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Denise Hart - EzineArticles.com Expert Author
Denise J. Hart (The Motivation Mama!), is the founder of Words to Live By, llc. Through her company she provides coaching and training using her own coaching system, The Motivated Mindset System(tm). In her practice as a Life Coach she specializes in strengthening creativity, motivation, positive thiking and success strategies. She's also a certified Reiki practitioner and a tenured college professor with over 20 years experience in the performing arts.
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- Claiming Creativity is the Essential Mind Shift
[Self-Improvement:Mind-Development] You too can shift your mindset and claim your creativity. Take stock of what's going on in your life and if there's something that is no longer a fit for your lifestyle, dreams & goals, then get to work changing it because "Right now is the new later!"
- How to Deal With the Number One Creativity Drain - Anger
[Self-Improvement:Creativity] At it's core, creativity is all about problem solving; creating a positive solution to or for something. Anger, on the other hand, is all about festering deeper into negativity. In fact, many times when we get angry we do things we regret because we say we just weren't thinking clearly. Creativity requires clear thought.
- Practice the Abundance Mindset to Breakthrough Negative Creative Conditioning
[Self-Improvement:Creativity] There are only two mindsets that impact your creative conditioning: the lack mindset and the abundance mindset. When you believe that there is less available in the world you function from the lack mindset. When you believe that there is much available in the world than you function from the abundance mindset.
- Overcome Fear and Lead a Fulfilling Life
[Self-Improvement:Mind-Development] When your locus of operation is from a place of fear your motivation is severely inhibited. It becomes virtually impossible to do anything. You experience very little if any forward movement and your feelings of well being quickly sink to an all time low. To cultivate more courage you have to practice conscious conditioning.
- How to Stay Motivated - Just Say Yes!
[Self-Improvement:Motivation] Just Say Yes! is the act of admitting to what you really want and agreeing with the Universe that you should have it. Everyone knows that you naturally attract whatever you say yes to. Once you consciously or subconsciously agree to something it will hasten to your doorstep. Saying yes to what should be active in your life creates instant abundance.
- An Attitude of Stick-to-it-Ness Will Help You Reach Your Goals
[Self-Improvement:Goal-Setting] I had to train myself to get what I wanted!" said the girl, nodding her head with conviction. She placed her hand firmly on her hip as she leaned towards her friend for emphasis.
- 5 Steps to Combat Motivation Deflation
[Self-Improvement:Motivation] We all know that motivation is about as temperamental as a two year old, right? That being said, it's to our benefit to stay conscious of the 5 energies that can severely short circuit and deflate our motivational mindset.
- 10 Agreements That Will Help You Live the Life You Truly Desire
[Self-Improvement:Goal-Setting] When we experience adversity it oftentimes can consume and overwhelm us. However, it's within adversity that we can learn some of our most important lessons. I've identified 10 agreements that will help you live the life you truly desire. These agreements are designed for women who want to live their lives with more fulfillment, purpose and joy.
- To Dream a Big Dream Learn How to Become As Large As Your Dream Needs You to Be
[Self-Improvement:Mind-Development] Over the years, I have found that although clarifying one's dream can take some time, it's not the dreaming that most people have issue with actually it's the responsibility that comes with Dreaming Big. "You can advance [in life] only by being larger than you present place, and no one is larger than his present place who leaves undone any of the work pertaining to that place. The world is advanced only by those who more than fill their present places".
- How to Use a Vision Board to Live Your Personal Best
[Self-Improvement:Creativity] A vision board is all about energy and the transformative power of using images or vision to increase the energy field that reflects what you want and desire for your life. A vision board is should reflect the energy, growth and development of your life at present and how you want your life to evolve over time.
- How to Motivate Yourself to Succeed - 10 Simple Tips
[Self-Improvement:Motivation] When we're in hot pursuit of our dreams and goals it can feel effortless, but when enthusiasm wanes so can our motivation. Sometimes we falsely believe that our dream or goal is the problem, but truthfully what we need are stronger motivation muscles. We need a motivated mindset.
