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- Taming The Feasting Frenzy: Losing weight without losing your mind. - by Submitted on Nov 13, 2011 from Vickie GriffithHow would you like to feel great on January 1st because you were able to maintain your weight (or even lose a few pounds) over the holidays? Wouldn't it feel terrific to feel that good about yourself? Perhaps you'll even be the envy of your friends who weren't able to make it through the ...
Views: 1283 - Make God Laugh - by Submitted on Oct 21, 2011 from Vickie GriffithI know God is laughing at me today. Probably a pretty good chuckle, too. I told him of my plans for my business- how much money I will be making, what type of employees will be working for me, and how much fun I will be having speaking and writing. I commented on how clients will receive the ...
Views: 1046 - Fortune Cookie Forecast - by Submitted on Oct 16, 2011 from Vickie Griffith“It sucks right now!” Martha said with despair in her voice. “I just lost my job. My husband’s salary barely covers the necessary expenses. Our daughter needs money for a science project. Our son needs a cavity filled. I wrecked my car. The dog is sick. And my credit cards are at their ...
Views: 1442 - Just a Bit Controlling - by Submitted on Sep 17, 2011 from Vickie GriffithAre you in control? Want to be in control? Have a need to be in control? Bet you are rarely, if ever, in control. It is a myth that we are in control of anything except for one aspect of our lives, and it is the only component of our lives of which we are in control. You will experience ...
Views: 988 - Who Are You Again? - by Submitted on Sep 16, 2011 from Vickie GriffithHe stepped on stage-- friendly, handsome with a mischievous smile. Flailing his arms, he jumped in front of the woman with the microphone, determined to speak. Snickers from the crowd indicated that he had been seen, yet he continued to do all that a three-year-old mind could comprehend to do ...
Views: 1116 - Hunting for Treasure - by Submitted on Sep 11, 2011 from Vickie GriffithEver hunt for treasure when you where a child? Remember the thrill of the hunt, anticipation of the prize and the exhilaration when you found the treasure. The treasure might not have been anything more than a shiny rock or small toy. The size of the prize did not matter--it was the value that ...
Views: 1275 - Want to Be Her? - by Submitted on Aug 25, 2011 from Vickie GriffithShe is beautiful, friendly, and popular. She has an exciting career, a cutie pie for a husband and well-mannered kids. For a brief moment you hate her and then wish you could be her. Have you longed to be someone else? To be able to switch bodies, lives relationships? You look at them and ...
Views: 1085(1 vote) - Where Are We? - by Submitted on Aug 22, 2011 from Vickie GriffithDriving home to Virginia from South Carolina with our six-year-old exhilarated granddaughter in tow. For nearly three months she had been marking days off the calendar anticipating her visit with us in Virginia. Getting into the truck she was ready to be in our home,yet we had a seven to eight ...
Views: 1407 - The Brilliant Child Within! Moving past Your Comfort Zones - by Submitted on Jul 21, 2011 from Vickie GriffithShe has stuck to her plan. Just five pounds to release and she is meet her goal. It has not always been easy, but with the support of hypnosis and Emotional Freedom Technique (tapping), she has managed through the rough times feeling more confident and more energetic than ever before. She ...
Views: 1424 - The Last Bite. Change is Scary. - by Submitted on Jul 15, 2011 from Vickie GriffithThe last few hours have been so much fun! Two girlfriends have been out for the afternoon; it has been filled with shopping and laughter. Now, sitting across a table from her best friend at their favorite restaurant, June makes an unconscious gesture that sabotages her friend’s goal. Her friend ...
Views: 1117 - What If… Letting Go of the Grumpy Feelings - by Submitted on Jul 08, 2011 from Vickie GriffithThe morning is the same as any other yet she feels angry, resentful and a bit sad. Nothing has changed from the night before. There is no one to blame. No one called with bad news. No argument has caused these feelings. She just wakes up upset. Could these feelings come from bad dreams? ...
Views: 1119 - Towel Dried – Appreciation For What Is - by Submitted on Jun 28, 2011 from Vickie GriffithStepping out from one of the huge chain convenience store/ gas stations and car wash I notice a young women drying off her car. Just freshly cleaned on the bright warm spring day she lovingly dried the car as if it were a luxury sedan. She admired this car with every stroke of the towel. She ...
Views: 952 - Nose to the Grindstone - by Submitted on Jun 13, 2011 from Vickie GriffithHave you ever heard the term “keep your nose to the grindstone?” Although sources cite different origins to the phrase, it has come to describe someone who works hard and steady at something that is tedious and boring. Many historians believe that the origin of the phrase was passed down ...
Views: 1392 - Worry… Oh, So Worried – Sleeping Soundly - by Submitted on Jun 03, 2011 from Vickie Griffith12:15 am. He knows he is supposed to be home by midnight. Where is he? What if he has been in an accident? Images of bloody moaning teenagers flash through my mind. What if he is trapped in his Jeep and can’t get out? Visions of the Jeep hanging upside down over a guard rail- the driver ...
