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If I was to declare that your health and wealth are related, you may laugh at me. It may sound silly but there is a strong nexus between your health and your wealth when it comes to the underpinning principles that govern your life.

I can imagine the discomfort some feel at being overweight when others joke about it. I can also guess at the pain endured constantly from your own mental chatter when you are under a mountain of debt.

Being overweight, however, may be an outer expression of a body that’s in turmoil with its own self-pity at the financial woes that scare you. That may be the reality today but the good news is that you can transform your life with some simple changes.

I have some thoughts to share with you that can help to turnaround your life for the best yet to come.

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Have you been overwhelmed by the influence of celebrities in your life? Have you felt a stab of envy at their money, power, fame, prestige, cars, houses, boats, or planes? Have you considered buying products endorsed by these Hollywood stars? Or have you picked up the latest issue of ‘People’ magazine just to keep up with the latest buzz in the world of celebrity? We all have.

The cult of celebrity has spread like wildfire. It has pervaded our culture with an overwhelming influence in every facet of our lives — entertainment, politics, sports and religion.

The increasing influence of celebrities is evident by the fact that we all are attracted towards the fame of celebrity. Not only entertainers and the stars of Hollywood, but politicians and athletes too are all striving to win our hearts with their newfound fame as celebrities. Their increasing influence in our lives is evident from the fact that the media spends a great amount of resources to highlight stories about these stars even when the moral outcome of these stories negatively impacts our lives.

Our media feels pride in showing Michael Jackson dangling his child from a hotel window or Britany Spears driving recklessly with her kids tucked in her arms. It’s a sad state of our culture that our politicians are measured by the worth of their celebrity status rather than by substance of their ideals. [Click here to read more →]

Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain. — Charlie Chaplin

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Have you watched a kid sliding down a water slide? I have watched my daughter doing just that. Frightened or not, she knows instinctively that she is going to hit the bottom. And when she hits the bottom, I always see a burst of a smile as she gets up. Isn’t life a little like a water slide?

Have you felt the fear of reality that has not yet been born? Have you surrendered your dreams when you felt cornered by the ghost of fear? We all have.

In the midst of the storms of your life, remember that the only problem you have to deal with is – choosing the right thoughts and facing the storm of adversity with a sense of adventure and laughter.

Who can better teach us how to dominate adversity by doing just that? Only one name comes to my mind — Charlie Chaplin [Click here to read more →]

We make choices and our choices make us.
- Tiger Woods

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Have you dreaded looking in the mirror so that you might avoid the sight of some wrinkles on your face? Have you dreamed about a magical mineral or vitamin to regain your youth? We all have.

We are conditioned to believe that, as we grow older, our physical and mental decline is inevitable. If we learn to escape the prison of our own thoughts, we can learn to choose healthy habits to help us look younger and feel healthier than others in our age group.

Our expectations drive our experience. If we expect to live longer and look younger, our experience will resonate with our expectations by helping to improve manual dexterity, vision and hearing. Our traditional beliefs about the aging process are the reflection of our own habits or thoughts. Those who look and feel younger than their age have mastered the habits of a healthy and ageless life. I have explored these habits and I’m convinced beyond doubt that, if we live a simple and happy life with healthy habits, we don’t need to resort to plastic surgery or weight loss surgery to look younger and feel better.

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A football team is as valuable as its coach. We never think about our life as a game of football but there are people who are professional life coaches. If you are not kicking some goals and winning in the game of life, you may want to learn more about these professionals who are doing nothing other than passionately improving lives of others. Tim Brownson is a UK qualified Life Coach, NLP Master Practitioner and certified Hypnotherapist. He is passionate about coaching but he is just as passionate about having fun and enjoying what he does — to help others improve their odds of winning the game of life.

Without further ado, I’d like to present Tim’s thoughts on how we can live a better life and have fun along the way.

Tim, coaches are known more for shaping the careers of athletes.What, then, is a life coach?

It’s weird that everybody knows what a coach does and everybody knows what life is, but when you put the two together people get confused! I often have people phoning to ask me that exact question.

A life coach can have a number of different roles. I have some clients that use me to help with accountability and goal setting. They know that if they have a coach who they check in with at prescribed times they’re more likely to stay on track. A lot of these people are entrepreneurs and often have nobody to answer to other than themselves and a coach can act as a sounding board and point of reference. [Click here to read more →]

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either. —- Mark Twain

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What’s an inherent trait that we all cherish in our lives? It’s our freedom of expression. Our life trajectory is guided by our innate desire to speak what lies deep in our heart. Our actions are fueled by the righteous causes that inspire us to seek freedom and justice for all that we do.

