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Waking up one day and realizing your world just isn’t working for
you is the first step into an incredibly exciting new journey.
That awakening is to be the first of many. Maybe you’ve been
reading self improvement books and feeling like something is
missing. That’s a sure sign your life may be changing, especially
if you are beginning to question your own spirit.

Have you listened to yourself lately? I mean really listened?
Did you hear anything? Maybe your inner voice has been quiet and
suppressed for so long it forgot how to speak. Maybe it really
has wanted to speak but hasn’t been given permission.

Recently I saw the result of a study on one of the prime-time
news shows. The study showed that by the time a child is five
years old, that child will have been told “No!” over 100,000
times! What are the ramifications of this? Just imagine. A
child’s only job is to just be who they are. That’s it! Can you
imagine that if 9 times out of 10, the child was just being
him/herself and was told “No.”? Eventually the child internalizes
this simple word into the understanding that being the self is
not okay.

The painful truth is that most of society has been raised this
way. What does it mean when this child becomes an adult? That
adult is shut off from his/her spirit and is living life
according to someone else’s rules, limitations, ideas, parameters
and belief systems. This adult may be unable to make decisions
without consulting others, looking to others to make the
decisions for them.

This is where that underlying word “No!” setup the outside
authority figure that the adult still looks for today. He/she
doesn’t realize, and was never really taught, that when you
become an adult you also become your own authority figure. That
may be an implied belief at 18. “You’re an adult now and you have
to make your own decisions,” the 18 year old is told. This
statement, however, does not include the words, “You no longer
require our (parents’) permission. You are your own authority
now.” Wow, wouldn’t that have been nice if it had been spelled
out like that. Unfortunately we take some of that authority and
dump it into doing things that we’ve always wanted to do
externally, like drinking, partying and more.

But, how much of that is a rebellion and how much is remembering
your spirit and the inner truth of your being? It gives you
something to think about.

Maybe you’ve never rebelled. Many women suffer from the “good
girl” syndrome. This may be the worst offender in the case
against remembering your spirit and inner truth. The good girl
syndrome is so deeply ingrained that the child seemingly lives to
please others. Others are the priority, and the self doesn’t
really matter. In fact, it feels as though the self doesn’t even
exist. It’s been so long since the self had a chance to speak
that there is virtually no sense of self left at all. All those
times being told “No!” have accumulated into a pliable body, a
seeming automaton, a robot who is only here to serve others.
Sound familiar?

Is it any wonder why so many people are searching for assistance
in this day and age? The book industry is loaded with self-help
books. There is a growing discomfort within this world of
robots. Like Robin Williams in Bicentennial Man, there is a
growing desire within our own lives that makes us stop and say,
“Wait a minute, this is not enough for me. I have a voice and
somewhere deep down inside of me, I have a self, and it’s time I
found out who that is.”

Being a robot no longer works for us once we have that initial
awareness, that one little light bulb that turns on inside that
says, “There must be something more to my life than this.” That
one little sentence begins a domino effect inside, tumbling down
the building blocks of denial that formulated the structure of
our lives at such a young age.

Once this crumbling begins, it truly is a ‘brand new day.’ The
world begins to look different and feel different. That’s
because you are different. You asked a question and found a
voice. Now is the time to begin the search to find your self.
It’s in there somewhere, underneath all those denial blocks,
limitations, boundaries and belief systems. A self is waiting to
be born!

Remember, our parents always did the best they could with what
they knew how to do. If they had been raised any differently
themselves, then they would have raised you differently, but they
weren’t. So, there’s no blame here, plain and simple. It’s just
finally time to start breaking the generational family
patterning. It starts with you.

Your questioning and questing breaks the chain. You know that
once you remember your self, you will pass a new way of being
onto your children. As you grow, learn and discover your self,
you can’t help but share that new expression with others.
Remember to welcome your self to this world. Remember that it
truly is OK to just be your SELF!

© 2001 Jodie Foster

Jodie Foster is an Intuitive Counselor who assists clients to create extraordinary transformations in their everyday lives. Her work is uplifting, empowering and success-oriented. You can visit Jodie’s website at http://www.illuminationsnetwork.com for further information and to schedule a private intuitive session. You can also look for weekly updates to her blog at: http://intuitiveinnovations.blogspot.com

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The first few hours in this world, when we as babies drop out to mingle with the natural beauty and wonders, the first day in our life is the most important day of our life.

