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Mar

7

Home-Office: Want a Office at Home?

Filed Under Emotional Healing, Life Coaching, Mental Healing

Working from home brings numerous benefits to your lifestyle, however, it can present two major challenges:
* Separating business and home life,
* Lack of stimulating social (business-related) interaction.

1.  Plan for the Best Use of Your Home-office Space
Always make sure before you start working at home to make a plan for your home office, it will make working much easier and you will find it much less expensive when you have planned it out.

2.  Decide How Much Room You Need for Your Office
Have it be a dedicated area — preferrably a space with quiet and privacy.  Perhaps, you might choose a room with a door, which can help filter noise from the rest of the house; or, you might select a room near the front entrance if you will be meeting with clients in your home office.

3.  Let Your Home-office Reflect the Professional You
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Feb

28

Friendships: Make Them STRONG!

Filed Under Emotional Healing, Spiritual Healing

Because we are social beings, relationships are very important — both to create and to maintain.  Below are 5 Keys for Keeping Your Friendships Strong … or, 5 Keys for Making Strong Friendships!

Key #1:  Extend Yourself
Be the friend that you’d most want to have.  To do so, take care not to wait for the other person to make the first move.  Go ahead!  Think about your friends … and, then, let them know by staying in touch and initiating plans with them.

Key #2:  Remember Your Friend … just Because!
Do you find it nice to have someone remember you?  Do you enjoy it when a friend calls or writes to say that s/he were thinking about you?  Well, it is just as nice for your friend to receive these advances from you!  Think about it — Who you can reach out and “touch” today?  Who can you contact to let them know they are special to you.

Key #3:  Have Value to Offer
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Jan

4

New Year’s Resolution – Remaining Tips

Filed Under Emotional Healing, Life Coaching, Mental Healing

New Year’s is now here … can you believe it?

Here are some remaining tips to help you along toward making your New Year’s Resolution an outstanding SUCCESS!:

7.  Visualize. See yourself completing your goal. In fact, see yourself completing each step of the journey. Thinking about skipping your workout session today? Visualize yourself in the class and, though tired, you make it through to the end with energy. The mind is a powerful tool that can help or hinder you. And hey, if you’re mind isn’t powerful enough, post pics of what you’d like right on your refrigerator. A trip to Hawaii? A slimmer you? Put it up and see it every day.

8.  Set a deadline. Open ended resolutions Read more

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Jan

3

New Year’s Resolution – More Tips

Filed Under Emotional Healing, Life Coaching, Mental Healing

Have you been continuing to plan out your New Year’s Resolution?  Here are some more tips to help you toward SUCCESS:

4.  Be specific. Writing down phrases like “Become more assertive” can mean anything. Where do you want to be more assertive and with whom? Instead, record something like “Go to my boss on January 4, 2010, and ask for a raise this year.”

5.  Start with small steps. No one gets from A to Z in one step. Those who try are often disappointed. If this is a weight- loss goal, begin with starting Read more

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Dec

27

New Year’s Resolution Tips

Filed Under Emotional Healing, Life Coaching, Mental Healing

What if you had a dime for every resolution you’ve made throughout the years.  How rich would you be now?

Perhaps, you have come to know that choosing the right resolution and sticking with it are KEY to being successful where accomplishing New Year’s resolutions are concerned.  What resolution would you like to accomplish for 2010?

If you want to make a resolution for the New Year, here are three tips for keeping it:

1.   Write your resolution(s) down. Some people only verbalize their resolutions. The problem with that is you can forget what you said after the first week. It may seem scary, but putting your resolutions on paper makes them real to you. It is a commitment that is needed if you want to succeed.

2.  Find a support system. This is crucial to any type of Read more

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Dec

25

Christmas: A Time for Togetherness!

Filed Under Emotional Healing, Mental Healing

Christmas is the time of year when friends and families can renew their connections to one another.  Sometimes, regretably, this seems to get lost in the commercialism of the holiday.  However, you do not have to let this be the case!  You can choose to pay special attention to the aspects of Christmas closeness … that really matter.

Here are some ways to do just that on Christmas Day:

1.   Enjoy breakfast together. Breaking bread has always been a great way to share stories and foster the idea of family. Decide who will host the meal.  Schedule the timing to best accommodate everyone’s schedule.

2.  Read the Christmas story.  Shared traditions can bring friends and family closer.  Remembering the reason why you are celebrating the holiday enhances the experience of the Day. Each person can take turns reading a portion of the story. For a new twist, have a few family members act out the Christmas story as one person narrates it.  Find that budding actor/actress among you!

3.  Hold a video family-friend gathering. Read more

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Dec

24

‘Twas the Night Before Christmas …

Filed Under Emotional Healing, Life Coaching, Mental Healing

All of the hustle and bustle of the preceding month is completed.  Tomorrow has not yet come …

So, Christmas Eve can be an evening of relaxation and relaxed fun.  Christmas Eve can be a time for expectation and joy.

What would the benefits be to you to make it so?

Perhaps, you might plan a simple dinner and a Seasonal movie.  Maybe, you could make a point to include your family’s Christmas favorite.  Is it “A Christmas Story”?  Or, is it “The Santa Clause”?  Or, is it “A Christmas Carol”?

Speaking of that, maybe you would choose to get together with family and some close friends and listen to Christmas carols.  Or, maybe you could plan a group sing-along!

It’s a Special time of year … and, with just a little planning and forethought, you can make it a TREASURE!  What plans can you create to make this Your BEST Christmas Eve ever?

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Dec

24

Last Minute Gift Ideas

Filed Under Emotional Healing, Life Coaching, Mental Healing

Do you get your Christmas shopping done ahead of time?  If so, you are probably sitting back, relaxing, enjoying the sounds of this Season!

In case this is not you — and you still have some Special People to buy for — here are some last-minute shopping tips to make you and the recipients of your gifts both happy!

1.   Check out our Hypnosis-Workbook Programs to give the Gift of Health to those you love.  Right now — go to http://thelifecoachdr.com/coach/coaching-products/ Here you can make your selection, find out more, and purchase!

2.   Food clubs. It’s the gift that keeps on giving. Many of us think of the fruit-of-the-month club or something like that but this kind of thing has caught on. You can find just about any kind of monthly club that your recipient is interested in: salsa, jellies, desserts, wines, beer and even barbeque sauce.

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Dec

19

Possible Dreams …

Filed Under Emotional Healing, Life Coaching, Mental Healing

So, what can you do to accomplish your dream?   You can visit our website at http://thelifecoachdr.com

And you can try this exercise. Take a piece of paper and fold it into 3 columns.  You are going to write down some of the dreams in your life.

Under one header, list the “Dreams I Know I Can Do’. Under another header, write the “Dreams I Might Be able to Do”.   And under a third header, list the “Dreams that Are Impossible for Me to Do”.

Now, look at all the headers.  Read more

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Dec

15

Impossible …

Filed Under Emotional Healing, Life Coaching, Mental Healing

The most common problem to setting — and successfully accomplishing — goals is the word “impossible”. Most people get hung up thinking, “I can’t do this.” Or, “It’s too hard.” Or, “It’s too impossible. No one can do this.”

Of course, if everyone thought that, there would be no inventions, no innovations, and no breakthroughs in human accomplishment. Early on, scientists were baffled when they took a look at the humble bumblebee. Theoretically, they said, it was impossible for the bumblebee to fly.

Of course, fortunately for the bumble bee, no one ever told it this. So, the bumble bee flies! Read more

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