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It’s difficult to know what you want in life until you know what is out there.

It’s never too late to start and always too early to quit.

Daylight Savings Time: Fall back, Spring forward. Here’s a challenge for you: Try explaining this whole process to a 6-year-old. “But Daddy, it IS time to get up because it’s light outside!!”

Some folks look at marriage counseling as just a “chaperoned fight.” Nope. When it’s done right, it’s a way to become the best spouse you can be and have the best marriage you can.

No matter where you are in life, it’s important to learn from where you have been and to plan for where you want to be.

The passing of comedian Steve Allen can remind us all that the best humor really is clean humor.

As the holiday gift-giving season approaches, I want to share an amazing discovery we made a few years ago. Christmas Day is the same date each and every year! Don’t say you weren’t warned.

Saying “I will try” is like saying I will do something differently until it becomes uncomfortable, and then I will change back.

The five most important words a parent can say: “I’m so proud of you.”

The five most important words a spouse can say: “Let’s try it your way.”

The five most important words a child can say: “I love you thiiiiis much!”

Have you ever wished you could go back and do part of your life over because you don’t like how things are now? We all have, of course. Then wouldn’t it then make sense to live today so as to never have to feel that way a year from now, five years, 10 years, never again?

Be careful when you tell a young person “you have so much potential,” “you can do anything you set your mind to,” etc. What we mean as encouragement and a compliment can be heard and experienced as pressure.

One way to count your blessings during the holiday season is to remember the 90/10 rule. All of us have problems, but they usually fall in to the 10-percent category, while all the good stuff can be found in the 90-percent category. Yet we tend to focus all our thought, energy and attention on the 10 percent. Keep solving the problems, of course; just remember to keep your focus on the 90 percent this holiday season. Might be a good idea all year round.

Working with families can be a funny thing. Most parents are very willing to have their child see a counselor. Some parents say they would love to work on themselves too, but don’t want to blow the “all-together parent” image and be a bad model. Seems to me that the best role models are those who can model working on improving themselves, too.

When you find yourself thinking the grass might be greener on the other side, remember this: It will still need mowing and might just be cement painted green.

Best quote I’ve seen since last time, from Karen Lamb: “A year from now you may wish you had started today.”

Visit SecretsofGreatRelationships.com for tips and tools for creating and growing a great relationship. You can also subscribe to our f*r*e*e 10 day e-program on how to enrich your relationship today, from relationship coach and expert Jeff Herring.

Procrastination is a delay tactic that has the ability to choke your dreams and abort the plans and purposes you have for your life.

It has to be nipped in the bud. It should not be given a chance to put your life and your dreams on hold.

The following are 7 benefits of not procrastinating.

Not procrastinating will afford you an opportunity to:

1. Find out what you can do.

If you want to find out what you can do and how far you can go…stop procrastinating! When you don’t procrastinate, you get a chance to be the best you can be. You discover what your abilities are, how far you can stretch and what you can do. Not procrastinating gives you a chance to amaze yourself and others!

2. Make an impact on other peoples lives.

Use your gifts and talents to bless other peoples lives. Everyone has a message to share with other people. Not procrastinating allows you to act in a timely manner when making contributions to other peoples lives. Stop procrastinating! Others are waiting to be enriched and empowered by you.

3. Accomplish something.

Acting on a timely basis allows you to finally accomplish something! The project or dream or goal you have been working on for the last few years needs to be completed. Accomplish something. Bring that project to a close and add it to your list of accomplishments.

4. Move on to other things.

When you don’t procrastinate, you accomplish things and move on to other fresh and exciting things. This gives you the freedom to work on other projects without the guilt of pending issues that need attention.

5. Get yourself out of a rut.

When you are stuck in a rut or a situation that needs to be acted on, dreaming and constantly talking about future actions you plan to do, will not help. Do what needs to be done as soon as you can.

6. Manage your time better.

When you don’t procrastinate, you free up time for all the other things you want to do. Acting on things that need to get done, clears the clutter from your life, mind and schedule.

7. Conquer your fears and take risks.

The longer you procrastinate on overcoming your fears, the bigger your fear becomes in your eyes. The bigger your fear, the more terrified you become and the more you get tempted to procrastinate! Minimize your fears, stop procrastinating, act now and achieve your dreams.

Caroline Jalango is a life coach for unstoppable women who are willing to step up to the plate and take a shot at living exceptional lives wherever they are.

www.motivationzone.com

Caroline@motivationzone.com

Everyone in this world, these days, likes to look at their very best and the main part of their body that they feel has to be well groomed is the face. The repeated unwanted growth of hair on the faces of most women, especially on their upper lips and chin, has influenced them to go for a permanent solution to this never ending problem.

The visits to the beauty parlors and the use of depilatory creams only provides temporary relief and many women folk are fed up and are seeking for long term solution to this problem. This is where facial laser hair removal technique comes handy as it not only provides smooth and satiny skin after the treatment but is also a permanent solution to the unwanted facial hair growth.

The technique employed in the laser facial hair removal method is a simple, painless and less time consuming process, wherein laser light passed through the skin falls on the hair follicle which absorbs the energy the light emits and heat energy thus generated disables the hair follicle.

Hundreds of hair follicles can be treated at any given moment of time and is much quicker process when compared to any other permanent facial hair removal techniques like the electrolysis.