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Modern life is complicated and simple living is something we are all are striving for today.  It is important for us to find the information that is true, and will bring real value to our day.  If you are struggling with a feeling of being overwhelmed, you need to join us, and continue to follow our motivational and empowering facts.

You can solve any problem you have with the power of objective thinking, putting together a plan, and bringing that plan to action.  It is not a matter of if it will work, but just when.   Here are three tips to assist you with any problem you may be dealing with immediately:

Identify your Emotions:

Every problem no matter how small, or large has an emotional attachment, that you can use to your advantage.  Sometimes we build up reasons and excuses that are based on these emotional attachments.  If you are ready to solve your problems, and are motivated, understanding your feelings associated can be truly part of the solution.

Objectively Plan:

Every problem has a plan just waiting in the wings to help out.  If you have a problem that is a lifestyle challenge, or a physical problem that needs your time and attention, a plan of action will be the kick you need.  If you can open your mind to new ideas, new possibilities, and new ways of solving a problem, you can then actively start a step by step project plan.  It will lead you through the details of getting yourself built into that new person that you know you can be!

Actively Follow Your New Lifestyle:

In order to then become the solution you are working towards, you will need to adopt your new lifestyle mindset, change into the person you know you can be, and think positively.  With good positive commitment on your part, being objective on results and effects of trial and error, you can continue your path and succeed!

Not every path is immediately sustained, and there will be bumps along the way.  But, if you continue your goals to reaching the solution, know in your heart you can do it, create a plan that works for you, the successful solution is easy pickings!

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Spirituality in Life Comes From Your Brain and Understanding Love

Your Brain is Aware by Spirituality

Your brain is a human dimension in and of itself, nothing else is so sci-fy!  The brain is a collection of neurons, and includes your nervous system throughout your body, and the spinal cord as well.  The most amazing part to your brain, is that it can think about itself, and is aware of its own creation. Thinking about the human brain, is parsed out amongst the frontal lobe, the parietal lobe, and the amygdala.  The neuroscience of your brain, however scientific we get, does not fully encompass the beauty of the human spirit, and part of your spirituality does come from your brain.

Your Brain is Separation of Facts and Emotion

 

Your brain is made of the left and the right hemisphere, which is described in beautiful detail by Jill Bolte Taylor.  Her experience with a brain injury, is the key to understanding why your physical brain, actually needs your understanding as a person of spirit and connection to the world.  As a creature of biology, our brain is simply amazing.  It is small enough to allow our species to be born into life, but is large enough to stay economical throughout our life.  With increased awareness, we have become the dominant species on our planet.

As we become more populated, and our energy resources become less available, it is important that we understand how our brains function, to improve our situation on this planet.  With increased awareness, your brain can help you see how connected you are with the rest of the world. But what does this mean to us as spiritual beings?  The reason it is important to understand your physical and biological self, is it can help you with your spiritual path as well.

Your Brain as Left Brain

Understanding that your left brain, is your brain of logic, and science, it will make sense to start here.  Understand this is where you speak, where you hear sounds in a verbal way, and your left brain is your communication hub.  It is where you take a math problem, and analyze it to completion.  It is where your tax adviser works best.   Our finance and regulatory experts are left brain heavy, and your brain may be the left brain focused being.

This is all and good when you are looking at data, and analyzing market competition, or designing a report for future growth within your company or business.  The problem comes up, when you are faced with expansion of that business, and you have to fit right brain people into this equation.  It makes life a more difficult process, but well worth the effort.

Your left brain will problem solve how to keep your body warm in winter, keep your children fed, and keep you working at work.  It will get you places on time, decide what kind of clothing to wear to match the weather, and analyze what is healthy to eat.  If you need to lose weight, rely on your left brain to pull into your body, good choices.  As well, exercise and new language will come from your left brain, and your brain cannot learn without a left brain analysis to explain why it is important.

Survival of our environment needs your brain to work best in the left hemisphere, or you could not make good choices to keep living.  It is the memory of poisons, toxins and what is going to hurt if you move in a certain way.  It allows us all to communicate these needs to each other, and to continue to improve our species as humans.

