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	Strategies for Success
Astrology, Tarot, and Self Improvement for the New Age.

Strategies for Success

How Well are You Maintaining Your 'Creative Home'?

Taking care of ourselves, doing all we can to maintain our creative environments and abilities, is often the key to greater creativity. This means enabling you to increase creativity in terms of quality as well quantity.

Much like an old run-down house with poor central heating, rattling windows and a leaky roof, if you don't take care of yourself creatively -- and look after your Creative Home -- then slowly and steadily your creative energy will be wasted and you'll be frustrated and struggling to produce the kind of work you want to.

So here are five of the potential danger areas where your creative energy may be trickling, or gushing, away from your Creative Home, and how to combat them:

How Well are You Maintaining Your 'Creative Home'?

Affirmations - Do They Really Work?

Two years ago you couldn't get me to do affirmations to save my soul. The irony is; now I do them all the time to save my soul! And guess what? They do work and, when done purposefully - with heart and consistency, they do wonders.

When I was first introduced to the concept of affirmations I found I couldn't get past having to say something that I knew in my heart wasn't true, much less having to repeat it. I felt like I was lying. To me affirmations ranked right up there with platitudes. "Don't worry, be happy." Right. I'll get right on it.

Affirmations - Do They Really Work?

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Dynamic Principles to Make
Your Wildest Dreams Come True

Know and accept your weaknesses and faults (we all have them), but even more so your strengths, abilities and gifts. Build on your strengths and try to minimize or improve on your weaknesses; however work more on your strengths.

An honest, objective analysis of yourself is the first step in preparing you for success and realizing your dreams. Celebrate you for just being you, a unique creation. "Each one of us has been uniquely created by God and within each of us, we have certain special "instincts" or "natural tendencies/strengths/inclinations" towards certain things.

Dynamic Principles to Make
Your Wildest Dreams Come True

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Traditions For Thanksgiving Morning

While no one would argue that the Thanksgiving highlight is the feast everyone is waiting for, this often leaves several hours of time for family and guests to fill until it is time to eat.

If you find as the cook, that you are often surrounded by bored or curious onlookers, you may want to consider instituting several Thanksgiving morning traditions that will help fill the hours and clear your kitchen of those who have nothing else to do.

The added bonus of these fun Thanksgiving morning traditions is that instead of just one meal to look forward to, your family and guests will have a whole day of fun! Here are some traditions for Thanksgiving morning.

Traditions For Thanksgiving Morning

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Six Secrets of Organized Moms

A mom often wears many hats, taxi driver, cook, housekeeper, bread-winner, shoulder to cry on, and more. So, how does mom juggle it all? The following are six secrets of organized moms to help make things easier.

Secrets of Organized Moms

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How To Turn A Crisis into A Challenge

When a crisis hits - the end of a marriage, the loss of a job, or the death of a loved one - it throws you into a complete tailspin. Suddenly your world is no longer safe and secure. What can you do to pick up the pieces and take the first steps toward living a full life again?

You too can respond to a dramatic change by tapping into more optimistic thoughts and seeing the situation as a challenge. Create an opportunity to focus your energies and pursue your own dream. Change the negatives to positives as you choose your path. You may find that it is hard to get started and even more difficult to keep the forward momentum going. If you are finding yourself stalled and begin questioning your abilities to cope, implement these five important steps as you begin your journey.

How To Turn A Crisis into A Challenge

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How to Inventory Your Personal Assets

Have you ever noticed how, at this time of year, there are lists and lists circulating? You can find a list of the 20 best films, the 10 worst dressed people, the 50 most interesting books. In addition to spending some of your spare time reading through these lists, how about taking some personal time to create your own list -- of your 10 most important assets?

It may seem unusual for you, a member of the Sandwich Generation, to concentrate on yourself instead of on the needs of the family around you, but allow yourself to focus on and embrace your own development at this pivotal time.

Creating your asset inventory will give you a leg up on beginning the new year from a position of power, but how do you begin? To help you, here's a short list to help you focus on your assets - not the financial ones but the personal strengths you own. Use this process to discover some of your hidden passions. Reflect on your answers or discuss them with a trusted friend as you create an expanded sense of yourself.

How to Inventory Your Personal Assets

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Back to School Principles You Can Apply to Your Career

Do you remember the excitement and anticipation of going back to school -- New clothes, new shoes, new school supplies, a new teacher -- a fresh, new start full of possibilities. When is the last time you've felt the flood of emotions associated with going back to school?

