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Spring Happenings

Eileen Lichtenstein — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 20:15:59 +0000

Hi!!

I’ve just returned from a United Way Worldwide Training in Alexandra, Va. (cherry blossoms too!) feeling rejuvenated and ready to share exciting creating thinking problem solving techniques- and now a Certified Facilitator for UWW.
You can read more about this in my blog below. Our NY cherry blossoms and 70 degree temps again is just around the corner, as are my exciting new collaborative workshops in April and May -

“De-Stress and Focus” and SOAR! with Resilience™
with Eileen Lichtenstein, M.S. Ed. CEO, Balance & Power, Inc.
and
Alissa Bickar, Success Coach, CompassRose Development

Experience simple techniques/strategies and success principles to reduce your stress and focus your energy on success!

We will be focusing on Stress and Anger Management Techniques, and how to incorporate “The Success Principles” into your work and into your life. (based on the work of Jack Canfield)

When: Thursdays April 19 and May 17 6:00pm – 8:30pm

Location: Blue Firmament in RVC
202 Merrick Rd Rockville Center (park in lot across Merrick Rd. after 6PM)

NETWORKING and Maggie’s Raw Love Cafe (WORKSHOP Downstairs)

Cost: Each seminar is $18 in advance, $30 at the door.

Advance Payment:

Credit Card payments accepted by telephone. (516) 623-4353

Cost: $18

I also facilitate Customized Organizational Trainings and am available for Speaking Engagements.*. Coaching, training is available via telephone and skype.

*I will train your staff to better communicate with each other and work more efficiently and effectively. This training has been successfully applied to a variety of companies, healthcare and educational facilities.

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Eileen’s Blogs

24th March 2012

How Creative Thinking Got Me A Big Opportunity With The United Way Edit

The United Way, creative thinking, problem solving, mission, vision,change, collaboration, communication, mind-mapping,SCAMPER, Brainwriting, Peak Performance Success Coaching, health, income, education

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24th March 2012

You are the One Edit

EFT, Emotional Freedom Techniques,fear, intimacy, self realization,coaching, breathing techniques, self confidence, calm,ness, clarity, trust, intuition, fearlessness, success

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17th March 2012

Building Strong Relationships Edit

relationships, relationship coaching,communication styles, behavioral styles, stress, anger,re-framing,

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14th March 2012

Eileen Lichtenstein’s Photo Montage 2012 Edit

photo montage, FIOS TV

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13th March 2012

The Scariest Things I Have Ever Tried and Lived to Tell about it Edit

fear, skydiving, firewalk, Tony Robbins, Oprah, Social Media

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How to Easily Overcome Workplace Challenges and Create Optimal Happiness & Productivity

Eileen Lichtenstein — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 22:30:41 +0000

Do you want to overcome workplace challenges with ease and create optimal happiness and productivity? Perhaps you will recognize some characteristics listed below in your self, a colleague or a friend. These are typical ADD- Adult Deficit Disorder symptoms that many adults suffer with. Maybe you’ve never heard of ADD. No matter, these basic traits can manifest themselves in ways that greatly impact an individual’s job performance or ability to communicate effectively. Specifically, you can have many performance and communication challenges if you experience these issues:

-Difficulty maintaining a topic of conversation

-Difficulty making decisions

-Inability to control one’s immediate reaction to a conversation partner

-Verbal or behavioral impulsivity

-Difficulty organizing and expressing one’s thoughts effectively

-Problems with time management; being chronically late

-Extreme impatience; low tolerance for frustration

If you need help overcoming these workplace challenges sign up for a complimentary peak performance telephone consult NOW – don’t procrastinate! BalanceandPower

· find solutions in my interactive manual SOAR! with Resilience™

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Ten Tips to Increase Happiness and Build Confidence

Eileen Lichtenstein — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 22:07:39 +0000

These tips are tried and true! :

1. Listen to and follow your intuition.

During these trying and difficult times it’s been shown that it’s often necessary to reprioritize to get best outcomes. Your intuition is most often correct when it comes to your life, work and relationships. So even if it’s an inkling feeling – a tiny revelation- take a moment to recognize that and then move forward.

