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If you have a problem, any problem at all, you need a solution and a solution is the answer to your problem, right? To find the answer to anything, you have to do what? You have to ask the (___?___). The more glaring the problem, the more impactful the insight/answer to the question can be. The ...
In 2007 I looked around and realized I had in essence retired early. I was living the life of my dreams. I was doing work I would do whether or not I got paid for it and even if I only had a year left to live. What happened? So much had manifested in such a short time it felt like a mystery to me. When I watched the movie "The Secret" I realized there was a formula to what I had been practicing my whole life. Only now, it was happening so fast! I naturally had to investigate this because if it was mere luck, then it could just as easily be taken away.
“I am so grateful to be enriching the lives of others nwhile earning more money tha I can spend." Wouldn't it be nice?! It can be, just as surely as you are living in whatever circumstances you are currently experiencing, you can live a life in which you experience having enough and doing the ...
By junior high, most teens have taken all the camps that have ever interested them. Anything really exciting at this point can cost hundreds of dollars a week. What if you could create a camp that paid for itself a hundredfold over time? Most teen-agers enjoy creative projects. A camp that enhances their creative skills while teaching them valuable life lessons that are good for your health and good for your bank account is a win-win for everyone. Here’s how to make your cooking camp a success: • Even teens need supervision.
Even too much of a good thing is never a good thing. A lack of balance creates one problem or another, but when the heart and mind become allies, anything is possible. In spite of all that is falling apart at the moment, there is greater promise for humanity than ever before because we are ...
You have to hand it to Hollywood! Sometimes I think L.A. is truly still the "City of Angels." Every now and then a film comes along at just the right time to uplift and encourage us, to set us right on our paths. During these trying times we are gifted with Julie and Julia, a film about two women who’s passion and purpose leads them to extraordinary success. Many would think that such a life would be pure “cush” but as with all of life, we see it’s really a mixed bag. Both women face a variety of trials.
Breaking into a safe isn’t easy, but it’s simple if you know the combination, right? The left, right, left formula to successfully using the Law of Attraction is the most empowering information you can get your hands on. Know this, and you will increase your capacity to receive ...
There’s just nothing like a little confidence in the kitchen! Too uncoordinated to dance or play an instrument, I began cooking at the age of 13---just for the fun of it. In those days Gourmet Magazine recipes averaged two hours for prep time. These days everything has to be do-able in under 30 minutes or it doesn’t stand a chance! In order to qualify to ever be made again, a recipe has to be almost easy enough to remember. It has to be ready to eat within the hour. It has to so totally wow your taste buds you will want to expend the effort to make it again.
"We can make a course correction rather quickly." Quantum physicist Mark Cummings stated this at the Mind/Super Mind lecture series presented by the University of Califo ia, Santa Barbara, many years ago. Still, it's one of those thoughts that gives me comfort and hope whenever I am feeling ...
All great truths eventually become self-evident. Once they do, once they become clear, they're often so simple you don't understand why something so obvious eluded you for so long! "Who am I?" The answer to this is one of those self-evident truths you just can't avoid. One way or another, you ...
Don’t Stress~Manifest! Truly, just stop and think about this and while you’re at it take a big, deep breath. When is the last time you worried about something and that helped the situation in any way? Imagine turning the blender on with the lid off -- this is what you do with ...
Sometimes I use little post-its. Usually I highlight or underline. Occasionally I’ll use my nail to permanently mark the margin alongside a thought worth keeping. But tonight, I got out of bed, found a pencil, and for the first time ever, circled a sentence:nn ...
If Freddie, Fannie, Merrill, Indy and the Lehman Brothers haven't yet learned the ropes, you have to wonder what in the world it's going to take to sustain financial success? When millions in assets isn't enough, how is little ol'me going to preserve my wealth? Is there even such a thing as ...