Time Isn’t Always Money

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How are you spending - or wasting - your time? Don't miss the good stuff because you're "too busy!"

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Personal Development, Self Care, Balance, Happiness, Stress, Work Life Balance, Adaptability, Get What You Want

Influence: Become ‘One With It’

Karen Keller

To truly influence and maximize the power within your grasp, you need to become "one with it." Huh? Let me tell you a story.

A few years ago, I took an off ramp, circling around to a huge overpass when I hit black ice. Now, most of you reading who live where there's snow understand what black ice is. It's ice that is basically invisible.

3 Steps to Exterminate Negativity

Karen Keller

Negativity is contagious. If you disagree then I have some property to sell you in the middle of the Arctic Circle! Seriously, what people think of themselves, their circumstances, or you can affect what you think about yourself, your circumstances, or your thoughts of others.  It's a law of human nature.  If you surround yourself with sweet you smell sweet.  If you surround yourself with sour you smell sour.

Remove Negative People

Karen Keller

What business do negative people have in your life? Why are they there in the first place? Because you let them hang around. Could it be you hang around them?

What happens when you are surrounded by even just one negative Nellie? Your whole day, attitude, perspective, and direction changes - for the worse. Before you know it there's a pattern that goes like this; "I know she's negative but she has some good qualities, too." Then; "I can fix her negativity." Next; "She really isn't THAT negative." Lastly; "What? She's negative? I didn't notice."

6 Simple Rules for Connecting to Your Mother (Or Daughter)

Karen Keller

No doubt, mothers and daughters have a unique connection.  It starts out nurturing and playful, travels through ignorance and stubbornness, and winds down to respect and admiration.  How can that journey become a more joyful experience when we are both grown?  Follow these 6 (simple?) rules for a better, more fulfilling mother-daughter relationship.

1.  Tensions between two women, in general, can be stressful.  But between a mother and daughter it can be suffocating.  Communication is the key.  Listen, talk, then listen some more.  Ask questions.  Don’t judge.

Mother and Daughters Are Here to Stay!

Karen Keller

Throughout history, the mother and daughter relationship has been a give and take or a push and shove relationship – depending on where you’re standing.  Sometimes these relationships are terribly strained ending up in a stand off when the daughter is in her forties or fifties. “I love my mother, but she drives me crazy!” Does this sound familiar?  And then there’s that tiny twinge of guilt. How much do we love our mothers?
  • 88 percent of adults say their mother has had a positive influence on them.

12 Secrets to Unleash the Power of Your Creative Thought Part II

Karen Keller

Part 2 of a 3 part series: Conquering Creativity Challenges

In my last article I revealed the 4 secrets to finding your creativity – the first stage of three in actualizing your creative process. Creative thought is the essence of every woman.

Every person has the capacity or dare I say the responsibility to share their creativity. But what happens when there are barriers?

12 Secrets to Unleash the Power of Your Creative Thought Part I

Karen Keller

Part 1 of a 3 part series:  Finding Your Creativity Spring is here. It’s time to clean out the cobwebs in your brain.  Open your mind to all ideas you ignore, argue with or push to the backburner for later.  Well, later is here. Women have the capacity to take the unknown and give it a form that speaks in a different voice to each listener.  Women own the power (and passion) of creative thought to paint, write, compose, think and perform.

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