- Business Development - Get Your Business to Bloom With Encouraging Self Talk
[Self-Improvement:Positive-Attitude] If you want to see anyone thrive just sprinkle them with seeds of encouragement and move out of the way as they blossom, bloom and thrive. For many of us it's easier to do that for others than it is for ourselves, but this is necessary action to take if you want to see your business bloom.
- Understanding Creativity and Talent
[Self-Improvement:Creativity] Do you see yourself as creative or talented; or both creative and talented? Have you ever thought about whether or not there's a difference between being creative and talented? Is Michael Jordan creative or talented; or creative and talented? Which came first the chicken or the egg?
- Living the Life You Love - How I Discovered 10 Extraordinary Principles
[Self-Improvement:Happiness] Words are the substance of life. They can empower. Like, "Go 'head girl, you got it!" Words can also change lives. "I'm sorry, but... you have breast cancer." After a routine exam followed by a biopsy; my doctor uttered these words and my life as I'd known it, was forever changed.
- How Twitter Can Help You Stay Motivated
[Self-Improvement:Motivation] Twitter is the newest and snazziest web 2.0 tool that really is: Us against them! For those people who don't quite understand the magic and power of Twitter they say that tweeting is just a big waste of time. For those of us who do understand the power of Twitter and its benefit we know that among other things, Twitter is the #1 Motivation Station for four life enhancing reasons.
- Access Your Creativity and Increase Your Motivation
[Self-Improvement:Creativity] All of life is centered on the reality that everything present came to be because of the energy of creation & creativity. Nothing exists that did not happen as a thought or idea first. Many many people have been told either directly or indirectly that they aren't creative, which is the ultimate untruth. What I know for sure is that there's a direct link between the actualization of your creative impulses and how high your motivation quotient is in your life.
- Dreaming Big - How to Adopt a Mindset That Will Align You With Your Dreams
[Self-Improvement:Goal-Setting] Do you want to Dream Big? Well, if the answer is yes, than you'll have to acquire the ability to think the way you want to think. You'll most likely have to adopt a new mindset.
- 50 Reasons Why You Should Achieve Your Goals
[Self-Improvement:Goal-Setting] Figuring out what our dreams and goals are isn't always the difficult part. Often times, it's maintaining our motivation as we pursue those dreams and goals that's the challenge. One of the ways we can help ourselves stay motivated is to remind ourselves of what's in it for us.
- Money As Motivator - It's a Tool For Good
[Self-Improvement:Motivation] People are fond of saying that money is the root of all evil, but of course it isn't. People and the choices they make are the root of any evil that exists in this world. Changing your money attitude will substantially increase your creativity and motivation quotient immediately.
- How to Achieve Your Dreams - Use Imagination Thinking
[Self-Improvement:Mind-Development] At the core of the law of attraction is the directive to see what it is you want prior to your having it in hand. To see something in our minds eye is the combination of inspiration, thought and image sparking to life inside of us. Before we execute our creative impulses we must allow ourselves to SEE what it is we want to bring into being. It may start out as a fuzzy or a clear image, but an image it must come to be.
- 3 Common Mistakes That Beginning Article Writers Make
[Writing-and-Speaking:Writing-Articles] There are many mistakes that newbie internet article writers make that undermine the potential success that article writing can bring to your business. In this article, I've outlined the top three mistakes most beginning internet article writers make.
- 10 Principles For a Well Lived Life
[Health-and-Fitness:Mind-Body-Spirit] Who among us doesn't aspire to have someone say, at the end of our lives, that we lived our lives as a testimony, that we spent our time well? That opportunity is available to each one of us, through living our lives based on a unique set of 10 Principles. The principles are: Courage, Faith, Reciprocity, Revolution, Creation, Friendship, Affirmation, Mission, Inspiration, and Beauty.
