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Mommy, Are You Happy?

5/8/2020

Most girls are attached to their mommy’s emotions. She loves to see mommy is happy. We are the mirror of our children. Make it easy for your children to deal with you. Don't be angry or disruptive merely because you can. Well, yes, said is always easier than done.
Motherhood is the toughest job in the world, isn't it? You’re so much stressful to feel something like riding a plane to go through turbulence from time to time. How to survive the stress in the tough time?

1. Shift the Perspective

As a mother, you feel overwhelmed as the life is filled to the brim with diapers, feeding, housekeeping, endless hours to tidy up the toys, handle the kid negative behavior, homeschooling and leaving little time or energy for anything else. It’s difficult to squeeze a day or hours for spending time alone doing your own preferences such as reading a book or enjoy a relaxing spa.

When you feel life gets blurry, adjust your focus by shifting the perspective.

What is the different between people who work hard all day and people who do as little as they can possibly escape away with? What is the difference between people who sign up for night school classes and who don’t imagine going back to school? People work hard because they believe there is reward awaiting them that can justify their efforts and dedication. Long term benefit of work outweighing the short term benefit of laziness, isn’t it? Our child is our best career. Days after days of interactions with the kid at home having the biggest impact on who our child will become.

2. Shift the Intention

We are determined to live for the sake of our children. The earth is so dangerous and we bring our children to this life. I love the lyrics of this song:

"When I was a little girl, I ask my mother, what can I be? Will I be pretty? Will I be rich? .......whatever will be, will be....the future is not ours to see...what will be, will be......"

Well, yes, the child’s future is not parent can see by imprinting a set of stereotype standards to reproduce someone else’s success. Children seek success to win approval from parents, please the parents did not instill a love of reading, having to succeed to attain the approval of someone else will not make them enjoy the process.

We can’t regard people as products off an assembly line. Each person has unique qualities, character and talents. If you’re having tough time get your children living up to the specific standard set by others, let them find their own path base on their strengths. You may amaze at what they can do.

3. Shift the Direction

Parents get angry for the gap between the things you want your kids to do and what they actually do. Your kids don’t change their negative behavior no matter what you do. You are burnout when the kid rejects to pick the toys, leave the toys lying around and spread throughout the room; or the loud protest from the toddlers pushing you to buy them something, they will cry, plead or scream to hope that you may give in. Most parents will use the strategy of rewards and punishments for educating the children comply with the rule. No strategy can fit to everyone. When one strategy doesn’t work, shift to other direction or strategy instead.

If the kid is always reluctant to follow the rule, try to shift the strategy to allow him making the initiative. For instances, you can allow the kid in charge for the vacation planning. Let the kid decides the schedule, destination, airline, accommodation, do the research, plan the itinerary and estimate budget. Educating them to have a sense of responsibility to the family and make the vocation become more meaningful.

4. Shift the Allocation

How much you are likely to spend on raising a child? This may mean a lot of expenses on housing, education, toys, baby care products and so on. In order to release the tension from the financial burden, shift the resources allocation in relevant and efficient way. I have read a story like that:

When Isabel and Michael were about to become parents, Isabel resigned from her job as a nurse so that she could stay at home to take care the baby. Later, Isabel began to rethink her decision. Her income is higher than her husband, medical benefits were better. What sense did it make for her to leave her job when she had the better job? Why have to argue with the financial advantages. Michael may not comfortable for not earning an income and being dependent on his wife salary, but the decision make sense for the family, Isabel’s salary is the family’s money, and their daughter is the best career anyone can ask for.

The simple secrets of parenting tips for raising happy girls

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Questions To Interview Yourself

4/12/2020

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While you are not able to travel anywhere due to the current lockdown, you can turn into traveling your inner world.

1. Are you under pressure of being single (if you're single)?

Do you want to engage a relationship but not able to get it? If so, ask yourself what you really think of men? If you are succumbed to a list of worst qualities in a man jump out from your mind by instinct, you ought to scrutinize what makes you hold on this belief deep down in your heart. Your subconscious beliefs might implant from your parents or your experience. Identify them and re-programming them with the help of experts.

