Happy New Year 2019

 

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Happy new year everyone!  Wishes to you for a funomenal 😃 2019.

Life has its peaks and its valleys. Some are more difficult than others.

The experience of being alive provides us with circumstances that bring us to our knees, (YIKES)!  Sometimes life’s circumstances provide us with the opportunity to soar over the moon with joy (AHHH).

The good news is that it doesn’t have to be January 1 for you to make the decision to enjoy every moment and every great thing that you have in your life.   Every day is the first day of the rest of your life.  You can make the decision to embrace your life at any moment and on any day!  It doesn’t need to be January 1st for you to begin again; this is simply a magical pre-defined day when many of us feel that we must tweak our lives.  The reality that we have the power to do this every second of every day.  It only takes the right choice.

What keeps us alive and motivated every day is the pursuit of our goals, dreams and aspirations:

“May your dreams fill your consciousness, heart and soul,

May you never lose the desire to grow and be, do or have more. 

May this year be the best year of your life. 
May it be the year that you realize that who you are and everything you do really matters.

Thank you for being who you are.
Thank you for your presence in my life.

May 2019 be your year!  

Make every second count!” 


I’ve made my 2019 resolutions– how about you?

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Happy Boxing Day

Happy Boxing Day!

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Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from Michael and Ann Babiarz

Living Life in the Key of “G” (Gratitude)

Living Life in the Key of “G”(Gratitude)

Thanksgiving is an often forgotten holiday. It’s stuck there between Halloween and Christmas. Nowadays, we find people decorating for these October and December festivals, but Thanksgiving seems only to be a time to complain about how busy airports and highways are the Wednesday prior and the Sunday thereafter.

However, studies show that being appreciative of the good things in life foster greater success in work, better health, peak performance in sports or business, a well-developed sense of well-being, and even help you recover faster from surgical procedures.

Appreciating or viewing things with gratitude, although it makes sense, isn’t simply blind optimism. Instead, view this as a practice of substitution. Instead of complaining of lack, allow ourselves to see opportunities and blessing.

True, pain, injustice and trauma exists in the world. But so do gifts of life and hope. Learning to appreciate things balances us and gives us confidence to move forward in our day.

We learn to be grateful for friends who listen, pets who comfort, fires that warm, breezes that cool, beautiful sunrises or sunsets, and even the gentle rain from a summer storm.

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NAPLESSTRONG

There is much happening in my world. As you might have gathered from the subject line, I have been quite busy. However, despite evacuating Florida last week and Hurricane Irma making landfall in Southwest Florida very close to my home (Thank you God for my abode being intact), my business is still running, for which I am giving myself a proverbial pat on the back. As I write this, my neighborhood has no potable water, insufficient sewage, no power, spotty cell service, limited gasoline and food supplies and debris strewn about.  Paradise will return to Naples soon!  Irmaggedon will not keep us down!

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The Marriage of Art & Money

The Marriage of Art and Money

I had the pleasure of interviewing Yuri Cataldo for my broadcast radio show, “Life Outside the Box.” Yuri is a fascinating individual. A creative soul who early on in his college career spurned a life in engineering for one in the arts, he has a unique talent to help artists and musicians couple their creative juices with entrepreneurial or career pursuits. Yuri is currently working with Emerson College towards implementing a curriculum that helps creative individuals marry art with business.

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Where can you get a third mind?

Ten Reasons to Join a Mastermind Group

Mastermind groups were touted by Napoleon Hill as a key to success. Hill, long thought of as one of the founding fathers of the field of personal development, believed in regular meetings with a group of 2 or more committed individuals who shared a common goal of success. He formalized this idea in the 1920s and 1930s. He said, “a mastermind is the coordination of knowledge and effort in the spirit of harmony between 2 or more people for the attainment of a definite purpose.”

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Know Your NO

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Know Your No

Do you know that if you don’t learn to say “no” appropriately, you can wind up being a sycophant to everyone and everything? Moreover, where do you wind up?

  • You are stuck in the bad marriage;
  • You are trapped in the bad job;
  • You are wearing bad clothing;
  • You are traveling to bad places;
  • You have bad friends; and
  • You simply make bad choices.

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The Importance of Palindromes

Have you ever wondered what a palindrome is?

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Five Steps to Regain Your Sanity and Take Back Your Business and Your Life

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Most small entrepreneurs create a business because they either have an idea that they believe is profitable, or a technical skill at which they are very good and for which they wish to be more handsomely rewarded. But the typical entrepreneur winds up performing a wide variety of tasks, some of which he had never done before. Inevitably, there will be tasks that the small business owner finds himself doing that he either does poorly, or loathingly. In either case, these chores take far longer than need be. If these assignments were completed by one either skilled at the undertaking, or at least interested in it, the time required would diminish substantially.

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