Have you ever crucified your inner voice that intrigued your mind to write about topics that most of us fear the most? Have you ever felt the skirmish between your passionate mind and the shrill sound of opposition from your heart when you tried to speak about politics with friends with whom you share most other things about life? We all have.

The stigma of an outward freedom of expression for topics that impact our lives comes from our feeble reasoning to remain likable to those who may oppose our views. We constantly engage ourselves in a mental chatter to abstain from topics that we love to speak about at length with our alter ego — politics, religion, our principles and our happiness - yet remain silent once we step out of our house. [Click here to read more →]

If I go to a funeral I should feel more sympathy for the speaker than for the corpse. — Comedian Jerry Seinfeld

Do you believe that fear of public speaking ranks higher than the fear of death? Indeed it does according to the comedian Jerry Seinfeld. We all have self-imposed taboos in our lives. We avoid many things in life without exploring the thrill of it because of the phobic sense of failure that only exists in our mind. We relish the beauty of a mountain but dread the thought of climbing that same mountain;we gaze in awe at the gliders and feel the sheer joy of surfing the sky but we never give it a try.

Have you ever pondered that this act of self-imposed limitation has imprisoned you not to dare, dream and achieve beyond your wildest imagination? Have you ever felt the pressure of self focused thoughts prohibiting you from picking up a microphone in a public gathering to crack few jokes? We all have. [Click here to read more →]

The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership, by sheer force of self-confidence, bravery and tenacity.
-Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) Preeminent leader of Indian nationalism.

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Have you found yourself riding on the emotional tidal wave when you stumbled upon an interesting idea for several days only to end up flirting with another idea that intrigued your mind with the touch of magic? What made you abandon the original idea as an after thought or a bad dream? Have you changed jobs or businesses often in the vain hope of striking the passion of you life? You are not alone.

It’s a contagious disease that has intoxicated the brightest amongst us. It’s a maelstrom in our own mind that can reduce our mighty ambition to a measly hallucination. It is the awesome power of our own mind working against us by throwing us into the whirling depths of watery self-doubt and self-sabotage to achieve a fraction of what we are born to achieve.

I’m ceaselessly amazed to witness the brightest people with the highest IQs living mediocre lives at best while those with an IQ of 75 achieve things beyond our wildest imagination. The secret lies in these two words — Self-Confidence. [Click here to read more →]

There is no failure for the man who realizes his power, who never knows when he is beaten; there is no failure for the determined endeavor; the unconquerable will. There is no failure for the man who gets up every time he falls, who rebounds like a rubber ball, who persists when everyone else gives up, who pushes on when everyone else turns back.
— Orison Swett Marden (1850-1924) Founder of Success magazine.




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Have you reflected on your life lately? Have you realized that the recipe of your success contains ingredients of failures? Failures happen to all of us. Sometimes, the best of our intentions go against us. No matter how passionate we are, no matter how hard we try, we end up facing the fate of failure.

Even the best among us have seen their share of setbacks. Unfortunately, we seldom find their failures in the pages of history. All we see are their greatest achievements. All we see are their blessings and fairy tale success stories that make us envious.

I’ve had my share of failures. At times, I’ve had myopic thoughts of quitting and escaping the burden of failure that was nothing more than a temporary setback. By not giving up what I was undertaking, by focusing more on what inspired me in the first place to pursue the passion, I have always overcome clouds of self-doubt to eventually greet the hands of success. I’ve found that there is always a lifeline to latch onto and to pull myself up if I learn to focus on the opportunity that arises in the abyss of despair. [Click here to read more →]

This is a guest post by Tim Brownson of Adarinadventure
Everybody experiences stress to a greater or lesser degree. There are times when stress can be beneficial to us (eustress), but most of the time the opposite is true. Chronic stress is pernicious as it can massively diminish the body’s ability to run efficiently, ward off illness and stay healthy.

Many people think that stress is just a fact of modern life and goes with the territory, but it really doesn’t have to and should never be worn as a badge of pride.

Stress is a fear response and nothing else. We take an external situation, analyze it and then ascribe a meaning to it. That meaning decides whether we feel stressed or not. Sounds simple doesn’t it? Well that’s because it is.

Nobody stresses you out but you. Not your partner, not your boss and not the fact that your 8 week old puppy has just pooped on the carpet like mine did about an hour or so ago.

It’s how you translate external events internally that decides how you feel.

The first step to reducing stress is to accept that you’re not a victim and that you have control of how you feel. When you can do that, then you can make massive beneficial change. [Click here to read more →]

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