2. Stay within your integrity- no matter what.

No reason or person is important enough to ever stray. If you have tried this over the years, whether intentionally or not, then you know it always backfires.

3. Love and laugh!

Both are proven stress reducers. Happiness is contagious – many need more of that now while surrounded by global negativity, difficult times, chaos and immersed in “the new normal”.

4. Forgive yourself for mistakes; let go and move on.

Self-forgiveness is essential in order to forgive anyone else. Forgiveness is essential to let go of anger. Letting go of anger is essential to be happier. Especially in “the new normal” this is a no-brainer .

5. Take time each day to relax, to dream.

We need our “down” time more than ever now, living in these difficult times. Honor your method of relaxation and allow dreams to surface. Be open to learning additional relaxation techniques and give them a try.. whatever works for you whenever you do it is OK as long as it has no negative effects on health or overlaps with personal or work responsibilities. If things are unmanageable – get help.

6. Be a great listener.

Listening is the most important part of communication. If you do not understand what is being said, ask. Listen well and your response will be more on target.

7. Stay healthy by practicing extreme self-care. (diet, sleep, exercise, relaxation techniques).

Stress takes its toll on health and may exacerbate conditions already in existence. Therefore we need to be more diligent in this realm in order to ”Thrive Amidst Chaos” (the title of a workshop I co-presented with two colleagues recently).

8. Stop procrastinating and take action- move forward or drop the project.

We all procrastinate; acknowledgement of being in this mode is the firststep in moving forward. All procrastination is fear based and manifests itself through negative statements such as:

“not the right time now”
“why even bother…can happen (worst case scenario).”
Sometimes the act of “non-doing” is an indication that the idea needs to be tossed.

What holds us back from accomplishing our goals is fear.

Fear of failure
Fear of being judged
Fear of success
Fear of being controlled

These fears are often caused by deeply routed anxieties. No matter- you can turn it all around with EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques: Meridian Tapping) combined with positive language-visualization reframing and Peak Performance Success Coaching and the intention to do just that!

The following are a few common phrases/excuses people use when they are procrastinating: The task is:
“too boring”
“too time consuming”
“I just don’t feel like it”
“I just don’t want to”.

The Good news is that EFT ( The Emotional Freedom Technique) is wonderfully successful in reversing procrastination, as usually deeper emotional issues are involved. It is based on the simple statement that the cause of all negative emotions is a disruption in the body’s energy system . It involves tapping on meridian points while making statements about the issue.

Knowing that you are afraid will not magically remove fear or change behavior. You can use The EFT Technique to eradicate the roadblocks of guilt and fear that keep you from moving forward. When you use EFT and stimulate the acupressure points (see chart) the level of serotonin in the brain rises and floods the amygdalia, the section of the brain involved with controlling emotion and fear, and the fear loop is disconnected. Once the brain stops experiencing fear with the proper EFT tapping, set-up phrase (see below examples) and intuitive NLP language guidance from an experienced EFT Practitioner, which I am, you will find that your thoughts and behaviors transform effortlessly.

9. Begin each day with a short meditation positive visualizations of successful outcomes of your goals.

Oh! I am so much a believer in this! Research has shown fantastic results. It’s all up to you – and your connection to a higher power/the universe.

10. Believe in yourself and your goals; create affirmations and post them onto mirrors, in an accessible notebook and in the car.

I’ve witnessed amazing escalation in self esteem, happiness, productivity and success with the implementation of these tips for my clients.

SOAR! with Resilience™ is the interactive manual that stands alone and also accompanies customized individual and group coaching and training programs that encompass the material presented in this article.

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Happiness and Gratitude: Research and Inspirational Quotes

Eileen Lichtenstein — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 14:42:00 +0000

There is an abundance of research on happiness and gratitude..

I’ve made a personal study of it and here are some of my favorite facts on happiness and gratitude. Enjoy!:

Happy people generally are more forgiving, helpful, and charitable, having better self-control, and are more tolerant of frustration than unhappy people.

