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How to Optimize Your College Experience
One of the things I remember hearing a lot during my college days is that “the college years are among the best years in a person’s life”. I’d like to give a more precise definition: if you optimize it properly and learn how to function, your college days are sure to remain an unforgettable transition from late childhood into young adulthood. Read More
10 Important Life Lessons to Teach Kids by Age 10
One of our biggest responsibilities as parents is to raise children who can become healthy and productive members of society. Ultimately, they should have the skills they need to thrive in the outside world on their own. To give your children the best shot at one day becoming capable adults, teach them the following life lessons by the time they reach about 10 years of age. Read More
The Power of Talk: How to Get Better at Communication
Effective communication is of course about the way we use all our communication skills together (the way we use gesture and body language in combination with our vocal tone and language choices). But… What if our language choices could elicit an ingrained or pre-disposed emotional reaction within ourselves? Read More
Are You Really THAT Busy to Enjoy Your Life?
Pausing; slowing down; reflecting; writing, experiences that deeply nourish my soul, are stolen by my louder, more urgent, fear of not having enough time, and not getting all of my ‘work’ done. As the thought swell rises, I feel my chest tighten, my breath shortens, the space between thoughts getting smaller, and the all-too-familiar anxiety and irritability set in. I become a less expanded version of myself: stressed, tight, and withheld. Read More
You Can Find True Happiness: 6 Helpful Tips
Some of us might assume that happiness is as natural as day is to night, and so it should be. But for some others, like I used to be, if you’ve never known how to be happy, or if you’ve always been snuffed when you appeared happy, you start to learn that it’s not right to be happy. Worse still, if your life has just been a series of unfortunate events and traumas, you simply can’t feel happy... Read More
What to Do When Life Doesn’t Go The Way You Wanted
By letting it go, it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try, the world is beyond the winning. – Lao-Tzu I used to be the queen of control. I had...
Get Your Focus Back: How to Step Away From Distractions
“Concentrate all your thoughts on the task at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.”...
6 Things You Can Do Today to Enjoy Your Life More
Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not against it....
How to Overcome Limiting Beliefs About Money
If you have limiting beliefs about how much money you can “possibly” make, you will not earn more than that particular income which you believe that you can earn, no matter how smart, hard-working and good in money management you are. Read More
6 Things to Give Up for Happiness, Fulfillment and Peace
By Lesya Li (also featured on Cloris Kylie’Blog) “Our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world...
10 Terrific Quotes to Help You Seize the Opportunity
Below are a collection of quotes that emphasize the importance of seizing the opportunity. Read More
20 Strategies to Help You Overcome the Money Scarcity Mindset
Manifesting money consists of practices that will help you to overcome limiting beliefs you have about the money and scarcity mindset. In the next article, I will share the most common limiting beliefs about money and how to work on eliminating them, and in this one, I will be talking about the scarcity mindset. Read More
Here’s Something Weird That I’ve Learned about Sensationalism
Once upon a time, I tried to create a TV pilot.
I was stalled out in my style consulting business and had been told I was witty, articulate and “easy on the eyes.” So creating a TV show that demonstrated my coaching seemed like an obvious choice... Read More
To Leap or Not? How to Tell if We’re Motivated By Fear
To Leap or Not? How to Tell if We're Motivated By Fear
When I was a nine, there was a high diving board at the neighborhood swimming pool. One day my friend turned to me and exclaimed, “Let’s jump off of it-like the big kids!”
I was just enough of a follower to stutter “okay,” as she pulled me by the wrist toward the towering structure. Read More
Using Tech to Help You Save Time and Enjoy Life More
“There’s not enough hours in the day!” You’ve probably used this expression once or 100 times before. We all live busy lives, but how much of your time can you get back if you really make the effort? Technology is one tool that can help you restore time, so you can enjoy your life — and not let it pass you by. Read More
How to Pursue Your Dream Career despite the Naysayers
What if the naysayers are right? What if I am wasting away my future? How did I shut down the voices that told me there was tangible evidence that I needed to stop pursuing my dream career? Read on. Read More
8 Proven Ways to Motivate Yourself to Finish School
Whether it’s a job, marriage, a relocation or a new addition to the family that interrupts your continuing education efforts,...
#NeverGiveUP: 7 Good Reminders for When You Are About to Quit
When things are going well, it's always good to know how to keep and expand that. And, when we struggle to catch a breath, facing challenging circumstances, we got to take other actions that help us pull through rough patches on the way. Some situations seem to be so excruciatingly terrible, we think it's going to last forever. That is when we need to explore what works best for us when it comes to reframing our mind making the transition from a tough place to the brighter one easier. That's when we need to remind ourselves of some fundamental truths just before we were about to give up... Read More
Dreams Come True, But if You Don’t Ask, the Answer is Always No!
If we go after our dreams and give it a try, there is no guaranty that we will make it happen. But, by trying, we will create a possibility for ourselves to make it happen! Bon the other hand, if we do not give it a try, we will not even create that possibility for ourselves, and therefore, the only guarantee we have is that it will never become true for us! Read More
The Art of Cooking & How it Taught Me About Success
We learn success from continually changing sources. We have mentors, teachers, books, websites, and family and friends. Recently, I found a hidden lesson about success from a pork-chop. Here is my story. Read More
7 Simple Ways to Find Your Purpose and Live Meaningfully
I used to spend a lot of time daydreaming about all of the things I’d like to be doing with my life. But I had a corporate job and was busy ticking things off my bucket list, settling down, finding a house and a man who’d love me. All of the things I felt I should do, all of the things society tells us is the way. But my life lacked meaning and I was unsure of what my real purpose was. Stuck is a job that suffocated my soul, I thought there must be other ways to make ends meet? Do you ever find yourself asking those questions; is this all there is? Is this what life is all about? What would you do if you had more time, money, freedom? Read More