Don’t we all have these memorable first days in our life?

Ask a philatelist and he or she will say how memorable the first days are, to them. The first day coins, first day stamps and the first day covers. They are all of paramount importance.

The child joining pre-school has a jittery first day. The start from home as happy as a bird because everything is new, new dress, new shoes and socks, new books, new bag etc. When the child reaches school and leaves the parents’ hands and goes inside the classroom, the yelling, screaming, and howling inside the classroom, the jittery feeling and perhaps the compulsion to cooperate with the peer the child starts crying at the top of the voice and starts vomiting and add to the commotion. The first days are spent with his new friends, and then back home. This first day remains in one’s memory forever.

Leaving school and joining the university for graduation turns to be yet another climb. The first day in the University is memorable because it is a day when realization dawns that he has matured from a boy to a man or a girl to a woman!

There are many other first days. The first day of dating for a teenager, the first day you fall in love, the first day of marriage, the first day you fight with your girl/boyfriend and wife/husband. And for women, the first day of motherhood! She feels that her womanhood is complete only on becoming a mother.

There is yet another aspect in a first day. The moulding of our career when we are ignorant of what future has in store for us, and the first day in office when we meet a new set of people.

I am sure we all have these cranky first days, funny first days and sometimes even sad.

Don’t we all?

HPriya Sivan

Is a consolidation loan the best financial solution for me? Now that we’re in a recession (according to the Ernst & Young ITEM Club Autumn forecast), it’s essential that people with debt problems realise what is different between debt consolidation loans and the other available debt solutions - and see which one could be the best solution to suit their circumstances.

Firstly, it depends on what the future holds. In a recession, the chances are for it to be bad news - when consumer spending drops and companies lose money, many companies will resort to redundancies as a means to stay afloat. For any individual who thinks their company might be making redundancies, a debt consolidation loan may not be a good idea.

Why is that? One of debt consolidation’s best advantages is the chance to reduce the monthly amount an individual pays towards their debt repayments. Consolidating debt has a bigger impact when the person is in a fairly stable financial situation: when they are aware how much they are earning and how much they are spending every month, they are able to work out the ideal way of paying back their debt.

So someone facing the possibility of unemployment could be better off looking into debt management, as opposed to debt consolidation. Debt management makes it possible to have a flexible approach to debt: borrowers can ask debt management experts to talk to their creditors on their behalf, asking them to think about allowing lower monthly payments, waive charges and/or freeze interest.

Individual Voluntary Arrangements require a high level of commitment and can require householders to free up some of the equity in their home. Borrowers must be able to commit to making fixed monthly payments for (normally) six years, based on the most they are able to afford when they have taken their essential expenses into account. Even so, an IVA is able to make all the difference - for people whose debts have steadily become out of control, including persons faced with a severe drop in their earnings. Granted, IVAs do need a level of financial stability: if the person does not feel they are able to commit to five years of regular payments, an IVA might not be the perfect debt solution for them.

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Thanks to Walt Disney’s “The Lion King”, children the world over know the Swahili expression “Hakuna Matata”. It means “No Problem” and we grown-ups should use it more often.

I used to come home and my wife would say, “We have a crisis!” I would immediately think that our daughter was in a hospital, the car broke down, or her mother was coming to stay with us. But it was usually just that the washing machine was broken, or she couldn’t get a babysitter for our movie date.

It is easy to turn a minor disruption into a major disaster. Don’t do it! It lowers the energy of everyone involved and makes you want to run away. Instead, take the energy you are wasting on worrying and complaining about the “ifs”, “buts” and “shoulds” - and direct it toward finding the solution.

Problem-solving requires awareness and becoming aware of the problem is often enough to solve it. To sharpen your awareness, take a look at the problem from three different perspectives:

1. Accept that the problem is really just a FACT, or set of facts.

Situation: You parked in a no-parking zone and your car was just towed.

You may be furious about it, but the fact remains that the car was towed. If you detach yourself momentarily from your feelings, and look strictly at the facts, it will be easier to put things into perspective. Just imagine that someone else’s car was towed. Would you feel the same about it? Probably not! You would probably think, “Well that’s what happens when you park in a tow-away zone.”

