Happy New Year!
January 1, 2008
 
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Walk to the edge
listen hard. play with abandon
practice wellness. laugh. risk love
continue to learn. appreciate your friends
choose with no regret
fail with enthusiasm
stand by your family
celebrate the holidays that make sense
lead or follow a leader. do what you love
live as if this is all there is

Begin each day as if it were on purpose....Mayanne Radmacher
 
Start this New Year with Willingness

So often we start the New Year with resolutions to begin again. To grow. To blossom. To open ourselves. We want to make major changes in our lives so we set personal goals to achieve for the new year. We want to lose weight, get into physical shape, improve our health, earn more money, and find/deepen love relationships. We, ultimately, want to feel better about ourselves and the life we are living. Several months go by and we fall off track from our original intentions. Why is this? What can we do THIS new year that will help us stay connected to what we want to create in our lives? My first suggestion is to not do it alone. Click the link below for more guidance with new year's resolutions - the American Counseling Association published some of my thoughts.

Take Care and Be Well,

Sue

1. Attend a personal development training program. (Visit http:/www.ipeccoaching.com to learn about the self-study program, "The Law of Being" and the life transforming training, "The Life Potential Program"...take a weekend workshop at Omega institute in New York State... http:/www.eomega.org.....or a yoga retreat at http:/www.kripalu.org in the Berkshires.

2. Take a local adult school class this spring. Visit http:/www.adultschool.org.

3. Visit local wellness centers & learn about their programs -http:/www.starseedyoga.com, http:/www.beinginbalanceinc.com, http:/www.divinebooks.net,

4. Visit local metaphysical boutiques -
http:/www.mysticspirit.net, http:/blulotusboutique.net, http:/
www.littleangels1.com

5. Indulge in a 2 hour massage at a NEW spa in Bloomfield - http:/www.flicspa.com

6. Create a Master Mind group....a writing group....a woman/man only group for like minded intentions

7. Hire a Life Coach or a licensed counselor to help you achieve your goals and aspirations

8. Establish a ritual of reminders all over - on mirrors, in your agenda, books, in your socks, computer, cell phone, pillows

9. Pray...Meditate....Spend time in Nature

10. Write. Ask questions. Learn solutions. Discover answers. Monitor your goals. Motivate yourself. Find aspirations. Speak to your heart.

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More suggestions on New Year's Resolutions - 2008

25 ways to Smile

1. Be in the Sun

2. Get a scalp massage

3. Experience feet reflexology

4. Walk on the beach. Smell the Ocean

5. Walk your dog. Then, walk your dog again.

6. Buy fuzzy socks

7. Go rollerblading. Ice skating. Bike riding down a hill.

8. Go fishing with a child

9. Take a ballroom dancing class

10. Make something. Then, give it away to someone you like.

11. Play a drum. Guitar. Piano.

12. Take a hot bath with peppermint oil

13. Go sleigh riding. Cross Country Skiing.

14. Collect 6 beautiful rocks

15. Send someone Flowers

16. Do yoga at home

17. Sing in the rain

18. Roast marshmallows & warm your toes by a fire

19. Tell a friend you love him/her

20. Ask your partner to comb your hair

21. Send a homemade valentine now

22. Do something kind for your neighbor

23. Give your close friends your favorite recipes

24. Burn scented candles, essential oils, rose incense

25. Listen to live music, piano, blues, classical, chimes

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Living A Spiritual Life
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Date: Friday evening, January 18, 2008

Presenters: Karen Chambers and Sue Waldman

Time: 7:00pm-8:30pm

Location: Sue Waldman's office

Fee: $40 Prepaid by December 12 - $50 cash at door

Advance Registration is REQUIRED ~ Seating is Limited ~ please register soon! Call (973) 857-9090

Living a Spiritual Life will continue it's discussion series on Friday, January 18, 2008 at 7pm facilitated by Karen Chambers and Sue Waldman. Come join us in a sacred space to connect with others interested in Spiritual Development, Successful Living and Networking. This meeting's focus will be concerning "The New You". This meeting's focus will be on moving forward in 2008 with honesty, joy and love. The art of living well is closely tied to living by creating. Each person's presence is the manifestation and demonstration of the divine.We will let go of any ties that define and restrict our hearts in order to begin our divine discovery of who we truly are. This New Year, You will Soar.

