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SPECIAL EDITION

January 1st, 2008

Special Edition: Finding Your Life's Purpose

It is a wonderful age we are living in. There is no need to fear. The media focusses on the signs of dissolution, but unheard, mute, everywhere people are ready to take up the Call to love and to serve. If you hear that Call then this week's issue is for you. Soon there will be millions of us rising up, each with our own task that God, through our inner guidance, has given us. Together we will prove an unstoppable force of love and healing in a scarred world. The Call is all around us, the Call to love and to care, the Call of the new golden age. If we make it so, soon everything will be recreated and peace, love and harmony will reign on Earth.

Quotes of the Week

"Strange is our situation here upon earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know - that man is here for the sake of other men." --Albert Einstein

"When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bounds. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive, and you discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be." --Pantanjali

God's Greatest Miracle

The Sun humbly and gradually slid down, ready to take the final plunge into the western horizon to give warmth and light to the other half of the world. I had just completed my work and was on my way back home. All of a sudden dark water-laden clouds appeared out of nowhere and they seemed to cover the entire expanse of the sky. I received these early warning signals and hurried up my steps. I couldn't make it in time. It started as a slight drizzle and in no time it shifted gears, and then it was a downpour. It was as the cliché goes, "raining cats and dogs." Nature was at its furious best and it kept lashing at the face of earth without any mercy whatsoever. I quickly took shelter in the open arms of a huge banyan tree. Lightening struck and it was sincerely followed by the vociferous growl of thunder.

Amidst all this chaos and confusion, a movement in the distance caught my attention. At some distance I could see a child of about seven years struggling on the road in the rain. A closer look revealed to my horror that he had only one leg and one hand and one of his eye sockets was empty. On one hand the child was trying his best to crawl and drag himself to a safer place that would protect him from the fury of nature. And on the other hand, nature was tossing him from side to side, whipping, lashing and pelting him with water, determined not to let him move! This tussle went on for some time and I could take it no longer. I screamed out, "God, why did you forget this child of yours? Why did you forsake him? Did you not do anything for him?" A deep voice echoed across the sky and in a crystal clear tone replied, "No. I did not forget him. I did not forsake him. I CREATED YOU." My good old alarm clock brought me back into this so-called real world!

The dream was over but actually my thought process had just started. It set me thinking of those three words - "I created you." The dream triggered a number of thoughts in my mind. Was I blissfully walking through life like a dead man? It was then that I came across a beautiful article that answered so many of my queries. We always crib about things. We have complains on almost every possible thing that we can set our eyes upon. In our childhood we all dream of big things in life. We dream of castles, palaces, moon, fame, spaceflights, scientists, artists and so many things. Yet sadly, somewhere down the line all those dreams remain just dreams! They simply disappear into oblivion. And then we weep for the lost childhood, we weep for the lost joy of youth, we weep for our unrealized potential, we weep for our wasted talent, Oh! We weep for our lost individuality trampled by the mob

Yet we forget the very first words that God whispered into our ears right after our birth. Into the ears of every new born child God whispers, "You are my Greatest Miracle. You are the Greatest Miracle in the world." And we all begin our earthly lives in the same fashion, we let out a wail and we cry simply because we don?t believe the words that God whispers in our ears. And we all walk through to our graves still disbelieving those words!

Just think of this - God has created each one of us with so much of thought and just try to imagine how much of hope He has on each of us. He has thought so much before bringing each of us into this world. Yet we live as if the only purpose for which we were born, was to die. We walk through life in a trance. Can you imagine with what face will we meet our maker at the end of our lives? For all that He has done for us, for all the faith that He kept in us, inspite of ourselves, what does He get back? Even animals have some form of gratitude at least. If we while and fritter away our lives then our maker will not have the face and the desire to meet us... for who on earth or in the heavens cares for a lost and destroyed masterpiece?

Let us first of all take inventory of all that we have with us. Are we blind? Can the sun rise and fall without our witness? No! We can see. The 100 million receptors that God has placed in our eyes enable us to enjoy the glitter of the morning dew on the blade of grass, the scintillating sunrise and sunset, the beauty of a rose, the innocence in a child's smile, the colours of a rainbow and so much more. Are we paralyzed? No! We are not a tree condemned to the same plot of land while the wind and the world abuse us. We can stretch, we can run, we can jump, dance, work, play and do so much. We have everything in our hands and we can do as we please because God wanted to grant free will to humans that would help them decide their own future for themselves?

