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Law of Attraction Coaching – with Charlotte Squire

December 20, 2010 – 2:37 pm |

LAW OF ATTRACTION COACHING
Set yourself up for an amazing 2011

Attract your dream home
Manifest your ideal job
Enjoy a smooth, happy relationship
Create a tide of wealth
Call in your ‘One’

Create the strategy, and gain the inspiration and clarity …

MondayMotivator: Singing in the Lifeboats

December 13, 2010 – 9:38 am |

This morning I saw a tweet that the week ahead for someone was not going to be good. I replied that wasn’t the attitude to start the week with and they should remember Voltaire said …

The Flourishing Communities of Opotiki, Porirua and Whangarei

October 8, 2010 – 1:51 pm |

The Mental Health Foundation is encouraging all New Zealanders to play their part in looking after their mental health and by doing so helping create a society where all people flourish.
Throughout the week …

Motorcycling as Therapy

September 23, 2010 – 8:20 pm | 6 Comments

By Des Molloy – recent graduate of the Happyzine Positive Writing Course

“Thank God they haven’t found a cure for motorcycling!” This is a refrain that I have oft repeated. Non-motorcyclists just think you are being …

The Story of ‘Ten Ways to Have Fun and Chillax As You Live Your Green Dreams’ – the ebook

September 20, 2010 – 4:35 pm | 2 Comments

By Charlotte Squire – author of  The Story of ‘Ten Ways to Have Fun and Chillax As You Live Your Green Dreams’
Once upon a time I thought all environmentalists had to either grow organic food …

Happiness is a Choice: Part 2 – The Joy of Being

June 18, 2010 – 12:31 am |

I wonder how many of you who read my last article on happiness have started your own enquiry and become more aware of what makes you feel happy and how happiness leaks away? …

YourMondayMotivator – Glenn Edley

June 14, 2010 – 7:40 pm |
YourMondayMotivator – Glenn Edley

I wish I could do this or I wish I could do that are not the most powerful of statements you can make to get what you want.
Wishing for sun on a dreary Winters day …

YourMondayMotivator – Glenn Edley

May 31, 2010 – 8:51 am |
YourMondayMotivator – Glenn Edley

Good morning
Todays subject is testing. Partly because I am testing out my new email marketing software and partly because as I started to test my system I realised we are constantly testing ourselves or being …

Happiness is a Choice

May 26, 2010 – 6:12 pm | 2 Comments
Happiness is a Choice

“What I discovered was that happiness is not something that happens. It is not the result of good fortune or random chance. It is not something that money can buy or power command. It …

YourMondayMotivator – Glenn Edley

May 17, 2010 – 10:02 am |
YourMondayMotivator – Glenn Edley

Over the past seven months I have been following Australian teenager Jessica Watson on her solo and unassisted round the world yacht voyage. I actually started following her before she left because I couldn’t believe …

YourMondayMotivator – Glenn Edley

May 10, 2010 – 9:20 am |
YourMondayMotivator – Glenn Edley

Sometimes in the weekend I really just want to sit on my butt. Long weeks and lots of time driving will do that to anyone.
There is always stuff to do though and this weekend was …

Authentic Success; The Way of Simplicity

April 26, 2010 – 9:08 pm |

For the last few weeks I’ve been facilitating a 22 day process of transformation, building community and starting a new mentoring program for women leaders of the Whole New World, and that’s why you haven’t …

YourMondayMotivator – Glenn Edley

April 26, 2010 – 8:48 am |
YourMondayMotivator – Glenn Edley

Instead of working, working towards your goals why not stop, relax, and visualise / imagine having achieved them already.
On Saturday I was about to turn the TV on while we waited for friends to turn …

Auckland Medical School Comes To Bay Of Plenty To Look Into Why Some People Live Long Into Old Age

April 5, 2010 – 2:43 pm | One Comment

A unique new long-term health research initiative is being launched in the Bay of Plenty with the aim of finding out why some people live longer than others.
The Western Bay of Plenty Primary Health Organisation …

YourMondayMotivator – Glenn Edley

April 5, 2010 – 11:13 am |
YourMondayMotivator – Glenn Edley

This morning I was thinking about Easter and what I was going to write for the MondayMotivator. The phrase ‘new beginnings’ popped into my head.
The question I asked myself was: “Is Easter about new beginnings?”
Someone …

Today’s minimotivator – Glenn Edley

March 30, 2010 – 6:09 pm |
Today’s minimotivator – Glenn Edley

Jacob A. Riis said, “Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it.  Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split …

”Ultra-lite Down in Grafton Mall…Engine Found in Shoppingworld”

March 30, 2010 – 9:20 am |
”Ultra-lite Down in Grafton Mall…Engine Found in Shoppingworld”

The Banana Coast Credit Union .
Sounds like an ordinary kind of bank ….if you live in banana growing county
But this was no ordinary bank. Or perhaps to clarify things….. this was no ordinary Bank …

A Story on How to Build Resilience From the Joyologist

March 26, 2010 – 8:49 am |
A Story on How to Build Resilience From the Joyologist

Once upon a  time, back in around 2001, I applied for a job with Jim Gilchrist from Team One.  Some of you may know Jim.
Jim said to me, very kindly  ” I love you Pat …

Participants Invited for an International Wellbeing Study

March 23, 2010 – 8:08 am |

A long term study The International Wellbeing Study, is currently being carried out to discover “what it means to be happy and healthy” and “How (people) change over time”. This study began in March 2009; …

Today’s minimotivator – Glenn Edley

March 15, 2010 – 3:10 pm |
Today’s minimotivator – Glenn Edley

Al Oliver said, “There’s no such thing as bragging.  You’re either lying or telling the truth.”
When I was younger I was able to do a lot of things. Not everyone believed me and I realised …

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