1. An unshakable foundation:

Create and build your life from the ground up. A foundation built on solid ground will support anything and everything you take on, go through and/or desire.

2. Your personal negotiables and non-negotiables:

People who live in integrity and with self-awareness enjoy rewarding careers and relationships. Knowing and living your standards and values allows you to choose commitments based on your experience, passions and availability.

3. Knowing what your core strengths are:

Set yourself up to work and live smart…not hard. Research shows that people who discover and develop their signature strengths tend to be happier.

4. The ability to achieve desired results:

Goals should be personal, realistic, intimate, spiritual and measurable. Coaches are a navigation system for forward motion and in partnership with you; we design the HOW of achieving your results. Having a partner in this allows you to work towards accomplishment and not have accomplishment working you.

5. Supportive Environments:

Learn to set up your personal and career environments to offer support, strength and inspiration. Environments built around your values and passions bring lower levels of stress, clutter and waste, as well as increased energy, creativity and productivity.

6. Enhanced communication:

Be heard, understood and valued. Learn tools and skills that leave others with clarity and knowledge of who you are, what you bring and what you can do. Create the acknowledgment, respect and partnership to be a successful leader or co-worker and to thrive in rewarding long-term relationships.

7. Expanded awareness:

The brightest stars in career and community always surround themselves with mentors and coaches who offer constructive feedback. Two pairs of eyes and ears bring a much larger picture into focus, which eliminate the “blind spots” we all have, whether they are assets or liabilities.

8. Larger living:

Help eliminate fear, doubt, overwhelm and confusion. People reach for more when they have a supportive partner who stands by them. Live empowered with possibilities instead of waiting for the “right time and place” or “needing just a little more information.”

9. Increased earning potential:

Develop and strengthen your leadership and work ethic to create the income you are qualified for and deserve.

10: The three D’s:

Discovering the greatness that has always been yours. Being extraordinary is your birthright.

Developing full self-expression, relationships and experiences.

Delivering a legacy that leaves a reputation of quality, inspiration and excellence.

My name is Elizabeth Tull and I am an Excellence Coach who’s areas of focus are Legacy Craft and Design, Communication and Sober Living. I have been in the recovery community for 14 years and a business owner that is blessed and humbled to earn my living as a private and group coach. I have trained, developed and led many workshop support teams into creating successful lives and communities based on high personal standards, values and inspiration.

The last Northern gold rush occurred in the late-19th century
in the Yukon when tens of thousands of prospectors made their
way to Dawson City to find their fortunes. Since then, miners
and oil workers have continued to seek wealth in the North. In
the past decade, history has repeated itself with the discovery
of diamonds in Canada’s North.

Diamond exploration in Canada began in the 1960s, but major
discoveries of diamond-bearing kimberlite ore did not occur
until the 1990s. With the discovery of diamonds in the Northwest
Territories and Nunavut in 1991, Canada has risen to become one
of the top three diamond producers in the world in terms of
value, behind Botswana and Russia. Currently, Canada produces
15% of the world’s diamonds. According to Statistics Canada,
13.8 million carats of diamonds worth approximately $2.8 billion
have been mined in Canada between 1998 and 2002. To put it in
perspective, each day Canada produces one 1.5 kilogram bag of
diamonds worth $1.5 million. It is hoped that the diamond mines
will provide income for decades to come.

In 1991, the first diamonds were found at Point Lake near Lac de
Gras in the Northwest Territories, some 300 kilometers northeast
of Yellowknife. Soon after the initial find, two diamond mines
were opened in this region, the Ekati and Diavik mines. Diavik
is approximately 100 kilometres southeast of Ekati. A third
diamond mine, Jericho-3, began production in 2005, in Nunavut. A
fourth diamond mine, Snap Lake-4 in the Northwest Territories,
should begin production in 2007.

The Jericho-3 mine is located near the north end of Contwoyto
Lake in West Kitikmeot, Nunavut Territory (NT). It is operated
by the Tahera Diamond Corporation, which has been exploring for
diamonds in Nunavut for the past seven years. Operations will
commence with an open pit mine, and despite the harsh climate,
it is planned to operate year-round. It is currently projected
that the mine and processing plant will have an 8-year life and
employ a total of approximately 125 to 175 employees and
contractors.