- Motivation During a Job Hunt - How to Stay Motivated While Looking For a Job
[Business:Job-Search-Techniques] "A downturn is really the time to prepare for the inevitable upswing!" Staying motivated when things aren't going the way we'd like can be challenging. Recently someone left me a note on my blog asking me how can they stay motivated while looking for a job. After thinking it over, I came up with this quote. There are several things you can focus on to help you stay motivated while looking for a job.
- Your Unique Purpose - 4 Characteristics of People Who Are Living Their Life Purpose
[Self-Improvement:Success] People who understand their purpose are living the life they were born to live.They're expressing it every single day. It affects everything they touch and all of the people they meet. In fact, if you had a chance to ask them, they might say that it's hard to imagine them doing anything else.
- Discover Your Life Motivation - Ask Yourself, What's Your Why?
[Self-Improvement:Motivation] When you can answer the question: What's your life motivation. You will know why you're here. You'll have a clearer answer to your life's purpose. You will experience a knowing that will render you momentarily speechless because it's so amazingly comforting.
- Improve Your Integrity - Clear Up Your Incompletions & Keep Your Agreements
[Self-Improvement:Personal-Growth] When you clear up your in-completions you will strengthen your integrity which means how you are on the outside lines up with how you are on the inside. Therein lies peace. Here are four suggestions to help you stop manifesting incompletions and move to keeping your agreements.
- Living Well - Really Get the Most Out of Life - Become Your Own Best Coach
[Self-Improvement:Coaching] I think there's no argument, that we all want to live well. Everyone of us wants to get the most out of their time here on this earth, and I think this quote really gets to the heart of what matters. To really get the best out of life each of us has to become our own best coach.
- Staying Motivated - One Simple Solution to Staying Motivated and Living a Full Life
[Self-Improvement:Motivation] Have you ever thought about what it means to be a motivated person? Like so many people, you probably have. On many many occasions I've been told that I'm a very motivated person. Years ago I used to shrug my shoulders at this comment because I took it for granted.
- Motivation Solution - Master the 6 Essential Skills For Maintaining Your Motivation
[Self-Improvement:Motivation] There's something that seems to be elusive to so many that we all need to be successful in life and everyone wants to learn how to keep it or at best how not to lose it so frequently. What is this elusive quality that I'm referring to? I'm talking about Motivation. There are lots of studies about motivation but I'd like to suggest 6 areas to focus on that will keep you and your motivation mojo in harmony for a good long while.
- Motivation Solution - Give Your Motivation a Boost - Remember That Practice Makes Permanent
[Self-Improvement:Motivation] I'm sure you've heard the saying that practice makes perfect, right? Well, I don't believe that there is any perfection and instead of shooting for perfection, I'm an advocate of practicing those things you want to make a permanent part of your thinking, behaviour and life style success.
- How to Improve Your Life - Manage Negativity With the 4 R's
[Self-Improvement:Positive-Attitude] Negative thoughts, Negative people, negative messages, negative images... negative, negative, negative, negative. See, even reading the word negative too much creates an energy of adversity. Phew! My belief is that negativity sucks so we all need to manage it.
- Honor the Creative Process - Struggle is an Essential Part of the Creative Process
[Self-Improvement:Creativity] We all want to sail through our experiences and even think that if we're experiencing even the tiniest bit of challenge that must mean that what we're producing is crap. Well that's just WRONG! Struggle is simply a necessary and even vital part of the process of creating.
- Become a Life Attractor - Be Grateful and Want More From Life
[Self-Improvement:Attraction] I find that many people struggle with the concept of being grateful yet wanting more from life. The truth is to be grateful and to want more are not at odds. Although some see it as a conundrum, these two states of mind are not mutually exclusive. Actually, they need each other to thrive.
- Discover Your Life's Purpose - Dreaming Big and Determining Your Life's Purpose Go Hand in Hand
[Self-Improvement:Success] So many people want to live their dreams yet they've done very little to identify their purpose in life. Is that you? Do you have a hunger to live your dreams, but can't quite figure out what those dreams are? Well, once you determine why you are here and what you are to do with the gift of your life you will be well on your way to living your dream.
