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How to start changing your life for under $10

You know what you want right?  The biggest thing that is stopping us from moving forward and getting what we want is taking action.  What is stopping you?  Money? Time? Desire?  What if I can show you how to start changing your life for under $10, would that interest you?

Life coaching is full of great tools and techniques to get a person motivated to create their visions and reach their goals.  Reality is, if you don’t take action, life coaching or not, you won’t get anywhere.  You can’t expect to get anything accomplished if you are sitting on the couch eating potato chips all day.

The purpose of having visions and creating goals is to get what you want and deserve in life.  It becomes more realistic when you write things down or create images because now it becomes real.  If you see it on a daily basis, you come to want and desire it on a daily basis, which fuels the fire to take action!

And this is how this article started out.

I was driving with Randy and we were discussing my new coaching program that is in the process of being created about goal setting and the topic of writing the article about the vision board came up.

Instead of just putting it on the to-do list, I decided right there and then, while the thought is fresh in my mind, to go pick up the supplies that I needed to create the vision board.  And from that, write this article to share with you

Off to the dollar store to get some poster paper, some colored markers and tape followed up by a trip to the thrift store to pick up some used magazines. For pictures, you can cut images from a magazine, draw images yourself, do an online image search and print them out.  You can get as fancy as you desire!  Just DO IT!

Here is the list of items you need: (all these items can be purchased at the thrift or dollar store)

• Poster paper, whatever color you want
• Markers, whatever colors you want
• Tape or glue
• Old magazines

As soon as I got home I got busy laying out all my supplies, turned on some music and started cutting up the magazines!  (This is where the perfectionist in you should go take a nap.)  Put pictures of things that you want or anything you find that inspires you.  Place them anywhere, anyhow, anyway you want, this is YOUR vision board so HAVE fun!You decide how you want it to look like.

Instead of writing out “My Vision Board” in the center, you can think of adding a photo of yourself, bright and cheery, surrounded by your dreams!  How powerful would you feel?

It doesn’t matter how you create the vision board.  Whether it is online, in photo shop, in fancy colors or paints just get it done!  It’s all about taking the first step in creating the life that you want and deserve!  You can bling it up later!!!

The best part of this is that you can create one for yourself and one for your family!  This is where is creates fun for everyone and becomes a family project and dream.  It’s up to you.  The choice is yours how you want to live your life, but just choose from a powerful place.

It all comes down to this.  How bad do you want it?  This is how to start changing your life for under $10 can be the first step in creating the life you deserve.

Wishing you all the greatness you deserve!

Nicole Gruendl
Life and Success Coach
www.NicoleGruendl.com

About the Author

She is a vivacious, energetic coach who brings enthusiasm to everything that she does. As a life coach, she draws from a broad and varied background, and is able to relate to any situation. Her life experiences range from veterinarian support work (love of animals is one of her passions) to senior administrative support functions with a major contractor in the field of Homeland Security.

Along the way she co-owned and operated several small businesses, including a public market restaurant and a construction/finishing company. It’s highly unlikely that she will run into a business situation that she hasn’t seen before.

Being a business entrepreneur, she quickly directed her focus for women business owners. When the opportunity to be a co-author with Dr. Wayne Dyer, Brian Tracy and John Assaraf, in her new book, “Bouncing Back, Thriving in Changing Times”, came to her, she jumped at the chance fulfilling one of life dreams.

 

 

Selection of still life paintings in oil and pastel

Small Metal Easel $9.95 With elegant scrollwork creating a handsome base, the Small Metal Easel makes an elegant display piece. Perfect for showing off trivets, dessert plates, and more, it is as easy and convenient piece that makes the most of table or countertop space….

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Baby Einstein – Baby Van Gogh – World of Colors $19.99 The Baby Einstein Company’s “video board books” were designed as music-focused developmental tools to stimulate babies’ brains (prompted by research proving that exposure to classical melodies can improve verbal ability, spatial intelligence, creativity, and memory in youngsters). Now the company is expanding into other art forms, including color and art. The idea remains the same–taking bold…

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Lust for Life [VHS] $10.98 Lust for Life is appropriately titled, for mere passion seems inadequate when describing this superb fictionalized biography (based on Irving Stone’s popular novel) of Vincent Van Gogh. In a deservedly Oscar®- nominated performance, Kirk Douglas is physically and emotionally perfect as the tormented Dutch painter, whose life is chronicled from his ill-fated stint as a preacher to Belgian miners i…

Georgia O’Keeffe [VHS] $19.95 This 1977 documentary was produced toward the end of O’Keefe’s life, at a time when the artist was at one with her art and her life. The hour-long film plays mainly off of O’Keefe’s own words; there is no narrator’s voice, there is barely an interviewer’s voice. O’Keefe speaks alone–with a soft, gentle eloquence that we can also hear in her paintings, a well-articulated firmness that is unintimid…

Night Gallery (The Premiere Collection) – Three Episodes [VHS] $0.99 …

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Life Paintings $4.99 For everything you do, there’s a song that hits the spot. MOG brings them all to you: a world of music on demand, unlimited mobile downloads and ways to discover music free from the limitations of Pandora. The music you love, with you everywhere you go.