Your Brain as a Right Brain Powerhouse

Keeping your focus on your creativity and your artistic side, will help you draw, create music, and become aware of colors and patterns in your world around you.  You will feel connected to the different dimensions of time, space and the continuum of spirit that surrounds us all.  Loosely coined as spirituality, the connection we experience with the entire space of humanity, and all cognitive creatures, comes from our right brain.  It will find your happiness, your uncertainty and your love.

Right brain thinking lets us feel, and gives us great emotions.  We do not hold memories of facts or history in our right brain. It is of the moment, or of the right now.  It allows us to become aware, to be of sorts.  We are human with our right brain in action.  Your brain needs the right brain to be and feel love for others.  It is our compassion, or our connection to others.  It allows us to be moral and just creatures.

Spirituality comes from the right brain, and when we move the love of spirit into the left brain, we lose the real reasons we are on this planet.  You cannot quantify or understand love or our connection to others.  When you try to do this, others will be wary of you, so loosen up, and let yourself be in the moment.  It is like the cat, who only remembers a few survival skills, but lives in a constant state of next activity is now!  They do not have too much long term memory, but they live in short term memory folds, each and every day.  It is a way to exist with loose skills of long term memories, and a way to improve risk skills without fear.

Imagine yourself without fear, and constant trepidation-that is your brain with right brain use.   You can connect with pictures and visual analysis, but your verbal communication is useless.  You have things to say, but you say them with pictures not words.  The key to finding your spirit, is to move forward with love, and do not fear it, or plan for it.  It is not a logical path, and should not be analyzed.  With great spiritual awareness, you can find silence very helpful, and your brain will thank you for the newness of time.

 

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Posted by Cheryl Hanson - April 19, 2012 at 10:51 am

Categories: Living Frontiers Now   Tags: Amygdala, Bolte, Brain Injury, Brains, Dominant Species, Emotion, Energy Resources, Frontal Lobe, Human Brain, Human Dimension, Human Spirit, Left Brain, Nervous System, Neurons, Neuroscience, Parietal Lobe, Physical Brain, Rest Of The World, Right Hemisphere, Spinal Cord, Spiritual Beings, Spiritual Path, Spirituality

Life Challenges are Often Financial Changes and Emotional Uncertainty

The economic downturn of 2007 is still in a mean mood, and with this downturn, world wide financial changes have created a world of emotional uncertainty. There have never been a wider amount of people in a state of uncertainty, change and emotional challenge.  The entire world is in a point of crisis, and with the resources of our planet in a strain, this has created a life challenge for us all.

Life Challenges are Financial Changes

Financial Changes Have Impacted the Entire World

Why would a financial change in life become an emotional crisis?  It seems unlikely that we would find happiness in this kind of situation, but more often than not, the change that you experience may force you to reflect, review and realize what is really important to you.  During a financial change, we are forced to give up the fluff, and embrace the necessities of our life.  We are hopeful for the future, but we are more realistic.  Financial changes force us to love ourselves more, and realize how lucky and wonderful we are as individuals.  This challenge, is a real lifestyle change, with new positive gains to be had.  The only reason to pout and go back to a life before the financial crisis, is to recap some lost emotional baggage, and take care of the past cares that may interfere with your future.

Financial Changes can Force You to Move Forward

When you are faced with a financial change, where you may have less money than you are used to living with, it can be a frightening time.  It will be a good thing for you in the end, but finding the solution to changing your life can be very difficult.  Be easy and kind on yourself, and do not blame yourself for a financial change or beat yourself up. This is no time to embrace your emotional side, but move forward with your positive areas of yourself, and use those positive attributes to your advantage.  There are ways to move forward, without using your emotional uncertainty in this mix.

Find a Way Out of Financial Changes by Focusing On Positive Skills

You may have to resource a friend or an expert to help you move from a financial change, but you can do this.  Even if you have not graduated with your schooling goals yet, you can use the skills you have already acquired to your advantage.  Start with the local library, and reflect there, in the quiet of the public library, with pen and paper.  Start by listing all the skills you have, and what you enjoy doing.  If you like to cook, write it down.  Then, detail through what kinds of cooking you like; do you like barbeque?  Stir fry, steamed vegetables with noodles?  What about baking?  This list will grow, and you will have a long list of skills before you know it!

