Your Happiness Factor

Your Good Friday Fish Recipe - Saltfish Stewed Peas from Jamaica Shereen Codner joins Carlene in the kitchen where she prepares the popular Jamaican dish, Stewed Peas with Saltfish. Ingredients For 4 people 12 1/2 cups water 2 cups dried red peas, pre-soaked 1 piece ginger, crushed 4 whole pimento berries 3 cloves garlic, crushed 1 packet Grace Coconut Milk Powder 1 cup flour 1/2 cup Grace Cornmeal 1/8 teaspoon salt 1 pound saltfish, soaked and flaked 1 packet Grace One Pot Seasoning - All Purpose 1 whole scotch bonnet pepper 1 medium onion, chopped 2 stalks escallion, chopped 1 sprig thyme Directions Pour 8 cups water into a pressure cooker. Add pre-soaked red peas, crushed ginger, pimento berries and crushed garlic; pressure cook for twenty five minutes. Remove pressure cooker from flame and allow to fully cool before opening. Return to flame and add 4 cups water, Grace Coconut Milk Powder, mix well and bring to a boil. To Make Spinners: Combine ...

A Short and Simple Meditation To Release Spiritual Negativity You can release negativity using this quick and easy meditation. It is by  Dr. Mark W. Tong who is a sppiritual teacher and healer. It uses a visualisation of archangels  You can find Dr Mark at http://www.MarkTheHealer.com   Wendy Mason is the Happiness Coach and author of a new novel,   The Wolf Project.   Wendy is a life and career coach and writer. She is passionate about helping people find happiness at work and at home! She helps people reach their goals and aspirations, without sacrificing their home and personal life.  She believes coaching requires compassion, warmth and empathy. Wendy helps people reach their career goals and aspirations, without sacrificing their home and personal life. You can contact Wendy at  wendymason@wisewolfcoaching.com  and find out more at  http://wisewolfcoaching.com CV review and interview pr...

Stop Feeling Down and Have an Unstoppable Positive Mindset Great advice below from Dr Larry Iverson on how to catch and then let go your negative thoughts.  This really works but it helps if you work with a coach.  I'd love to work with you.  I work regularly with people by Skype and on line and I am happy to fit in with your time zone. To find out more email me at  wendymason@wisewolfcoaching.com   Learn the secret to removing negative thinking patterns and overcoming negative mental blocks that contribute to feeling down. Get success now by learning to release negative feelings and create a positive mental attitude .   http://www.DrLarryIverson.com/video1   Wendy Mason is the Happiness Coach and author of a new novel,   The Wolf Project.   Wendy is a life and career coach and writer. She is passionate about helping people find happiness at work and at home! She helps people reach their goals and aspirations, ...

How to deal with loosing Friends Advice from a teen to other teens and pre-teens You can find more from Lucy here www.twitter.com/lucybeauty22 www.formspring.me/lucybeauty22 www.dailybooth.com/lucybeauty22 Wendy Mason is the Happiness Coach and author of a new novel,   The Wolf Project.   Wendy is a life and career coach and writer. She is passionate about helping people find happiness at work and at home! She helps people reach their goals and aspirations, without sacrificing their home and personal life.  She believes coaching requires compassion, warmth and empathy. Wendy helps people reach their career goals and aspirations, without sacrificing their home and personal life. You can contact Wendy at  wendymason@wisewolfcoaching.com  and find out more at  http://wisewolfcoaching.com CV review and interview preparation a speciality

How Personal Priorities Change With Age! How Personal Priorities Change With Age - Garren Katz In his 2012 Capture Your Flag interview, business and personal coach Garren Katz answers "How Are Your Personal Priorities Change as You Get Older?" Katz notes how getting older influences his decision to more often choose what is healthier over what is fun. This ties into his increasing focus on physical health, mental health, and spirituality.  Garren Katz is a business and personal coach based in State College, PA and advises his national client base on small business management, entrepreneurship, relationships, and personal finances. He is also an active angel investor in several business ventures. He earned his BA from Western Michigan University. Wendy Mason is the Happiness Coach and author of a new novel,   The Wolf Project.   Wendy is a life and career coach and writer. She is passionate about helping people find happiness at work ...