2. How to define your own version of success?

I like what Iris Apfel said; “If you’re happy, have found love, are surrounded with good people, doing what you like, and giving back to others, that’s success.”

3. What kind of life do you want to live?

Whatever your answer is, probably would include but not limited to elements of health, love, fun, wealth.

4. How to position your priority list among power, authority, status, love, and money?

Human motivation is either driven by fear or love. What is your version? You are preoccupied with what kinds of emotions?

5. What would you do to go through the hard time for healing the emotional pain?

For me, I would feel good to remove negative energy via

Physically:
Walking barefoot on the beach. Feeling the seawater wash away my negative energy via the flowing water and the sand.

Emotionally:
Practice gratitude

Mentally:
Your words create your reality. Repeat the mantra that can resonate with my feelings to uplift my energy.

Spiritually:
Pray to God. God’s plans are better than my dreams.

6. What kind of animal would you describe yourself? Explain why.

7. If you had a time machine, what would you tell your younger self in 20 years before?

8. What do you want to get NOW?

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How Decluttering Your Space Can Help You To Live A Better Life

4/3/2020

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Did you feel overwhelmed at the chores that need to be done daily? Cleaning the kitchen and the bathroom, and then the living room needs to be vacuumed, and get lost in wondering what's next of the ten other things require to do for tidying up the home. We all have a lazy pig inside our minds. You are either fighting against it or controlled by it. How we do anything is how we do everything. Ever wonder the messy environment can impact our minds for what we do in our daily life:

Are you always late for an appointment?
Are you always forgetting items when leaving home?
Are you panic to find some important stuff at the time when you need it desperately?
Food had deteriorated in the fridge.
The home had stored tons of unused forgotten things while you keep buying new stuff……

How to decluttering and organizing your home? Learn more.

Are we reliance on the physical stuff to uplifting our feeling of happiness? My hubby teases me to tell he always feels risky to open the closet door with the stuff exploding to collapse. I decided to follow the decluttering method from Ms. Marie Kondo to organize my living space with minimal items based on her rules to:

Cut off the unwanted things
Abandon the excess waste
Leave off the attachment to items.

It sounds good. Isn't it?

Why do people unwilling to throw away stuff? Very often, tangible physical space is reflecting our intangible space in our hearts. The physical chaos reflects we embrace a sense of insecurity by holding on the things of the past and refuse to let them go. We are sometimes confused about whether we need it or we want it.

Let’s me tell you a story:

Amy lived with her mother and a younger brother in a small apartment. She couldn’t see any point to place a big piano in the house when no one here knows how to play the piano. This piano belonged to her father. But he had abandoned this family since she was ten years old. Her mother was upset whenever her daughter raised the issue to throw away the piano. One day, while her mother blamed her for not respecting the things she loved, she blamed her mother for not allowing the family and herself to let go of the broken relationship with this man. The reality is that her father had abandoned this piano the same as he treated this family. Her mother was speechless and burst into tears.

It sounds bad. Isn’t it?

If you don’t cut the unwanted off, the chances are, you will tangle yourself with the complexity of chaos. You'll miss the beautiful future. Make simple in your physical space helps to smooth a spacious path for decluttering the chaos in heart. You would feel good by understanding yourself by sorting out the items, sorting out the chaos in the heart, and creating a fantastic feeling of happiness.

If you feel bad to throw away things, try the following tips:

Thank you for those unwanted things that had brought you happiness in the past. Their value had acknowledged.
Make a rule of buy one and abandon two.
Steps by steps to organize things starting from the small space (wallet, desks) to the bigger closets.
There may be some items you are not so sure you won't regret after throwing them away. Pack them up and leave them behind for a week. If that’s nothing to get any feeling towards these things, it means they are not suited to your needs and then let them go.