A life challenge like this requires you to write down all of your skills, and to review them in this manner.  Looking at them, are there some that you would like to expand on?  Do you think you could use any of these in a way that could improve your financial changes at the moment? I bet you could!  Grow your list, and keep reference to it.  Carry it with you, and keep looking for a job or profession that matches your skills.

Creating a life resume like this, is the first step in securing your place in finding the solution to any financial changes in life.

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Posted by Cheryl Hanson - March 7, 2012 at 10:13 am

Categories: Living Frontiers Now   Tags: Attributes, Cares, Changing Your Life, Economic Downturn, Emotional Baggage, Emotional Challenge, Emotional Crisis, Emotional Side, Entire World, Financial Changes, Financial Crisis, Fluff, happiness, Life Challenge, Life Challenges, Lifestyle Change, Money, Necessities, Pout, Uncertainty

Healthy Living Comes With Love

The life we live is reflected in the choices we make each and every day, and one of the best choices we can make is to choose healthy living.  Live that is lived in a healthy way includes good nutritional food choices, lots of fun and invigorating exercise options, keeping our toxic environmental options low, and remaining in a powerful but positive habitat is important too.  Healthy living starts not just with simple and honest review of our lifestyle, but the choices we make each and every day, and involves those we love at the same time.

Begin with Healthy Living Choices for Those You Love

Healthy Living Starts with Loving Yourself

The most important person in your life should be yourself, your spouse, your family and then your friends.  If your work, your goals, money and your passions come first, that is a choice that needs to be addressed as your first change to find healthy living.  You cannot do this alone, and your love for yourself needs to be for good reasons, not just for others in your immediate circle.  If you can’t find time to create a positive life for yourself, you are not impacting your family and friends in a good and positive way.  Finding time to eat nutritional food, to exercise the day’s stress away, and to learn more for your own benefit is very important for a day of healthy living.  It does not take much to walk away stress each day for 20 minutes.  Or, a visit to a health food store can combine your quest to find healthy living in food and in new ideas.  Keep your options open for yourself, and time to do this each and every day.

Healthy Living Grows from Love

Once you empower yourself, now you can begin to share your wealth with others.  This will easily occur, and bring strength to all you know and love.  You will find more attention is brought to you quickly in terms of rewards, praise, and people looking to you for support and compassion. They will rise to the occasion for you, and with your constant empowerment, you can bring a joy back to many lives with your love of yourself.  Find the time to empower others, by living a healthy life for yourself, and spread that joy with others.  This is a constant force, and it can be addicting, so once you begin the process, expect the unexpected, and watch for the new life to embrace you quickly and openly.

Healthy Living Choices are Everywhere

Sometimes when you are in a less than healthy lifestyle, you cannot see the forest through the trees.  You are stuck, and you only believe the choices you must make each day, are the only options.  There are so many choices you make each day, that you did not have when you where a small child.  You did not choose to live an unhealthy life, it seemed to be forced upon you.  Maybe you were born into a very difficult time in your families life, and you saw only unhealthy options, and did not realize until much later, that a different life even existed.

If you are stuck smoking, drinking alcohol, eating less than nutritious food, and suffering from these choices, you are not alone.  The path is yours, and you can learn how to not make these choices, and learn that healthy living comes from the understanding that you are not losing anything by dropping these choices, but gaining everything in the days ahead.

 

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Posted by Cheryl Hanson - January 29, 2012 at 5:10 pm

Categories: Living Frontiers Now   Tags: Benefit, Compassion, Exercise Options, Family And Friends, Finding Time, Food Choices, Health Food Store, Healthy Choices, Healthy Food, Immediate Circle, Important Person, lifestyle, Living Choices, Lots Of Fun, Love Life, Money, Nutritional Food, Passions, Rewards, stress

To Get Good Karma Follow the Dalai Lama

One of the best ways to find good karma is to look to the teachings of the Dalai Lama.  His teachings can help anyone who is struggling with a choice or their path in life.  Since Buddhism preaches that we should all be reincarnated on our death, and our actions in life will reflect who we are to become in our next life, we should reach good karma with good life style choices and actions.  When we harm others, no matter how in passing this may be, we are impacting our karma on our life’s journey.  Even if you do not follow Buddhism and are not a Buddhist, a review of your life’s journey in a positive way will make you happier and ensure others are happier too.

