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Creating Balance in your Life: Rewrite your Direction!

Learn how to create balance in your life, especially during this "new normal" and rewrite your direction.

Ask yourself ... Is it time to take better care of your health, finances, family life, your internal emotional existence, spirituality, and long-lost creative projects? Does your marriage need improvement? Is what you are doing devoid of that original drive, passion and excitement? Do you need to upgrade any of your emotional, interpersonal, communications, professional, and business skills?

If so, now is the time to become brutally honest with your self and create an inventory of those areas that need your attention. This personal inventory does not require the brain of a rocket scientist. You probably know what needs your attention. This is not the time to make excuses, procrastinate, find a quick fix, band-aid a situation, or blame anyone. It is your responsibility to be diligent in taking care of those aspects of your life that are holding you back from complete success.

"YOU have the Answer within.
Recognize it and seize the moment to rewrite the direction of your life."

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You have the advantage of being a human being with enormous creative potential and unparalleled capacity for solving problems, adaptation, and improvement. You have a brain that you can use to either fool yourself or motivate you to higher levels of self-realization. Make sure you are in the right place at the right time to steer and catapult yourself to greater and more improved ways of living. It will take commitment and dedication to stay the course and remember that you are only limited by your own thinking. Think "unlimited possibilities, instead.

Do not become seduced by standard and traditional ways of thinking about your situation. Accept the idea that nothing is written in stone and that you can rewrite and re-create your life in a unique direction that defies old and outworn thinking modes. You are constantly in process and capable of writing your life script in a way that creates more balance.

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"It is NOT the situation that defines who and what you are.

It is HOW YOU define your situation and restructure it that creates

a more balanced, purposeful, and exciting existence."

Remember that you are not alone. We are all going through this transition, trying to navigate a "new normal", and create a new existence for ourselves and our families. If you need help, please call and make an appointment. Teletherapy sessions are available as well as our library of life enhancing media programs to use daily to reduce stress, maximize options, strengthen relationships, and create joy in your life.

Email me at phannigphd@att.net for a free stress reduction mp3 download.

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Paul J. Hannig, Ph.D. LMFT is a licensed Marriage and Family therapist in private practice in Southern California. For over forty years, his goal has been to help his clients define who they are, overcome obstacles, deepen relationships, conquer anxiety and depression, and evolve to the next stage of their lives in the most successful and productive way possible. For more information, visit his website at www.psychotherapyhelp.com.

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