The majority of shares in the Ekati mine (80%) are owned by the
Australian mining conglomerate BHP Billton. The remaining 20%
are owned by prospectors Charles Fipke and Stewart Blusson. The
Ekati Diamond Mine is the only diamond mine owned by BHP
Billiton and produces nearly four per cent of current world
diamond production by weight and six per cent by value. The mine
is expected to be viable for 20 years.

The Diavik mine, located about 300 km (180 miles) north of
Yellowknife, is owned by Britain’s Rio Tinto PLC (60 per cent)
and Toronto-based Aber Diamond Corp. (40 per cent). It employs
700 workers and produces 8,000,000 carats annually for total
sales of $100,000,000 Cdn. The area was first surveyed in 1992,
construction began in 2001, and diamond production started in
2003. It provides approximately 5% of world diamond production.
The mine is also expected to remain in operation for 20 years.

The Snap Lake mine, owned by DeBeers and operated by DeBeers and
AMEC consultants, is starting this year and is expected to
remain in production for 20 more years. This mine is located
under a lake and will be the first entirely underground diamond
mine in Canada. DeBeers also owns the Victor mine, an open-pit
diamond mine in a remote area in the James Bay Lowlands of
Northern Ontario, approximately 90 km west of the coastal
community of Attawapiskat.

Canada’s diamond industry has a world reputation for both
quality and integrity. In recent years, there have been ethical
problems with African diamonds, which can originate in unstable
countries such as Sierra Leone and Angola where diamond sales
fund terrorism, war and weapons sales. Canadian diamonds are
traceable, as each one is etched on the girdle with a serial
number as well as a microscopic Canadian logo such as a maple
leaf or a polar bear as a trademark. The pictorial logos vary
with the companies selling the diamonds.

Canadian diamonds, especially those from the Ekati mine, are
high quality and extremely white. They’re also fashionable,
which was demonstrated when the Canadian teen singer Avril
Lavigne attended the 2003 MTV Awards in New York wearing
Canadian diamonds worth $50,000.

The mines provide high-income jobs with an average salary of
$63,000, many of them permanent, not just the temporary
make-work projects for which the Aboriginal communities of the
Canadian north are well known. Almost 40% of the jobs are done
by aboriginals. For instance, one diamond-cutting operation in
the Northwest Territories is majority-owned by the Yellowknife
Dene First Nation.

Some of the more specialized jobs, such as diamond cutting, are
done by professionals from Armenia, Israel, China and Vietnam
who earn salaries of more than $100,000. Many of the diamonds
are cut and polished in facilities in Vancouver, Winnipeg,
Toronto, Montreal and Matane, Quebec. Between 1998 and 2001,
employment in the diamond mining industry in the North increased
from 90 to 700 workers, with estimates of more than 2,000 jobs
currently. Another 2,000 jobs are created in support industries
for the mines and their workers. Diamond mining produces more
than just diamond sales. It also funds many other activities
such as construction, road-building, Arctic and sub-Arctic
surveying and engineering projects.

Diamond fever in Canada’s north shows no signs of abating, and
an article in the Toronto Globe and Mail in February 2004
reported that prospecting companies have laid claim to more than
70 million acres in the Northwest Territories and Nunavut. The
newspaper said the most dramatic increase in diamond prospecting
is in Nunavut, where the number of prospecting permits grew to
1,518 in 2004 from just 190 in 2003.

Starting on Dec. 1, 2003, companies were given one month to
apply for prospecting permits, resulting in long,
round-the-clock lines at offices in Yellowknife and Iqaluit.
There is a charge of 10 cents an acre to register a claim, $1.50
to $2 an acre to stake a claim. With 70 million acres involved,
the cost of these claims is expected to generate up to
$140,000,000 in government revenue even before the mines open.
Prospectors desperate to finish filing their claims have even
been known to drop claim stakes from helicopters in
poorly-accessible areas.