Good Karma comes From Love

Nothing is easy, and one of the best tenants of the Dali Lama’s voice is that often risk is involved when you are making a good difference.  Nothing good ever comes easy, and this idea fits with many of the ideas of Buddhism, as often sacrifice and long term goals are created with good life choices.  Imagine if you are going to start a weight loss plan, quit smoking, learn a new skill, or start a new job, it all takes time and dedication.  There is much risk, and you are going to have to search and look out into the future for your success and the light at the end of the rainbow.  No reason to expect short term success, as it is only fleeting.  The best things in life take dedication, commitment, and constant enforcement of good lifestyle choices.  Early days of the change can be difficult to imagine and make happen.

As well, as you risk your time and energy in doing good, you are going to fail.  There are going to be things that will not work out for you.  Continue to move forward with your dedication, and be sure to learn from your failings, seeing them not as failings alone, but a lesson well learned.  And, your respect for yourself and others, and responsibility for yourself and yourself alone, is important for your soul and its well being.  Learn to accept things when they don’t go your way, as sometimes that is because it is a better course of action for your lifeline, than you could have ever hoped to imagine.

Good Karma Exists With Reflection

Knowing how to move forward with good thoughts and continue into action, takes time, maturity and constant reflection. When you are unsure of a move, do not act until you have had time to review and reflect.  Knowing the facts can a good step, and understanding how you may need to break some worldly rules to empower your spirit, is a very wise thing indeed.  Maturity to know when to say you are sorry, to accept that you made a mistake, and the courage to move a fight from anger to happiness comes with age and your ability to accept things are not always in your power. This empowerment is not to ensure your strength over others, but to ensure you are in fact moving to ensure they are able to grow within change, and still hold onto their values.

Good Karma Is Green

It is amazing the strides we have made since the last century, when most people lived in nighttime darkness, had no electricity, and lived on the land with little course for knowledge or empowerment.  Still, we have lost much by our movement into urban centers all over the world.  We have lost touch of the dirt that feeds us, the water that quenches our soul, and the air that moves us forward as a species.  It is amazing to think there are over 7 Billion people in the world today, and less than 50 years ago, there were only 3 Billion people.  The surge of humanity is going to stretch our resources, and these should be considered our debt to the earth, not our exclusive gains to exploit.

The list I embrace, which makes me smile with its crisp and clean positive vibe, is below.  I hope you find it something we can all embrace, and hope to follow.

Above is courtesy of spiritualnow.com

Good karma comes from enlightenment, and this is part of your journey in life.  Embrace good karma by being gentle, reflective and kind and your journey will be happy.

 

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Posted by Cheryl Hanson - January 11, 2012 at 10:05 am

Categories: Living Frontiers Now   Tags: Buddhism, Buddhist, Dalai Lama, Dali Lama, Dedication, End Of The Rainbow, Journey, Karma, Life Choices, Life Style, Lifestyle Choices, Love, New Job, Reason, Risk, Sacrifice, Style Choices, Term Goals, Term Success, Weight Loss Plan

Finding Happiness

In today’s fast paced world, the way to wealth and health is often thought to result in finding happiness.  Or not at all!  The reason that we are happy and not sad, is often because we find a reason to live in a positive, motivated and purposeful way.  It is true, that you may be sick and poor, and your happiness value is higher than when you were healthy and had money.  How could this be?  The reason we may feel happier some days and not others, is because we are often led down a road of greatness.  How this occurs is different for us all.

Finding Happiness in Life

 

Happiness is In the Moments

How we complete a task of finding happiness depends on you and your talents.  Maybe you are a skilled cook, and your talent of making people happy with your great food, completes your happy quotient.   Or, maybe you are a research scientist and you have a quest to find a way to create a more powerful magnet to be used in many different industrial applications.  The possibilities are endless.

Finding your skills and talents is often a trial and jury process.  Not everyone completes this key step. Without a clear understanding of your key talents and gifts, you will struggle with happiness throughout your life.  That being said, some people know they are great builders of homes, craftsmen of wood or metal, and still never find their true north.  The next step to happiness lies in application of your talents to real day problems.

