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Tons of Love
Best Relationships Ever exists to help you, my reader, develop a happier relationship with your self, your body, and the loves in your life. Love is a wondrous thing, as the saying goes. What matters more than love in life?
As I’ve experienced more times around the sun, it’s become my belief that the purpose of life is joy! Life keeps getting better and better, not because of external circumstances, but because happiness is an inside job. And so is love.
There are a few tools you can learn that can increase your love and joy factor exponentially. It’s really fun to experience them “working” by living with greater happiness, a sense of freedom, and deeply satisfying relationships.
I love that I can share them with you. And I know they work because I’ve developed them as a result of personal experiences and have applied them in my own life to great benefit.
Mentoring Program
Best Relationships Ever Mentoring Program is now available; a major achievement for my not so tech savvy self. The intention of the mentoring program is to interact with you individually to offer you tools to improve your love of yourself, your body, and your love relationships.
My approach is not a “quick fix” approach. Love doesn’t happen outside you, it begins within you. My programs are all about change from the inside out. Yet, it’s not complicated. In fact, it’s simpler than you may imagine.
Click on over to the Mentoring section and take a peek to find out how you can transform your life. I offer several programs that range from e-mail consultation to chat and video phone consults. There’s something for almost everyone.
Giving Back
I love the flow of giving and receiving. It’s the stuff life’s made of.
With this in mind, I’d like to give a gift of mentoring to one of my readers each month. I’m basing it on financial need so it’s available to someone who wouldn’t have access unless it’s gifted to them. Please apply only if you are in this position. I want to be fair about it and I’ll put each person’s name who requests it, in “the hat” as a possibility and anonymously draw someone each month.
If you submit your name, I’ll trust you have a real need and your name will be entered automatically. I don’t want it to be like Queen For A Day (smile, are any of you out there old enough to remember this program from TV?). You don’t need to explain your circumstances. Just enter your name on my CONTACT page and tell me you’d like to be considered.
I have chosen my person for this month, as it’s the first time and I already became aware of a need of one particular individual.
My time is limited as I have many obligations and value personal time, so my gift package will be 1 session of your choice. If you don’t need it, but have a friend with a need, feel free to send them to the site.
A Better Life
My own life keeps getting better and better and my sincere desire is to add benefit to the lives of you, my readers. I feel a tremendous fondness and appreciation for all we’ve shared in these past months and all that we’ll continue to share. One of the greatest gifts I’ve received is the interactions and friendships I’ve developed through our Cyberspace sharing. How good is that!
My Promise To You
It’s my intention to continue to provide you with lots of great content without you needing to ever purchase anything. With that said, and valuing both the flow of giving and receiving, I’d love you to recommend my site and services to people you think may benefit.
My heart is filled with love for you, my readers, as we continue our journey together. Feel free to contact me with any topics you’d like to see addressed and I’ll consider them.
In the meantime, be well, and may you enjoy the best relationships ever. And don’t forget to have FUN along the way!
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Hi Lauren
“I love the flow of giving and receiving” caught my eye straight away but it’s hard to get people to give these days.
I organise a charity collection for a well known charity but each year it gets harder and harder to find people who are willing to give their time and help with door to door collections.
They’ll give money but not time.
Maybe I should send them over to read this article!
Keith Davis´s last blog ..A splash of colour
Hi Keith,
Thanks for your observation. All my programs have a built-in way to donate a percentage. I feel it’s very important to contribute.
Nice to see you and hope all is going well.
Warm regards,
Lauren
Lauren´s last blog ..Best Relationships Ever Mentoring
Good Morning Lauren,
As one recipient of your huge capacity for giving… of your time, talents, and love for friends you haven’t even met (yet!), I send you a ginormous hug
I too believe the flow of giving and recieving is a great energetic dance.
It can feel more invigorating to give than to recieve, but in loving ourselves more, I’ve learned (here) that paying attention to the flow and asking for what needs to be reciprocated is a love preserver!
love, Lisa
Dear Lisa Marie,
I love that you are setting a standard for receiving as well as given, dear one. Clearly you are a very giving person and I’m glad you hold an expectation to receive as well.
I love how you put it – asking for what you need back is a LOVE PRESERVER. Once again your wisdom shows. It prevents resentment from building in a relationship and maintains greater balance.
Hope you’re having a good Monday. Thanks for visiting and gracing us with your insight!
Lots of love,
Lauren
Lauren´s last blog ..Best Relationships Ever Mentoring
Hi Lauren,
What an amazing idea. Very generous and thoughtful.
I’m still lurking around, but my job hunt is in overdrive. My previous position and background is in management, however I’m finding it difficult to jump right in at a new company. It seems the longer I’m unemployed, the less marketable I become. Which makes sense, and on every interview I’m asked, “So what have you been doing for 6 months?”
This is a trick question & catch 22. I can’t disclose my website, because that will give someone the impression that I won’t be serious about a new job. I didn’t return to school or take classes while unemployed because I didn’t expect to be unemployed for 6 months. That really surprised me. And the time flies, one month becomes two…and so on. Then here I am.
