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Living in the past is like driving forward while staring in the rear view mirror.     Believing is seeing.     Be an over-fright success story.     One's actions convince louder than one's words.     Make progress. Make new mistakes.     All work and no play makes Jill want to reach for the Prozac.     The purpose of your life is to find the purpose of your life. It doesn't matter how fast you get there if you're heading in the wrong direction.     If at first you don't succeed, you're doing something stupid.     You're nobody until somebody hates you.     Behind every successful woman is someone who pissed her off.     To get where you need to go you must first see who you really are.     Be a warrior, not a worrier.     Be a winner, not a whiner.     If the coyote had stopped to catch his breath, he might have caught the roadrunner.     A pack of puppies led by a pitbull will always be feared more than a pack of pitbulls led by a puppy.     Brainpower is as important as horsepower. Read, read, read!     You should always pick a job for its passion value not cash-in value.     Don't let a blame preoccupation ruin your occupation.     It's always better to go for longterm greed over short term greed.     A shortcut is often the longest distance between two points.     Time is money...and time wasters are money wasters.     Don't wait to make heaps and heaps of cash to have heaps and heaps of fun.     Every member of the Fortune 500 Club could also be a member of the Misfortune 500 Club.     Money doesn't bring you true happiness...but happiness can bring you true money. If you love what you do, the money will come.     Whatever business you're in you're in the people business.     Fail Faster. Succeed faster.     Behind every successful woman is someone who pissed her off.     Follow the fuscia brick road.   Failure is in many ways like "fullure" - it is always full of lessons to be learned.     Believe in a laughter life.     Don't let your convictions become your restrictions.     Invest in "Fresh Air Fun." Take a walk outside once a day.     If you want your body to be smoking, you've got to stop smoking.     Sometimes, all you gotta do is ask. Duh.     Taking no action is an action. Duh.     Happiness is not about what happens to you -- but about how you choose to respond to what happens.     Comedy = tragedy + 3 months and/or 3 margaritas!     Practice that tongue twister "NO" today.     Take the fat out of your fate. Slim down your schedule to what matters.     It's not just what you know...but what you do with what you know.     The grass is greener on the other side - until you get there and see it's astroturf.     When you grow - you often outgrow.     The only constant is change.     You are a human being, not a human was or a human will be.     Self honesty is the only path to happiness.     Sometimes we're "mad at" someone whom we should merely be "sad at."     Be so proactive you're preactive.     Fast doesn't always last.     Love is a boomerang. What have you and give away is what you get back.     Fear of commitment: it could happen to you...or someone you can't love.     Saying difficult things now is better than fixing even more difficult problems later.     It is better to have loved and lost - than to live with a psycho for the rest of your life.     It is better to have loved and lost - and had some really amazing hot sex - than never to have lived and loved at all.     A man is not a project. A man is a man. And a project is a project.     It's better to have a short bad relationship than a long bad relationship.     It's worth it to hold out for a soul mate and not settle for a cellmate.     Assess breeds success.     Turn all bad experiences into good inperiences - take them in fully, and change in a positive way.    
 

Tuesday, October 16, 2007

Shut up and meditate!


Did you know Roseanne Barr won The Eleanor Roosevelt Award and The Peabody Award -- and all kinds of humanitarian awards?

I met Roseanne Barr last week when she came on my daily drivetime Sirius radio show,BE HAPPY DAMMIT -- and she warmly shared some interesting happiness tips.

Firstly, Roseanne feels the world creates too many divides between different groups of people -- men vs. women -- white vs. black -- gay vs. straight -- which only creates a sense of further separation from each other as people on this planet.

She also candidly talked about how meditation has personally helped her to stay more focused, calm, happy- and in touch with her core self.

I'm a big believer in meditation -- and so are researchers at U of Penn who found that after assigning folks 1 month of 30 minutes worth of meditation a day, participants had greater improvement in problem-solving and their ability to quickly and accurately move and focus attention.

I often recommend meditation to stressed-out clients. However, many folks claim they're not very good at meditating... and trying to do something they're not good at ironically makes them even more stressed-out.

So here's an easy exercise that will give you the same benefits of meditation: blow up a balloon. It taps into the same breathing and concentration methods as meditation. Simply blow into a balloon with 3 breaths, for a total of 3 seconds. Hold the balloon's little tail, so it doesn't leak out the air. Then, catch your breath in 3 breaths, for a total of about 3 seconds. Return to the balloon, and blow again for three seconds. Repeat until you've blown up the entire balloon. Then go do your work -- and blow away your competition.
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Thursday, June 28, 2007

IMPORTANT TIME CHANGE ALERT!!


NOTE: The following TIME CHANGE ALERT applies to YOU.... whether you live in the East Coast or the West Coast...South Africa or Eastern Europe.

This is a TIME CHANGE ALERT that could save your life -- by making sure it's your best life.

This is a TIME CHANGE ALERT to remind you to live in the NOW.

Are you living in the NOW?

Studies have repeatedly shown that NOW is the best time of day to start that healthier diet, improve your love relationship, change your life for the absolute better!

Yes all of us humans, no matter what country we are in, live our happiest lives in he same time zone...THE TIME ZONE OF NOW.

Today be sure to set your awareness to the NOW.

Live NOW. Procrastinate LATER.

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