Paintings by the Master $15.99 “This book presents a study on Christ’s word paintings. By using common objects and experiences from everyday life, Christ conveyed volumes of truth in brief verbal vignettes. Whether from Christ’s parables and stories or His metaphors and similes, these paintings form a gallery of masterpieces drawn by the greatest Master of all. “An outstanding tool for anyone’s study or devotional reading.”"

The Dark Paintings $16.09 Wealthy, depraved and hugely gifted, Luigi Teramo likes to think of himself as a cross between a pagan fertility god and an evil wizard. Luigi has deliberately rejected his youthful talent for art in favour of making money, and of spending his fortune on young men and drugs. But he cannot bring himself to destroy the fruits of that rejected talent – his early paintings. And as the years pass, it starts to seem that those paintings possess a terrible power. A power that will cause Luigi’s life to spin out of control, will destroy almost all who get close to him, and will end by involving him in blackmail, and murder. The Dark Paintings is both a thriller and a black comedy – entertaining, shocking and profoundly disturbing. ‘A tinge of the supernatural, a titillating whiff of the perverse, and – topping it off – a compelling miasma of creepiness’ – Books To Watch Out For

19th Century Paintings of Life in China $100.57 In 1866, Emil Vasilyevich Bretschneider was posted to China, where he then spent eighteen years, as physician to the Russian Embassy. Not content simply to fulfil his medical role, he exercised his extraordinary energy in numerous fields. Very quickly Bretschneider acquired a good knowledge of the Chinese language, spoken and written, and early in the 1870s he published a serious monographic study on the historicalarchaeological exploration of Peking. He then turned his attention to historical geography, and to the history of botanical research in China a subject on which he would later write several key works and earn worldwide fame.During his time at the embassy Bretschneider was especially interested in the daily lives of the Chinese people around him; curiosity and scientific rigour made him a natural ethnographer, and he appears to have desired to understand as profoundly as possible the life of the Chinese people. To make a visual record of what he saw, Bretschneider commissioned from Chinese artists a huge number of paintings detailing all aspects of daily life.The original paintings are now held in the archive of the St Petersburg branch of the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, one of Europes most important collections of oriental manuscripts. The paintings have only recently been made available for publication, and a selection capturing a vivid and authentic picture of everyday life in Peking with its acrobats, Buddhist monks, dentist and bonesetters is published here. Author: Solonin, K. Y./ Naumkin, Vitaly Binding Type: Hardcover Number of Pages: 171 Publication Date: 2011/01/15 Language: English Dimensions: 13.10 x 9.60 x 0.70 inches

Heart in Art : A Life in Paintings $40.51 No Synopsis Available

American Impressionism: Paintings of Promise $5.77 The bright palette, delicate atmosphere, and lushly painted surfaces of French Impressionism captured the imagination of the most talented American painters in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, including Mary Cassatt, William Merritt Chase, Childe Hassam, John Singer Sargent, and John Twachtman. In American Impressionism: Paintings of Promise, David Brigham, curator of American art at the Worcester Art Museum, contrasts the American Impressionists’ optimistic landscapes, figure paintings, and still lifes with the turbulent state of economic, social, and political life in the decades framing the beginning of the twentieth century. Paintings from the Worcester Art Museum’s renowned collection are included, as well as many rarely seen pieces from private collections.

Eric Fischl: Beach Paintings $71.24 This beautifully designed volume of 200 of Eric Fischl’s beach-inspired works is a celebration of life at the beach by one of the most significant American painters of nudes and figurative works today. This collection of the artist’s beach paintings–the first book to bring together this exceptional body of work–unites paintings, photographs, watercolors, charcoals, and more in a sumptuous volume that is an ode to beach culture and a book to treasure long after summer ends. With a short story by critically acclaimed American novelist A. M. Homes, this book is a remarkable pairing of painterly aesthetic and literary style.

A Shepherd’s Life: Paintings of Jenny Armstrong by Victoria Crowe $18.37 A Shepherd’s Life centres on Jenny Armstrong, born in 1903 at the farm of Fairliehope, who spent her life working as a shepherdess in the Pentland Hills. In a series of remarkable paintings made over twenty years and based on close observation, Victoria Crowe, one of Scotland’s foremost painters, pays tribute to the life and work of this exceptional woman. In spite of their different ages and backgrounds, the two women came to value each other’s company and it was through the shepherdess that the artist learned how to interpret the surrounding landscape. At the same time the paintings depict an ancient way of living that has been long in the decline and which, at the start of a new millennium, may be finally disappearing.

William Forrestall: Paintings Drawings $36.47 William Forrestall offers some of the most interesting, painterly work in contemporary Canadian art. His growing body of unique, enigmatic still life paintings has been characterized as existing in a land between complete abstraction and realistic likeness, of being simultaneously real and unreal, of forging a link between this world and the next. This new book examines William Forrestall’s artistic development, from his first solo exhibition in 1986 to his most recent painting of 2009, offering the first comprehensive survey of his work. Featuring more than 40 images, including 28 colour reproductions of his egg tempera paintings, William Forrestal: Paintings Drawings, published to coincide with a retrospective exhibition at the New Brunswick Museum, confirms Forrestall’s growing reputation in Canada and abroad.

