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Bouncing Back From Difficult Times
Life happens. It doesn’t matter how positive an attitude you have or how balanced and centered you are, there are going to be times when you are knocked down. Ties when your carefully organized life is turned upside down and you get knocked on your rear end. Life happens. You will no doubt experience serious illness in either yourself or someone close to you. You may be challenged with the loss of a loved one, a divorce or perhaps the loss of a job or any number of situations ...
Are Your Goals Exciting?
With fall upon us, now is the perfect time to think about your future and begin to design the kind of life you'd like to be living. Unfortunately, too many people leave their lives to chance and happenstance, not taking the time to write down their goals and create plans to achieve them. This can be a huge mistake. Not having written goals would be like going on vacation without a destination, something most people would never consider doing. Yet, those same people will leave their futures in ...
Goals Help In Getting Out Of The "Pits"
Have you ever encountered a person who feels like they are just "unfocused". Or maybe this is happening to you. Studies have shown that many people (including very successful ones) feel this way. We often get the feeling that we're stuck in a rut, going through the daily grind, just to stay where we are. Sort of like being on a treadmill: at the end of the day we're spent, but what have we accomplished? While most of us are not happy or satisfied with this feeling, some experts ...
A Glimpse Of Your True Nature...
I believe that every moment of existence holds within it, somewhere, a key to your true nature. So as you read this article, do so as if this could be your key, and let’s see which doors it opens within you. There is a simple fact of nature that I would like you to consider – YOU ARE ALREADY PERFECT! All of nature, or existence, or reality, or whatever you prefer to call it, is already perfect. There is nothing outside of you that you need to ...
Fame, Money, And Success Will Not Take Away Your Fears
Your fears, anxieties, and other problems have the best of you and you don’t know where to turn for help. At some point you feel totally helpless as you struggle each day. As a layman and an author of a Managing Fear book, there were times that my fears had the best of me. One of the things that I’ve learned is that you can have all the money in the world and be well known by many people, but when it comes down to it, none of it matters when it comes to dealing with your persistent fears and ...
Giving Up In Dealing With Your Fears Is Not An Option
Your fears, anxieties, and other problems have the best of you and you don’t know where to turn for help. At some point you feel totally helpless as you struggle each day. What do you do? As a layman and an author of a Managing Fear book, there were times that my fears had the best of me. Through these experiences, there is one thing that I learned. You can’t hide or runaway from your fears. Taking drugs, drinking, or other addictions will not take away your ...
Remember Long Lists
I want to explain a technique that is used to remember long lists. It is especially useful if you have to remember the list in a particular order. Let's say that you are going shopping and need to remember 5 items. This can be used with 50 items as well. The items are: Pasta Oranges Detergent Bread Butter You will take the items you need to remember and add them to ...
Managing Your Anxieties, Self Esteem, And Self Confidence
Some people have a difficult time in managing their anxieties and fears. In addition, a person’s self esteem and self-confidence can also suffer. As a result, here is a list of techniques a person can use to help manage their anxieties, fears, and self esteem. Remember that practice makes perfect. Whenever it comes to dealing with your anxieties or any other task; practice, patience, and persistence is the name of the game. If you don’t get the desired results the first ...
Goal Setting And How To Achieve Your Goals – Tips From A Life Coach
Goals – we have a love-hate relationship with goals. We love them because they are such a great idea and are a superb way to motivate us to achieve and then to evaluate our progress; but we hate them, because for much of the time, they go unattained and simply frustrate us. This isn’t what goals should do! Having been a Life Coach for many years now I would like to suggest some straightforward and practical techniques on how you can set goals you can achieve! After all, ...
Ten Top Tips For Successfully Setting Goals
"Goals. There's no telling what you can do when you get inspired by them. There's no telling what you can do when you believe in them. And there's no telling what will happen when you act upon them." ~ Jim Rohn Would you like to achieve positive results in your life and get what you really want? This tried and tested goal setting strategy is an effective way to set and achieve your goals. My Ten Top Tips are as follows: • Write them down. By writing ...
