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By Ken DonaldsonRecently published1 topic

Life Success Strategies - Stress-less Success

The Eight Steps to Stress-less Success 1. Create a life vision and visit it daily. 2. Live from the goals that reinforce your vision. 3. Learn and implement your personal balance points. 4. Practice boundaries, boundaries and boundaries. 5. Participate in supportive communities. 6. Feed your mind, body, heart and soul. 7. Keep what is most important, most important. 8. Consciously breathe and smile. What is Flexible and Fluid, As Well As Being Before and After Hummingbird? “Take your work in life seriously...take yourself lightly.” ~ C.W.

Primary topic: Relationship Advice

Relationship Advice

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By Ken DonaldsonRecently published1 topic

Personal Success Strategies - Heart, Head or Hell?

I have a confession: I was confronted by a friend recently. She suggested that I might possibly be living more from my head than my heart. She wanted to know where all the successful relationships were and was asking me, since I am THE REALationship Coach (That's pretty much the way she said it, too!) to show her evidence that these happy and successful relationships really existed. She was angry. She was hurt.

Primary topic: Relationship Advice

Relationship Advice

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By Ken DonaldsonRecently published1 topic

Attraction, Action And The Art Of Prosperous Living

The Law of Attraction, if you will excuse the pun, can be quite attractive. Narrowed down to its basics, the Law of Attraction means: You will reap whatever type of energy you sow. If you engage in and put out negative energy such as pessimism and cynicism, then you’ll get negative energy back. Likewise, if you engage in and put out positive energy such as hope and optimism, then that, too, will be returned to you. You may recognize this as karma, of which it’s basically the same perspective.

Primary topic: Relationship Advice

Relationship Advice

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By Ken DonaldsonRecently published1 topic

Marry YourSelf First: The 13 Most Important Questions for Your Best Life

Here’s something everyone can relate to: Your Car. That wonderful and amazing piece of technology that takes you from one place to another… usually without any difficulty. And what is one big element the car relies on to get you there? The tires…those round rubber donuts which “usually” create no problems. Let’s talk about your tires…stick with me here… it’ll all start to make sense…I promise!

Primary topic: Relationship Advice

Relationship Advice

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By Ken DonaldsonRecently published1 topic

Awesomonious

Don't bother looking it up in the dictionary. You won't find it there. It's a Kenism. One of those unique and spontaneous terms conjured up from the depths of my Creative Soul. What does it mean?

Primary topic: Relationship Advice

Relationship Advice

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By Ken DonaldsonRecently published1 topic

Personal Success Strategies - Boundaries With Yourself: The Most Important Parameters

Boundaries with yourself? It does sound a bit odd, doesn’t it? Well, if you will bear with me for a few minutes here you can have a major break-through...really!! I received a phone call from a client who had a new employment opportunity, but felt scared because of the unknown elements involved in the change. I don’t blame this person for having some apprehension, as I think most of us would (sorry to speak for you all. I know I would!).

Primary topic: Relationship Advice

Relationship Advice

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By Ken DonaldsonRecently published1 topic

Relationship Success Strategies - What Is A REALationship?

What is a REALationship? A REALationship is one that has openness, honesty, integrity, individuality, growth, passion, and intimacy. It is easy to be in denial, superficial, and distant. I teach people to have deeper and more REAL relationships ----> REALationships!!!! In school we learned the three “R’s”: Reading, writing, and arithmetic. There is however, a forth “R”, and it is the “R” of Relationships. For many people, there were few, if any, healthy relationship role models to follow.

Primary topic: Relationship Advice

Relationship Advice

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By Ken DonaldsonRecently published1 topic

Life Success Tips - Success And The Law Of Attraction - You Gotta Live Large!

How big can your life be? What I'm asking is: How big is the space you live your life in? What restricts you from growing as big as possible? Is there any chance you've already outgrown your old life? Just how big is your life, and how big can it be? As you're pondering those questions, think about this in another way: Just how bright can your inner light shine? That inner light of yours was given to you to brighten up the world.

Primary topic: Relationship Advice

Relationship Advice

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By Ken DonaldsonRecently published1 topic

Relationship Success Strategies: Are You Accepting Or Settling?

When you know what you have to have in a relationship, not only are you going to feel more fulfilled when you have it, you’ll also find the relationship more sustainable. As a result, the relationship will have a higher likelihood of lasting and it’ll be less stressful because your relational needs are met at a much higher level. It is of the utmost importance to put a high emphasis on the deal-breakers. Again, these are the characteristics of relationships which are absolutely, positively non-acceptable.