You can apply these Back to School principles to your career -- whether you've been employed by the same company since you got out of college or are currently in career transition -- to give yourself a new attitude toward your career or your job search and find yourself filled with the excitement and anticipation of what lies ahead.

Back to School Principles You Can Apply to Your Career

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10 Things Successful People Know
That You Don't

What do extraordinarily successful people know about life that you don't? Are they just a lot luckier, smarter, or harder working than you? Or is there something inherently different in the way that they approach life that propels them to unimaginable heights?

The following list attempts to answer these questions. It contains the distilled wisdom from many years of trial and error by some of the most successful people modern society has seen. Some of what you'll read might surprise you. Some of it -- I hope! -- will inspire you. Either way, it just might light that fire under you. ENJOY.

10 Things Successful People Know
That You Don't

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Traits of Highly Successful People
That You Can Learn!

We have all read about people who are successful briefly. They win a gold medal, make a fortune, or star in one great movie... and then disappear. Or, there are those like Marilyn Monroe and Howard Hughes who achieve extraordinary success, at the cost of their own lives. These examples do not inspire me!

My focus and fascination is with people who seem to do well in many areas of life, and do it over and over through a lifetime. In entertainment, I think of Paul Newman and Bill Cosby. In business, I think of Ben and Jerry (the ice cream moguls), and a local hardware store owner who is famous for the money he's give to children's charities.

Traits of Highly Successful People That You Can Learn

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SMART Resolutions

It's that time of year again. Many of us will reflect on our lives and resolve that things will be different in the year ahead. Thousands of us impulsively make life-changing promises to eat less, exercise more, stop smoking, spend more time with our families, and get our finances into shape. Goals we set at New Year's are similar to goals we might set at any other time of the year. If these goals are vague, unrealistic, or extreme, the odds of reaching them are low, no matter when we decide to work on them. There is a strategy for streamlining the goal-setting process to stack the odds in your favor.

SMART Resolutions

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New Year's Resolutions to Jump Start Your Career

Resolve that, this year, you are going to find work that you love. If you've found it already, congratulations -- you have a great foundation to build on! If you love what you're doing, you'll put your heart and soul into it and be successful. Is this you? If not, resolve to change matters.

Actually it's SEMI-parasitic, attaching its roots into the host plant to extract nutrients, and it's especially magical if this "host plant" should be an oak. Mistletoe attached to an oak was sacred to the ancient Celtic Druids.

New Year's Resolutions to Jump Start Your Career

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Change-Proficiency

You just got downsized, you just got a new boss, your partner just broke up with you, you just found out you're going to be a father, you've enrolled in college, you just got married, your son just had a daughter, you've been transferred, you've been promoted, you're going into the army now ... what do all these things have in common? Change!

In coaching, I like to label these things immediately "transitions." Why? First of all, this word indicates a bridge, and points toward the future. All of these things signal the end of something, but also, by definition, the beginning of something new.

Change-Proficiency

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Play Small Or Live Out Loud

The famous poem by Marianne Williamson makes me think about how often we bury our aspirations under a bushel of self-doubt, insecurity, fear and procrastination. When we shrink, minimize and deny our strengths, talents and God given abilities, we shortchange ourselves and the world.

All of us are meant to shine our lights into the world in our own unique and magnificent way. It may be pursuing a long held dream, making significant life changes to live your best life now. It may involve taking a risk to achieve a goal. No matter what your dream is, just know that it is YOUR dream and you are the only one who can bring it to fruition.

Play Small or Live Out Loud

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Recession
9 Ways to Increase Your Value at Work

During this economic downturn, no one can presume their job is safe from a layoff. While thousands of layoffs have been occurring on an almost daily basis, there are others that may be able to dodge the bullet with some minor changes in how they view their job. Here are 9 strategies to increase your value at work during a recession.

Recession
9 Ways to Increase Your Value at Work

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The Attitudes Of Success And Happiness

I work with people every day who are striving to be - do - or have something in their lives. Be it a successful business, a life that is less stressed, or a more satisfying career, everyone wants the same thing at the core -- to feel successful and to be happy.

Sounds easy to attain but we all know it's not. There are many fine formulas for success and happiness out there. You've probably tried many self-help or business improvement programs and know they would work if you consistently practiced and skillfully applied them.

The Attitudes Of Success And Happiness

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Visualize Your Way to Success

Human beings are visual creatures. Our imaginations are powerful tools that can bring us to the brink of despair or create a wonderful new reality. This is because our subconscious responds to images whether they are real or imagined.

