How to Attract Your Soul Mate in 14 Easy Steps, brought to you by ARISE Life Skills & Training

The holidays can be a bit lonely without that special someone to share them with. But how do you find the person you were meant to be with? There are millions of people on the planet. How do you zero in on your soul mate?

To find your other half, you need to clear a path between the two of you.  Convince the universe that you have already found him or her, and before you know it, that person will show up in your life.

It’s called the “Law of Attraction.”

Here are 14 steps to attracting your soul mate:

1. Write down exactly what it is you want in a mate…every positive detail. Keep adding to the list as you think of new traits and qualities.
2. Avoid the negatives and focus on the positives. List what you want and don’t define what you don’t want.
3. Look in a mirror and tell yourself that you truly deserve him or her. Genuinely affirm this. Deep down in your subconscious, you must absolutely believe it to receive it.
4. Feel that this person is already a part of your life. He/she is with you at meal time, exercising, shopping. In the shower, affirm it. Driving to work, feel it.
5. Make vacation and party plans. Carry on as if this person was right there beside you. Plan  your next apartment, the kind of car you will drive together. See every detail.

10 Enlightening Quotes About Money and the Economy, Brought To You by ARISE Life Skills Training

Bailouts, foreclosures and job losses, oh my! Each day seems to bring more bad news about the economy. Reading the newspaper or watching the news is enough to make anyone anxious about the future and the state of their finances. As we go through this trying time, remember that the country has been through this before and emerged stronger.  Here are some quotes about money and the economy from some of history’s greatest minds. Read them over, think about them and try to breath. Everything will work itself out. It always does.

1. You have not lived a perfect day, even though you have earned your money, unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you. – Ruth Smeltzer
2. Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of filling a vacuum, it makes one. – Benjamin Franklin
3. So often we rob tomorrow’s memories by today’s economies. – John Mason Brown
4. Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks. – Warren Buffett
5. Anyone who thinks there is safety in numbers hasn’t looked at the stock market pages.  – Irene Peter
6. Men make counterfeit money. In many cases, money makes counterfeit men.  – Sydney J. Harris
7. It’s a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it’s a depression when you lose yours. – Harry Truman
8. We must beware of trying to build a society in which nobody counts for anything except a politician or an official; a society where enterprise gains no reward and thirft no priveleges. – Winston Churchill
9. Be fearful when others are greedy and be greedy only when others are fearful. – Warren Buffett
10. I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.  – Warren Buffett

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10 Tips for Developing Self Esteem, brought to you by ARISE Life Skills & Training

How’s your self esteem? Are you constantly wishing that you were more attractive, a little smarter or just a bit more sure of yourself? Take heart. No one is perfect. Even the most successful people have flaws. They just choose to focus on their strengths instead of dwelling on their weaknesses. There is no secret to increasing your self esteem, but there is only one person that controls it: you. YOU decide how you feel about yourself. YOU can choose to be happy or to wallow in self pity. YOU choose your thoughts. To help make the choice easier, here are 10 ways to develop your self esteem:

1. Believe in your ability to think, judge, choose and decide.
2. Have confidence in your values.
3. Realize that you have the right to be alive and happy.
4. Don’t allow intimidation or fear to hold you back from your dreams.
5. Join clubs and organizations. A sense of belonging increases self esteem.
6. Master a skill. Feelings of accomplishment inspire a sense of self worth.
7. Develop a meaning and direction in your life; know where you want to go.
8. Take part in different experiences. Show yourself how much you can enjoy a challenge.
9. Learn to accept advice without viewing it as criticism.
10. Solve problems instead of worrying about them.

ARISE Honors Barack Obama, The First African American President Elect

The ARISE Foundation offers a warm congratulations to President Elect Obama. To commemorate this historic moment, we offer five quotations from prominent African Americans. For more life skills lessons, famous quotes and information, please visit the ARISE Life Skills website.

“The orators and statesmen of our own land, whether they belong to the past, or to the present age, will live and shine in the annals of history, in proportion as they have dedicated their genius and talents to the defence of justice and man’s God-given rights.” -Henry Highland Garnet (first African American clergyman to deliver a sermon in congress.)

“Don’t doubt me, because that’s when I get stronger. I like to see the smiles on people’s faces when I show them I can do the impossible.” – Marvin Hagler (boxing champion)

“Wealth isn’t what a man has, but what he is.” -Charles Johnson (college professor)

“If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.” -Micheal Jordan

“My experience is that there is something in human nature which always makes an individual recognize and reward merit, no matter under what colour of skin merit is found.” -Booker T. Washington