The Way YOU Feel: Direct your mind, thoughts and focus toward your feelings, moods and emotions. Discover what YOU are feeling while YOU are feeling it. Throughout your day focus on the experiences, the feelings, moods and emotions. Today, quickly recognize and acknowledge what YOU are feeling and determine if it is positive or negative. Utilize your ability to control your mood, by redirecting yourself with positive peaceful thoughts (see the I Am Statements). Begin to practice monitoring and controlling your thoughts, feelings, moods and emotions throughout the day and adjusting them where necessary
Make the way YOU think and feel and important of your day, today and everyday.

Focus - The central point of YOUR attention or the center of YOUR interest or activity

YOU can do, be and become anything that YOU can imagine. To make the dream real, all YOU have to do is start to believe in YOU. This dream starts with  trust and is nurtured by developing complete faith in YOU. YOU have the ability, YOU were born with it! YOU have all that it takes to create the future that YOU desire. Do not allow perceived obstacles to keep YOU from being all that YOU were born to be. This year your Empowerment begins with believing that YOU can do and become anything that your mind can dream of.

Today, create a dream, dream the dream and live the dream, each day, everyday, one day at a time.

Begin to work on yourself today!

This week practice making self love an important part of your day. Feel great about YOU and begin to actively practice loving YOU. Make a commitment to feeling and thinking that YOU are the most important person in the world today and everyday. Do this not in a selfish way but, in a loving, caring, positive and productive way. If done properly and consistently, the love and respect that YOU develop for yourself, will reflect in the love and respect that others project back to YOU.
Each day, focus the love that YOU have within on caring for, respecting and nurturing YOU!

Empowerment 365: Beginning Week# 3
Gratitude: Begin each day with thoughts and feelings of gratitude. It is very important to start your day with the feelings of gratitude and appreciation. Close your eyes and think of the things that YOU are most grateful for. Think and feel appreciation and gratitude for the gift of health.  
As YOU go through your day, find as many things as YOU can to be to be grateful for.

Forgiveness: This week focus on thoughts of forgiveness. It is important to start each new day with positive thoughts and with forgiveness. Begin to leave yesterday fully in the past where it belongs. Start each day with forgiving yourself for all hurtful words, actions, activities or behaviors. Today, find something to forgive yourself for. Begin today, to forgive and let go of things, events and people from your past!
Continue to practice forgiveness each day. 
What YOU do have is today, yesterday is gone and tomorrow is not promised. Begin to live your life fullly in the present.

Quiet Reflection: Sit quietly for a few moments and feel the feelings of gratitude and forgiveness. Express gratitude for the things that YOU have, your life, your sight, your hearing, your heart, your lungs and for waking with a sound mind. (Feel free to create your own list of things that YOU are grateful for). Think and feel the feelings of forgivness. Begin to feel the feeling of peacefulness and of letting go. Allow this feeling to move throughout your body. While YOU are thinking feeling and releasing, breathe, long, slow breaths. Practice quiet reflection for a few moments today and each day. 
It is important to think positive thoughts each day because your thoughts create your reality.  

Personal Development: Review the Empowerment Pledge
This week commit to learning the second line: I will work on my issues, concerns, hurts and pains. 
Make a commitment to reviewing the personal pledge daily. Reviewing the pledge each day will help YOU to consistently focus on working on and developing yourself.

Personal Development Goal: Continue to practice putting energy, time and effort into developing your ability to forgive. 
Keep this thought in your mind as YOU go through your day today. 

I AM Statements: Review your list of I AM Statements. This week direct your time and attention towards the thing(s) that YOU know YOU need to work on. 

I AM Working on myself, I AM Peaceful, I AM Kind, I AM Disciplined, I AM Focused, I AM Healthy, I AM Positive, I AM Great, I AM Special, I AM Unique, I AM Forgiving, I AM Loving,  I AM Beautiful and I AM A Gift. 
Feel free to utilize this list, add to it or create your own.

Review: This week take a few moments to monitor your thoughts and feelings, moods and emotions during the day today. Begin to think and feel as if YOU have already accomplished your goal. Sit quietly for a moment, think and feel the feelings of success and accomplishment. Carry this positive thought/feeling with YOU throughout your day today. Today, think of all of the unique, talents and gifts that YOU possess.  Make I AM Loving, your dominant thought/feeling today. Remind yourself to think and feel thoughts of Self Love all day today. 

The Way YOU Feel: This week direct your thoughts toward your feelings, moods and emotions. Monitor and understand what YOU are feeling and why YOU are feeling it. When YOU are experiencing a shift in your feelings, mood or emotion, quickly acknowledge that YOU are feeling the feeling, mood or emotion. Gently ask youself, why am I feeling this way? Since YOU have the ability to control your mood, begin to gently redirect yourself with positive peaceful thoughts. Begin to practice monitoring and controlling your feelings, moods and emotions throughout the day. 
Today, make the way YOU feel important. 

