Thrive In Balance  

As we move into the last quarter of the year, you might be asking yourself: how is my business or organization going to meet its goals for the rest of the year? Where can we generate some new ideas: ways to improve processes, serve clients better, streamline business, keep the organization solvent, and end the year in a better place? Generating new ideas is not a magical process. There are many ways to stimulate ideas by getting into a creative state of mind. Where’s the Next Great Idea provides some easy, inexpensive ways to help ideas to flow more freely at work and encourage your employees to think creatively. So, where’s the next great idea? It is probably waiting to be uncovered. All you need are the tools, the encouragement, and the opportunity to get the idea process flowing.

The job of worry is to anticipate possible perils, to come up with ways to deal with them, and to rehearse what you will do if the danger does arise. The dilemma is that once you start to worry about your shrinking 401K or if you’ll have a job next month, worry begets more worry, setting into motion a vicious cycle of frightening thoughts and anxious responses—worrywarting—out of control worrying.

Worrywarts get stuck in identifying danger as they immerse themselves in the dread associated with the threat, spinning out an endless loop of scary situations, paralyzing themselves by blowing everything out of proportion. Don’t try to stop worrying, advises Dr. Beverly Potter, author of , (McGraw Hill, September 2008). Worry itself, is not good or bad, she says. Everyone worries. Worrying is a survival skill because it helps us to identify and prepare for dangers. The problem is that once started, worrying is difficult to control. The solution is to become a “smart worrier”. Smart worriers do the work of worry, then knowing that worry triggers anxiety, which triggers more worrying, which triggers more anxiety—around and around endlessly—smart worriers take active steps to soothe themselves to dispel the anxiety. In The Worrywart’s Companion, Dr. Potter explains how worry can hijack our emotional brain. Some of her suggestions to becoming a “smart worrier” range from evaluating the cost of the worry to exercise to avoiding caffeine, taking a warm bath, deep breathing, list-making and counting your blessings.

At a time when people are experiencing the loss of everything they most identified with, Jerry's experience living creatively in "the void" offers inspiration , hope and unimagined new possibilities. In 1979, Jerry Wennstrom, a rising star in the New York art world, intentionally destroyed his paintings and gave away his possessions and money. He spent well over the next decade wandering, seeking, and listening, relying only on his own intuition and an unconditional trust in the Universe to provide for him. In consciously emptying himself of his identity, Jerry was led on an extraordinary spiritual journey and ultimately, a return to creating art. In his book, The Inspired Heart: An Artist's Journey of Transformation, Jerry tells the story of his metaphorical death and rebirth as an artist and as a man. The Inspired Heart is a self-portrait of the life of a man guided and armed only with an unwavering faith in the creative spirit to sustain him. In sharing the tale of his remarkable survival and his surrender to life experience, Jerry writes "it is important to bring the mystery of this survival back to the tribe as story." Ralph White - NY Open

We're celebrating the release of It's All Too Much, So Get it Together by Peter Walsh. Thrive Connect host Jordan Mercedes, turns the spotlight on, the philosophy, ideas, wisdom and insight covered in this new release. She'll also talk about his new fun and chic organizing products, where you can find them and how they can make your office sparkle with style. Who said getting organized wasn't beautiful! And...you can be one of the first own It's All Too Much just by calling into the show!

Think you're too old to learn new things? Think again. Dr.Ahern will get the ideas flowing as she shares how anyone at any age can learn something new. Want to master the computer? Learn to paint or draw? Write a book? It's never too late. Dr.Adrianne Ahern In her new book, BACK IN CHARGE!: A Guide to Harnessing the Magic of Your Brain to Create the Life You’ll Love,., Dr. Ahern uses examples and step-by-step exercises to give readers a visceral understanding of their own brain's hard wiring, and how to take charge of it and unleash its power in positive directions.

Chuck Foster, author and host of Reggae Central which can be heard each Sunday on KPFK in Los Angeles has created a life living his passion for music, writing and books. At an early age he realized that to live the life of his dreams he needed to follow a different path, one that included creativity, artistic expression and most of all...music. The Small Axe Guide to Rock Steady Foster Released his first book Roots, Rock & Reggae in 1999. That book is a collection of the stories, experiences and music of Reggae artists. His new release The Small Axe Guide to Rock Steady shines the light on the foundational aspect of this cultural music called rock steady. Foster joins Thrive Connect Radio to talk about his new project, his passion and lesson's he's learned along the way to becoming a leading voice of cultural Raggae music.