Is our heart stricken? Does it strain and leak to maintain us? No! Our heart is very strong. Touch it and we can feel the rhythm, pulsating, hour after hour, day and night, year after year, asleep or awake. Pumping gallons of blood every year too - without a break or rest! Even man has not been able to make a better machine than that? Are we feeble of mind? No! Our brain is the most complex structure in the universe. Within its few pounds are 13 billion nerve cells to help us file away every perception, every sound, taste, smell, action that we have experienced since birth. No nation's gold is better protected. We have so much with us. Our blessings overflow our cup. Yet we are unmindful of them, like a child spoilt in luxury, since God has bestowed on us so much with generosity.

Just think of it, from our Father, in a moment of supreme love, flowed countless seeds of love, more than 400 million in number. All of them died except for one, and that one searched for its other half from the mother's body. Two cells, each containing 23 chromosomes and within each chromosome hundreds of genes. A simple mathematical calculation will tell us how many permutations and combinations would have been possible with those two cells. God could have created over 300,000 billion humans, each different from the other. Yet, He brought you, you, you and me. We all arrived in this world bringing with us the proof that God is not yet disappointed with man. God sent us to this earth as His hope. The problem is that we value ourselves in pennies when we are worth a king's ransom. We have to take pride in the fact that we are not the momentary whim of a careless creator experimenting in the laboratory of life. We have been created with a purpose. We have a world to rebuild and if it requires a miracle... so what? Remember, we are God's Greatest Miracle.

We have the power to think, to laugh, to will, to imagine, to dream, to speak, to sing, to dance, to sketch, to paint, to draw, to pray and to LOVE. However, God gave us one more power, a power so great that even angels don't have it. God gave us the power to choose. With that gift He placed us even above His angels - for angels are not free to choose sin. We have the choice to degenerate into the lowest forms of life, or to ascend the ladder to greater heights. We are capable of great wonders. Our potential is unlimited.

Never settle down for the crumbs of life. Remember the child who says, "When I am a big boy..." Then the big boy says, "When I grow up..." And then grown up he says, "What's the hurry? When I wed?" Then it changes to "When I retire?" And then retirement comes, and he looks back over the landscape covered, a cold wind sweeps over it, and somehow he has missed it all.

Half of the people living are dead bodies moving around, waiting to meet their souls whom they have safely and peacefully buried in their graves right after birth. God gave us so many talents and so much of grace. He did not give everything to each one of us, because then there would be no fun. The best part is that He gave something to each one of us that is unique to us. We have to find that uniqueness, that speciality. Live this day, the next day and the day after taking the days one at a time. Use what talent you possess - the forest would be very silent if no birds sang except for those that sang best. Life can be a process of growing or ageing. Growing involves adding life to one's years and ageing involves adding years to one's life. A few people grow up in life, the rest just grow old. One of the greatest secrets of life is that we are all born rich but become beggars. We keep searching outside when the real treasure is already within us. Remember, we are God's Greatest Miracle.

Life is God's gift to us and what we do with our life is our gift back to God. In the words of the great scientist Albert Einstein, "There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."

But even after listening to all the wisdom and experience of our ancestors, yet the final choice to live our lives is one that will be ours, ours and our own.

This article is a transcript of a talk delivered by a student of Sathya Sai Baba's Institute, Sri Satyabrata Paul, during a Morning Prayer session. You can find out more about Sai Baba and his educational work at the International Sai Organisation.

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Finding Your Life's Purpose

Do you want to dream dreams that will inspire both yourself and others - dreams that correspond to the most pressing needs of our age? Wallace Huey, the magazine's Heart to Heart Coach, has devised an upgraded service on Trans4mind designed to meet the particular needs of people who wish to find their life's purpose. This new service has many innovative features to assist readers' find a direction in their life that is their heart's desire - these include:

• A training program to help the person draw on the power of inner guidance to help them find their life's purpose at Inner Guidance Training - a transformational program!
• A meditative poem to contemplate, at Inspiration for Your Soul - and see below!
• Articles to read specifically focused on the issues of finding your life's purpose at Quick Coach
• An online discussion the person can join on finding your life's purpose at Forum Discussion
• Wallace's advice on finding your life's purpose in the site's Heart to Heart Coaching Service at Coach Yourself to Success
• A page linking the person to relevant pages of Wallace's book about finding your life's purpose at Unfold Your Wings
• A page with links to valuable resources helpful to finding your life's purpose at Get Help :: Take Action
• The invitation to Send Your Question to Wallace for a public response through Cultivate Life! or to apply for Unfold Your Wings and Watch Life Take Off

