Creative Success Depends on Long View
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Two Social Media Trends Show Hope and Optimism
Two trends I’ve noticed for some time on social media give cause for well-needed hope for society.
One is a great and growing kindness towards the entire animal kingdom, and the second is unphotoshopped evidence of incredibly precocious children [...]
Change Others Unsuccessfuly to Stay in Your Box..Or Burst Free into Evolutionary Warmth!
Why do we try to change others’ realities for our own comfort?
If they become what we wish will we really be happy? What if everything that happens is pointing us toward our fullness? What if rejection, unexpected reactions, or changes [...]
Public Speaking: The Next Generation
Considering the brain-rotting influence of text messaging, video games and TV in all its current incarnations, I thought I might have to enter the 5th grade classroom on Career Day riding a unicycle and juggling Persian kitties.
Instead I tried [...]
For You or From You: Good Enough Isn’t Enough to be Great
This hotel was like the little engine that could . . . it kind of could, it almost could, and it just couldn’t quite.
Recently we stayed at a different hotel than we usually stay at while visiting family in Santa Monica. The location we usually [...]
Podcast: Hug Your Haters
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New York Times best-selling author Jay Baer’s newest book, Hug Your Haters, focuses on how, where, and why people complain about the service they receive. Written as a response to the rise in online complaints, Hug Your Haters [...]
Podcast: Reframe Your Life
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Dr. Jada Jackson is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor and President of Total Life Counseling Center – Dallas; and author of Reframe Your Life – A Lifestyle Guide for Complete Success. Dr. Jada is also a therapist for the National [...]
Wildflowers in the Mist: Mountain Climbing
“A person should set his goals as early as he can and devote all his energy and talent to getting there. With enough effort, he may achieve it. Or he may find something that is even more rewarding. But in the end, no matter that the outcome, [...]
Menopause Rocks
Each human and each animal experiencing menopause (pause from menses) is unique.
There are also shared similarities. Here is my personal experience.
For forty years I bleed each month. I feel deep passion surging through me. Impelled to creatively [...]
High Altitude Adventure: Hut-to-Hut
“Have you known the Great White Silence?
Not a snow-gemmed twig aquiver?
Eternal truths that shame our soothing lives?
Have you broken trail on snowshoes?
Mushed your huskies up the river?
Dared the unknown, led the way, and clutched the [...]
Podcast: White In The Civil Rights Movement
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Jo Ivester is author The Outskirts of Hope where she describes her family’s experience in a small, all-black town in Mississippi in the 1960s where her father ran a medical clinic her mother was a local high school teacher [...]
Packing My Love to Go with Me
2016.
My time finding my main home in Santa Cruz is up. The living room has flooded. The over grown traffic has driven through my partnership with ocean-air! Winds usher me to another town. I will continue to offer sessions to clients [...]
An Enormous Mountain of Emotional Bliss
Backcountry mountaineering takes guts, gumption and strength.
Not for the meek. Not for the lazy. Not for the mild. It taxes and tantalizes at the same time. The wilderness summons the deep, primordial spirit of mountain men and women. It spills [...]
Your Spirit of Adventure: It Carries You to the Ends of the Earth
The difference between an average life and a fantastic life of adventure as defined by you, hinges on three things…
Your thoughts that become realities by your hand; actions that move you toward your destiny; and, a deep persistence knowing [...]
Are You a Star Quarterback on a Winning Team?
The position of your team members is a part of your plan that you need to carefully define.
Team roles are important to fulfill accurately so you have all the coverage you need for the abilities you desire. Each step of your action plan will [...]
Confessions of a Shy Girl
Let’s set the bar straight.
Everyone loves each other. Everyone watches one another. We all like each other. We are intrigued by one another. Forget what you think or what so and so said. This love and like is inherent. Cats and dogs show [...]
Losing Your Friends: Vacancies of the Heart
Along life’s highway, you will befriend countless people from school, work, sports and church.
Each person offers you different degrees of friendship. Some casual, some close and a few become best friends. Gym-rat friends encourage you. Work [...]
Podcast: Ancient Secrets of Manifesting Revealed
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Ken Elliot is the author of the award winning book, Manifesting 123, and you don’t need #3. Learn simple steps to eliminate worry and manifest the desires of your life with Manifesting 123!
Ancient Secrets of Manifesting [...]
Podcast: Dealing with the Loss of a Pet
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Veterinarian Dr. Liz Fernandez is the author of the new book Sacred Gifts of a Short Life: Uncovering Wisdom of our Pets End of Life Journeys, and she offers us the silver lining that can be uncovered as we embrace the broken [...]
