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9 Ways to Motivate Yourself When You Just Don't Feel Like It

9 Ways to Motivate Yourself When You Just Don't Feel Like It by: Skye ThomasAchieving the really big goals and dreams always involves breaking it down into do-able little steps. Assuming that you've picked a goal or dream that you real...

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Top Ten Ways to Achieve Your Goals

Top Ten Ways to Achieve Your Goals by: Norma Reid 1) Write them down! Statistics show people who write down their goals have over an 80% higher success rate of achieving them. Start a Goals journal. Make sure they are SMART goals- specific, meas...

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Consciously Flowing Appreciation Developing Your “Gratitude Muscle!”

We’ve all had days when, for whatever reason, we seem to find ourselves living unconsciously, guided by outworn beliefs and feeling stuck in lower-energy vibrations. When these times occur, you can help yourself to shift into higher alignment by re...

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Your Greatness Begins With The Tiniest Of Waves

Everything begins with the smallest of gestures I think it's for this very reason that many of us never get around to reaching the points in our life where we'd like to be. The timing just never seems to be right. We never have quite enou...

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Christopher Columbus What do You Think of That

Yesterday was warm and sunny.My children and I enjoyed frolicking in the swimming pool, each of us adding pink to our cheeks and smiles to our faces.What a surprise to wake up this morning to a cold wind blowing and theappearance of thick rain clouds...

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Shift Happens

The troop transport ship moved through the hot and humid South China seas leaving a phosphorescent wake to mark where it had been. The moon was full in a cloudless sky leaving it's reflection on the waters. The exercise in Thailand had gone well...

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Go On ! Give your Enemy a Hug

Go On ! Give your Enemy a hug!Give your enemy a hug! Another preposterous idea from yours truly, even the thought makes some people shudder.My husband had been having difficulty with an old mate, whenever he met him there were sneers and snide comme...

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4 Secret Ways to Stop Procrastinating

Ever wonder how to stop procrastinating?Here is a good example...I was recently talking with a friend who said, "You know, Ineed to have guests over to my house more often." "Why isthat?" I asked. "Because that seems to be the only time Ireally clean...

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Neutralize the negatives!

We are repeatedly told that we should forget about unpleasant experiences (failures) and focus on pleasant ones (successes). I agree totally with the last part of this proposition but only partly with the bit on forgetting about your unpleasant exper...

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The Pressure of Their World for Introverts

Faith Burgess is a bright and charming stay-at-home mom. She has a toddler, Joshua. Faith is an introvert and so is her three year old son. I asked Faith to try and put into words what it was like to be an introvert so I could help get the idea acros...

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