We all use visualization in our daily lives. When we read, our mind automatically translates the words into images of people and places. When we think of someone, we "see? his or her face. We also visualize every time we are afraid. We play worst-case scenarios in our minds like a reel of film. The more we play the film, the larger our fear becomes.

Visualize Your Way to Success

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The Path To Personal Success

Everyone defines personal success in their own way, but for most people it's the ability to gain happiness or material wealth. It's certainly of great interest to our society. Infomercials designed to deliver success in a box to people fill the broadcast television airwaves and cable channels.

We've become a society of people waiting for some intellectual guru or spur of the moment motivational author to lead us down the road to success. It's become almost scandalous to try and find or navigate that road alone. But before you plunk down your hard-earned cash for somebody else's idea of who or what you should be, try being yourself -- improved!

The Path To Personal Success

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Tune Up Your Life

Choose to make better choices. You are currently choosing to worry for days (months?) about a job that would take you only a few hours. You are capable of choosing better. Choose to take action, or delegate the action to someone else.

Tune Up Your Life

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Making Your Vocation Your Vacation

You still have to work at it, but this way becomes fun. The demarcation between vocation (work) and vacation (play), all but disappears. Whilst working from home is unlikely to reduce your hours in the short term, this, I feel, is a much more fulfilling and enduring compensation.

Making Your Vocation Your Vacation

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Creativity Means Detach From Outcomes

Enjoy the process of creation for its own sake. So, if you want to produce better quality creative material, strive to be more exotelic. Love the work more than what it produces. See, it's REALLY easy to create for the wrong reasons. Money. Fame. Ego. Power. Approval. All are outcomes. Which doesn't mean they're bad things! They just suggest that your creative process is results-based, not process-based.

Creativity Means Detach From Outcomes

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The Triumph of a Joy Junky

Sometimes the most positive thing you can do is to leave an organization. I've helped a couple people make the decision to leave this place. If it takes too much from you over time, at some point, you have to realize you can't affect this place without losing your joy.

The Triumph of a Joy Junky

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Creating Unlimited Success This New Year

New Year's is traditionally a time for resolutions -- when we vow to live our lives better than we have in the past. Unfortunately, we treat our resolutions as wishes made on stars. We declare them and then simply hope they'll come true. Well, it takes more than wishful thinking to change our behavior. If you want to succeed with your resolutions, you need to attend to 7 basic steps. Follow these guidelines, and you will achieve your dreams.

Creating Unlimited Success This New Year

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Problem Solving
Practical and Spiritual Strategies
From Creative, Joyful Problem Solvers

We've all been there ... grappling with a problem that just does not budge no matter how desperately you need an answer or how hard you work to find one. This is truly one of life's most vexing moments. Some people seem to enjoy solving hard problems ... the way some seem to enjoy solving hard puzzles. (I say "seem" because neither of these appeal much to me ... and so I have to believe the sincerity or the grins and whoops of joy that go with a break-through moment from people I know who define this as "winning" ... and celebrate the victory.

Problem Solving
Practical and Spiritual Strategies
From Creative, Joyful Problem Solvers

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Working With Wisdom
10 Principles to Practice

Recommended Book from Amazon

Divine Wisdom at Work: 10 Universal Principles for Enlightened Entrepreneurs
By
Tricia MolloyWhatever your business may be, we all have something in common. We could benefit from the wise counsel of a trusted business partner.

The good news is that this partner is already here but has been sadly underused and neglected. Your business partner is a powerful force with all the wisdom of the universe and always has your best interests at heart. It's your Higher Power or Higher Consciousness--the Divine Wisdom within you that you can access at any time for a wealth of information, ideas, support and guidance.

Working With Wisdom
10 Principles to Practice

Transitions without Trauma

Recommended Book from Amazon

The Way of Transition: Embracing Life's Most Difficult Moments
By
William Bridges Life is a series of transitions - some huge, some small; some chosen by us, and others forced upon us. We experience transitions in all areas of our lives including career, family, beliefs, relationships, physical and emotional states, etc. The process of going through a life transition is stressful at best and may even be traumatic. The challenges of the process can be opportunities to learn and grow. The following tips can help you move through the transitions of your life with strength, confidence and success.

1. Realize that change is constant.

You have successfully completed many transitions in your life thus far. Remember what strategies worked for you and adapt them to your current situation. Make a list of past successes and how you achieved them. Consider which of these strategies can help you in your current situation.

Transitions without Trauma

Do You Think Motivational Thoughts?