Daily Activity: Today, practice forgiveness. Direct your thoughts toward finding forgiveness within YOU. Select an action from the past that YOU would like to forgive yourself for. Find a time and space where YOU can sit quietly alone. Relax by breathing slowly and deeply for just a moment or two. Whenever you are ready, silently and gently ask yourself for forgivness. Complete this exercise with thoughts of loving yourself more, do this by thinking the thought "I love myself." Repeat this thought as much as YOU can today and everyday.

Quiet Time:  Take a few moments for quiet time each day. Allow yourself to experience some form of quiet, calm silence. Find a space and time where there is no noise, where there is just YOU and relax. Take a few moments to think quiet positive thoughts of peacefulness. Take a few long deep breaths, let them out slowly and just relax.

Focus: Begin to focus your thoughts on how YOU feel and your perception of how others make YOU feel. Focus your attention on controlling the way you feel. Continue to focus your mind and thoughtson feeling positive. Focus on the growing love that YOU have for yourself even more. Focus on feelings of gratitude and forgiveness. Quiet Reflection: Practice ending each day with quiet reflection. Take this time to just relax, release and unwind. Take a few moments tonight to reflect on your day. Begin by actively practicing forgiveness. To do this, YOU must forgive yourself and others for all negative or hurtful events of the past. To have balance in your life, YOU must mentally and emotionally release events from the past and live fully in the present moment.
Breathe deeply and allow the thoughts and feelings of forgiveness to flow through your mind. 

Ending Your Day
Take A Few Moments: Take a few moments to mentally and emotionally release the events of your day. Once YOU are relaxed, begin to feel feelings of gratitude and appreciation. Take a deep breath and become thankful for your life and your health. 
Allow yourself to mentally and emotionally feel the calming feeling of peacefulness and tranquility. 

Visualization: Visualize yourself sitting completely peaceful and relaxed. Relax your mind and allow the feeling of peacefulness to move throughout your body (from the top of your head to the bottoms of your feet). Close your eyes and slowly repeat "I am  peaceful." As YOU are feeling the feelings of peaceful relaxation, breathe long, slow, deep, breaths for as long as YOU like. 
Practice this relaxation technique for a few moments prior to bed each night.

Completion: After completing your quiet reflection, review your goals, take a deep breath, turn off the TV and rest...... Peacefully.....

Continue to practice building focus today, each day, everyday, one day at at time.

The Empowerment 365 Daily Practice and Review Week 2

Gratitude: Begin each day with thoughts of gratitude. It it is very important to start each day with the feeling of gratitude and appreciation.

Quiet Reflection: Sit quietly for a few moments and feel the feelings of gratitude and thankfulness. Begin to express gratitude for the things that YOU do have; your life, your sight, your hearing, your heart, your lungs and for today waking with a sound mind. (Feel free to create your own list of things that YOU are grateful for).
Allow this feeling (of gratitude) to move throughout your body. While YOU are thinking these positive thoughts and feelings, breathe, long, slow breaths. Begin to practice quiet reflection for a 5 minutes today.
Remember, your thoughts create your reality.  

Personal Development: Review the Empowerment Pledge
I will work on myself. 
I will work on my issues, concerns hurts and pains.
I will, with support and assistance, 
strive to develop the tools necessary for me to become a better person.
I will welcome growth within myself,
by acknowledging that I am becoming better,
everyday, one day at a time.

Make a commitment to reviewing the pledge daily or create your own personal pledge. Reviewing the pledge daily will help YOU to consistently focus on working on YOU and your Personal Development goals and dreams.

Personal Development Goal: Today, I will working on myself. I will put forth the effort to work on myself and achieve my stated goals. Continue to keep this thought within your mind as YOU go through your day today. 

Today, develop and review your list of I AM Statements, directing your focus and intent on the thing(s) that YOU are or would like to become. 
I AM:

• Working on myself
  
• Peaceful
  
• Disciplined
  
• Focused
  
• Healthy
  
• Positive
  
• Great
  
• Special
  
• Unique
• Working toward achieving my goals
  

Feel free to utilize this list, add to it or create your own....

Empowerment 365 Review:
Today, review your list of I AM Statements and continue to practice monitoring your thoughts, feelings, moods and emotions during your day today. Think and feel as if YOU have already accomplished your goal (make it real) see it as being achieveable. Carry this positive thought/feeling with YOU throughout your day today. Focus your attention on the good, unique and special things about YOU.  Make at least one of your I AM Statements, your dominant thought/feeling today.  If your statement is "I AM Positive" remind yourself to think and feel Positive all day today.