Views: 1186(1 vote) - Survey Says – The Number One Answer to ‘What keeps you up at night?” - by Submitted on May 28, 2011 from Vickie GriffithImagine the set of the game show Family Feud. Two people head to head guessing at the number one answer on the survey to this question: “What wakes you or keeps you up at night?” An informal survey sent this exact question to a section of friends, colleagues and clients; the number one ...
Views: 1266 - Living the Nightmare – What Wakes You Up At Night? - by Submitted on May 21, 2011 from Vickie GriffithChasing a young boy, a weary mother is desperate to catch him. The back yard alley turns and twists as if it were a labyrinth seen in the lawns of the old English castles. Barbs and thorns poke into the pathway from the walls- tearing at her clothes. Tripping over the gnarly roots on her ...
Views: 1174 - Late Night Problem Solving – Sleeping Soundly - by Submitted on May 14, 2011 from Vickie GriffithChasing a young boy, a weary mother is desperate to catch him. The back yard alley turns and twists as if it was a labyrinth seen in the lawns of the old English castles. Barbs and thorns poke into the pathway from the walls tearing at her clothes. Tripping over the gnarly roots on her course ...
Views: 1115 - Did You Hear Me? - Changing Negative Thoughts - by Submitted on May 07, 2011 from Vickie GriffithVerizon Wireless aired a commercial where a gentleman was walking about asking the caller on his cell phone “Can you hear me now?” It became a joke, when communication was disrupted or someone was not listening. Listen……….. What do you hear? The fan of the furnace, the chatter of your ...
Views: 1052(1 vote) - The Reckless Traveler – Rerouting Sabotaging Patterns - by Submitted on May 01, 2011 from Vickie GriffithThe purple haze of the evening hours washes through the valley as an observer stands on a hill top. She watches the hustle and bustle of the village below. The residents come and go as they please. She notices the negative reckless traveler causing chaos in the flow of the pattern in the ...
Views: 1235 - Hopelessness to Happiness - Discovering Self Reliance - by Submitted on Apr 21, 2011 from Vickie GriffithTucked deep under the covers she rustles with the idea of getting out of bed. It feels dark outside today. Yet, the sun is warming the petals of the brightly colored flowers. Today she feels hopeless? What do you do when everything feels hopeless? When you are too tired, too sick, in too much ...
Views: 1687 - Next - by Submitted on Apr 15, 2011 from Vickie GriffithA man rushes into a national coffee chain talking loudly on his cell phone as if there was no one in the store that could hear him. A steady stream of people are coming and going, in and out not noticing who is there or what is happening around them. Have they noticed the noise of the ...
Views: 1133(2 votes) - Creating Motivation- Making Change Easier - by Submitted on Apr 08, 2011 from Vickie Griffith“All of a sudden it feels like life is kicking me in the face. Things were going well. Business was increasing, our family was happy and healthy, and I was feeling good about myself for the first time in a long time, then out of no where…………” Fill in the blank. (..my brother said,… there was ...
Views: 1112 - About Time - Living In The Moment - by Submitted on Apr 03, 2011 from Vickie GriffithVivianna Torun Bülow-Hübe designed beautiful fluid forms of modern jewelry for the company Georg Jensen. In 1962 she was asked to create an object for the Louvre in Paris for their Musée des Arts Décoratifs exhibit. The theme given the artist was to create a piece about which they felt most ...
Views: 1035 - I Feel Pretty. Oh, So Pretty - Growing Your Self Esteem. - by Submitted on Mar 26, 2011 from Vickie GriffithGolden haired like Rapunzel; dressed in a cute pink dress I comment to the adorable 4 year old little girl that she looks very pretty. Her response stunned me… What did she just say? How dare she say that? Then it occurred to me maybe this is how we, as grown women, should respond to ...
Views: 1167 - The Haunting How’s- Attracting Abundance When You Don’t Know How. - by Submitted on Mar 18, 2011 from Vickie GriffithA child tears a sheet of paper out of her spiral notebook folding the corners precisely making a beautiful aero-dynamic paper airplane. Her vivid imagination explores her dream of someday, flying a huge airplane to distant destinations. She does not know how she will become a pilot but she ...
Views: 979 - Secret Admirer- Recovering Your Body Image and Self Esteem - by Submitted on Mar 12, 2011 from Vickie GriffithWorking in a clothing department of a college bookstore, I spied an eight year old girl admiring herself in the full length mirror. She looks into her eyes and smiles at herself. Twirling, curtsying and giggling she is truly in love with the reflection in the mirror. Adorable, charming, ...
