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Shopping for holiday gifts can be stressful. Deciding what to buy, how much to spend, and figuring out if your friends and family will actually like the gifts can be pretty draining. And when you calculate how much debt you might incur, the holiday bliss goes right out the door.

Last year, a Gallup poll said that Americans planned to spend an average of $715 on gifts. For some people that’s a mortgage payment, rent or a great vacation, but for many that hefty sum equals tremendous financial pressure.

To save money and time this holiday season, I suggest you:

To save money and time this holiday season, I suggest you:

• Start with a budget. Based on your monthly discretionary income, after you’ve paid your bills, how much can you afford to spend? Then take out a little "pamper me" money. What's left over is your holiday spending fund. So, if you shop or save for three months, say from October through December, three times the amount of money you have left after you pay your bills and pull out the "pamper me" money is your total budget for the holidays.

For the rest of the tips, click here to see my column Yes. You Are A Superstar! on Headdrama.com.

Tis The Season To be Jolly. So, Kick Out Your Inner Scrooge!

The holidays are supposed to fun and joyous.  Children should be frolicking, adults caroling, the aroma of fresh baked cakes and pies in the air, and laughter in the halls—at least that’s what I see on greeting cards and Hallmark specials.   In real life, the holiday season is the most stressful time of year for many people.

According to a Harris Interactive poll of 2,173 adults, 90% experience some level of anxiety around the holidays and the biggest concerns are gift giving and familial relationships.  With 10% unemployment, the pressures of the season will likely increase for many.

So how do we get to a happier, less stressful holiday?  Let’s deal with three key areas directly: your mindset, money/gifts and relationships:

• First, make a conscious decision to enjoy yourself.  Write a list of what you love and dislike about the holidays then make a personal resolution to eliminate as many of the negatives as possible and to indulge more in the things you love to do.

For the rest of the tips, visit http://headdrama.com/profile/41855/10044/success-coach-celest-turner,

Your Daily Success Affirmation

Words have power!  To welcome success into your life every day, here's a daily affirmation that you should say each morning. 

Opening The Door To Success

I believe in me and all I am meant to be.
I believe in me and all of my possibilities.
God has given me infinite abilities.
God has blessed me with opportunities.
But it is on me to be exactly who God has ordained me to be.
I am strong and resilient.
I know I am brilliant.
Thank you lord for the greatness you’ve planted in me.
I will succeed if I believe in God’s intentionality.
I will succeed if I believe in my authenticity.
I will succeed if I continue to believe in me.

(Pass along and share with someone you want to encourage)

(c) 2011 Turner Marketing & Consulting

Take The Easy ROAD Sometimes

There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don't know. 
- Ambrose Bierce, Editorialist and Satirist 

We all want to be an original or invent something great, but sometimes it is better to take the easy ROAD (i.e. Rip Off And Duplicate).  The most resourceful people and businesses save time, energy and money by leveraging the knowledge, failures, achievements and challenges of others.  Between the Internet and your immediate and extended people networks, there are rich pools of information.  Take what works and use it.  Learn to duplicate the best, and you will free yourself up to create real innovation and success in less time. 

Getting Naked Is A Good Thing

“Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness.”

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Author of The Little Prince

I love this quote from the early 1900s because when you replace the word "body" with the words "heart and mind", it is an articulate summary of my Naked Principle. As a success coach and transformational speaker, my goal is always to help people shed their layers of perception, personality, what they know, and socialization to get to the core of who they are.  The Naked Principle is very simple: To achieve your best and to feel most successful, you must strip away all the stuff you’ve become and realign yourself with who you truly are (your authentic self).

From the day we are born, we go through a transformation. We are nurtured by our parents, educated by our communities, and guided into adulthood by the people around us. Most of us are taught to be respectful to elders, obey adults, and listen to teachers. Our person is significantly defined by our environment (people, opportunities, experiences...), which creates layers that can start to hide, crush or alter who we are. More importantly, because it starts at childhood, most of us don’t know it has happened—or how far away we are from our authentic selves.

How many people do you know, including yourself, fall into these categories:

• They have good jobs with good salaries and they are respected, but they are miserable at work.
• They have a handsome husband or beautiful wife who seems to treat them well, but they are unhappy and don’t really like their mates.
• They feel trapped in their lives. Generations of their family were born and raised in the same hood. Their house, friends and possibly their jobs are all within a 10-mile radius. When you see them, they repeatedly express a deep desire to leave or do something different, but they never do.
• They are entrepreneurs with profitable businesses. Their work consumes most of their life. They don’t seem to have much going on besides making money, and they don’t seem to have many deep personal relationships outside of their families. 

Most of us know quite a few people who fit the examples above. Despite the appearance of success or contentment, their is real discomfort or angst about were they are because their lives or decisions don’t align with their true needs and real desires. Like many, their authentic self has been hidden, blocked or ignored for so long that it is unrecognizable until they hit a breaking point (also called a decision point) that leaves them to two choices:

• Continue on the current path despite the nagging feeling that something is not quite right.
• Search for the something that is missing or the something that will fulfill them.  

When the person makes the decision to search, that's when my Naked Principle helps them understand what they really need because it helps strip away the layers of film, mud, and residue they've accumulated since birth. Let's start with the present:

• First, write every single thing in your life as a noun in a list.  Example: my house, my job, my wife...
• Next describe each one of them as they currently exist with great detail.  Example: I have a blue 3-bedroom house with a beautiful lawn in a quiet neighborhood surrounded by tall trees. 
• Then write exactly how you feel about each noun you listed.  Use descriptors and adjectives like happy, hate it, excited, depressing...  
• Ask yourself why you feel this way about each one.  Be honest and descriptive. Write your response next to each noun.
• Now ask yourself if each noun listed, as it exists today, is good for your well-being.
• Next ask yourself why? Write down your response.

There are more steps to the process.  But, as you start to go through the exercise, the introspection that it takes to complete each part will reveal the layers you have on top of your authentic self.  You will start to see the things that feel good to you and don't as well as dive into why.  Your feelings and emotions are the keys to helping your navigate deep inside to pull out your true self and help guide you toward true success. 

Contact me at getstarted@theturnerconsulting.com for the rest of the steps to peeling back your layers to get to a naked you.