Primary topic: Relationship Advice

Relationship Advice

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By Ken DonaldsonRecently published1 topic

Personal Success Strategies - Your Living Legacy - What is the Legacy You Hope to Leave?

How will you leave your mark? How will the world know you've been here one hundred years from now? What impact do you want to have on humankind in your lifetime? Simply put, your legacy is what you'll leave behind for those who come after you. No pressure, but from the looks of things now, we could all stand to leave as much of a positive legacy as we possibly can, and as quickly as we can! Many Native tribes have made their decisions based on what they foresee the affect of decisions on the seventh generation out.

Primary topic: Relationship Advice

Relationship Advice

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By Ken DonaldsonRecently published1 topic

Personal Success Tips - The Mood

I recently went to one of the local home improvement stores to buy some lighting items for my office. Since I am not an electrician, I was looking to have the “experts” at this store assist me in this endeavor. Upon arriving and having gone to the lighting department, I was confronted with a couple of challenges. First, there was a pallet full of boxes parked right in front of the area that I was wanting to get to. In addition, one of their roll-around ladders was parked there as well. This ladder was occupied (he was sitting on it) by an employee having a telephone conversation.

Primary topic: Relationship Advice

Relationship Advice

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By Ken DonaldsonRecently published1 topic

Life Success Strategies - Plant What You Want To Grow!

Ask yourself, what are you planting in your life? What are the seeds you wish to sprout, grow, thrive, and multiply? I suggest you liberally plant positive and affirming seeds in your life every day. Start by writing a positive affirmation to yourself daily (just in case the world forgets to affirm you). Read and listen to positive and inspirational material. Visualize yourself in the desired positive mode you want for yourself. Go ahead, overload yourself with positive seeds. Don’t worry, you won’t overdose on goodness.

Primary topic: Relationship Advice

Relationship Advice

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By Ken DonaldsonRecently published1 topic

Integrity is Where Your Walk Matches Your Talk

Some people call this place and space perfect in a non-perfectionist way. This is your perfect path! Let's visit the barometer metaphor: A barometer is used to measure atmospheric pressure. This pressure change helps weather forecasters to predict what weather conditions might be forthcoming. Barometric conditions are always changing; therefore barometric measurement is always fluctuating. A compass, on the other hand, is used to determine direction. Since our North Pole has a natural magnetic pull to it, the needle of a compass will always point in that direction.

Primary topic: Relationship Advice

Relationship Advice

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By Ken DonaldsonRecently published1 topic

The ABC's of Success

A stands for Attraction; more specifically the Law of Attraction. The Law of Attraction states that like energies attract each other. Positive attracts positive and negative attracts negative. Therefore, if you are putting out negative energy you will therefore attract negative energy into your life. Likewise, if you are putting out positive energy you will attract positive energy into your life. So the question is: What vibration are you sending out?

Primary topic: Relationship Advice

Relationship Advice

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By Ken DonaldsonRecently published1 topic

Exactly Whose Life Purpose Are You Living?

Exactly whose purpose are you living? If you aren’t living your life on purpose, then you must be living it accidentally. People who live accidentally ALWAYS end up settling for less than satisfactory lives. So how about living your life with purpose and on purpose? Besides, you’ll sleep better at night knowing just who the person is you’re sleeping with every night. In other words, you’ll know yourself thoroughly and intimately. Your Personal Compass and a Life of Purpose Life has targets and distractions.

Primary topic: Relationship Advice

Relationship Advice

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By Ken DonaldsonRecently published1 topic

Are You Tired Of The Bull....

I have a few questions I’d like to ask you. Warning: They WILL make you think. They might even make you squirm a bit. They’ll also invite you to take a few more steps into your greatness. Are you up for that? Okay…here we go… What would happen if you were pushed from the edge? Would you fall? Or would you fly? What would you do if you found yourself faced with a charging bull? Run? Or be like the matador and dance around it? What would you do if you fell into a deep darkness? Would you just give up? Or would you allow yourself to go through

Primary topic: Relationship Advice

Relationship Advice

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By Ken DonaldsonRecently published1 topic

Personal Success Strategies - The Expression-Repression-Depression-Connection

With all these rhymes I was tempted to write a poem (and I may still...stay tuned for the sequel!!) about this topic. However, I decided I would just be straight-forward with these dynamics, seeing how critically valuable they are in our day-to-day lives. We have a choice we make many times during the course of a day: Express it or repress it. In other words, we either find a way to release our expression, which may be referred to as “emotional discharge”, or we “stuff it”, which is synonymous with repression.