On June 2nd, my unemployment ran out because of the Senate. Many people don’t know or understand unemployment, but in a nutshell: Once approved for the unemployment benefit (which isn’t easy) you are alloted 26 weeks that is paid from your last employer while you search for a job.
If you don’t have a job after the 26 weeks are up, then Emergency Benefits kick in that is paid from the Federal Government. These benefits add an additional 53 weeks of paid unemployment.
Now, before everyone sulks and bashes the unemployed, it’s not a free ride. We all must look for work every week. Unemployment does random checks and conducts one on one meetings and group sessions. At any point they can stop the unemployment checks if someone isn’t adhering to the rules.
Many people ask, “How can it take that long to find a job?” I’ll use myself as an example. I have a management background, seeking a management job. For each resume I submit, that employer gets about 100 – 500 resumes from other people. For one job.
Many of us keep the hope we will find something in our field. We also are open to new fields and work in different areas. Once again we arrive at a brick wall. No experience. Even though I can manage anywhere, I’ve been told by retail stores that I’m not suited because I’m used to a desk job. Even though I can do it, I don’t have the retail experience.
At the other extreme is a minimum wage job. Can I financially survive living on minimum wage, $7.30 an hour, once taxes are deducted? No. Not when I’ve been living on a management salary for years. Ok, so what about unemployment? Actually, it’s partially based on your previous income. In Ohio, the maximum monthly benefit is $400.00 a week. So on a stripped down budget, it’s more feasible to live on $1,600 a month because that amounts to $10.00 an hour.
Obviously $10 an hour isn’t enough to make a living. The thought that we’re getting rich off that money is ridiculous.
Long story short, the extra 53 weeks of emergency benefits were cut off on June 2nd because the Senate hasn’t approved the bill. Right now 1 million people are now without their unemployment checks. Me included.
What this means for me is that I’m now applying for jobs as a food server in a restaurant. My last unemployment check was on June 1st. I’ve received nothing since…
I spend each day going into restaurants begging for a job as a food server. I have previous food serving experience, 15 years ago! So I’m up against another wall. I’m up against the young college crowd competing for a serving position, which I haven’t found any yet…
Honestly, I have learned so much during this experience; which I know is temporary. I have gained a new insight to living on government benefits and relying on our congress to make laws to help us. I’ve learned that in the eyes of the system – poor people don’t matter. We’ve even been referred to as cockroaches who won’t go away.
What kills me the most is that we spend 1.7 billion dollars each time we send the Space Shuttle on a trip. (Yes, that’s round trip).
For what? But yet our Congress won’t pass the unemployment bill because they said it costs too much money…
Oh, and the oil spill in the gulf? Hello, does anyone realize that BP stands for British Petroleum and is not an American company? They are on the London stock exchange. So why is America footing part of the bill? I think London and BP should pay all the damages, since Congress is trying to save America money. Right?
Nah, lets keep sending people to space. That makes more sense.
Scott Barron´s last blog ..Sally’s Top Ten Secret Sauce Blogs
Dear Scott,
What a painful position to be in and it puts a face to the severity of the crisis. What people like you, YOU, are experiencing.
In a way, it reminds me of war. From a distance it’s easy to “overlook” the realness of the pain and devastation. Close up is another story.
And obviously you’re getting a close-up look at unemployment and financial hardship. In addition to the lack of funds, which in itself is debilitating, you mention what it’s doing to your self-esteem and image of who you are.
We do become identified with what we do and it becomes part of our image, as you point out. Still, it saddens me to think you no longer feel like “a catch”. We’re going to need to do a little “work” around all this, Scott.
In the meantime, my thoughts are with you and my hope for you is that you land on your feet – and land a job as well, soon.
Much love,
Lauren
Lauren´s last blog ..Best Relationships Ever Mentoring
I wish someone would tell me the answers to those psychology tests they give in interviews now. The whole:
Strongly agree, agree, neutral, disagree, strongly disagree.
Then answer 100 questions using those terms. Do you like working in a group? Do you like yourself? Do you believe in goals? Are you full of yourself?
Ugg. What do they want? I know people lie on those. I want to know one person who admits to an attendance issue? Or any issue that wouldn’t make them appear hire able?
Scott Barron´s last blog ..Sally’s Top Ten Secret Sauce Blogs
Dear Scott,
E-mail me. We’ll have a chat.
Warm regards,
Lauren
Lauren´s last blog ..Best Relationships Ever Mentoring
What a very valuable gift, Lauren. Your wisdom and compassion is a blessing for anyone who signs up. When we make it a habit to lift others up we can’t help but lift ourselves up in the process. There is no better reward than the feeling we get when we are in service to the betterment of humanity.
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Dear Rob,
Hey, friend, nice to see you. Hope you had a fun weekend in Boston.
Yes, giving is wonderful and so is receiving. An exchange of love is the best!
Nice to see you as always. I’m smiling at the last blog title that’s popping up here for you. I’ll have to come take a look. Speaking of lifting up others, that’s what you do!
Take care,
Lauren
Lauren´s last blog ..Best Relationships Ever Mentoring