Dream List Media

March 31, 2009

Today I was a guest on Living With Purpose, a talk show hosted by Coach Kerri and Leslie.  Listen to hear my story about living my true life purpose and to find inspiration to help you follow your dreams and to achieve your life purpose.  You can listen below or at: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/CoachKerri. 

This is an amazing show for anyone looking for inspiration!  What were YOU born to do?  Your life and every experience in it deserves to be meaningful and filled with purpose.  You deserve to wake up everyday feeling like today IS the best day of your life because you are living with purpose and passion.  Break through whatever is holding you back and live the life you dream of.  Be the change you want to see in the world.  This show is filled with candid and unscripted moments between Coach Kerri, her co-host Leslie, and their featured guests.  Listen live every Tuesday at 9pm (EST).  For more information, visit: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/CoachKerri. 

Episode 8:  Creating Your Best Life

Caroline Adams Miller was the guest speaker on Episode 8, where she talked about her new book, Creating Your Best Life: The Ultimate Life List Guide.  This groundbreaking book is the first to explain how the new science of Positive Psychology intersects with goal-setting research to help people set and achieve life list goals.  Happy people have a strong sense of personal agency, and they tend to set harder and more challenging goals, which gets them more of what they want in life. You’ll learn how to develop your own sense of self-efficacy, create powerful mastery experiences, and use your environment to work for you and not against you.

About Caroline Adams Miller:
Caroline Adams Miller is the author of a number of books, including the most recent release ,Creating Your Best Life: The Ultimate Life List Guide.  She is the founder of Caroline Miller Coaching, LLC, that provides the most cutting-edge coaching in the world for people who want to set and achieve their goals and experience higher wellbeing with an evidence-based and research-tested approach. Caroline has coached hundreds of clients all over the world on how to uncover their dreams and then accomplish them so that they live lives of purpose and meaning -- not regret. She is one of the first coaches to graduate from the prestigious Masters in Applied Positive Psychology program from the University of Pennsylvania in 2006, and is renowned for her unique niche within the coaching field.  For more information, visit www.carolinemiller.com.

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From Jenna Wolfe, TODAY SHOW

I went surfing with Patrick Ivison recently. Actually, he surfed… I just flailed around like a wild chicken barely balancing on a board. Patrick got a rush. I got a gallon of water in my mouth. Patrick wanted to spend the rest of the day in the water. I wanted to get out. So I grabbed my board and walked towards the beach. Patrick couldn’t follow me. 
 
This wide-eyed, zealous 14-yr old is a quadriplegic.

Shortly after his first birthday, Patrick, who had been walking since he was nine months old, was with his mom, Jennifer, running errands when he wrangled away from her for just a second. In a twisted act of horrible timing, a car backed up and ran over the little boy, instantly crushing his spinal chord. Patrick was paralyzed from the neck down. His life, having just started, would change forever. Jennifer quit her job as a secretary to take care of Patrick, as it would clearly turn into a full time job. She now relies on fundraising to help pay for the intense rehab he undergoes.

Over the years, the two would develop a bond unlike any other. Patrick’s needs are lengthy. Jennifer, along with Patrick’s 12-year old sister (and best friend) Sam, help dress him, cook for him, transport him, bathe him, help him to school, to bed, to the bathroom. They are, for all intents and purposes, his mobility -- his legs, his arms, and up until recently, his hands.  But in return, Jennifer gets her son, and his incredible perspective on life. “Why pity myself?” he says. Patrick explained that if he weren’t in a wheelchair, he’d probably just be a “14-year old punk” getting into trouble.  Instead he’s out at the beach, counting the waves he's about to surf.
 
Patrick has grown up in a wheelchair and knows no other way to live. Each new goal of his requires far more willpower and manpower than it would for the rest of us. And he’s done a lot COMPARED to the rest of us --  waterskiing, rugby, soccer, basketball…he’s done it all. So he was determined to find a way to master surfing.

For years, he surfed the waves off the San Diego coast in his mind, envisioning the rush, the pull, the freedom of riding a board through the water. To hear him talk about it is to want to do anything in your power to make it happen. And then six years ago, Patrick finally found a way.  He met Jesse Billauer, a well-known surfer who also suffered a spinal chord injury.  Billauer had started a program called Life Rolls On, an organization which helps disabled people surf.

