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Ok, it has been awhile since we posted to this blog.  We will try to be more active going forward.  To start things off, we wanted to make sure you had access to each of our Facebook pages, Twitter account, Pinterest account, and Instagram account profiles.  Here are the various URLs for each:

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New Courses Added to AspiraCE.com

AspiraCE.com has added new courses this year.  It is AspiraCE's goal to continue to expand and improve their offerings to meet the needs of the licensed professionals seeking continuing education.  You can view the entire course listing at http://www.aspirace.com/courses/course-browser.aspx.  There are several pages to our course listing.  Use the navigation arrows located at the top and bottom of each page to move from page to page.  To see if AspiraCE is approved in your state for your particular license, you can view our approval table on our FAQ page here: http://www.aspirace.com/faq.aspx.

Also check out our many videos posted on YouTube at: http://www.youtube.com/user/AspiraCE..  View AspiraCE's pricing structure at: http://www.aspirace.com/purchase/prices.aspx.

AspiraCE offers some resources for those in private practice.  View our Offers page to see the various resources under the section "Private Practice Tools" by clicking here: http://www.aspirace.com/purchase/offers.aspx.

Don't let your time run out on completing your required continuing education.  Let AspiraCE help you compete your necessary coursework before your license expires.  AspiraCE offers courses for the fulfillment of Social Worker CEUs, MFT CEUs, Counselor CEUs, and Substance Abuse Counselor CEUs.

For specific questions use the Contact Us tab at http://www.aspirace.com.  There you can send an email where a response will be forthcoming within the hour (the majority of the time).  Check out AspiraCE today!

View this video on Aspira CE's website: http://ping.fm/NsLgT Aspira offers MFT continuing education

Happy New Year Everyone!

Aspira is celebrating the new year with a new discount code.  Save 11% in 2011 on your CEUs during the first two months of the year.  Just enter the code NewYear2011 and receive 11% off every purchase during the months of January and February.  Aspira makes your CE fulfillment easy and cost effective.  Visit Aspira and save today!

For all of the details on this special visit Aspira's Offers page.

Aspira provides continuing education for:
MFT CEUs
Social Worker CEUs
Counselor CEUs
Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Counselor CEUs

New Year Resolutions: How to Have Success

Every year people hastily make new year resolutions that inevitably get broke within the first week of the new year (if not by the end of the first day).  People are eager to change and make themselves or their lives better, but usually lack the will power to see it through.  Why is that?  Can a new year resolution stick and be the catalyst to change that most seek?

I believe it can.  The key is to make a resolution that is not over-the-top or so daunting that commitment to change is gone before the year has even started.  I have seen many times people pull out there “list” of new year resolutions as a badge of honor showing how they are going to revolutionize their life or the world around them.  Only to find a week or two later, when asked about their “list”, that they tossed it in the trash and are back to their normal routine.

Why not start with something simple.  Limit your resolution to one thing you want to see change.  Maybe that one thing is still too monstrous to tackle all at once.  Then break it down to actionable and achievable steps that can be spread out over time.  You may even limit to changing one step a year, or maybe half a year or quarter.  It takes time to develop new habits.  Most of us have spent our lives developing the habits and behaviors we currently demonstrate.  So, don’t expect to undo several years of fortification in a week, a month, or even one year.

A great place to start with change is the way we think.  All of our actions are an external portrayal of what we think.  You may have heard it said before that a thought leads to an action and an action repeated enough times leads to a habit.  Therefore, it stands to reason that in order to change our habits, we need to change our thinking.  Most people fixate on the action of their behavior and try to change the behavior without addressing their thoughts.  This will almost always, if not always, end in failure.  The root of the matter is in our minds.

So, if you want to change how you treat others, change how you think about others.  If you want to change how you react to certain behaviors of others, change how you think about that behavior.  Ask yourself “why do they act that way?”.  Begin to train your mind to see things from their perspective.  This may, over time, effect how you behave and thus change your own habits.