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Looking Forward to A Better You

"New Year's Day is every man's birthday." ~Charles Lamb

The New Year's resolution - it's an annual ritual for tens of millions of Americans and hundreds of millions more people around the world. And for good reason. It's a perfect time to honestly reevaluate the last 12 months - right along with hundreds of thousands of people around you. It's a good time to set or adjust goals and priorities.

Every year's end, people all over the planet give themselves very firm intentions that beginning on the first day of the next year they're going to quit smoking, learn to play guitar, lose weight, eat healthier, start exercising, manage their time better, learn a foreign language, begin a new hobby, begin writing that novel they've been talking about, be a better parent, friend, or spouse, etc.

It's a perfect time for people to make decisions about how they want to change their lives - a year has passed, and it's natural to think back on how this year could have been different, and envision a different life taking shape next year. And almost every one of these hundreds of millions of people making these New Year's resolutions really, sincerely means it. And yet, if we are to believe experts who study and run the numbers on these things, by the end of January only about 10% of people are succeeding at keeping their resolutions. That means 90% of the people who made resolutions have already failed at them by the end of 30 days. That leaves 11 long months until we start again with one less year in our lives.

This is a real tragedy, an unimaginable waste of your potential. What makes it even worse is that it's so unnecessary. With very few exceptions, there's no reason the other 90% of people should fail at their New Year's resolutions. Why do they?

All the reasons most people fail at their resolutions boil down to only a few causes, most of them very simple, self-inflicted and familiar. In the free ebook, "A New YOU Year," which you can download with the link below, I'm going to discuss these main reasons why people fail at their New Year's resolutions, and you're going to learn how to be among the 10% of people who actually succeed at achieving them.

Debra Thompson is the founder of the Natural Health Co-op, a website designed to bring together people involved in solving health issues naturally. Debra is also the host of A Healthy New Year, a podcast featuring interviews with people involved in natural health related issues. She has a background in biology, and has spent over 25 years applying natural health practices in her family.

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Focus on What You Can Control

As I write this, the sun is rising over the hills to the south-east, hidden behind a pillar on the corner of my home. When I sit at this table during the summer, the sun rises off my left shoulder, but now it has moved dramatically to the south. It shifts slowly, and from one day to the next I see no apparent difference, but over time, the earth changes from summer to winter.

Without noticing it, and with no effort on my part, in six months my relationship with the entire solar system has changed! The light in my office has changed, and so I shift positions, re-arrange my computer screen, move the furniture, and even work at a different time of the day, all because of changes over which I have no control, and take no notice.

Success and failure are often like that. We cannot control many of the things and events in our lives, including the sun and the tilt of the earth. What I DO control is whether or not I put curtains on the windows, arrange my furniture to take advantage of the light, and use the seasons to add variety and perspective to my office. Actually, I depend on the changing angle of the sun to "make" me move the furniture and dust behind my desk every few months. I use these predictable changes to enrich my office and make me look at the world differently.

In life, there are many things over which we have no control. Fortunately however, there are many things we can influence, and a few wonderful things we can arrange as we see fit. Highly successful people understand this and spend their time and energy where they can make a difference.

There is a wonderful quote that is attributed to Marianne Williamson that points out that our fear is not that we are powerless, but that in fact we are powerful beyond measure. We can influence more than we think. Given enough time, courage and determination, we can modify, impact, transform and re-invent almost everything in our lives. We are not in complete control; that is no excuse to deny the power we have!

The new year will last twelve months. You will have 52 weeks in which to choose your priorities. You will have 365 days to decide where to focus your time, your attention and your efforts. You will have thousands of opportunities to choose, to try, and to learn. Twelve months is a huge amount of time! In twelve months you can achieve miracles.

In the coming twelve months the sun will move, the earth will tilt, the seasons will change. You cannot control these things. But you can control what time you get up in the morning. You can choose your attitude, your friends, your reading material, your diet, your focus and your goals. You can, to a remarkable degree, create the life you want. Choose well. Use your power.