Five Thoughts About Effective Communication
Communicating effectively can sometimes be difficult to do. So here are some thoughts, based on borrowed wisdom, on how to communicate clearly – and make a better connection with the other person too. “To get your ideas across use small words, big ideas, and short sentences.” ~ John Henry Patterson Keep it simple and don’t use jargon. Adjust your style according to who you are communicating with. Take responsibility by checking frequently that the other person ...
Before You Think That Next Thought!
Every thought we think is creating our future. - Louise L. Hay Researchers have discovered that the average person thinks anywhere between 50,000 to 70,000 thoughts per day. Since the majority of us spend anywhere from 16-18 hours awake each day, we think a thought on average about every 1.1 seconds. That’s a whole lot of thinking going on. With this much thinking taking place there is nothing more important than to focus that energy on a meaningful goal that targets your ...
Universal Law Series - The Law Of Belief
This is the fourth of seven articles in our continuing series on Universal Law. The focus of this article is the Law of Belief. Law of Belief The Law of Belief states that whatever you believe with feeling and conviction becomes your reality. It is not until you change your beliefs that you can begin to change your reality and your performance. Another way to state this law is in the context of having faith. All of the religions of the ...
Our Worst Enemy
Who do you consider as your worst enemy? The criminals roaming the dark streets? Your boss who's killing you mentally and emotionally with stress and harsh words? The people in office who are engaging in graft and corruption, instead of helping those in need? We have many implications of who our enemies are; but we have one common foe who is the main cause of our failures and misfortunes, and we're not even aware of this opponent. You may not want to admit it, but our worst ...
Memories Are Made Of This!
Catching Lightning Bugs in a jar on a late summer evening at dusk! The earthy smell of the country during a late evening drive! The first kiss with that special someone you just knew was THE one! The first time you held that new-born baby! Memories...they can make us sigh. They can make us laugh. They can make us cry. We cherish those memories and we hold them dear. BUT, what about those memories that aren't so happy? Far too many people have memories they would like to forget. Let me ...
Surrender And Allow For Miracles To Happen
There is a wonderful thing that happens when a person gets to a point in their life where the realization dawns, that all that they have tried only continues to perpetuate the struggle of everyday living. When this point is reached many have gone down to their knees and surrendered, praying to a force greater than them to intervene. The scriptures tell us that in surrendering, we allow for Grace to flow into our lives. The act of surrendering allows for the hand of God to arrange our ...
Speed Reading For Everyone
Speed reading can help students studying, lawyers, anyone who needs to take in a lot of information. Important information that needs to stick in the brain. What is also important, besides reading quickly, is to understand the information read and how to retain the information. What good is a speed reader if he doesn't understand a thing he reads? Five Types of Reading An efficient reader adjusts his speed and strategy to suit the need of ...
Speed Reading For Information Hungry People.
Speed Reading For Information Hungry People This IS the Information Age! Wouldn't you love to be able to absorb information faster and retain it? Learning to speed read in these days isn't just something nice to do if only I had some extra time. No, no, no. It is absolutely vital. In fact, the people who are going to get ahead in life and do well in their jobs and businesses are those that can absorb information the easiest. And of course be able to apply ...
Safety On The Phone
Safety on the Phone Now you can answer the telephone without anyone recognizing your voice. Press a button and completely change your voice. You can sound like a stranger, a women like a man, or a grand-dad like a child. For men, women and children. These voice changers allow you to change your voice to an unfamiliar voice. Ideal for a woman living alone. She can answer the phone with a voice changer and sound like a man or just a different person. "Years ago a man came in and wanted ...
Turning Scarcity Thinking Into Abundance Thinking: Hurricane Katrina's Lesson For The Rest Of Us
The devastation that has rocked the Gulf Coast recently is almost unimaginable, isn't it? I know these are extraordinary circumstances, but the looting that has been taking place has made me think about why some people take whatever they want and why some people only take what they need. It seems that those who come from a place of scarcity take whatever they want, perhaps in spite of what they need. But those who come from a place of abundance in their hearts and minds take only what ...
