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February 2, 2018
Be Brilliant & Resilient to Let Your Priceless Value Shine
Finding Gifts in the Pain Change is inevitable, but growth is optional. Every experience you have can bring you lessons when you make the time and effort to find them. Even if they are lessons with which you could have lived without, seek the opportunity to find deeper meaning. Even if it was a mistake […]
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January 30, 2018
Polishing Your Pearls of Wisdom
Like the grain of sand which imposes itself in an oyster, the changes in your life can be irritating, annoying, uncomfortable, and unpredictable. To protect itself from harm, the resilient oyster will coat the irritant in layers of nacre. As the layers grow and a pearl is formed, an iridescent glow is created. The oyster […]
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January 27, 2018
Make the Choice to Rejoice to Create Positive Change & Transformation
Why Rejoice? Living in a spirit of gratitude and celebration not only attracts more good to flow your way, but it also shifts your being into a state of bliss—which is a wonderful way to experience life.
“I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work, the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.”
—George Bernard Shaw
Make the Choice to Rejoice
The present moment is all you truly have. Your past is over and your future has yet to occur. Every moment of happiness and joy is occurring in the NOW.
Rejoicing is grounded in gratitude, with a keen appreciation for yourself, others, your abundance, and the beauty around you. Without an attitude of gratitude, it is all too easy to get caught up in:
Focusing on scarcity rather than prosperity.
Focusing on what is not working rather than what is.
Focusing on your weaknesses, rather than your strengths.
Taking your blessings for granted.
Feeling a right of entitlement.
Even in the worst of times, you can find something to be grateful for, but you must seek it to see it, no matter the difficulty of the circumstance. In his book, Man’s Search for Meaning, Victor Frankl describes how as a concentration camp prisoner during the Holocaust, he was able to find purpose and meaning in his circumstances. Finding something to be grateful for gave him a reason to keep living.
While the changes in our lives are not so tragic or extreme as his, we can still lose sight of what matters most and fail to feel grateful. It is uplifting to rejoice in both the small and the large, the ordinary and the extraordinary.
12 Blessings to Rejoice In
“Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.”
—Lao Tzu
Free will
Being alive
Being safe
Being well
Being free
Having a family
Having friends
Abundance of food
Modern conveniences
Technological advances
Unlimited opportunities
Life-saving medicine and healthcare
I hope you will receive this gift—because to rejoice in something is a gift you give yourself. It’s a choice to see and appreciate this very moment. It’s free—and it’s freeing.
“Whatever we are waiting for—peace of mind, contentment, grace, the inner awareness of simple abundance—it will surely come to us, but only when we are ready to receive it with an open and grateful heart.”
— Sarah Ban Breathnach
Motivational Keynote Speaker and Change Expert Susan C. Young helps organizations leverage the power of Change & Resilience to Boost Positivity, Improve Engagement and Transform their Teams to make a POSITIVE IMPACT in life and business. This is an excerpt from her new book, Release the Power of Re3 . . . Review, Redo & Renew for Positive Change & Transformation. To learn more, please visit www.SusanCYoung.com or www.amazon.com/author/susancyoung.
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January 23, 2018
8 Tips for Reconnecting in a More Meaningful & Authentic Way
Psychological Thriving
In his book, The Power of the Other . . . The Startling Effects Others Have On Us from the Bedroom to the Boardroom and Beyond and What to Do About It, Dr. Henry Cloud names four levels of connection for human interaction and engagement.
Disconnection
Bad Connection
Fake-Good Connection
Real Connection
He dives deep into sharing why “Real Connection” is the only place where true, authentic, psychological thriving happens. While his model is amazingly simple, it gives you a profound tool with which to measure the levels of connection you have with everyone and everything in your life. I highly recommend it.
Meaningful Levels
“I believe that our success is in direct correlation to how we impact and influence other people. And the secret to having more influence is not in our ability to communicate, but to connect. Master the art of connection, and you will go places you never thought possible. I know because I did.”
