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• Change Is Inevetible - Learn To Adjust
  Life is filled with ups and downs, twists and turns, good and not so good times; that's what makes it interesting and often forces us out of our comfort zones.Frank Herbert said, "Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken."
  Published 16May2012, viewed 30 times

• Time Management - Less Stress and More Time for You
  When you manage your time wisely, there is quality time left for you. It's like carving a piece of time out of the pie of life especially for you because you deserve it. When you make the time for you, you are less stressed and therefore a kinder and happier person because you are renewing yourself.
  Published 10May2012, viewed 12 times

• Today Is A New Day -- Anything Is Possible
  You wake up; it's a new dawn, a new day, and yet somehow it doesn't feel much different than the day before. It's like today has yesterday written all over it. Not only is it the same routine as the day before with perhaps a few variances here and there, but the feelings of yesterday may have also carried forward into this pristine day.
  Published 07May2012, viewed 23 times

• Mistakes - What To Do When You Make Them
  Mistakes really are brilliant! Do you know why? No matter what error in judgment you may make, whether it's in your relationships, personally, professionally, or financially, you can learn something valuable about you, another, or this mysterious world we inhabit. Some slip ups are bigger than others and you might even pay dearly in one way or another for them.
  Published 08May2012, viewed 112 times

• Don't Miss Out On Happiness; Stop and Enjoy It
  William Feather, an author and publisher said, "Plenty of people miss their share of happiness. Not because they never found it - but because they didn't stop and enjoy it". For a lot of people, life is filled with schedules, appointments, endless to-do lists, and rushing here and there. This is often referred to as the "rat race".
  Published 25Apr2012, viewed 65 times

• How To Turn A Bad Day Into A Better One
  There really is no such thing as a "bad" day. There are days that are certainly much more challenging than others, to say the least, but that doesn't make them bad. Know that you can make them better. Days are filled with ups and downs. Some will be exciting, heartwarming, moving, encouraging, and hopeful, while others can be exactly the opposite.
  Published 06Apr2012, viewed 17 times

• How To Handle Difficult Family Members
  Whether you have a large family or small one, there always seems to be that one person, and in some cases more than one, who can set you off one way or another. Things were fairly good until they called, or you saw them, or were talking about them. Then you found yourself all riled. Perhaps you feel they have wronged you somehow, or you don't like how they do, handle, or say things.
  Published 25Mar2012, viewed 42 times

• Jealousy - How To Tame The Green-Eyed Monster
  Most people know when they are feeling jealous, but often they struggle with admitting it, as well as knowing how to tame "the green-eyed monster".Envy really is quite a common feeling. I don't think there are too many people that can honestly say they haven't felt the pangs of it at one time or another in their lives.You can be jealous over just about anything - relationships, money, success, sobriety, weight loss, etc.
  Published 13Mar2012, viewed 37 times

• Slow Down - Don't Miss The Precious Moments In Life
  Our days can be busy. In fact too busy sometimes with appointments, house and/or office work, to-do lists, schedules, meetings, racing from one place to another, grocery shopping, errands, planning, etc. If you have children, that can add a whole other dimension to busyness just on it's own! Whew... I don't know about you, but I become tired just reading the list of ways our lives can become one gigantic timetable of events and things to do.
  Published 27Feb2012, viewed 23 times

• Today I Will...
  When you say, "Today I will…", can you feel the promise and possibility in these words? There is an openness to them. A chance to start anew. An opportunity to fine-tune the way you are doing things or to do more of what is working well in your life. These words can offer insights, creativity, promise, hope, excitement, love, peace, understanding, compassion, forgiveness, friendship, prosperity, and a second chance.
  Published 20Feb2012, viewed 45 times

• How To Let Go Of The Past So The Future Can Be Bright
  Whether it's a new year, a new month, or a new day, it can be still be filled with hope that the future can be bright and shiny like a new penny. With all the ups and downs, as well as the twists and turns we can take in life, it can sometimes become disheartening and discouraging, where stress and anxiety levels seem to soar to all time highs to say the least.
  Published 29Jan2012, viewed 54 times

