http://www.a1articles.com en-us editorial@articlealley.com When faced with the opportunity to try something new – what reaction do you have? • Dread? • Fear? • Start making excuses? • Run for the hills? If you find that you get a sinking feeling in your stomach, your breath shortens, and you generally ti... http://www.a1articles.com/are-you-afraid-to-try-something-new-2319688.html 25th July 2011 Why are you here? By here I mean on this planet, in this body, living your one precious life at this time in history? Do you know? It’s OK if you can’t articulate it, but on some level you know. This I can guarantee you. And you are meant to live y... http://www.a1articles.com/why-you-are-called-to-live-a-radical-life-2316678.html 19th July 2011 I was watching the recent on-air interview reconciliation between Oprah and Iyanla Vanzant (a former protégé of Oprah’s who vanished from the TV scene eleven years ago) and have to say I was shocked. Shocked but not surprised that even two powerful, succ... http://www.a1articles.com/how-to-avoid-unintended-consequences-from-incomplete-communications-2247825.html 25th May 2011 What is your relationship with your body? Is it a deep, sensual loving romance? Or A despicable, miserable, rotten, hateful one? Or Maybe somewhere in between? If it’s anything less than a love affair, you might be missing out on a powe... http://www.a1articles.com/do-you-hate-your-body-2245662.html 24th May 2011 Are You In a Panic? Do you find yourself breathless and in a panic over whatever is happening for you right now? Stressed out in the middle of a career transition? Desperately grasping for new clients? You find yourself feeling a sense of u... http://www.a1articles.com/are-you-in-a-panic-2210852.html 05th May 2011 “Thinking About It” is Another Way of Saying I Choose More of the Same Last week after I spoke to a group of professional woman about three key elements to creating a new, more confident you, one member of the audience said to me, “I really loved your ... http://www.a1articles.com/thinking-about-it-2210833.html 05th May 2011 When someone says the "M" word ("money"), what sort of reaction do you have? If you’re like most people with a pulse that are drawing breath, you likely have some sort of charge about it. After all we have given money SO much power over us that when we ... http://www.a1articles.com/live-like-you-dont-need-the-money-2146570.html 28th March 2011 What is your experience in your own head like? Do you have a series of tapes playing over and over (and they aren’t saying the nicest, most productive things!)? Does it feel like a band of monkeys (aka “Monkey Mind”) are swinging from the trees in an in... http://www.a1articles.com/are-you-a-prisoner-of-your-own-mind-2146567.html 28th March 2011 Have you ever caught yourself saying the same thing over and over? Things like: I’d like to change careers or start a business... BUT... * I don’t know what I should do; I only know its not this... * I’m afraid I won’t be able to make enough m... http://www.a1articles.com/talk-is-cheap-2057686.html 22nd February 2011 I recently had the opportunity to speak with a large audience of individuals in the midst of career transition. These folks ranged from people who desperately needed a job because they had been out of work for a long time to people pro-actively seeking t... http://www.a1articles.com/are-you-letting-others-tell-you-who-you-should-be-2057685.html 22nd February 2011 Have you ever needed to make a decision and then just when you thought you knew what you wanted to do, doubted yourself? In the "I want to do x,y,z...well, I don’t know maybe I shouldn’t? What if it’s the wrong choice? Maybe I don’t deserve it?" sort of ... http://www.a1articles.com/secondguessing-yourself-costing-you-confidence--money-1986521.html 26th January 2011 I admit it, when I read the book Eat, Pray, Love I loved it. Last weekend I went to see the movie Eat, Pray, Love, and I loved that too, but in a different way. Frankly I could leave it at that and say I've been deeply moved by both these pieces of creat... http://www.a1articles.com/do-you-have-an-appetite-for-your-life-1986518.html 26th January 2011 With Hanukkah wrapping up and the Christmas/New Year’s holiday picking up steam, its time for some straight talk about how to do the season well. It’s common this time of year to wonder, how can I do this in a way that feels right? There are so many dec... http://www.a1articles.com/3-keys-to-a-holiday-season-that-feels-right-1940930.html 10th January 2011 When you think of that next step for yourself in your life or career/business how often do you say to yourself, "I just wish I could figure this out!"? Do you ask this question and then launch into a bunch of mental gymnastics of working really hard to f... http://www.a1articles.com/are-you-trying-to-figure-it-all-out-1904292.html 15th December 2010 In this hard charging, never stop world we live in it can seem like if you stop to catch your breath for even a second, you’ll be run over by the tide of people trying to get ahead of you. Trampled like the crowds in Pamplona during the running of the bu... http://www.a1articles.com/sometimes-you-need-to-retreat-to-move-forward-1904286.html 15th December 2010 Have you ever talked about something you would really like to do or the type of person you’d like to be and then added the words "well, maybe someday" to the end of it? If you have, you’re like so many people who wait. Waiting for: * "Extra" money... http://www.a1articles.com/are-you-waiting-for-someday-1871049.html 26th November 2010 How often in your life have you settled or given up your power because you chose to let others be in charge rather than tap into the leader within you? If you find yourself feeling like you’re at the mercy of other people’s whims and decisions or want to... http://www.a1articles.com/are-you-a-leader-or-a-follower-1871046.html 26th November 2010 Have you ever felt deep inside like you know exactly what you want and need to do for your own highest good, but yet don't do it? Perhaps you feel an undercurrent of guilt or that you "shouldn't" or wonder "what will people think?"