Joyce Shafer
Joyce Shafer is an author; freelance rewriter, editor, and proofreader; as well as a weekly columnist published at various online venues. Learn more about practical wisdoms for everyday life in her book, “I Don’t Want to be Your Guru, but I Have Something to Say” and how to move any area of your life to the next level in “How to Have What You REALLY Want,” both available at www.lulu.com. Visit her new website at www.freewebs.com/joyceshafer." target="_blank">http://www.freewebs.com/joyceshafer.
Joyce Shafer is an author; freelance rewriter, editor, and proofreader; as well as a weekly columnist published at various online venues. Learn more about practical wisdoms for everyday life in her book, “I Don’t Want to be Your Guru, but I Have Something to Say” and how to move any area of your life to the next level in “How to Have What You REALLY Want,” both available at www.lulu.com. Visit her new website at www.freewebs.com/joyceshafer." target="_blank">http://www.freewebs.com/joyceshafer.
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Accept Your Inheritance Today
Column: Unclutter Your Life
May 10 2008 10:11AM
You get notice that you're the recipient of a massive inheritance. Do you refuse it?
Are You an Innie or an Outie?
Column: Unclutter Your Life
May 5 2008 08:39AM
You can't hit a target if you have don't have something to aim at it.
What's Your Opinion about Opinions?
Column: Unclutter Your Life
Apr 28 2008 07:55AM
Is an opinion, strongly asserted, always a good idea?
Stacking your stories
Column: Unclutter Your Life
Apr 10 2008 12:26AM
We stack many things like pancakes, books, cards; but what about your stories?
Watch that swing!
Column: Unclutter Your Life
Apr 3 2008 01:39AM
When you're ready to make a major change, do you aim for balance or swing like a pendulum?
Your wish is my command
Column: Unclutter Your Life
Mar 27 2008 01:35AM
When Aladdin tells the genie his wish, he doesn't ask the genie how it's going to get accomplished; he knows it will.
Set them free
Column: Unclutter Your Life
Mar 20 2008 01:23AM
Our view of others can be so subtle in our consciousness that we don't realize how we affect our relationship with them.
Happiness comes in bites
Column: Unclutter Your Life
Mar 13 2008 02:28AM
Choosing happiness when it's not your habit is like the old joke about how you eat an elephant ... one bite at a time.
White noise of the mind
Column: Unclutter Your Life
Mar 6 2008 02:26AM
Self-talk is vital to what we attract to us. Is yours focused on what you want, or is it white noise?
What do you really need?
Column: Unclutter Your Life
Feb 28 2008 01:12AM
If you're really committed to a project, you'll attract the right people, right jobs and right ideas. That's simply how the Law of Attraction works. If you say it can't happen or it's difficult, you'll get that, as well.
Time wasters
Column: Unclutter Your Life
Feb 21 2008 12:28AM
We think we know what time wasters are, but what about these common practices?
The factor of one
Column: Unclutter Your Life
Feb 14 2008 12:55AM
What kind of ripple does your life create in the bigger pond?
Every fear hides a wish
Column: Unclutter Your Life
Feb 7 2008 01:41AM
When we have a defined level of self-trust, we know we can manage ourselves through any gust or gale. Our self-trust is our security.
At least open a window!
Column: Unclutter Your Life
Jan 31 2008 12:53AM
If you believe you've tried everything, change your belief.
Push or pull
Column: Unclutter Your Life
Jan 24 2008 02:11AM
If you had to move a boulder, would you push or pull it?
Success really does come in cans
Column: Unclutter Your Life
Jan 17 2008 12:47AM
When we have a dream or goal, we get excited. Then we get scared. There's only one sure way out of fear: Action. Action sets us free.
Some words can never be taken back
Column: Unclutter Your Life
Jan 10 2008 12:42AM
The words we use and how we use them, particularly with or around children, contribute to sculpting them into the adults they become.
Gratitude ... or appreciation?
Column: Unclutter Your Life
Jan 3 2008 12:40AM
Whatever you focus on, you get more of.
Not your ordinary sand castle
Column: Unclutter Your Life
Dec 27 2007 01:42AM
Every challenge is an opportunity to expand who we are. If we practice peaceful solutions with smaller challenges, one day we may seek to find peaceful ways to deal with the really big ones.
The 'Yurnodda' syndrome
Column: Unclutter Your Life
Dec 20 2007 01:19AM
You may not be a brain surgeon, but that doesn't mean you don't possess your own genius, creativity and gift to share with the world.
Holiday magic
Column: Unclutter Your Life
Dec 13 2007 12:41AM
Sometimes, it takes the magic of a moment for us to not focus on differences, choose not to be isolated, and just be who we are: members of a human family sharing a precious planet suspended in a remarkable universe.
Can't see your life for the clutter?
Column: Unclutter Your Life
Dec 6 2007 01:05AM
The new year is a time when we consider making a fresh start in one or more areas of our lives. A good way to get into this is to see if there's any outer or inner clutter that holds us back.
Life as a bird
Column: Unclutter Your Life
Nov 29 2007 01:57AM
There comes a time for many of us, when we realize we were told beliefs, not truths. That's the moment we can either get stuck in the past or choose to rewrite our life scripts.
Fair energy exchange
Column: Unclutter Your Life
Nov 22 2007 02:23AM
Giving and receiving are two sides of the same coin, though it's not always a 50-50 split. Sometimes balance is achieved through a different ratio, but we can always tell if the proportions are good by how we feel during and after.