• How To Have Unsinkable Hope
  When unsettling times occur, your emotions can get the best of you. Fear and doubt can creep in and the feeling of hope seems to be lost. When faced with a problem have unsinkable hope.Whether it's hope for yourself or another person, it may appear to be out of reach or just beyond your grasp, but rest assure, it's not. You can feel overcome with worry, second guessing, hopelessness, uncertainty, panic, and even catastrophic thinking.
  Published 06Jan2012, viewed 75 times

• Aging Doesn't Have To Be Stressful
  Life goes by too quickly, or does it? Aging can be very a stressful time for many, not just in their appearance, but also feeling like they might have missed out on things in life. Often you will hear children say they can't wait to be older and then as adults they wish they were younger again.
  Published 06Jan2012, viewed 81 times

• Happiness is a Choice. Are You Choosing It?
  t's true, lifestyle, people, things, success, and money can enhance your happiness, but that's only half the equation. The other half of the equation depends solely on you.I am sure you have heard of people, or perhaps you are one of those people, who have everything money can buy and still aren't happy. Then there are those that are joyous whether they have or don't have things or partners in their life. Why is that?
  Published 14Dec2011, viewed 62 times

• How To Cherish Moments In Tough Times
  When times are tough, whether you are going through a crisis or illness, or perhaps feeling financial pressure, or worrying about the future or your relationship, or the natural and/or man made disasters in the world, it can be difficult to remember that there are still moments that can be valued.These precious minutes, are the glue holding you together when you feel like you, or things, are becoming unglued.
  Published 27Nov2011, viewed 80 times

• What To Do When Faced With Stressful Situations
  There is no doubt that stressful events can really send one spiraling down into that emotional abyss and self doubt until one finds his/her way back up or through. It's not always easy, but it is possible. Stress places strain on your physical and emotional well-being which is why it's important to take care of yourself while you are traveling the rough road ahead until you find yourself cruising the happy trails once again.
  Published 19Nov2011, viewed 117 times

• How To Receive The Most From Affirmations
  Did you know that affirmations can be a powerful and manifesting tool in your life? They are used to aid in healing, for stress and anxiety reduction, meditation, to uplift moods, bring about a desired goals, and enhance your overall well-being. They can create possibilities and positive outcomes in all areas of your life. Affirming statements can be stated anytime or anywhere and for anything to support your growth, desires and intentions.
  Published 29Oct2011, viewed 136 times

• How Music Can Enhance Your Life
  Berthold Auerbach said, "Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life". When you listen to your favourite songs or different genres of music, how do you feel? Perhaps you are inspired, feel energetic, happier, relaxed, romantic, moved, touched, blessed, or even in awe when you listen to it.
  Published 14Oct2011, viewed 238 times

• What Does Love Mean To You?
  What does love mean to you? When, where, and/or with whom in your life are you with-holding love on some level? Why do you feel the need to do so? Is it because you lack trust in yourself, the other person or in the situation? Perhaps you are self sabotaging. Maybe it's out of spite, envy or jealousy. Could it be you don't believe in yourself, your worth or love?
  Published 25Sep2011, viewed 164 times

• How To Enjoy Your Life To The Fullest
  Living life to the fullest isn't about filling the emptiness with things or experiences, rather it's enjoying the fullness of experiences and things unfolding around you.
  Published 11Sep2011, viewed 154 times

• The Importance Of Appreciation In Your Life
  Are you the type of person spreading thanks, cheer and good will, or are you contributing to your own or other people's doom and gloom? You can still appreciate life through all its ups and downs and twists and turns. Do you believe it? Are you able to do this?
  Published 28Aug2011, viewed 130 times

