This is a letter explaining my background, experience and accomplishments as we begin our blog posts.
I grew up in war-torn Lebanon. My family and I talk today about hiding in the bathroom huddled together as the bombs fell as unemotionally as you or I might talk about planting daffodils in the fall. I absorbed the cards I was dealt and proverbially, made lemonade from all those lemons.
I noticed early on that there was a high level of negativity and loss of hope running rampant throughout the Lebanese people. I attributed it to all of the war experiences. And yet, I had gone through these same experiences and did not have that lack of hope or that level of negativity. I began to examine the differences that made me who I am and saw the patterns that kept others locked in a downward spiral.
I believe that, in the model of my hero, Mahatma Gandhi, I can create a better tomorrow for myself and for others; that I and others can have a promising future; that I and others can create an inner vision for myself and for others around the world.
I became a successful Lebanese business woman by following my inner voice that told me “You have the power to dream and to make your dreams happen.” I founded the Soufra Daimeh magazine and the Soufra Daimeh network as my initial success and many others followed.
You are invited to visit my two websites: Maria Khalifé and Change Coaching Institute.
While my accomplishments seem monumental, my current life purpose is to share all of that with you so that I can help you excel on your own. After my dedication to discovering truth, overcoming my own fears, what I really care about is:
- Doing my part to help you achieve your greatness
- To help you reach your best at work
- To help you find happiness at home
- To help you foster success in your life
What’s my greatest motivation? When I help you live your finest life, I get to feel significant; to feel that I’m making a difference in the world; that I matter; that you matter and that I’m contributing to the success of mankind.
“That’s truly where so much of my happiness and my life purpose comes from.”
Here’s what I do to succeed in my purpose-driven life:
- I wake up at 6 a.m. five times a week
- A meditation hour upon waking for personal reflection
- A well-rounded, healthy diet.
- A journaling period most days to build self-awareness.
- A period of reading each day and learning something new everyday
- Affirmations or Success Statements throughout the day because thoughts are the ancestors of actions
- A weekly planning and review session on Sunday morning
- At least one conversation with an interesting person each week to keep my passion high and surround myself with big ideas.
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I lead by example. Once I had created my own unique recipe for success in Lebanon by realizing my dreams of having the number one food media network in the middle east; by producing a daily cooking show on TV with over 2000 episodes and 77 cookbooks in Arabic (plus two in English) and once my local businesses ran smoothly, the urge for greater expression manifested from inside me, and I began to travel the world and learn from many other experts like Debbie Ford, T. Harv Ecker, the Minerva-Empowering Women Congress, and the Ghandi Institute.
I crafted my new learnings and past experience into wonderful workshops so that I could Be the Change and bring the change teaching to others, long before the new websites were worked on. My background as a media person made it easy for me voice to reach out so that my desire became the bridge that brought the possibility of change to Lebanon from the United Stated and thus to the entire Middle East, crafting prosperity, peace and hope to a needful population.
My motto is: “Be the change you wish to see in the world.”
To Your Success!
Maria Khalifé
Change Coach