An economic boom is occurring in the north as tradesmen move
into the area to fill jobs in the mines. This has raised the
cost of living in the north, which was high to begin with due to
the cost of transporting food and other necessities to isolated
northern communities. In such places as Yellowknife, a basement
apartment can rent for as high as $1,500 a month.

In 1998, Yellowknife Mayor Dave Lowell said that the diamond
rush might have saved his town from economic decline. “Quite
simply, it is our future,” Lowell said. “We’d be going into
quite a recession if it wasn’t for the diamond mine.”

It doesn’t happen often, but while I was writing my book, Let Go of Whatever Makes You Stop, I was awakened in the middle of the night with this thought, “Don’t live within your means.”

Even though it was 4:30am, I was so excited about this idea that I awoke my wife and began to ‘preach’ to her about it for several minutes. (She said the idea was great, but she really needed her sleep.)

What do I mean when I say, “Don’t live within your means?” I believe you should act bigger, believe larger and associate higher. Your outlook determines your outcome. So, make your plans BIG.

Talk with people smarter than you. Listen to those more insightful than you. Ask questions of those more successful than you. Lend a hand to those less fortunate than you. Don’t stay where you are.

No matter what the level of your ability, you have been equipped with more potential than you can possibly use in your lifetime. Don’t let the future be that time when you wish you’d done what you aren’t doing now. You need to have a dream to make a dream come true.

If the shoe fits, don’t wear it. If you do, you’re not allowing room for growth. Webster knew all about the ineffectiveness of “living within your means.” When you look up the word means in his dictionary, it tells you to “see average.” When you decide to live within your means, you are deciding to live an average life.

Do this: Know Your Limits - Then Ignore Them!

- John L Mason, from the book Know Your Limits - Then Ignore Them! (to find out more about this book, please go to www.freshword.com/resources)

About the Author:

John Mason is a national best-selling author, nationally recognized speaker and book coach.
He has authored fourteen books including An Enemy Called Average, You’re Born An Original-Don’t Die A Copy, Let Go of Whatever Makes You Stop, and Know Your Limits-Then Ignore Them which have sold over 1.4 million copies and have been translated into twenty-five languages throughout the world.
“I have posted a special message for you to see on my website http://www.freshword.com In it I talk about right associations and the effect they can have on whether you succeed in life or not. Your best friends should bring out the best in you! If you are an author, or want to be, I have many resources specifically designed for you. Also, make sure to sign up for my “Nugget of the Week - I would love to inspire you.”

The same sun, the same sky, the same home, and the same routine. Life is boring. Every day is same. How to carry on from day to day? Why does a week not have seven sundays? Don’t you find yourself saying - ‘I want to enjoy life. I am getting bored with my schedule that never changes. There is no excitement in my life.’ Ask few friends around their life and they will say something similar. Why is life becoming a bore for them and how to make it exciting?

Can one escape work? No sensible person can? Can a parent stop caring for his/her children? No. Can an executive stop taking decisions? No. Then how to make life exciting? There must be some way. Yes, there is a way and it is very simple. Just look out of your window and watch the sky. Do you observe any clouds? Look at them. Look at the different shapes? Who made them? From where did they arrive and where will they go? Look at some flowers in your home. Observe the symmetry. Touch and feel the softness. How lovely! We are surrounded by treasures, but we have no time to look at them. A child’s smile can make today a different day than any other day. Try to make a child smile and feel the joy.

Look at the night sky. Observe the stars and think about the distances. Some are so far away that it takes light, hundreds of years to reach us. How many millions of years you will take to walk and reach them? What is beyond them? Observe, think and get excited. Life need never be dull for any of us. Take another example. While sitting on your table, have you ever wondered about the wood that was used to make it? Have you thought about the life of the tree? A small seed grew into a gigantic tree.
How exciting. What of the tar on the road? It comes from deep inside the earth, goes to refineries and is laid on the roads.
How deep must the oil well have been? How did they locate the oil and what will happen after we finish all the oil?

