Life By Design Weekly News
August 27, 2008
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News this week:

~ Ending the JTS Birthday Bash with a Double Feature
~ Mom’s Moments
~ Quote of the Week

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Ending the JTS Birthday Bash with a Double Feature

I have had a BLAST celebrating Journey to Self’s one year birthday with all of my guest and listeners this month and we are ending the party with a FANTASTIC double feature of JTS this week.

At the 10am pst / 11am mnt / 12pm cst / 1pm est show: Dr. Deitra C. Payne, founder of Women & HOPE

Dr. Payne has more than 15 years of corporate business experience and has worked for numerous government contractors in the areas of operations, accounting and finance. She has managed multimillion dollar contracts, developed corporate budgets and developed financial reporting systems to streamline work processes.

In 2006, Dr. Payne realized her dream of becoming an entrepreneur when she founded C. Payne Consulting & Training (CPCT), LLC. Dr. Payne has always been passionate about helping others, and CPCT is a professional services business specializing in management consulting, training and coaching for businesses and individuals designed to help its clients become successful. Business services include diversity and sensitivity training, team building, conflict resolution and leadership coaching. Individual services include career transitioning and life and success coaching. She also conducts empowerment workshops and seminars that inspire, uplift and motivate individuals to live their best life.

In keeping with her passion for helping others, Dr. Payne is the founder of Women & HOPE, a global community and empowerment magazine for women. Women & HOPE (Helping Others Propel to Excellence) is all about women coming together from all over the world to share their stories and resources to help one another in achieving goals so that each and every woman is successful and can live her best life.

At 5pm pst / 6pm mnt / 7pm cst / 8pm est there will be a special evening Journey to Self with my good friend Dr. Sally Witt.

Dr. Sally Witt is a Breakthrough Coach and Hypnotherapist. She has a Ph.D. in Spiritual Counseling, and has a unique background in traditional psychology as well as intense alternative and metaphysical training. She not only provides individuals and families with coaching and individual therapeutic sessions, but she provides support groups, corporate consulting, trainings and demonstrations on a wide variety of topics.

Dr. Witt is also known worldwide for her intuitive and energy healing gifts. She has been a frequent guest on national television and radio programs to talk about her work. She is the author of “Your Mind Holds the Key to Health, Happiness, and Prosperity”. She offers a variety of services from social networking coaching to her newly launched stop smoking program.

It has been my pleasure to work with Dr. Sally on several different projects, the latest was recording instructional videos for her coaching certification programs. It is always inspiring to hear her insights and life philosophies.

Tune in Thursday August 28th at 12pm cst/1pm est and 7pm cst/8pm est for this empowering double feature , Listen LIVE at http://blogtalkradio.com/journeytoself.

Call in with questions for my guests during the show at (347) 215-8942 and join the show’s chat room to interact with myself and other listeners during the show.

If you miss the live shows you can read the show notes and get links to the archive shows on the Journey to Self website http://journeytoself.info.

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Mom’s Moments

Don’t forget to listen to the first Mom’s Moments

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Quote of the Week

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is trying its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.”

~ E. E. Cummings

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Life By Design Weekly News
August 21, 2008
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News this week:

~ Play to Win
~ Mama Donna Henes on Journey to Self this week
~ Quote of the Week

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Play to Win

I was talking to my cousin on the phone, as we did most nights before we headed off to bed and she was watching the Olympics.
“You know I am really good at badminton and they have an Olympic team.” She said as the conversation bounced around as it often did from one topic to the other. I couldn’t help but giggle, I remember playing badminton in the back yard and when we went camping, not exactly a sport that I consider Olympic worthy, but who am I to judge? “Look up and see how I would try out for the Olympic team” she said, “Really…I want to know, because if I am going to play, I am going to play to win!” So I Googled a few terms and found a couple clubs. From what I could discern from the information was that you join a club start winning at the local level and then compete in the international tournaments all the way up to the top. “Hmmm…I will look into it. You will be making big money by then and you can sponsor me because I know I can win!” She said.

After we hung up her words kept popping up into my mind it was refreshing to hear someone that didn’t limit themselves. She never once mentioned any reasons why she could not make it happen, instead she had confidence.

I always admire big thinkers; they are able to create the extraordinary in their lives. Is it really a jump from a casual badminton player to Olympic bound? Ok…maybe it is, but isn’t that how the realizations of most big dreams start…as a leap of faith? What to say that if she starts practicing, joins some local tournaments, that in the four years to the next Olympics, she couldn’t become one of the best badminton players in the world?

Think about your moments of thinking big. How fast did you dismiss it as just a “silly idea” or a case of “daydreaming”?

If we open up to possibilities as we embrace the adage that anything is impossible there would be no limit to where we could go or what we could create in our lives. We can become the visionaries of our own lives, by removing our tendency to think in terms of limits and letting ourselves dream big and then to follow through with action. We are the only ones that limit what we can do. The next time you go to dismiss one of those “daydreams” remember if you are going to dream…dream big and then go after it! In other words- If you are going to play…play to win!

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Journey to Self

This week on Journey to Self, urban shaman Mama Donna Henes author of The Queen of My Self: Stepping into Sovereignty in Midlife, will be my guest. On Mama Donna’s first appearance in June we talk not only about the new archetype the Queen to represent a women in midlife, but about the resistance that some women go through stepping into their power and how a women that is living in her power often is portrayed negatively by our society.

This week we will be talking more about ways women can discover their inner power and celebrate the queen within.

Tune in to http://blogtalkradio.com/journeytoself, Thursday August 21st at 12pm cst / 1pm est and listen to Mama Donna talk about embracing our inner queen.