Primary topic: Relationship Advice

Relationship Advice

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By Ken DonaldsonRecently published1 topic

Life Success Strategies: Juggling Bowling Balls While Walking Across Hot Coals

You’ve probably heard the old real estate cliché which asks the question, “What are the three most important elements of property?” You also probably know the answer is location, location and location.

Primary topic: Relationship Advice

Relationship Advice

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By Ken DonaldsonRecently published1 topic

Personal Success Strategies - Living Your Life On Purpose - What Is The Purpose Of Your Life?

You have a unique purpose. You're here for a very significant reason. When you know your purpose and live according to it, you'll experience the passion of living your purpose, and you'll have the greatest opportunity to have an impact on all humankind. When it comes to discovering your life purpose, spend some time answering the following for yourself.

Primary topic: Relationship Advice

Relationship Advice

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By Ken DonaldsonRecently published1 topic

Your Living Legacy - What is The Legacy You Hope to Leave?

How will you leave your mark? How will the world know you’ve been here one hundred years from now? What wisdom do you want to leave with humankind from your life on this Earth? Simply put, your legacy is what you’ll leave behind for those who come after you. No pressure, but from the looks of things now, we could all stand to leave as much of a positive legacy as we possibly can, and as quickly as we can! Many Native tribes have made their decisions based on what they foresee the affect of decisions on the seventh generation out.

Primary topic: Relationship Advice

Relationship Advice

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By Ken DonaldsonRecently published1 topic

Life Success Strategies - Doing The Abun-Dance: The Art Of Prosperous Living

I have been hearing a lot about the “Law of Attraction” the last few years and I have found this model to be quite attractive... gosh, I guess it’s working. Anyways, when it is narrowed down to it’s basics it seems to mean that you will reap whatever type of energy you sow. If you put out negative energy, then you will get back negative energy. Likewise, if you put out hope and optimism, then that too will be returned to you.

Primary topic: Relationship Advice

Relationship Advice

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By Ken DonaldsonRecently published1 topic

Personal Success Strategies - Self Talk: Whose Voice Is That?

No; I’m not hearing voices...not very much, at least. However, I do have a question for you: How do you manage that little voice inside your head? Now if you’re thinking, “What little voice is he talking about?” that would be the little voice right there! You know, that voice that tries to convince you that something is too hard, or too painful, or too embarrassing or too risky. Yes, the same voice that might even try to tell you that you’re not good enough, that other people don’t like you or that you won’t ever amount to anything.

Primary topic: Relationship Advice

Relationship Advice

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By Ken DonaldsonRecently published1 topic

Personal Success Strategies - Father's Day

My dad woke up one morning feeling, as he put it, “Not quite right and a bit wobbly”. In being the strong-willed, tenacious, non-complainer that he is, he figured it was just part of the package of being 80 years old. However, after a few days of these lingering effects, he decided to go see his doctor. Upon calling the doctor's office, he was told that they had an appointment opening in ten minutes.

Primary topic: Relationship Advice

Relationship Advice

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By Ken DonaldsonRecently published1 topic

The Best Mental Health Counseling: Seven Steps to Stress-less Success

1) Create a life vision and visit it daily What I mean by a life vision is this: Where are you going? Where are you going in life? And what are you doing all this for? What’s the target? Many people don’t have this target or vision in their lives. They’re just in motion. They don’t really know where they’re going. That’s not necessarily the worst thing in the world, but oftentimes what happens to people who don’t have a destination or a target, is that they burn out. They don’t have any purpose for doing what they’re doing.

Primary topic: Relationship Advice

Relationship Advice

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By Ken DonaldsonRecently published1 topic

Values: It's An Urge, But it May Not Be Very Important

To continue our discussion on Values, just because something is Urgent doesn't necessarily mean it's important. Conversely, what’s vital refers to something central and internally crucial; something you literally can’t live without, not just for the moment but over time. In fact, vital comes from the word for life itself, like vital organs—heart, brain, blood. What’s vital may have less pressure and feel calmer than what’s urgent, but it’s much more crucial for your long-term survival and well-being. What’s vital to you feeds your life force.

Primary topic: Relationship Advice

Relationship Advice

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By Ken DonaldsonRecently published1 topic

Relationship Success Strategies - Are You V.I.P. or S.A.D. - It's Up To You

I was preparing for a couple of presentations for the Women On the Way (W.O.W.) program at our local St. Petersburg College (my A.A. /A.S. degree alma mater). I am always honored to go back to my old “stomping grounds” to do presentations, but even more so for this group, as most of the people connected with the WOW program are coming back to school after some major life transition. This program is designed to be a support for their success. They are my heroes, as they all use this support network to help each other be successful.

