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"Something we were withholding made us weak, until we found it was ourselves." - Robert Frost Becoming familiar with The Law of Attraction (LOA) is powerful in manifesting your desires for something more. Simplistically, the LOA is a synchronizing of thoughts, beliefs, feelings and ...
"It is the journey that brings us happiness, not the destination." - Dan Millman - Peaceful Warrior Do you ever feel as if your mind were about to burst from overwhelm? Do you ever feel that nothing is going right no matter what you do? Do you feel immobilized when you are seeking answers and ...
"They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." -Edgar Allan Poe Metaphors are great in visualizing your goals. They take you to your imagination and away from the "how." The how can often be a goal killer. Goals are usually going after something ...
"Greatness is not in where we stand, but in what direction we are moving. We must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but sail we must, and not drift, nor lie at anchor." – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809-1894) Physician, writer, poet Transitions are a way to grow to a ...
Changing careers, going back to school or going back to work is a wonderful life space to be in. Yet it can be so scary leaving what we know and are familiar with. In fact it can scare the heck out of you! This familiar place is often called your "comfort zone". However, isn't it strange to use ...
“Each of us has that right, that possibility, to invent ourselves daily. If a person does not invent herself, she will be invented. So, to be bodacious enough to invent ourselves is wise.” – Maya Angelou Where does leadership originate? What makes a good leader? There are a multitude of ...
“It is an inexorable Law of Nature that bad must follow good, that decline must follow a rise. To feel that we can rest on our achievements is a dangerous fallacy. Inner strength can overcome anything that occurs outside.” I Ching I am a pretty amazing woman – I may not be an Olympic woman of ...
“People who cease to grow can’t inspire others. Leadership begins with challenging oneself.” –Daisaku Ikeda (Buddhist leader, philosopher, educator, prolific writer and poet) The beginning of any quarter stirs up new hopes and new dreams, which sometimes seem to fade before the quarter has ...
“We have it in our power to begin the world all over again. A situation similar to the present hath not appeared since the days of Noah until now. The birthday of a new world is at hand.”—Thomas Paine There are all kinds of cycles. In looking up the term “economic cycles” I found the ...
"The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it." - Pearl Buck (1892-1973) Reinventing yourself from one career to another is an adventure. The adventure can be welcomed or not. It depends upon personal circumstances. To some ...
“The question actors most often get asked is how they can bear saying the same things over and over again night after night, but God knows the answer to that is, don’t we all anyway; might as well get paid for it.” –Elaine Dundy When the going gets tough the immediate reaction for most human ...
“It is not so much that we’re afraid of change or so in love with the old ways, but it’s that place in between that we fear…It’s like being in between trapezes. It’s Linus when his blanket is in the dryer. There’s nothing to hold on to ” –Marilyn Ferguson Change is forever and unlimited. We ...
“The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.” –Euripides Balance is not a state or place we can get to. Balance is always in motion. A ballerina trains and ...
"Every valuable human being must be a radical and a rebel, for what he must aim at is to make things better than they are." - Neils Henrik David Bohr (1885-1962) Danish physicist - Nobel Prize for Physics - 1922. Creativity and imagination are masterful tools often underutilized in tapping into ...
"The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man." - Euripides Balance is not a state or place we can get to. Balance is always in motion. A ballerina trains and ...
"What lies before us and what lies behind us are small matters compared to what lies within us. And when we bring what is within out into the world, miracles happen." - Henry David Thoreau One of the obstacles in deciding to go back to work, change careers or go back to school is the "someday ...
"Have I dreamed of late; of the person I want to be. Have I renewed of late; my vision of the world I want to live in; my dreams shall not crash down. My visions go not glimmering. So long as I have breath, I know I have the strength to transform what I can be to what I am.” – Unknow Life is ...
"I have ceased to question stars and books. I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me." - Herman Hesse (prologue to Demian) Without a doubt, one of the most powerful tools to maximize your potential to produce better results is coaching. A client may initially hire a coach ...
"Too often we under estimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around." --Leo Buscaglia It is not unheard of to hear tales of unpleasant comments and attitudes in the ...
“It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.” Sir Edmund Hillary (1919-2008) New Zealand mountaineer and explorer. If you are someone who is overworked, stressed out, burned out, under-paid, and underappreciated, then read on to see what successful people do to be winners in their lives. ...
Most people measure their success by somebody else’s standards, which is understandable when you realize that you are trained from the time you are born in what and who to believe. Where else are you going to learn the rules and beliefs? Your parents, teachers, church, community, ...
Changing careers, going back to school or going back to work is a wonderful life space to be in. Yet it can be so scary leaving what we know and are familiar with. In fact it can scare the heck out of you! This familiar place is often called your "comfort zone". However, isn't it strange to use ...
"Something we were withholding made us weak, until we found it was ourselves." - Robert Frost Becoming familiar with The Law of Attraction (LOA) is powerful in manifesting your desires for something more. Simplistically, the LOA is a synchronizing of thoughts, beliefs, feelings and ...
"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly." - Robert F. Kennedy No matter where you are in your year, I would like you to think about where are you now from where you were six months ago? What were your New Year's Resolutions this year, if any? More and more I hear people ...
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” – Eleanor Roosevelt Most people walk around with submerged dreams filled with fear and doubt. We all have dreams of something better: A better career, a better relationship, a better environment, a better lifestyle, a ...
You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about. By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands – your own."n--Mark Victor Hanse I love autumn. It brings endings and ...
“Every time you don’t follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness.” – Shakti Gawai Looking to develop your leadership skills minus a vision is choosing a difficult path. Maybe you want to make more money, so you look up job trends for ...
You may be changing careers, going back to school, or going back to an old familiar career that you've been away from for a while. Your transition may be voluntary or involuntary and either provides similar feelings of stress and uncertainty. Voluntary transition can arise from being bored or ...
"You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win." -Zig Ziglar I agree with Zig Ziglar that you were born to win. You are born with unlimited resources. Regardless of the advantages or disadvantages you had or have. Within you is a wealth of ...
"There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning." - Christopher Morley (1890-1957 - American jou alist, novelist, essayist & poet) I would arrange Morley's ingredients for the good life in this fashion: yearning, learning and earning. Yearning is the catalyst to ...
"There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning." - Christopher Morley (1890-1957 - American jou alist, novelist, essayist & poet) I would arrange Morley's ingredients for the good life in this fashion: yearning, learning and earning. Yearning is the catalyst to ...
“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope, which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life’s realities.” – Dr. Seuss (1904-1991) U.S. cartoonist and writer Recently I ...
“If a man constantly aspires, is he not elevated?” - Henry David Thoreau The pursuit to be in control of one’s life is powerful, yet life does challenge each and every one of us. No one goes unscathed in their life’s journey. Who hasn’t experienced loss of some kind? It can be a loss of a ...
"A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement." -- Abba Eban (1915-2002) It takes less than 6 seconds to leave a first impression. It is said not to judge a book by its cover, but come on, isn't it the color, the ...
“One’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.” -- Oliver Wendell Holmes Did you ever get so deep into despair that there seemed to be no way but up – and yet you could have chosen to sink deeper into victimization. Oh, I have been there so many times when I ...