A 30 percent increase in one spouse’s happiness boosts the other spouse’s happiness, while a drop in one spouse’s happiness drags the other down.

Did you know that the brain is stimulated by surprise.

Research shows that acting in an outgoing, talkative, adventurous or assertive way makes people- even introverts-feel happier.

Making and sticking to a decision is a source of happiness because it gives you a sense of control, of efficacy, of responsibility.

At time of financial stress, taking control of your finances- even symbolically- can boost your mood because you’re taking steps to control and improve your situation.

Gratitude is important to happiness. Studies show that consistently grateful people are happier and more satisfied with their lives; they even feel more physically healthy and spend more time exercising.

Gratitude fosters forbearance- it’s harder to feel disappointed with someone when you are feeling grateful toward him or her.

Gratitude connects you to the natural world, because one of the easiest things to feel grateful for is the beauty of nature.

Studies show that happier people are more likely to help other people.

Happier people are more interested in social problems. They do more volunteer work and contribute more to charity.

One of the best ways to make yourself happy is to make other people happy.

One of the best ways to make other people happy is to be happy yourself!

A small child typically laughs more than four hundred times a day, and an adult- seventeen times.

Laughter can boost immunity and lower blood pressure and cortisol levels and increases people’s tolerance for pain.

Often a laughter response to someone’s exasperation turns the situation around.

Yeats: ”We are happy when we are growing”.

Samuel Jackson: “The business of the wise man is to be happy”.

Publius Syrus: “No man is happy who does not think himself so”

Saint Therese: I take care to appear happy and especially to be so.”

A story from Saint Therese: p.264 The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin

Tolstoy: ” Nothing, can make our life, or the lives of other people, more beautiful than perpetual kindness.”

I am a peak performance success coach empowering individuals and organizations SOAR! to their highest levels of happiness and success.

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Peace, Love & Understanding..

Eileen Lichtenstein — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 14:12:27 +0000

This week in the Hebrew calendar of tradition, feast and fasting, introspection and renewal is totally congruent to my personal belief system and with prayers for world peace and resolution of the economic, political, environmental global crisis we find ourselves in. L’shanah tovah (“for a good year”) to all!

I’m very excited to share with you my new 2 session Teleclass venue with the first 20 to sign up hugely discounted: 2-Day Stress Management Teleclass:

Creating Inner Calm in a Chaotic World: Effective Stress Management

Anger and communication issues are highly affected by stress levels. In this COURSE I will explore strategies to release anger, reduce stress and deal effectively with others.

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Balance Spontaneity With Intuition

Eileen Lichtenstein — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 17:18:34 +0000

Finding the balance of spontaneity with intuition helps us make choices that benefit our lives. Notice when you are feeling impulsive or spontaneous and then ask yourself, “Will this really benefit me?” The answer comes in the form of a verbal response or simply an instinctual feeling. Try to pay attention to your feeling; that is your intuition guiding you to make the right choices. It is important to remember that making spontaneous decisions doesn’t necessarily mean being hasty. Acting with energy and spontaneity is a wonderful way to live our lives, as it means we are being in the moment. However, it can lead us to make decisions that may not be the best for us and may lead to stress, frustration, anger, anxiety, depression. I know my that SOAR! with Resilience™ Book can help with these issues and challenges.

A must read for anyone struggling to take their personal or professional life to a higher level of success and satisfaction.

A high level of energy may leave you feeling stimulated and not completely aware of the effects of the choices you make. This may be a good time to work on balancing your spontaneity with intuition.Taking a moment or two to think about the effects of our choices, we are still acting on the spur-of-the-moment, but we also act using our intuition as a guide. This prevents us from making decisions we may later regret. We respect and pay attention to both our desire for the unstructured and our natural instincts. Be attuned to your intuition! Balancing spontaneity with intuition is your best manifestor.Need help with this? You may contact me for a telephone or video skype

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Launch and Reach Business Goals: Ask for what you need!