Primary topic: Relationship Advice

Relationship Advice

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By Ken DonaldsonRecently published1 topic

Why Success is Awesome

Success is often aligned with prosperity, wealth, honor, and achievement, among many other “feel good” words. Success has a Latin origin that means to follow, prosper, and to go into action. Why success is awesome is because achieving it will allow you to experience your greatest sense of you. Whatever you decide to be of wealth, richness and value is your success. Success is your path to the most natural high, your highest self-esteem and self worth. Why is success so awesome? Simply because you are.

Primary topic: Relationship Advice

Relationship Advice

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By Ken DonaldsonRecently published1 topic

The ABC's Of EMDR For PSTD

Hope you’re not overwhelmed with the acronyms…just trying to save some space! So…what exactly is PTSD? It stands for Post-traumatic stress disorder. PTSD develops after an ordeal which involves some form of trauma. The person who develops PTSD may have been harmed or harm may have happened to a loved one, or the person may have witnessed a harmful event which happened to loved ones or strangers.

Primary topic: Relationship Advice

Relationship Advice

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By Ken DonaldsonRecently published1 topic

The Law Of Attraction - You Gotta Live Large!

How big can your life be? What I’m asking is: How big is the space you live your life in? What restricts you from growing as big as possible? Is there any chance you’ve already outgrown your old old life? Just how big is your life, and how big can it be? As you’re pondering those questions, think about this in another way: Just how bright can your inner light shine? That inner light of yours was given to you to brighten up the world. It can do neither you nor others any good if you quench or conceal it, for any reason.

Primary topic: Relationship Advice

Relationship Advice

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By Ken DonaldsonRecently published1 topic

Personal Success Tips - The Deeper Your Roots, The Sweeter Your Fruit

Roots and fruit...one of my favorite life philosophies. I believe we are all very similar to trees in a metaphorical sense. We have our “fruit”, which are our results. These results are based on our behaviors in that our behaviors, or actions, are what create our results. We have feelings and emotions, which are like the branches that carry the fruit. It is our emotions (e-motion = “energy in motion”) that motivates us (or not) into action. We have thoughts, which are carried in the trunk of the tree.

Primary topic: Relationship Advice

Relationship Advice

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By Ken DonaldsonRecently published1 topic

Personal Success Strategies - Accountability Circles, Peer-Leaders and Your Personal Posse

Have you ever noticed that successful people have a "team" that they surround themselves with? For example, the president has his cabinet, as well as numerous other advisors and consultants. The head coach of any sports team has countless assistants and trainers. Every CEO has a board of directors. And what about you? Who is on your cabinet? Who are your assistant coaches? And who is on your board of directors? Do you have anybody? Read on... One big reason people have difficulty accomplishing their goals is due to trying to do all the work in isolation and on their own.

Primary topic: Relationship Advice

Relationship Advice

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By Ken DonaldsonRecently published1 topic

Putting CBT Into OCD

If your first thought about the title was, “That sounds boring.” you might be right. But if you knew that over 2 millio Americans were affected and afflicted by Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, and chances are you know at least one of these people, then you might be more intrigued. But what the heck is CBT?? Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy…and it’s one of the more effective and efficient methods to treat OCD. Let’s start with a little background information.

Primary topic: Relationship Advice

Relationship Advice

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By Ken DonaldsonRecently published1 topic

Personal Success Strategies - Boundaries: The Tripod Model Of Health And Wellness

The old real estate cliché asks the question, "What are three most important elements of property?" which is, of course, answered by, "Location, location and location." ...So, let me ask you a question: What are the three most important elements of successful relationships? Answer: Boundaries, boundaries, and boundaries. And that would mean first of all, the "internal" boundaries that you have with yourself, as well as the proactive boundaries of assertive behavior that you have with others, and the reactive limit-setting boundaries that you also have with others.

Primary topic: Relationship Advice

Relationship Advice

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By Ken DonaldsonRecently published1 topic

Don't Let Your Barometer Direct Your Compass

Huh??!! Let me explain...A barometer is used to measure atmospheric pressure. This pressure change helps weather forecasters to predict what weather conditions might be forthcoming. Barometric conditions are always changing; therefore barometric measurement is always fluctuating. A compass, on the other hand, is used to determine direction. Since our North Pole has a natural magnetic pull to it, the needle of a compass will always point in that direction. True North is constant, and therefore, a compass reading is consistent, fixed, and yes, literally, always True.

Primary topic: Relationship Advice

Relationship Advice

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