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.

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.

Join for FREE today and download ARISE Books, iPhone & Android Apps, Motivational Posters, Positivity Cards, and much more!

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!

Get these now before they are gone!

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.

“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.

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.

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.

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.

“What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered alonglife’s pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.”   - Joseph Addison

Has this ever happened to you? You’re having a terrible day. Everything is going wrong. It seems as if the universe has pitted itself against you. You walk into a coffee shop, or your dry cleaners, or a gas station. You  go up to the person at the  cash register  and encounter a dazzling smile.   The smile is so warm, so inviting and so sincere that you can’t help but smile back.   All the negative thoughts that crowded your mind dissolve, even if just for a moment. You smile unconsciously and hold open the door for someone coming in. That person sees your happy grin and  is compelled to  smile in return. And so, one smile creates a chain of good will.   Just a simple upturn of the lips and crinkle  of the eyes—that’s all it takes.

Beyond the good cheer a smile can bring to those around you, a smile has numerous health benefits. Being optimistic can help you live longer! Here are just a few examples:

1. Smiling helps you fight off disease.     “The research is very clear,” says Christopher Peterson, Ph.D, a University of Michigan professor, “There is a link between optimistic attitudes and good health. It has been measured in a variety of ways. Overall, we have found that optimistic people are healthier. Their biological makeup is different. They have a more robust immune system.”
2. Smiling helps you live longer.   According to a study published in the November 2004 issue of the Archives of General Psychiatry, elderly optimistic people, those who expected good things to happen (rather than bad things), were less likely to die than pessimists. In fact, among the 65- to 85-year-old study participants, those who were most optimistic were 55 percent less likely to die from all causes than the most pessimistic people. What’s more, after researchers adjusted the results for age, smoking status, alcohol consumption, physical activity and other measures of health, the optimists were 71 percent less likely to die than the pessimists.
3. Smiling is better than chocolate. Acording to The British Dental Health Foundation, a smile gives the same level of stimulation as eating 2,000 chocolate bars. Eating chocolate is said to give you the same feeling as being in love. So the conclusion could be drawn that smiling gives you the same rush you get from being madly in love. Who wouldn’t want that?*

Having a hard time finding that elusive grin? Try visualizing things that make you happy. Listen to your favorite music.   Take a break and walk barefoot on the beach. Share a hot fudge sundae with a friend. Make a child laugh. Remember that everyone gets the same 24 hours in a day. It’s your choice to spend that time in a good mood or wallowing in unhappiness.

SMILE!

The ARISE: Drop It at the Door program is designed specifically to teach participants how to choose their emotions and leave stress and negativity “at the door.” For more information, visit the ARISE website.

*special thanks to sixwise.com for providing info on the research study about smiling.

An ARISE Group session consisting of up to 15 youth costs pennies , per child, per session – and once your staff is trained  they can go on to share these life-altering evidence based techniques proven to turn troubled teens away from crime and toward being good, productive citizens.

Currently, we offer four highly interactive and informative staff trainings, including:

Life-Skills Instructor Certification – an interactive two-day course designed specifically for those who have no formal training, but who need and are eager to teach life skills to at-risk youth, particularly those with learning disabilities.

Master Life Skills Training – a five-day intensive course that trains and enables ARISE trainers to professionally certify their staff and colleagues as ARISE Life Skills Instructors.

Drop It at the Door – a 2-5 day memorable, interactive course of group activities and vital take-away devices that firmly empower graduates with the necessary skills to reduce stress and angry attitudes by using new and highly effective interpersonal and communication tools.

 ARISE ON LINE  -  This 20 hour training experience equips graduates to connect with youth and establish ARISE group sessions for underserved populations.

The cost is low for one important reason: The ARISE founders  want to help as many troubled teens as they  possibly can to turn their lives around to become fulfilled, constructive members of society.

After 25 years of documented, evidence based research we know the ARISE program works, and we offer hard evidence to back up that claim. Please take a moment to read these testimonials from real people – Independent research, law enforcement officials, school counselors, social workers and other such hands-on professionals – sharing real information about exactly how ARISE programs have impacted their organizations.

At-risk youth are “at risk” for two main reasons: Their anti-social actions target them for criminal charges and, without intervention, their inability to live peaceably in the community is given precious little opportunity to change.

ARISE interactive life-skills lessons offer that life-saving opportunity in the following areas: self-esteem, anger management, conflict management, dropout prevention, social skills, health, nutrition, personal hygiene, preventive health care, employability skills training, filling out job applications, preparing resumes, and proper job interviewing techniques and much more.

Please visit the ARISE web site,at-riskyouth.org to see how 25 plus years of effective staff training and memorable life skills curricula when combined with evidence based practices equips youth with the social and emotional skills they need to lead smarter, healthier, crime free lives.

You can call Yasmin Isaacs at ARISE or ARISE Founder, Edmund Benson, toll free at 1-888-680-6100, or email Mr. Benson at ebenson@arisefoundation.org.

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