The Way YOU Feel: Today, feel great!  Direct your thoughts toward making the way YOU feel the most important thing in your life today. Practice feeling good today, as much as YOU can, for as long as YOU can. 

Today's Activity: Review your I AM Statements. Choose a statement from your list that will be your dominant thought/feeling statement for today.

Quiet Time: In your quiet time take a few minutes to relax, review goals and list of I AM Statements. Remember to feel gratitude for your life and your health. 

Focus: Today, focus on your I AM Statments, love YOU more, show gratitude for the things that YOU do have and feel good about YOU....  Do these things today, each day, everyday, one day at at time.

Healing Old Wounds
A young woman sits alone sobbing, stuggles with unrelolved experiences/issues "wounds" from her past. Emotionally drained and exhausted and contemplates ending it all. Even with a great job, home, husband and children, she often feels worthless, lost and alone. Within she is full of unrelolved issues, anger, negative emotions and frustration. Although, efficient at work, an excellent mother and wife, (unconsciously) she finds ways to harm and destroy relationships with people that she loves and cares for the most (never really letting anyone get close to her). In an effort to cope, she has created masks, altered her character, shops, drinks, dabbles in soft drugs and involves herself in every organization or activity that she can find in an effort to get away from the lingering hurt, unresolved feelings of doubt, mistrust, disappointment and anger from "that past experience" that was never fully resolved or healed. As she sits alone desparate for answers, she suddenly realizes that the masks and all of her activities were not enough to ease the pain that she feels within and lives with each day.

Take Time
Take time today to forgive and begin healing old wounds. We all need to heal past wounds and properly put an end to those painful experiences and events that continue to haunt us consciously and subconsciously.
Today, take a few moments to "let go"  heal and properly bury an old wound from the past.

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Friends it's a time to reflect on the changes you want (or need) to make within your life and begin to make an effort to follow through on those changes. With the Empowerment Works you can receive professional, judgment free assistance and support in meeting and exceeding your personal goals. Complete the consultation form to find out if one of these tailored programs is right for you.

1. Create A Goal and Lose Weight in 30, 60 or 90 Days!
Empowerment Health, Wellness and Fitness "30, 60 or 90 Day Weight Loss Program"                     
Regular exercise has been associated with more health benefits than anything else known to man. Studies show that it reduces the risk of some cancers, increases longevity, helps achieve and maintain weight loss, enhances mood, lowers blood pressure, and even improves arthritis. In short, exercise keeps you healthy and makes you look and feel better. Why not make this the time to start getting in shape with one of our 30, 60 or 90 day weight loss programs!

2. Learn The Steps To Becoming Empowered And Staying Empowered!
The 7 C’s To Weight Loss, Personal Success and Empowerment  (8 Week Program)
Over 66 percent of adult Americans are considered overweight or obese, so it is not surprising to find that weight loss is one of the most popular New Year's resolutions. The Empowerment Works can assist you in setting reasonable goals and staying focused on sticking with your weight loss program. The key to success for most people is Commitment and Consistent Effort! The Empowerment works can assist you in learning the 7 C’s to success and Personal Empowerment!

3. "STOP" (Strategies To Operate Peacefully) The Empowerment Smoking Cessation Program
If you have resolved to make this the year that you stamp out your smoking habit, over-the-counter availability of nicotine replacement therapy now provides easier access to proven quit-smoking aids. Even if you've tried to quit before and failed, don't let it get you down. On average, smokers try about four times before they quit for good. Start enjoying the rest of your smoke-free life! Utilizing The PEACE Concept The Empowerment Works can assist you in your Efforts to become smoke-free.

4. Creating Balance and Focus (Relaxation and Stress Reduction Techniques)
Given the hectic, stressful lifestyles of millions of Americans, it is no wonder that "enjoying life more" has become a popular resolution in recent years. It's an important step to a happier and healthier you! Consider The Empowerment Works provides meditation, stress reduction and relaxation techniques designed to bring balance to your body, mind and Spirit.

5."STOP" (Strategies To Operate Peacefully) The Empowerment Alcohol Cessation Program
While many people use the New Year as an incentive to finally stop drinking, most are not equipped to make such a drastic lifestyle change all at once. Many heavy drinkers fail to quit cold turkey but do much better when they taper gradually, or even learn to moderate their drinking. If you have decided that you want to stop drinking, we have support available. The Empowerment Works offers meetings and Empowerment sessions. There is also an Empowerment groups for Parents of Teenage Alcohol and Drug Abusers. Utilizing the PEACE Concept as a foundation, we offer a number of self help-based programs and support groups for families of alcohol abusers.

