Creative Success Depends on Long View
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When Expectations Lead To Happiness
Expectations, outcomes you desire when thinking about some future event, sometimes lead you into a place of joy and success.
Other times expectations bring you disappointment and despair. How you experience life depends on the scenario you choose [...]
Ready To Re-Charge Your Batteries?
I truly believe that it is very important to have activities outside of our normal work day that brings us joy.
When we get so caught up in helping others, sometimes, we forget to help ourselves. We suddenly forget what is really important [...]
Your Inner Connection To Others
On first glance, you may assume I’ll be talking about communicating to others via phone, email, texting, writing, video, photos – heck even talking to them – but I have more in mind here.
In my happiness research, the prime principle [...]
Happy People Thoughts
Most positive people have a deep belief and understanding that things always change and evolve.
They realize that emotions come and go, a bad moment does not mean a bad day. Tomorrow is a brand new day. They always remember to have hope [...]
Coming Through The Fire: Your Road Less Traveled
By the time you reach your senior year in high school, it dawns on you that this life offers no easy path.
You discovered the only way to succeed academically or athletically: study your butt off and/or practice your sport until your body felt [...]
Happiness Is Not Events – It’s A Lifestyle
“You may wake up unable to speak or swallow, “ the neurosurgeon cautioned me before surgery to remove a sizeable brain tumor that wrapped around my brain stem.
Though I did not say anything, in my mind I remarked, “That is not going to [...]
Do You Spend Time Looking For “Your Thang?”
It’s pretty funny, annoying and brilliant, how often things turn out to be nothing like we thought they would be.
So much time is spent wondering what our “thing” is. I thought long and hard about how would I ever know which [...]
Podcast: How To Step Out Of Your Own Shadow
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Debbie Pokornik is the Chief Empowerment Officer for Empowering NRG which helps moms who struggle with a hectic home life transform their relationships so they are re-energized and fall back in love with their lives. Debbie [...]
Do You Look Forward To Each Day In Your Life?
When we don’t look forward to something, when we simply don’t enjoy it, we are not living in the present moment.
It’s like life is rushing past us and we feel we are simply waiting for something more interesting to come along. [...]
Chocolate, Puppies & Dirt Help Avoid Creative Catastrophe
By: Sandy Nelson
October 6, 2014 | Comments Off on Chocolate, Puppies & Dirt Help Avoid Creative Catastrophe
For me they are all linked in their ability to ground my creative fires.
You can’t whirl around on the fumes of creative energy all the time. Sooner or later you’ll fly smack into a wall and crash. The graveyard of artists who have is vast. [...]
Life Choices: Confidence Versus Insecurity
“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
You are able to say to yourself, ‘I lived through this trauma. I can take the next thing that comes along.’ You must [...]
The Elusive Happiness Factor: How To Discover It
By: Frosty Wooldridge
October 3, 2014 | Comments Off on The Elusive Happiness Factor: How To Discover It
If you look around your community whether you share a schoolroom, workout class or meeting place—someone laughs a lot, smiles and expresses their happiness.
How come some people express happiness while others slog through their days? What [...]
Live Happily Ever After—Day To Day
Snow White discovered her prince, embraced him and kissed him.
Prince Charming swept her off her feet and carried the young maiden to the castle to live happily ever after. John Wayne, Clint Eastwood and Steve McQueen captured the desperadoes [...]
Is Being Happy And Being Grateful The Same Thing?
Often times the words “happy” and “grateful” are used interchangeably.
If you’re happy, you must be grateful too and vice-versa. There’s no question that both words describe a person who is content in that moment of happiness or [...]
Learn How To Dribble A Football: Life Calls You
By: Frosty Wooldridge
September 25, 2014 | Comments Off on Learn How To Dribble A Football: Life Calls You
The famous automobile maker Henry Ford said, “If you think you can or can’t, you’re right.”
Almost everything in your life boils down to how you think, speak and act. High thinking creates high vibrations in your mind and body. Such [...]
Podcast: Build & Grow A Profitable Side-Hustle
By: Farnoosh Brock
September 23, 2014 | Comments Off on Podcast: Build & Grow A Profitable Side-Hustle
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Farnoosh Brock is an entrepreneur, author, business coach, green juice addict and devout Ashtanga yogini. After a successful corporate career at a Fortune 100 company, she started Prolific Living Inc. to fulfill her entrepreneurial [...]
Podcast: From Average To Amazing In 30 Days
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Dr. Drema Dial is a psychologist and life coach based in Austin, TX. The heart of Dr. Dial’s work is to help people challenge their roadblocks and to help them unlearn old habits. Her latest book is Creating the Life You [...]
Should You Love Yourself MORE?
All of us want to be happy, but sometimes we hold ourselves back from that possibility.
You know that little voice inside of your head; you know the one I am talking about. Sometimes we listen even when we shouldn’t. This little voice [...]