So, act as if the problem belonged to your neighbor and not yourself…

Now, there are no more problems - only facts!

2. Be willing to see your problem as a CHALLENGE.

What’s more fun: dealing with a problem, or facing a new challenge?

Situation: You’ve just had another fight with someone close. Arguing is not going to achieve anything.

You can treat the situation (or the person) as a problem, or you can choose to see it as a challenge: “How can I create a harmonious, understanding relationship with that person?” Instead of looking backward into the past (”How many times I’ve tried, and still it doesn’t work”), you look forward to the future (”Let’s see how I can make a difference”).

The heaviness of the situation is gone, and excitement takes over…

Now, there are no more problems - only challenges!

3. Recognize the problem as an OPPORTUNITY.

In reality, every obstacle is a chance to learn something new and grow: “The obstacle is the path.”

Situation: Your boss just gave you two weeks notice. You’re shocked, angry, worried, feeling insecure.

You can see it as a problem (”What am I going to do now?” “Where will I earn money?” “I’m too old to change”), or you can see the possibilities open to you that were not there before: “Now I finally can take the around-the-world tour I always dreamed about”, “Now it’s time to open my own business”, “Here’s my chance to find a better job”.

Contemplate many of the opportunities you’ve had in your life; probably many opened up when you were in trouble…

Now, there are no more problems - only opportunities!

The key element in this problem-solving process is the conscious act of taking personal responsibility.

Reshaping problems into facts, challenges and opportunities will allow you to accept that you are in charge of your “problem”.

You can no longer play the “blame game” because the problem is no longer something that was forced upon you from an outside source (other people, circumstances, etc…)

You are no longer a powerless victim!

If it’s affecting your life, you must have something to do with it; therefore you can do something about it.

Often, you don’t even have to take action in the physical sense. Simply changing your point of view may be sufficient for the problem to disappear on its own.

The closer you are to an issue, the harder it can be to be creative about it. So try taking a step back from your situation and invite others who are not close to it to brainstorm solutions with you.

Ask yourself these questions:

• What are the facts?

• What are the challenges?

• What opportunities are presented?

• How will a solution make my life better than it was before?

• What is it that I have to learn in order to deal with the situation differently?

Remember that NOTHING is IMPOSSIBLE.

When people tell me that something is impossible, I ask them, “How can you do it anyway?”

That simple question has the power to transform lives.

Imagine what would have happened if people like the Wright Brothers, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela, J.F.K. and Gandhi used the word “impossible”? Where would humanity be today?

We all tend to look at some problems as impossible to solve or beyond our power. “It’s impossible to talk to my mother, she just won’t listen!”

But if you ask yourself instead, “How can I talk to her?” then, suddenly, ideas emerge (i.e. take her for a quiet lunch, include a third person in the conversation, write her a letter).

Changing your language changes your outlook.

Really, most “impossible” things are just “difficult” and can be achieved with some effort and a new “no problem” attitude.”

About The Author

Nisandeh Neta, author of the best-seller book Jump-Start Your Life: http://www.jump-start-your-life.com.

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We all question our ability at times. Uncertainty plagues us. It is even more intense if the ability we are questioning relates to something we have never tried or not succeeded at in the past.

Set backs are common, but we rarely welcome them. We are inclined to respond negatively to adversity. It may be time to revisit that reflexive response.

I had an experience recently that caused me to reconsider whether a negative response to adversity is always justified when I was confronted with a life-threatening situation.

It was mid-morning on a warm and pleasant Saturday. I was in the midst of my first skydive of the day. It was my 2,123th jump since having taken up the sport fifteen years ago.

After about one minute of freefall and 5,000 above the ground, I parted ways with my fellow jumpers to get far enough away from them to open my parachute safely. I initiated opening around 3,000 feet above the earth.

My parachute opened with some twists in the lines between the parachute and me. This is not that uncommon. What was different this time was that I was not able to clear the twists.

The twists in the lines caused my parachute to take on an asymmetrical shape. Receiving asymmetrical inputs, the canopy did what it is designed to do and initiated a turn — that’s how it’s steered. The problem occurred when the turn quickly became a rapid, diving downward spiral that was spinning me a full 360 degrees about once every second. This was a problem.

