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• How to Thrive in Tough Times By: Aila Accad - Tough times can either bring you to your knees or raise you to new heights. You can be stressed to the max on a bad day, yet, as long as life seems manageable, you don't usually look for new strategies to get through it. The tendency is to pull yourself up by the bootstraps, grit your teeth and keep on going. During prolonged or sudden tough times, though, normal defense mechanisms are not enough to keep you from feeling vulnerable and overwhelmed.
• Five Attitudes for leaders - 1. People can change anything By: John Kenworthy - Here are five attitudes that will change your leadership style, business, and life: 1. People can change anything 2. There is no failure, only feedback 3. People are NOT their behaviours 4. Respect the other person's model of the world 5. The meaning of communication is the response you get The attitude you portray outwardly is a result of your inner state. You might like to think of your inner state as a feeling.
• Life Lessons from Death By: Denise Ryan - Life is good at teaching us lessons - keeping us on our toes when things get too easy. Like many of you, I called my Mom in May to wish her a happy Mother's Day. She told me she had a cold that just wouldn't go away. She had finally been to the doctor about it, and he ran some tests. Four days later we found out she had liver cancer. My mother died in two weeks.
• How to focus for success By: Jacqui Tillyard - Ask any successful person one of the traits that they accredit to their results and they will tell you - the power of focus. Having focus allows you to concentrate on exactly what needs your attention to create the positive outcome that you seek. I see many coaching clients and they complain about the results they have achieved so far in their lives. As I listen to their reasons (usually a list of excuses!
• Calming the Freight Train in the Mind By: Sharon Carne - Do you find it difficult to meditate? Meditation is often defined as quieting or calming the mind. There are many ways to do this. And that is good news. An effective way of calming the mind is to create a very strong focus on one thing. Singing bowls are a successful tool for creating this focus. Their sound has such a powerful presence that it is difficult not to focus the mind, especially when you are playing one.
• Firearm Training - Would You Put Your Safety in the Hands of a Criminal? By: EmmySue Pryor - In a world where the crime rate is as high as it is, gun training, as well as other forms of self defense training is crucial. In a letter to the editor from Daily Camera, a woman named Kristin Stordahl seemingly disagrees with the purpose of our Second Amendment Rights, calling America "gun-crazy." She says, "When a criminal points a gun at you and then you point a gun at him, what do you think will happen? Someone will get shot, most likely you.
• Does your life have Meaning? By: Jacqueline LewisLyons - This past weekend I received the news that someone I knew had passed away. It was quite a shock because of the circumstances. But having known that this person had made some pretty significant changes to improve her life over the past 18 months helped me deal with her passing. This caused me to think about how fleeting life is and the fact that none of us knows when our time here will be over.
• How To Overcome Flying Fear For Woman By: Andrew Wilkie - Fears scare the hell out of us. Plain and simple. People are scared of, fearful of everything and anything. No matter what your fear, I can tell you someone, somewhere also has the same fear as you. A common fear is a fear of flying. This is caused for a variety of reasons: people fear more attacks by terrorists, they have a fear of height, a fear of not being in control, or they can have the fear and not even know why.
• A change is coming... By: Jacqueline LewisLyons - I can't believe that it is already the middle of November - where did the time go?! So much has happened this month that many of us are already overwhelmed and tired out. I know that I was exhausted by the time the election came around just from excitement about the major change we were facing - the first African-American president or a female VP. This exemplifies how much our country has changed over the past 50 years. Of course, there are some challenges associated with change.
• Several Reasons Why We Can All Benefit From Life Coaching By: Duncan Paul Mitchell - What is Life Coaching? In my opinion, life coaching aims to help you achieve clarity and confidence to work through issues that are holding you back from enjoying a challenging and harmonious life. Life coaching is not about making simplistic judgments about someone's life and telling that person how they ought to live it. The majority of coaches set out to fix what is wrong with people. I don't believe in that approach at all.

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