IN THIS ISSUE

1. Top Weekly Career Pick
2. Featured Article: The Key to Having It All
3. A Real Example of How to Reach Your Goals
4. Announcements

TOP WEEKLY CAREER PICK

http://usa.lucidjobs.com/ – Lucid Jobs is a completely free job search website with a built in Application Tracking System, Messenger, Calendar and more. Stay organized with their tools and get connected using Forums to share knowledge.

And my top pick for the Super Bowl is the New Orleans Saints of course!

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FEATURED ARTICLE: THE KEY TO HAVING IT ALL

THE MOST IMPORTANT PRIORITY IN YOUR LIFE
The Real Key to Having It All: Health, Wealth, Happiness, and Loving Relationships

I used to think this was fluffy, tooty fruity stuff.
It is not. (It’s now my main focus).
This is YOUR life we’re talking about.
If you desire for your life and career to be
a wonderful experience, read on.

Life is simple. You are born. Your freedom to be your true, self loving, authentic self is suppressed by rules, boundaries, behaviors, thoughts, priorities, limitations, fears, doubts, circumstances, and so called “truths” of other people and what you pay attention to (television programs, books, media, etc.) in your life. You may feel controlled and frustrated and not able to be and express who you really are.

Insecurity sets in. You may believe that you are not good enough, you don’t fit in, and you’re not included. This disconnect with your true self in your adult years manifests itself in a lack of:

• fulfillment
• confidence and wealth
• health and wellbeing
• balance

A feeling of emptiness sets in. That’s when you may feel trapped in your life and your fears, doubts, and limiting thoughts take over and you either stop dreaming or you believe you can’t ever reach your dreams or be your true self. This is also when self sabotaging, sometimes self protective, and destructive behavior (such as drugs, alcohol, overeating, overspending, external marital affairs, social isolation, blaming others) may manifest itself so that you can have temporary feel good moments that will most likely take you and your loved ones into deeper despair.

You crave to be who you really are. Someone who is free, joyful, self adoring, fulfilled, passionate, confident, and loved. Every human being on this planet universally craves this feeling more than anything else in life. Our actions, focus, words, motivations, purchases, and desires all stem around wanting feel good emotions and being able to express ourselves as who we really are.

The only way to have what you really crave is to make your top priority in life to feel authentic joy, self love, fulfillment, and peace within. In this state you no longer react to life but live life at an elevated and raised level and it is only here that you are able to create exactly what you wish for with a powerful, unstoppable air of complete self love and confidence – loving and fulfilling relationships, good health and balance, passion and purpose, authenticity, and true abundance.

It is only here that you are able to be at a higher level that everyone in your life will take notice of and match as you share your joyful, electric vibration with them. It’s the only way to dramatically change your life and to receive all that you want – by having a strong desire above all else to change your heart and mind to adhere to this number one priority – to have good feeling emotions – and to have these good feeling emotions all the time, no matter what else is going on in your life.

Feeling good down to your soul will change everything and allow you to lead the life you so desire and to be who you really are. It will allow you to brush off what used to be life’s annoyances from your shoulder for good.

The steps to making true, good feeling emotions be your top priority in life are:

1. Create, focus, and dramatically elevate your desire to authentically feel good within above all else and in all circumstances. Think about it constantly.
    
2. Write down what makes you authentically feel good inside, happy, and joyous, and focus your attention on these things all day long. These are things that if you change your heart and soul and mind’s focus, you can have them right now versus wanting to change someone else or some circumstance that you cannot control in order to make you happy. Here is an example:

   What makes me happy is focusing my attention on my purpose, passion, freedom, spontaneity, joyous coincidences, heartful encounters that don’t drain my energy but that lift me up, wisdom, beauty, nature, playfulness, creativity, smiles and laughter, music, being a conduit to bring joy and confidence to others, and giving unconditional love to all people and animals.
    

