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		<title>Ken Donaldson on Your Ultimate Life and Your Best Relationships</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Aug 2010 01:12:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Donaldson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What do life purpose, vision, legacy, values, priorities, spirituality, integrity, the Law of Attraction, giving anonymously, boundaries, communication, support networks, personal growth, getting finished with the past, “being your being”, going with the flow of life, silliness, deliberate breathing, conscious walking and being perfectly imperfect all have in common with each other? They are the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What do <strong>life purpose</strong>, vision, legacy, values, priorities, spirituality, integrity, <strong>the Law of Attraction</strong>, giving anonymously, <strong>boundaries</strong>, communication, support networks, personal growth, <strong>getting finished with the past</strong>, “being your being”, going with the flow of life, silliness, deliberate breathing, conscious walking and <strong>being perfectly imperfect</strong> all have in common with each other?</p>
<p>They are the foundational pieces of <strong>your ultimate life</strong>, the <strong>best relationships</strong> and having <strong>extraordinary passion for your work!</strong></p>
<p>Watch this and then go live it!</p>
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		<title>Ken Donaldson, Marry YourSelf First and Your Ultimate Life</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2010 21:12:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Donaldson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Want more passion, power, purpose and prosperity in your life? Here&#8217;s the official Ken Donaldson Marry YourSelf First!® 20 Core Success Principles to Create Your Ultimate Life, Relationships and Career! #1 Allow your life purpose to be the flashlight to keep you on the pathway of your life. #2 Create your vision and you’ll have [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong><a href="http://kendonaldson.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/myfrev.png"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-3049" title="marry yourself first book cover" src="http://kendonaldson.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/myfrev-259x300.png" alt="marry yourself first book cover" width="259" height="300" /></a>Want more passion, power, purpose and prosperity in your life? Here&#8217;s the official Ken Donaldson Marry YourSelf First!</strong><sup>®</sup><strong> 20 Core Success Principles to Create Your Ultimate Life, Relationships and Career!</strong></p>
<p>#1 Allow your <strong>life purpose</strong> to be the flashlight to keep you on the pathway of your life.</p>
<p>#2 Create your <strong>vision</strong> and you’ll have the magnet that will pull you into your ultimate and utmost future.</p>
<p>#3 Allow your <strong>values and priorities</strong> to be the guides on your path that will keep you going in the direction of your purpose and your vision.</p>
<p>#4 Create and live your <strong>legacy</strong> today.</p>
<p>#5 Live by the <strong>Law of Attraction</strong> and put your focus, energy, emotions <strong>AND action</strong> toward what you truly desire in this lifetime.</p>
<p>#6 <strong>Give</strong> unconditionally and anonymously.</p>
<p>#7 Practice the daily rituals that evoke your unique spirituality and invite your <strong>True Essence and your Highest Self</strong> to shine.</p>
<p>#8 Know and live by your <strong>deal-makers and deal-breakers</strong>.</p>
<p>#9 Discern between accepting and settling. <strong>Accept what you cannot change</strong>, but never settle for anything below your standards.</p>
<p>#10 Live by your <strong>integrity</strong>, and allow yourself to be true to you first and foremost.</p>
<p>#11 Know, practice and learn from your <strong>boundaries </strong>(proactive and reactive, inner and outer), and by doing so you allow yourself to be in your power, in the present moment and in the highest degree of balance possible.</p>
<p>#12 Find and use the <strong>support networks</strong> that encourage your passion, power, purpose and prosperity, and invite your whole self to shine.</p>
<p>#13 Learn the <strong>communication strategies</strong> and tactics that will further empower you, reinforce your boundaries and fulfill all your needs.</p>
<p>#14 Understand and live in accordance with the <strong>relationship developmental process</strong>. In doing so you’ll have the closest relationships only with those who truly support, accept and encourage you.</p>