? Yet, if at that same... http://www.a1articles.com/are-you-giving-yourself-permission-807986.html 04th March 2009 Almost a week later I am still integrating my experience from this year's Radical Aliveness Retreat. You see last year was a wild, deep, and intense ride for me. Intensely painful at times but with months of hindsight I know it was such a necessary and f... http://www.a1articles.com/come-to-the-edge-468547.html 05th February 2008 The last few weeks have been all about opening to changes and possibilities. What I learned is how desperately we like to cling to what is familiar even when we know we don't like it and we are yearning for something different. These insights came to me ... http://www.a1articles.com/opening-to-possibilities-464661.html 31st January 2008 Your website by itself isn't going to generate leads for you. Unless you have a way to capture visitor information you'll never know who visited or why. Not only that you can't even follow up with them to see if what you do is a fit for them. That is why ... http://www.a1articles.com/why-you-need-to-give-something-away-free-on-your-website-464660.html 31st January 2008 The other day I was having a conversation with a potential client when she started apologizing for not being better with technology and not having had any success building her own site. I get this a lot. I am not sure why, but it seems web design and fina... http://www.a1articles.com/7-reasons-why-it-doesnt-pay-to-do-your-own-website-255888.html 21st January 2008 Not that long ago I finished reading Elizabeth Gilbert's bestselling book "Eat, Pray, Love". I had first stumbled upon it in the tiny (and only) café store on Monhegan Island this summer. It sounded intriguing but when I went back to purchase it there we... http://www.a1articles.com/stillness-is-the-question-and-the-answer-255886.html 21st January 2008 Before you know it Thanksgiving will be upon us. In just over a week we will sit down once again with our families (biological and/or chosen) and gorge upon a feast until we need to unbutton our jeans and snooze on the couch. Thanksgiving officially launc... http://www.a1articles.com/7-secrets-to-a-stress-free-thanksgiving-and-holiday-season-242016.html 07th November 2007 It has been both a very long and a surprisingly short 60 days since I first learned that I was getting laid off from my day job. As I embark on my last day tomorrow, I've been reflecting on what it means to complete what you started and do it with class.... http://www.a1articles.com/completing-with-class-232824.html 30th October 2007 This weekend I led a bike ride for the local club. When I signed up for it I had visions of cool, crisp autumn air and leaves turning Technicolor. What I got was an unseasonable hot October Saturday complete with morning fog you couldn't even cut with a... http://www.a1articles.com/lessons-from-the-fog-229295.html 19th October 2007 Copyright 2005, Paula Gregorowicz and The Paula G. Company As we approach the end of the year, we tend to rush forward full speed ahead. With holiday madness and other tasks that need to be done by the end of the year, who has time to neatly tie a rib... http://www.a1articles.com/finish-strong-19556.html 13th December 2005 Copyright 2005, The Paula G Company and Paula Gregorowicz Recently I had the great pleasure of hearing one of my favorite bands, Groovelily, perform their original musical theater piece Striking 12 in New York City. Before the show, as the band was wa... http://www.a1articles.com/keep-playing-18523.html 06th December 2005 Copyright 2005, Paula Gregorowicz and The Paula G. Company I got to thinking about money after a meeting the other day. It is probably the #1 worry people have. I would say health comes first, but it only seems to outrank money if something is wrong, ... http://www.a1articles.com/money-makes-the-world-go-round-18522.html 06th December 2005 Copyright 2005, Paula Gregorowicz and The Paula G. Company Let's say there is something you really want to do. It can be something big like moving to another part of the country or something small like taking an hour of time several times a week to ... http://www.a1articles.com/whats-your-excuse-15677.html 15th November 2005 Copyright 2005, Paula Gregorowicz and The Paula G. Company Time is our greatest and most precious asset. Time is the great equalizer of all us human beings. Why then do we not recognize and treat it with the respect it deserves? Whether you are ri... http://www.a1articles.com/time-do-you-spend-or-invest-it-15676.html 15th November 2005 When I first started in the sport of cycling about 9 years ago, I was very nervous about hitting things I didn't want to – trees, holes, rocks, drainage grates, or pillars depending on whether I was riding on the road or on a trail. The thing I noticed w... http://www.a1articles.com/look-where-you-want-to-go-12815.html 19th October 2005