To take this one step further, our thoughts are governed by what we put into our minds in the first place.  What are you filling your mind with?  What are you watching on TV?  What are you reading?  What are you listening to?  All of these factors contribute to what we dwell on and result in how we behave.  Are brains are complex organs, but what we put in is what we get out.  So, in a nutshell to change our output we need to change our input.


Aspira Continuing Education is a leader in online continuing education. Visit http://www.aspirace.com to see how easy, affordable and quick earning your CEUs can be. Aspira has courses for MFT continuing education, continuing education for social workers, continuing education for counselors, and Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Counselor continuing education

Don't Allow or Be Involved in Driving While Impaired

Here is some sobering information from the CDC webiste to keep in mind during this holiday season.  This problem affects many more people than just those choosing to drive impaired.

Impaired Driving

The Reality

Photo: Handing over car keys.Alcohol-impaired driving endangers the health and lives of drinking drivers, their passengers, and others on the road. You may not have realized that:

* Every day, 32 people in the United States die in motor vehicle crashes that involve an alcohol-impaired driver. This amounts to one death every 45 minutes.
* One in 3 fatal motor-vehicle crashes involves an alcohol-impaired driver.
* Alcohol-impaired driving takes an especially high toll on young people. One of every three drivers ages 21-24 who was killed in a motor vehicle crash in 2008 had a blood-alcohol concentration (BAC) of 0.08 (which is the illegal limit) or above.

Thankfully, there are steps individuals and communities can take to make injuries and deaths from impaired driving less of a threat.

The more alcohol you consume, the more impaired you become. Learn how your blood alcohol concentration (BAC) affects your ability to drive Adobe PDF file [PDF - 46 KB].

Plan Ahead

Whenever your social plans involve alcohol, make plans so that you don’t have to drive after drinking. For example:

* Prior to any drinking, designate a non-drinking driver when with a group.
* Don’t let your friends drive impaired. Take their keys away.
* If you have been drinking, get a ride home or call a taxi.
* If you’re hosting a party where alcohol will be served, remind your guests to plan ahead and designate their sober driver; offer alcohol-free beverages; and make sure all guests leave with a sober driver.

Protective Programs

When it comes to steps society can take to reduce impaired driving, sobriety checkpoints and ignition interlocks have been proven effective:

* Sobriety checkpoints are traffic stops where law enforcement officers assess drivers’ level of alcohol impairment. These checkpoints consistently reduce alcohol-related crashes, typically by 20%.
* Ignition interlocks are devices that are installed in the vehicles of people who have been convicted of driving while impaired. They prevent operation of the vehicle by anyone with a blood alcohol concentration (BAC) above a specified safe level (usually 0.02% – 0.04%). When installed, interlocks are associated with about a 70% reduction in arrest rates for impaired driving.

Aspira works in the fields of online CEUs for MFT continuing education, online CEUs for Social Worker continuing education, online CEUs for Professional Counselor continuing education, and online CEUs for Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Counselor continuing education

Holiday Savings for Online CEUs for MFTs, LPCs, LCSWs

The holiday season is full of cheer, joy, laughter and SAVINGS!  Aspira Continuing Education is offering a discount on all CEUs purchased through the end of 2010.

There is always a mad rush during this time of year, trying to get everything done for the holidays.  There's shopping, wrapping, get-togethers, cooking, phone calling, and acquiring one's CEUs before their license expires.  This can cause a lot of stress.  Aspira Continuing Education is here to help.  Aspira's website is a stress-free environment.  The site is user friendly and easy to navigate.  The coursework and exams are all viewable before purchasing anything.  The prices are very reasonable and the coursework is top-notch. On top of all this Aspira is offering a discount on all CEUs purchased before the end of the year 2010.

Aspira offers online CEUs for LCSWs, MFTs, LPCs, LPCCs, MHCs and MFCCs.  Visit Aspira Continuing Education and see for yourself.  You won't be disappointed.  Aspira provides online CEUs for MFT continuing education, Social Worker continuing education, Professional Counselor continuing education, and Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Counselor continuing education.