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Women-Power Dummies Guide: Forgive Others

3/28/2020

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My friend, Jenny, employed John to work in her restaurant. John was her chef and helped her to run the business for ten years. One day, John quitted his job to open a restaurant of his own. The location of this new restaurant was near to Jenny’s café. The recipes and menu were the same as Jenny’s restaurant, and offered a lower price. Jenny was furious, felt betrayed. Two years later, John became bankrupt with his restaurant was being closed. She was feeling slighted came with a sense of revenge victory. To her surprise, when she shared her story with her ex-boss (her mentor) about the misdeeds of John, he said,

“Well, that's nothing. You know what? Everyone would make mistakes. You and I would also make mistakes. The ones who made a bad decision might because they are short-sighted. It might because they do such things out of convenience. Or it might simply because they are stupid. They would learn the lesson and become smarter next time.”

Her ex-boss was well-said.

Accept Imperfection

When you are trying to vent your emotions to someone you are angry with, it doesn’t mean you are right. It only means to have your emotions get triggered. Instead, a better way is to acknowledge we are imperfect. Accept other’s imperfection who embraces the same attributes (hypocrisy, selfishness, bullying) with us. Complaining or punishing others for their imperfection can’t make things better but covering up for our blind spots and responsibilities.

What should we do otherwise? Practice gratitude.

Practice Gratitude

The ex-boss of Jenny is a retired billionaire who told her the thing that was responsible for him making billions of dollars, is:

“Be thankful 1,000 times a day.”
"Be thankful for those people giving you opportunities;
Be thankful for those people giving you knowledge;
Be thankful for your friends and partners who are always be with you no matter what..."

Gratitude helps us to transform the focus from the wrongdoing of others to our inner joy of abundance.

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How To Help The Teen Changing The Frame Of Thoughts?

3/26/2020

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Words carry weight. The implications of life events are a matter of perspective. You are the one who signs a meaning to all situations through a certain frame. How we see the world is more important than how the world is. Parents can play a huge role in helping their teens to take notice of their thoughts by reframing the negative thoughts to something more positive. You can try to do this as follows:

Daughter: I feel like Mary (her schoolmate) is a freak.
Mom: What you really mean is that you’re not able to understand your schoolmate’s behavior.

Daughter: My friend doesn’t care about me.
Mom: What you mean is your friend does not care about the same thing with you.

Daughter: He sucks
Mom: What you mean is he hasn’t met your expectation.

Daughter: Susan (her younger sister) is too dependent on me
Mom: What you mean is your sister needs you to pay more attention to her.

Daughter: I get no way to make it.
Mom: What you mean is you haven’t got an effective way yet.

Daughter: Mom, I feel hopeless.
Mom: What you mean is you have worked very hard, and not reach the success yet.

Daughter: I hate that guy
Mom: What you mean is that guy makes you feel sort of disappointment.

Daughter: I hate myself
Mom: What you mean is you set a too high expectation on yourself.

Daughter: I do it wrong
Mom: What you mean is that you realize there is room for improvement.

Daughter: I want to quit
Mom: What you mean is you feel tired after hold on for long.

Daughter: Mom, this outfit is ugly
Mom: This outfit is not ugly. What you mean is you just dislike it.

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Feel Good Mantras

3/22/2020

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The current coronavirus outbreak might make you feel stressful or anxious. You can try to find some mantras that can work for you to light up your spirit.

