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Do You Really Believe That Setting a Goal Is Enough to Achieve It?

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My immediate answer is “I wish”. I really do. Think about it – how easy it would be if all we needed is to set a goal, write it down (to make sure we will not change it often, based on circumstances) and let the universe take care of it, right?

But I am a person of action. I believe in motion as the ultimate way to growth and I that action speaks louder than words. While the universe is taking care of some of your goals, just because you wanted them, your actions will help you with the rest. When you set a goal and wait for an external source to fulfil it, you fail to help yourself and miss the opportunity to grow.

My immediate answer is “I wish”. I really do. Think about it – how easy it would be if all we needed is to set a goal, write it down (to make sure we will not change it often, based on circumstances) and let the universe take care of it, right?

My Neuro-linguistic Programming (NLP) teacher did believe that it was enough. She said, “If you really, really want it, it will happen”, but I ask you, “How do you know if you really, really want something? When does your desire become ‘real’?”

When I want something, I can swear I really want it.

You see, some people set goals and do not achieve them, at least for a while, so they accept defeat by saying “Maybe I didn’t ‘really’ want this goal”.

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December 21, 2007 by Ronit Baras In: Ask Ronit, Life Coaching, Personal Development Tags: action, anxiety, beliefs, emotional intelligence, fear, focus, goals / goal setting, motivation, positive attitude tips, success, values

Interview with Ronit Baras on Her New Book "In the Outback with Jasmine Banks"

Following the announcement of her book “In the Outback with Jasmine Banks”, here is an interview with Ronit Baras about this inspiring story of a young woman’s personal journey to freedom.

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December 19, 2007 by Gal Baras In: Ask Ronit, Personal Development Tags: choice, emotional intelligence, family matters, inspiration, personal development / personal growth / personality development / self improvement, self confidence / self esteem / self worth, success

In The Outback With Jasmine – Journey to Freedom

In the Outback with Jasmine Banks by Ronit Baras

Reading is one of the most popular and accessible ways to make this journey. There are many personal development books and many of them are very good books. I must have read hundreds of books myself. As an author, I love books, love reading and get a lot from it. I still remember ads from childhood saying “books are your friends”, “your book will take you on a journey”. They have certainly worked miracles for me.

I am happy to announce the official launch of my new book “In the Outback with Jasmine Banks – Journey to Freedom”, the story of young women with similar fears to most people, who manages to find a new definition for what life is all about.

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December 7, 2007 by Ronit Baras In: Emotional Intelligence, Life Coaching, Parenting, Personal Development Tags: books, education / learning, emotional intelligence, empowerment, gender, inspiration, personal development / personal growth / personality development / self improvement, women

Knowledge or Attitude?

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For many years, knowledge was considered to be the ultimate factor for success in life. Many parents and educators still pump knowledge into kids’ brains, in hope this will bring kids to the desired achievements.

While in the past knowledge was something not all people could have, nowadays it is much more accessible. Unfortunately, knowledge is not the thing that will give kids the edge to succeed.

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December 6, 2007 by Ronit Baras In: Did You Know?, Education / Learning, Emotional Intelligence, Kids / Children, Parenting, Personal Development, Teens / Teenagers Tags: education / learning, emotional intelligence, success, teen books

7 Easy Steps To Detoxify Your Life

Fruits and mint for detox in heart shapes

This happens to many people. They get up one day feeling sick and tired of trying so hard and determine to change. Some of us are lucky to be really sick and are forced to listen to our body and detoxify. I have a group of clients who all know one another (they referred each other to me) and they imitate me saying “Sickness is health” (they say it in a funny way, I must sound very funny when I say it).

Sickness is our body’s way of talking to us. When we are sick, the level of poison in our body has reached a warning level. If we do not stop to detoxify, we can ruin our own life and the lives of the people we love.

Having been very sick during childhood, I was shocked to discover when I was just 16 that my thoughts were pure poison. I had bad thoughts about myself, my abilities and my talents. I had bad thoughts about others around me and, of course, I never took any responsibility over my life. Not that I didn’t want to, but I do not think I knew what it meant.

Well, what do you know? As soon as I realised this, I fought my way back to school (after failing too many subjects and being kicked), I started going out with a boy, I got an excellence scholarship and was sent with the first-ever Israeli youth delegation to Egypt, to help establish new relationships just after the peace agreement was signed between the two countries. You can certainly say this was one of the best “sick and tired” points of my life.

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December 5, 2007 by Ronit Baras In: Did You Know?, Emotional Intelligence, Personal Development Tags: anxiety, emotional intelligence, failure, fear, health / wellbeing, negative, positive attitude tips

Just A Little Bit More

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Success depends on the ability to move forward and requires persistence. We succeed at work, at our social life, our parenting, relationships, love life, finance or health only if we can keep moving forward in spite any setbacks.

In the movie “Touching the Void”, the concept of moving forward no matter what, had a life and death flair and gave no option to fail. There is a beautiful Zen saying “Fall 7 times, get up 8”. Successful people do not fail less, they get up more.

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November 15, 2007 by Ronit Baras In: Personal Development, Relationships / Marriage Tags: determination, emotional intelligence, language, negative, persistence, personal development / personal growth / personality development / self improvement, positive attitude tips, success

A Gift of Gratitude: When Giving Is Receiving

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Sometimes, the appreciation of what we have in life is the only thing we need in order to paint our life in bright colours. It is as if the greatest way to overcome stress and distress or to stop taking life for granted is to look at our life and notice all the good stuff.

As part of the Be Happy in LIFE mission, we dedicate much of our time to learn and teach happiness and, let me tell you, some of the lessons are amazing and strong, much like the one I want to share with you here.

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November 1, 2007 by Ronit Baras In: Life Coaching, Personal Development Tags: emotional intelligence, free hugs, gratitude, personal development / personal growth / personality development / self improvement, touch

Do We Have Enemies?

What is an enemy? Is it a person who wants to hurt you? Most people would agree to this description. In fact, here is what the dictionary says: Enemy: One who feels hatred toward, intends injury to, or opposes the interests of another; a foe But I think there is no such a thing, because […]

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October 31, 2007 by Ronit Baras In: Ask Ronit, Opinion, Relationships / Marriage Tags: emotional intelligence, personal development / personal growth / personality development / self improvement, relationships / marriage

Windows of the Heart

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For most of us, the word “judgment” has bad connotations. It is almost equivalent to criticism. We associate it with laws, trials and with sentences – with power. There are judgmental people; there is a judge in court and even a “judgment day”.

In the personal growth process, we aim to solve the puzzle of our right to judge. Are we allowed to judge? Is it good for us? How to live with the label of being “judgmental”?

When judgment is the weighing of evidence and feelings in order to make a choice, the real question is “Can we be non-judgmental”?

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October 16, 2007 by Ronit Baras In: Life Coaching, Personal Development Tags: emotional intelligence, focus, personal development / personal growth / personality development / self improvement, positive attitude tips, projection, values, vision

Intellectual Motivation and the Power of “Why?”

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As part of my personal growth journey, I have been studying other personal development gurus like Steve Pavlina. I like him because he likes to write and I love to read what he writes. He is a great inspiration to me. In his article about motivation, he talks (well, he doesn’t talk. He writes, but […]

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October 16, 2007 by Ronit Baras In: Life Coaching, Opinion, Personal Development Tags: emotional intelligence, happiness, Life Coaching, motivation, personal development / personal growth / personality development / self improvement

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