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When I speak to a group, I almost always get questions about e-mail. “I just get so much e-mail at work and I don’t know what to do with it,” people say. Worse yet, they’ve usually tried several e-mail organizing systems, and the overwhelm they’re feeling hasn’t gone away. I think this is because a lot of suffering we experience around e-mail has nothing to do with how we organize it. Instead, it stems from the ways we think about and react to our e-mail.

Can you believe that the holiday season is here already? We can say all together…Where Did The Time Go?! Of course this month, we will take time to come together to celebrate Thanksgiving Day. The turkey, parades, family dinners and football are the traditions of the day. Most families have ...

Road collisions are inescapable and sometimes they are owning to explore rather simple mistakes all of these might not cost all your family members big money on an all in one law court or repairs. Moreover, this may or may not receive throughout the a short time wastage imprisonment. However,an all in one internet site car accident attorney at your discretion may not care either save all your family members an all in one piece of land and have referee brought out best of the

I just love the DVR, don’t you? Over the holidays, during some much needed down time, I caught up on some of my favorite shows, including Oprah. (I had close to 15 shows in the queue!) One day I was watching her interview with the Aussie Country Music star, Keith Urban, who is married to Nicole Kidman.

This action scared the living twist out of me! What was hammered through my thick skull that the amends I made were for my benefit, not for the benefit of the person I was making amends to. I was carrying the garbage, and this step in my journey was for me to clear up my garbage, and I was told ...

More and more professionals today are tired of the frenzied, highly demanding age we live in and the constant pressures brought about by the wish to succeed, be financially secure, fit and healthy, sociable, a good wife and parent. Career women, in particular, have to cope with the sometimes ...

I’m posing this questions, as I sit here at 1:00am, to bring some thoughts into form. What does keep you up at night? For most, stress is the big factor. Stress about work, finances, relationships, family, what do I do with my life now. Any of this hitting home? We fight to stay in bed and ...

As an Inspired Action life coach, my job is to assist my clients in action on their goals and dreams. This is not easy to do because most people have been trained to motivate themselves to take action. The problem is that motivation doesn't last. Motivation is like utilizing sugar in your body. It’s good for a short burst but it’s not sustainable energy.

Coaching supports people in living creative and resourceful lives. The idea that freedom and wholeness are our birthrights are two of the Core Principles that the Coaching for Transformation* method uses in supporting people in realizing their creative potential. In this article we will explore a spiritual luminary’s thoughts on freedom and wholeness and a story about a coaching client taking small steps to become more whole and free. The first core principle of Coaching fo

Goals are just that: goals to be achieved in the distance, in the future in the making. Goals are our desires, our wants, and sometimes our needs. They are something intangible, unable to be magically manifested without human powers added to those goals. Our powers can be one tiny thing and ...

Your best friend from college, and the most Christ-like man you’ve ever had the privilege of knowing, just came up with a mind-blowing business plan for a new product in a niche market. Success has been his, regardless of the endeavor, since the inception of your friendship and you are ...

"Live your best life" What does it mean to live your best life? Is it professional success? Is it balance between work and family? Is it expressing your authentic self? I believe living your best life means living a life of truth, following your purpose and showing your love for those in ...

I am now in the generation whose parents are getting old and sick. It’s the cycle of life. I remember when my grandfather was in the hospital dying. My Father was by his bedside all the time. Now we are facing that stark reality: our parent’s decline and their mortality. Our parents are in a stage of life that is not only difficult for them but for us as well, physically and mentally. How do we deal with the inevitable changes they go through?

“No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.” — Elbert Hubbard I am sure 99% of the readers associate with the above line. Lucky are the 1% who actually have a relaxing vacation and get recharged. Idea of relaxation and relaxation techniques are different for everyone. All of us however, do agree that all of us need to relax. In this age of super activity we have lost the meaning of relaxation and quite often associate it with sleeping and watching television.

Everywhere I turn, women are in transition. Of course, the most obvious transition many of us are facing right now is back to school. But transitions are all around us, some of which are more recognizable than others. These are some of the transitions that have touched my life, directly or ...

“You talking to me? You talking to ME?” -Robert De Niro, Taxi Driver, 1976 As passionate and purposeful business owners who are constantly engaged in marketing our services and ourselves, it’s easy to get overwhelmed with all the should-do’s and must-do’s. Every week it seems there’s a new social media application or new product launch, a new Facebook strategy, a new book to read or another conference that just can’t be missed. In the midst of trying to keep up with all of this, there is a great lesson we can learn from actor Robert De Niro, and it’s probably not what you think.

The question isn’t whether or not your business has a website, it’s a given it does. The real question is this: Does your website allow you to connect and interact with visitors? If it doesn’t, you are missing out on an enormous opportunity to grow your business. A website that is nothing ...

Personal Acceptance What does acceptance mean to you – being resigned to something or finding peace within ourselves by ‘going with the flow’? When we accept something we take it at face value without question. Acceptance of others and our lives can be very difficult. We don’t like the way other people behave, we may not like the way we are, physically or mentally. The idea of acceptance being resignation to your lot seems to contradict a lot of what we try to achieve through self development and personal coaching.

