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Kripalu Berkshires, MA
by Emma Fogt
I spent the last few days at Kripalu (www.kripalu.org) a Yoga Retreat Center up in the Berkshire Mountains of western Massachusetts. Known for it’s silent buy cialis breakfasts, excellent food and -morning, noon and night time- yoga , Kripalu is a place to go when you need to take time to slow down and experience viagra falls healthy living.
Kriplau offers many workshops from Zentangle (drawing) or yoga to weekend seminars on relationships or leadership. I chose to cialis dosage sign up for a course called An Introduction to Peter Bregman Leadership led by Peter Bregman and psychotherapist Jessica Gelman. Peter is the author of 18 Minutes, Find Your Focus, Master Distraction, and Get the Right Things
Done and frequent writer for such publications as Harvard Business Review and many of today’s top business magazines.
In this weekend leadership workshop Peter and Jessica had us experience “emotional cialis super active courage” which had viagra wiki everything to do with facing our most deepest leadership fears and then moving through that fear towards a solution. The solutions involved getting support from other members, voicing our true thoughts and ignoring cialis coupons what our heads were saying to get into what was in our hearts.
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Earlier this month was my birthday. when does viagra patent expire As I sit writing this in the sunshine and with my beloved cup of coffee, I cialis headache can hardly say that I am happy to be turning another year older. No,
I don’t really love all of the wonderful physical changes another year of
living buy cialis canada has brought me—squishier and softer body parts, more grey hair that I have to pay someone to cover, and a moody memory that randomly chooses when it feels like working—but, this year I can truly say that I believe that the wisdom and perspective of living another year of life is worth it.
These past 365 days of living and 8,760 hours of experience have made me a new (yet technically older) and improved version of me compared to who I was in May of 2013. This wisdom can only be gained from having to maneuver through whatever life has thrown my way and all the thousands of decisions that had to be made as a result. There is a lot of information and life lessons on what worked well and what didn’t. This year is the first time I
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So, on your next birthday take a moment to celebrate the gifts the past year of life have given you:
- Perspective from surviving 365 days of LIFE
- Confidence that you can get through whatever life viagra vs cialis throws out at you
- Insight into what worked well and what didn’t with your choices and decision making
- Understanding into what and who brought buy cialis online you joy in your life and what and who didn’t
- Knowledge that a little more of a squishy body isn’t all that important in a well-lived and happy life
-Nisha
As April comes to a close, it’s always helpful to keep the spring cleaning and rejuvenation theme going strong as we head into May. Being motivated to get rid of the old and welcome the new is always uplifting and reinforces making positive changes in our lives. Nothing is more liberating than dumping the old and toxic junk in our world and making room for the fresh and paydayadvanceusca.com/ new!
But why stop with just cleaning out our closets and organizing our drawers when it comes to spring cleaning? What if you took it a step farther and made springtime a time for big changes? Take yourself out of your comfort zone and the tried and the true and be bold instead! Sounds fun, doesn’t it?
About this time last year, I let myself be spontaneous and I turned a routine hair trim into an eight inch hair chop that had me in the shortest cut I have had since sometime in the last century. I didn’t even have a style picked out, I just buried my head in a magazine and put all
my trust into the stylist and told her I wanted change and I wanted it to be above my shoulders. When I looked up, not only was my change barely under my ears, but this new change wouldn’t even allow me to put my hair in a ponytail, which is the preferred hair uniform of most walking/biking/gym and yoga class going devotees around the world, including myself. I would have to wear my hair free and as a result, much more carefree all of the time now!
Carefree…wow! That is a word that would not readily come to mind to describe me or my life right now as a middle-aged working mom of a teenager and a tween living in between two cities. But, here was payday loans online one little change that made me feel lighter, younger, liberated, and rejuvenated. It wasn’t the actual haircut that made me feel all those things, it was more that I took a chance, tried something new, that I made a spontaneous choice, that I didn’t need to
define myself with something as seemingly irrelevant as my hairstyle. I’m not giving up on vanity, but rather saying to the world same day payday loans that I’m gutsy and capable of change and transformation. It was empowering and it felt good!
So, one year later my hair is still short, but above my shoulders short where it’s the easiest to manage and feels the best. Having short hair has now even become popular as starlets like Jennifer Lawrence have gone cropped, but I’m just more payday loans las vegas lazy than I am cutting-edge. I can’t imagine going back to long payday 2 wiki hair anymore because I love how I don’t have to spend much time styling it. Which has me thinking first, why would anyone ever want to have hair payday advance extensions and deal with more hair to take care of and second, what if I never went for it and let myself try something new? Hmmm….what
other areas of my life should I be open to change in?
-Nisha
Okay, I have to admit that it wasn’t just the three of us chatting over a glass of wine after a day’s work last Thursday evening. Add about 2,799 other people in a large venue in downtown San Francisco and you’ll get the real picture. Yet, I have to admit the feeling was the same as Sheryl interviewed Arianna about her new book, Thrive and her belief that today’s world needs to redefine success beyond power and money to include the third metric—what personally gives your life meaning and purpose. In Thrive, Arianna emphasizes well-being, wisdom, wonder, and giving as components of this Third Metric.
This is the conclusion I had determined after spending almost 20 years working with executives who may have ‘made it’ as far as money and status, but were some of the unhappiest and unhealthiest people around. Something was missing in their lives, but they couldn’t see beyond the two elements of money and power because that is what is so valued in our society. They figured they just needed more of it to feel better, happier and more successful.
So here is Arianna—I feel like I can be on
a first name basis with her since we share a similar philosophy—talking about things like:
Wow! Although there is a part of me that is a little envious since we talked about all these points in our book, Having Your All, but more than that, so relieved and excited that the conversation is going strong. Arianna’s voice and reach is far more powerful than mine and she has no doubt perfected speaking in sound bites and all with an exotic accent, of which I have neither.
Both ladies have
more than enough money and power that allows them to play with the ‘big boys’, but here they are taking their time and energy to remind us that meaning and purpose cannot be bought. It is accessible to all and it’s the great equalizer when it comes to defining success. We all can be successful when we define our own version of success and determine what is meaningful to us in our lives…and imagine what the world would look like.
So, thank you ladies for
re-charging me and reaffirming our message and anytime you want to get together again on a Thursday evening, let me know…the drinks are on me!
-Nisha
This Friday, March 8th the world celebrates International Women’s Day. It’s a special day to celebrate the economic, political, and social achievements of women past, present, and future. We salute all the bold and courageous women that have paved the way to give us the freedom and
opportunities we have today.
This year’s theme for International Women’s Day is “Inspiring Change”. It calls for challenging the status quo for women’s equality and vigilance in inspiring positive change. It encourages advocacy for women’s advancement everywhere and in every way.
This is such an exciting theme for us, because that was exactly our intent when we wrote, “Having Your All”. Our passion to support and empower women to achieve their “all” is based on wanting to make a positive impact on women’s lives. Specifically, we are “inspiring change” by encouraging women to prioritize their health and well-being. You can’t take on the world if you don’t start with yourself first. The book will help you define a success that is meaningful and personal to you and guide you towards leading an energized, empowered, and effective life!
We are also “inspiring
change” by donating a portion of the proceeds of all of our books sold this week to International Women’s Day programs. Help yourself and help us to help all of the mothers, daughters, sisters, and the young women of this world to live “inspired” lives.
Together, let’s make everyday International
Women’s Day!
-Nisha
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