CREATIVE SUCCESS NEWSLETTER, NUMBER 19-January 2, 2002

The Positive Choices Series

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END OF THE YEAR CHALLENGE
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Welcome to all of our new subscribers again this month! Today is the
beginning of 2002. Take some time today to do the following:

1) Write on a piece of paper all of the things you have either completed
this past year or Subtracted from your life for good, i.e., a job you
hated, clothes that don't fit, or being too critical of yourself, and
burn the paper

2) Write down and acknowledge all of the Positive Additions that you've
added to your life this year, i.e. new friends, creative hobbies, or
Weight Watchers, and commit to enjoying them more this coming year

3) Write down 5 things you want to create in your life in 2002 and post
them on your computer or someplace where you can see them clearly EVERY
DAY. Write at the bottom of the list what kind of support you need to
manifest these goals.

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The Positive Choices products in my CREATIVE SUCCESS WEBSTORE on my
website at http://www.creativesuccess.com are the perfect support system
for your vision. Order them today!
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POSITIVE CHOICES STEP SEVEN: V IS FOR VISUALIZATION

Visualization is a powerful tool in the change process. Visualization
gives you a dress rehearsal of the new life that you envision for
yourself. It allows you to practice being in your desired state. It also
dynamites away your limiting beliefs so you can take the actions
required for building a life of Positive Choices for your body, mind,
and spirit. By creating movies in your mind, you cancel out your fears
and increase your receptivity to the steps of manifestation. It also
allows you to try on your vision of Positive Choices to make sure it
fits. If it doesn't, you are free to change it and focus on the right
images for you. I have used visualization for years and continue to be
astounded at its magical powers of illumination and intentionality and
encourage my clients to use this technique as well.

This month, I want you to meet a new friend of mine, Margie Levine, who
is the author of a wonderful new book, Surviving Cancer (Broadway Books,
New York, 2001). This book is not just a book for cancer patients, but a
guide to healing and healthy living. I recommend it highly and I could
not put it down once I started it. With a background in health
education, Margie is also an expert on visualization and recommends this
technique as part of her 41 steps of healing. As a child, Margie
visualized having the longest list of name associations to the letters
in Happy Birthday so she could win the prize at the party. Later, she
used visualization to picture herself getting her first teaching job,
reduce her back pain, and see her Cape house renovations completed.

When she developed a deadly lung cancer, she was intuitively guided to
make her own personal visualization tape to help herself heal her body.
She advises people to make a tape using their own voice with a selection
of favorite music as well as prayers, literary excerpts, motivational
sayings, and even the voices of loved ones to make your tape uniquely
meaningful. Margie tells people to include many adjectives and a rich
description of details to make the images as vivid as possible. Even
though her cancer is now in remission, Margie still uses a tape daily to
manage pain, support her health, and imagine being in Oprah's energy
field on the Oprah show, talking about her book. Margie also uses
personal visualization tapes to facilitate forgiveness by picturing the
other person's face and a dialogue. You can make your own tape to help
you to manifest your goals this new year and increase your likelihood of
making them a reality. Visualization re-programs your psychic energy to
support your dreams and longings. It truly works, as the research will
attest to.

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CHALLENGE
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1) Write down one to five goals for 2002 including as many details as
possible. Collect photographs, magazine pictures, poems, articles,
meditations, readings, etc. that support your visions of what you want.

2) Write out a script of what you want your personal 2002 tape to
include and in what order.

3) Record a sample tape in your own voice, beginning with a meditation
to help you to relax and be receptive to positive messages.

4) Try the tape for a week and then re-record as needed.

5) Listen to the tape on a daily basis and "practice" living the life
you imagine for yourself.

6) Watch for Positive Choices to enter your life!

EXCITING NEW RESOURCES

Want to understand male-female dynamics at work with new insights? Read
Deborah Swiss's new book The Male Mind at Work: A Woman's Guide to
Working with Men (Perseus, 2000). I sat next to Deborah recently at a
book signing in Lexington, MA and found both her and her book
fascinating. We have a lot to learn from the men she interviewed.

I often recommend a book called Making a Living without a Job by Barbara
Winter to my clients. She teaches people how to develop multiple profit
centers and have the freedom to work on your own. Barbara has a
wonderful newsletter called Winning Ways: Turning Passions into Profits,
which is loaded with creative ideas and insights for creating a life you
want. She is very much in synch with the Positive Choices philosophy and
her newsletter will both delight and inspire you. It is well worth the
$33.00 annual subscription fee. You can subscribe by going to her
website which is www.barbarawinter.com.

UPCOMING EVENTS
January 24, 2002
The Power of Positive Choices workshop at 7 PM
West Roxbury Library, West Roxbury, MA
617-325-3147

THANK YOU

A sincere thank you to all of you for your wonderful feedback and
support of this newsletter, my two books, and my coaching practice this
past year. I feel truly blessed to have you all in my life and to be
doing work I value and enjoy. Many blessings to you in 2002.

Creatively yours,
Gail McMeekin
Creative Success: Career and Creativity Coaching and Writing

Author of The Power of Positive Choices: Adding and Subtracting Your Way
to a Great Life and The 12 Secrets of Highly Creative Women: A Portable
Mentor and an audiotape workshop Positive Choices: From Stress to
Serenity -all items are for sale in our secure Creative Success Webstore
at http://www.creativesuccess.com. Please forward this newsletter in its
entirety to other like-minded friends and colleagues who might enjoy it.
Thank you.