Creative Success Depends on Long View
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In this podcast, we feature author Taylor Marsh, who [read more]
Podcast: The Power of Reading & Writing For Kids
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Lisa Cohn, who with her 6-year-old son, Michael, wrote their first children’s book, “Bash and Lucy Fetch Confidence,” together to help them overcome grief over the loss of their dog, Lucy. Since then, they’ve [...]
Your Inner Life Elevates Your Outer Life
Back in our college years, my younger brother cut himself shaving one morning.
He bled all over the washbasin. Blood ran down his neck and into the drain. He yelled, “Howard, you stupid expletive, expletive and more expletives! How can one [...]
Your Invitation to a Great Life
In recent weeks, my son Trevor quit his well-paying pharmacy tech job in Denver, Colorado for a “room and board” position in a quiet village in the Austrian Alps.
He sickened of his role in filling drug prescriptions for people addicted [...]
Excusing Bad Behavior in the Office?
Layla was working on a project that required the input of two other offices.
She needed data from the research office, and also promotional materials from the institution’s marketing division. She was on a deadline, but still needed to move [...]
Your Subconscious Mind Works 24/7: Harness It
Have you ever wondered where songwriters, poets, sculptors and artists come up with new ideas?
How do inventors create concepts that morph into Smart Phones, miniature drones and ocean liners? Who dreams up a screenplay for a movie or the design [...]
Podcast: Fostering Self-Confidence In Kids
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Dr. Frank Sileo is a NJ licensed psychologist and award winning author that will be discussing how to foster self confidence in children. His latest book is Don’t Put Yourself Down In Circus Town: A Story About Self-Confidence.
Fostering [...]
Erik Weihenmayer: Turning Into the Storm of Life
Ray Charles learned to play the piano as he lost his vision during his childhood.
In his 70 years, he scaled musical heights beyond the ordinary. Helen Keller, blind, deaf and mute, learned to read and write as she sped toward becoming one of [...]
The Ultimate Buzz
As many people were celebrating the New Year with sparkling champagne or some other way to get “a buzz on,” I was having a personal “buzz machine” implanted in my spine.
No, I have not gotten into some New Age technological [...]
Equal Opportunity, NOT!
Laws demand that work places, services, schools and jobs be open and accessible to all people.
Laws contain loopholes that drive millions of Americans to forgo opportunities and suffer a prejudice that goes unnoticed – except by those [...]
Podcast: This Is What Happens When A Comic Goes On 500 Dates
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Mark Miller was a self proclaimed, veritable, virginal social and dating outcast that became a nationally syndicated dating columnist for the LA Times Syndicate, Huffington Post and countless other media, as well as a writer producer [...]
Confidence V Arrogance: Defining Words We Use All the Time
At the recent State of the Union President Obama drew loud applause from Republicans when he began a section of his remarks, “I have no more campaigns to run.”
Departing from his prepared speech, Obama responded to the surprise applause [...]
You Can Do That: The Key to Your Life’s Successful Path
Have you ever faced a situation that caused you to question yourself?
Did you confront a teacher that you disliked or a fellow student who badgered you? Have you dwelt with co-workers that made you tear your hair out? Welcome to the human race! [...]
Podcast: Autism Movement Therapy: Waking Up The Brain!
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Joanne Lara is the founder Autism Movement Therapy and author of the upcoming book, Autism Movement Therapy Method: Waking up the Brain! (Summer 2015). Joanne is the producer of the new documentary, Generation A: Portraits [...]
Crossing the Bridge into 2015
Quick as a wink, Christmas faded into our rear view mirrors.
Up ahead, a brand spanking New Year 2015 awaits! New possibilities! Fresh ideas! A new set of 365 days to accomplish something marvelous in your life.
What actions will you take in [...]
What Goes in Our 2015 Time Capsule?
What were Paul Revere and Sam Adams thinking 220 years ago when they packed a time capsule that would sit beneath the new Massachusetts State House?
What clues about their state of mind should we take away from the newspapers, coins and other [...]
The Best-Laid Plans
Winston Churchill once said words to the effect, “Make good plans and then forget about them once you’re in the thick of things.”
The New Year is often the time for making plans based on the goals we’ve set – goals that originate from [...]
You Can Make a Difference at Midlife
I am always impressed with people who risk their own lives to save another, who will help you all hours of the night, who open their wallets to help those less fortunate.
I wish I was more like that. I try to be. I’m not selfish. I’ve given [...]