Dr Humbert is a Success Strategist, author and popular speaker. Imagine what's possible! To inquire about having him speak to your group or organization, or to schedule an initial consultation, contact him or visit his site at Philip Humbert.com.

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Start With A Blank Page

If you could begin your life all over what would you change given the chance to wave a magic wand and start from scratch? No ties, no burdens, no limits, no memories, and no past.

Would that life be much different than the way you live today? Why are you not doing what you want? Is it because you worry about someone else? A spouse, a parent or even your children? I think the ultimate test to see if you are living your life correctly is to close your eyes and think of yourself dying. (Isn't this fun?) Now, look back at your life as you are currently living it. What do you think? Are you satisfied you lived completely? Or do you wish you had done differently? Here is a clue. Very few, if any, of our senior citizens look back on their life and say, "I sure wish I had spent more time at the office!" I do not think anyone says, "I wish I had watched more TV!"

People say: "I wish I had been bolder. I wish I had given more to others. I wish I had tried harder to see more, do more and feel more." In other words, people wish that they had lived more. If you don't believe me, go visit a nursing home and ask...

I know I have held back on some dreams and goals because of our two boys. However, as my life progresses and learn, I realize there is no reason to hold back. Just think - if I hold back I am teaching them to hold back. Where does that leave them - and their kids, and theirs?

On the other hand we have not been exactly standing still either. We have done our best to live our dreams. We built a sailboat and lived aboard for 7 years traveling about 15,000 miles. We lived in the snow in Aspen Colorado, and on the beach in Hilton Head South Carolina. We lived on an old brick mill in Long Island, and on the dock in Palm Beach Florida. We have written books and music, acted in the theater, and home-schooled the boys. We have built a horse farm, and businesses! Yet, there is so much more we want to do!

It is a balancing act. We all must have sufficient finances to support a comfortable lifestyle, (although most of us tend to spend way too much on that!) Part of this balancing act is understanding what we are passionate about doing so that work becomes a joy instead of a job. Is this not a major reason of lost dreams and goals? Many people find work, call it a job and make a living at it. But they begrudge every minute of it, going as far as using the job as a reason for playing the martyr. Find something else!

There are many, many teachers of the attraction philosophies of "making a life". With as many opportunities today in every field imaginable, somewhere, something is calling to you.

Another part of the balancing act is to include those around you in frank and open discussions in what it is you want. I find some of my coaching clients have kept their wants and needs bottled up inside them forever! They had already decided for the other person in their lives there was no interest in whatever it was they themselves wanted to do! How absurd! How can we possibly know what someone else wants! Would it not be tragic to spend your life in a big city for 40 years, working at a job you despise because you thought your spouse liked it, even though you wanted to live in the country and be a farmer? Then one day you overhear your spouse tell her best friend all she ever wanted to do was live in the country? 40 years!

Sure this is a bit far fetched but you would be amazed at what I hear! Make an attempt today to start with a brand new page of your life. Create your life story how you want it. If there are others in your life to be involved, have them do the same exercise. Then compare your notes. If this matches your current life, congratulations! You are one of the few. Now make it better.

If your notes sound like someone completely different, you are most likely living a life of conflict. There is good news. Your life is your life. Nobody can take that away from you. You are not a slave. You are free to go, do, and be whoever you wish.

It might not be easy, but it sure might be worth it. There are so many things to be grateful for, and so many things open to us. We owe it to all the ones before us who gave us this opportunity to take advantage of it. Today.

Miami Phillips shares his experience coaching and consulting small business owners and executives on his website at: Miami Phillips.com.

Why Stories Matter

"That's the story of my life," said the young woman as she slammed the file on the table and ran out of the meeting. Accustomed to such behavior from her, we resumed without comment. Wherever she went, trouble followed.

"If that's the story of her life," I thought, "Then maybe she needs a new story." On that day, I began thinking about the ways stories teach and form us. Whether we realize it or not, we each have a core of stories we live by. Stories determine the ways we see ourselves and the world, and the principles by which we decide to act. Our internal stories set our intentions, since what we look for, we tend to find. Stories give us purpose and direction. "To tell a story is to construct a life," wrote Deena Metzger. In other words, we are the stories we tell ourselves.

The world is made up of stories, and so are we.
Stories shape our experience; at the same time we put our experiences into words and stories. Stories and experiences reinforce one another in a circular fashion. We've been given those stories by our culture, our teachers, our religious leaders, our families. Almost everything we know was taught to us in the form of a story.