You'll learn tips, techniques and strategies to: Create infinitely more joy and dramatically reduce stress and overwhelm in your life & career. You will connect with a strong sense of inner purpose and motivation. Understand how to create sustainable change that will help you establish the behaviors, beliefs and habits that will lead to your inevitable success. Become a more inspirational and energetic leader in many aspects of your professional and personal life. And learn how to access your inner strength to bring out your smile so you radiate and shine. Feel it, Breathe it and Be it!!!

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Karen Chambers is an Inspirational Lifestyle Consultant and Interfaith Seminarian. Her focus is the art of personal and professional transformation guided by sacred and contemporary spiritual wisdom teachings. She currently directs Product Marketing for IMAN Cosmetics and is a Career, Travel & Lifestyle Writer for national magazines like Black Enterprise. Her professional background includes fifteen years experience as a Marketing Executive and Image Consultant with clients that range from Gladys Knight to Quincy Jones and Patti LaBelle. Her work has been featured on The Oprah Winfrey Show and in national magazines such as Women's Wear Daily, Essence & Latina. Her creative marketing & image consulting business - First Impressions - directs entrepreneurs, corporations, nonprofits, fashion, beauty and wellness professionals in the art of doing business with passion, purpose and prosperous possibilities!
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Sue Waldman, founder of the Wellness Networking Group, works privately in New Jersey as a psychotherapist and business/life coach. Sue's passion is empowering people to deeply love who they are and the life their living. Her specialty encompasses grief-n-loss, spiritual and personal development, self-care, women's wellness and creativity. Sue helps people heal from past experiences, awaken to the present, and look forward to the future. A weekly women's support group meets every Wednesday evening in Verona, NJ. Sue Waldman is available for business development, networking, training, teaching engagements, energy healing, workshops, retreats, and telephone consultations.

 
Live the Life of Your Dreams!
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This weekly support group for empowered women will help you take your life to the next level- to make your already great life magnificent! Experience the beloved connection of women. Transform negative thinking, build self-esteem and eliminate anxiety. Learn how to live with "Presence, Purpose, Passion and Power!". The ongoing group meets Wednesday evenings from 8:00pm -9:15pm at Sue Waldman's Verona office. Some insurances are accepted. Prior Consultation is required. Please call Sue Waldman at (973) 857-9090 for more information.

 
Grief Recovery Support Group Forming
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This weekly support group is for anyone with a broken heart. If you have lost a loved one due to death, divorce, break-up or separation, this group is for you. If your life has been affected by overwhelming loss (Not only death but also financial, health issues and unemployment) and you have become aware that you do not know what to do to help yourself with the emotions you are experiencing, this group will help you. Learn concrete steps to heal your unresolved grief from your loss in a safe space. Sue Waldman is a certified Grief Recovery® specialist and will assist you in the ultimate journey back to your heart and to the mainstream of your life. Call Sue Waldman at (973) 857-9090 to schedule a consultation. Some health insurance will be accepted.

This support group is tentatively scheduled to begin on Tuesday evenings beginning February 5th from 8:00pm-9:15pm.

 
Living, Loving and Learning
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Date: Friday, February 15, 2008

Presenters: Karen Chambers and Sue Waldman

Time: 7:00pm-8:30pm

Location: Sue Waldman's office or TBA

Fee: special 2008 fee - $28.00 by February 13 - $50 cash at door

Advanced Registration is REQUIRED ~ Seating is Limited ~ Please register by calling (973) 857-9090

This is a new workshop for women and men to come together and learn from one another. We will be creating joy for others, sharing what we have for the betterment of personkind, bringing hope and love. If you still believe in love, generosity, devotion, goodness, and the wonder of life, then, this workshop is answering your call.

"It is not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something" ~ Leo Buscaglia

To live your life in your own way...to reach for the goals you have set for yourself...to be the YOU that you want to be - that is success.

Let success be measured by the joy in your heart.

Let us be reminded that the holiday season can last more than several weeks -that the spirit and magic of the season can thrive all the time. Peace, kindness, joy, and goodwill are not seasonal; they are life-sustaining, life-enhancing, hopeful gestures that should be spoken, sung, and practiced all the months of the year!

Please pass this newsletter onto those interested in personal and spiritual development, networking and successful living!

A dream becomes real....A thousand dreams become possible.

 
 

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