What Is A Life Coach?

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Question: I have heard that people using life coaches as gone up since the economic down fall. What is a life coach, and what is their purpose?

Ann W.

Answer: A life coach is someone who has training and techniques to assist others through their goals, and their personal developments. If you are stuck with an certain aspect of your life. Life coaches are great if you keep making the same choices that result in bad decisions. Life coaches help their clients  to have more happiness, peace of mind and passion.

There are many types of life coaches. Each type specializes in different areas of ones life such as, relationships, business, dating, sports, and health coaches. They all aim at different areas of your life, but the same mission of personal development.

If you would to find a life coach in your area go here.

Lovely Video To Make The Day

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Occasionally, I come across some great videos. This happens to be one of them. Very simple, but usually the simpler the better. Enjoy!

Inspiring Quotes To Meditate On

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“We must have faith in ourselves and what we can accomplish.
Then we can pass on this feeling of empowerment, enriching our lives and the lives of others as well.”

“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” – Albert Einstein

“One of the things I learned the hard way was it does not pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and
making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.” – Lucille Ball

“Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.” -Buddha

I love finding great quotes. Good quotes can help put life in perspective and give you a moment of conscious thinking.

Perspective On Money

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I found these facts on Mercola’s website, and are presented by Gary Halbert, marketing guru.

1. More of our fantasies are about money … than sex.
2. More than 80 million people call the I.R.S. Information Hotline phone number every year. One-third of those calls go unanswered. And, according to the Treasury Department itself, 47 percent of the answers the ‘get-through’ callers receive are incorrect.
3. The average wedding in America costs a staggering $20,000.
4. Sunday newspaper coupon inserts are the second-most read section of the paper, after the front page.
5. If we could have any luxury in the world (and money didn’t matter) more of us would choose to spend money on a butler and a maid than anything else. Continue Reading

Cheap Ways To Go Green

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Plant it Forward

Can there ever to be much green to go around. I don’t think so personally. Like many of our community members I am looking to use greener products and buy greener foods for my family. Going green does not mean you have to max out your money on products that are more expensive, in fact there are plenty of ways and plenty of items that are cheap ways to save your green.

These ideas come from Kiplinger

Replacing your light bulbs with compact florescent light bulbs (CFLs) can save you 50% on your annual lighting bill. If every U.S. household did this, it would prevent the release of as much greenhouse gas as removing 8 million cars from the road for a year. The nonprofit Energy Federation sells CFLs for less than most retailers, at $3 to $10 each.

Eat fresh. Buy produce from local farmers rather than at the grocery store. These foods are fresher and cleaner then most standard stories. LocalHarvest lets you search for farms and farmers markets by zip code.

Use a programmable thermostat. This is a cheap and easy fix to bring down your energy usage. You can get one for about $30 and it can save you more than $100 a year on your energy bills. There’s no reason to heat or cool and empty house, so set your thermostat to kick on just when you’ll be around. If just one household in 10 did this, the change would prevent more than 17 billion pounds of greenhouse gases, according to the Energy Star Action Guide.

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