“Stuff happens every day: good, bad and irrelevant. Your perspective creates your experiences – and when your perspective changes, so does your experience.” Sherry Essig
 Chicken Little thought the sky was falling - but with all the anxiety and panic, avoid a knee jerk reaction. Getting back to basics may be just what society needs. If you’re waiting for a rainbow after the huge storms we’ve been weathering, here are 7 ways to make it happen.
--------------------------------------- The problems or challenges we face can make it tough to reflect and be grateful. But, often, our problems lead us to spiritual and financial success. We all know to be grateful, yet that can be challenging in the midst of a rapidly changing world that seems like it is changing for the worse. Believe it or not, today's problems are often solutions for "bigger problems"' i.e., your current problem can be considered a warning and an opportunity to avoid a bigger future problem. Read more for three ways to strengthen yourself and your soul in these trying times. =================================== Gain perspective, motivation and clarity with SuccessTelevision's DVDs . Famous authors, CEOs, company founders share their wisdom and life stories and lessons in good times and bad times. These make great, thoughtful gifts. Spend $125 before shipping by December 19th and we'll take off $25. ===================================
"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face... The danger lies in refusing to face the fear, in not daring to come to grips with it... You must make yourself succeed every time. You must do the thing you think you cannot do." Eleanor RooseveltOne thing you don't want to do is bury your head and ride these scary times alone. Now, more than ever, it is time to expand the pool of people you know and extend a hand. People often feel isolated because they communicate virtually through email, text and social networks. But, getting out to a meeting and networking can do so much more to connect you, face to face, in a very human way.
Successful people know how to parlay their natural give-and-take to the next level. They become networking experts because they know the power of an introduction, a referral, a resource. Read more for 9 Ways to Effectively Network. --------------------------------------- 
Being creative or solving a problem can stump the best of us. Creative thinking skills involve looking for many possible answers rather than just one. We need to be prepared to make mistakes in order to learn what worked well and what didn't. Read more for ten ways to gain new perspective, ideas and solutions. --------------------------------------- “Without work, it is impossible to have fun,” St. Thomas Aquinas The Divine’s invitation to us is to get in there and be a player as the ancient drama of good and evil unfolds. Using our hands, heads and hearts in service of something beyond myopic self-interest is what’s required. Business has tremendous potential to be a force for good in the world. While it hasn’t always lived up to this challenge, the opportunity remains ever present. We who labor there have direct influence on the outcome, and our impact has the potential to be significant.
Some might balk at the impossibility of effectively nurturing the spiritual within the confines of the commercial. And for these people I have a compassionate understanding of this challenge. However, one of the things I learned in the monastery was just because something is impossible, that doesn’t mean you don’t need to work on it.
To those needing encouragement, I give you the words of Father Theodore, my revered monastic confessor: if you think you’re too small to be effective, then you’ve never been in bed with a mosquito. We all can have an impact, even if it’s a small one. The poet Theodore Roethke said it well: “What we need are more people who specialize in the impossible.” The challenges are formidable, yet the need is great. Life invites us daily to take the risk and act on making the impossible happen. Read more on, Can Spirituality the New Viagra of the Workplace? To purchase our motivational DVDs go to SuccessTelevision.biz . To insure you receive our emails, please add Contact (at) SuccessTelevision.com to your contacts. To get automatic updates from our experts, click here . Also, if you would like to see our email archive, click here.
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