<p>#15 Always be willing to <strong>step out of your comfort zone</strong> to promote growth, change and unlimited possibility into your life.</p>
<p>#16 Commit to <strong>finalize all your unfinished business</strong> from the past and in doing so allow yourself to be present in the present.</p>
<p>#17 Separate “who you are” &#8211; your being &#8211; from “what you do” your doing &#8211; and <strong>choose to live more from your being state</strong>.</p>
<p>#18 Learn to<strong> go with the flow in life</strong>. Navigate through and around the challenging times and be focused on the journey, not the destination.</p>
<p>#19 <strong>Practice frequent silliness</strong>, deliberate breathing and conscious walking, all to give yourself the proactive medicine of health and well-being.</p>
<p>#20 <strong>Recognize, accept and embrace the perfect imperfection of you</strong>.</p>
<p><strong>Any questions ( leave them below, as well as any comments you might have)?</strong></p>
<p><strong>Now&#8230;go live your life to the fullest&#8230;more passion&#8230;more power&#8230;more purpose&#8230;and more prosperity!</strong></p>
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		<title>Marry YourSelf First: What&#8217;s Your P.L.A.N.?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2009 03:10:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Donaldson</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><strong>Marry YourSelf First: What&#8217;s Your P.L.A.N.?</strong></span></p>
<p>Very interesting and synchronistic things happen when I prepare for<br />
a presentation.</p>
<p>Sometimes, without even trying or expecting, I discover something<br />
very cool.</p>
<p><strong>Creative energy at its finest moment.</strong></p>
<p>Poof! And a new idea, concept, thought, tool, resource comes out<br />
of nowhere.</p>
<p>Or maybe it was always there just waiting to come to the surface.</p>
<p>Regardless of how it happens, it’s quite cool and I highly<br />
recommend it…meaning, I highly recommend you get into your<br />
creative energy and manifest some new, cool “stuff”!</p>
<p>Here’s what I discovered as I was preparing last week for the<br />
<strong>Marry YourSelf First!® Fun-Shop: P.L.A.N.</strong></p>
<p>Yes, it’s an acronym…another acronym.</p>
<p>I like acronyms because they make it easier for me to remember<br />
things…and probably work the same way for you too…hopefully.</p>
<p><strong>P.L.A.N.:<br />
Prepare<br />
Launch<br />
Acknowledge and Affirm<br />
NOW!</strong></p>
<p>That’s it! And allow me to elaborate a bit…</p>
<p>First, it’s always good to have a plan. As the old cliché goes:<br />
<strong>People don’t plan to fail, they just fail to plan.</strong></p>
<p>And I have been very BAD about planning at times in my life.</p>
<p>In fact, I hired a new business coach a couple months ago because<br />
my lack of planning was creating a lack of productivity.</p>
<p>Yes…I was spinning out of control!</p>
<p>Enter Robin Lavitch &#8211; <a href="http://www.planitlifecoaching.com" target="_blank">http://www.planitlifecoaching.com</a> –<br />
my new life and business coach, and with her help I immediately<br />
I saw the issue – the absence of plans and systems-<br />
and immediately she began to help me remedy things.</p>
<p>Results: <strong>More focus, more structure, less stress, more happiness<br />
and…MUCH better bottomline!</strong></p>
<p>But let’s get back to PLAN…</p>
<p>First the <strong>P</strong>…</p>
<p><strong>Prepare</strong>: Preparation starts with knowing where you’re going.<br />
In other words, it means having a target to aim for or at.</p>
<p>This is called having a Vision.</p>
<p>So: <strong>Do you have a Vision created for your life?</strong><br />
Do YOU know where you’re going?</p>
<p>Or as Lewis Carroll (Alice in Wonderland) said,<br />
<em>“If you don&#8217;t know where you are going, any road<br />
will get you there…&#8221;<br />
</em><br />
Yikes, any road will get you to nowhere!</p>
<p><strong>Prepare…create your Vision.</strong></p>
<p>Know exactly what your Vision is (use a Vision Map) and<br />
constantly be reminded of that.</p>
<p>Surround yourself with visual reminders of where you’re going!</p>
<p>Impress and embed it into and onto<br />
your subconscious mind.</p>
<p>See it every day.</p>
<p>Next…</p>
<p>The <strong>L</strong>…</p>
<p><strong>Launch</strong>: Get into Action…Right Action.</p>
<p>Let me explain…</p>
<p>In the course of a day, there are many, many people, events,<br />
circumstances and unplanned entities which will try to<br />
take your time, energy and focus.</p>
<p>You can “be in action” addressing many, many tasks, but are<br />
they the “right” tasks?</p>
<p><strong>Are your actions in alignment with your Vision? </strong></p>
<p>If so, then great…alignment means you have integrity with yourself.</p>
