Happy Tuesday!!!!

It's Week Thirteen of our Dare to BE Happy Challenge. 

Last week we focused on Knowing How I Learn and Communicate.  My AHA was: I will take more time to make sure I am supporting those I work with, with their learning style in mind.

This week we are focusing on Communicate to Connect.  

We will focus on: Elements that Support Effective Communicator

• Sharing Expectations
• Being Assertive
• Trust
• Compelling Reason
• Emotional Intelligence and Understanding Learning Styles
• Being Hopeful
• Listening Skills
• Practice, Practice, Practice
• Giving and Receiving Effective Feedback
• Action Planning
• ACTION 

“It takes two to speak the truth one to speak and the other to listen." 
~ Henry David Thoreau

**Judith found a great article talking about that other kind of smart ~ "Emotional Intelligence - EQ."

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M4L Dare To BE Happy Challenge
WEEK Thirteen - Jun 24, 2014
April 1 through August 26, 2014

Amy Frost and Judith Pinkerton

www.music4life.us

Process for Dare To BE Happy Challenge:

• Read weekly blog posted here on Tues a.m.  
• Experience the topic circle during the week in Las Vegas at the Music 4 Life® Health Club.
• If you can't attend the Communicate to Connect Las Vegas circle, the telephone call "Tele-Circle" is weekly on Tuesdays 6-6:30pm PT (712) 432-1212  code 676-773-827.
• If you missed the Tuesday Tele-Circle, go to this link to listen to this week's recording for Communicate to Connect.
• Music Medicine: When we communicate to connect, it’s important to stay positive, even when dire circumstances may dictate otherwise. Staying positive becomes your lifeline to sanity when times may be difficult. Check out Lindsey Stirling’s “Zelda Medley” for upbeat musical connections and smiling video.
  
  THE PROBLEM: if this music does not make you smile, listen to the TEDxUNLV Talk "Music Powers Potential: Building Mental Fitness" to find out more. And if you are in Las Vegas, please see us at the Music 4 Life® office for a free 10-minute session to force meditation in the Music Medicine Cove.  This may help you to relax and smile. No matter where you live, download the Music Medicine Boot Camp to learn what your music choices say about your health state. Discover music listening habits that support your communication and connection with others

• Do your weekly homework printing out the handout below.
• Share tweets M/W/F @msamyfrost
• Share Facebook postings AmyFrost

This Day/Week’s topic is Communicate to Connect.  Circles will be at Music 4 Life® Tuesday Jun 24th at 4pm, Wednesday Jun 25th at 8am and Friday Jun 27th at Noon.

Come in person and/or attend the Tele-Circle if you can - and please help us get the word out for we can't have enough happy people in the world...can we????

Communicatively Yours, Amy

Happy Tuesday!!!!

It's Week Twelve of our Dare to BE Happy Challenge. 

Last week we focused on Compassion and Connection.  My AHA was:  I don't have to work so hard in communicating.  I am committed to being more relaxed and allowing more in conversation

This week we are focusing on finding How We Learn and Communicate with Others.   We will: 

• Learn Your Personal Learning Styles 
• Establish Ways to Communicate Effectively 
• Learn Techniques to Learn Faster and More Effectively 
• Use Styles to Help Others Grow 
• Learn to Use ALL the Learning Styles

“We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used to create them.” 
~ Einstein

**Judith found a great article listing "9 Steps to Better Communication Today."

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M4L Dare To BE Happy Challenge
WEEK Twelve - Jun 17, 2014
April 1 through August 26, 2014

Amy Frost and Judith Pinkerton

www.music4life.us

Process for Dare To BE Happy Challenge:

• Read weekly blog posted here on Tues a.m.  
• Experience the topic circle during the week in Las Vegas at the Music 4 Life® Health Club.
• If you can't attend the How We Learn and Communicate with Others Las Vegas circle, the telephone call "Tele-Circle" is weekly on Tuesdays 6-6:30pm PT (712) 432-1212  code 676-773-827.
• If you missed the Tuesday Tele-Circle, go to this link to listen to this week's recording for How We Learn and Communicate with Others.
• Music Medicine: Our ability to listen and learn may be enhanced when our brain is in the alpha state (measuring 8-13 herz brainwave). Binaural beats are the new music composition trend in achieving this state, and classical music found in the Baroque Era is also effective. This Mozart piece started the trend from a research study which led to the "Mozart Effect" ~ making people smarter in spatial awareness (assembling shapes). Listen to the Andante section at 8:32.
• THE PROBLEM: if this music does not relax you, listen to the TEDxUNLV Talk "Music Powers Potential: Building Mental Fitness" to find out more. And if you are in Las Vegas, please see us at the Music 4 Life® office for a free 10-minute session to merge your mind/mood/body into the alpha or theta state listening to binaural beats in the music, re-booting your system through forced meditation in the Music Medicine Cove.  This may help you to relax and communicated more effectively. Download the Music Medicine Boot Camp to learn what your music choices say about your health state and discover if your music listening habits support your ability to learn and communicate with others.
• Do your weekly homework printing out the handout below.
• Share tweets M/W/F @msamyfrost
• Share Facebook postings AmyFrost

This Day/Week’s topic is How We Learn and Communicate with Others.  Circles will be at Music 4 Life® Tuesday Jun 17 at 4pm and Friday Jun 20 at Noon.

Come in person and/or attend the Tele-Circle if you can - and please help us get the word out for we can't have enough happy people in the world...can we????

