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It's Daffodil Month
 What better way to bring the spring sunshine into your home than in the sunburst faces of daffodils! Here I have entered the heart of one of these beauties with my camera's macro lens. Daffodils are also emblem for the fight against cancer month. Consider making your charitable contribution this month to the Canadian Cancer Society or a cancer fund in your country. I will be, in memory of my Dad, Grandfather, Uncle and numerous friends.
Oh Canada! Yes, we are back on Canadian soil after the winter in Arizona. Dang, but you did have a winter from the Ice Age, didn't you! We watched from afar and really did sympathize, but would not have traded places!
Just back in time to get into serious preparation for Nepal and my class of English students in the Buddhist monastery. I'm getting e-x-c-i-t-e-d!
With my goal to teach in Nepal quickly coming into achievement, I will use that as my segue into the Feature Article this month. Once you have reached a goal, just how do you keep yourself from sliding down that slippery slope of allowing old, bad habits to gradually creep in and sabotage your success? Read on for some ideas that may never have occurred to you and can really make a difference.
I am excited to share with you my new e-booklet FOR FR*EE. The topic is very timely! Have a peek below and find out how you can have it in your hands in moments.
In this Issue:
Welcoming words
Feature Article
- "How to KEEP Your Hard Earned Success"
Travels with My Coach: Visit www://travelswithmycoach.com
Your Coach
Recommended Reading
Closing Comment
Enjoy this
month's read!
Here's to your Clear Sailing!
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How to KEEP Your Hard Earned Success
 Can you count the times you have...
- stopped smoking and some time later started again
- attempted to get rid of unhealthy weight and quit the program before you got to your goal
- reached a healthy weight goal then, over time, gained it back
- stopped abusing a legal or illegal drug or alcohol and returned to the habit
- started an exercise program, got in shape and loved it but gradually did it less and less until you stopped
- Stopped the behavior that was sabotaging your relationship but let it creep back in again
- Swore off cussing (pun :)), succeeded, then started again
- fill in your own blank
Some of the hardest goals to set, reach and maintain are the ones that change your behavior for the better.
The answers are likely best found within the psychology realm and differ from person to person, but if I may generalize, I think much of it has to do with feelings of self worth.
So how do you fix this?
Go back to the feelings you experienced when you succeeded in changing a behavior that was sabotaging you. How did you feel when you were not smoking, attained a healthy weight, rid your body of poisons, toned your muscles and increased your flexibility, enjoyed the communication in your relationship, etc.?
Get in touch with that feeling and identify it. It could be peacefulness, contentment, joyfulness, energetic, clearness, pride, freedom, etc. Be more specific than 'happy'. 'Happy' is a dwarf (one of the seven)!
Something happened to kill off that feeling. What was it? After all, these feelings were pretty new for you while the old feelings that caused you to indulge in the self-sabotaging behavior were pretty deep and ingrained. It wouldn't take much to knock 'em down.
The solution is to keep those feelings that build your sense of deserving, those feelings of self worth, continuing to grow. One way is to continue to set and achieve goals. They don't have to be lofty goals, they can be small, daily goals, weekly goals, monthly goals. And each time you achieve, no matter the size of that achievement, your foundation of self worth & deserving, solidifies and grows.
Another way is to think of something you love and support. Perhaps it's a charity that improves the lives of animals or children or senior citizens, etc. Sign up for a monthly donation paid for on your credit card. The money you used to spend on smoking, alcohol, bad foods or in any way supported your self-sabotaging habits now goes to something you love. If not money, sign up for volunteerism at a shelter for the underprivileged, the sick, or abandoned and abused animals. This will be something you love perhaps more than you love yourself during those times you are tempted to backslide!
Now make a pact with yourself and tell another person too. If you do anything that puts you back on the path to defeat, you have to cancel that monthly payment or quit your volunteerism! Now you must live with the fact that those animals, children or senior citizens, etc. will suffer from the lack of your support.
If you truly love what you have chosen to support with your money or time I know your imagination will be very vivid! It's a negative motivator, I know, but many of us find motivation in avoiding the negative than striving for the positive. Just a fact of life.
So often we will do for others what we will not do for ourselves, so if this is what it takes for you to stay on track, DO IT. I guarantee that you will not only keep yourself on a path of success, but you will continue to support your much loved charity long after you no longer need the motivation. For what you receive through your giving is multiplied a thousand-fold.
Make it a goal!
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YOUR COACH
Combining a born drive to set and achieve goals, a quirky sense of humor, innate clarity, love of people and boundless optimism, Lynn Moore will coach your goals out of you and then coach you into their fulfillment.
Her system is one you have never before encountered in the goal setting field. Refreshing and it works!
Visit
www.ClearGoalsCoaching.com to learn more.
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FR*EE NEW ARTICLE!
I'm excited to share with you my latest e-booklet designed to share a different light on our current day's economy than you will ever hear or read on "The News"!
"11 Things
Clearly NOT To Do If You Want To Be Positive, Secure & Thriving During a Global Recession"
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RECOMMENDED READING
Books are some of my closest friends. Even in my RV one overhead storage cupboard is dedicated to my library. Below are some classics and some newbies that I'm sure will become classics:
NEW! 'The Moses Code' James Twyman. Book and DVD. Another outstanding publication from Hay House. This book and DVD had a profound impact on me!
'The Last Lecture' Randy Pausch. The legacy left by one man with an incredible soul to his wife, children and the entire world. Magnificent!
'The Pillars of the Earth' A superb piece of fiction by Ken Follett
Three Cups of Tea' Greg Mortenson & David Oliver Relin. "Thrilling proof that one ordinary person, with the right combination of character and determination really can change the world" - Tom Brokaw
'You Can Heal Your Life' DVD and book by Louise Hay
'The Secret' DVD and book by Rhonda Byrne
'Eat, Pray, Love' Elizabeth Gilbert'
'Five Wishes' Gay Hendricks
'The Four Agreements' Don Miguel Ruiz
'Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus' Dr. John Gray
'Conversations With God', Books 1,2 & 3 Neale Donald Walsch
'A New Earth' and 'The Power of Now' Eckhart Tolle
'Life on the Other Side' Sylvia Browne
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