Unleash The Daring Dance Within You
Sometimes in life, no matter your stature, success, sartorial dress, rich or modest home, friends and magnificent job—you may come to a point of getting down on yourself.
If you live by modest means or in poverty, you may come to the conclusion [...]
A Little Empathy For The Holidays
Our workplaces, public places and even entertainment places are almost under constant siege from frustration, anxiety and the resulting violence against each other.
Whether such violence results in micro inequities, little slick comments which [...]
The Greatest Gift Of All
Everyone wants to give meaningful gifts, no matter what the occasion.
There is only gift that tops all others for time eternal.
Interesting, don’t you think, that people usually buy or make things – physical, material things? Things [...]
Societal Exhaustion In Our High Speed World: Slow It Down
You live in a high speed, high stress society.
Everything ramps you up to meet deadlines, reach class on time and excel at work. You face texting, emails and Smart Phone recordings. If you’re a parent, you must take the kids to soccer practice, [...]
Do You Send Out “Happiness?”
It feels good to contribute and give of myself – so I do it. By doing so, I come “ALIVE!”
Your happiness is a gift that sends ripples of joy endlessly out. This is a deposit of aliveness into all the experiences in your [...]
Is The Philosophy Of Sales The Same Wherever You Go?
The dilapidated sidewalks of the old city of Puerto Vallarta talked to me every day.
Every day I would walk the two miles along the beachfront Malacan, the home of time share and tequila vendors alike. Truly those sidewalks came alive with the [...]
Ever want to “GIVE” to yourself?
Why not seize all the small daily occasions and make the day special for someone else?
If you do, you will give to yourself.
Once you have enough to meet your needs, you will find extra money and time do not increase your happiness. It’s [...]
Attune To Your Heart, Mind And Body: Gift Of Appreciation
While growing up, you faced many challenges.
You tackled schoolbooks that demanded your attention to gain knowledge. Your teachers busted your butt with homework assignments. Your parents piled on chores such as mowing the lawn, washing the [...]
Podcast: How To Effortlessly Maximize Energy & Performance
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Helen Marie Loorents is the Founder and CEO of Fastrack Wellness Corporation, is a certified health & life coach, wellness consultant to Fortune 500 companies and author of the new book Fastrack to Wellness: Good Health, Good [...]
Podcast: Unwrap Your Greatest Gift In Life
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Tiffany Mason is an international life and relationship coach, speaker and author. She is the founder of Mason Coaching and Consulting, a lifestyle coaching firm where she empowers women to design a meaningful life and marriage. [...]
If Holiday Stress Is A Disease, The Virus Is Your Expectations
The holiday season steriotypically has always been portrayed as a time of fun, joy and warmth with family, friends and colleagues.
But it can also be a time of pain and high expectations. And the inevitable disappointments that follow those [...]
Podcast: Living Beyond The Wig
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Felicia M Hazzard is contributor to the book HERspectives, Rules and Tools that Build Successful Women: How I Created Work/Life Balance which features her memoir Living Beyond The Wig, the story of her experience living with breast [...]
Podcast: Take The Plunge & Re-Invent Yourself!
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Victoria Hargis is an expert in life transitioning. At age 30 she became a widow and learned her youngest child had a terminal illness, ultimately passing away when he was 13. Victoria then spiraled into a deeper level of grief [...]
How Do You Define Thanks?
Gratitude in action starts with feeling your own thankfulness then encourages you to put it in action.
The following is one perspective on giving thanks and what you can do to keep it in motion.
T is for Time– Be thankful for time. Having [...]
A ‘Center For Happiness’
Listening to “Happiness Princess” Laura Lavigne feels like participating in an Easter egg hunt.
You never know where you might discover the next treasure. You cannot imagine what you might find. She “eggs” you on toward your own riches [...]
You Against Yourself: Which Wolf Wins?
At one point in history, President Thomas Jefferson faced a national crisis.
He said, “We have a wolf by the ears; he’s too dangerous to keep and he’s even more dangerous if we let him go.”
Jefferson also spoke about his own battles [...]
Always Sit Down Wind Of Flowers
Susan Schutz said, “Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair.”
Years ago, I backpacked in Nepal, Tibet and other parts of Asia. I distinctly remember the peace and quietude of the Himalayas and the stunning beauty of Mount [...]
Pedaling For Peace
Lori Bell pedals a bicycle around the United States in order to create a much-needed discussion on America’s continual participation in wars: she pedals for peace.
Bell, 49, single, and having taken a non-traditional path in her life and work [...]
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