Recommended Book from Amazon

Secrets of Lucky People: A Study of the Laws of Good Luck
By
Steve GillmanWhat do motivational thoughts do? They help you take action. This isn't about positive thinking or motivating quotes. Those have their place in shaping your attitude and thinking. However, what motivates each of us is unique, so you need to have your own thoughts - those which are most effective at getting you going.

"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity" - Albert Einstein

This is a decent quote, and it may help you look at the positive side of a situation, but what if it just doesn't get you excited? Then you need to apply a little brainpower to make the idea your own. You have to make it a truly motivational thought for YOU.

Do You Think Motivational Thoughts?

Protect Your Self-Care

So, you've set your self-care goals and you're all set. You've even considered the ways you'll sabotage yourself - but wait! What about those well-meaning friends and relatives who probably don't mean any harm but they may DO you harm if they steer you away from the self-care goals you've set for yourself. So how do your put yourself first and get selfish when others are tempting you to stray?

Protect Your Self-Care

Getting Your Power Back

During many years of observing others and myself searching for fulfillment, I've noticed an essential ingredient is often missing. I call this ingredient sovereignty, self-sufficiency or total independence from outside sources. Without this quality in its authentic form, no one I know has been able to achieve the happiness, health and peace they are seeking.

Throughout the years of assisting others and myself to feel truly joyous and free, I've watched people try to ignore, deny, invalidate or rationalize away the importance of sovereignty. I've witnessed friends and clients attempt to fake it, substitute for it, and try to steal and borrow it from others. All these efforts have been in vain. Their time, energy and intention would have been put to better use by focusing on allowing this quality to become a solid, personal reality.

Getting Your Power Back

Less Talk, More Action!

It is time for less talk and more action -- loving action. Loving actions are those actions that support our highest good and the highest good of others. Loving actions are those actions that are motivated by love rather than by fear. Many people who have been on a path of personal and spiritual growth have spent a lot of time talking. Talking with friends about what is wrong and what they want. Talking with therapists about their past and their beliefs. Talking with a mate about what needs changing. They have explored and explored and talked and talked -- and not much has changed.

Less Talk, More Action!

Ways to Motivate Yourself
When You Just Don't Feel Like It

Achieving the really big goals and dreams always involves breaking it down into do-able little steps. Assuming that you've picked a goal or dream that you really love working at, then most of the steps are a delight to take. No matter how much you love your dream and no matter how much you love your work, there are going to be tasks along the way that you really don't want to do. Those pieces of work that we hate doing can be the very ones that sabotage our success. How do you stay motivated during those parts of the journey?

Ways to Motivate Yourself
When You Just Don't Feel Like It

Advance Your Enthusiasm and Determination for Success

Imagine being firmly committed to your deepest ambitions. Imagine feeling energetic and enthusiastic about your relationships, career, and all the things you want. Envision a future as bright and promising as any you have ever imagined. Is this your typical day-to-day outlook? Do you adjust easily to unexpected obstacles and handle stressful situations resiliently? Do you thrive on challenges, or do you tend to withdraw from them?

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Advance Your Enthusiasm and Determination for Success

Simple Ways To Guarantee Your Success

Things do not change until you change. Doing nothing is not an option in case you actually think it is. The trend will continue and reach its natural conclusion until you change the trend. What will happen if you do not change your approach? Year after year you will become more and more frustrated and bitter. You could easily adopt the world view that nothing ever works out for you and before long you will spend most of your time with other negative people.

Simple Ways To Guarantee Your Success

The Secret Motivation Strategy That Never Fails

No matter how much you want to make your dreams come true you still need some practical ways to keep yourself motivated over the long term. You need the ability to keep going in the face of setbacks, disappointments and short-term frustrations.

The Secret Motivation Strategy That Never Fails

Imagining Yourself Whole
Reclaiming the Key to
Your Creative Power

From bookstore and library shelves, in personal development seminars and continuing education classes, from websites on the internet, in commercials on television ... in many ways the invitation to improve your life, create work you love, build the relationship you long to have and make your dreams come true calls relentlessly for your attention. Beneath it all are enticing messages about reclaiming personal power, owning knowledge, skills and talents that are your natural right, that you were born with, that you know how to use naturally and that in a kinder, saner world you would have been taught to use for your own benefit long ago.

Imagining Yourself Whole
Reclaiming the Key to
Your Creative Power

Signs Along the Road to Achievement

These basic precautions would keep us moving along safely, and help us arrive at our intended destinations on time. Remembering these simple golden rules of safe driving can also help with the achievement of other important objectives. Winners spend the majority of their time doing things that bring them closer to their goals. They stay on the intended path because their "hands are on the wheel." They make the most of each minute by staying engaged in actions of high priority. They accept help from others. However, they take ultimate responsibility for guiding themselves to their destination.

