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In This Issue:

Note From Natalie: Mistakes, Stressors and Downright Irritants

Coaching with NMA: Business Mastery Mentor Program

Feature Article: Your Best Holiday Ever

NMA Recommends: Your Holiday Stress Toolkit

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Mistakes, Stressors and Downright Irritants

I hope your week is going well. We at NMA started our week with technology goofs and irritants. Our server and router went down at the same time. (Yeah…we didn’t think that was possible either.) Once more, we clearly understand that technology can take you to places you want to go and definitely don’t want to go.

What is a person to do? Without the deep breathing and ability to get out of our own way, the stress for Natalie Jr. and I would have been enormous and taken all of our own mental bandwidth.

It also helps that we have a terrific technology organization, Networking and Computer Connection (NACC), to support us. You’ll get to learn more about Richie Torbett, owner and president of NACC, next week on our monthly “Business Mastery Mentor Program^(sm)” telecall. See the Coaching with NMA section of this newsletter for more information.

Let us know how we can be a resource to you. Be well!

Your Best Holiday Ever

By: Natalie R. Manor, CEO

What was your best holiday ever? Where were you? Who were you with? How did it feel?

Isn’t it great that your imagination will allow you to just go back there and feel it and smell it and know how wonderful it all seemed?

You know what? You still have that holiday in you and it is very real. However, is it the holiday you want to create for yourself this season? Is it time to let go of the memory and create a new best holiday memory for you and yours?

Your best holiday memory contains the components you need and want for creating 2009 as your best holiday ever, right here and right now. We just need to look at this memory and see what you’d like to replicate for yourself this holiday season.

In my very best holiday memory, the following was present:

• People I love
• Food that was easy
• Stories from family and people
• Anticipation and joy of what was coming
• Secretive planning so no one would find out what was coming as a surprise
• Hearing from people who I rarely heard from
• Spiritual support with church, prayers, books, stories
• Solitary time with just me

What are the details of your best holiday memory? Do you know how to replicate those details for yourself this holiday season?

I wish you new memories. I wish you new love of the holidays, which is a time of revisiting the idea of love, giving, sharing, and remembering.

Your memories deserve a new venue and your life deserves new memories however unique they may be.

Some guidance in creating new memories might include thinking through the following ideas:

• What do you love to do now? Do some of it this holiday season.
• How much money is in your budget? Stay within the budget and spend what you have with no guilt.
• Where do you want to spend your holidays? Go there…whether it’s a physical trip by car or plane or in your imagination with a great book or movie.
• Get your calendar out and mark in it time for just you. Get to know that terrific person inside you a bit better this holiday season.
• If you want to eat bologna for holiday supper, do it. Take a picture and send it to your friends. They will laugh and say, “Yea, that is (your name)” because they already know you are a bologna kind of person.
• Volunteer your time and energy. I’ll tell you one sobering task is sorting, cleaning and folding donated clothes at the different non-profits. It is a huge task and you get to meet the most fascinating people who are also volunteering their time.
• Do some good food for you. Buy that apple, banana, or orange and savor it like you did as a kid. They are delicious foods who rarely get any credit for being there for us. Each one is at the store and farmer markets right now waiting for you. The red delicious apples are fabulous right now. Take these tasty foods and slice them up. You can then put them at your desk as a morning or afternoon snack. Yummmmmmm!

NMA clients and colleagues (yes…that’s you) are highly successful, results-driven people who need reminding that they are also in control of their food, time and thoughts. So think about taking some time for you to reflect before this holiday season cranks up to a fever pitch and you can’t get out of the way of the wave of “here we go again.”

Do it this week. You are allowed to have what you want, when you want it and how you want it. Stop complaining and just do it. Take some time to think through what would please you to create your best holiday ever.

© 2001-2009 Natalie Manor & Associates.

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YourHolidayStressToolkit.com

The Holiday Season is upon us!!! Wait...Did you just cringe and roll your eyes? That's what we thought.

How would you like to have help removing your stress this Holiday season? Natalie Jr. and I have put together a seven (7) week series of live Q&A tele-coaching calls on removing and relieving your stress this Holiday Season just for you!

In a hurry? Click here and grab your spot?

Oh, by the way...did I mention that this seven (7) week live Q&A tele-coaching series is F'REE?

Seven (7) weeks of Holiday Stress relieving tips, techniques and strategies on:

• Food
• Family
• Gifts
• Preserving your time and energy
• Relatives
• Setting goals for 2010

This means that you get to be on a live tele-coaching call with Natalie Jr. and I, each week, from now until the week of December 21st.

On these calls, we will answer all of your questions around the holidays and stress. We will also share with you our time tested and proven tips, techniques and strategies for relieving holiday stress and eliminating overspending.

Click here to grab your spot!

These calls will take place each Tuesday at 8:00 PM EST, from Nov. 10th to Dec. 22nd. Don't worry if you can't join us. Within 48 hours of each call we will automatically send you a link to the Holiday Stress Resources page where you can download your very own MP3. This way you can listen to again and again and easily deal with your holiday stress.

You won't want to miss this opportunity to relieve your Holiday Stress!!

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