As a Life Coach, I help people get where they want to go and do what they’ve always dreamed of doing. Over and over again I've seen people achieve tremendous goals and create enormous change—the kind of progress that tends to make other people say, "Oh, I could never do that!" My clients leave the jobs they hate and create satisfying new career paths. They lose the weight they are tired of battling. They make significant emotional or geographic moves.

Joblessness, loss of investments, and lack of available credit with no end in sight are all ingredients in creating recession depression. Top economists predict that the recession will deepen in 2009 and will begin recovery mid 2010. So, what can we do to keep ourselves optimistic during this ...

We worry about our kids: their well-being and happy future are our main conce s in life. We long for them to be content and successful at whatever they choose to do. We hope that we’ll be able to provide them with the same kind of help that many of us have received from our own parents. But how can we ensure that we’re doing everything in our power to make all of this come to pass? We can, but there’s a process. First, take a few steps back and consider what we truly want for our kids.

Responsibility brings power. "To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist." -- Gail Sheehy Time spent on my personal co-creative process of recovering a life that I knew was meant for me opens my eyes to truths on a continuous basis. One of these truths is that for my ...

Trust Up.nnnTrust is a five letter word with ‘u’ at the center.nnnImplicit trust is immeasurable. It cannot be purchased. The value of complete trust in a relationship is priceless. Businesses are built on trust. Relationships are entwined by trust.nnnCompanies have been liquidated by mistrust. Marriages have been wrecked by broken trust. nIntangible, untouchable yet breakable, trust evolves through time. Love that builds on trust - builds on love. But trust resembles a d

Having Free Will gives us the appearance or concept of being able to do what we think is right for us in each moment. The operative word and challenge is the word "think," along with the opposite of thinking being feeling. Neither one is going to allow us to listen to that "still small voice within." When we are able to connect to that inner voice, hear what it is being given to us in the moment, we are then clear and can follow through and take action. Until that time we ar

It wasn’t until I achieved my early forties that I noticed that I had an addictive character. I was hooked on alcohol, sleeping pills, gossip and terrible men. The end result was a life that was continuously in disarray. The results of my activities led to such unfortunate occurrences that I drank more to handle all the fall-out from what I had done to myself and whatever friends and family I had left. Following two months stay in rehabilitatio I realized that I could not go

This month has kind of felt like I’ve been walking through sludge! I’ve been experiencing some growing pains and bumping up against some really deep inner barriers. The kind of stuff that drains your energy on all levels, physical, emotional and spiritual. I bet you know exactly what I mean, don’t you? Over the past week or so I’ve started to come out of it. The proverbial light at the end of the tunnel was not a train, as I had feared, but it was a brightly lit candle illuminating the path of my future.

When our ego is in balance with our personality, our work (and life) flows. When it isn't, we experience blockage and hampered results. It's not easy to admit that we're getting in our own way, and our willingness to do so can lead to major, positive shifts. 1. You're determined to make things ...

The word "crisis" in Chinese is written as two ideograms (symbols) meaning Danger and Opportunity. Facing layoff or losing one's job is one of those. Certainly, the dangers and the grieving and letting go process are important. In addition, there are opportunities in the situation: nnn- ...

Making New Years’ Resolutions That Stick “This year, I resolve to make more time for myself in my schedule.” Sound familiar? Every year we make New Years’ resolutions with the idea that we will make ourselves into better people if we just make a resolution. If we could ...

“Patience is not simply the ability to wait – it’s how we behave while we’re waiting.” – Joyce Meyerouble In an era where things are digitized and everything seems to be happening at a click or swipe – let’s accept that patience as a quality seems to be dying. Here is an interesting study – Google engineers have discovered that if we are made to wait for 400 milliseconds –the blink of an eye; we respond by searching less or going to a faster website!

With everything that's going on in the world right now, I hesitated to write this article. However, I felt called to share my reflections with you. There has been so much despair and devastation in the world lately that when something happens to us personally, we can try to shrug it off because "compared to what's going on in the world, this is minor." (This has been my "mantra" over the past week.) Although I believe this to be true, when something happens to you personally, it feels real and challenging. It can paralyze you and keep you from moving forward.

I would call it "The Road Map to Biz." This book has very easy to understand information as well as website references in the Appendix. I would agree and call it the complete guide. Remember that no two businesses are the same. I reviewed this book in 2005 when I was Bella's Business Coach Host/Editor (The author sent me his book). I would recommend this book to anyone who wanted to know more about how to set up a home business, small business, and cut the time surfing/searching the web.

If you are a Creative Visionary, you are using your creative power and innate gifts - fueled by an impulse or deep desire - to express and to share something of the vision that lives inside of you in a bigger way. This may be a truth you experience, or a unique way of seeing or knowing. It is a vision that you know on some level is bigger than you alone. And, if you really tune in and are honest with yourself, you know on some level the world is waiting for it. Creative Visio

If you are effectively living in your strengths then chances are you are happy. If you are living in areas in which you are weak, and perhaps wondering what on earth your strengths are, then you could definitely find more happiness by finding out your strengths. When you are clear what your strengths are, then you can figure out how to use them. When are using your strengths constructively every day, you will find more satisfaction with yourself and with your life. Let’s look at the first step, how to find out your strengths.