1. I'm Healthy. I'm Wealthy. I'm Sexy

2. Work like I don't need the money. Love like I haven't ever get hurt. Sing like on one is listening....

3. I accept the blessing from the great love of God

4. Let go the wrong information from my mind that I'm not good enough. And I deserve the best of the best.

5. Everything is figureoutable

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Dummies Guide To Women Power: Use 3 Sentences To Transform Emotions

3/20/2020

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While men tend to struggle for climbing to the top of the world, women want to become the center of the world. We are good at collaboration, intrigue with emotions, and enjoy nurturing by nature. A simple example of nurturing is that when my dog suddenly doesn’t eat her food, I would worry whether I haven’t taken good care of her health or not make her food right. My husband would tease me that my level of happiness correlates with the appetite of the dog. Women tend to have stronger emotions than men. A small thing can trigger our highly sensitive emotions, amplifying the negative feeling, allow ourselves to drown into the swamp of sadness. Sometimes, our negative energy drags us to what psychologists say about drama triangle or emotional blackmail for building a toxic relationship with our love ones. Hopefully, you are not playing any of the three roles in this triangle as follows:

Victim perspective (poor me)
A woman quit her career to raise the kid. She feels angry, desperate, unappreciated because she had made so much sacrifice to this family but nobody thanks her for it. When the kid is not listening to her, she feels as though she has been rejected and disrespected. She throws a tantrum to make the kid feels sorry for not cooperating. Or say, 'I worked so hard and I am alone now, you guys are so ungrateful.'

Rescuer perspective (wanting to fix)
A woman believes she gets a map to guide her son. She jumped out fast to help him solve problems. When her grown child asks for financial help to pay for his living expenses and graduate school tuition, she helps pay for anything at all.

Persecutor perspective (blaming and finding false)
A woman is mad at her husband. Her husband is well aware he should settle the fight within 20 minutes without allowing his wife to bring the tears to bed. Otherwise, he will get into more trouble. Well, yes, Susan tells herself that I’m not happy. And if you don’t care, I will double the unhappiness to you!

The emotional blackmail is trying to manipulate the other person might because of fear and sense of insecurity. When something occurs to stir up your emotions (like anger, shame, pity, guilt, resentment), avoid reacting immediately. Very often, the immediate verbal expression of anger includes yelling, arguing, cursing, sarcasm. Such a reaction is typically associated with hostile thought and maladaptive behavior. It almost always leads to bad outcomes. Learning to deal with your own emotions first, and deal with the issue comes next. You can try to use 3 sentences to release your emotions.

Sentence #1. I'm not my emotion

I'm not my emotion. This emotion doesn’t reflect my true self. I don’t need to hold on it, agree with it. It’s only a state of feeling that happens in this specific time of the environment. Let it move away, far away.

Sentence #2. Thank you for my emotion

Thank you for my emotion because this emotion is a gift sent to me from God. It comes to remind me of re-examining myself to overcome my preconception and expectations. Very often, we fall in love with our expectations. If what we anticipate doesn’t come true, we become frustrated. Stay present. Look at what’s in front of you.

Sentence #3. I make use of my emotion

Get along with my emotions. Build a good relationship with my emotions as if they are my buddies. Make use of the emotions to take ownership of our life and accept ourselves fully. You are not able to love other people if you don’t love yourself first. Build up the energy for self-compassionate and inner peace.

Dealing with our emotions is complicated. Besides the inner talk to ourselves with these three sentences, building healthy boundaries and practice gratitude did work to overcome the emotional blackmail.
Anyway, remind yourself never to drain your energy to the things you dislike. Or you might double up your negative energy to attract bad thing comes even closer.

Stay tuned for stories about healthy boundaries and forgiveness.

Bring me for more stories about women power

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Are There Dummies Guide To Women Power?

3/14/2020

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Everything in life need balance:

Physical health, family relationships, inner joy balance
Work-life balance
Body, mind, spirit balance
Nature, human, animals balance
Positive and negative energy balance.

You will not fall if you get the balance. On the contrary, one pillar falls, a collapse will occur.

Said is easier than done, of course.

Have you ever realized that the unbalance is happening all the time in our life because we are good at making the unbalance shift? Why does this happen to us?

1. Suppress Emotions

How to respond to your emotional unhappiness when you are not ok? When our anger, sorrow, sadness collided within our hearts, we tell ourselves life must go on. When our mind and spirit are not ready to move-on, we push our body to keep going for work. We maintain our calm exterior because we don’t want to appear weak in front of the frail-heart-soul. Those anger and sorrow had buried deep into our psyche. They had not disappeared. You would project out those emotions with someone somewhere to affect your life.