<p>However, if your actions are NOT in alignment with your Vision,<br />
then guess what?</p>
<p>You’re not only out of integrity with yourself, you’re likely<br />
WAY off the path of where you’ve been intending to go.</p>
<p>SO…it’s imperative that your Actions be Right Actions,<br />
meaning that they are in alignment with your Vision…<br />
or else you’ll never get there!</p>
<p><strong>Here’s where simple good old-fashioned planning comes in. </strong></p>
<p>Write your necessary actions. I recommend (actually,<br />
Robin recommended this and I’m now doing it…<br />
so basically I’ve paid Robin to pass this info on to you…<br />
yes, you’re getting FREE coaching!) you <strong>write out<br />
your goals for the next 2-5 years.</strong></p>
<p>Then break those goals down to what you need to<br />
accomplish this next month.</p>
<p>Then break those down to what you’ll focus on this week.</p>
<p>Next, write these goals into your daily schedule…<br />
and this is where many people (including me!!) get tripped up…<br />
they don’t get into their everyday scheduling and therefore,<br />
these other “urgencies” take over and steal productive time!</p>
<p>Yes: Launch into Right Action. Next…</p>
<p>The <strong>A</strong>…</p>
<p><strong>Acknowledge and Affirm</strong>: a.k.a. Celebrate your accomplishments!</p>
<p>We respond very well to positive strokes, or what we in the<br />
world of “psychobabble” like to call Positive Reinforcement.</p>
<p>It’s been proven hundreds of times in research that you are<br />
much more likely to repeat a behavior or set of behaviors<br />
when you create a positive reinforcement afterwards.</p>
<p>SO…it’s time to have a little (or big!!) party when you<br />
accomplish your tasks and goals.</p>
<p>Yes, reinforce your efforts and<br />
you’re more likely to repeat your efforts.</p>
<p><strong>That’s one way you re-train your brain.</strong></p>
<p>And lastly…</p>
<p>The <strong>N</strong>…</p>
<p><strong>NOW!</strong></p>
<p>Yes, <strong>you MUST start now</strong>.</p>
<p>Too much has already been said about procrastination.</p>
<p>The sad reality is that we now live in a “Procrastination Nation.”</p>
<p>You CANNOT look around and base your choices and decisions on<br />
what the masses are doing because the masses aren’t doing much.</p>
<p>Actually, they are doing a lot…of complaining, blaming, gossiping,<br />
running around scared, etc….and not too much in the productive realm!</p>
<p>I know that sounds harsh, critical and judgmental, and<br />
I’ll own every ounce of it, and it’s true… in my humble<br />
(and accurate!) opinion.</p>
<p><strong>Surround yourself with winners</strong>…<br />
people who are marching to the beat of their own drum.</p>
<p>People who’ll support your BIG goals and plans. People who<br />
will love you through all the mistakes and “failures” and<br />
kick you in the butt should you start to slip in procrastination gear.</p>
<p>Yes, start today doing something in alignment with your PLAN.</p>
<p>Otherwise, you’re failing without a plan.</p>
<p>That’s for sure…and you deserve to be winning with your PLAN!</p>
<p><strong>After all, you ARE a Winner!</strong></p>
<p>Win with a P.L.A.N.!</p>
<p>Peace and Prosperity&#8230;</p>
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		<title>Ken Donaldson: Go Beyond</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 20:56:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Donaldson</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><strong>Go Beyond</strong></span></p>
<p>Beyond the fences of what you know<br />
Awaits the possibility-land, yes, so full of flow<br />
So perhaps now you’ll answer the invitation<br />
And discover more passion and more creation</p>
<p>The Land of all Possibility does call your name<br />
And requests that you play not any small game<br />
You are here for your bigness and the gifts thereof<br />
To practice true Faith, Hope, and yes, Love</p>
<p>So take now a leap into all you can be<br />
And shed past conditioning and be truly free<br />
Waste not this life by allowing unnecessary fear<br />
But rather, take control of this Life that you solely steer</p>
<p>And drive yourself, yes, out of your mind<br />
To a much bigger place to find your true find<br />
Come now, my friend, it’s just beyond the fences<br />
On the other side there are no pretenses</p>
<p>You will soon see and feel possibility<br />
Yes, this is the place you’ll find your truest integrity<br />
So take now the leap and settle for no less<br />
You were put here, my friend, to be the very best</p>
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<p><em><strong>~Ken “Keni Lee” Donaldson</strong></em></p>
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