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Find Your Strongest Life: What the Happiest and Most Successful Women Do Differently
by Marcus Buckingham

Today women are better educated, have better jobs, better pay, more choices about mates, careers ... just about everything. But that has not translated into women being happier. Actually with more choices the opposite is true. Womens overall happiness has been on a steady decline since 1972. This decline in happiness occurs across the board, regardless of whether women have children, how many they have, or how much they earn.

Marcus Buckingham is a well known researcher. He has written five previous books which centered around the concept that each person will be happiest when they are working from their greatest strength. Find Your Strongest Life got its start from a three hour workshop with Oprah. The workshop was conducted with 30 talented but unfulfilled women.

In his mission statement Marcus says, "My mission is to help each person identify her strengths, take them seriously and offer them to the world."

As you read the book you will discover facts, read some eye opening research, and see that many women are living a life based on myths more so than truth. Reading the stories of women seeking will help you to see that you are not alone on this journey.

     

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Cultivating an Attitude of Gratitude   
Jan Marie Dore

The practice of gratitude is a powerful tool for recreating your life so that you regularly experience happiness, joy, and contentment.

Gratitude is simply a feeling of thankfulness and appreciation for all that is. Grateful thoughts align your heart, mind, and soul.

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Opportunities are given to you in every moment to be grateful for what you have and what you experience. Beauty, richness, and love already exist in your life. There are gifts and opportunities in every situation. The core of gratefulness is having an awareness of these opportunities inherent in life events and circumstances, and then thoughtfully choosing your response.


Gratefulness is about enjoying the sights, sounds, smells and abundance all around you, appreciating all of your emotions and feelings, and celebrating the blessings of family and community.

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We all have the ability to make our lives even richer and more positive by noticing daily events, appreciating the benefits we receive, and being mindful of surprises. You have the power to control whether your thoughts will be positive and focused on what's going well in your life or negative and focused on what is not going well.


You can be an example of happiness and gratefulness by expressing appreciation to people on a regular basis. Let the people you care about know that you are grateful they are in your lives - and why.


Having much to be thankful for does not diminish the reality of sadness, disappointment, or discouragement, or the need to feel those feelings at times. You can, though, intentionally reframe painful or disappointing events as opportunities for growth and learning, and deliberately look for the silver linings.


Begin to notice if your words and thoughts are full of complaints about what is lacking in your life. By applying gratitude daily in your life, it's possible to achieve peace and contentment in a demanding, overwhelming, and sometimes disappointing world.


You can begin right now to see the perfection and beauty in everything and everyone. It's a habit of mind!


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Here are five intentional practices to feel more peace and contentment and to make your life richer and more positive:


1) Gratitude Journal
Create your own personal gratitude journal - a place to list your blessings on a regular basis. Record the small and large gifts and moments that are enriching your life every day. You can also create a family gratitude journal where everyone makes entries.


2) Gratitude Ritual
Create a gratitude ritual. Before going to bed at night, glance back over your day and reflect on moments of grace, abundance, joy, friendship, and contentment - the things that you enjoyed or felt blessed by that day. Nightly, record three things that went well each day and why they went well.


3) Evening Meal Blessing
Pause before your evening meal to acknowledge the things that make your life abundant and meaningful.


4) The Gratitude Alphabet
This exercise works like magic when you need a change in attitude. Either aloud or in writing, beginning with "A", think of the first thing that comes to mind that you are grateful for that starts with that letter and say (or write) 'I am grateful for ______.' Do this quickly without too much thought. Continue until you have reached "Z". You might also share this exercise with your loved ones, speaking aloud alternate letters.
I am grateful for Apples
I am grateful for Beauty
I am grateful for Chocolate
I am grateful for DVD's
I am grateful for Email
I am grateful for Friends
I am grateful for Grass
I am grateful for Hugs
.... . you get the idea


5) Gratitude Affirmation
Practice gratitude by reading this affirmation on contentment:


"This day, I am content.
I am grateful for what I have and for what I do not have.
I learn from both joys and disappointments.
I refrain from criticism and fault-finding.
I don't try to change others.
I accept myself as I am and as I change."


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Jan Marie Dore, Master Certified Coach, Speaker, and Writer, publishes articles like this one in her free ezine designed to inspire, challenge, and support you in creating a life that is meaningful, authentic, and a joy to wake up to every day. You can sign up for your own subscription by sending a blank email to subscribe@janmariedore.com . For free resources and programs on living a purposeful life, visit Jan Marie's website: http://ww

The above video can help you if you are stuck in a job you hate. Feel like you just don't have enough to give to your professional life and your personal life. You're not alone.

Career coach Marcus Buckingham met with a group of women just like you to help them figure out how to reignite the passion in their careers. Now it's your turn! Take Marcus's step-by-step workshop and use his lessons to change your life.

Session 1: An Introduction
 Meet your teacher—Marcus Buckingham. Get to know 29 of the participants in Marcus's original workshop and see how their struggles reflect yours. Then, start your own journey with three simple questions.

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Session 2: Where Are You Now?
 Ready to restore the passion in your life? Marcus explores what may have steered you off track. Find out how to pin down what invigorates you—and holds you back—at work.

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Session 3: What Is Strengths Training?
 Strengths training is the core of the workshop. Marcus shows you the three skills necessary to start maximizing your strengths and minimizing your weaknesses.

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Session 4: Bust the Myths
 Many of the beliefs we have influence how we behave—and affect the way we work and live. Are these three common beliefs undermining your happiness? Marcus busts the myths.

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Session 5: Get Clear
 When you start living the truths from Session 4, your strengths will have a chance to shine. Marcus helps you get clear about your strengths and how they should make you feel.

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Session 6: Strengths
 If you've done your homework, you should know where your strengths lie. Now it's time to amplify and truly embrace them.

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Session 7: Weaknesses
 By now, you have identified your weaknesses and how they hold you back. Marcus shows you how to eliminate average performances by minimizing your weaknesses and how they impact your day.

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Session 8: Strong Week Plan
 In this final exercise, Marcus teaches you how to leverage your strengths and continue to minimize your weaknesses. Follow this plan for a week and see what doors will open for you!

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The Just Wait Teen Program

The teenagers of the Just Wait Teen™ program  are exposed to the information and research concerning their Happiness, their Temperaments, their Talents, their Attributes, their Gifts and how to maintain long term relationships. The Just Wait Teen™ program  is life enhancing program, not a substance rehabilitation program. Although its' objective is to give the teens tools and understandings to reach 21 years - substance free.

This Program was developed by the Just Wait Foundation a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit corporation to prevent drug, alcohol, and tobacco problems among teenagers. The Foundation provides one-year scholarships (two semesters) at a Community College or $1000 award to teens that completes the 4 year Just Wait Teen™ Positive Youth Development Program, obtains a GED, or graduates from high school - alcohol, tobacco, and drug free. The Just Wait Foundation has arranged to use of 80 acres to raise fruit and vegetables to finance the scholarships

We offer free training for any person or group that wants to start this program in their community.

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