3. Make a decision to change your habits and regiments and what you focus your thoughts and words on so you can have these feel good emotions and tell everyone around you why you are doing it. They’ll want to know what’s in it for them so tell them it will allow you to become a better spouse, parent, sibling, child, employee, friend, and neighbor. You will inspire others by sharing your new found commitment to an extraordinary life that in no way includes self sabotaging behavior that fills the void of feeling authentic joy.
    
4. Next begin to trust and allow inspirational ideas come from your heart and intuition that ensures you will feel good all day long. This may mean you have to let go of some thoughts you constantly carry around with you that no longer serve your new commitment of joy. Examples may include your self sabotaging thoughts of having to please others, control and distrust others, and needing appreciation, approval, and recognition from others in order to feel good.

A benefit to living the life you want is that once you feel good and you are in touch with who you really are, others will mirror you and you will automatically make them feel good about themselves and believe in themselves by you being who you really are. When you’re living in joy, you’ll easily receive inspirational thoughts and ideas and words that will allow others you interact with to have a glimpse of their own joy and authentic self. What an uplifting gift to give others that can change their lives.

You are in charge of your feel good feelings. No one else has that authority over you anymore. You may have to get out of your comfort zone to make some fundamental changes to begin to do what’s best for your emotions today. Start a movement in your home, workplace, and community, and encourage others to do the same for themselves. Living in joy versus fear, resistance to your true self, and anxiety, will change everything in your life. Work on it everyday with determination and conviction. Let go and live in sheer joy and harmony with your true self. You will have everything you desire if you allow it to be!

How this Really Works

An example from my own life on how this really works: My husband and his elderly parents had a dysfunctional, co-dependent relationship. My in-laws health issues and the loss of their ability to live independently added to the distasteful mix that kept seeping into my home. Rather than participate in the dysfunction or just live with it, I knew that I had to change my heart and soul and grow and evolve (life’s challenges show up as lessons we need to learn). My deep rooted desire to change my heart was the catalyst to make it happen.

Once I began to love my true authentic self, I was able to see others for their true selves, even if they hadn’t reached that point yet for themselves. I focused my thoughts on that and writing those loving thoughts down daily to reinforce them until my emotions began to shift. It was deeply important to me. I then received inspiration to ask my mother-in-law to teach me her native language of French. Teaching French is her passion and by doing so, I’ve helped her to regain some of her confidence and internal joy which is changing the dynamics of the relationship between the four of us right before my eyes. It’s working with such ease.

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A REAL EXAMPLE OF HOW TO REACH YOUR GOALS

If you find yourself struggling to reach your goals, consider the culprit may fall in one or all of these categories — your fear or your time management is getting in the way or you’re not writing your goals down. Facing these obstacles will transform your results in a big way. Take a small step to address them if you insist on more for your life. Here’s an example from Ashley Williams, a budding new author on how to get started:

I’ve been very lucky to have a good career for the last eleven years, and fortunate to survive all the economic craziness of the last few years. While I like my job, I realized I was burying any creative instincts and losing that part of myself. I found myself saying, “I am the least creative person I know,” and I hated saying it. I kept ignoring this little voice inside me that was saying, “Yes, you love to read, but you also want to write.” Since I am a big believer that you can’t complain about something that you aren’t willing to work to change, I let that little voice get louder and louder, and decided to do something about it.

I signed up for a creative writing class, and then another, and then another. I had no idea if I could write. I got very positive feedback from my instructors and classmates. And for the first time in a very long time, I was passionate about something.

About that same time, I started Lori’s Secret Sauce. I learned that I had been letting fear and lethargy stifle my creative energies for far too long. And I decided that while the classes are great, and I really enjoy them, it is time for the next step. I’ve taken a rather painful personal journey over the last few years, and have decided to put pen to paper (or fingers to keyboard) and write this story.

I’m far from perfect with it, but I strive to write every day. I’ve decided this is important enough to me to make it a priority, and that it is worth it because I feel more content and happy than I have in a very long time. Who knows if it will turn into a career for me? Who even cares? It is the act itself, and letting go of the fear of trying something new that is making the difference for me.

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