Please be sure to take stock of your talents and skills, and make use of them, by seeing if there are real life solutions that can be created by your particular knowledge of your specialty.  If you are a well rounded individual, and have many different skills, do not let go of your focus of what really makes you happy and finds you smiling at your most.

Finding Happiness in Your Work

When you are at work, do you find yourself excited to start each day?  Are there things that make you run at full speed, and sometimes, you wish you had more time to create a closer answer to the problems each day?  If not, keep searching for the path that really makes you push yourself.  Without this fire, this passion, and the relinquishment of all your past excuses, you will not accomplishment finding happiness.

Here’s why:  You can’t just make yourself happy, you have to make others happy.  The truth is, we are all great people.  We all want to ensure success for others.  When we see the positive changes in others lives, we are true to ourselves, and there is a new connection to all humanity.  Why else would Ghandi, Mother Theresa, or Martin Luther King Jr., give up their lives to the world? The simple fact is, they are being selfish in their unselfishness, because it made them happy.  To see the change they were hoping to create, was the goal.  Not for just themselves, but for everyone.

Doing Good for Others Equals Finding Happiness

This brings me to my last supportive argument, which creates new creative action to the benefit of others-give yourself totally to the collective group of humanity, and you will be successful at finding happiness.  The majority of us believe the acquisition of wealth creates the happy factor we are all searching for.  When in truth,  once you own something, there is no happiness in its acquisition, but only burden of responsible ownership.  The same goes for your actions as a person in our collective society.

When you create good will towards all men, you create a good flow for yourself.  Start to love yourself, and pass the trend on, and give of yourself completely.  Many lives have been changed by not large lifestyle changes, but small steps each day to become the best person you can be.

  • Open doors for others
  • Engage in polite chit chat
  • Listen and respond thoughtfully
  • do not engage in drama or over emotion as it creates a negative emotional state
  • Comprehend new ideas, and pass them on
  • Teach young people with patience
  • Support and care for a pet
  • Take time to meditate and bring silence to each day
  • Learn a new skill at each and every opportunity
  • Give up excuses and look to the alternative of saying yes
  • Take time to support those in need
  • Take up a cause that means a lot to you and tell your story
  • Stop focusing on money and wealth, and concentrate on knowledge and cooperation
  • Finding Happiness starts with your thoughts and attitude in life

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Posted by Cheryl Hanson - November 12, 2011 at 5:34 pm

Categories: Living Frontiers Now   Tags: Craftsmen, Fast Paced World, Finding Happiness, greatness, Health, Industrial Applications, Life Solutions, Magnet, Money, Possibilities Are Endless, Quotient, Research Scientist, Stock, Talents, True North

Move Forward Into the Now

positive motivationYour Moment of Greatness

Begin your new life by always, living in the present.  Too many of us have past moments that cloud our daily lives, and cause us great pain.  The ancient people called this a delusion of the heart, and considered those who were hampered by past events, haunted by the demons of time.  The souls who could never escape the past, were never destined to reach the after life, but destined to roam the earth for centuries.

The truth is, the daily lives of those who are saddened by their past time and memories, will never escape them.  The reel of the bad times, continue to play constantly in their stream of consciousness.  The worthy times, the happy moments, escape them, and only the battle of the replay and the past continues on for the present and into the future.  They have been lost to the past.

Moving Forward Must Occur with a Choice

Whether you are trying to change your life to prosper in this tough economy, trying to lose weight, quit smoking, or are looking for a happier life, you need to remove your destiny from your past.  The occurrences of the past are simply that, your past.  When you dramatize your past life, bring importance to your past events, you are giving those moments power.  They remain, the present.  They evolve into your future.  You will never escape these moments, for good or for bad.

Consider the high school athlete, who lives in a world of positive energy, and success during the time they are 17.  They are loved, successful, and find themselves in a circle of wonder and plenty.  The time is miraculous.  The moment is intoxicating.  The past is the moment they are destined to always enjoy.  The tragedy comes when the one good of this moment is expected to continue, without the recognition of kinetic change.

