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Can You Make a Perfect Transition Decision?
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Changing for Good
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James O. Prochaska, et. al.
Some folks believe there are no bad decisions ... If you turn left instead of right, you think you've made a mistake -- til you realize this detour is actually a shortcut to the destination of your dreams.
But if you're standing at a fork in the road, here are some guidelines that others have found helpful.
Can You Make a Perfect Transition Decision?
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Your True North
How to Navigate to a Life of Fulfillment
You were born with an internal compass that absolutely knows how to lead you to a fulfilling life. Some call this your Higher Self, Martha Beck refers to it as your Essential Self, and I call it your TRUE self.
Your True Self is that part of you that is always connected to Spirit and can give a broader perspective than the immediate (where we tend to put our focus). It has your best interests in mind: your ultimate happiness, your perfect life lessons, and your greatest accomplishments. It is like an internal compass pointing you North. Your own GPS system that will signal when you are off course or circling back down South.
Your True North
How to Navigate to a Life of Fulfillment
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The Advantages of Living Out Loud
Every time someone asks us a question, we have a choice to make, "How much truth shall I express?" "How much of my True Self should I reveal?"
Among our choices are the "convenient" truth, the "diplomatic" truth, the "socially accepted" truth, or the "absolute" truth--that is, "the whole truth and nothing but the truth, so help me God!" Do any of us even know the absolute truth about any situation in our lives? And can we ourselves handle the whole truth all at once about any subject? Let alone share that depth with others?
The Advantages of Living Out Loud
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Can You Copy Success?
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A Life's Work: The Joy of Discovering What You were Born to Do
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Thomas Moore
I can say I've been blessed with several fairly successful careers in my journey on this planet. Whether it was teaching yoga, being an acupuncturist, leading workshops, or managing a natural foods restaurant, I brought my own spirit and style to each endeavor. And in all these enterprises, friends, employees, students and clients would attempt to learn from my methods. To the extent that these people drew inspiration from the essence of how I operated these ventures, they benefited from my approach. But to the degree they tried to copy the form of my expression, they met with frustration and failure.
There's a fallacy in the way many people try to be successful in life. The falsehood is found in trying to follow in the exact footsteps of successful people. The mistake is in following the belief that "What works for another person is going to work for me." We can be inspired by someone else's clarity and confidence. Their strength and perseverance can motivate us. Their style and nuance can encourage us. But it's not possible to follow in their precise footprints. We aren't them!
Can You Copy Success?
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Who's In Charge Here?
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M. J. Ryan
Do you sometimes feel that your life is totally out of your control? That you aren't in charge of anything that happens to you? I certainly understand how you could have that reaction to life. I feel that way part of every day!
Yes, on the most basic level, our personality is not running the show. The soul calls the shots behind the scenes. Yet, allowing the soul to guide it, the personality can feel-and be-in control.
When a Hollywood movie is being made, the most important question to be decided is: "Who is going to have 'creative control' of the final cut?" Your life is a movie. Your movie. You have the final say over the final version-day by day as you choose what to believe, speak and do.
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March to the Beat of Your Own Drum!
Each of strives to honor our optimum rhythm, or pace for life, because we know it brings greater joy and more success. How do you stay in sync with your own inner pace for life? A pace that energizes, rather than drains you? It may be time to strengthen the beat of your inner drum, heard faintly in the background of phone calls, e-mails, meetings, sales pitches, reports, websites, workshops, house chores, social events, and family.
March to the Beat of Your Own Drum!

Ways to Live Authentically
Unmet needs can keep you from living authentically. Take care of yourself. Do you have a need to be acknowledged, to be right, to be in control, to be loved? List your top four needs and get them met! When you live authentically, you may find that you develop an interconnected sense of being. When you are true to who you are, living your purpose and giving of your talents to the world around you, you give back in service what you came to share with others -your spirit " your essence.
Ways to Live Authentically

Are You Able To Say Both 'Yes!' And 'No!'?
When it is all said and done, when we delve deeply into our emotions, we almost always find that our strongest and most habitual response is covering up other feelings that we are not fully aware of. We feel hurt, disrespected, abandoned, or sad, and we cover over these feelings and lose touch with them, by expressing anger or resentment instead. When we find ways to tap into our deeper emotions we invariably find that we have been neglecting some form of pain or discomfort. When we neglect or simply don't notice our deeper emotional reactions, we lose the ability to express our full range of emotions. In the process we find that by consistently expressing only one segment of our entire emotional range, we limit our ability to be happy and feel at ease within ourselves and with those that we interact with.
Are You Able To Say Both 'Yes!' And 'No!'?

The "To Do" List vs. the "To Be" List
Try it in an area of your life where you're feeling frustration. Instead of obsessing on the myriad of details that you needed to get done yesterday, for example, spend a little time determining what kind of person you want to be. Now examine that 'myriad of details'. Are they moving you in the direction you want to go? When you see activities from this perspective, you will get more satisfaction from the mundane and your 'to do' list will gain clarity and meaning. Best of all, you'll be able to pare down your gargantuan 'do it today' list to a more manageable size: the items that most support your desired wish 'to be'.
The "To Do" List vs. the "To Be" List

Your Best Is Always Good Enough
Do you remember that inner voice? You know -- the one that we have to put a muzzle on and train? The one that says that "we can do better," what we did was "not good enough," and even "you're a failure." Can you tell why that voice needs to be silenced? First and foremost, because it is wrong! We gain nothing from "beating ourselves" up about things. In fact, it is a serious waste of energy that could be spent building ourselves up.
Your Best Is Always Good Enough

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