2. Are You More Of Them, Less Of You?

How well do you understand yourself? What motivated you to do this thing and not that thing? Are you happy from the bottom of your heart? How to get along with your inner self? What are your needs and drives? If we care enough to be new tomorrow, we ought to get the courage to transform from what we used to believe. The person we want to become can’t possibly be the same as the person we were. Are you willing to make changes to be the best version of you so that you love yourself regardless other people hate you or not?

3. Reluctant To Let Go

Will you throw away the stuff in your house? At some point, you have to realize that it’s time to let them go. So did your intangible aspect in your life by:

Stop holding on our ego to step all over other people's responsibilities. Allow yourself to set a healthy boundary versus presume you are a perfect giver.
Let go the toxic relationship
Let go of control as a mother
Let go of your negative emotions towards your parents.

Stop holding on the question of why. Let them go.

The next questions are how to handle our negative emotions and understand our inner selves. Let's explore in the upcoming posts (work on progress).

It would be great to enjoy the fun with a bunch of roller coasters of emotions. There are highs and lows, and in between them, you will grow.

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What everyone is saying about weight loss and beauty. Find out.

3/6/2020

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I am wondering a woman is not getting old gradually. A woman can get old at the speed of light suddenly when she gives up caring for her beauty. Keeping a slim-fit shape with optimum weight makes you look 5 to 10 years younger than your real age. What’s more, you look great as you are able to wear those beautiful clothing shinning with your feminine charm.

Why do women gain weight? What can we do about this?

1. Workaholic

Are you a career woman who is busy all day long? You are exhausted with long working hours without giving yourself a break. Day time fatigue causes you extremely hungry at night because you don’t eat enough during the day. High working pressure would trigger adrenaline rush and cortisol result in culminating fats in belly and waist.

Avoid eating a big meal and break down into several small meals throughout the day. Prepare some healthy snacks in between the meals such as fresh fruits to stave off hunger. The result is you eat less. Make your food choice wisely. Intake the food with high nutrition value with low calories such as vegetables and fruits. Most women addicted to high calorie with low nutrition values such as bread, chocolate, deep-fried meat or chips, or all the sweetie desserts.

How to select the right fruits?

2. Anemia

Women who are lacking enough red blood cells tend to like eating high sugar or sweet food as sugar can boost up energy, but lead to fatigue as well. If you are craving sugar, it could mean your body is a deficiency in some main minerals and vitamins that cause your body to become acidic and culminate in fats as well.

Intake the food rich in vitamin B₁₂ such as clam, beef, rainbow trout, sockeye salmon, tuna fish can help. It plays an important role in the production of your red blood cells.

3. Liver health

If you get premenstrual syndrome or menstrual disorder, this may indicate you should care more for your liver health. Your liver health and increased levels of cortisol hormone affect your emotion, sometimes come with the dark spots on the face. These dark spots are not the common sparsely scatter spots. They are the spots that are darker in color like a splash instead and not easy to remove.

Eat beets or dandelion roots for the health of our liver. Intake the food rich in fatty acid and antioxidants such as grapes and pine bark extract with collagen help to adjust the hormones as well for smoother skin.

4. Sleep late

You may still browse the PC for entertainment or keep on working after midnight. Sleeping late at night is linked to increased levels of cortisol hormone, which is one of the major causes of weight gain

Sleep before 11 pm. Removing electronics (TV, computer, mobile phone) from the bedroom. The bedroom is for sleeping only.

5. Overeating

My friend told me she should take 2 burgers before bed. No surprise it is an emotional overeating issue. Eating the carbs with high calorie tend to boost up serotonin which makes her feel better.

Seek help when you have an emotional problem. The problem may more than you can handle on your own. Never try to hide it or escape from it. Tell yourself you have to solve it by whatever methods. I get a feeling that if God gives us a lesson and if we don’t handle it, the same thing will loop to happen again until we learn.