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Aspira Continuing Education - The Hidden Pearl

Navigating the web for online CEUs can be a daunting task.  There are many questions one must ask such as: “Are they approved in my state for my license?”, “Do they offer all the courses I need to renew my license?”, “Can I even find what I am looking for?”, and “Are their rates affordable and reasonable?”

There are many types of professions that require the licensees to obtain continuing education units (CEUs) in order to keep their respective licenses active.  Without the completion of this requirement, one could find themselves having their license revoked.  Each profession and each state has their own rules on how many “CEUs” are expected to be completed in each given renewal period.  Each licensee should be fully aware of the quantity of CEUs needed and the time frame in which to complete them.  This brings the licensee to the question, “Where do I go to get my CEUs?”

The internet has been a viable source for finding all kinds of “stuff”.  It can also be a great source for finding the right CEU provider.  The problem lies in sifting through the number of search results generated by whatever search engine being used.  Just because a website ranks high in the search engine results, doesn’t necessarily mean it is the best option.  Companies are constantly battling for rankings.  There is a company that ranks fairly well for many search terms, but deserves to be highlighted even more.  Aspira Continuing Education offers CEUs for MFT continuing education, Social Work continuing education and Professional Counselor continuing education.  Aspira stands out for many reasons.

First, let’s look at the questions posed in the beginning. “Are they approved in my state for my license?” For the professions of Marriage and Family Therapy, Licensed Social Work, and Professional Counseling Aspira meets this challenge with resounding results.  There is a table on their FAQ page that show the reader exactly where they are approved and where they are not.  With the table full of marks it is much harder to find where they are not approved than where they are approved.

Second, “Do they offer all the courses I need to renew my license?”  Great question to ask.  Looking at the course list on the Home page (the section “below the fold”) and scanning their course listing page there are ample of courses to fulfill the requirements of the licenses they cater to.  Not only do they have the required courses needed for each renewal period, but a wide selection of additional courses that will add to one’s continuing education experience.

Third, “Can I even find what I am looking for?”  How many times have you pulled up a website from a search result and spent way too much time searching for what you were interested in only to end up backing out of that site and returning to the search result list?  Sometimes this may be because the site was irrelevant to what you were searching for, however, most of the time it was probably because the website was so poorly designed that it made it way too difficult to find anything.  Aspira’s navigation is top notch.  Everything is straightforward and easy to find.  There are tabs across the top that take the user to all of the appropriate pages and well defined links within each page as well.  No wasting time here, which is critical in today’s busy, fast-paced world.

Fourth, “Are their rates affordable and reasonable?”  This is the brass tax of the matter.  What is the cost?  It has been said “You get what you pay for.”  For the most part this is correct.  That is why it is a good rule of thumb to never pay the highest amount and at the same time never pay the lowest amount.  The highest amount is usually overpriced.  The lowest amount is usually stripped of any value and may cost more in the long run in both time and  money.  Choosing a price more in the middle is usually the best bet.  Aspira’s CEU prices fall in this category.  There are many offerings charging more with no more value and others charging less with less value.  Aspira provides several pricing options that range from just purchasing a few units to a packaged deal for unlimited units over a 12 month period for only $129.99.  For someone who needs a lot of CEUs, this is a great deal.

For more information regarding Aspira Continuing Education, visit their site at www.aspirace.com and check things out for yourself.

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What features make for a good online CE Provider?

Providing online CEUs is a BIG endeavor.  What does it take to set a site apart from all the rest. This is a question that plagues all business people on the internet.  This is why I am reaching out to all who wish to contribute.  If you are a licensed professional who seeks their continuing education online, then I am interested in what you have to say.  Post your comments to my blog.  Let me know what would intrigue you from an online CEU provider.  And, what would turn you off.  It is not only good to know what people want, but to also know what they do not want.  This combination of information can help to create an ideal environment for those who are seeking to renew their license via online CE courses.  You can view Aspira's site at: www.aspirace.com. Thank you for your input. Have a great day!

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