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Awakenings
- Getting Still Can Help in a Number of Ways
- Reduce Your Emotional Intensity - Handle Your Negative Emotions As They Happen
- The Challenge of Change
- A New Awakening
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Meditations and stillness practices can help you in many ways. They generally add clarity, provide energy, and help in creativity. Such creativity is useful in understanding issues, in determining options, and even in just being creative as an exercise or release. Stacey Mayo, coach, provides what she calls the Stillness Experiment at www.balancedliving.com/stillness .
Bits and Pieces
- Life Priorities: A Lesson Using A Mayonnaise Jar & Two Beers…
- Doing What You Can In The Face of Everything
- Lightening Up and Being Where You Are
- Giving
- What do you Know for Sure?
- Inspirations
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When things in your life seem almost too much to handle, when 24 hours in a day are not enough, remember the mayonnaise jar and the 2 Beers.
A professor stood before his philosophy class and had some items in front of him.
When the class began, he wordlessly picked up a very large and empty mayonnaise jar and proceeded to fill it with golf balls.
He then asked the students if the jar was full.
They agreed that it was.
Happiness
- Do Something You Love Each and Every Day
- Focus on the Positive “What Ifs” to Create a Happier Life
- The Road to Happiness Involves Traveling Within
- Don’t Let “Emotional Clutter” Block Your Happiness
- Begin to “Live Juicy”: Simple Tips for Finding Your Passion
- Happiness. Here’s to Yours!
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It is easy for any of us to get caught up in the day-to-day stress of everyday life: deadlines to meet, schedules to keep, unexpected expenses, conflicts to resolve, illness of loved ones, to name a few. Amidst all this, it is easy to for me to lose sight of why I do what I do – my purpose for being. I discovered my passion and my purpose over seven years ago. It was the catalyst for starting my business, The Center for Balanced Living in 1996. It is what led me to my purpose which is to empower you to live out your dreams with ease and abundance. Sometimes I get caught up in the external factors and forget to focus on what is really important. It is then that I must remind myself why I am here. It is a grounding place for me.
I teach my clients to look to their life for their passions and purpose. That is certainly where mine came from and I have found it to be true for many others. A lot of different threads weave through my story, but the most obvious and first I can remember centered around my life while I was growing up, and most specifically my dad. I’d like to share that story with you now.

