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Life on Your Terms

It’s taken me a long time to understand what it means to live life on my own terms. I’m a “fixer” by nature. Give me a problem and I’ll “fix” it. Show me an unhappy or unfulfilled person and I’ll “fix” them. It’s a great entrepr...

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Success on Your Terms

Success on Your TermsDo you consider yourself a success? If you don’t, you have lots of company. Only 5 to 10 % of Americans think they are really successful. If you seek more success, ask yourself:·What is success to me?·What matters most to me?...

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WHAT YOU THINK UPON GROWS

A magical maxim is WYTUG. You can remember WYTUG because it sounds like “Why tug?” So many of us are tugging at our life, trying to pull it along as if it was an obstinate, stubborn, headstrong mule. Why do that? Your life can be like the old chi...

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Are You Fine or Fantastic

It takes a small child to make us see sense sometimes.My 7-year old daughter loves school and on the daysthat I collect her, I always greet her with,"Hi Charlotte, how are you?"And nine times out of ten she answers,"Hi Daddy, I'm brilliant!"It i...

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Innovating Your Way to Success

The calendar is chock full of fun facts like this: "The first successful parachute jump from a MOVING airplane was made by CaptainBerry at St. Louis, Missouri in 1912." Naturally my mind immediately jumped in wonder to the first successful parachute ...

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Maximizing the Landmark Experiences of Your Life

Eric closed his eyes as he rubbed his temples for what seemed likethe twentieth time that hour. His life lately resembled an episodefrom a daytime soap opera rather than reality. A thought entered his crowded consciousness: "What is it about me that ...

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Developing the Courage to Be Imperfect

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Timothy McVeigh’s Legacy of Revenge - Evil is Evil is Evil

A Psychologist Speaks“Are we like sheep? ”IsaiahIf we give an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, we shall all be blind and gumming. Overtly we are dealing with the issue of crime and punishment. Covertly we are dealing with evil, revenge, an...

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The Key To Overcoming Shyness

For some people, overcoming shyness is a difficult and often unimaginable task. Everyone has felt various degrees of shyness and insecurity but there are few who experience the real horror of it. I won’t go into detail because I’m not here to dis...

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How Do You Win at Home Organization Think Small!

Many people have written to me about their personal goals and one I see quite often is “Get organized,” specifically, “Get the house in order.” When I ask what obstacles are in their way, the most common response is “procrastination.”By ...

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