Get Clear-Get Organized and Declutter--GTD

For alot of people the Soprano's is a regular on their schedule. One of the comments that Tony Soprano made recently was "Eat what is on your plate first." A great action plan for getting our lives on track and creating ripples of inner peace.

A great new book that keeps showing up in Business Week, Wall Street Journal, Amazon, and Barnes and Noble gives empowering advice on self management. Balancing life and work is challenging grab some great tools over at David Allen's site on GTD. David offers easy to apply advice and tools to help us all stop being distracted by uncompleted thoughts and tasks that plague our mind. You can also view a wonderful lecture that David gave for Google over on Youtube.

Have you ever thought about how you manage your energy? When you are constantly distracted by your long list of uncompleted tasks--you waste your energy. Even more needless energy is wasted on worrying about what we are not current with. Worrying is a self sabotaging habit and squanders your energy and creates toxins that depletes your immune response. A cluttered mind results in a cluttered life and creates an endless loop of chaos.

In our hurry, worry world we all need a helping hand. Gift your self an energy break. Take a pad and write down three things you want to accomplish today. Once you accomplish these three things then reward yourself. Sit and sip a warm cup of green tea, or sit in the sun and soak up 15 minutes of sunshine. Fifteen minutes of sun gives your body an energy boost. What is your favorite gift to give yourself as a reward. Mine is a walk in nature.

Cool Book of the Day

Love's Secret is featured as cool book of the day. Check it out and the person who leaves the nicest kudo on the site will win a copy! Follow this link.

You might wonder what is a kudo. Just a nice pat on the back. I have much more respect for authors now since Love's Secret was released by Sedona Publisher's in Nov 2007. It has been a big learning curve and a lot of hard work. Love's Secret was also awarded Finalist by USA Book News in their Self Help Relationship category.

Go on over and leave your kudos and win a copy of the cool book of the day. Love's Secret will help you deal with your relationship commitment issues and help your live your life in love with the love of your life.

Here is an excerpt:

Craving Love—Fearing Love

Bob had just met the woman of his dreams. Based on his past, he was scared to death he would mess up again. When Bob first entered my office, he was desperate for answers. He wanted to succeed this time more than anything else in the world. In the past when he made a commitment, his fears would surface, and he himself sabotaging the relationship.

This time he wanted things to be different, not by chance, but because he had a plan and tools to deal with his fear of intimacy. He was terrified of love which kept him commitment phobic, but he had never realized his patterns. During our sessions he discovered his fear, and the EFT offered him hope that he could heal. In the past he had spent his time consumed with searching for the one, the perfect mate.

Face the Fear
In this chapter you will find the secret for dealing with fear of intimacy and commitment and the underlying fears that can keep you caught in the swinging doors of toxic relationships.

LOVE’S SECRET number one is to make a commitment to your own healing. You can then be a support within the relationship for healing your issues as a couple. This chapter explores what commitment means and why you or your mate might be commitment phobic. You will find solutions to overcome your phobias and tools to build new habits to live your life in love. Your commitment to your own inner-healing will build a base for a happy, long-term, loving relationship.

*Exercises for journaling and inner-reflection are included throughout the book.
*These exercises are intended to connect you with your inner wisdom and find answers to create the life and relationship that you have longed for.
*Quiet inner-reflection through journaling allows ideas and hidden inner-desires to bubble up from within.
*Once you have your inner answers on paper, you can examine them and focus your energy to create your heart’s desire.

If you have any questions leave your comment below. Also I am giving away a copy Feb29 to the person who has left the most comments on this blog. Join in the discussion. What is your biggest reltionship commitment issue?

A Happy Ending

A Happy ending to a sad New Year's beginning.
Last month, while riding in a New York City taxi, a young woman named Erika Gunderson found a $500 Canon digital camera that the cab's previous occupant had left behind.

She, her boyfriend, and his mom decided to create a happing ending. After much searching found the rightful owner.

Murphy, an insurance underwriter, had been devastated to lose the pictures from a trip he had planned for years. It was Jan. 10 _ his 34th birthday _ when he heard he would be getting the photos back. "I was over the moon," he says now. "Best present ever."

"I owe you one," he wrote to Ascher. "It's good to know there are some honest people left in the world."

Such a heart warming up lifting story. Great to acknowledge that we do have wonderful honest people who go the extra mile and give their best. Kudos to this family for their determination.

Do you have experiences where you have received or given a gift like this to someone you don't know or have never met? Just met a new blogger over at Spa Clientele check out her post on Zen and Simplicity--great post.

Wordless Wednesday--Enjoy Your Snowman!

What is a Bucket List? 5 Steps to Create Your Bucket List

What's all the buzz about the bucket list and as my friends say what is a bucket list? A bucket list is the list of things your heart has desired that you have never made time for in your life. This is the list of things that you made a vow inside yourself to accomplish before you kick the bucket. Be outrageous don't sensor what comes through when you concentrate on your bucket list.

Five tips to Create Your bucket list
1. Treat yourself to a retreat and spend time getting to know yourself.
2. Climb to the top of a mountain and sit quietly until you hear the voice of your inner wisdom.
3. Spend fifteen minutes just sitting and listen to what you have to say inside.
4. Write yourself a love letter and mention all the accomplishments from last year. What's missing? What do you wish you could have accomplished??
5. Sit for fifteen minutes out in the sunlight and absorb the healing light from the sun. When you come in sit and write what has emerged from inside. You are establishing a connection inside to bring your deep desires to the surface and add them to your bucket list.

We are all so busy "doing" we forget how to be. Share you top three wishes on your bucket list! To share your comment click on the comment button. This will open a comment box. Looking forward to hearing from you!

Love Secrets for Your Bucket List

What's on your bucket list? How do you add joy to you life? Follow these simple suggestions add joy to each day. Just read a post by Publicity Hound
and decided to follow her lead by writing about the bucket list. She publishes great publicity tips weekly on her blog.

One of the major messages from the trailer for Bucket list is to add joy to your life daily. Gift yourself something that you love each day. When is the last time you danced? Most of the retreat guest who visit us in Sedona respond the same way when asked this question. I love to dance--but I don't have time or I don't have a partner. I haven't asked anyone this question that I haven't gotten that answer to. So how do you include dancing in your life and gift yourself with joy? Simple!

Take a dance or movement class and learn to tap into and move your emotions. Choose music that you love and respond to. Find a comfortable space and schedule time to move to the music. Get inspired! Watch how Ellen DeGeneres transforms herself and audience when the music starts and the dancing begins. Feel the emotion as you watch each couple compete on Dancing with the Stars.

You are the only person who can add joy to your life if you wait for someone else you will miss out. Share your Bucket List for adding joy to your life!

What's Love Got To Do With It??

Here is a toast to Simpleology and their test training. And you might wonder what's love got to do with blogging? Well I think that to be dedicated to a blog is like being dedicated to a relationship with someone you love. At times you want to quit and give up, then you get some inspiration and you keep showing up.

I read an article yesterday over at Copyblogger
where he asked What is a Blog? He has received 90 comments on this post. A dream come true for any blogger to get 90 comments.

So this toast is to all the bloggers who keep blogging and hoping for comments and readers for their blog. You have to love writing to keep your passion alive for blogging.

I'm evaluating a multi-media course on blogging from the folks at Simpleology. For a while, they're letting you snag it for free if you post about it on your blog.

It covers:

• The best blogging techniques.
• How to get traffic to your blog.
• How to turn your blog into money.

I'll let you know what I think once I've had a chance to check it out. Meanwhile, go grab yours while it's still free.