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How Stress Factors into Motivation

Stress factors into our motivation more times than we may realize and in this way it can actually provides a positive in our lives. The common perception, and rightfully so, is that mental stress is bad for our health and in fact is viewed by some me...

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What is Your Favorite Positive Feeling?

What is your favorite positive feeling? These days, I think I will take contentment, and a sense of quiet pride. And that feeling comes from looking back over the last 30 years at the effective choices of my life, choices that did entail hard work, ...

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Searching for the Holy-Grail of Work - Life Balance

Just coming off a vacation gives me a good chance to think about work-life balance. As leaders and achievers it is a topic often discussed in workshops and in casual conversations. People are so busy and feel pulled in so many directions that they f...

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Getting The Most From Your Candles

Get The Most From Your Candlesby Sharon JacobsenI love burning candles and have them all around the house. Long ones, short ones, fat ones, thin ones, in a plethora of colours. I burn them in the evening when I'm relaxing; I burn them at mealtim...

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Can a Coach Help Me with This

If you’re stuck with something you’d like help with and no one else comes to mind, you might try a coach, and here’s why: Coaching developed to fill a need that wasn’t being met. Actually it developed to meet a number of needs that weren’t ...

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Make Your Complaint Heard & Get Results!

At some point in time you will be faced with the need toregister a complaint because of a poor product or poorservice, or maybe even both !Here are some tips to make sure that your complaint isNOT ignored.Keep Your CoolIt’s difficult to do this whe...

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Creating Icebergs Out Of Hostility

Have you ever dreaded an upcoming presentation, meeting orfunction because you just knew that the group would be hostileMaybe you had heard that these people are very critical, evenaggressive.How can you prepare for such a situation even though you w...

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HOW TO AVOID A CAR REPAIR RIPOFF

Every once in a while we actually go off-line and leave thehouse. And when we go it's usually in a car... or truck orvan or motorcycle... you get the point. The fact is thatour vehicles are going to break down some day. When thatday comes FOR YO...

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SPIRITUALITY: Blues for Buddha

SPIRITUALITY: Blues for Buddha by: Jed McKenna Being critical of Buddhism isn't easy. Buddhism is the most likable of the major religions, and Buddhists are the perennial good guys of modern spirituality. Beautiful traditions, lovely archit...

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A Bellyful of Mindfulness

A Bellyful of Mindfulness by: Maya Talisman Frost Taco Bell, a huge Mexican fast-food franchise, has a new ad campaign focusing on the slogan, "Get full." The commercials show people ecstatically announcing that they are fullthanks, of course, t...

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