The world is full of objects that can make us think and wonder. It is our attitude that makes our life. If we adopt a child-like attitude towards things, we will bring joy back in life. I am not asking you to give up your work and enjoy. But find time during the day to look at things and wonder. Bring joy back in your life. You can begin right now. Look at your screen. What happens to the text after you shut down your computers? Where do they all go, when you close the browser? Isn’t life full of excitement? Live it.

CD writes content for http://www.valentinesday-cards.com, and http://www.romanticdesktops.com

I’m sure many times you have asked the question: “What is happiness really?” Before I attempt to elaborate on this issue further I will say this: I have a strong, intuitive feeling that when push comes to shove, joy and happiness are the purposes of our lives. If my feeling is correct, then nothing in our life is more important than to endeavour what we can to make our lives as joyful and happy as possible.

Now, back to the question of what happiness is. Some people, maybe the majority of us, think that life enrichment and joy have to do with things and people besides themselves. They feel that they are unable to find happiness and joy without striving after things that can be accessed in exchange for money. Although these things can make life easier and funnier for a while, putting all their efforts in search for happiness this way is a big mistake. It can even lead people further away from what they try to accomplish. Happiness is a state of mind that you will be in when you have courage enough to live the life you really want to live, to become what you really want to become. And you are able to become what you want because God has provided you and me with the freedom of choice; we can choose what we want to be, and only you and I can know what that is. So if you want happiness and joy you will find it within and not outside yourself.

Communication and positive relationship building also contribute significantly to happiness. By sharing your joy with other people, you don’t only give them joy but you increase your own happiness as well. I’m sure that you have experienced when you give something good to others, you’ll get something good back. I will go as far as to say that giving something of yourself to other people is the greatest enrichment in life. Just think about what a smile can do for another person. And it’s that simple. Be wasteful with your smiles, give smiles, compliments, a few nice words to people you meet every day. What will happen is that they become happier and you will become even more happy.

Do you think you deserve happiness? Many people ask themselves, why should I be happy? I haven’t done anything to deserve to be joyful. Happiness has nothing to do with what you deserve. Happiness is always there if you search for it. It’s the same as when an opportunity knocks; the opportunity to be happy is continuously floating right before your eyes every day, just fetch it. Smile and laugh. And share your joy with others.

Unhappiness is caused by the way you have programmed yourself to think and feel. When a challenge presents itself, many people automatically remind themselves of previous miseries that they think will occur if they meet this challenge. You have to re-programme yourself by repeating time after time that you are happy and full of joy. Then you will incrementally experience a new and increasing power that gradually will lead you to the person that can accomplish whatever he or she wants, which resides deep inside you. Follow this simple practice every day and you’ll end up in a happy and joyful state of mind sooner than you can imagine.

Terje Brooks Ellingsen is a writer and internet publisher. He runs the website 1st-Self_Improvement.net. Terje is a Sociologist who enjoys contributing to the personal growth and happiness of others. He tries to accomplish this by writing about self improvement issues from his own experience and knowledge. For example, making money on the internet and joy and happiness in relationships.

There is a new phrase emerging in the psychotherapy community. It’s “Compassion Fatigue”. What does this mean? Why is it happening? What does it say about the nature of the “help” many therapists, who are succumbing to it, are actually affording their clients, if any? What can and needs to be done about it?

In order to answer many of these questions I will draw on my own personal experience of having been a psychiatrist/psychotherapist for almost 20 years and for having been directly affected by “compassion fatigue”.

Much of my training was in traditional psychotherapeutic modalities i.e. analytical psychotherapy, interpersonal therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, as well as more alternative forms of therapy such as analytical hypnotherapy, imagery work and EMDR. My journey, as I think is the journey of most therapists, has been to find the most effective modality for my clients. The list I gave above is some indication of the time and energy I spent trying to achieve this end.

What was the net result of my efforts however? Well, in truth, over my 20 odd years in practice I found my emotional and physical energy becoming progressively drained. So much so that I developed what some might call Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.
What I came to recognize it as however was a state of “Spiritual Life Energy Depletion” (SLED for short).