• Stop Being Hard On Yourself, Learn To Love Yourself Instead
  In our busy and sometimes mixed up and stressful lives we can easily overlook what we love about our days, let alone ourselves. One of the things I hear most from others, my clients and myself, although I'm visiting this space much less these days, is how hard we are on ourselves.
  Published 14Aug2011, viewed 158 times

• How To Make Things Right, When Things Go Wrong
  Have you ever had one of those days when things seem to go wrong instead of right? Perhaps a conversation you wanted to have doesn't go the way you intended, or an event gets rained out or doesn't happen the way you expected, or the dinner party you organized doesn't work out the way you thought, or things didn't go well with your partner, friend or family member, or your trip was postponed, etc. A lot of things can seem to go wrong in life.
  Published 03Aug2011, viewed 237 times

• How To Stop Being Controlling In Your Life
  There isn't much we can control in our lives except our attitude and some days even that can be a struggle. Not being able to direct how things are going, or going to go, or what people may do, can frequently be scary for people. As a result they might try to control just about everyone and/or everything in their life. The best of intentions for yourself just don't work out and that's the way of it whether you agree with that or not.
  Published 19Jul2011, viewed 226 times

• Letting Go Of Stress By Letting Go Of Expectations Of Others
  When you're disappointed, frustrated, or angry with someone, you can bet that there is an expectation of them that isn't being met. You may or may not be aware of at the time. The more you expect from others and don't receive, the greater the stress and frustration. These conscious or unconscious demands need a little deciphering on your part. What is it that you really want or need? Why do you need that?
  Published 10Jul2011, viewed 118 times

• The Thoughts You Keep Can Lift You Up Or Bring You Down
  It can be challenging to maintain a positive outlook when you are in the midst of negative situations and/or people. With the increasing costs of living, natural disasters, wars, company closures, lay-offs, divorces, illnesses, addictions and adultery, to name just a few, it can put a real strain and struggle on a person's attitude and life.
  Published 07Jul2011, viewed 94 times

• Ease The Stress With the Simple Pleasures In Life
  With all the hustling and bustling and pressures of day to day demands at work and/or at home, either self induced or from others, people are stressed and struggling to find a balance and a sense of happiness in their day, let alone in their lives. People may start off in the morning in a positive way, but often by mid-day it quickly fades to outer or inner grumblings, and their energy and mood diminishes right along with it.
  Published 14May2011, viewed 109 times

• What To Do When People Push Your Buttons
  At one time or another we have all experienced someone who seems to know exactly what to do or say that turns our calm demeanor into a raging lunatic on the inside, and sometimes even on the outside. You find yourself saying and doing things you didn't really want to, or wanted to and then wished you hadn't, or your good day or mood takes a nose dive in the opposite direction.
  Published 10May2011, viewed 473 times

• Be Happy Now, Not Later
  Have you ever said, "I just want to be happy"? I hear this quite often in my coaching business as well as when I'm out and about, and I certainly have said these very words more than once over the years. It's as if joy somehow just disappears, vanishes into thin air, and one is left feeling quite the opposite, unhappy or down right miserable.Happiness isn't any different.
  Published 05Apr2011, viewed 128 times

• How to Handle Negative Emotions Positively
  Negative feelings really aren't negative at all when you handle them in a positive way! The challenge many people face when it comes to unhappy emotions is not wanting to feel them at all, like they are the worst thing ever. Maybe you believe negative feelings are bad, or you can't bear to feel them, or that you are weak, or not a good person if you experience them.
  Published 25Mar2011, viewed 153 times

• What Creativity Can Do For Your Life
  Creativity is a wonderful thing! It allows imaginations to soar, ideas to manifest, passions to be lived, houses to become homes, books to be written, songs to be sung or played, discoveries to be made, and so much more. One of the greatest benefits of being creative is that it can minimize the stress in your life.
  Published 25Mar2011, viewed 159 times