Friday Fish Recipe - Sua I'a - Fish Soup From Samoa Very simple and I love the music on this video See  http://www.samoafood.com  for full recipe, although you really won't need one - this is very easy to make. Wendy Mason is the Happiness Coach and author of a new novel,   The Wolf Project.   Wendy is a life and career coach and writer. She is passionate about helping people find happiness at work and at home! She helps people reach their goals and aspirations, without sacrificing their home and personal life.  She believes coaching requires compassion, warmth and empathy. Wendy helps people reach their career goals and aspirations, without sacrificing their home and personal life. You can contact Wendy at  wendymason@wisewolfcoaching.com  and find out more at  http://wisewolfcoaching.com CV review and interview preparation a speciality

The First International Day of Happiness 20 March 2013 "On this first International Day of Happiness, let us reinforce our commitment to inclusive and sustainable human development and renew our pledge to help others. When we contribute to the common good, we ourselves are enriched. Compassion promotes happiness and will help build the future we want." Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon The General Assembly of the United Nations in its resolution 66/281 of 12 July 2012 proclaimed 20 March the International Day of Happiness. They recognized the relevance of happiness and well-being as universal goals and aspirations in the lives of human beings around the world and the importance of their recognition in public policy objectives.  Here is the full text of the Secretary-General's Message "The pursuit of happiness lies at the core of human endeavours. People around the world aspire to lead happy and fulfilling lives free from fear and want, and in harmony...

Music to relax to! Sit back and just enjoy! Music, sounds of nature and pictures Wendy Mason is the Happiness Coach and author of a new novel,   The Wolf Project.   Wendy is a life and career coach and writer. She is passionate about helping people find happiness at work and at home! She helps people reach their goals and aspirations, without sacrificing their home and personal life.  She believes coaching requires compassion, warmth and empathy. Wendy helps people reach their career goals and aspirations, without sacrificing their home and personal life. You can contact Wendy at  wendymason@wisewolfcoaching.com  and find out more at  http://wisewolfcoaching.com CV review and interview preparation a speciality

Be Happy - Make Time For Fun Life Coach Marie Wetmore discusses the critical yet often forgotten ingredient for a happy life: fun. When fun and enjoyment become a low priority, you'll find that a month can go by without the vital fun that helps you be a happy person. Marie suggests a simple, actionable strategy to be happy: scheduling fun into your life on a regular basis. Here's the challenge: carve out time in your schedule every day for two weeks. This is time for you to be happy by going out and doing something purely for enjoyment. Part of the challenge is simply to create happiness every day. But the other part of the exercise is to help you learn to be more efficient and effective with your other commitments so you can experience the success of getting in control of your own schedule. With good time management you maximize your effectiveness so that you can take care of your high priorities. In other words, the goal of being happy, like all other goals, depen...

Depression - Recognizing The Signs And Seeking Help Many people think they know the symptoms of depression.  But it can be tricky. You can be depressed for a long time without even knowing it. The most obvious symptoms of depression may be well known.  Feeling sad all the time and unmotivated, having thoughts of suicide, and withdrawing from your friends, are the best known signs. But in reality, depression symptoms are much broader than this.  People do their best to cope with being depressed, and so sometimes you can be in the middle of a rather severe illness without even knowing it. One of the most classic symptoms of depression, for example, is depressed mental function. A lot of the time, people who are depressed go around in a mental fog all of the time. They may not even be consciously aware they are depressed, but they can't seem to get anything done. Basically, rather than facing their feelings of anxiety and depression, they go into a listless state w...

Something For Your Daughters - Girl Talk - First Kisses All the things you want to know - the worries you have, when to kiss, tongues, making the first move, getting better at it, when not to! This video is from  Girl Talk Playlist:  http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=... Wendy Mason is the Happiness Coach and author of a new novel,   The Wolf Project.   Wendy is a life and career coach and writer. She is passionate about helping people find happiness at work and at home! She helps people reach their goals and aspirations, without sacrificing their home and personal life.  She believes coaching requires compassion, warmth and empathy. Wendy helps people reach their career goals and aspirations, without sacrificing their home and personal life. You can contact Wendy at  wendymason@wisewolfcoaching.com  and find out more at  http://wisewolfcoaching.com CV review and interview preparation a speciality

Working With Creative Imagery The images we visualize serve as blueprints for events that manifest in our lives. Shakti Gawain, dynamic author of the best-selling Creative Visualization , believes we can consciously influence this process by visualizing the positive situations we desire, and here she provides instructions for a basic visualization technique that takes only a few minutes and can be used several times a day. Wendy Mason is the Happiness Coach and author of a new novel,   The Wolf Project.   Wendy is a life and career coach and writer. She is passionate about helping people find happiness at work and at home! She helps people reach their goals and aspirations, without sacrificing their home and personal life.  She believes coaching requires compassion, warmth and empathy. Wendy helps people reach their career goals and aspirations, without sacrificing their home and personal life. You can contact Wendy at  wendymason@wisew...