Communicatively Yours, Amy

Happy Tuesday!!!!

It's Week Eleven of our Dare to BE Happy Challenge. 

Last week we focused on Passion at ANY Age.  My AHA was:  One way we can find our passion is through what makes us ANGRY!!!  The trick is to do the work to heal emotions so we use the passion as fuel for solutions not to just burn down bridges!

This week we are focusing on finding Compassion and Connection.   Are we listening to each other?  Are we sharing our inner selves...our true selves?  

"Compassion is not sentiment but is making justice and doing works of mercy. Compassion is not a moral commandment but a flow and overflow of the fullest human and divine energies." 
~ Matthew Fox

**Judith found a great article exposing the the cure for practicing compassion, in "Compassion in Leadership."

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M4L Dare To BE Happy Challenge
WEEK Eleven - Jun 10, 2014
April 1 through August 26, 2014

Amy Frost and Judith Pinkerton

www.music4life.us

Process for Dare To BE Happy Challenge:

• Read weekly blog posted here on Tues a.m.  
• Experience the topic circle during the week in Las Vegas at the Music 4 Life® Health Club.
• If you can't attend the Compassion and Connection Las Vegas circle, the telephone call "Tele-Circle" is weekly on Tuesdays 6-6:30pm PT (712) 432-1212  code 676-773-827.
• If you missed the Tuesday Tele-Circle, go to this link to listen to this week's recording for Compassion and Connection.
• Music Medicine: The #1 music most Americans played to bring about compassion and connectivity on 9-11 was God Bless the USA. It might be just the music medicine to support you feeling stronger compassion with greater desire to connect.
• THE PROBLEM: if this music does not do it for you, and if you are in Las Vegas, please see us at the Music 4 Life® office for a free 10-minute session to merge your mind/mood/body into the theta state with a re-boot of your system through forced meditation in the Music Medicine Cove.  This may help to refuel your compassion and desire to connect. Listen to the TEDxUNLV Talk "Music Powers Potential: Building Mental Fitness" to find out why. Download the Music Medicine Boot Camp to learn how to apply your music listening habits differently. Re-organize your music into powerful playlists and Mood Sequence Formulas™ and cross-train to new music to support finding your compassion and desire to connect with others.
• Do your weekly homework printing out the handout below.
• Share tweets M/W/F @msamyfrost
• Share Facebook postings AmyFrost

This Day/Week’s topic is Compassion and Connection.  Circles will be at Music 4 Life® Tuesday Jun 10 at 4pm, Wednesday Jun 11 at 8am and Friday Jun 13 (OH MY) at Noon.

Come in person and/or attend the Tele-Circle if you can - and please help us get the word out for we can't have enough happy people in the world...can we????

Compassionately Yours, Amy

Happy Tuesday!!!!

It's Week Ten of our Dare to BE Happy Challenge. 

Last week we focused on Creativity at Work.  Judith and I exercised our creativity at Music 4 Life® and how we approached our working together.  My AHA was:  Be OPEN to how I can be creativity in simple easy ways.

This week we are focusing on finding Passion at ANY Age.   What if you could have that spark of passion in all you do?  What if you were paid to do what you love?  What would our lives BE like?

"We welcome passion, for the mind is briefly let off duty." ~ Mignon McLaughlin 

**Judith found a great article exposing the truth about struggling to find passion, or finding it easily, in  "7 Reasons Why You Didn't Find Your Passion." 

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M4L Dare To BE Happy Challenge
WEEK Ten - Jun 3, 2014
April 1 through August 26, 2014

Amy Frost and Judith Pinkerton

www.music4life.us

Process for Dare To BE Happy Challenge:

• Read weekly blog posted here on Tues a.m.  
• Experience the topic circle during the week in Las Vegas at the Music 4 Life® Health Club.
• If you can't attend the Passion at ANY Age Las Vegas circle, the telephone call "Tele-Circle" is weekly on Tuesdays 6-6:30pm PT (712) 432-1212  code 676-773-827.
• If you missed the Tuesday Tele-Circle, go to this link to listen to this week's recording for Passion at ANY Age.
• Music Medicine: Finding music to support your passion can be challenging, especially when you’ve experienced a let-down with job or relationship. Chicago’s “Feeling Stronger Everyday” may be just the music medicine to support you feeling stronger about you – an important ingredient to discovering and building your passion.
• THE PROBLEM: this music may not do it for you! If you are in Las Vegas, see us at the Music 4 Life® office for a free 10-minute session to merge your mind/mood/body into the theta state with a re-boot of your system through forced meditation in the Music Medicine Cove.  This may help to discover your core values. If you are not in Las Vegas and this music is not fueling your passion, listen to the TEDxUNLV Talk "Music Powers Potential: Building Mental Fitness" to find out why. Download the Music Medicine Boot Camp to learn how to apply your music listening habits differently. Re-organize your music into powerful playlists and Mood Sequence Formulas™ and cross-train to new music to support finding your passion.
• Do your weekly homework printing out the handout below.
• Share tweets M/W/F @msamyfrost
• Share Facebook postings AmyFrost

This Day/Week’s topic is Passion at ANY Age.  Circles will be at Music 4 Life®  Tuesday Jun 3 at 4pm, Wednesday Jun 4 at 8am and Friday Jun 6 at Noon.

Come in person and/or attend the Tele-Circle if you can - and please help us get the word out for we can't have enough happy people in the world...can we????

Passionally Yours, Amy