Self-judgment Versus Self-compassion
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Pass It On - The Three Golden Gates
Someone once told me that if you found something good to say that you should never be afraid to repeat it. Men will quote Bible long after I'm gone and the words of people like Abraham Lincoln or George Washington will be repeated countless times but no one will say when its time to quit repeating their sayings. Such words are never put to rest they are only passed on to others, they belong to humanity they are legacy and wisdom and will never cease to salt the earth. Here are some of the ...
Fear Of Failure
Was talking to a guy last week who speaks several languages. I asked him how he learned them all and he told me, "I'm not afraid to jump in and make mistakes." Great answer. And it's a technique that works in the music business so well. The more you embrace failure, the better you'll do. I work with a direct marketing guy who puts out stuff quickly, probably before it's ready, because he knows that getting it out "as is" is better than not getting it ...
Change: Do You Do It? Or Does It Undo You?
ConnieButler.biz Change: Do You Do It? or Does it Undo You? It has been said that CHANGE is THE only constant. Change is all around us every day and every day our lives our changing. It CAN'T be avoided. We can't bury our heads in the sand or a favored pillow and pretend it isn't there. • Sometimes it creeps up slowly: over time we've gotten older, gradually the kids grow and leave, incrementally our health fails. • Other times it is thrust on ...
A New Balance
As the balance of power in our society, on our planet, and within ourselves shifts from the male energy domination to a balance with the feminine, there is also a fundamental shift taking place within our bodies. This shift is one from a mind-centered existence to one that is more heart-centered. Until recently, we have been living in a Third Dimension reality, defined by what we know as width, length, and height. What we could see is what we would believe. In this dimension we are bound ...
How Would You Like To Have A Razor Sharp Memory?
Forgetful? Can't remember where you put things? Honey! Where did I put my damn keys? Do you forget important dates like your…oops! Anniversary? Peoples names, birthdays, places, events, what you studied, etc, all draw a blank? If so, just relax. Don't get so serious about it. The whole world isn't about to stop just because you forget a few things, right? Many people do experience memory problems, regardless of age, sex, or social standing. You ...
Amazon Tribe Talk Via Heart Sounds
"Talking" like Dolphins and Whales In what might be compared to the telepathic, holographic language dolphins and whales use, a tribe of aborigines has been discovered in South America who communicate in a similar way. These indigenous peoples "talk" to each other using heart sounds that transmit exact images and experiences directly to the other person. Rather than using symbols, such as words, to represent a certain image or experience, the speaker communicates by triggering within the ...
It's A Great Day To Die!
A New Year's Celebration Wow, what a crazy thing to say on the first day of the new year! Yes, it is--especially since this famous cry of freedom was uttered by Crazy Horse, the Sioux chief who defeated Custer at the Battle of Little Bighorn. Why talk about death at the time of year when people are most focused on eternal life? What better time! Isn't this season of rebirth the best time to celebrate a wake for the dead things inour life-the beliefs and patterns that no ...
Speaking Your Truth
I should have been enjoying the soothing caress of the playful breeze as it wafted its way through my hair on this balmy evening in the Hollywood Hills section of Los Angeles. Instead, I was too self- absorbed to notice the sweet, spicy fragrance of spring blossoms in the wind. I was brooding over what I should say in my speaking engagement due to commence in about ten minutes inside the East-West Institute meditation center. In a muted voice, I was practicing my speech aloud when I was ...
Easy Lotion For Your Skin
Years ago, I found out how incredible easy it is to make lotion. It is so inexpensive and organic that I wondered why anyone would even consider spending a dime on the chemical rich lotions on the market. Besides I had an added incentive, I have eczema, so I am extremely sensitive to what I put on my skin. Making my own lotion was a great alternative for me. To begin, for a lotion base all you need is water, oil and an emulsifier. An emulsifier is simply an ingredient that blends ...