The evolution of time, is like a box of a moment. With change, there comes new boxes to work within.  Being able to work in one box at a time is the perfection of time.  It does not function well, when we enter memories and bring ourselves the expectation of past or future to fit within the now.  Speaking plainly, living in the moment, is really the only time we have.

Surely, the high school athlete can pull the greatness into the now, but if they expect any moment to mirror this past moment, they are chasing a dream.  It is a floating reality, and often this leads to disastrous outcomes.  Using the past, but not expecting it to rule the day, is the key.

Remaining Present is Hard not Easy

The best way to find true inner peace, is to recognize your memories, and love them.  Even when they are tragic.  This is a true path of righteousness, and it does not come easily.  Many steps must be taken, and practiced every day for this to actually occur.  Without the beauty of remaining in the moment, the glorious understanding and growth of that moment are lost forever.  And, when you are constantly chasing the future,  you are just as likely to suffer the lack of feeling the power of the now.

This is a real strength that will help you with any struggle you are taking on.  From trying to capture that dream job, to starting your new business, to pursuing your dream of being the thin person you know you can be, you are living in the dream of the future.  You will never get to experience that future, unless you live in the now.

The thing is, there are wonderful tools, that will develop your future, but they only exist in the now.  Why are you waiting?  What steps can you do right now?  Why do you torture yourself by hating yourself for past mistakes? This inactivity only allows you to suffer in either the hope of the future, or the stories of the past.

I think about the story of a wonderful man I met through a brain documentary, who had no short term memory for 24 hours.  He lost his ability to add memories to his life, after an accident he had a few years before.  Self sufficient, he could remember when he was younger, and his retirement, but did not know yesterday or the month before.

He awakened each day with wonder, to see the change of the seasons, if they were not in the summer.  He learned of his illness by a visit by a social worker, who explained his situation each day.  He was living a joyful life, not burdened by his memories of recent events, and his brain injury seemed to have given him the gift of happiness.

His smile was contagious, and he was a joyful soul. He had no past memories that seemed to bring him sorrow.  His brain only remembered a few past memories, all of them glorious days.  This story made me feel envious of his grasp of present moment life.  He was the joy that we experience each day, but cloud often with our regrets of the past, or our hopes of the future.

Live each day like it is now, and never let that moment dwindle.  Let your now drive you forward into the happiness and find your strength in a moment of time that will only begin to be the joy of life.

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Posted by Cheryl Hanson - June 12, 2011 at 7:13 pm

Categories: Living Frontiers Now   Tags: Boxes, Centuries, Delusion, Demons, Destiny, Earth, Economy, Evolution, greatness, Happy Moments, Heart, Memories, Occurrences, positive energy, Replay, School Athlete, Stream Of Consciousness, Tragedy, Truth, Worthy Times

Rodent and Pest Control Problems

Your home is under attack, by wind and weather, bugs, and pests like rodents- it is not an easy problem to solve.  With all of the options on trapping, electronic aversion devices, poisons, and natural homeopathic products, you can put together a plan to remove the most robust rodent populations.

If you have a real problem with rats, squirrels, mice and voles, keep reading as a plan can be created easily, to follow through to a great end solution.

The best part of this process is that it works.  You can randomly place traps, and hope for the best, but if you enact a plan, you are going to really solve your rodent problem for good.

First, be sure to enact a series of analysis and research in how rodents think and act.  A great resource is http://www.meetyourmouse.com where you can learn about mice, and how they have excellent hearing, poor sight, and great nocturnal planning.  Use this information to create a review of your home or garden, and understand where they are nesting, how they travel, and where they are getting their food.

Once you have nailed down where the little buggers are living, and running around at night, that is where you will place your traps.  It is important to always not set your snap traps until you have baited and left for dining, for a few nights.  This will allow the mice to keep a happy disposition to your traps, and begin to trust them.  Then, on the 8th night, set them, baited, and see what happens.

Once you are trapping, setting them, and not setting them in a random fashion, you should then have caught quite a few mice.  It will help then, to mix it up, and add in some ultrasonic wave devices, and place them in areas that mice may be nesting.  The only place you should not use them, is where you are trapping.  You do not have to have traps all over the house, but in one area, where they are running and feeding the most.