- Increase Your Abundance - Acquire the Ability to Think the Way You Want to Think
[Self-Improvement:Abundance-Prosperity] It has been reported that there is a science for gaining abundance. This science is largely centered on how you develop your mind. No matter if you want to become abundant in your finances or in your capacity to experience greater joy and satisfaction, there's an exact science involved.
- How to Be Successful - Increase Your Courage, Self Esteem & Confidence by Documenting Your Successes
[Self-Improvement:Success] To go to your next level in life you have to get bigger than your present space. One way for you to develop a mindset that embraces this truth is to document and celebrate your successes as you move forward in your life. Here are 5 ways to document your success.
- Blogging - Spring Clean Your Business Blog to Keep the Customers Coming
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Blogging] No matter if spring is on the scene or not, you can take a look at things and do a little Spring Cleaning for your Blog! If you've been blogging for years or even for just 6 months you should periodically take time to spruce up your blog. A schedule of 3 times a year should do it: April, August, and January.
- Create a Wealth Mindset - Improve Your Thoughts and Improve Your Bottom Line
[Self-Improvement:Abundance-Prosperity] How does one get rich? How does one increase their financial abundance? If I told you that you are less financially wealthy than you'd like to be because your thoughts are poor as it relates to money would you stomp your foot and disagree or would you pause long enough to consider the potential truth?
- Accountability is King - #1 Motivational Support Tool to Keep You Honest & on Track
[Self-Improvement:Motivation] Have you ever told someone you'd do something and then as it got closer to the time to do the thing you felt bad because you weren't keeping your word? Well, that's the power of accountability in action.
- 3 Motivational Quotes That Will Help You Set Standards For a Well Lived Life
[Self-Improvement:Motivation] Having standards are essential for determining the quality of the life you intend to live. Motivational quotes can help you identify these standards and create the energy you want to be central in your life.
- Think Yourself to Wealth - Discover What Money Sounds Like to You
[Self-Improvement:Abundance-Prosperity] What does money sound like to you? I don't mean the coins that clink together in your pocket or at the bottom of your handbag, I'm talking about what does money sound like to you inside your mind?
- Positive Thinking - To Change Your Thoughts Improve the Power of Your Thinking
[Self-Improvement:Positive-Attitude] There's so much talk about changing your thinking and think positive that it can be a bit overwhelming at times as to how to actually achieve the kind of change that everyone is talking about. I'm going to introduce you to a radical new way to help you change your thinking.
- How to Work Efficiently - Enhance Your Mood to Create an Efficient Attitude and Efficient Work
[Business:Productivity] Working efficiently and not hard is just a dream for many people. Too often we have our minds focused on hard work and not efficient work. How can you increase the efficiency of your work? Here are a few great strategies that you can implement immediately:
- Daily Blogging - 5 Tips For Daily Blogging That Will Keep Your Writing Motivation High
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Blogging] I've been blogging for 6 months straight; I love it, and I've learned 5 really cool points that I'm going to share with ya! I bet that got your attention, didn't it? Kind of like saying I ran two full marathons back to back! Well, there are lots of benefits to daily blogging and these 5 tips will help you keep your writing motivation high!
- How Mom Can Stay Motivated - 8 Non-Traditional Tips For a Motivated Mom
[Self-Improvement:Motivation] To often mom's lose themselves when they get into mommy/mother/wifey mode. And most of the time neither son/daughter nor husband is going to pull them up and say hey, don't forget about you. So who does that leave it up to? Well, yes, you're right: You!
- How to Stay Happy - The Art of the Happy Dance
[Self-Improvement:Motivation] The true power that lies at the core of the Happy Dance is all about agreement. Agreeing with the Universe that you should be affirmed. Agreeing that you are entitled to come up with a great idea, deserve to win a prize, or that your hard work should be validated is incredibly life affirming.
- How to Improve Your Life - Two Principles to Help You Vastly Improve Your Life
[Self-Improvement:Motivation] Improving oneself ought to be a life long quest. If you're looking for good solid answers for how to improve your life, you'll really benefit from studying the following life principles designed to help you do just that.
