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“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.”

“After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.”

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”

“If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.”

“The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”

“We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.”

“When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.”

“That was one of the things that worried me – to be raised to the position of a semi-god – because then you are no longer a human being. I wanted to be known as Mandela, a man with weaknesses, some of which are fundamental, and a man who is committed.”

(2) Surrender to Pain-

All challenges are there to teach us a lesson. But we are conditioned to treat challenge as a bad thing. Challenge is our friend, embrace it!
We experience what we put out. When we experience and express a feeling towards someone, we ultimately are the receiver of that feeling. When we express anger towards someone else, we feel the pain. When we hold a grudge against someone, our own inner space suffers. Next time you express an emotion, take notice in how it makes you feel on the inside.
Every day, there are miracles happening all around us, yet, in a state of deep unawareness, we fail to see them. Even the happiest of events, can be diluted when we’re consumed with problems.
Our minds are naturally and automatically attracted to problems. Even when everything else is going well, our mind looks for conflicts, issues, differences and problems. We can’t handle how happy we actually are, and how there’s really nothing to be worried about. Without problems, our ego has nothing to cling to.
All problems are rooted in our interpretation of an external circumstance. Thus, all problems are really created in our heads. They don’t actually exist, except in our own projection of a tale we have convinced ourselves of and believe to be true.
We suffer, unnecessarily, in advance of an anticipated outcome or event. Nothing has happened yet, but because we have imagined the worst case scenario in our mind, we become afraid of what might happen. As a result, we suffer in advance of a possible scenario that may or may not take place in the future.
There is nothing we can’t handle, even death. It doesn’t matter how much suffering we endure ahead of time, when the anticipated event happens, it happens, and we move on. The actual event is rarely as bad as we had anticipated. We are stronger than we think.

(3) Finding Hope

“Do you need His hand to steady you today? Do you need to beat on His chest and release your anxiety to Him? He can take the anger, the fear, the hopelessness and give you instead a peace that is beyond understanding… a peace that steadies you in spite of turbulent surroundings. Invite Him….”

“Father God in Heaven,
I am tired and spent from the cares of my life and the circumstances that are overwhelming me. Forgive me for going my own way and not acknowledging You in my life. Today I want to change that. Today I want to invite You to lead me and guide me. My own resources are simply not enough. I need Your strength and Your wisdom to help me know the next step. I want to trust in You. Increase my faith and help me walk daily with You. Comfort me, reassure me of Your love and take my life into Your hands. In Jesus’ name I pray, amen.”

Change Your Stress Level by Changing Your Life

kberman — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 18:25:57 +0000

“We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.”
-Carl Gustav Jung, Psychological Reflections

Change is Always Possible

Thoughts to Get Your Creative Juices Flowing

Michael Phelps’ Top 5 Fundamentals for Pulling Off the Impossible

How to Keep Yourself on Track: 5 Helpful Questions

Applications of Positive Psychology–Happiness and Flourishing

How Long Does Change Take? At Least 6 Months

What’s Your Voice?

The Five Pillars of Success

Master Your Craft

How Might a Promise Like That Change a Life?

5 Ways to Improve Your Life Starting Today:

Becoming an eclectic reader–meditate and/or schedule quiet time–start working out, or increase your workouts–spend quality time with the people who mean the most to you–enhance your diet

High Energy Link Library

kberman — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 13:43:44 +0000

(1) Cravings:

8 Most Common Food Cravings And The Alternatives because you value your body

10 Ways to Control Your Cravings Living Healthy Reader’s Digest

Ask The Readers How Do You Control Your Cravings

BBC NEWS Health Food cravings battle ‘pointless’

Bodybuilding FAQ – Is There A Way To Deal With Sugar Cravings

Canadian Living Health Nutrition 14 simple ways to curb your food cravings

Conquer Any Type of Dangerous Cravings! Where’s the Fire

Cooking Find Recipes to Satisfy Your Cravings at Cookthink

Cravings FindYourCraving.com

Diet Avoid Foods to Curb Cravings

Explaining food cravings

Five appetite control foods that suppress cravings without adding calories

food cravings – how to stop them! – Intense Workout

Food Cravings, meaning of cravings, body deficiencies, emotional eating, stress eating

Food What your cravings are trying to tell you

Food You Can Eat To Get Rid Of Cravings For Sugar

How to Cope with Cravings – Conquer Food Cravings – How to Deal with Food Cravings

How to cope with food cravings and keep losing weight

How to Stop Sweet Cravings – wikiHow

Hungry Cravings Bibimbap

Identify and Kill your Food Cravings @ Dumb Little Man

Love That Try This! No-Guilt Swaps for Junk Food Cravings! – Hungry Girl on Yahoo! Food

New York Spa, Yoga Wellness Guide

Raw Food Diet with Frederic Patenaude

Reset your mind to beat your cravings – Decoding your cravings – Revolution Health

Take a bite out of your cravings – Forbes.com- msnbc.com

Springwise Personalized cooking recipes match cravings

Tahiti Trim Plan 40, Overcoming Food Cravings

The Raw Divas Blog » Cravings

Understand Food Cravings, Brain Chemistry, and Body Weight

Weight Loss – Deal with Food Cravings – How to Cope with Cravings

Personality Labels Quick Links 7/16/09

kberman — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 17:20:07 +0000

The five stages of the Changemaker Recovery Plan include:

(1) Learning Your Labels–this is made easier if you have the Changemaker Test.