Life is to be possessed, not endured
Column: Unclutter Your Life
Nov 15 2007 01:18AM
Do you own your life or does it own you?
Solutions are not always obvious
Column: Unclutter Your Life
Nov 8 2007 12:45AM
Have you ever known anyone who took the first job offered to them and then discovered, say, a week later, that the ideal job for them was available?
Run the race
Column: Unclutter Your Life
Nov 1 2007 02:03AM
The path is where we learn, grow, evolve and master. The Finish Line is where we celebrate that we ran the race.
Be true to yourself
Column: Unclutter Your Life
Oct 25 2007 01:52AM
You cannot live your life trying to mold yourself to opinions or expectations of others. They may be happy if you do, but you'll be miserable.
Wait for the movers
Column: Unclutter Your Life
Oct 18 2007 02:39AM
Some life shifts need a special 'moving crew.' Leave it alone and then just wait.
A different kind of color therapy
Column: Unclutter Your Life
Oct 11 2007 01:16AM
You have the right to create and implement anything that makes you feel more the way you wish to feel, which is better and stronger. Anything that empowers your spirit, go for it.
Pay attention to how you ask
Column: Unclutter Your Life
Oct 4 2007 02:06AM
We already have abundance and prosperity in our lives. It's our birthright as expressions of the expanded consciousness. All that's required of us is that we allow it into our lives.
When something goes missing in your life
Column: Unclutter Your Life
Sep 27 2007 12:28AM
When we engage in negative feelings, we become like a cactus and nothing can come near us, and we expand feeling badly. When we choose to feel even a little better, better things can move to us to expand that feeling.
Which way is 'Receiving,' please?
Column: Unclutter Your Life
Sep 20 2007 01:03AM
The Law of Attraction meets a fraction of traction.
Projection protection
Column: Unclutter Your Life
Sep 13 2007 02:08AM
We're all capable of projecting onto others and can self-correct this. What about when others project onto us?
Let go of the fairy tale
Column: Unclutter Your Life
Sep 6 2007 01:52AM
If my friend can give energy to parking being difficult, couldn't he also give energy to it being easy?
A different view on attachment
Column: Unclutter Your Life
Aug 30 2007 01:34AM
The moment we see the magician's trick for what it is, is the moment we step into who we are. No matter what we've done prior to this moment, this is the first step onto our true path or path of truth.
How much faith does it take to change a lightbulb?
Column: Unclutter Your Life
Aug 23 2007 02:19AM
We never question if the lightbulb will work for us or if we deserve it. We expect it to work. It's the same for the quantum field's ability to manifest what supports what we feel at our core.
You must choose one or the other
Column: Unclutter Your Life
Aug 16 2007 02:16AM
When we use the Law of Attraction, we hold an image clearly in our minds. The challenge seems to be our willingness to let go of doubts about it happening and attachments to when, how, who and where.
Ask and you shall receive
Column: Unclutter Your Life
Aug 9 2007 01:17AM
When I feel unsure about what's next, I tell the larger consciousness of which I'm an expression that I need to Know, that I expect an answer within three days. Inevitably, within that three-day period I get my answer.
You get what you pay with
Column: Unclutter Your Life
Aug 2 2007 12:49AM
If you have joy in your wallet, you're allowed to shop where joy procures joyous outcomes. If fear is in your wallet, you must go to the floors that provide fear-based outcomes.
Pulling against the leash
Column: Unclutter Your Life
Jul 26 2007 01:31AM
We are able to recognize that a particular target is not the right one for us. Perhaps we actually will be led to a different target, the one we should aim at.
How and where does your garden grow?
Column: Unclutter Your Life
Jul 19 2007 01:07AM
Are you a peach growing in the midst of bananas?
Laughter is the universal language
Column: Unclutter Your Life
Jul 12 2007 01:13AM
We know that laughter heals. If we used it more often, we could possibly detoxify our individual bodies, minds and spirits, as well as our global aspects.
Rearview driving
Column: Unclutter Your Life
Jul 5 2007 02:05AM
Allow the past to teach you, but not encumber you. Your future is whatever you decide it will be. Enjoy the journey.
Darn darkness!
Column: Unclutter Your Life
Jun 21 2007 12:59AM
Life presents us with opportunities to learn and grow. Sometimes it blows out our candle, but I like to think it expects us to relight it and show a bit of spirit (or quite a bit).
You're as old as your thoughts
Column: Unclutter Your Life
Jun 14 2007 12:50AM
Fixed attitudes and beliefs are harmful to our health. It's like a stagnant pond vs. the replenished freshness of a flowing stream.
What Fred Astaire and I have in common
Column: Unclutter Your Life
Jun 7 2007 12:30AM
Who wouldn't want to move through life as smoothly as Astaire moved across the dance floor?
So you want to be unlimited
Column: Unclutter Your Life
May 31 2007 01:47AM
Striving to be unlimited is much like striving to be perfect. Maybe it isn't really as desirable (or realistic) as we wish to believe.
'Busting Loose' and shifting reality
Column: Unclutter Your Life
May 24 2007 01:32AM
Though the draw is the word 'money,' this book is about the game of Reality. It's worth reading if you're truly ready to live outside the box.
Funny what laughter can shift
Column: Unclutter Your Life
May 17 2007 01:01AM
It's said that laughter heals the body, mind and spirit. It seems it can also heal opinions, judgments, and open us to be a bit more willing to engage with those we might ordinarily avoid.
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