- Collect Your Successes - It'll Bring Value to Your Life Even When You're in the Valley
[Self-Improvement:Motivation] During challenging times it can be really tough to believe that we can make it through and even doubt that any progress is being made. But I'm advocating that each of us reflect on what's going well and keep our minds stayed on that by doing what I like to call: Collecting your Successes.
- How to Succeed at Business Blogging - What's Your Blog Identity?
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Blogging] But, before you jump into the blogosphere feet first I'd like you to pause for a moment and do two things that will save you a lot of headache later on: think about the blog you want to build with your head and then your heart. The number 1 thing you must identify for your blog before you start business blogging is what is your blogs identity.
- How to Increase Your Social Net Worth - 6 Steps to Becoming a Butterfly
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Social-Networking] Scientific research shows that we're all born either extroverts or introverts, and that doesn't change very much as we go through life. But, no matter if you're a born extrovert or introvert we can all do certain things that will enhance our approachability in real life and on the internet. When you have a wider pool of human resources in your life, you experience increased happiness, health, relationships and even financial opportunities.
- How to Live a Well Lived Life - Sail the 7 C's
[Health-and-Fitness:Mind-Body-Spirit] Each day brings its own unique challenges and triumphs, and each day we all get the opportunity to participate in creating how our lives are going to proceed. To help in this quest I've come up with 7 Key Ingredients for living a well lived life.
- What Can You Learn From Breast Cancer?
[Cancer:Breast-Cancer] Forty four years of age. 5'8" fit and with a good build. Her face beams with a gorgeous smile positively affecting all in her presence. On the outside you cannot tell that she is a breast cancer survivor, but it took some time for her to realize it. This brief description describes me, Denise. I was diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 38, and yes, it's true, it took a devastating turn of events for me to truly realize that I am a survivor and what that means for me.
- Stewardship - A New Twist on Time Management
[Self-Improvement:Time-Management] Although there are lots of really cool systems for helping us to improve time management, I'm actually advocating a total mind shift for how you think about time and relate to it. I'm asking you to begin to approach time management from the perspective of stewardship. Stewardship is defined as: the careful and responsible management of something entrusted to one's care. Time is your gift. How are you utilizing it?
- Article Writing Success - 10 Tips to Schedule and Plan Your Article Writing
[Writing-and-Speaking:Writing-Articles] If you want to succeed at writing articles than you will really be best served by creating a solid plan. You want to create a plan that's going to work for you, your life and your schedule. However, you also want to push yourself to work beyond your comfort zone because at first article writing is going to feel like quite a challenge.
- Business Blogging - How to Create a Mindset That Will Benefit Your Life
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Blogging] Blogging is a terrific way to create a strong web presence for your business. You can share your insights on your niche market, discuss the added value your products or services can bring to your clients lives, and make great connections and develop friendships with people all around the world.
- 5 Key Words to Focus Your Mindset & Enhance Your Life
[Self-Improvement:Goal-Setting] At the beginning of the New Year, many people declare a resolution and then find that 3 months into the year they can't remember it, much less kept their commitment to it. Well, years ago I stopped announcing a resolution and started focusing on 5 key words that I wanted to resonate in my life over the next 12 months. I've taught this technique to hundreds of students and I know it can work wonders for you as well.
- Strengthen Your Motivation - Turn "No" Into the Fuel That Fires Your Future!
[Self-Improvement:Motivation] The most important thing any of us can do to deal with hearing 'no,' is to continue to honestly work to develop ourselves to achieve the highest level of mastery in a field that we're involved in. Sometimes no means you need to do more work to develop yourself. Sometimes no means you should go in another direction. Sometimes no means "not yet!"
- How to Find the Answer That's the Best Fit!
[Self-Improvement:Goal-Setting] Do you second guess yourself sometimes? Do you find that you ruled by doubt and indecision and you're just plain tired of it? Well, here's an excellent exercise to help you brainstorm new ideas and help you rid yourself of the habit of getting stuck in your head. It's called "The List of 10."
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