Do You Ever Follow Your Inspiration?
Have you ever thought that the world needs you to follow your inspiration?
We should be true to ourselves and if we cannot put our heart into it, we need to take ourselves out of it. It’s that simple.
Ever had time to think about things [...]
Want To Be Grateful With Your Life Forever?
By: Mary Ann Sheveland
September 10, 2014 | Comments Off on Want To Be Grateful With Your Life Forever?
Have you ever thought that gratitude strengthens your immune system and makes you happy and more optimistic?
Rather than focusing on what we don’t have, why not focus on what we do have?
When we spend time focusing on our blessings we [...]
Podcast: Flip Your Script: How To Reinvent Yourself & Live The Dream
By: Thai Nguyen
September 9, 2014 | Comments Off on Podcast: Flip Your Script: How To Reinvent Yourself & Live The Dream
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Professional Re-inventer, Thai Nguyen, is a 5-Star Chef, International Kickboxer, Writer, Speaker, and Mindset-Transformation Coach. Thai was born in Vietnam, his family fled the country after the war, and settled in Australia. [...]
Extricating Yourself From The Dark Night Of The Soul
In today’s world, you face enormous challenges of time, work, family and friends.
You face many toils along with trials that rise up in front of you like a blazing attack of dragons.
While you endured cliques, politics and different kinds [...]
Wired For Accountability
“I really want to establish a spiritual practice, Beth. And I find myself struggling to be consistent with anything,” my friend, Stephanie confided.
“When I find I have the time to spend in my practice, it seems that I inevitably [...]
What Floor Are You On?
I was participating in a reflections workshop and the instructor brought up the image of a 10-story building for the class to look at.
In essence, she explained people can live in the same building but depending on what floor they’re on, the [...]
Your Dream Of Giving Two Weeks Notice
Do you like your work? Do you get a kick out of reaching the “office” daily as a park ranger, chef, teacher, truck driver, fireman, manager, waitress or hairdresser?
Note this fact: what you do daily in your life affects your mind, body [...]
Podcast: Create More Time & Energy
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Elisabetta Faenza, author of The Energy Code: 7 Keys for Activating Your DNA for Increased Performance, Creativity, Innovation and Profit and we’ll be discussing how to create more time and energy in our lives.
Create More Time [...]
The Midlife Sage: From Harley-Davidsons To Hostess Ding Dongs
By: Elaine Ambrose
July 14, 2014 | Comments Off on The Midlife Sage: From Harley-Davidsons To Hostess Ding Dongs
In a former life, I rode a Harley-Davidson motorcycle, drank gallons of cold beer, ate greasy chicken wings, and made love at noon in a mountain meadow.
Now I drive an SUV, sip laxative tea, and snack on protein bars. Passion is pleasurable, [...]
Podcast: The Midlife Laughter Challenge
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Elaine Ambrose, who through her books, blogs, and speaking engagements, encourages women over fifty to discover the happiness that comes from having a consistent laughter routine.
Her new book, Midlife Cabernet, recently won a [...]
Podcast: Small Steps Lead To BIG Success
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Joshua Coburn is a Youth Motivational Speaker, Author, & “Corporate Oddity” who has spent his life & career redefining stereotypes, living his passions, and assisting others to Dream Big, Believe Big, & Succeed [...]
Is Your Life Stuck In A Rut?
We have all been there and it is very upsetting, sometimes making the situations more difficult than they appear to be.
The uncertainly of it all becomes overwhelming and over time paralyzing. Ever feel the frustration, the sadness that usually [...]
Where Does “Happiness” Come From? The Word, That Is…
It’s summertime and the living is easy…my mind – ever on happiness – has wandered to the question, “Where does the word come from?”
And so I set to finding out… Here for your beach-reading pleasure, is a breakdown of “happiness” [...]
How Can You Make Your Life Shine?
Simplifying our lives can be hard because it forces us to own our values and shape our lives around them.
What makes you a real treasure around other people? What do you do that lights up your inside? Ask a friend; their insight could be [...]
Productively Take Control Of Your Freedom!
What does having more freedom in your life mean for you?
Is it freedom of time? Freedom of location?Free from financial worries?
Freedom from certain relationships? Freedom from old thoughts repeating and repeating in your mind?
Freedom from [...]
Podcast: THRIVE! Don’t Just Survive
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Ali Bierman, who is known as the Queen of Overcoming as she thrives after two Traumatic Brain Injuries ended life as she knew it. In her altered mind-body, she constantly re-invents herself forging her new path in life. Ali shares [...]
Fleeting Pleasures: Manufactured Happiness
Today, you may take a trip to Disney World for the ride of a lifetime.
A quick excursion on a Caribbean cruise promises to whisk you away from the world’s troubles. Drug stores offer pills to cure your headaches, insomnia and sexual dysfunction. [...]
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