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I don’t as a rule get fired up about politics, but I came across this video and had to post it. Thank you Lisa

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Have you ever wondered why the family chose your home this year to celebrate the holidays? You still feel resentment toward someone and are expected to socialize with them during this time of the year? There’s not a lot of money left for buying the things needed for Christmas gifts! You are so rushed for time to prepare and working at a job while maintaining the house. The minutes are ticking away and you’re already tired. So many times you allow yourself to become stressed over small things and the stress just keeps multiplying instead of taking care of the small things one at a time.

Focusing on the meaning of the holiday season instead of all that is causing you to be so stressed can change your attitude into peace, joyfulness, harmony and relaxation. You can change your attitude and feelings of people taking advantage of you and your time. Instead you can turn things around, maybe not the situation but your attitude towards the situation. These stress management ideas can be used at any time but during the holidays it seems to be more important.

Start by focusing on giving from your heart. We heal ourselves by giving to others, unconditionally and unselfishly. Family members may have chosen your home this year because they feel so comfortable at your house and love spending time with you and your family.

Resentment towards others only harms you. Seek forgiveness and understanding in your heart and the heavy burden that you and you alone carry, will greatly be lifted. The circumstance that caused your resentment has passed, now is the time for a new beginning. When you think of money as the main ingredient in giving a gift to another loved one, you miss the most important thing about giving and that is giving of yourself. You can be creative and think of what the person you want to give a gift too, really likes and spend hardly any money at all. If they like music, download and burn them a CD of their favorite songs, when they listen and enjoy the music, they will think of how thoughtful it was of you to give them so many moments of enjoyment. Buying a special card that has the words you would say to them from the heart with a personal letter from you, provides precious memories every time it is read thru the years.

You can be less tired if you find ways to relax and totally let go of the little things that are causing you to be so uptight and stressed. Chill out with bath time, favorite book or music, take a walk and really listen to the birds singing, the wind gently blowing through your hair, or the warmth of the sun on your face. Our attitude of happiness, peace, contentment, and happiness will make you more invigorated and energetic.

Picking up the phone and talking with someone you haven’t talked with in years and inviting them to celebrate the holidays with you and your family or just wishing them “Happy Holiday”, will make you feel better as well as the person you called.

Focus, change of attitude, and giving from the heart, unselfishly and unconditionally will help you with your personal growth and development of the holidays but most of all the rewards you will receive just by giving of yourself will be given back 3 times more than you gave.

You know how great you feel when you feel encouraged by someone. Maybe they said something to you or they gave you something that allowed you to feel loved and inspired. You may have felt like someone is behind you ever step of the way. That is how encouragement feels and now you can pass that encouragement on to others.

Encouragement can make someone feel better, more confident, secure, safe, increase self esteem and more. Encouragement can last a very long time and the best thing about it is that it will cost you nothing. In order to encourage someone you need to believe in them or have an understanding of what they are going through. Sometimes life can have a negative affect on someone and that is why they need encouragement.

There are several ways to encourage; through your words, through your touch, or through a gift. Although you can choose how you want to encourage someone, everyone is different and what encourages one person may not work on the other so treat everyone differently as you decide how you can encouragement.

Methods Of Giving Encouragement
There are several ways to encourage someone.

* Offer someone a hug.

* Send a card that lets them know that you are thinking about them, you understand, or you are praying for them. Just knowing someone is thinking of them can be enough to bolster and increase self esteem.

* Call someone who needs encouraging. If you know someone is at home worrying about their situation you may want to take time to call them to see if they are okay and to offer them some encouraging words to help them get through.

* Send someone an email that encourages them. Sometimes you can say a lot in an email, especially if you don’t have time to call them or you don’t have any way of calling them. You can also send an email when you are running low on time.

* Send an E-Card to encourage someone. If you don’t have time to send a card through the mail you can send an E-Card in order to encourage someone.

Encouragement can be a Two Way Process
People may need encouragement for several reasons; starting a new job, getting married, going through a divorce, a loss of a loved one, birth of a child, finding out about an illness, suffering from an addiction, graduating school or college and more. Encouragement is sometimes all someone needs in order to accomplish their goal. Encouragement is needed at any age, including babies. Encouraging them to crawl will encourage them to pull up. Encouraging them to pull up will lead to them standing and eventually walking. Encouragement can help anyone do anything.

Encouraging someone can also be encouraging to you as well. Make an effort to encourage someone as often as you can. Somebody somewhere needs words of encouragement from you today. You can encourage by simply touching someone’s shoulder or hugging them up without saying a word. You may also encourage through email. Saying what you feel can be understood in so many ways. Encouragement is a great way to show someone that you love them. And is an important step on your own path of personal growth and development.

Your 10 Steps to Take You From Perspiration to Motivation

Does everything feel like a struggle? Why not use inspiration to create energy that propels you up and over life’s inevitable speed bumps?

1. Be grateful: Create a list of the “50 Things I Am Grateful For Today.” Take a minute each morning to mentally express your gratitude for at least 5 things whether it’s the air you breathe, the clothes on your back, or those closest to you.

