But keeping your fires burning for the duration of your journey is another story. Given the roadblocks and the absence of any hard deadlines, it's just the kind of "priority" that can fall through the cracks of your busy life. The key is to create an environment of accountability. Here are four ways to do this:

1. Schedule your career change activities into your weekly calendar. As Steven Covey would say, make it a "big rock" priority.

2. Register for a class or workshop that keeps you engaged and focused for an extended period of time.
3. Career change can't be done in a vacuum. Work with a mentor or coach who has a good business head and market perspective.
4. Know exactly what you hope to gain from your career change. A clear and compelling personal benefit is your secret weapon to hanging in there for the duration of your journey.

Keep your day job and let your paycheck enable you to take all the time you need to discover new work options and test them out. Once you are clear that a particular path is right for you ? craft a good plan to get there. At a minimum, your plan will include new training requirements and timing, building a new network, and a communications strategy for leaving your current employer.GutsSuccessful career-changers know two things: First, how critical the courage factor is to their ultimate success; and, second, that it's not possible to feel courageous 100% of the time. By its very nature, the career-change journey is a wiggly road. When your courage is on the wane, try these approaches:

1. Don't confuse uncertainty with disaster.

   Avoid the mental "drama" that takes you to the worst possible outcome. These projections are not your present reality.

2. Focus on your gifts and talents. Acknowledge yourself ? deeply, and at the feeling level -- for the experience and skills you have gained. Write them down as a reminder of your abundance.

3. Trust in Divine Presence. As long as you continue to pursue your career change smartly, and take solid, active steps (i.e., do your part!), providence will support you as well.

Didn't you learn almost everything your parents didn't want you to? Children pick up secrets like sponges. And, if you don't tell them your version, they will fill in the blanks with mixed-up stories of their own.Very young children don't know the difference between reality and fantasy. One burning building looks like another, one they have seen in the movies or on television or even a cartoon. But, depending upon how it is presented to them, children of about three can begin to differentiate fact from fiction.During a crisis such as the one we are undergoing, be it war or a terrorist situation, the most important thing an adult can do is to tell simple truths calmly. I don't care if you have to go to the bathroom and throw up because you are so upset.

Remain calm and steady with your young children (and instruct their teachers to do the same). If your children feel safe with you, they will have a much better chance of managing to decipher the m?lange of facts and images bombarding them. It is a mistake to try to hide what is happening from any child that asks about an event or what they see on television or hear at school or in the street. Over the age of three, something must be said, even if they don't ask. Older children need to be included in conversations even more than young ones.

For them, because they do understand, about hijacked planes and deaths in a burning building, they are afraid. It is OK if they know you have feelings too. As long as you remain the adult and don't cling to your children to make you feel better. Treat them as individuals who can think and feel. Be honest with them.

It may prevent nightmares and other unhelpful ways children have of handling their anxieties.Gather your loved ones around you, touch them, hold them, and talk. Under stress, it is important to reach out and to communicate. Even those of you of superman or wonder woman orientation must talk to your spouse, your partner, your friends, your religious mentor, a crisis hot line, a therapist, or any combination of the above. Without appropriately letting out your own feelings, you can compromise your immune system and eventually get ill. Don't risk it.

You owe it to yourself to remain healthy -- for your own sake and for those you love.The following is an insightful communication I received from a colleague. I hope you find it helpful."Dorree -- I do have a deeply lived insight ? I was a child at Pearl Harbor. I carried the most awful tightly held terror for over fifty years. My trauma was less because of what I witnessed, and more because of hearing the indiscriminant conversations between the adults, which struck terror into my heart, since as an eight-year-old I had no context for them. The excited or even heightened affect that an adult may take for granted at times like these can pitch a child's ego into disarray.

Best to you, Paula."Life is too hard to do alone,Dr. D. Dorree Lynn, PH.D..

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Over 30 instances of Kerry "flip-flopping" on an issue are documented with supporting references.It seems the Flip-Flop term has been woven into the framework of this presidential election. You can't watch a cable news network without hearing a reference to flip flops. Republican students around the county have even appeared at Kerry rallies clapping sandals above their heads during his speeches. In one instance a creative Bush supporter even went as far to wear a dolphin costume in reference to Flipper.JohnKerryFlipFlops.com will continue to focus on the lighter side of politics from now until November and then take a four year vacation until it is time to do it all over again. Hillary maybe?.

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Barrymore spoke of the role of artists within the culture. Additionally, former U.N. Assistant Secretary-General Gillian Sorensen spoke of the mission of the United Nations. Artists for the U.N. recognizes and honors the role of artists within a society as embodied by the philosophy of author Mordechai Richler: "Be an honest witness to your time." Artists play a unique role in culture: to be beacons of consciousness, to transcend politics and partisanship, to autonomously hold up a mirror to their time ? the illusions, ideals and ideas.

Global Vision for Peace and Artists for the U.N. will introduce artists to the vast global outreach of the U.N., develop projects in various media to support and promote U.N. initiatives, and invite enrolled artists to participate. Global Vision for Peace is co-funding and co-sponsoring a film documentary, "Angels of Africa," about a group of children in Uganda orphaned by AIDS who tour America every two years as a musical performing group, raising both money for the orphanage and visibility for the devastating crisis of AIDS, though offering an uplifting message of hope and possibility. The documentary will complement the U.N.'s coordinated global AIDS outreach.

GVP will be hosting a performance by the children in March when they are on tour in Los Angeles, and GVP has approached the U.N. about unveiling the documentary at the U.N. on World AIDS Day, December 1, 2004..

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