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Day 14: Trouble Saying NO? Do This To Find Your Voice!

The first thing to remember is to never beat yourself up. You are not spineless, a pushover or insecure, you’re a human being. For hundreds of thousands of years, humans have relied on cooperation and trading favors to keep themselves sheltered and fed. Our ancestors saw that those who weren’t willing to lend a hand found themselves without friends to help them out, sometimes to the detriment of their survival. Continue reading

Day 15: Your Life Is Spiraling Out Of Control—Here’s How To Fix It

If you find yourself rushing around with a packed schedule, glued to your phone or email (or both!), filling empty time slots with activities to keep you constantly moving, then not only do your fit the bill of a modern day urgency junkie, you are slowly killing your soul, draining your creative potential and taking years off your life. Continue reading

Why You Need to Create Your Own “Top 10” List

You’ve experienced moments filled with laughs and tears, shouts and hugs. It may have been a difficult year financially or personally, but no matter what, it’s been a year you have survived. Whatever challenges you faced, you persevered. Continue reading

Day 16: You’re Making Yourself Fat, Not Happy: Here’s How to Dump Your Artificial Lover

Do you know what’s best about a salty bowl of chips, queso and a yummy margarita?

They never tell you no, they won’t leave you and, honestly, they don’t care if you’re fat.

But what do THEY do for YOU? Continue reading

change, self improvement

10 Ways to Chase a New Direction in Your Life

You aren’t going to start out with all the right answers, or even a complete picture of where you want to end up. But I suspect, in the stillness of the night, that voice speaks to you loud and clear about the life you know you want to be living. Continue reading

Day 17: Perfect Zen The Surprising Secret to Unceasing Serenity

Inhaling and exhaling goes hand in hand with the beating of our hearts. We do it 20,000 times a day, but if you don’t do it right you are affecting your health and happiness in a negative way.

Without breath, there is no life. Continue reading