Views: 1130(1 vote) - True Talent - by Submitted on Mar 04, 2011 from Vickie GriffithMany of us have a talent that we are born with. Many of us don’t use our talent and choose instead to move through our lives working at a mundane daily job that sucks the life out of us. We’d feel like a failure if we were to up and switch careers, wouldn’t we? But we can choose to take that ...
Views: 1213(1 vote) - The journey versus the destination. - by Submitted on Feb 25, 2011 from Vickie GriffithEvery morning on my daily walk with our two dogs, Sparky walks nicely by my side. Surrey, on the other hand, pulls and pulls, straight ahead, tight on the leash. If I walk faster she pulls harder. She may not know where she is going, but she knows she needs to get there faster. When we stop ...
Views: 1093(2 votes) - The journey versus the destination. - by Submitted on Feb 25, 2011 from Vickie GriffithEvery morning on my daily walk with our two dogs, Sparky walks nicely by my side. Surrey, on the other hand, pulls and pulls, straight ahead, tight on the leash. If I walk faster she pulls harder. She may not know where she is going, but she knows she needs to get there faster. When we stop ...
Views: 1035 - False. Evidence. Appearing. Real. - by Submitted on Feb 19, 2011 from Vickie GriffithLooking at the Sunday obituary page recently, I noticed how many people near my age are passing away. A wave of dread flowed through me and I thought: What if I only have a few years left? I’ve always wanted to be a Centenarian. And,I’ve always thought that saying out loud that I want to ...
Views: 1220 - The Question for the day is….. - by Submitted on Feb 13, 2011 from Vickie GriffithSo, I’m sitting here looking at a blank page and I’m wondering—what should I write about today? What have I been thinking about recently, what’s interested me or is there something that’s taken me by surprise? I hear the faint voice of a ten year old in the deep recesses of my head saying ...
Views: 1192(1 vote) - Get Out of the Pool - by Submitted on Feb 08, 2011 from Vickie GriffithThat old James Brown song is playing through my head … you know the one I mean: Whoa-oa-oa! I feel good, I knew that I would, now I feel good, I knew that I would, now So good, so good”. I feel happy today … So, why is that so hard to admit or even say out loud? It used to be that the ...
Views: 1084 - If I Only Had Courage - by Submitted on Feb 01, 2011 from Vickie GriffithIt seems something drastic has to happen in order for us to stop and savor how precious life is. We get caught up in the mundane work, stress and destructive behaviors of every day that we sometimes forget to recognize the gift we have all be given. This one and only life. I was recently ...
Views: 1269 - Are you a Minute Maximizer? - by Submitted on Jan 21, 2011 from Vickie GriffithOops, there is goes. Did you see it? Did you feel it? Another minute went by. You will never get the minute back. What did you spend that minute doing? Worrying, fretting, stressing? How sad and what a waste. We waste away our lives minute by minute by worrying about our future or judging ...
Views: 1092 - Monster in the Coset - by Submitted on Jan 14, 2011 from Vickie GriffithMonster in the Closet You knew it all along … even thought your parents denied it, you could never find it, but somehow deep inside all along you knew it was the truth. There is a monster in your bedroom closet. “Oh Wow”, you say: “I knew it was true. What did I ever do to be haunted by ...
Views: 1220 - Taming The Feasting Frenzy: Losing weight without losing your mind. - by Submitted on Dec 23, 2010 from Vickie GriffithHow would you like to feel great on January 1 because you were able to either maintain your weight or even lose a few pounds over the holidays? Wouldn’t it feel terrific to feel that good about yourself and perhaps even be the envy of your friends who weren’t able to make it through the ...
Views: 1204 - Nose To The Grind Stone - by Submitted on Nov 30, 2010 from Vickie GriffithHave you ever heard the term “keep your nose to the grindstone?” Although sources cite different origins to the phrase, it has come to describe someone who works hard and steady at something that is tedious and boring. Many historians believe that the origin of the phrase was passed down ...
Views: 1901 - Stress Response - by Submitted on Nov 01, 2010 from Vickie GriffithA young college athlete stands at the free throw line and throws the basketball at the basket over and over again. She is visualizing her success and at the same time she is conditioning her body to automatically respond to the stimulus of her desire to successfully put the ball through the ...
Views: 1121(1 vote) - Your Amazing Brain - by Submitted on Oct 15, 2010 from Vickie GriffithOur brains are amazing. When we repeatedly think the same thought over and over again, our brains create neural pathways to replicate the same repetitive action. Think how wonderful this is if you want a glass of water. You want, and your body responds by allowing you to perform all the ...
Views: 1990(3 votes) - I am feeling better. How about you? - by Submitted on Jul 12, 2010 from Vickie GriffithFeelings. All the self-help gurus tell us to feel our feelings. If we’ll just do that then we’ll stop overeating, we’ll stop smoking or gambling or shopping or whatever else we’re addicted to doing. We’ll be able to live in the moment, connect with ourselves, our children and our friends. ...
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