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- A Christmas Gift to Give to Jesus
- A Stressful Mule Ride with No Option for Getting Off
- Ask Yourself: Is That How I Want to Spend my Life?
- Can God Use Social Media to Answer Prayer?
- Dream Board Helps You Visualize Success
- Five Life Lessons from Track Meets
- How a Grandiose Dream Can Sabotage Your Progress
- Promoting Healthy Emotions - Last Chance Advice
- Seven Unhealthy Responses to Stress to Avoid
- The Importance of a Hug: Lesson Learned from Autistic Temple Grandin
- The Key to Creating Positive Interactions & 5 Ways to Implement It
- The Language of Your Hands
- The Power of Choices
- The Power of Recording Your Life Stories
- Turn Tragedy into Music Making
- What are your goals for the new year?
- What Does Being Successful Really Mean?
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Category Archives: Healthy Mind & Soul
What are your goals for the new year?
What are your goals for the new year? Check out this video and see what you can identify with. Did this resonate with you? 2012 can be a turning point in your life as you take action. Contact me if … Continue reading
Posted in Healthy Business, Healthy Mind & Soul
Tagged goals, new year, new year's goals, Shaklee
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Ask Yourself: Is That How I Want to Spend my Life?
Recently I asked myself “is that how I want to spend my life?” Well, truth be told, I was told by my life coach to ask myself that. Okay. Wait. Let me back up here.
Have you ever evaluated your life on the life wheel idea? It’s pretty cool. I was introduced to the concept by my life coach who I have been meeting with recently. It is where you divide your life into 8 – 11 different categories (your choice), and then evaluate how you are doing in each category.
So back to my life coach. She had me choose 8 different categories in my life and make them into pie shapes in a circle. So I chose health, family, spirituality, business, recreation, finance, friends, & personal growth. (In reflecting now, I would add a few more, but that is beside the point.) I then rated each category as to how I was doing with 1 being “needs lots of improvement” and 10 being “totally fantastic.” Yes, it was quite eye-opening – especially the realization that my business was just a small part of the pie!
Posted in Healthy Mind & Soul
Tagged business coach, evaluate your life, how I spend my life, life coach, lifewheel
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The Importance of a Hug: Lesson Learned from Autistic Temple Grandin
Ever wondered about the importance of a hug? What exactly does a hug do for a person internally? How does a hug help you have good emotional health? I was privileged to watch the dvd based on Temple Grandin’s life recently and I learned a fascinating lesson from her about the importance of a hug.
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Dream Board Helps You Visualize Success
Successful leaders encourage people to create a dream board to keep their dreams alive. A dream board helps to visualize success. Ask yourself this question: What do you want to accomplish with your life? Continue reading
Can God Use Social Media to Answer Prayer?
I have a question for you today: Do you believe that God can answer prayer through the use of social media? I have an incredible story to share with you about how God did just that when we were on a 13 hour trip to visit our kids and grandkids. We had a serious breakdown and . . . well, just listen to what happened here. Continue reading
A Stressful Mule Ride with No Option for Getting Off
My husband, Mark, and I began our married life together as missionaries in Ethiopia. Ethiopia is a beautiful, mountainous country, and at one point, we lived in Waka where we could only come in and out of our station by a small airplane – or a two day mule trip! There were no car roads into Waka. One of my husband’s roles there was to teach and preach at out-lying villages so he had to make treks into the surrounding mountains to do so. On one such trek, I went with him. He had never been to this particular area before. We would take mules and walk some of the time, and ride mules the rest of the time. His treks were usually 2 or 3 days in length – this one was 3 days. Continue reading
Turn Tragedy into Music Making
“About 18 years ago, a Dagomba woman named Sanatu gave birth to a baby girl in a mud hut in Ghana, West Africa. After giving birth, 18 year old Sanatu propped herself up on her elbows to look at her baby. A tear came down her cheek as she gazed at her tiny daughter, but then she fell back into the midwife’s arms and died. All the midwives started wailing “Oh Sanatu” while leaving the newborn alone in the corner of the mud hut.
