This is a perfect time of the year to reflect on what we learned this year and what we are avoiding learning. Many of us believe we are here on this earth to learn the lessons unique to being human. Yet, many go through life never assessing what needs work or how we're doing in the process. Sometimes we have self-awareness in some areas, but not in others.

Life provides both hardships and miracles from which we can learn about ourselves. This process continues from birth to death. If we look over our life from 10,000 feet, we can see more clearly what we struggled with or what we accomplished this past year. It is easier to see when we are not enmeshed in the daily throes of living. So take some time today to sit quietly and reflect on what happened this year.

You may want to get out your journal and answer the following questions.

• What were my biggest struggles this year?
• What underlying behavior is causing the struggles?
• What lessons are buried in the struggles that I need to learn?
• What lesson is seeking my attention that I have not been willing or able to see clearly?
• What experience from this past year left me bewildered or confused or unclear?
• What personal interaction left me unhappy? What is the lesson there?
• What dreams are not being created in my life? Why?
• What is the one thing I can change right now to make my dreams a reality?
• What experience from this year or previous years still needs some attention and growth on my part to resolve it? What action can I take to move forward on the resolution of the past?
• What can I do today to have a completely joyous year in 2006, filled with miracles and dreams fulfilled?

In particular, her Monday night painting classes still have a couple of openings. I've taken this class and you really owe it to yourself to check it out.

January 9, 16, 23 & 30, 2006 - Marvelous Mondays Wild Heart Art Painting Weekly classes provide an opportunity to unleash your full creative _expression in an ongoing community of support. Awaken the artist within, listen to your heart, and explore the mystery of creativity. Classes are Mondays 6:00 pm - 9:30 pm on January 9, 16, 23, and 30th. Cost: $140 with a deposit of $70 due upon registration. All materials included. Deposits are refundable until 10 days prior to start of workshop (minus $25 handling). Registration deadline, January 2, 2006.

The Attraction Circle Workshop, held in Houston, Texas, has helped its participants to begin new careers, change unsatisfying relationships, identify personal and professional dreams, to dream bigger and better than ever, to be more creative, to change limiting beliefs that are keeping us stuck, to see money in a different way, to learn to receive with joy, and lots more!

Participants are saying:

• "This class has had a profound effect on my ability to manifest my desires and practice in community weekly. I enjoyed the heart connections made in this class as I miraculously get to witness others' growth and awakenings!"
• "My life has improved dramatically because of it (the class)!"
• "Exercises helped me to develop more insight with my current circumstances."
• "I have developed more clarity in understanding how to get through "stop gap" measures."
• "Very good class. Really helped to reinforce what I need to change in my life."
• "I discovered what I want to do most in life from this class. And the class helped me to figure out that I really do create my own life. Thanks!"
• "My life has taken a 180 degree turn since your class. All for the better. I guess it's no accident that I discovered this class just when I needed it."

Call Mary Anne at (713) 898-0041 or email maf@lifeunfolds.com for more information and to register. Also see http://www.lifeunfolds.com/attraction.htm for more information.

SPECIAL NOTE: If you register with a friend for the Attraction Circle Workshop, you each receive a 10% discount off the tuition. If you register with TWO friends, you each receive 20% off the tuition.

Here is another way to wrap up 2005 with personal reflection and review of what happened in the past year. Get out your paper and pen and relish all you have accomplished.

Make a list of your successes this year. Include anything you consider a win, anything that made you very happy, personal breakthroughs, incredible events, miracles, dreams made real, or anything else that you achieved. Include little things as well as the monumental. I strongly encourage you to celebrate these successes. Celebrating these wins helps to make them more real. You did it! You deserve it! You carry this forward with you! How will you celebrate your incredible accomplishments?

Make a list of unhappy events, failures, disappointments, discouragements, losses, irritations, and upheavals that occurred this past year in your life. Only you can decide how these events have affected or will affect your life. Can you let go of them, put them behind you? Did you learn anything from them? Are you willing to do something to insure they don't re-occur? Make new commitments as you see fit.

"I have found that the people of means who are the happiest and most deeply satisfied are those who use their money to empower others. They feel more than lucky; they feel blessed." -- Bill Moyers, October 22, 2005

"Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow." -- Melody Beattie

Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it." --- Maya Angelou

"The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak." -- Hans Hofmann

Dream Board Workshop Get a Jump Start on Your 2006 Resolutions

A dream board is a simple, yet powerful way of making your dreams come true. It is a visual representation of your dreams or goals and your desired outcomes. It is the perfect tool to help you clarify your desires, see your goals vividly, to provide focus, and to imprint this visualization in your mind. Seeing the pictures and words that depict your success repeatedly will help to create the desired outcome in your real life. You will be led through questions that help you clarify your desires, and through all the steps necessary to create the dream board. You will leave this class with a large poster of your dream. This is a really fun class with very serious results! Make your dreams come alive by joining us in this workshop. Class size is limited.

Next Class is Wednesday, January 25th, 2006 From 6:45 until 9:15 pm (note extended time) Only $40 Class held at the beautiful Wild Heart Art (www.wildheartart.com) Studio in the Heights in Houston

Register by calling me at 713.528.5971 or email me at maf@LifeUnfolds.com.

Do you want the advantage of working with a coach without the significant investment? To start the new year off with a bang, I'm starting a group coaching experience called "Quantum Goal Setting" for a small group of committed individuals. The class is intended for those of you who are ready to begin creating the life you've always dreamed of, no matter what that entails. We will limit the class size so that you get lots of individual attention matched to your goals. We will meet weekly for one hour throughout the year with a monthly fee of only $99, payable monthly. So what is Quantum Goal Setting?

Quantum Goal Setting is based on the laws of attraction but is oriented more to setting goals and taking actions to create the life of your dreams. What makes it different from the Attraction Circle workshop is that we focus specifically on your dreams, the actions required to achieve them, overcoming the obstacles in your way and with group accountability assisting you in reaching them.

This is not a traditional workshop, nor is it your grandmother's goal setting method! There is no lecture although there will be coaching and exercises. You will get lots of encouragement and direct observations and feedback. And forget the schedules, sub-schedules, detailed to-do lists, etc. We will concentrate on making your dreams and goals a reality using the laws of attraction which is that you create your reality by what you think and feel each and every day. Group coaching will help you to focus on what you want most and to accomplish it with the least effort and in the shortest time.

"...you create your reality by what you think and feel each and every day."

Did I mention that it will be fun?! It will be fun and beneficial and inspiring and you will achieve more than you ever dreamed you could. What could be more pleasurable than that? So join up today!

Sessions start Thursday, January 19th. I can accommodate either day or night sessions, so let me know what you prefer. Because this is a new endeavor, the first two sessions are FR*EE! Call me today at 713.528.5971 or email me at maf@lifeunfolds.com for more information.

"Group coaching will help you to focus on what you want most and to accomplish it with the least effort and in the shortest time."