Signs Along the Road to Achievement

Figure Out the Pebble in Your Shoe

If you are serious about achieving a more meaningful life then you'll need a new perspective for viewing your life and your career. The following exercise is a new method for going through your day and your week. It's anew sense of being alive being responsible, being at choice, and being the architect in your life.

Figure Out the Pebble in Your Shoe

Don't Get Too Comfortable
If You Want To Succeed

Being afraid of change really limits what you can accomplish. Living in a comfort zone stops you from trying new things. Trying to run a business while staying in your comfort zone is a total waste of time and effort. Succeeding in a small business of any kind means doing things that other people are not willing to do. The person that overcomes the competition to be around in the long run will not be married to their comfort zones.

Don't Get Too Comfortable
If You Want To Succeed

Where is Your 'Enthusiasm Button'?

It has always been a bit of a mystery to me why great enthusiasm for a particular subject will plant itself in one person's mind, and will cause that person to quickly convert dreams into great actions. It has been said, wisely, that if you have enthusiasm, thank God for it. And if you don't have it then get down on your knees and pray for it. For until you have it, your constant bed partner will be failure.

Where is Your 'Enthusiasm Button'?

Not Satisfied With Where You Are? STOP!

Our normal response is to dream of the day we can be organized, cut through the clutter, and come into work or home and see a clean organized desk with everything at our finger tips. But since that day seems too far off or too time consuming to create we continue with our routine and get the same results and worse we add to the frustration, that endless dragging feeling, and the cycle of never getting ahead gets bigger.

Create a new habit and make it a good one. One that moves you into action and gives you the results you want. It will take commitment on your part and it will take doing it repeatedly over time to make it a habit, but after several weeks it will become comfortable to do it the new way and uncomfortable when you go back to the old way.

Not Satisfied With Where You Are? STOP!

Everyday Tools for Extraordinary Success

I am often asked about the "secrets to success". I've had the chance to work with thousands of highly successful people in business and finance, in sports, in entertainment and the arts, and the good news is, there are no "secrets" for success! There are, however, a few tools that, when used together, come close to being a "secret weapon". They require no special talent or skills. They cost very little, and every school child has a complete set. They are around us every day, yet we fail to use them, and we deprive ourselves of their power. Here is my list of the Top 5 "secret" weapons of extraordinarily successful leaders:

Everyday Tools for Extraordinary Success

Super Achievers Have
Talent, Skill, Patience, and Lady Luck!

Super achievement involves the mystery we call "luck". I think it's important to say that out loud! Many motivational speakers focus only on their "secrets of success", claiming they have the "law" of money or the "law" of success on their side. By definition, you can't count on luck to make up for lack of talent or lack of preparation. And, there's no use blaming "bad luck" for poor choices or stubbornness or bad judgment. Success comes from acknowledging luck, then going about your business the best way you know how.

Super Achievers Have
Talent, Skill, Patience, and Lady Luck!

The Action in Attraction
10 Things You Can Do Today

Successful people have taken the time to clearly define their life vision and are willing to take action on fulfilling it every day. Action leads to movement, which leads to momentum, which naturally draws more of the 'good stuff' to them. The desire to meet a challenge and succeed has been a part of many cultures throughout history. The ancient Peruvians used to draw out their goals in symbols and paint them in primitive colors on the walls of caves. Likewise, we moderns have an innate need to live a fulfilling and meaningful life. However few of us seem to be able to attract more of what we really want. Writing can help immensely.

The Action in Attraction
10 Things You Can Do Today

The 5 Keys to Interpersonal Success

In survey after survey, interpersonal communication skills are consistently ranked at or near the top of a list of skills necessary for career success. People who possess these skills enjoy a richer personal life, better relationships at work and more productive interactions with those around them. Teams with members who excel at these skills are more productive and more cohesive. No one is born with these "people skills." They are the result of attention and practice. Here are five guaranteed ways to hone your people skills.

The 5 Keys to Interpersonal Success

Are you looking for more information on Initiative, Assertiveness, Goal Setting, and Anger Management?

Aries is the astrology sign that deals specifically with Initiative, Assertiveness, Goal Setting, and Anger Management. Learn more about Aries.
The information here tells all about Aries Astrology.

Aries Horoscope

A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.
~ W. H. Auden ~
Born February 21, 1907

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