2. Celebrate and list every success: How would you like to have a boss who only ranted about what you did wrong or what you failed to achieve, never giving you credit for the wins? Take a look in the mirror and make sure you aren’t abusing yourself like a boss from hell. We tend to gulp down the little successes and minor victories instead of savoring them. Keep a running list of your successes for the year and post it near your computer or nightstand.

3. Learn from your setbacks: Failure happens. Accept failure as something good, as proof that you are taking risks and stretching yourself. However, in addition to accepting the losses, you must go back and, like an unbiased scientist, ask yourself what went wrong. What will you do differently in the future? Mistakes are only truly valuable if you learn from them. Even if your home is a problem – this is just a ride, as Bill Hicks used to say.

4. Fill your glass: Forget the debate over whether the glass is half empty or half full! Why not take a pitcher and fill it up? Tackle every situation with the perspective that you can affect the outcome. Acknowledge that you have the power to choose.

5. Look for role models: Who inspires you? Is there someone who walked in your shoes and faced similar battles? Maybe even someone who went on to become a superstar in his or her own life? Identify her but don’t put her up on a pedestal. Remember that she is a person just like you, who overcame the odds, or struggled through extreme hardship and persevered.

6. Become a visionary: You don’t have to be a guru to have a vision of the future. All it takes is a bit of imagination and the courage to reach for something bigger than your current reality. Give yourself at least 30 minutes to let your thoughts dig into this one. How does this vision of the future relate to your life today?

7. Identify the milestones: Set concrete goals for yourself that can be broken down into measurable pieces or milestones. If you want to lose 20 pounds, each 5-pound increment is the next milestone you should aim for and celebrate. Instead of shooting for a distant peak, it’s much more encouraging to set your sights on the corner at the end of the block.

8. Say it with pictures: Research says that 89% of what we learn is visual, 10% is auditory, and 1% comes through our other senses. Draw, photograph, or assemble a collage that represents your aim in life. Hang it on the wall or download it to your computer desktop as a reminder of what you’re working towards.

9. Play: If you feel like you’re toiling, take a break and interject some fun. Do something ridiculous. If you can’t think of anything, spend an hour or two watching 4-year olds play. To them, everything has the potential for fun. Learn to enjoy the journey even more than the destination.

10. Ride the wave of change – don’t run from it: Like death and taxes, change is inevitable. However, resistance to change is common and causes untold amounts of struggle. Become a master evolutionist—respond to change eagerly and rapidly.

We all need a push once in a while. Choose instead to latch onto inspiration as a force that pulls you forward and you’ll discover that success can be effortless.

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How can managing money be a methods to improve your self esteem? We don’t realize how we let our financial success or failure control our self improvement. Does it affect you?

When we were growing up, no one talked about money management. After we grew into young adults, most of us had to learn to manage our money the hard way, too much month at the end of the money. Most all of us have had money crisis in our lives but as we get older, we learn ways to manage our money more wisely.

Simple rules help to make spending our money more wisely and still get the things we really need. There is a big difference in buying what we want and buying what we need. Tithing, food, shelter and saving a tenth of our earnings should come first.

A Monthly Budget Will Save You
Make a monthly budget, never go to the store without a list of needed, not wanted, items and never go to the grocery store hungry. Explore new ways of entertainment, instead of going out to a movie, it’s less expensive to rent a movie and pop your own popcorn. Turn the television off and have the family sit at the table and play a game, complete a jigsaw puzzle. The conversation and closeness is well worth the effort.

Teach your children at a young age to earn money by doing chores around the house and how to save for that special thing they wanted instead of buying it for them just because they wanted it. Not only is this good money management but it is good for your child’s personal development and growth.

Attract Wealth With Your Attitude
There are ways to attract wealth and money, it starts with your attitude about money. Acting as though you have enough money to live comfortably can actually cause your mind to think positively about what you would do, how you would feel and act. Be grateful and thankful for the money you earn and receive. You will attract more money to you by being grateful. If you find a penny, nickel, dime, quarter or any size coin on the sidewalk, don’t ignore it, pick it up and think of it as rightfully yours. Your sub-conscious mind doesn’t know the value of the coin but will know the feeling you get from finding the coin as delightful.

Open your mind to money making opportunities and don’t be skeptical, doubtful or lazy. There are endless opportunities all around us. Be prepared and on the watch when these opportunities come. Always remember some of the greatest inventions started with one thought. Don’t accept less than the value of an item or product, and don’t accept less money for a hard earned days work this will invariably lead you to more success and an improving self esteem.

Tips For A Better Financial Life
We all have a skill or something we like to do and can do well for earning money. When your job requirements is something you love to do, you feel good about yourself, have a more positive attitude, more self esteem, more energy and a feeling of being more successful. Don’t accept less than the value of an item or product, and don’t accept less money for a hard earned days work.

Spending money wisely, waiting to buy when the item is on sale and thinking about large purchases before buying will give you the same feeling of delight. Always remember money is used in two ways, spending and saving and to increase your saving you must spend less.