• Contribute to Your Love Banks
  Contributing to your love banks on a regular basis decreases stress and anxiety and increases your happiness and peace. It also inspires creativity, productivity, and possibilities. Are you adding to your love banks or are you taking away from them or overlooking some altogether?
  Published 20Mar2011, viewed 194 times

• Are You Giving From An Open Heart Or Hand?
  When we give with our hearts and our hand isn't waiting for something in return, it is the greatest gift we can bestow upon another and receive for ourselves. You may not be aware of it, but sometimes behind your good deed is a hidden agenda of wanting or waiting to receive something back.
  Published 16Mar2011, viewed 395 times

• Discover How You Can Make The Future Brighter
  You can make the future brighter beginning today. You can be the sun shining through on a cloudy day or the rainbow after a storm. You already have what it takes to do so. Do you know what that is? There are no two greater or endearing qualities than love and kindness. You are an expression of these and they are for you to give and receive freely.
  Published 11Jan2011, viewed 177 times

• Appreciating What You Have In Your Life
  Sometimes it's difficult to appreciate what you have in your life because you might be looking at and longing for what you don't have. When you can be grateful for the love and abundance in your life right now, you are less likely to be stressed or anxious about what you feel is missing or lacking. This isn't always easy since the grass can look pretty lush and green...
  Published 26Dec2010, viewed 178 times

• 10 Ways To Minimize Stress During The Holiday Season
  Just the thought of the holiday season can create a sense of panic and stress for many people.The added financial expenses, the loss of a loved one or a job, being alone, or not well, can leave one feeling depressed and or stressed.Then there can be social functions which can be extremely overwhelming and exhausting.
  Published 13Dec2010, viewed 195 times

• Starting Over Doesn't Have To Be Stressful
  I certainly have had my fair share of starting over, from jobs, to relationships, to finances, to moving, to working on a project, and even to the newsletters I write. I used to become really stressed when things changed, especially over the ones that would impact my life. I would get myself so worked up thinking the worst was about to happen...
  Published 06Dec2010, viewed 145 times

• Right vs Wrong Decisions - How Do You Know?
  There really aren't right or wrong decisions. There is the choice you make, what transpires when you make it, and what you do from there. When you make a decision and it doesn't turn out the way you had hoped, it doesn't mean it was the "wrong" one, or if you would have chosen differently, it would be the "right" one.
  Published 23Nov2010, viewed 329 times

• How to Remain True to Yourself
  What does being true to yourself really mean? It means being able to be "you". The real you, whether you're at the office or at home, or with friends or family, or with your partner or children, or with co-workers or your boss, or even with someone you don't even know, you can be you. The question then is, do you know who you are? This is one of the age old questions, "Who are you?"
  Published 06Nov2010, viewed 209 times

• Life's a Journey Not a Destination - Enjoy Your Commute
  I was driving on the highway the other day and a sign said, "Enjoy Your Commute". I thought to myself, "Thank-you, I am", and not just the road I was driving on, but the road of life. Sure, there are still moments or days where I feel like I've hit a pothole, so to speak, where I wasn't able to steer away from that one.
  Published 16Oct2010, viewed 178 times

• Melt Your Stresses Away With Laughter
  Laughter tickles the soul and make your heart smile, whether it's watching a comedy show or movie, giggling with friends or family, rolling on the floor until your stomach and face hurt so much you can barely breathe, or finding humour in yourself, with others, or in situations. When we can find amusement in ourselves and the challenges we face, it makes them much easier to endure, and can brighten the darkest days.
  Published 03Oct2010, viewed 217 times

• What Relationship Goals Can Do For Your Life
  Relationship goals benefit you emotionally and spiritually as well as enrich your day to day experiences and connection to yourself, others, and the divine creator. Many people concentrate on business, personal, or physical goals which are very beneficial, but all too often they overlook or don't feel relationship goals are as important.
  Published 22Sep2010, viewed 271 times

