competitionr

Learning is key to developing and honing your talents. To make the most out of your educational experiences, it's important to identify and understand your learning style. While we have the capacity to learn in countless ways, we all have our preferences. That's why some learning situations can be fun, easy and effective...while others can be stressful and frustrating. When it comes to discovering and developing your many talents, it's helpful to know what works best for you.

Every year, an average employee is expected to receive an average pay raise of 3 percent. For top performers, another 1 percent of salary raise is given. While this would clearly not make a huge difference, a lot of companies are still struggling to offer their workers such a raise. This is not surprising, though, considering how terribly the economy is still struggling. Therefore, you must appreciate every bit of raise you are to receive. Nevertheless, there are things you can do to make sure you are in a position to ask for a raise that is significantly higher than average.

In the process of your lead generation campaign , there will be times when your mind seems so tired that you just cannot move at all. That can have an adverse effect on your performance in generating sales leads. You need to take time to take care of our brains, since a refreshed mind will be able to do more work faster, and accomplish more in the end. And you can do that even in the middle of your work. There are several things that you can do in order to divert your mind fr

See I have these adoption yahoo’s who sit at a table in my head and when I get tired, run down or just having a plain old bad day - they start to chatter like squirrels in an argument over nuts. No, it is not schizophrenia – thank you very much. It is more like a bunch of people arguing their ...

Sometimes we’re our own worst enemy. We have oodles of passion, motivation and drive to reach our highest goals, but for some reason we’re just not reaching them! We quit before the finish line or we quit before we’ve even started trying. One of the major blockages to achieving any goal (whether it’s getting that project at work off the ground or buying that doer-upper to get into the property market) is our belief about whether or not we can achieve it.

The references that you include in your resume when applying for a job that you really want are so valuable. Putting a name of a reference who cannot be reached can definitely cost you the job you’re trying to get. As a matter of fact, most hiring managers use the provided references as a basis for choosing between equally experienced and skilled job applicants. Before we talk about the things you should do to ask for a reference, you should understand first what you should NOT do. These are the following:

Bursting with warm earthly colors, carnelian is a gentle stone that inspires one to identify their unique personal strengths and courage to live life to the fullest. A variant of chalcedony, carnelian is mainly composed of silicon dioxide which is commonly known as quartz. Its color range varies from a pale milky orange to deep rust brown. A reminder of the rising sun, fiery sunsets, autumn leaves and the fertile soil of the earth, carnelian is a symbol of the strength and beauty of our planet. Carnelian has held a strong presence in the history of the world.

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment." -- Ralph Waldo Emerso R.W. Emerson certainly must have known me in a past life. I spent a four decades trying to be who I thought you wanted me to be, and no one, and ultimately ...

Did you ever have to manage people who just can’t seem to put their trust on one another? If yes, then you have an idea of how draining and difficult it is to build trust among your team members. And while there isn’t any way you could do this easier, you really have to try to achieve this goal.

Being able to live your life to the fullest seems just too good to be true. For many of us, it is a big struggle to reach their full potential, be it personally or professionally. What makes things even more complicated is that failing in one aspect of our live can have a significant effect on our success in the other aspects of our lives. If you want to make the most out of life, you must go back to the basics and address certain issues that you think were trivial. Here are some tips on how you may start living a happier and fuller life:

Children have long lists of toys they want and moms have long "to do" lists. If we can set aside our money fears, it's exciting to listen to our children talk about all the cool toys they want for their birthdays or other special occasions. Do you ever hear your child say, "I have to have a ...

The Law Of Attraction explained The law of attraction is a theory with overwhelming scientific evidence. It is said to be a law of nature (like the law of gravity). It affects our lives in a big way. With advances in quantum physics more and more people are now paying attention to it. If you've never heard of it, or want to learn more, read on. I love science, especially quantum physics and could go on and on about it, but I will try to keep it brief and simple as I can here :)

For as long as I can remember – I have been called an optimist. This is a term that I embrace and love. When somebody calls me an optimist, I feel truly seen and understood. I feel like my habitual way of showing up in the world is spot-on with how I wish to be experienced – I feel like I’m making choices that represent what I really want for myself – yay me!

Most people go through life completely unaware that they hold the keys to their success literally in the palm of their hands! You search for deep meaning and purpose in all the wrong places, looking outside yourself for answers. Is it in your job, your relationships, or your material goods? No. The answer you are seeking is right in your fingerprints.

Some tips and insights to overcome fearful thoughts and emotional states that cause you to contract from others and from your own sense of resourcefulness and joy: 1) Leap! Liberation and empowerment always come dressed in paradox. If you find yourself contracting and holding back and holding ...

New country, new life, new challenges. A person experiences all of these things when he or she decides to migrate, regardless of whether the migration is internal within one's own homeland, or far away to some distant foreign country. Because living in a new place can be an incredible experience, many people choose to give it a try for a year or two and then end up staying in their country of choice forever. Others, however, have a more difficult time. Try as they might they miss the comforts and familiarities of home and never feel like they fit in.

Life Playground Newsletter - September 2009 Greetings Playgrounders.... Spring is in the air, for those of us that live in the southern hemisphere, that is and it is time for excitement, birth, renewal and for some of us out there... a time to be made redundant or get laid off!! Two of my clients got asked to leave their jobs over the last couple of weeks. One of them had a great payout and now has the time to think about what he wants to do with his life.