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Pair Your Powerful Resume with a Great Cover Letter

Pair Your Powerful Resume with a Great Cover Letter by: Kathi MacNaughton Every great resume deserves a great cover letter. A cover letter is crucial because it’s the first thing the hiring manager sees. And you only have seconds to grab his ...

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Making New Friends

Making New Friends by: Skye Thomas How do we make friends? More importantly if dropped into a new city or a new job or a new school, how do we go about making a new friends? Most of us don’t really think about it, but just sort of allow people...

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When should you update your job skills

With the U.S. economy still slumping and unemployment numbers barely moving forward, many workers may be considering what their employment future could be like if they were to lose their job. If you’re in a healthcare field, or possess computer ski...

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Facing the Homeschool Super Mom

I know this Mom. She homeschools her 5 children, plus she tutors several other children that are dropped off at her house. AND she's a Pastor's wife. AND she's working on fixing up the fixer-upper they just moved into. Whenever I'...

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Broken Dishes and Barack

Broken Dishes and the Voice of GodBarack Obama, alone, leaned against the wall in the kitchen corridor underneath the Hotel Allegro in Chicago and looked at his watch. Next to him, a bus cart jammed with dirty breakfast dishes waiting to be washed. I...

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Love Never Fails

"Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do."Luke 23:24How many times do you suppose we've hurt people and not realized it; to have reacted without thought; to have deemed another not ready, worthy, capable, or spiritual enough; to hav...

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ABC's of Becoming an Effective Teen

A: Acquire a Strong and Positive AttitudeB: Break Out of Your ShellC: Characterize Your HeroD: Demand Respect For Your Standards, Yourself and Your BeliefsE: Energize Yourself Everyday With a Goal of Making a DifferenceF: Failure to Plan, is Planning...

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Have you been lucky in life

Each moment in life, "lucky" or "unlucky", is to be savored, learned from, and appreciated. Easier said than done? Read this heartfelt story and see for yourself.I met an exceptional American man in Athens in my younger years. He had a beautiful and ...

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Ways to Increase Your Personal Power through Emotional Intelligence

Personal Power is an Emotional Intelligence (EQ) competency you’re probably familiar with by another name. It’s your sense of being able to handle yourself and your life. It’s the opposite of the “victim” position, where you feel helpless a...

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Sermon in the Weight Room

The other day, I gave my first sermon in 3 years.After 13 years of Sunday lessons, you can hold forth at the drop of a hat, or a barbell as the case may be.I was in a weight room and my audience was the custodian.I had seen him for several weeks. We ...

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