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Accepting our Rejected Thoughts

Sometimes we are in a position to look into the lives of other people. It could be through a book, or a movie, or a story we hear, or occasionally it could be someone that we meet. Sometimes when this happens, we see qualities that we truly admire, a...

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Patience A Better Way

I believe it! We receive the lessons we need to learn... and we keep receiving /em until we get it at least half-way right. At least, it seemed this way to me recently, when a trip from North Carolina to Oregon took a total of 50+ hours travel time, ...

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Making an Investment in Friendship Can Pay Off in Your Old Age!

When I was twenty-two, I was befriended by a woman named Doris who was thirty years older than I was. Although Doris was then a fifty-two year old woman, she did not feel it was inappropriate to befriend me. She did not operate with the social belief...

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Effective Goal Setting Words

The words you use in goal setting are very important. There are different opinions amongst experts about which words work best when you set goals - but there are also points on which most experts agree.Let's assume that you want to set a goal i...

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Anger and Your Driving Using Self-Talk to Create Safer Vistas Part 2

Date: January 28, 2001Place: Fashion Island, Newport Beach, CaliforniaThe incident: Jane, a middle aged professional woman had an altercation with another woman who accosted her after she refused to give up her parking spot.Jane clearly reached the c...

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Resolutions Try this!

Several articles and newsletters with the message that New Year’s resolutions are a worthless exercise and a poorly disguised setup for failure have passed across my desk this last week, and the year before, and the year before that. I do not belie...

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The Secret to Instantly Boost Your Self-Esteem

I have read thousands of books, articles and message board posts about self-esteem. And most of them are the equivalent of painting a house that is about to collapse.Keep yourself busy. Get out more. Achieve something. Write three good things about y...

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It's a Great Day to Die!

Wow, what a crazy thing to say during the most sacred and holytime of the year! Yes, it is-especially since this famous cry offreedom was uttered by Crazy Horse, the Sioux chief who defeatedCuster at the Battle of Little Bighorn.Why talk about death ...

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Procrastination Why It's Bad For You and How To Beat It

PROCRASTINATION: WHY IT IS BAD FOR YOU AND HOW TO BEAT IT.Procrastination – putting off things that need to be done presently- is a habit that’s easy to cultivate. Trouble is, it’s a bad (and sometimes dangerous) habit. There are several reason...

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Enhancing your Self-Esteem

Your self-esteem plays the biggest role in your life and influences your thoughts, ideas and decisions. You hear time and time again about how important having a high self-esteem is, yet most of us tend to find ways to lower it and keep it as low as ...

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