Removing the traps during the day, too, is an effective way to mix up their understanding of the bait being offered only at night.  It is when  they are most active, so keeping it different and unusual for any rodent, only peaks their curiosity, and allows for great results.

And, think about buying a great electronic trap, that gives some form of an obstacle course, food, and then the final humane zap to complete their existence.  It is a good way to remove up to 10 mice in a night.

Once, you are getting less activity at the traps, start the preventative process.  This involves caulking your home, and ensuring that you build a tight seal around any cracks that are showing.  Look at mouse level, and do this on the outside of the home.  Check around pipes, dryer vents, and other areas, to ensure that you are not leaving an entry point into your home.  They got in from these access points.

Use peppermint scents, organic peppermint oil on a cotton ball in a dark area, and remove any landscaping that allows cover for mice to run towards your home.  If you continue to process the outside of your home with these type of methods, you will then have great success.

Your continued plan of action will result with great success, if you continue to manage the course of action.  If you do not, it will not be effective.  You can hire an exterminator to come, and work your home for mouse prevention, trapping, and effective bait techniques, but often they will use similar techniques, and use poison.  I do not believe in poison, as they eat it, carry it back to the nest, share with other mice, and die in the walls.

Removing dead carcasses, can be even more time consuming and expensive, than just trapping effectively.

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Posted by Cheryl Hanson - February 18, 2011 at 8:08 am

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Happy Diets Work with Healthy Food

If you are eating lots of sugary foods and starches, chances are you are often hungry.  It is a hard place to be, always eating food that makes you hungry and does not bring you any real nutrition in the long run.  Often, when you are eating this kind of diet, you will be tired, and very slow.  It takes effort to always have some movement in a high sugar, high starch diet.  It is cheap, but when you consider the long term consequences, you are taking a very expensive turn.

Many people work through a period of their lives, where they stop caring about their diets.  It is a sad time for most. Often, there are some kinds of tragedy going on in life, and some real challenges.  These things are all related, so making a change in your diet, can actually reverse some kinds of life challenges as well.

Move towards healthy foods.  Look for one-ingredient food groups.  Eat fresh veggies and fruits.  Do not eat anything that is full of preservatives.  Stop at starch laden food sources, as they turn straight into sugar.  And, do not eat sugar.  Do not eat sugar substitutes.  Start a new appreciation for fresh fruit.  Become a fruit maven, and eat it constantly.  Change from Diet Pops or Sodas to water, tea or simple juices that are 100% fruit.  No sugar, no chemical sugar equivalents, and your diet will be much more positive.

Your new lifestyle needs your reflective and positive changes in life, and it can start with your diet.

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Posted by Cheryl Hanson - February 13, 2011 at 12:23 pm

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Keeping Your House Clean

Life is cluttered, and so is your home!  Often, we get sucked into buying things, and then we do not use them.   I have a pair of ice skates that I have never used.  They are dull and old now, and should have been given to someone who really could use them.

But I have them!  So, they sit in a storage room, just like this one pictured here.  The mix of cold weather items with summer garden equipment is a common sight, especially in areas where freezing temperatures make it necessary.  This can be a challenge, as often, you forget where things are, and end up then borrowing the neighbor’s tool, and then returning it down the way.

Stop this endless stack of stuff, but analysis.  It only takes a few minutes a day.  But, if you do a little each day, and keep up with the ongoing mess coming into the house each day, your home will sparkle with organization.

Look for storage, that has open areas for new items

Just because you are looking for ways to evolve your new life into shelves and buckets of bins, does not mean you will have a way to find your precious items.  Some things can be donated, some can be tossed, and some need to be saved.   Again, here are your categories:

1. Donation

2. Toss

3. Save

Each item in your home needs to be looked at objectively, in this manner:  How often do I use this, is it something I really need, does it still work, and will I use it again in the future.  Answering these questions can be hard, because what happens, often is there is emotion tied to each item.  This must be handled slowly, and quickly.

