ARISE 30 Days and 30 Ways – Day 5, Bully Free Zone

“30 Days and 30 Ways; To Get More Enjoyment Out of Your Life”

Day 4: Bullying begins at home.
Check daily that you live in a bully free zone.

‘Happily Ever After,’ is a concept too often relegated to bedtime stories and family movies. Help doesn’t float down inside a magic bubble and three clicks of your heels won’t transport you home. Still, the ARISE Foundation suggests one beloved children’s character is absolutely right: The power to transform our lives has been inside us all along.

In 30 short days, ARISE helps individuals unlock the truth within and remove the obstacles to our happiness. There’s no fairy godmother necessary and the wisdom they share is FREE of charge.

ARISE 30 Days and 30 Ways – Day 4, Forgiveness

“30 Days and 30 Ways; To Get More Enjoyment Out of Your Life”

Day 4: Forgiveness.
Ask both family and friends if you hurt or offended them in any way.
Let them know you are sorry.
You win whether they accept your apology or not.

‘Happily Ever After,’ is a concept too often relegated to bedtime stories and family movies. Help doesn’t float down inside a magic bubble and three clicks of your heels won’t transport you home. Still, the ARISE Foundation suggests one beloved children’s character is absolutely right: The power to transform our lives has been inside us all along.

In 30 short days, ARISE helps individuals unlock the truth within and remove the obstacles to our happiness. There’s no fairy godmother necessary and the wisdom they share is FREE of charge.

ARISE 30 Days and 30 Ways – Day 3, I am a magnet

“30 Days and 30 Ways; To Get More Enjoyment Out of Your Life”

Day 3: Whatever you want in life that’s good also wants you.
Zone in on one thing and imagine you already have it.
Absorb the positive energy into your body, then send it out.
This power will attract the right people and situations into your life.

‘Happily Ever After,’ is a concept too often relegated to bedtime stories and family movies. Help doesn’t float down inside a magic bubble and three clicks of your heels won’t transport you home. Still, the ARISE Foundation suggests one beloved children’s character is absolutely right: The power to transform our lives has been inside us all along.

In 30 short days, ARISE helps individuals unlock the truth within and remove the obstacles to our happiness. There’s no fairy godmother necessary and the wisdom they share is FREE of charge.

ARISE Free Resources – New items added every Friday!

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This week’s new items:

 

1. ARISE 12″ x 18″ GRATTITUDE Motivational Poster
2. ARISE “When Change Happens” Positivity Card
3. An ARISE Story “The Paper Hat” from a Best Selling Book: Enough’s Enough.
4. An ARISE “Self Esteem” Lesson from When There’s Trouble, Who Do You Call?
5. 10 Tips For A Winning Attitude from ARISE’s BrainFood Series, Book 5 – More Secrets to Success!

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30 Days and 30 Ways – Day 2

“30 Days and 30 Ways; To Get More Enjoyment Out of Your Life”

Day 2: Today, find a way to do something special for yourself and someone you may have neglected lately.

‘Happily Ever After,’ is a concept too often relegated to bedtime stories and family movies. Help doesn’t float down inside a magic bubble and three clicks of your heels won’t transport you home. Still, the ARISE Foundation suggests one beloved children’s character is absolutely right: The power to transform our lives has been inside us all along.

In 30 short days, ARISE helps individuals unlock the truth within and remove the obstacles to our happiness. There’s no fairy godmother necessary and the wisdom they share is FREE of charge.

ARISE 30 Days and 30 Ways Motivational Calendar – Day 1

 

“30 Days and 30 Ways; To Get More Enjoyment Out of Your Life”

‘Happily Ever After,’ is a concept too often relegated to bedtime stories and family movies. Help doesn’t float down inside a magic bubble and three clicks of your heels won’t transport you home. Still, the ARISE Foundation suggests one beloved children’s character is absolutely right: The power to transform our lives has been inside us all along.

In 30 short days, ARISE helps individuals unlock the truth within and remove the obstacles to our happiness. There’s no fairy godmother necessary and the wisdom they share is FREE of charge.

Day 1: Most of what bothers us in life are things we have created ourselves. Think carefully before you act.

ARISE Foundation: Your One-Stop Shop for Vital Life Skills Training and Curricula

How many publishers can say that they get to see their curricula in action and take a direct role in training people how to use it correctly?

Not many.

ARISE creates life skills curricula and training programs from the ground up. The concept, creation and printing of a wide variety of life skills materials are only the beginning. Once the books are printed, ARISE teaches people all over the world how to use its unique curricula to conduct interactive group lessons with at-risk and troubled youth.  ARISE is unique in our full-circle, inclusive approach. Few organizations get to see their hard work and innovation in action. Every week, ARISE-managed programs educate thousands of youths.  In addition to teaching incarcerated and troubled young people crucial life skills such as anger management, drug and alcohol abuse prevention and job search techniques, ARISE works hand-in-hand with the staff these kids and teens come into contact with each day. ARISE trains  juvenile justice staff how to manage anger and stress on the job and at home , diffuse conflict and become role-models and mentors to youth with serious behavior issues and special needs.

Seven days a week , ARISE gets to see the fruit of its labors- the positive effects of providing juvenile offenders with the down-to-earth, easily understood real-life lessons they need to get ahead and stay there in this competitive world. Since 1986, this unmitigated success  has motivated the founders and staff of ARISE Foundation to continue their work. ARISE tells youth: if you don’t control your destiny, someone else will do it for you and the results are not always pleasant.

Teen Drivers: Rules of The Road

These three tragic stories from Reader’s Digest (Aug. 2008) illustrate the need to educate teen drivers about safety behind the wheel. Car crashes are the number one killer of teens in the United States.