Life Is Too Short: Get Off Your Cell Phone
During my youth, my dad took me fishing.
My mom took me on bicycle rides. My dad shouldered me with a small daypack for hikes in the woods. He pointed out chattering squirrels. He helped me see my first deer. He pointed out a fox on a ridge. [...]
Four Personal Keys to Kick Off Your Year
It’s easy to kick off your year focusing on the big stuff you want to accomplish.
You’ll find plenty of encouragement to make vast goals so you can attain great things, but as a coach I know that making big goals alone usually ends up [...]
When You Retire: Reinventing Yourself at Midlife
With a surprising number of boomers heading towards retirement, most are not ready to spend their days hitting the golf balls or playing bridge.
Instead they are looking to the future with enthusiasm and gusto. Why? Because they know that now [...]
Along Our Life Path: Death Hides In The Bushes
At the age of 17 while driving home from baseball practice, my father’s best friend pulled me over in my Chevy clunker.
He walked up to my window with a sad look on his face.
“Frosty,” he said. “I’ve got some bad news for you…your [...]
Be Free In The Problem
Problems! Everybody experiences them.
You might call “life challenges” your classroom for living. If you notice—every movie, play, sitcom, drama, thriller and adventure story features problems for the protagonist to face and overcome. [...]
A Holiday Tip: Home Is Where Civility Is…
The holidays can be a fun loving time and a chance to create some beautiful new memories.
In contrast, the holidays can be a stressed filled season reminiscent of arguments from the ghosts of Christmas past. MSN Travel reports that over 100 [...]
Living In The Conversation of Your Life
Six days a week, I wake up early, pull on my jeans and head to the recreation center where I commit my body to a two hour workout.
I swim a half-mile, lift weights, run, bicycle and meditate along with stretching in the hot tub. Why? I engage [...]
How 21st Century Are You? Or Are You Stuck in the 80’s?
I loved my Daytimer. Perhaps you loved your Franklin planner.
I was more efficient with my beloved Day-timer than I am with my Smart phone, smart as it is. Even though I could take out my Day-Timer and make an appointment faster than those at [...]
Thinking: The Source of All Struggle
It’s thinking that gets you in trouble.
It’s your thoughts that cause your stress. The habit of living in your left brain has you thinking that you’re going insane and your life is a mess!
There’s a very simple solution to end the struggle [...]
Mountains for Breakfast, Sunsets for Dessert, Camping for Your Dreams
This year, a longtime friend asked me to go on a bicycle journey with him down the West Coast from Canada to Mexico.
The journey encompassed 2,000 miles of the Pacific Ocean, mountains, beaches, seabirds, whales, seals, otters, dolphins and [...]
Podcast: Why Politicians Do The Things They Do
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Dr. Bart Rossi is an Emmy Award winning Political Psychologist who explores why politicians do the things they do. He is regularly heard and seen on national radio and TV and he is the author of The New-New American Life Style [...]
Postcard from Italy: Fall 2015
Rome, Italy – You might have expected Roman eyes to be fixed on giant TVs blaring every word, move and inch of the motorcades last week as Pope Francis wowed Washington, New York and Philly.
Indeed, Italian media coverage of the historic [...]
Podcast: Primary Elections – Should We Care?
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Dave Parker is a radio talk show host heard weekdays 10 to noon on AM 790 WNIS in Norfolk, VA. He has appeared on The O’Reilly Factor, CNN and his monthly columns can be found in Coastal Virginia magazine. Dave is also [...]
Locals Bid Farewell to Hometown Paper
The recent obituary for our hometown paper began: We have made a sincere and earnest effort to keep our free two community newspapers financially viable.
However …
If the words sound familiar, it’s because newspapers have been failing for [...]
Women: The Ambassadors of Change
As women, change is second nature.
It’s starts in the beginning. Sometimes before we even hit the double digits of age, barely finished playing with dolls, the transformation begins and suddenly why does my chest look different? Wait, are [...]
Your Creative Mind: Unpredictable Collision of Thought and Circumstance
How do ideas strike you?
When do they hit? Have you heard of the phrase, “Stroke of luck…flash of insight…eureka moment!” Creativity involves anticipation mingled with uncertainty. For the record, ideas grow out of your brain through [...]
Is Holy Week Politically or Religiously Incorrect?
Several years ago my husband and I had the pleasure of visiting Egypt and Israel with a Rabbi and his wife who made the whole experience extremely enlightening.
Some would ask, “Can Jews and Christians share their faith?” We were [...]
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