Friday Fish Recipe - Blackened Fish - Nice and Easy Blackened fish is quick and easy:  fish, spice, butter, skillet, and—boom—you're done. Blackening is a cooking technique used in the preparation of fish and other foods. Often associated with Cajun cuisine, this technique was popularized by chef Paul Prudhomme. The food is usually dipped in melted butter and then dredged in a mixture of herbs and spices, usually some combination of thyme, oregano, chili pepper, peppercorns, salt, garlic powder and onion powder. It is then cooked in a very hot cast-iron skillet. This recipe uses a little less butter and it is a bit more healthy. "I'm using mahi mahi with this dish, but any fish will do. A traditional blackened fish is dredged in melted butter before the spices are applied, which is yummy, but I think the fish does all right with just the spices—we'll save the butter for the pan. Any combo of spices will do. I especially like ginger powder on my fish—give...

Learn the basics of Zen meditation in less than five minutes.  How to Meditate - Beginners Introduction to Zazen Clear, step-by-step  meditation instruction, as practiced at the Hazy Moon Zen Cente r of Los Angeles. This video teaches you how to meditate as taught in the tradition of Zen Buddhism. These meditation techniques, known as Zazen, have been passed down generation after generation from the Shakyamuni Buddha. Here is a transcript. Hazy Moon Zen Center: Meditation Instruction  "The Zazen I speak of is not learning meditation. It is the manifestation of ultimate reality." - Dogen  At the Hazy Moon, we practice classical meditation as taught by the Shakyamuni Buddha and his successors, passed down from India to China, to Japan, to America. The form is simple and enduring. To begin, you will need a quiet room, comfortable clothes, and a cushion. Choosing Your Position. Sit on the forward third of your cushion. The lower body will form a...

Relax With Buddhist Meditation Music  Something to enjoy. Wendy Mason is the Happiness Coach and author of a new novel,   The Wolf Project.   Wendy is a life and career coach and writer. She is passionate about helping people find happiness at work and at home! She helps people reach their goals and aspirations, without sacrificing their home and personal life.  She believes coaching requires compassion, warmth and empathy. Wendy helps people reach their career goals and aspirations, without sacrificing their home and personal life. You can contact Wendy at  wendymason@wisewolfcoaching.com  and find out more at  http://wisewolfcoaching.com CV review and interview preparation a speciality

Healthy Teen Relationships Relationship violence is a highly under-reported phenomenon. Teens are often reluctant to talk about violence that may be occurring in their relationship because they associate it with love. Prevalence of teen dating violence has been estimated as low as 9% and as high as 57%. The most highly reported statistic is that 1 in 3 teens will experience some form of abuse in a dating relationship. This video is public service announcement which was created for parents of teens to raise awareness about teen dating violence. Teens in dating relationships can experience issues with power and control. These may be in the form of hitting, slapping, pushing, verbal insults, or more subtle forms of intimidation like controlling behaviors such as the text messages shown in the video. Patterns of controlling behavior can highly influence an individual's health. Among today's tech-savvy teens, text messages are a primary form of communication, that pa...

WiseWolf on the Discuss HR Blog - Career Development for the Over 60s Today a post from me appears on the UK's premier HR Blog, Discuss HR.  Here is an extract  "First I have to admit to a personal interest here; I am well over sixty. Second, I have to make a confession; I still don’t really know what I want to do when I grow up. David Willetts , the higher education minister, has spoken recently about encouraging older people take up degree courses. Quite a lot of over 60s take up degree courses already of course – in 2011/12, nearly 2,000 started a first degree. Most of them were with the Open University with “The Arts Past and Present” being the most popular course, apparently. But a history of art course is not what Mr Willets (who was known as “Two Brains” to my generation of Civil Servants) has in mind. No, what dear old David wants us to do is to “train”, so that we can cope with the pressures we will face as we work “well into our sixties”. His comments follow...

Friday Fish Recipes - Scallops with Albarino Wine (Vieiras con Albariño) from Spain Jos combines scallops, wine, and Serrano ham in this dish from Galicia Remember - always cook your onions with music This video is from  http://www.pbs.org/madeinspain/   Recipe - may vary from video Ingredients: 2 tablespoons of olive oil       (Spanish olive oil is suggested, but Italian or Greek works well too) 1 cup diced onions 2 garlic cloves, minced 1/4 cup Albariño wine, plus 2 teaspoons 1 tablespoon of finely chopped jamon       (if you cannot find jamon, you can use proscuitto) 2 teaspoons of fresh flat leaf parsley Sea Salt, to taste 8 scallops 3 tablespoons of fresh bread crumbs       Directions: 1. Prepare the onion mixture.  Heat the olive oil in a pan over low heat.  Add the onions and cook until golden brown, which should take about thirty minutes.  Stir in garlic a...