Discover Your Bliss

How to make your new year's resolutions stick

If you're in new year's resolution mode, then you might consider creating a support network to make this year's resolutions stick.

Intent.com is an online community that provides the best content to fulfill your aspirations.  

Enter your intention and you are immediately linked to resources, articles and a group of readers, authors health gurus who have a similar intention.  Through this group you can seek support, advice and inspiration (members will be your cheerleaders and leave you supportive messages).  

Just another cool tool to support your intentions and goals! 

On a side note - Mallika Chopra (Deepak Chopra's wife) created the intent website. 

What's your intention for the coming year?  How will you gather support and resources to meet your goals?

I'd love to hear your comments and discoveries. 

2 go-to social travel websites

If you'd like to socialize more when traveling, then read on to discover two new travel social networking websites. 

Dopplr.com - their tag line - Dopplr makes your travel planning smarter.  Have you even returned from a trip and discovered that your college roommate was there during the exact same time?  I recently found out - after the fact - that one of my friends from Northern California was at Disneyland on the same day I was - ugh - missed connection.  What Doppler does is create a secure way to share your travel plans with those you trust - and never miss a connection travel opportunity again! 

InterNations.org - a global expat community with 230 local branches.  Here's your go-to place to find locals that speak your language.  Who knows...you just might discover someone living in Japan that went to your college!  I know that for my next "non English-speaking country of travel" - I will search for an expat that can make my trip more memorable...and possibly create a new connection!  

How can expanding your connections in the world, support your energy?  What does connection do for you?

I'd love to hear your comments and discoveries. 

Quotes on character

"The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back."  Abigail Van Buren, Dear Abby

Last minute ideas to give the gift of giving

What doesn't require shipping and can be a last minute gift?  The gift of giving. 

Strength.org - $35 feeds a child for a month.

WomensSportsFoundation.org - Giving to Robin Roberts' GoGirlGo Fund will help girls displaced by Hurricane Katrina stay in sports.

HomeBasedCareAlliance.org - $150 will supply medicine plus sterile gloves and a bicycle to a caregiver for people living with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa. 

TheIRC.org - $35 buys a winter coat for a resettled refugee in the U.S.

FistulaFoundation.org - helps trains doctors to care for the 2 to 3 million women who have injuries from prolonged or obstructed labor. 

WorldVisionMicro.org - you can make a microloan to help a woman in a developing country get her own small business up and running. 

How will you give to others this holiday season?  How will you expand your giving to the rest of the year? 

I'd love to hear your insights and discoveries. 

Last minute ideas to give the gift of giving

What doesn't require shipping and can be a last minute gift?  The gift of giving. 

Strength.org - $35 feeds a child for a month.

WomensSportsFoundation.org - Giving to Robin Roberts' GoGirlGo Fund will help girls displaced by Hurricane Katrina stay in sports.

HomeBasedCareAlliance.org - $150 will supply medicine plus sterile gloves and a bicycle to a caregiver for people living with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa. 

TheIRC.org - $35 buys a winter coat for a resettled refugee in the U.S.

FistulaFoundation.org - helps trains doctors to care for the 2 to 3 million women who have injuries from prolonged or obstructed labor. 

WorldVisionMicro.org - you can make a microloan to help a woman in a developing country get her own small business up and running. 

How will you give to others this holiday season?  How will you expand your giving to the rest of the year? 

I'd love to hear your insights and discoveries. 

5 more ways to give for free

Want to give to others, yet your funds are low?  Here's five more ways you can give for free:

ICouldBe.org - mentor a struggling student online.  Studies suggest that a little boost can double a kid's chance of going to college.  

Care2.org - every click you make prompts a sponsor to make a donation that will fight breast cancer, global warming and more.  

GoodSearch.com - search what you're looking for online and every search will send money to a cause of your choice. 

WarmUpAmerica.org - if you can and like to knit, then you can send squares that will be made into afghans and given to battered women's shelters. 

Starve a landfill - Give back to the earth by making this holiday a "no wrapping paper" year by using newspapers, magazines, maps, etc. instead. 

How does it feel to be able to help someone else no matter your economic standing?  What's the gift in helping another?

I'd love to hear your comments and discoveries. 

Quotes on character

"Calamity is the test of integrity."  Samuel Richardson, Clarissa, or, the History of a Young Lady

5 more gifts of giving

Five more opportunities for giving this holiday season:

SmallCanBeBig.org - $5 makes a difference to a family who needs help with bills due to illness, domestic violence or other tragedies.  

IMCWorldWide.org - $47 to the International Medical Corps delivers medical and mental health care to refugees who have suffered sexual violence. 

 

GoCampaign.org - $1 feeds four children in Tanzania a healthy breakfast (run with kids from the United States).  

Madre.org - $30 buys a cell phone for a rural Afghan woman; if threatened by violence, she can make a lifesaving call.  

FeedingAmerica.org - $1 provides nine pounds of groceries to a hungry family in the U.S.

 

How can you help those in need this holiday season?  What would support you to remember to give all year long? 

I'd love to hear your comments and discoveries. 

Ease jet lag naturally

If you're looking for a natural remedy for jet lag, then check out FlyRight Jet Lag Formula.  

 

Thankfully, I rarely have negative side effects from traveling, yet shied away from any of the remedies because of their chemical base. 

Now there's a more natural option that might find its way into my bag on my next international flight. 

I always like to share my discoveries. 

Where does jet lag show up in your everyday life?  What's the one thing you need to overcome your daily life jet lag?

I'd love to her your insights and discoveries. 

5 gifts of giving

Still stumped on what to get the person that has everything?  How about give a gift of "giving?" 

Here's five worthy causes to give to "in honor of" that hard-to-get-for person on your list:

PajamaProgram.org - $10 helps get PJs to kids in shelters so they won't have to sleep in their clothes. 

DinnerGarden.org - $5 buys seeds for enough veggies to feed a struggling family of seven.

SaveTheChildren.org - $25 gives lifesaving malaria medication to 10 children. 

GoodGifts.org - $50 will send and African village a solar lamp, stove and water heater. 

DoctorswithoutBorders.org - $50 will vaccinate 50 people against meningitis, polio and other life-threatening diseases.  

How can you give back this holiday season?  What's your gift-giving philosophy? 

I'd love to hear your comments and discoveries.