• Kyle Grayden, 17, of Shorewood, Minnesota, glanced at her iPod while driving with her cousin and a friend, both 17. When she veered off the road and flipped her car into a ditch, she and her friend were killed.
• Heading home from practice, Jonathan Chapman, a 16-year-old high school basketball player from La Plata, Maryland, was reportedly speeding when his car rammed an SUV. He and three friends, ages 14 to 16, were killed.
• Five days after graduating from high school, Bailey Goodman, 17, of Fairport, New York, and four classmates were on their way to her family’s cottage. Moments after text messages were exchanged on Bailey’s cell phone, she slammed into an oncoming truck. All five teens were killed.

At the ARISE Foundation, protecting and nurturing teens is a big part of our life skills curricula. Rules of the Road is a manual just for teen drivers. This detailed, informative book covers all of the following and much more:

• Defensive Driving
• Road Rage
• Automobile Maintenance
• What to do if you are pulled over
• What to do if you have an accident
• Drunk Driving
• How to Insure a Car

…and more!

Most teens can’t WAIT to get their license…and most parents dread the day their child gets behind the wheel. Help ease the stress and educate teens on the huge responsibility of owning and operating a vehicle with the Rules of the Road book.

To order ARISE Rules of the Road or any of our other fantastic Life Skills books and materials, visit the ARISE website or call us at 1 (888) 680-6100.

How to Attract Your Soul Mate in 14 Easy Steps

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.
6. Wear a new bracelet or a rubber band as a reminder, switching wrists often so it doesn’t get stale. Every time you look at the bracelet, reaffirm your feelings and thoughts. There is no limit to the number of times this can be done throughout your day. The more often, the better.
7. Place the list of your heart’s desire on the night stand. Morning and evening, place your hand over the list and feel the potential for love and the promise of happiness.
8. Act as if you are in a restaurant. Place your order with the server. Once you have ordered, go on with your life comfortable certain that your meal will be delivered in due time. It’s the same in attracting your soul mate. Get your order in and then enjoy this creative experience. It’s all about the law of attraction. You will get what you think about regularly. It’s a law of nature.
9. Collect perfect moments. Remember a time when you were transformed. Now use your mind and body to visualize and recall both the perfect moment and your heart’s desire. Feel this person as a part of you. Absorb him or her into your life in that perfect moment.
10. Smile!! During each and every one of the above exercises, smile! Smiling has power. After all, you are now a very happy person who can feel the love your life with you.
11. Carry a small “mate finder” stone. Rub it and feel the positive energy. Visualize the look, smell, feel and taste of your mate. Caress it and imagine the face of your soul mate. Look deeply into their eyes.
12. Remember that this individual is also seeking you, so you need to GET OUT THERE. See yourself as a powerful magnet drawing two people together…you and your soul mate.
13. It is VITAL that you act as if you have already found this person. This isn’t a hope or a dream, it’s a reality. Actively participate in attracting this person. This will only work if you feel it as deeply as you would if it had already happened. Give thanks regularly for this.
14. Don’t sit home and wait. This is an activity, so get out and make it happen.

Have a success story? Please email ebenson@arisefoundation.org with how you used the 14 steps to attract your soul mate.

Saving At-Risk Kids Saves Money As Well As Lives

Educate – Don’t Incarcerate
Saving At-Risk Kids Saves Money As Well As Lives

While it’s always wise to be thrifty, in these tough times it’s imperative to squeeze every penny until Lincoln cries — so why are legislators who make laws governing law enforcement, the judicial system and penal systems turning a blind eye toward the millions of dollars wasted under those laws?

There is a way to drastically reduce the enormous number of tax dollars spent dealing with criminals – from catching them to trying them to locking them up and housing them — and that is to reduce the amount of crime in the first place. This is especially true when the offenders are minors and teens, just starting off down that long, wrong road toward a life of criminality.

The staff training program at ARISE offers exactly the kind of curricula that teach at-risk kids and the people who work with them in any capacity –youth care and probation officers, law enforcement, social workers, teachers, clergy – how to get off the wrong path and on to the right one, creating law-abiding, productive citizens. A non-profit, created in 1986, ARISE provides a rich assortment of time tested, evidence-based life skills curricula for at-risk youth and offers staff training that enhances the effectiveness of all those who care for troubled youth and adolescents. If an ARISE program were in place in every county in every state, our national crime statistics would rapidly decline, and millions of tax dollars – not to mention lives – would be saved.

Many states – including Georgia, Texas and Ohio – are taking a fresh look at the best way to deal with juvenile offenders, realizing that current correctional systems too frequently fail to break the cycle of crime by emphasizing punishment instead of actual reform.(* Sources)

In fact, the vast majority of recent studies (maybe even all of them) on methods of reducing juvenile crime and the high rate of recidivism come to the same conclusion: Incarceration is and will continue to be a terrible failure; something different is needed. ARISE offers that “something different” through our evidence based programs for at-risk youth, including life skills lessons, staff training and workshops, drug abuse prevention programs, violence and bullying prevention lessons, and much more. We invite you to take a look at our time-tested, proven effective, curricula and consider how we can serve your needs.

Get started by calling ARISE Founder, Edmund Benson, toll-free at 1-888-680-6100, or email Mr. Benson at ebenson@arisefoundation.org.

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*Sources: Tough On Crime, Smart On Spending, Effington Herald, October 10, 2011, Kelly McCutchen; Priority Issues: Juvenile Justice, Right On Crime, November 1, 2011, Jeanette Moll; New Polling On Public Views On Juvenile Justice Issues, Right On Crime, November 1, 2011, Jeanette Moll; Ohio State Government, Department of Youth Services/RECLAIM Ohio, Ohio.gov; and Report Calls For Sharply Reducing Juvenile Incarceration, CNN, October 03, 2011, Terry Frieden, CNN Justice Producer