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Episode 8:  Creating Your Best Life

Caroline Adams Miller was the guest speaker on Episode 8, where she talked about her new book, Creating Your Best Life: The Ultimate Life List Guide.  This groundbreaking book is the first to explain how the new science of Positive Psychology intersects with goal-setting research to help people set and achieve life list goals.  Happy people have a strong sense of personal agency, and they tend to set harder and more challenging goals, which gets them more of what they want in life. You’ll learn how to develop your own sense of self-efficacy, create powerful mastery experiences, and use your environment to work for you and not against you.

About Caroline Adams Miller:
Caroline Adams Miller is the author of a number of books, including the most recent release ,Creating Your Best Life: The Ultimate Life List Guide.  She is the founder of Caroline Miller Coaching, LLC, that provides the most cutting-edge coaching in the world for people who want to set and achieve their goals and experience higher wellbeing with an evidence-based and research-tested approach. Caroline has coached hundreds of clients all over the world on how to uncover their dreams and then accomplish them so that they live lives of purpose and meaning -- not regret. She is one of the first coaches to graduate from the prestigious Masters in Applied Positive Psychology program from the University of Pennsylvania in 2006, and is renowned for her unique niche within the coaching field.  For more information, visit www.carolinemiller.com.

 

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Episode 7:  Changing Keys

Billy McLaughlin and Director, Suzanne Jurva, were the guests on Episode 7 where they talked about their upcoming documentary, Changing Keys - Billy McLaughlin and the Mysteries of Dystonia.  This documentary follows Billy, five-time MN Music Award winning guitarist who began having unexplainable muscle spasms in his fretboard arm and hand at the height of his career. In 2001, Mayo Clinic confirmed McLaughlin's opponent - an incurable neuro-muscular disorder called focal dystonia. After years of countless therapies, McLaughlin was forced to give up his life's passion playing solo guitar and abruptly disappeared from sight of his national fan-base. Five years in the making, this documentary chronicles McLaughlin's unlikely attempt to re-claim his career by re-training himself to become a left-handed guitarist and delves into the scientific mysteries of dystonia. The film delivers a story about determination, persistence and personal triumph wrapped in the exquisite music of this innovative and newly left-handed guitarist.  For more information, visit www.billymacmusic.com.

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Creating Your Best Life:  The Ultimate Life List Guide

My mission, through Dream List Media, is to encourage people to follow and achieve their dreams by first starting with a dream list—a list of all the things you’d like to do in your lifetime (also known as a life list or bucket list.)  I have known first-hand how powerful these types of lists can be to help accomplish life’s goals and dreams, and to also feel a sense of happiness and fulfillment. 

I was thrilled to find the book, Creating Your Best Life: The Ultimate Life List Guide, by Caroline Adams Miller.  Finally a book that connects the scientific research on happiness and the role of dream/life lists in attaining happiness!  This outstanding book guides you along a journey of self-discovery to learn how to set and achieve clear-cut goals while also learning how and why this process can contribute to greater contentment.  You’ll also find many useful and fun exercises and worksheets to help you maximize the information, tips and advice included in each chapter.

My book is now highlighted throughout and filled with post-it flags galore.  I highly recommend it to anyone looking to create a life of happiness and true purpose, and to achieve all of life’s dreams—both big and small.  For more information, visit Caroline’s website or to purchase the book, go to Amazon or your local bookstore.

I’ll leave you with a quote from her book:

“In my coaching practice, I have discovered that successful people almost always have life lists.  These lists enable them to be more joyful, proactive, and accomplished.  The most current research underscores that establishing clear-cut goals—and a path to accomplish them—contribute to a meaningful and flourishing life, and Creating Your Best Life is the first step-by-step guide to show you how to do just that.”

I need your help to get on the show!  Watch my video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vB57TlvgsYI and make a comment (don’t be too mean b/c I’m not a great singer). Then pass it to as many people as you can.  I need to get a bunch of people to watch the video to help me possibly win.