6. "GOOD" (Get Out Of Debt Program) The Empowerment Financial Management Program
Was money a big source of stress in your life last year? Join the millions of Americans who have resolved to spend this year getting a handle on their finances. It's a promise that will repay itself many times over in the year ahead. Reduce the stress and pressure by getting the support and assistance that you need to get your personal finances under control.

7. "GO" (Get Organized) The Empowerment Life Management Course (8 Week Program)
On just about every New Year resolution top ten list, organization can be a very reasonable goal. Whether you want your home organized enough that you can invite someone over on a whim, or your office organized enough that you can find the stapler when you need it, these tips and resources should get you started on the way to a more organized life. The Empowerment Works can assist you in reducing the clutter in your life and find peace in your life and home. For those who need our assistance and support we offer a six-month Empowerment Life Management course.
Choose a program and let's create a program that will allow you to become motivated, inspired and Empowered!

If you are in need professional non-judgmental support and assistance in meeting your resolutions, contact me at
(804) 551-6632

Today begins our journey into a New Year! A year of motivation and personal Empowerment! The purpose of Empowerment 365 is to provide YOU with tools for personal growth and development each day for one year.
The Empowerment begins with YOU creating a personal development goal. Sit for a moment and think of something that YOU want to work on, something that YOU want to change within your life. The first thing that you must do is to become certain that YOU want to achieve this goal. Empowerment 365 is all about YOU and your individual development and personal success. I wish YOU much success and look forward to hearing of the changes that will happen for YOU in the coming months. YOU can utilize the Empowerment blog, submit a testimony or make comments that will motivate yourself and others along the way! 

Good luck and best wishes,
Marvin

Empowerment 365: Let's Get Started!
Each day that you log on to the site YOU will see words in bold or highlighted, these are the words that YOU should place a strong emphasis on or focus on for that day. Personal Development means working on yourself and the task ahead is for YOU to put forth the Effort to achieve your goals daily. How will you do this? By your Ability to simply try each day to reach your goal and by utilizing the Empowerment tools.

Empowerment Tools
Before beginning Empowerment 365, read over the Empowerment tools and Empowerment Pledge. The Pledge is a commitment that YOU are making to yourself. A commitment to do the things necessary to achieve your goals, the things that will allow YOU to work on and Change YOU! 

1. Establish a goal 
   
2. Be sure that YOU really want to work on yourself
   
3. Be sure that YOU really want to Change
   
4. Make a personal Covenant and Commitment to achieving your goal
   
5. Put forth Effort daily
   
6. Review your Personal Development goals daily
   
7. Establish a quiet space or quiet period
   
8. Utilize the Empowerment Pledge
   
9. Utilize the Pillars of Empowerment (Gratitude, Forgiveness, Balance Focus and Faith)
   
10. Surround yourself with positive people and Love yourself more each day....
    

Day 1 of 365
Today, take time to establish your Personal Development goals. Make a personal Covenant and Commitment to working on YOU. Read the Empowerment Pledge. Next, establish a quiet space and quiet period. Take 5 minutes today, to think on your goals and the things that YOU are grateful for. Lastly, define the words covenant and commitment and Love yourself, more today, each day, everyday, one day at a time!

Resolutions Step #4 The process of developing your mental state of mind or mindset.

This step starts with the development of your firmness of purpose. You have to know what you want and become focused and determined enough to get it! Within the last week of of 2013 we've covered the first three steps to developing your resolutions and the step by step process needed to organize your thoughts and ideas. Today, we will examine the final step and begin the process of truly working the plan that will assist you in reaching your goals. Developing your mindset or way of thinking is the final and most crucial step to success. Your state of mind, focus, desire and determination are crucial elements you must utilize to reach your goal. Within this step by step process, our state of mind will become the root to your success or in other words "how you think"... How you think and what you focus upon daily will be an important step in reaching your goals. Developing firmness of purpose or really wanting to reach your goal will become the fuel that you need to push yourself through your challenges and obstacles. For many of you, your obstacles will be your old ways of thinking, simply put, your old ways of thinking will be the major obstacle that you will have to fight overcome in order to reach your goals. This mindset must be consistently applied and supported daily with consistent practice. This practice must be repeated over and over until it become a habit or second nature to you. Utilizing each step and understanding yourself will become major tools to your success. Now that you are ready to begin the process to reaching you have to make a Covenant with yourself. This Covenant is a bonding unbreakable agreement that you make with yourself. The next step is making a Commitment to reaching your goal by honoring your Covenant. The third step, is becoming Consistent in your actions and activities to reach your goals. Lastly, Consistency will be the key. Developing your goal creating a mindset, becoming determined and consistent in action each day will bring your success in the New Year! Good luck with your efforts to become the best person that you can be today, each day, everyday, one day at a time.