I’ve got a group of people working with me in my Transforming Fear into Action Class. Their assignment is to think of four outrageous actions that would catapult their life forward. Many were having troubles, even after we went through their entire life, rated their level of satisfaction in each category of life and identified what would make life a 10 in that area. So, here are some ideas on outrageous things you could do this week that would terrify The Drunk Monkey and give yourself an opportunity to see your machine in action.

Picture this…everyday getting up to your alarm clock, begrudgingly rolling out of bed, grabbing a cup of coffee, showering, dressing, making that long commute to work, doing your job, coming home, going to bed, only to do it all over again the next day. OR Waking up, excited to greet the day ...

THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS Happiness. It’s a word we hear about all the time. It’s something that we work for, that we work to achieve. Yet day by day we seem no closer to attaining it. Happiness eludes us. Yes, we’ve had moments when we felt happy. Perhaps it was a wedding. Or a birth of a child. Or it was that other night, when we were hanging out with friends, or spending time with family. In those moments, we felt happy, truly, deeply happy. Transcendent almost. And then it fades. Darkness ensues. The happiness is gone. In its place will often be a vacuum.

When it comes down to it we all want good relationships. Not only with that special someone, but also all of our relationships; family, friends, work colleagues. The fundamentals of any good healthy relationship are the same. For now we will focus on our primary relationship with our partner, ...

We all have adversity at times in our lives. The thing is to face it, deal with it, then let it go. If you can fight off depression and any feelings of discouragement that can emerge in life, you will have a much better chance at attaining your goals. Yes, it takes hard work, discipline, dedication, a true desire, a lot of help and some luck to reach the top, but a willingness to overcome adversity is most important. Aim high! Don't be afraid to set big goals in life. To be successful, you have to be able to see success ahead of you.

Feeling spiritually disconnected? Whether you attend church regularly, have a personal practice from home, or don’t currently have a spiritual practice, you can bring a sense of spirit into your daily life through Practical Spirituality. What is “Practical Spirituality”? Practical Spirituality is a way to stay consciously connected to your spirit through daily practices. It is a way to strengthen your mind-body-spirit connections. Even if you are pressed for time, these two to five minute activities can be implemented into the busiest of lives.

At an early age, I discovered the power of words. I can remember running home to my parents crying because the kids in our neighborhood would say hurtful things like, "You are so poor you can't pay attention!" It was true. We were poor, but that fact did not make the taunting any less painful. ...

Some people like to linger until the very end of a party; others like to leave early. Unfortunately, they frequently marry each other. They may very well have met and been attracted to each other because of these opposite qualities: one represents tranquility, stability, and caution, the other one represents excitement, change, and risk-taking.

Most adults deal with post-lunch energy lag on a daily basis, wishing they could stop and nap. They rarely have a really productive afte oon. This feeling is the result of an extra amount of the body’s energy being pulled by the digestive system. Similar to the effect a faulty ...

When I was born into this world, I was only a helpless human dependent on strangers I would come to know as Mom and Dad. I would watch them as they argued and fought leaving me feeling helpless and powerless for, afterall, I am only human. Then, as I grew into a young child, I witnessed more anger and violence in my sc

I was blessed a year or so ago to have a man named Patrick Meninga come into my life through “electronic” channels. He is the “Spiritual River” man (www.spiritualriver.com).nnOver the period we have got to know each other and have partnered on a few very small ventures. Our common bonds? We are ...

It all begins with "awareness." Before you can begin to change your negative thinking, beliefs and behaviors, you need to actually be able to catch yourself entertaining and performing them. There are 3 methods you can use to raise your awareness to the point where you can actually catch yourself thinking and acting in negative ways, right in the moment, as they're occurring. The first method is meditation. Through meditation you develop the ability to become still, quiet, and watch your thoughts without judgment.

"I don't deserve to earn more money." "Money is the root of all evil." "Rich people are greedy" "Having and earning a lot of money isn't spiritual." "Money is power, and power corrupts." "It's better to give than to receive." "Wanting to have a lot of money is selfish." "There's never enough ...

FINDING BALANCE AND THRIVING IN THE MIDST OF CHANGE We are all built from the ground up for balance. We all come equipped with elements of greatness. But along the way, change enters the situation. You’ve seen it happen. Change alters your environment. To adapt, you begin to do things differently, often away from your strengths. Change will take us outside our 'genius zone', and reduce our effectiveness. Our distinctiveness gets diluted. We become bogged down. We wind up out of balance. Yet, even in the midst of change, it’s important that you always see yourself succeeding.

Are you ready to take off to the next level of success? Do you have any conce s about hitting your ceiling? What does real success mean to you? If you don't know what, you want you will have great difficulty in getting there. Entrepreneurs all over the world are turning to coaches to insure ...

Are you a die-hard self-help junkie? Do you love to read books about how to find your life purpose, how to find the perfect career or how to live your best life? If so, you’re not alone; there are a lot of us “junkies” out there, and we are all striving to create the happiest life, the best ...