My case of SLED is what I believe many therapists are now calling Compassion Fatigue. So what is SLED?

Well it’s just what it implies, a depletion of my spiritual life energy. Another way of saying that is that I was less and less present in my physical body because my “life energy” had been used up. Now since I am my life energy and my life energy is me that’s equivalent to saying that “I was used up”.

Hence the clients who were coming into to my office were (knowingly or unknowingly) essentially using up my life energy to sustain themselves. In the meanwhile I was being drained, being used up, or more dramatically I was dying! That’s what it means for one’s life energy to be drained or used up.

After I realized that this is not where I wanted to be I had to do some serious soul searching to understand what I had gotten myself into. I was of the mind that helping others was supposed to help one feel uplifted, joyful, content, fulfilled, energized, alive and loving life. Well clearly this wasn’t happening to me. In my view, it probably is an illusion that many therapists are still futilely searching for. In the process they too are being “used up”! Therefore we now have “Compassion Fatigue”.

On reflection I had the following insights:

1. I had to find a way out of this negative energy vortex that was killing me.

2. I had to reassess my definition of what it meant to “help” others.

3. I had to find a new direction which was aligned with a more honest definition of what it meant to truly “help others”. One that was positive for both client and facilitator (I now no longer use the term therapist in relation to this new approach because it reflects a construct from the old tradional approach which I no longer entertain).

So I made the only decision (which some have said was courageous, but in my view was the only one I could make) and that was to leave behind everything I had spent most of my life working towards, my career.

On reflecting on the nature of “helping others” in a genuine way I developed a new approach which I call the Mind Resonance Process(TM) (MRP). MRP is an approach to helping others which diverges from the notion underlying my traditional training (i.e. that the way to help is to sustain your clients with your life energy, even if most therapists don’t even realize that this is what they are doing) and which supports both client and facilitator in what is essentially true about each of them.

This goes something like this:

Both facilitator and client are Divine Beings. The only thing that keeps them from recognizing this and living this are the conditioned beliefs that they carry about themselves and others. MRP is a tool that assists clients in releasing such conditioned beliefs thereby allowing them to remember and re-experience their true Divine Nature.

As one undergoes the MRP experience they reconnect to their own Life Energy in such a way that they no longer feel a need to “suck” life energy from the “therapist’ or others, for that matter, in order to go on functioning and living.

Another way of seeing what is going on here is that rather than individuals buying into the notion that life energy is limited (and therefore can only be secured from someone else) that instead it is avaliable in abundance and is accessible directly through an experience of one’s Divine Self. One just needs to find it there within them. This is the power of MRP.

The net result for both facilitator and client post MRP is that both experience a rise in their energy level, a greater feeling of aliveness, a feeling of lightness, a greater feeling a inner peace and calmness, greater emotional resilience, greater feelings of love and compassion, more inspired and able to reclaim control over every aspect of their lives and so much more.

In my view this experience, which I have repeatedly with clients is what I had always been looking for, for my self and others.

If you are a therapist suffering from something akin to Compassion Fatigue or an individual looking for a new experience of being helped kindly visit the web link below for an introductory consultation with MRP.

Dr. Nick Arrizza is trained in Chemical Engineering, Business Management & Leadership, Medicine and Psychiatry. He is an Energy Psychiatrist, Healer, Key Note Speaker,Editor of a New Ezine Called “Spirituality And Science” (which is requesting high quality article submissions) Author of “Esteem for the Self: A Manual for Personal Transformation” (available in ebook format on his web site), Stress Management Coach, Peak Performance Coach & Energy Medicine Researcher, Specializes in Life and Executive Performance Coaching, is the Developer of a powerful new tool called the Mind Resonance Process(TM) that helps build physical, emotional, mental and spiritual well being by helping to permanently release negative beliefs, emotions, perceptions and memories. He holds live workshops, international telephone coaching sessions and international teleconference workshops on Physical. Emotional, Mental and Spiritual Well Being.

Business URL #1: http://www.telecoaching4u.com

Personal URL: http://www.telecoaching4u.com/Spirituality_And_Science.htm