Stories serve as foundations for our lives.
We take the stories our families have handed us, and at an early age we begin to live out those scripts. With help from our parents and others around us, we start to shape ourselves and our environments to fit the story. In a sense, we choose the costumes, props, and sets for our story, then set about hiring (and firing) the actors to play out the parts we've "written" for them. Seen in this light, we may blame others less. Ever notice how a succession of "actors" will fill the same role over time?

Stories give shape to our experience.
Even the name of a story has power because it focuses our attention and provides a meaning and framework for the story. Titling a story involves intention, judging, and interpreting as we go. We tend to find what we're looking for, so a story directs our search, however unconsciously. When we write or say to ourselves, "This is a story about..." we choose a direction for the story to take. If we begin to give an account of our victimization, for example, we select details to support that construction. But if we set out to tell a story of empowerment, liberation, or redemption, our attention will focus on facts and events to build toward that conclusion. In telling a story, we must choose the elements that comprise it.

Stories bear witness to truth.
Without witnesses and their descriptions of their experiences to create documentation, our personal and cultural history would be lost. Letters, journals, chronicles, documentary films, even fiction accounts preserve metaphorical truth. Since stories have the power to touch hearts and consciences, it has the power to help bring about change, to correct injustices. In Victorian England, Charles Dickens' novels exposed the abysmal living conditions of the lower classes and the harsh treatment of children working long hours in dangerous mills and factories. He managed to convey truth so vividly that his readers could put themselves emotionally in his characters' places. By bringing those horrible conditions to the public conscience, he brought about political change: Because of his novels, the Poor Laws were repealed and new laws were created for free and compulsory education for all children.

Stories help us understand one another.
In listening to the narratives of others who have gone before us, we find we travel in company, not alone. We learn that others have traveled similar paths. We discover common threads and universal themes. As more and more people write their confessions, memoirs, and autobiographies, we see that all our stories are more alike than different. Shared stories give us community that transcends time and space.

As we know the power of stories in our lives, we learn to tell them deliberately to shape our lives and our world. By telling stories, we create our truths, our foundations, our communities, our world, and we create a future in which we can bring possibilities to fruition.

Moving Forward
In order to use stories to move forward with your life, you might want to try one or more of the following suggestions:

• Tell the stories you live by, the stories you grew up with.
• If you haven't already begun, try writing short pieces of the story of your life.
• Consider writing a "timed autobiography" of your entire life. Start with a 30-minute story, a five-minute story, then a 30-second story. Notice what insights appear as you are forced to choose only the most important elements.
• Look at the collected photographs of your life and family. Pretend to be an anthropologist from the future to see what clues and insights you can gain by keen observation. What stories do your pictures tell?
• Try making a visual representation of your life story in a map, drawing, sculpture, collage, or painting.
• Ask yourself about your purpose in life.
• Consider becoming the author of your own life.

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Help Your Employees "Make" Time

Because of thunder storms in Atlanta, the flight from Dallas to Atlanta had been delayed twice. On the third attempt, we were boarding and I felt hopeful of actually getting off the ground. My hopes faded fast when the tired-looking flight attendant came down the aisle quietly announcing that if we were not permitted to take off in the next 15 minutes, the crew would have exceeded their 16-hour work day and we would have to taxi back to the terminal and await another flight.

We were not given permission to take off, the crew's time expired and as we taxied back to the terminal I felt mixed emotions. I kept thinking, "But we were right there ready to take off. How could 1-1/2 more hours matter?"

Just as airlines are concerned about overworked pilots and flight attendants, employers should be concerned about overworked employees. Why? Errors, accidents, and low productivity for a start.

My mixed emotions as we taxied back to the terminal are similar to the signals our culture sends today about long work hours. In one breath we agree with employees having a pity party about how hard they work and with the other breath, we award employees a "red badge of courage" for having the guts to go the extra mile.

A study by the Families and Work Institute concludes that overworked employees should be taken seriously. Employees who are overworked are more likely to exhibit anxiety, make mistakes at work, harbor angry feelings about their employer for expecting them to be on the job for long hours and resent coworkers who don't pull their share of the load. The study documents that nearly half of employees who feel overworked report that their health is poor and 8 percent of employees who are not overworked experience symptoms of clinical depression compared with 21 percent of those who are highly overworked.