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How to use the communication tool of "yes-no-yes" for getting the kid to listen to you?

3/6/2020

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Very often, I tell myself, I’m your mom, I am always right. At least, I think so. Aggression and fixation on disagreements intensify the conflict between each other in relationships. We rely on those closest to us for support, so did our child. We can accept critical words from those who are not close to us because we can believe they reflect a lack of knowledge about us rather than an actual flaw in us. Critical words from parents to their child cut deeply. The effective way of communication is changing the "no-no-no" model to the "yes-no-yes" model. What does the yes-no-yes model mean?

Yes => acknowledge the positive intention of the child
No=> disagreed with her/his behavior without judging and make clear your bottom-line.
Yes => make win-win suggestion or promise.

Imagine you are in the middle of preparing dinner. Your little daughter comes into the kitchen. She imitates what you’re doing for cooking, but she screws up the ingredients, and the food is dropping on the ground to cause the messy.

The “no-no-no” communication like this:

No => "I told you thousand times don’t play with the food. You cause the food wastage."
No => "I have to buy the food and prepare everything all over again"
No => "Get out from the kitchen NOW!"

The “yes-no-yes” communication like this:

Yes is for acknowledge the positive intention of the child
=> "I know you want to help mom preparing dinner"

No is for telling your bottom-line. Speak nicely, don’t judge, make the kid feels comfortable so that she would feel easier to accept your point.
=> "Many poor people don’t get food, don’t waste food"

Yes is for making suggestion or promise with win-win approach
=> "if you want to help mom, you directly tell me. I will teach you how to do it properly and we can make the dinner together. Got it?"

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Mommy, Are You Happy?

1. Shift the Perspective

2. Shift the Intention

3. Shift the Direction

4. Shift the Allocation

Questions To Interview Yourself

How Decluttering Your Space Can Help You To Live A Better Life

Women-Power Dummies Guide: Forgive Others

Accept Imperfection

Practice Gratitude

How To Help The Teen Changing The Frame Of Thoughts?

Feel Good Mantras

1. I'm Healthy. I'm Wealthy. I'm Sexy

2. Work like I don't need the money. Love like I haven't ever get hurt. Sing like on one is listening....

3. I accept the blessing from the great love of God

4. Let go the wrong information from my mind that I'm not good enough. And I deserve the best of the best.

5. Everything is figureoutable

Dummies Guide To Women Power: Use 3 Sentences To Transform Emotions

Sentence #1. I'm not my emotion

Sentence #2. Thank you for my emotion

Sentence #3. I make use of my emotion

Are There Dummies Guide To Women Power?

1. Suppress Emotions

2. Are You More Of Them, Less Of You?

3. Reluctant To Let Go

What everyone is saying about weight loss and beauty. Find out.

1. Workaholic

2. Anemia

3. Liver health

4. Sleep late

5. Overeating

How to use the communication tool of "yes-no-yes" for getting the kid to listen to you?

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1. Shift the Perspective

2. Shift the Intention

3. Shift the Direction

4. Shift the Allocation

Accept Imperfection

Practice Gratitude

1. I'm Healthy. I'm Wealthy. I'm Sexy

2. Work like I don't need the money. Love like I haven't ever get hurt. Sing like on one is listening....

3. I accept the blessing from the great love of God

4. Let go the wrong information from my mind that I'm not good enough. And I deserve the best of the best.

5. Everything is figureoutable

Sentence #1. I'm not my emotion

Sentence #2. Thank you for my emotion

Sentence #3. ​I make use of my emotion

1. Suppress Emotions

2. Are You More Of Them, Less Of You?

3. Reluctant To Let Go

1. ​Workaholic

2. ​Anemia

3. ​Liver health

4. Sleep late

5. Overeating

Cathy

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Sentence #3. I make use of my emotion

1. Workaholic

2. Anemia

3. Liver health