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My life is a gift.  As I walk the path that is my life I am guided by many principles and beliefs that allow me to experience the most I can of this world in a joyful way. Today I want to share 5 beliefs that I hold, in the hope that they will propel you to see this life as a blessing as well.

• How to see the "disasters" in your life as blessings
• How you create your life
• The difference between a soul's consciousness and a human consciousness

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Many things have shaped my life for the better, mostly people; but books have played an enormous part in helping me see the world in a joyous way.  Today I share with you the five books that most impacted my life.

Enjoy!

The Way of the Peaceful Warrior by Dan Millman

Life 101: Everything We Wish We Had Learned about Life in School--But Didn't by Peter McWilliams

The Road Less Traveled - By M. Scott Peck

The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

A New Earth - By Eckhart Tolle

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Nothing will get better for you if you are unable to accept all that you are.  However, acceptance isn't just about letting things stay stagnant.  Acceptance comes from realizing who you are and looking to improve the things that are challenging.  Today is all about self-acceptance

• 12 ways to increase your level of self-acceptance
• How over achieving can lead to lack of Self Acceptance
• How society makes self-acceptance more difficult

12 Ways to Become More Accepting of Who You Are?

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This entire week I have been helping you appreciate who you are, in every stage of your life and in every shape and fitness level you have.  Today I want to give you the gift of appreciating who you are in a different way.  Today's episode is a guided meditation that I recorded specifically for this topic.  Do not attempt to meditate while you are driving or operating heavy machinery.  You can listen to it once you get home and indeed any time you would like.  I have attached the MP3 file below, so feel free to download it and listen to it whenever you want to.

• How to appreciate who you are
• How to Meditate for Self-Love

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Our culture here in the United States is very youth oriented.  That may be the biggest understatement that I have made here on ZEN commuter.  What does that mean for people that are not in their twenties?  It means that subtly you are cast aside, told that you don't matter because you aren't the demographic advertisers are marketing towards.

Unless you have a strong sense of self, as you age you will buy into the misperception that you are becoming more and more obsolete.

I can't let that happen.  Regardless of your age, you are a pivotal part of this world.  Regardless of age you have things to learn and things to teach.  Let's find out all the cool things you can do, at any age.

Even though our country here in the United States is talking about body shaming it doesn't seem like anything is changing in the media, and I don't expect it to.  You are constantly being told your body doesn't measure up (or down).  If you are at odds with your body it might make sense to turn off the TV and close the magazines and begin treating it with appreciation and honor.  I will tell you how, today.

• How to appreciate your body that is in chronic pain
• How and why to create a body gratitude journal
• Ways to purge your social media to feel better about who you are

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3 Activities to Help You Appreciate Your Body

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Many times when someone we love has done something that we do not like, or has hurt us, we can often forgive them and move on.  Forgiveness is healthy.  However, for some reason we are much more likely to forgive someone else than ourself.  Why is that?  Today I talk about why that is and how you can begin to heal from the past that holds you.

• The ways that not forgiving yourself can damage your health
• 10 ways to Forgive Yourself and Let Go of the Past
• The Steps you can take to make amends

10 Ways to Forgive Yourself and Let Go of the Past

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Will has achieved notable global success both as a musical/visual artist and as a technical inventor. In 1987, he founded the British pop soul band Londonbeat and had two Billboard #1 hit records, “I’ve Been Thinking About You” (91) and “Come Back” (95). He founded Rocket Network, a Paul Allen/Cisco-funded San Francisco company, in 1995 and created the professional audio media transfer system, DigiDelivery. He sold the company to Avid/Digidesign in 2003. Today I have asked Will not just to talk about productivity, but also what made him want to pursue this dream of using music to motivate.

• How Focus@Will works
• Why Will feel so passionately about productivity
• Other tips for staying on task

Focus@will

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Each of us hit slumps.  At times we can be so incredibly unmotivated, every few seconds looking around for something to save us from complete boredom.  And yet you know you need to complete whatever it is you are working on. Today I will share a great article that will help us all stay on task a little better.  And if you need even more help, then stick around for tomorrow, when  I interview Will Henshall of focus@will.

• The benefits of working in blocks of time
• How to use positive pressure to keep you on track
• The beauty of deadlines.

4 Science Backed Ways to Increase Your Motivation

Motivation is a Muscle: The 7 Best Ways to Substantially Increase Your Productivity

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There are some people with an incredibly oversized sense of importance.  They go about thinking the world owes them favor.  However, I am sure that on some level ZEN commuters are not that kind of person.  You care and connect with the world around you.  But, have you ever stopped to think how small you truly are?  I don't say that to diminish you, I say it to empower you.  Listen in today and I will explain what I mean.

• Why you would want to feel small
• How you can experience your smallness
• What the night sky can do for you

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