I looked up to assess my canopy and saw something I don’t often see - the horizon clearly visible ABOVE the trailing edge of my canopy. This meant my canopy and I were now on roughly the same horizontal plane. In that I could see the horizon behind it, I was actually above my parachute and it was leading our fast spinning parade rapidly towards mother earth.

My first need was to acknowledge that I was not going to be able to solve this problem. This is not as easy as it seems. Having successfully completed over 2,100 jumps without having to resort to my second parachute, it was hard for me to believe I had really encountered a problem I could not solve. I had a natural inclination to assume I could fix this problem as I had all those in the past.

Sound familiar? It’s always easy to lapse into denial when confronted with a problem. Until we acknowledge the problem and our possible inability to solve it - or to use the methods we have used in the past - we don’t have a chance of making things better.

Fortunately, the urgency of this situation caused my hard-headed nature to yield much quicker than usual. That decision probably took a second or two.

The next step, having accepted the need to follow a different course than in the past, was to determine the course. Fortunately fifteen years of training and practice before every day of jumping took hold.

I looked straight down at the two handles on either side of my chest - one to release me from my malfunctioning canopy and one for deploying my reserve parachute - and realized I needed to quickly get them in my hands. I could not help but notice when I made eye contact with them, as had been ingrained in me during my First Jump Course way back in 1988, that by now the rapid spins had turned me back to earth and there beyond my toes was once again the horizon. This was bad!

Time was of the essence at this point not only because I was now rapidly progressing toward the horse pasture below me, but also because the centrifugal force I was starting to experience would soon make it impossible to get my hands to those two handles.

With my hands now securely on the handles, I was confronted with a bothersome question, “Now, which one goes first.” The wrong order could cause my reserve parachute to deploy into my spinning main parachute which would result in an incurable entanglement.

Fortunately, ingrained training once again took over and I pulled them in the right order. First the handle on the right side which released me from my spinning main parachute followed by the handle on the left side to deploy my reserve parachute.

This brought on a wonderful experience. My malfunctioning black, teal and magenta canopy was replaced with a bright, yellow never before used reserve parachute. What a lovely sight! And all this by 1,700 feet - plenty of time to spare.

Many years ago, I read a book about the challenges and responsibilities of Secret Service agents. One of the sad aspects of that profession is that agents who never have the chance to validate their years of training by responding to a threat sometimes struggle severely in retirement. They are faced with not knowing - with certainty - how they would respond when faced with the paramount challenge their career can deliver. For this reason, agents who have faced such a challenge successfully are admired within the culture of the Service.

That Saturday morning, I had the privilege of facing a similar, life-threatening and I now realize life-defining challenge. I faced what Secret Service agents call “the dragon.”

For all of us the greater dragon is not the external threat, whether it be an assassin’s bullet, the unforgiving and fast approaching earth or another challenge. The real dragon is the self-doubt we carry within us.

For those few splendid moments after landing safely, I was able to put my foot firmly on the neck of the dragon … and it felt great.

Keep this in mind the next time you are confronted with adversity. On the far side of the experiences the adversity presents, there could be a valuble gift - a renewed confidence and certainty.

(c) 2004, Jim McCormick. All rights in all media reserved.

About The Author

Jim McCormick is an MBA, former corporate Chief Operating Officer, three time skydiving World Record holder and was a member of an international expedition that skydived to the North Pole. More information is available at http://www.TakeRisks.com and 970.577.8700.

Jim@TakeRisks.com

There are few enough miracles in life, God knows. I think perhaps the circus is one of them. We pay our money, braced for boredom, and are bombarded by noise, bewitched by beauty, awed still one more time by elephants that, yes, are smaller every year. Yet something happens when we enter the big top. If we let it, we will be carried back to hopes and dreams long surrendered: hopes that something wonderful really can happen, dreams that will happen to us, maybe even now.

Clowns are the prime miracle-workers in all this. There is a vision in the eyes of clowns that sees the world new-washed in daybreak’s dream, the vision of a leaf returned to bud, of pretext gone and darkness only seems. Clowns are pegs on which the circus can be hung, the hooks on which the magic is begun, the eyes of God to find our soul and nudge the people we can be. Clowns tell us — if we listen — that something wonderful really can happen, right there, right here, right now.

It is easy to forget the clowns — spots and bangles, rubber nose, feet like ducks, outlandish clothes. It is perhaps more comfortable to miss the clowns, for they mirror ourselves, stripped of pretention, stripped of protection. There with all our naked feelings hanging out. There — that tear, that laugh, that sigh — don’t hide it, says the clown. Let it come. Let it happen. Let it be.