(2) Retraining your Brain

(3) Designing a Workable Goal System

(4) Confidence Building Techniques

(5) Releasing Your Creativity

For my quick links for July-August, I will post about these five stages.

The first, Learning Your Labels, helps us to better know and accept ourselves. The test teaches

http://answersbyemail.com/2008/09/personality-labels/

http://thegerdesfamily.blogspot.com/2009/07/labels.html

http://www.thebecompany.com/sharp_edges.htm

http://twitter.com/kberman/status/2044121830

http://www.personalitydevelopmentblog.com/

http://www.colorado.gov/DPA/eo/eap/docs/conflictresol2.pdf

http://www.squidoo.com/groups/changemaker

http://www.myrollercoasterkid.com/labels

http://uniquefrequency.com/tag/personality-labels/

http://www.helium.com/knowledge/57735-personality-labels-givers-versus-takers

http://sourcesofinsight.com/2008/10/02/strengths-and-weaknesses-vs-personality-profiles/

http://www.itstime.com/game.htm

http://www.quizilla.com/quizzes/6090036/what-label-fits-your-personality

http://www.sirim.my/techinfo/P1/Text/hmu_p3c.pdf

Retrain Your Brain Quick Links 7/23/09

kberman — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 08:48:24 +0000

http://www.reinventionistblog.net/

http://www.brighamandwomens.org/healtheweightforwomen/special_topics/intelihealth0507.aspx

http://www.free-press-release.com/news/200801/1201795309.html

http://digg.com/educational/Retrain_Your_Brain_Become_a_Creature_of_New_Habits

http://retrainyourbrain.blogspot.com/

http://knowpreneur.wordpress.com/

http://www.rd.com/living-healthy/retrain-your-brain/article53051.html

http://www.learning-aids.com/how-retrain-brain

http://houndsgood.com/2009/06/26/retrain-your-brain/

http://www.examiner.com/x-6579-Miami-Womens-Health-Examiner~y2009m6d22-Relieving-stress-and-anxiety-with-Cognitive-Behavioral-Therapy

http://www.widgetbox.com/widget/retrain-your-brain

http://www.goal-setting-guide.com/mindpower.pdf

Relationship Quick Links 7/9/09

kberman — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 14:13:56 +0000

Writing that comes the closest to my experiences helps me to further define who I was and who I am becoming. I don’t want to ever be finished growing and changing.

I love the simplicity of Johari’s Window for self-discovery. For a simple explanation of Johari’s window–read the Wikipedia definition. For all the ways Johari’s Window can be used–read businessballs.com.

The greater source for self-understanding comes from our relationships. Each person in your life is defining you in special ways. Paying attention to the ways you relate to the people in your life will continue to give you clues to your interrelationship.

Some quick links to read more about relationships:

A Powerful Guide to Active Listening

Toxic Friends and How to Dump Them

Is It an Eating Disorder or a Relationship Disorder?

When TOTs (Terrible Office Tyrants) Run the Office

Delegation Happens: Working with Friends Can Be Dangerous

How to Declutter Your Friendships

Our Inner Child is Our Eternal Child

kberman — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 23:32:29 +0000

“Inner child is the carrier of our personal stories, the vehicle for our memories of both the actual child and an idealized child from the past. It is the truly alive quality of being within us. It is the soul, our experiencer throughout the cycles of life. It is the sufferer. And it is the bearer of renewal through rebirth, appearing in our lives whenever we detach and open to change.” Jeremiah Abrams

If you can help someone get in touch with the creativity inside them, you have helped a person discover the beautiful self he/she is inside. Our joy lives in our creativity which is the joyful, playful child inside. The self-esteem school of helping people requires living in the head. Getting in touch with creativity requires living in the heart.

“In the adult there lurks a child—an eternal child, something that is always becoming, is never completed, and that calls for increasing care, attention, and education. This is the part of the human personality that wishes to develop and become whole.” Carl Jung

The inner child is a popular topic for many types of blogs. Some of the posts include the following ideas:

Considering the Inner Child

How to Tame Your “Inner Brat”