Posted in Healthy Mind & Soul
Tagged adoption, adoptive family, hut in ghana, Kinza Hagerup, kinza zenabu hagerup, music making, tragedy
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What is Taking Up Too Much Real Estate in Your Brain?
Years ago, I was teaching Class 2 in an international school in Kumasi, Ghana where my children also attended. I enjoyed teaching my 24 six year olds, though I did feel the heavy responsibility of taking them from point A in September to point B in June! Our books and supplies were limited so I used small, white-papered exercise books for their writing assignments.
I remember one night after my three kids were in bed, I was using a ruler to draw lines in each of the 24 exercise books for the next day – so my kids would have lines to write on. As I drew the lines, I suddenly came to my senses! Being consumed with straight lines for these kids to write on was taking up way too much real estate in my brain – as well as minutes from my day that could be invested in a much more profitable way. I put the pen and ruler down and accepted the fact that the kids could write their assignments without the lines.
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A Christmas Gift to Give to Jesus
Have you ever thought about what you could give to Jesus for Christmas? That has certainly been a desire of my heart. When our first three children were 3, 4, and 6 yrs old, we wanted to do something as a family for a gift to Jesus – after all, it was His birthday. Continue reading
The Language of Your Hands
When was the last time you really studied your hands? I mean really examined them? I have a theory about hands. My theory is that hands have their own language. Not a language of words, of course, but rather hands are the main way you interact with your world. With your hands you embrace life or push it away. Think about it: language involves speaking good words, hurtful words, neutral words, or no words. It is the same way with hands: they can communicate kindness and gentleness, or hatefulness and anger. Yes, hands have a definite language.
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Posted in Healthy Family Living, Healthy Mind & Soul
Tagged communicating love, hands, language of hands
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The Power of Choices
Choices. We are all constantly making choices – what we do, what we say, where we go. Even coming to this blog was a choice you made. You choose your own path. You choose where you work. You choose whom you spend time with. You choose where you live. You choose what you study. You choose what you do in your free time. You choose, and those choices strung together become your life.
Choices You Make Can Affect Others Significantly
Often, the choice you make affect other peoples’ lives significantly whether you realize it or not
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Seven Unhealthy Responses to Stress to Avoid
A common denominator in people’s lives today is stress, but many people have responses to stress that are unhealthy. And really, we all tend toward our default responses to stress that are generally selfish, defensive, sinful – well, you get the picture. In this post you will learn seven unhealthy responses to stress to avoid.
The Key to Creating Positive Interactions & 5 Ways to Implement It
Have you ever wondered if there is a magic bullet to use to help you create positive interactions with people and create healthy relationships right from the start? This video reveals the key to creating positive interactions and then gives five practical ways to implement the key. This will help you solidify positive energy right from the start in relating to people in your everyday life. Continue reading
Promoting Healthy Emotions – Last Chance Advice
People normally do a pretty good job promoting healthy emotions in others by appreciating them, building them up, and valuing their help. But have you ever thought that your opportunity to strengthen someone’s mental well-being might be your last chance ever for that person? This happened to me when I went to visit a seriously ill friend of mine in the hospital. It was awkward to see my friend ensconced in the bed
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Posted in Healthy Mind & Soul
Tagged healthy emotions, promoting healthy emotions, touching hearts
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How a Grandiose Dream Can Sabotage Your Progress
What Does Being Successful Really Mean?
What does being successful really mean? Success is a journey, not a destination. It is enjoying life to the fullest in whatever your work is. Continue reading
Five Life Lessons from Track Meets
My youngest daughter, Colette, had her first JV track meet of the season on Tuesday. She was very excited & nervous, but she had been training and was excited about being a returning sophomore – not the youngest in JV this year.
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Posted in Healthy Mind & Soul
Tagged healthy emotions, laps, life lessons, running, track
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