This is another profound and powerful exercise.  It starts with envisioning what you really want during the holidays.  Here are the steps:
1.  Fill in the blank for the following statements:

This holiday season, I want to feel _____ more consistently.

I want my overall holiday experience to be _______.

I will know this holiday season is successful when [...]

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We’re doing our part to curb stress and boost enjoyment during the holidays.  In the next couple of weeks, we’ll be posting some of our favorites stress-busting tips.  Here’s the first one.
Tip #1:  Micro-Retreats

This is a simple and powerful exercise to do regularly (daily).  It only takes 5 minutes.

Set an alarm to go off a [...]

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Attempting to control life, business, other people, etc., makes us crazy.  Flat out c-r-a-z-y!  It’s exhausting and a complete waste of time.  Most of us know this (that is, in those moments when we aren’t being controlling).  But letting go of control doesn’t mean we just take a hands-off approach and hope for the best.  [...]

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Most of us need ways to regularly relieve the stresses and tensions of business and personal life.  Aerobic exercise is usually my first choice.  However, recently I have been thinking that something more focused and calming might suit me better.  Something less frenetic.  (That tells you something about how I approach exercise!)  Having taken yoga [...]

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#1.  Don’t have rules — Rules lock us into fixed and stagnant ways to operating and being.  What at one time was freeing can quickly become a prison.  Instead of rules, create commitments that will support what you want.  For example: rather than having a rule of “No sweets! Ever!” you might have a commitment [...]

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A client of mine recently said that she feels like every year she gets into the holiday spirit after the holidays have already passed.  I thought about what she said and realized that this happens to me too, so I got to thinking that maybe this happens to a lot of women.  We are so wrapped [...]

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It’s so easy right now to be focused on the negative – the economy is in recession, the stock market is down, unemployment is up, and the days are short and often gloomy.  And yet, it’s the week of Thanksgiving,  the season in which we are told to give thanks.  
 
I recently heard an interview on the radio with [...]

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From your happy, relaxed state, you can model real success, which is all that so many people in the world really want. They may buy endless cars and houses and furs and gobble up all the attention and space they can manage, or barely manage, but this is because it is not yet clear to [...]

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Last week we met with several groups of women in business.  Some were Entrepreneurs, some were Corporate, and still others were dreaming of starting their own businesses and planning an escape from a life-draining job.  Each group faced different issues in their work worlds, yet they all shared one common challenge:  The Ability to Say [...]

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I woke up this morning with absolutely NO voice.  I mean not even a croak or a creak.  I have been battling a cold all week but continuing to do all the things I was slated to do.  As women we have the tendency to keep going even when our body tries sending us subtle signals that we [...]

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