How many times have you made New Year’s resolutions only to abandon them shortly after the year begins?
You make a promise to yourself about losing weight, eating healthier, or getting more exercise and then what happens?
Life. You get busy, [...]
When my son earned his PhD from The University of Florida in Biomedical Engineering, you can imagine how proud I was.
But it was his pride in having accomplished this amazing goal that made it so wonderful and special.
After all, knowing you [...]
“What’s the point anyway?” “I’m not good enough.” “Here I am with another year gone by and I’m in exactly the same situation…”
Such a nasty emotion guilt is…it can fester in you to the point of immobilization. And why [...]
On New Year’s Eve, many people create resolutions.
The majority of those very same people don’t keep them. Therefore, they don’t achieve the success they desire in the New Year. If you want to succeed in 2014, you need to follow just one [...]
With the new year upon us now, everybody seems to be posting, blogging, chatting and thinking about New Years Resolutions.
Responses are interesting to me, across the board. I see people who resist setting resolutions, because they know they [...]
It’s that time of year again – new year’s resolution time.
Most people begin the year with good intentions, that’s why they make resolutions. Sadly, too many of these resolutions go by the board in January.
Here are my eight best ideas [...]
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Dr. Dionna Hancock-Johnson is the best-selling author of Be Your Own Life Coach: How to Life Coach Yourself Into What You Want! In this podcast, Dionna discusses how to create your own destiny, take control of what is yours [...]
Where did the time go?
It seems just yesterday my son was playing in little league and my daughter was taking ballet lessons. I used to be the young woman with little kids and now I’m Ma’am or getting into the movies on a senior [...]
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Stephen B. Satterwhite is the author of True Stories from a Baby Boomer which is the fulfillment of a forty year long promise Stephen made to his father after he died when Stephen was just 20 years old – to write a book telling [...]
This Christmas season, humanity’s vibrations accelerate toward love, fellowship, brotherhood, sisterhood, family and friends.
Each of us gravitates toward kindness, reverence and gratitude.
While we may scurry around town purchasing gifts, [...]
A Proud Mother
I am the proud mother of six beautiful sons. My youngest son is Benjamin. We affectionately call our 6 foot, 3 inch, 290 pound baby, “Benji”. He survived our 1999 fatal house fire which claimed his twin brother’s [...]
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Licensed psychotherapist, Tina Tessina, or “Dr. Romance” is the author of 13 books in 17 languages including the just released the ebook, The Ten Smartest Decisions a Woman Can Make After Forty.
Making The Most Out [...]
Passion drove such men as Leonardo da Vinci to paint the Mona Lisa.
That same desire compelled men like the Wright brothers to create an airplane so they could fly.
Passion drove Susan B. Anthony to organize the suffragettes to bring voting [...]
Most people talk to God, pray to God or communicate in various ways to the creator of the universe—hoping that such a greater power exists to listen to them.
Some beg God to save them or help them at some point in their lives. Others beseech [...]
It’s easy to say, “I don’t know how,” “I never learned how to do that,” or “I’m not good with technology.”
These kinds of statements pay homage to your limitations. They showcase your lack of knowledge. Okay, so you don’t [...]
I’m pretty active on social media. I have a particular fondness for Pinterest.
You can check out my boards at www.pinterest.com/budbilanich. My Inspiration board has almost 1,300 pins. Recently, I’ve noticed that one of my pins gets [...]
Once in a while things spin out of our control.
Of course full control is only an illusion, but it’s an illusion we crave, and on many levels need to maintain our balance. If you’re a creative soul, the wild torque that reorders the things [...]
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Dr. Joseph Shrand is an Instructor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and author of Outsmarting Anger: 7 Strategies For Defusing Our Most Dangerous Emotion. In this podcast Dr. Shrand reveals how to manage the anger of others.
Outsmarting [...]
My favorite definition of a wizard is a person with a power or effect that appears magical by its capacity to transform.
That is what you need to look for in your wizard, your mentor: the ability to help you transform.
Having a great mentor [...]
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Janet Bernstein who in 2009 was a newly separated stay-at-home mom in her early forties with no money, career, or education.
Today, she’s an Ivy League graduate, owns one of Philadelphia’s most successful professional [...]
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Kat Hurley is an author and transformational coach who conducts seminars nationwide. She just released her new book I Think I’ll Make It and is on a steadfast mission to bring mindfulness to the masses, especially youth.
Finding [...]
As you transition through life, you are making many changes and going through many different stages.
With a life expectancy of 78 (5 years longer for women), when you turn about 40, you are entering what is known as middle age.
Everyone goes [...]
“When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word ‘succeed,’ you find that it simply means to follow through.” – F Nichol
From time to time while growing up I’d play baseball, actually stickball, [...]
Who has ever gone down their News Feed and thought, “Wow, look at that person’s life. Looks like they really have it together.”
That probably isn’t the case.
While people can have good lives and post happy things it doesn’t [...]
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Joan Marie Whelan is an accomplished Master Intuitive, Business Strategist and Lifestyle Consultant.
After years of helping others tap into their intuition, she did the same to re-establish the clothing label her grandfather started [...]
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Joan Marie Whelan is an accomplished Master Intuitive, Business Strategist and Lifestyle Consultant. After years of helping others tap into their intuition, she did the same to re-establish the clothing label her grandfather started [...]
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Interior Designer, Marriage & Family Therapist and Green Living expert, Christa O’Leary, MA, MFT, is the founder and CEO of Home in Harmony Lifestyle.
She teaches people how to ‘Design Inspired Living’ and her upcoming [...]
Keith Dambrot, says it this way, “The worst thing you can do is make a gifted player over-think.”
As Men’s Basketball Coach at The University of Akron and the first person to discover LeBron James on the elementary school playgrounds [...]
Imagine the most exquisite gardens in the world symbolized boomer women in bloom.
What a lovely sight! I find it heavenly. My personal view of boomer women in bloom are gardens in every city, every town and every village. Gardens full of life! [...]
Out of The Clear Blue Sky
Recently my smart phone just up and conked out. Out of the clear blue it would not turn on nor charge. I was in a state of disbelief. This couldn’t be happening to my HTC EVO 4G LTC. My whole life is on that phone. [...]
Most relationships have a set of “built in” rules.
These rules define your relationship “default position”; such as, what can and cannot take place between you and your partner (and others in your life) and what constitutes that which [...]
A couple of things happened on October 1 that I want to discuss here.
First the US government shut down due to a budget impasse over the Affordable Care Act. Second, a book called Conversational Intelligence by my friend Judith Glaser was [...]
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Tova Payne is a Registered Holistic Nutritionist and Personal Coach helping people turn their dreams into reality. She combines practical strategic action steps with spiritual practices to help others live a truly rich and fulfilled [...]
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Scott Evans is an inventor and author of Invent That Now! Scott has developed and launched seventeen products with twelve more in development.
He created and produced the motivational movie “Pass It On” and was co-founder [...]
Divorce is never a simple matter logistically or emotionally.
And when there are children involved, often the hardest part is to put your own emotional issues aside in order to do some very difficult parenting feats.
Here are some ways to help [...]