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Celia Im, Lighting the Creative Spark

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Dr. Celia Im is the founder of the unique personal development program, Lighting the Creative Spark,, which is a transformational tool that uses music to awaken, enlighten, and empower clients so they can release old, negative patterns that are keeping them from being happy, healthy, and effective.

Celia is an international, award-winning musician and has taught on the faculties of the Peabody Conservatory of Johns Hopkins University, the University of Maryland, and George Mason University. Her degrees include a Doctorate of Musical Arts from Peabody Conservatory, a bachelor’s degree from Oberlin Conservatory, and a certification in the Bonny Method of Guided Imagery and Music.

In her workshops, seminars, conferences, and retreats, she uses a seven-step transformational process to guide business leaders, politicians, artists, and others to achieve a greater sense of wellness, creativity, and leadership.

“The music,” she says, “is the key that unlocks old memories and beliefs. It’s what helps people go more deeply inside their unconscious to find their true passions and talents.”

She has developed a new seven-stage process called Harmonic Resonance Integration. “Learn more about that here.“http://celiaim.com/index.php?s=shop&c=cds

For more information, visit Celia’s website www.celiaim.com.

If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is compromise.”

– Robert Fritz

Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.”

– E.B. White

Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.”

– Robert Louis Stevenson

You may ask me for anything you like except time.”

– Napoleon

Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”

– Leon Joseph Suenens

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.”

– Albert Schweitzer

Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.”

– Arthur Rubinstein

The mind is everything. What you think, you become.”

– Buddha

Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”

– Leo Jozef Suenens

That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.”

– Henry David Thoreau

The music is all around us. All you have to do is listen.”

– August Rush

Ripeness is all.”

– William Shakespeare

What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?”

– Jim Butcher, White Night

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”

– Albert Einstein

If you would create something,
 you must be something.”

– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The follow-your-gut mentality of the entrepreneur has the potential to take you anywhere you want to go or run you right out of business.”

– Bill Rancic, "The Apprentice"

Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”

– Andrew Carnegie

The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups.”

– Charles Brower, Advertising Hall of Fame

Letting go of expectations is a ticket to peace. It allows us to ride over every crisis—small or large—like a beach ball on water.”

– Martha Beck

Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, ‘Make Me Feel Important.’ Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.”

– Mary Kay Ash

Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid.”

– Basil King

You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”

– Winston Churchill

Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.”

– Albert Einstein

“Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently.”

– Steve Jobs, Apple, Inc.

There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.”

– JFK

A person who learns to juggle six balls will be more skilled than the person who never tries to juggle more than three.”

– Marilyn vos Savant

4oz tequila + 1oz TripleSec + 2oz lime juice + 1oz simple syrup (sugar=water), 1 cup crushed ice. Shake + dance around the kitchen.

– Avenida Margarita

The quality of your life is directly related to the amount of uncertainty you can comfortably live with.”

– Tony Robbins

Running that first shop taught me business is not financial science; it’s about trading.”

– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop

The great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.”

– William James

You take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
 A terrible thing: no one to blame.”

– Erica Jong

There are children playing in the street who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.”

– J. Robert Oppenheimer

Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”

– Eleanor Roosevelt

How do you stay resilient? It’s about momentum. Like riding a bicycle. If you stop you fall over. So I keep pedaling.”

– Diane Lane

Your own words are the bricks and mortar
of the dreams you want to realize.
 The words you choose and their use establish the life you experience.”

– Sonia Croquette

‎Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.”

– Booker T. Washington

I don’t do very well without fear. There needs to be a part of me saying, ‘That’s going to fail,’ so I can prove myself wrong.”

– Harry Potter's Daniel Radcliffe

The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. The greatest failure is to not try.”

– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies

Change is a math formula. Change happens when the cost of the status quo is greater than the risk of change.”

– Alan Webber, author, "Rules of Thumb"

Success is about finding a livelihood that brings joy, self-sufficiency, and a sense of contributing.”

– Anita Roddick

To find what you seek in the road of life, leave no stone unturned.”

– Edward Bulwer Lytton

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”

– Abraham Lincoln

A truly forgiving person is someone who experiences all the anger merited by injustice and still acts with fairness and compassion.”

– Martha Beck

If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.”

– Jesse Jackson

Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.”

– Jack Kerouac

You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead, pursue the things you love doing.”

– Maya Angelou

A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.”

– Bob Dylan

Why am I whispering when I have something to say?”

– Eve Ensler

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”

– Robert Louis Stevenson

What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?”

– Magical