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Are Your Ready?

Woman ready to sprint on a track

It all started when our daughter Eden was a year and a half old. She had Pneumonia and high fever and she wheezed all day.

After one dose of Antibiotics (by the way, 18 years ago, it was every 6 hours, even if it meant waking her up at night), we had about a week or two off and the wheezing started again.

First kid, young parents, we went straight to see our baby specialist. He was the head of the Pediatric Ward at our local hospital and we went to his private clinic every time something happened.

About 4 months later, we found ourselves in his private clinic again. It was Pneumonia the fourth time. During that time, Eden had red, dry cheeks, high fever (every time she was not on any medication) and wheezing, wheezing all day.

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Published: March 14, 2008 by Ronit Baras
Last modified: January 21, 2020In: Kids / Children, Health / Wellbeing, Personal Development, Parenting Tags: values, inspiration, emotional intelligence, change, positive attitude tips, acceptance / judgment / tolerance, health / wellbeing, personal development / personal growth / personality development / self improvement, focus

Permission to Shine

Girl with butterfly wings

When I was 14, I promised myself to have words like Marianne Williamson’s speech for Nelson Mandela on the walls of my house to keep me inspired. For those of you who know me, my house has such writings on the walls, in every diary, on every photo album and on the bathroom mirror (in lipstick). I am inspired!

I feel Marianne Williamson captured my life’s journey in this fabulous quote. Many years ago, when I had to make the decision of what to do for a living (except breathing, eating and sleeping), it was the light I saw inside myself that led me to choose Special Education.

I came up with the belief that only people who have seen the light can guide others to find their own and that this is my life’s purpose. Therefore, I dedicated my life to working with gifted children and children with learning difficulties.

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Published: February 22, 2008 by Ronit Baras
Last modified: November 9, 2021In: Spirituality, Personal Development Tags: success, role model, purpose, learning disabilities, video, goals / goal setting, vision, inspiration

What Do I Want?

Person standing on top of a mountain

It is an amazing experience to be an educator because teaching is to giving like learning is to receiving. We teachers have the greatest learning while we teach. My meeting with John was living proof of this concept.

I published a newsletter about worth, which had a wonderful impact on many readers. I received many encouraging and supporting responses.

Since then, I have told so many people about John and helped them find the answer to the big questions in life that I would like to share it with you and thank John for giving me one of the best lessons in my life. I hope you take the learning from it too.

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Published: February 18, 2008 by Ronit Baras
Last modified: December 24, 2019In: Life Coaching, Success / Wealth, Personal Development Tags: emotional intelligence, purpose, happiness, Life Coaching, personal development / personal growth / personality development / self improvement, goals / goal setting

Angels of Love and Demons of Fear

Dark angel looking over box with golden figure inside it

Once upon a time, in a small village, lived a family. They had a small guest house at the back of their property, where people passing by stayed for the night.

All four of their kids helped in the guest house and when they finished their chores, went to play with the other kids – all but the second son, Tom.

Tom was a very quiet and a sad boy. He never smiled, never laughed and the other kids did not want to play with him.

One day, an old man came to the guest house and Tom, who loved listening to the guests’ stories, showed the old man his room.

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Published: February 14, 2008 by Ronit Baras
Last modified: November 9, 2021In: Relationships / Marriage, Spirituality, Personal Development Tags: gratitude, love, inspiration, depression, fear, valentine's day, happiness, video

Dare to Dream

Cocktail on a tropical beach

For many people, dreams are the fluffy clouds we see at night when we go to sleep (well, in fact, only the visual people imagine a picture while dreaming).

Another dream in daily use is the wish. We wish for things and by this we tell our subconscious that this is what we want.

Every special event in our life triggers dreams in peoples’ mind. Birthdays, a new job, moving to a new house, a new year and every other new thing that has a feeling of a beginning, has the power to trigger such dreams.

Funny, but we can, if we dare, dream every day of our life.

Every day is the first day of the rest of your life

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Published: February 6, 2008 by Ronit Baras
Last modified: March 18, 2021In: Personal Development, Parenting, Kids / Children Tags: success, neurolinguistic programmiing / NLP, love languages, goals / goal setting

Is It Better to Be Poor and Happy or Wealthy and Miserable?

Happy poor Afghani boy

When coaching people on wealth creation, it is amazing for me every time to discover how strongly people who are not wealthy believe that this question is valid. Don’t get me wrong. I came from a simple family, where my mom and dad both worked hard, very hard, at more that one job, to provide for 5 children.

When my clients discuss this, I know what they are talking about because we had such discussions around our dinner table.

People who do not have “enough” money (90% of our society) have some beliefs that support their identity as “poor”, “struggling”, “cannot have what we want”. Here are some of them:

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Published: January 30, 2008 by Ronit Baras
Last modified: December 24, 2019In: Personal Development, Did You Know? Tags: health / wellbeing, personal development / personal growth / personality development / self improvement, money, emotional intelligence, research, happiness

My Ex’s Wedding

Red button

Questions from a reader:

“I am invited to my ex-boyfriend’s wedding and I have to go. Do you have good tips to handle the situation?”

My answer:

If you no longer have feelings for him – cool! Go have fun at his wedding. But I guess since you have asked the question, you do have feelings for him…

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Published: January 28, 2008 by Ronit Baras
Last modified: December 24, 2019In: Personal Development, Ask Ronit Tags: values, wedding, separation, relationships / marriage, positive attitude tips, focus

Who Am I?

Shy Asian ballerina by the mirror

What we think about ourselves is what we call our “Self Concept”. If you want to discover yours, simply ask yourself: Who am I?

This seemingly simple question is big, really big. Of course, your answers may be different, but most people include: social roles, physical appearance, health, relationships, location, achievements and skills.

How do we form this self concept?

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Published: January 24, 2008 by Ronit Baras
Last modified: December 24, 2019In: Parenting, Personal Development, Life Coaching Tags: focus, values, role model, negative, identity, positive attitude tips, self confidence / self esteem / self worth

Things I Want My Kids to Know: Shoot!

Wayne Gretzky

Statistically, 90% of all people do not have any goals in life. Life happens to them instead of them controlling their own destiny. I want my kids to be in the other 10%. This is so important, that all millionaires and billionaires have goals, but the difference is that billionaires read their goals more times each day.

The reason most people in our world are not successful is that they do not distinguish between being alive and living. Whereas being alive is watching a hockey game, living is actually playing.

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Published: January 24, 2008 by Ronit Baras
Last modified: March 18, 2021In: Personal Development, Parenting Tags: sport, motivation, story, positive attitude tips, kids / children, practical parenting / parents, focus, goals / goal setting, values, success, emotional intelligence

How to Beat those Pink Elephants

Elephant in pink tutu

There are two parts to making a change from using a negative language to a positive one. The first is to understand how we were programmed to use negative language in our life. We talk about what we are not happy about and we express disappointment and frustration instead of saying what we feel, need and want.

The second part of making the change is to do something different and practice doing it until it becomes the new habit.

To help you make the change, here are some rules you need to remember.

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Published: January 21, 2008 by Ronit Baras
Last modified: December 23, 2019In: Personal Development Tags: communication styles, learning styles, positive attitude tips, behavior / discipline, self confidence / self esteem / self worth, communication, focus, values, negative, language

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