• How to Overcome Fear by Taking Risks
  Often people don't take risks because of fear of rejection, judgment, failing, making a mistake, being wrong, or fear of the outcome not being as expected or afraid of how things might turn out. Yet taking a gamble is how to overcome worries, indecision's, and problems and transmute them into love, healing, action, and possibilities. What are your fears?
  Published 28Aug2010, viewed 146 times

• How Your Attitude Can Impact Your Life
  Why is it that some people can look on the bright side of things while others seem to be stuck in perpetuating negative thoughts, anxiety, doubts, and situations and they they have a difficult time seeing the positive or give up before they even try? What separates the two types of people isn't the person or the situation, but rather their way of thinking. Your attitude has everything to do with your creativity, happiness, and love.
  Published 14Aug2010, viewed 222 times

• How to Heal Painful Memories
  If you were to ask someone what their best and worst memories are/were, most people could probably tell you, and in detail.Although we like to focus on the ones that are happy, fun, exciting, and loving, there may be others that we would like to forget, yet somehow can't.We create memories upon memories every day whether we are aware of it or not. We are adding to our memory banks and we are the keepers.
  Published 30Jul2010, viewed 146 times

• How to Handle Negative People
  Do you sometimes find yourself or your mood changing when you are around negative people? Maybe you become frustrated, impatient, angry, or you try to change their minds or moods with little or no success. Do you ignore the opportunity or recognize it?
  Published 15Jul2010, viewed 199 times

• How To Make Use of Too Much or Too Little Time
  We are generally either consumed with too much to do and too little time, or too much time and not enough to do. Where are you? Are you the type of person that is rushing around with a million and one things to do and get done, or are you walking around aimlessly wondering what to do first or next? Perhaps you aren't even sure if you really want to do anything.
  Published 02Jul2010, viewed 209 times

• Does Today Feel Like a Perfect Day?
  The dawn of each new day and each new moment is flawless even when it seems flawed by our thinking and emotions. When things are going well it's easier to say or think, "today is a perfect day", but when times are trying in your personal and/or professional life, it can be difficult to see beyond the present empasse or loss.
  Published 21Jun2010, viewed 222 times

• How Nature Can Inspire Your Creativity
  Whether you are stressed, problem solving, feeling stuck or uninspired, overwhelmed, or frustrated by others or yourself, nature is a key component in stirring new ideas and ways of being. No matter what's going on in my life, when I step outside it's like walking into a dream. The greatest thing about it is, it's not a dream. It's right here, right now, waiting for me to align with and be inspired by.
  Published 21Jun2010, viewed 248 times

• Decisions? Stop, Look, Listen, then Choose
  When you were small, you were probably taught that before you cross the street you should Stop, Look, Listen, then walk. What great advice. But were you also told to do this before making decisions? Every day in our lives we make choices like what to have for breakfast, lunch or dinner, what to wear, when to schedule appointments, what groceries or items to buy, when you will do the things on your "to do list", what to tackle first, etc.
  Published 04Jun2010, viewed 161 times

• Turn Your Lows into Highs
  Life is filled with glorious and not so glorious experiences. What constitutes lows for each person varies. For some, the smallest things may set them off. For instance, the weather may put a damper on their day, or someone says something that sends them into a frenzy.
  Published 25May2010, viewed 339 times

• Do Your Thoughts Need Polishing Up?
  If you have ever seen a geode, you would know they look like an ordinary rock on the outside but when broken open, they reveal a beautiful display of crystals. When polished, wow, simply breathtaking. Think of your thoughts like a geode that when opened and polished, they are brilliant gems. So what holds someone back from wanting to discover what's hidden within? Fear.
  Published 22May2010, viewed 157 times

• Motivation Mind Chatter - 7 Steps to New Mindsets
  What exactly is mind chatter? Mind chatter are those old tapes of doubt, fear, worry, questioning, second guessing, rehashing, etc., that keep replaying over, and over, and over again. It's the nattering and nagging thoughts that aren't productive and often holds you back from your true self, others, and life.
  Published 07May2010, viewed 231 times

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