METRO Magazine "Think Good Thoughts"
July 1, 2010 • Metro Magazine • by Susan Gaines
A few months before I met my future husband in Rome, I made a list of all the qualities I desired in a romantic partner. I got the idea from O magazine. The exercise initially sounded hokey, but when I started writing I was shocked by how swiftly the list poured out of me. It contained a variety of characteristics: adventurous, has a sense of home, intuitive, strong, understands my full range (which, by the way, includes being a third-degree black belt who can kick ass if necessary and a fragile woman who cries at commercials). Though I could hear my mother’s voice—“You want too much,” she’s prone to saying. “No relationship is that perfect.”—I kept writing. Why stop? They were just words. When I was finished, I folded the list, put it away and forgot...
Experience Life Magazine "The Power of Positivity"
May 3, 2010 • experiencelifemag.com • By Courtney Lewis Opdahl
As I get older, I've found the last few days of each month to be a time of regret and guilt. It's generally the busiest time in publishing, and I tend to be so wrapped up in my work that I completely neglect my personal goals. That 10 pounds I planned to lose last month rolls over into my goals for next month, only to make me realize that if I had accomplished that weight loss -- or close to it -- each time, I could've lose 20, 30 pounds by now -- or more! Compound that with how fast time seems to fly, how it's spring when it was just winter, how each year seems to be speeding up, and the feelings of fear seem so overwhelming that only some chocolate or a nap will mask it until the next month. Hence, the regret and guilt (and clearly the reasons why I'm not losing weight). But not this month. I started out with a great workshop on Saturday led by Maryanne O'Brien, founder of Live Dynamite. ...
METRO Magazine "Making Dreams Come True"
May 3, 2010 • metromag.com blog • by Susan Gaines
I am a skeptic by training and experience; a journalist without skepticism is a fool -- or a poser. Plus, I grew up in Berkeley, the land new-age cults, peopled with starry-eyed followers, looking for quick spiritual fixes. I was taught to 'question authority,' that 'intellectual' was a compliment that meant you were capable of independent thought. I took this independence to the extreme, refusing to wave my hands in unison with thousands of fans at concerts. I did not want to be swept away by my own enthusiasm, because that was my true nature, I now know. It still is. My true spirit is one of wonder, hope, curiosity and excitement. I am daily swept away by a sense of awe and beauty, feeling a universal pulse as though the world were an irresistible concert for which I would gladly stand and wave my arms with the rest of you. Reconciling the skeptic and the exuberant optimist inside has at times stymied me. So when Maryanne invited me to her Live Dynamite® seminar...
Experience Life - Jan/Feb 2009
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Experience Life - January, 2008
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Franchise Times
"Execute goals without shocking yourself or injecting anything lethal"
and
"Set short-term, long-term and
knock-your-socks-off goals" (PDF)
—Franchise Times, February 2008
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