Susan Seddon Boulet: The Goddess Paintings $22.73 Susan Seddon Boulet: The Goddess Paintings brings together the magnificent paintings of Susan Seddon Boulet with insightful, scholarly text by Michael Babcock, a San Francisco Bay Area writer who has studied mythology extensively. Set against Babcock’s backdrop of history, mythology, and psychology, Boulet’s luminous paintings of Psyche, Athena, Gaia, and forty-two other goddesses come to vibrant life. These paintings are among the best-known and most highly regarded of the artist’s oeuvre.

120 Great Paintings of the Life of Jesus [With DVD] $34.95 “This treasury sings with 120 masterful paintings of famous New Testament scenes. Rich, full-color renderings by the finest artists from the Middle Ages through the 20th century include masterpieces by Raphael, Vermeer, El Greco, Giotto, Fra Angelico, and other renowned artists. The paintings can be printed at poster size and you can play a stunning slideshow of the images on your TV or computer.”

Frida Kahlo: The Paintings $7.61 In small, stunningly rendered self-portraits, Mexican artist Frida Kahlo painted herself cracked open, hemorrhaging during a miscarriage, anesthetized on a hospital gurney, and weeping beside her own extracted heart. Her works are so incendiary in emotion and subject matter that one art critic suggested the walls of an exhibition be covered with asbestos. In this beautiful book, art historian Hayden Herrera brings together numerous paintings and sketches by the amazing Mexican artist, documenting each with explanatory text that probes the influences in Kahlo’s life and their meaning for her work. Included among the illustrations are more than eighty full-color paintings, as well as dozens of black-and-white pictures and line illustrations. Among the famous and little-known works included in Frida Kahlo: The Paintings are The Two Fridas, Self-Portrait as a Tehuana, Without Hope, The Dream, The Little Deer, Diego and I, Henry Ford Hospital, My Birth, and My Nurse and I. Here, too, are documentary photographs of Frida Kahlo and her world that help to illuminate the various stages of her life.

Norbert Tadeusz: Paintings 19782002 $40.04 Norbert Tadeusz, who lives in Italy and Dusseldorf, embraced traditional painting early on: I paint what leaps out at me (…) a landscape, a nude, a living animal, or a still life. This catalogue presents 13 paintings by the artist now in the Chemnitz art collection. Author: Mossinger, Ingrid/ Tadeusz, Norbert/ Gramm, Gritta Binding Type: Hardcover Number of Pages: 64 Publication Date: 2009/08/31 Language: English Dimensions: 11.80 x 9.50 x 0.50 inches

Wayne Thiebaud: A Paintings Retrospective $42.8 "An excellent overview of Thiebaud’s long painting career…a significant addition to contemporary art literature."–"Library Journal" Wayne Thiebaud has long been recognized as one of America’s most prominent modern artists. Probably best known for his straightforward, deadpan, still-life paintings of the 1960s, Thiebaud is identified by his brilliant palette, his luscious handling of paint, and the intensity of light that lends a particularly "California" flavor to his images. In addition to his well-known paintings of pies and cakes, contents of delicatessen counters, and other consumer goods, Thiebaud has also painted figure studies, cityscapes with vertiginous plunges that restructure space and perspective, and dramatically abstracted landscapes. Originally published on the occasion of the artist’s eightieth birthday, this retrospective book brings together 120 of Thiebaud’s most important paintings, watercolors, and pastels. Essays by Steven A. Nash and Adam Gopnik trace the course of his career from the 1950s, when he first began to emerge as a significant national artist. 160 illustrations, 124 in color.

Andy Warhol: Paintings for Children $12.93 An artist, trendsetter, and cultural icon, Andy Warhol was as intriguing a character as the art he created. This colorful introduction to an equally colorful personality follows pivotal events in Warhol’s life, explores some of his most famous works, and encourages young readers to try their own hand at painting, printmaking, and sculpture. The authors’ playful text will engage children as it breaks down complex theories into ideas and experiments that are both fun and educational: from making shadow paintings to constructing a time capsule. The text, along with photographs of the artist and reproductions of his work, explore his creative process and the historical events that inspired Warhol’s unique vision of the world.

The Paintings of Ben McLaughlin $35.94 Ben McLaughlin (born 1969) paints cinematic pictures steeped in ambiguous atmosphere and emotion. His works suggest human alienation, presenting everyday subjects dislocated through cropping and unusual viewpoints. The titles themselves, drawn from newspapers, the radio, crossword puzzles and other equally unexpected sources, confront the spectator with conundrums that deepen the sense of uncertainty. In this, the first in-depth study of the artist’s work James Hamilton examines the eclectic influences and complex iconography that have shaped these critically acclaimed paintings, and identifies the alchemical wit and spontaneity that McLaughlin brings to bear on the seemingly mundane in modern life.

Life of Jesus : Paintings and Meditations on the Rosary $16.66 No Synopsis Available