Happy New Year! Are you all set with your intentions and goals for the coming year? Before we get to that topic, let’s take a moment to RELEASE 2011:
Be-Happier: How To Let Go Of The Old Year
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Be-Happier Tip: Lighten Up and Remember ALL IS WELL
Are you feeling a “bit” stressed? Lots of people get totally overwhelmed during the holiday season. It’s ironic, because this is supposed to be a time of joy, and good times. In trying to make things perfect, to get a long list accomplished, we often cut ourselves short on sleep, the right food and relaxation time.
So take a few moments now to sit, breathe slowly and deeply. Then… jump up and dance around with this video. And if you haven’t seen the brilliant Bollywood film called “3 Idiots” rent it today from Netflix or your favorite video store. You’ll be glad you did — it’s a heartwarming drama with lots of music and comedy… just the way YOUR life can be.
Ready? Click play to watch the music video — and I dare you to sit still! By the way, enjoy the English captions that are included in the video.
to your happiness and a cheerful joyous Christmas,
Evelyn
Be-Happier Tip: Advance Confidently
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This time of year, we are especially prone to a lot of hurry and rush, and indecision and worry often tag along with that mode.
It can be easy to feel that it must be normal to question yourself, to fret about whether you’ve got the right goals, or maybe you should change direction midstream in your career or relationship.
Henry David Thoroeau presents us with the timeless gift of being confident and self-assured: after spending over 2 years at Walden Pond, he suggests that if we would only advance confidently in the direction of our dreams, then the Universe responds by drawing toward us all that we need.
So, this season, make a commitment to yourself that you will shrug off your stress and worries, and instead breathe in deeply and slowly… understand that the power that creates worlds flows through you (Thank you, Abraham, for that insight) and then… ADVANCE CONFIDENTLY knowing that what you think about and envision will come to pass.
to your happiness and success,
Evelyn
PS Learn more about leaving behind worry, anxiety and stress– read my Amazon bestselling book: “FORGET YOUR TROUBLES: Enjoy Your Life Today” – see the links to the right of this post to buy at Amazon.
Be-Happier Tip: Consider His Point of View
Feeling stressed with your S.O. or mate? In any relationship, there are at least “two” sides to the situation or challenge you’re facing. Read below to see how you can find them, and why it is crucial that you do it now, without wasting any more time on fruitless arguments and giving each other the cold shoulder of disapproval and disappointment.
The reason I say at least two is that often an impartial person can shed some light on another Point of View that you haven’t considered. That’s why people sign up for coaches and go to therapists, hoping that someone else can reach in and fix what’s going wrong.
But for now, let’s look at how you can reduce your stress level by putting aside what you want for the moment, and instead take a look at what the “he” or “she” in your life is experiencing.
It’s that old saying about “walk a mile in my shoes” — and it really does work to take an honest look at how the situation looks from the other person’s viewpoint.
You will probably discover that this person is not your enemy — both of you DO want to have a happy relationship, but you’ve gotten caught up in that terrible trap of clinging to what you each think you “must” have in order to be happy.
When you look instead at what it would take to make the relationship itself stronger, healthier, happier, all of a sudden a door opens on new opportunities for communication.
- let go of your need to be “right” — abandon that old idea because it is a harmful one and keeps you stuck in thinking only about yourself and your egoistic needs
- ask the other person what they want! Sounds simple, but many times we simply assume we know… and that assumption might be totally wrong
- share from the heart what you are hoping for
- agree to disagree on the aspects that you can’t seem to resolve about the situation
- and agree to work in tandem to build and renew the love and the things that you do agree on
to your health and happiness,
Evelyn
Be-Happier Tip: Take a Dream Flight with TV’s Pan Am Colette
Did you see the recent episode of “Pan Am” where the stewardesses are playing Truth or Dare– and “dare” Colette to fly the plane?
Well, back in 1963, when the episode takes place, women were not allowed to be commercial pilots… or astronauts.
Colette gets to make her dream come true, when the pilot agrees to let her sit in the co-pilot seat and hold the controls briefly– but only because the passengers on this flight are military, and not paying passengers. To have a woman fly a plane with passengers would have been against a whole host of rules and regulations. But in that brief moment, we see the sheer joy on Colette’s face when she glances over and sees the pilot has taken his hands off the yoke — and she is flying.
I recently had my first flying lesson in a Piper Warrior 4-seater — and I sure loved it. See the photo below.
What dream can you put into FLIGHT this week? Think about it — and remember that courage is merely fear that has said its prayers.
My book “The Dream Spinners” features a woman who wants to rectify that old double-standard, and pay tribute to our first women astronaut-trainees. But then her son is accidentally killed, and she loses her ambition…
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