—Kelly Swanson
It is one thing to communicate, but something entirely different to connect on a deep and meaningful level. Reconnection is not just about being reunited and brought back together again, it is about connecting in a more intimate and authentic fashion.
8 Tips for Making Meaningful Connections
Build trust and rapport.
Be personable and friendly.
Be genuinely interested in others.
Become a discovery expert and ask questions.
Take the initiative to be an inviter, the liker, and the host.
Find commonality, camaraderie, and shared interests.
Make others feel valued and important.
Use humor to diffuse tension, shift energy, and feed laughter.
Powerful Practices for Deepening Bonds
Relationships are continually shifting and being redefined. In their book, Friendship Interrupted, my friend Judy Dippel and her co-author Debra Whiting Alexander, Ph.D., write, “At the core of every important and meaningful friendship is a close relationship that adjusts and compensates as needed.” They continue to advise, “To stay healthy, relationships require plenty of attention and commitment.” To reconnect and make relationships more meaningful, they encourage you to practice.
Patience—Patience in action can be a tremendous gift.
Encouragement—It can rekindle hope and soothe the spirit.
Acceptance— Genuine acceptance brings grace and mercy.
Respect— Allows you to interact and engage appropriately.
Loyalty— Faithful friends are unwavering.
Laughter— Stimulates a natural sense of camaraderie.
Service— A thriving friendship can’t help but produce good works, and in doing so strengthens bonds.
Motivational Keynote Speaker and Change Expert Susan C. Young helps organizations leverage the power of Change & Resilience to Boost Positivity, Improve Engagement and Transform their Teams to make a POSITIVE IMPACT in life and business. This is an excerpt from her new book, Release the Power of Re3 . . . Review, Redo & Renew for Positive Change & Transformation. To learn more, please visit www.SusanCYoung.com or www.amazon.com/author/susancyoung.
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January 20, 2018
Reconnect with Yourself and Others for Happiness & Resilience
Why Reconnect? Connection is one of our greatest needs and desires as social animals—to progress and prosper, we need to feel acceptance, inclusion, fulfilment, and emotional safety. Reconnect with Yourself “We need time to defuse, to contemplate. Just as in sleep our brains relax and give us dreams, so at some time in the day […]
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reconnect with yourself and others
Why Reconnect? Connection is one of our greatest needs and desires as social animals—to progress and prosper, we need to feel acceptance, inclusion, fulfilment, and emotional safety. Reconnect with Yourself “We need time to defuse, to contemplate. Just as in sleep our brains relax and give us dreams, so at some time in the day […]
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January 17, 2018
14 Areas to Restrengthen for Resilience & Success
Why Restrengthen? Fortifying your personal strength, potency, and power boosts your confidence, energy, and courage to boldly navigate change and transformation. Even a life lived well uses our resources to such a degree that it can weaken many areas which were once strong. Simple wear and tear may tire us and take its toll […]
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restrengthen
Why Restrengthen? Fortifying your personal strength, potency, and power boosts your confidence, energy, and courage to boldly navigate change and transformation. Even a life lived well uses our resources to such a degree that it can weaken many areas which were once strong. Simple wear and tear may tire us and take its toll […]
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January 13, 2018
Tune-in, Tune-up & Reharmonize to Calm the Chaos in Life
Why Reharmonize? Bringing various qualities together in harmony will create music rather than noise, bringing peace, calm, and delight. In the rhythm of life, perfect harmony is bliss, yet challenging to achieve on a regular basis. Due to that, we can get used to being “out of tune,” with one or more people, and […]
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reharmonize
Why Reharmonize? Bringing various qualities together in harmony will create music rather than noise, bringing peace, calm, and delight. In the rhythm of life, perfect harmony is bliss, yet challenging to achieve on a regular basis. Due to that, we can get used to being “out of tune,” with one or more people, and go […]
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