The clown takes the risk first, but leaves the rest of the magic up to us. We can be real, can let others know our pain, our need, our joy, our strength. If we let it, the magic really can happen, right there, right here, right now. And that’s the biggest miracle of all, God knows.

(c) Maureen Killoran, 2004

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Maureen Killoran, MA, DMin, is a Life Coach and Unitarian minister, with a passion for helping people connect their strengths with their vision. Maureen offers dynamic individual and group coaching, work team empowerment training, teleclasses, and a free monthly e-zine, “Seeds of Change.” http://www.spiritquestcoaching.com

Generosity, which includes the free, no strings-attached sharing of resources, money, and information among people, is the seed of prosperity. What was the initial seed planted that caused the “Silicon Valley Miracle” No, it was not the invention of the oscilloscope by David Hewlett and William Packard, but, rather, an act of no-strings attached generosity, the founding of Stanford University by Leland Stanford. (See the “Founding of Leland Jr. University” below.)

With help and funding from Stanford University and their advisor Fred Terman, , David Packard and William Hewlett were, able to invent the first oscillator, and Hewlett-Packard was the first electronics company, the seed around the others grew.

The Founding of Leland Jr. Stanford University

The Stanfords had only one son, Leland Jr., whom they loved dearly. He was fond of playing at their sprawling Palo Alto ranch, especially on his miniature railroad with 400 feet of track.

In 1884, while the family was vacationing in Europe, young Leland, just two weeks shy of his 16th birthday contracted typhoid fever and died. The family was devastated. That tearful morning Leland Sr. turned to his wife Jane and said, “The Children of California shall be our children.” With that passionate thought, the Stanfords decided to donate their millions in remembrance of their young son who never reached his 16th birthday. Today, you are all fortunate to be blessed with an American Treasure - Stanford University.

About The Author

Janet K. Ilacqua is a freelance writer based in Tracy, California. She specializes in academic writing and ghostwriting of books and manuals for individuals and small businesses. For more information about her services, check her website at http://www.writeupondemand.com.

jilacqua@aol.com

Life is about constant, predictable patterns of change. For the six thousand years of recorded history, as humans have entered this world, received parental instruction, classroom instruction, and gathered the experience of life; many have set for themselves ambitious goals, and dreamed lofty dreams.

As the wheel of life continues its constant turning, all human emotions appear, disappear, and appear once again.

A major challenge faced by us all is that we must learn to experience the changing of life’s cycles without being changed by them; to make a constant and conscious effort to improve ourselves in the face of changing circumstances.

That is why I believe in the power and value of attitude. As I read, ponder and speculate about people, their deeds and their destiny, I become more deeply convinced that it is our natural destiny to grow, to succeed, to prosper, and to find happiness while we are here.

By our attitude, we decide to read, or not to read. By our attitude, we decide to try or give up. By our attitude, we blame ourselves for our failure, or we blame others. Our attitude determines whether we tell the truth or lie, act or procrastinate, advance or recede, and by our own attitude we and we alone actually decide whether to succeed or fail.

How incredibly unique that a God who would create the complex and immense universe would create the human race and give to those humans the free choice that would permit them to select their own achievement or their own destruction.

This strange, but all-knowing God gave to us a delicately balanced sphere called earth. On it, he placed the intelligent human who would either develop it or destroy it. How terribly fascinating that a God would leave both projects - earth as well as humans - unfinished! Across the rivers and streams he built no bridges; he left the pictures unpainted, the songs unsung, the books unwritten, and space unexplored. For the accomplishment of those things, God created the unfinished human who, within his heart and mind, had the capacity to do all these things and more, depending upon his own choice.

Attitude determines choice, and choice determines results. All that we are, and all that we can become has indeed been left unto us. For as long as you continue to draw breath, you have the chance to complete the work in and for the earth and for yourself that God has begun for you. In the cycles and seasons of life, attitude is everything!

(Next week we will look at both winter and spring as we continue our review of the Seasons of Life)

To Your Success,

Jim Rohn

Reproduced with permission from Jim Rohn’s Weekly E-zine.
Copyright 2005 Jim Rohn International. All rights reserved
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