Archive for May, 2008

Regardless of the circumstances surrounding one’s life – whether one is born to rich or poor families or during times of chaos or times of peace and plenty, whether one has had access to good education growing up, and/or whether one has a good job or not, for instance – people are all equal in [...]

Sample Chapter 1: Reduce Your Stress Simply
Stress is an everyday part of life. You can’t avoid it, but you can do certain things to alleviate it. In our society, people try to reduce stress in a variety of negative ways, such as taking over- the-counter drugs, overeating, and watching television. I’m going to suggest some [...]

Buried deep inside everyone is an enormous vault that is stacked high with what is significant to us, the non-material or non-physical things, traits or characteristics, such as the way we behave, what we think and say, our beliefs, and our personal integrity. Many people lock these away to protect them from the outside world [...]

Life seems to get busier and busier and everywhere you turn there is something to do. How could you possibly add another item on your “To Do” list? Yet this one action is probably the most important thing to do in your life. It is something that you can and need to add to your [...]

Creating Your Vision
“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one” Albert Einstein
I feel that one of the most important ingredients in your formula for success is having a clearly defined and vivid vision of where you want to be. At first the “how” is not that important, you need to create a vision [...]

We all find ourselves at certain points in our lives holding first class tickets to negative mental trains of thought. Michele Wahlder (MS, LPC, PCC), a two-time cancer survivor and Dallas, Texas-based Certified Life Coach and Psychotherapist, has placed thousands of people on the right track to self-empowerment via a plan she calls the 5 [...]

Where is it written that you must be born into money to succeed? That you have to have a college education? I am yet to find it. It has always been my belief that I would be wealthy and successful. Some times I have been true to that belief and others I have not. The [...]

Thoughts, many people say, have power. If you think negative thoughts about anything, they explain, whether event or person or anything at all, or are unable to control your fears and/or negative emotions about something you are worrying about, then the chances of those negative outcomes taking place are increased, in some cases many times [...]

Many people appear to think that life is hard and we have no recourse but to suffer through it; that despite how happy and focused some elements of our lives make us, with all the problems that beset us, life is still overall an unhappy experience and it should be treated as such; or even, [...]