What can the organization do to help employees feel less overworked and leave work on time to pursue their personal lives? Train employees in time management and goal setting principles. Make a concerted effort to grease the wheels of productivity, and not be the stick that gets caught in the tire spokes, catapulting the rider from the trail.

Using time efficiently at work is an individual and an organizational issue. On the organizational side, managers can reduce the feeling of being overworked by:

• Discouraging the practice of eating at the desk and working through lunch
• Insisting on employees taking appropriate vacation time
• Permitting flexible work hours as needed
• Encouraging non-interrupt zones in the day when workers can focus

• Have clearly stated goals with built in and mutually understood deadlines
• Insist on employee making a daily "to do" list
• Make sure equipment works properly
• Ensure proper supplies are available
• Train employees on software packages that assist workflow

Karla Brandau, CSP is a speaker, trainer and successful entrepreneur. She is "a wealth of empowerment information" who provides "real help, not theory" to improve, enhance and energize your leadership skills. Visit the Karla Brandau site, call Karla on 770.923.0883 or email her.

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The Vibrant Moment - Review Last Year and Show Up More This Year

If your physical body and emotional body do not reflect back to you--a big difference from the body and emotions you had last year--this means you are not growing toward your soul's desires. Each year needs to be a step forward toward your purpose in life.

Self improvement is not permanent until your physical body reflects the changes. You may think you have changed, but if you cannot see a difference in the mirror, the energy is not there. You must see your energy field radiate out more love and light when you look in the mirror or you have not changed. Take a loving look at yourself in the mirror.

I do not want you to waste your precious life another moment in mundaneness and ordinary consciousness. You have innate talents, skills and abilities which need to be used for the highest good. If you are not using them, they are being wasted.

Emotional health is not achieved until your body relaxes to allow more vibrant energy to flow though your flesh. You are incarnate after all! The way to get more juicy energy flowing though your body is to let go of old thought patterns, false beliefs, projections and conditioned responses. Then you have more peak experiences and vibrant moments au naturale.

Your body reveals the truth about your thoughts, feelings and emotions. Your body does not have the ability to lie. Read Dr. John Diamond's book, "The Body Doesn't Lie" for more information. So take stock of your body and emotions. Admit the truth of what you see in the mirror. Review this last year with love, laughter and kindness toward the self.

Do not judge what you see. Or you will get stuck in judgment and this takes you nowhere! Or even worse, your judgment might take you into depression and anxiety. So beware, review this last year, without judgment.

To learn exactly how to sneak pass your self judgment and cuddle up with self acceptance- study, read, listen to "Opening the Heart" (available as an ebook or 3 self help audios) which teaches you to recognize the difference between judgmental energy and healthy flowing energy and shows you how to shift out of judgmental energy. Click here to order if you do not want your New Year's desires to be stopped by your negative thoughts.

Amp up your life with some serious self improvement so you Show Up More This Year. Here are more specific suggestions:

1. Take action on the things you read in Peter's ezine. Don't just read about something, do something. Order something, buy something, take action. Get education in the areas you need to know more about so you can succeed.

2. Follow the free advice and suggestions available on my free Internet radio show "Live at the Edge." If you take action on the suggestions, next year at this time you are sure to notice a huge difference in your body and feelings from the previous year, when you look in the mirror.

3. Show Up for yourself. Be there for yourself. Stop avoiding and Show Up. This is huge, try it and see what happens. Just Show Up.

4. Let something touch your heart and soul. A person, a moment, a color, a feeling, a sound. Consider allowing my voice to touch your heart and soul in the "Opening the Heart" audios: click here to download an excerpt.

5. Use your mind to set in motion this year's intentions. Imagine them, see them and then put some energy behind them.

6. Sign up for your free holistic psychology, mind body spirit newsletter, The Vibrant Moment for weekly tips and reminders to believe in yourself, and receive three special reports: "How Colors Affect Emotions," "Emotional Intelligence Test," and "Anxiety Help."

Become your authentic, real, spiritual self. Look in the mirror and see your real body and real feelings. Smile and feel all warm inside!

To your success, Doris

Doris Jeanette, Psy.D. is a licensed psychologist with 30 years of experience helping people self actualize. If you need a speaker, coach or consultant call her at 215-732-6197 or email her. Visit her global web site Doris Jeanette.com and partake of her 15 self help products so this new year you are smiling from ear to soul.

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