While listening to the show you can join the chat room during the show, use the “click to talk” feature, or call in (347) 215-8942 with your comments or questions.

Also, tune in for a chance to win this week’s JTS Birthday Bash Prize!!

Show notes and links to show archives will be available on the Journey to Self Site ~ http://journeytoself.info

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Quote of the Week

I long to accomplish a great and noble task,
but it is my chief duty to accomplish small
tasks as if they were great and noble.” ~ Helen Keller

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Life By Design Weekly News
August 13, 2008
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News this week:

~ Perseverance on Journey to Self this week
~ Quote of the Week

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Perseverance on Journey to Self this week

I remember hearing stories from friends about people they new that quit school with only a year left to go, this use to boggle my mind. One day last May I was on my way to school it had been one of those days that was just one challenge after another an

d needless to say I was stressed. It was the end of the semester which meant projects were due and finals were just around the corner. I felt overwhelmed and I thought about how easy my life would be if I didn’t have school on top of everything else. Then like a ton of bricks it hit me, it is moments like the one I was having that made people quit school so close to finishing their degree.

It’s easy to give in, it can be tempting to trick yourself into thinking that giving up a dream is what is best for you or your family. I knew that later down the road not finishing school would not only leave me unfulfilled, but it would make it challenging to secure a good financial future for my family as well. Giving up will never help you live the life you want, instead it creates the life you settle for.

This week on Journey to Self my guest is Scott Suprina and we will be talking about perseverance and the importance of never giving up. Scott is the creator and president of Dreamseats, but like many others, his journey to a successful business did not come without some bumps in the road, including several failed attempts at business.

Join us live Thursday August 14th @ 10am pst/ 11am mnt/ 12pm cst/ 1pm est on Blog Talk Radio ~ http://blogtalkradio.com/journeytoself to listen to Scott’s inspirational story of weathering the storm to see the realization of his dreams.

Join our chat room to ask question and listen up for your chance to win a prize in celebration of Journey to Self’s month long birthday celebration!!

Call in with questions for my guests during the show at (347) 215-8942.

Show notes and links to show archives will be available on the Journey to Self Site ~ http://journeytoself.info

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Quote of the Week

Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The June/July issue of Empowering You! is hot off the press. (read this issue)

In this issue of Empowering You!

~ Self-Esteem and Work
~ Talking Care of Ill Family Members
~ Mom’s Moments: The Beginning
~ A special advertising offer

Side Bar:

~ MCB
~ Featured Journey to Self Shows from June and July
~ Quote from Elizabeth Cady Stanton
~ Empowering You! Sponsors

Life By Design Weekly News
August 6, 2008
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News this week:

~ A Message from Tonya ~ Where has this summer gone?
~ Encouraging our Youths on Journey to Self this week
~ Quote of the Week

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A Message from Tonya ~ Where has this summer gone?

I can’t believe that it is already August. The days by the pool are slowly coming to an end. I have had an incredible summer and feel myself reluctant to let go. This summer I have been able to work full time doing what I love with Life By Design. LBD has some excellent programs on the horizon and I feel grateful for the time to move Life By Design into some new areas that I feel drawn to, such as offering family management coaching and support as well as assistance, coaching and resources for individuals in business.

I am excited to be celebrating the one year anniversary of my Journey to Self. It is so empowering to see how far JTS has come in it’s first year. I have to admit when I started in August 2007 I had no idea that I was going to awaken another passion inside, but here I am a year later going strong!

Even though I have been on summer break from the University of Wisconsin, I have been taking classes to get certified as a Life and Breakthrough coach and will be starting classes to get certified as a Family Manager Coach very soon. I feel so grateful to Dr. Sally Witt and Coach Sarah Zeldman for helping me fulfill by pursuit of professional development. As reluctant as I am to say good-bye to summer I am also anxious to get back to classes at the UW to finish my last year.

I am about to see the incredible results of my hard work in school and my business. I have had a summer of abundance and am looking forward to an amazing fall…but not quite yet WE STILL HAVE 3 MORE WEEKS OF SUMMER LEFT, so if you haven’t get out there and enjoy it while you still can!

Tonya

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Encouraging our Youths on Journey to Self this week

What would our world be like without creativity and imagination? How would be find a way to balance between the sometime harshness of reality with the enjoyment of being whisked away into a different world where limits seem to melt away as the impossible is magically possible?

Where would we be without those creative thinkers? The true visionaries in history are men and women that thought “outside” the box and dared to go against convention to bring about a new light on an old problem.

As a mother I feel that one of the greatest gifts I can give to my son is to foster his imagination and help his creativity grow. Last week we talked about ways to help our children find their inner voice, become a cheerleader for themselves and others using the Yeah! Yeah! Out Loud (R) tools.

This week we are talking about how we can encourage creativity and imagination in our youth. I am joined this week by a very talented writer, Mollie Kehl Penrod, she is the author of “The Secret of Wellington’s Map” an young adult action adventure that was published in June 2008.

Tune in Thursday August 7th @ 10am pst/ 11am mnt/ 12pm cst/ 1pm est to kick off Journey to Self’s Birthday Bash with Mollie Kehl Penrod and fabulous information on how we can encourage the creativity and imagination in our youths. Listen LIVE at http://blogtalkradio.com/journeytoself.

As apart of Journey to Self’s Birthday Bash we will be giving away a prize during the show, so tune in and join our chat room for details.

Call in with questions for my guests during the show at (347) 215-8942.

Show notes and links to show archives will be available on the Journey to Self Site ~ http://journeytoself.info

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Quote of the Week

A child’s life is like a piece of paper on which every person leaves a mark.”

~ Chinese Proverb

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