Eileen Lichtenstein — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 23:53:47 +0000

I sponsored a wonderfully facilitated an “Empowered Speed Networking” event with Lucy Rosen, Public Speaker, Author, Business Networking Expert …

and Donna Cariello of The LI Way, CEO of www.thelongislandway.com/ and got a lot of “takeaways” : including a reminder to be specific about what you need. We were asked to state 3 business “needs”/ goals as we moved along with each person, taking notes on the other’s for referrals. The follow-up is to focus on the stated goals for thirty days. I’m adding on a few more now for this blog:

1. Five people who need Peak Performance Success/Career coaching to help them to be more successful, productive and happier while reducing stress/anger levels and to be motivated-mentored-accountable for whatever life/work goals they want to achieve. I offer a complimentary consult and sessions may be arranged via telephone, video skype and face to face in Baldwin and various locations throughout LI. eileen@balanceandpower.com 516 623 4353

2. Corporate and agency “gigs” re SOAR! with Resilience(TM) (my program and manual as well as stand alone publication: read about & purchase here) re goal attainment , stress management, anger management and effective communication. Mind/body modalities EFT , guided meditation/relaxation.

3. Intros to Judges & matrimonial attorneys and mediators for mutual referrals as I’m a court certified anger management specialist-educator.

4. Collaborative alliances and referrals

5. Participants for small groups anger-stress management groups location, dates, times tba. More info at www.balanceandpower.com

6. Biz card advertisers for The Pek-u-lators full day event Sept 18 ($100- contact me eileen@balanceandpower.com) and a full house for the workshops. Details & registration: http://www.balanceandpower.com/events.php

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EFT Can Help Eradicate – Relieve Your Physical and Emotional Negative Symptoms!

Eileen Lichtenstein — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 14:12:13 +0000

Yes, it’s true!! Emotional Freedom Technique - amazing Energy Meridian Tapping Techniques can help eradicate – Relieve Your Physical and Emotional Negative Symptoms.

I quickly overcame my skepticism while I was taking EFT certification trainings- because the modality helped me release and be rid of ”stuff” I’d been hanging on to for years and was “getting in my way” of moving past some roadblocks in both personal and professional areas of my life.

Since then I’ve helped many to SOAR! and reach their peak levels of happiness and success incorporating EFT into my Peak Performance Success Coaching.

”Success stories” using EFT can be found documented in my interactive book. Find out more and order SOAR! with Resilience™ Book

You may learn more about EFT, including tapping points and procrastination tap-a-long on my intro video here and contact me about sessions via video skype, telephone and face to face in Long Island, NY.

Encounter Obstacles and Be Unstoppable!

Eileen Lichtenstein — Sat, 28 May 2011 11:00:53 +0000

You will encounter obstacles when you want to achieve greater success, and you can be unstoppable!Getting laid off, losing a key contract to a competitor, receiving a rejection letter, facing a serious illness, losing your home in a natural disaster, experiencing the heartache of having a romantic relationship end are just a tiny handful of the obstacles you could encounter.

What matters is how you approach these obstacles; how you react and cope.

Sadly, most people regard obstacles as the end to their dreams or a serious impediment to their happiness.

And while it’s normal and okay to experience sadness, frustration and even anger at the obstacles you face, you can’t let obstacles stop you or drag you down.

That’s why you can be unstopable and achieve your goals when adversity presents itself with my help: contact me now to arrange a complimentary consult via phone or Skype. we’ll discuss the proven ways successful people tackle obstacles …so you become an unstoppable success!

*I can help and empower you to SOAR! to your greatest heights of happiness, productivity and success! interactive manual:

Re-frame adversity … so you can grow and benefit from every experience

Cope with obstacles (most people stop when they hit a roadblock … but successful people have 3 proven ways for achieving success despite the obstacles they encounter)

Create ideas for maintaining a positive attitude even when nothing seems to be going your way

Plow through the overwhelming obstacles you are facing and relate stories of others to help you gain perspective

And much more!

I look forward to hearing you from you for a complimentary consult via telephone or skype~

Keep Soaring!
Eileen