The Crystal Punch Bowl

One way to do this, is to work on a small area of clutter each day.  Give yourself 5 minutes where to take 10 things, and answer the 3 main sort questions.  If you come up with emotion tying you to an item, give yourself some time to objectively work through your connections.  Here is an example:

Your Aunt Mary had a punch bowl, that was your pride and joy, when she gave it to you.  It is the only item from her, and it is a large crystal bowl, with many cups, spoons, and plates for 20 people.  It is a lovely large bowl, and is so beautiful. It sits in your closet, near the front door, and going through your hallway closet, you find it there.  It has sat on the shelf, for over 6 years, never being opened.

Since this is the only item you have to remember your Aunt Mary, but it is a large and huge item, you have a conundrum.  You love it, just not the amount of space it takes up.  It is such an amazing and beautiful piece of crystal!

Here is my suggestion for this situation.  And, it can be handled on a Monday evening back from work.  No big deal!

Once the dinner is done, and you have a moment to clean, go to the closet, and take out the punch bowl and all of its boxes.  Wow, that really took up a lot of space!  All of the kids hats and mittens would easily fit in that spot.  And, I will never ever use it.  It is something special.  Yes, that is true.  But wait, isn’t your friend Anne opening a catering company?  I bet she would love this!

Getting on the phone with Anne, you have now completed your five minutes of cleaning, but boy how successful you have been!  Now, you have opened up a spot for winter gear.  For your handbag at the end of the day.  For some games you play on a regular basis.  And, your friend was thrilled to receive the bowl.  You can always borrow it, when you need it.  She is a good person, and was very happy to place it into use.

The point of this story, is you are working through your problems, and doing it consistently.  You are letting go of past excuses.  You are learning new things, and opening your mind to new open spaces.  Cleaning out old items is more than just stuff, it is working on sending your old mindset packing as well.

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Posted by Cheryl Hanson - February 7, 2011 at 2:10 pm

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Bring your Happy Face Forward!

Your new lifestyle is going to need your happy smile and smiling eyes more than ever!  It is the key to ensuring your new lifestyle, and becoming even happier than you ever have been in your life.

To do this, you will need to forget the past, stop living with regrets, and dwelling on the problems of the present.  Your future is bright, and you need to always live in the moment, and know your new life is just steps away.

Does this inspire you?  I hope so!  Here are some really easy ways to brighten your day, and do it all with your mindset, not a physical thing, or a purchased item.  It has to do with your mental outlook on life.

Build your future in the Present

The only way to ensure a happy life, is to believe in yourself.  It is a corny thought, but you have to be a cheerleader for your new initiatives and endeavors.  Even if it is a new way of eating, or a new kind of hobby, you are the driver for this new life, and need to be on-board with this new change 100%.  If you are not, it will not succeed, and you will feel let down, and completely disillusioned.  It is easy to have a fire in your belly at the beginning, but if you can’t tend to the fire, and keep it going, do not start the path.  You need to be committed to your new life, and take it from there.  Without the birth of your love for your new you, the future will not become what you believe in, and will not exist.  So, take the reigns, and do it!

Let your chips fall where they may

The new positive edge, will lead you through tumultuous waters.  There will be large walls to climb, lots of hurdles, and many, many nay-Sayers. They will all want to decide you can or can not do it.  Often, it takes some real strength to stand up to the challenges, and objectively handle them.  Do not stop the process, and keep it moving forward.

Be sure to learn more about your new lifestyle

An educated mind, is a powerful mind.  It is something you can gain, and it can never be taken from you.  Even super wealthy people have the risk that all of their money could disappear.  Just like that!  If you learn about a way to power homes in a new way, how to make crying babies happy, cure dog’s from hot spots, you will never have this knowledge taken from you.  So, get yourself pumped with resources, read a new book, take some time to listen to a lecture, listen to a new radio program, or even reach out to someone you really admire.  The fact that you are learning, will constantly empower you to find that positive vibe, and make you even more adaptive in any situation.

Let your life grow, and you will be the better person for it!  If you are looking to enlist any positive vibes, send me a comment, and we can boost ourselves forward together!  Nothing works better than other positive thinkers.

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Posted by Cheryl Hanson - January 29, 2011 at 5:02 pm

Categories: Living Frontiers Now   Tags: 10 great tips to find success, great advice, help to be happy, lose weight naturally, positive living, staying positive

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