For What is Your Name Shorthand?

Written by Stephanie West Allen


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You may want to ask a few trusted friends this question about your name. See whatrepparttar trends are in their responses.

Now applyrepparttar 123761 Picasso technique. Answer this same question again but draw your answer. Pictures and words each access different responses. When you look in both places --repparttar 123762 words andrepparttar 123763 pictures -- you will find a much more complete answer than if you looked in only one.

After you have discoveredrepparttar 123764 significance of your name, decide if you like it. If so, celebrate it in joy and self-respect.

If not, choose a new significance. Write about it. Draw it. Then go out and live it. You haverepparttar 123765 right, responsibility and power to determinerepparttar 123766 meaning of your name, and your life. You and your name can stand for whatever you desire.

Attention, everyone! Meetrepparttar 123767 newest entry inrepparttar 123768 _Who's Who_ ofrepparttar 123769 entire galaxy. With a drum roll and trumpet blast, I proudly introduce -- you!

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When the Seas of Life Get Stormy, Use These Tips to Ride the Waves to Run and Happiness

Written by Susan Dunn, M.A., the EQ Coach


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You have to be able to TENDER. When a ship can't get up to a harbor, it anchors and then sends people ashore on smaller boats. To tender in your own situation, you need to use creativity. How else can you get where you need to get when Plan A didn't work out?

Passing MUSTER is also essential. Muster is an emergency plan. It means putting on your life vest and reporting to your assigned muster station. This is practiced in calm times so you'll 'knowrepparttar drill'. Having been through it in a calm and rational time, presumably in a state of panic your body will remember while your mind is flooded with emotion, and you'll get where you need to get. Do you know whererepparttar 123760 muster station is? Practice in quiet times. You'll needrepparttar 123761 knowledge in emergencies.

What ship doesn’t encounter WINDS OF CHANGE. Winds are always blowing in a transition. It's typical to experience ambivalence, wantingrepparttar 123762 thing that's gone, wanting to move forward, fear ofrepparttar 123763 unknown, survivor guilt, confusion, joy, sadness, anticipation. Today you're glad you gotrepparttar 123764 promotion and ready to go, tomorrow you dreadrepparttar 123765 new responsiblity, doubt you can handle it, and mournrepparttar 123766 changed relationships. The winds can toss you about withoutrepparttar 123767 anchor of your Personal Power and your Stabilizers.

Stormy seas have WAVES. It mattersrepparttar 123768 size ofrepparttar 123769 adversity, andrepparttar 123770 succession of adverse events. One large wave can really knock you over. So can a rapid succession of smaller waves. 60' waves routinely roll in slowly, one by one inrepparttar 123771 Pacific, causing no problem, but a rapid succession of 30' waves sankrepparttar 123772 Edmund Fitzgerald on Lake Superior. It had no time to recover, to right itself. Depending uponrepparttar 123773 relative size of your craft andrepparttar 123774 size ofrepparttar 123775 wave, it's best to turn and facerepparttar 123776 wave rather than taking it broadside. Turn and face your problems head-on; it will be easier inrepparttar 123777 long run. There’s nothing worse than getting side-swiped. The trench ofrepparttar 123778 wave is how it effects you - it may look like just a house your leaving to someone else, but to you it's your memories and your home. Learn about you, learn aboutrepparttar 123779 waves.

Study transitions. Processing one transition and learning good coping strategies builds resilience and helps you handlerepparttar 123780 next one, andrepparttar 123781 next one. Learn to riderepparttar 123782 waves to fun and happiness!

Susan Dunn is a coach, speaker, writer and author and a regular enrichment lecturer for the Royal Caribbean cruise line. She helps clients weather the storms of transitions. Visit her on the web at www.susandunn.cc .


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