10,129 articles on "improvement"

Control, Helplessness, and Love

Control, Helplessness, and Love by: Margaret Paul, Ph.D. During my 35 years of counseling individuals, couples, families and business partners, I have discovered that an important purpose of our controlling behavior in our relationships is to av...

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Hiking in the Forest Knowing When to Slow Down

Hiking in the Forest Knowing When to Slow Down by: Theresa Gabriel One morning in mid summer, I headed out for some time to myself on the trails of Fontenelle Forest in Bellevue, Nebraska. As usual, I stopped in at the Visitor Center to pay the ...

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How To Create a Life Strategy for Business Success - Part One of a Series

How To Create a Life Strategy for Business Success - Part One of a Series by: Charles and Holly Egner Ask yourself the following: 1. I have created a life-strategy plan for the next: a. 20 years.................Yes No b. 10 years..................

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Life - Is It Just An Illusion?

Life - Is It Just An Illusion? by: Geela It's a well-known fact that electrons and atoms move at the speed of light, technically flickering in and out of existence. In other words, half of the time we are actually not here. Our reality, or...

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Leave Your Dead End Job…For Good.

Leave Your Dead End Job…For Good. by: Max Stein So here you are…stuck in a dead end job. Are you hitting the glass ceiling in a job you once loved, but now can’t stand? Maybe the hours are long. Maybe you can’t stand retail customers any...

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Your Pot of Gold: Waiting for the Rainbow’s End

Your Pot of Gold: Waiting for the Rainbow’s End by: Steve BrunkhorstAn old story tells of a country pastor who had created a very beautiful garden. He had removed the old decaying trees and replaced them with healthy young saplings. He had dug...

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The Sting

The Sting by: Wayne and TamaraDirect Answers - Column for the week of June 28, 2004Two days ago, purely by accident, I found out my husband was a member of an online sex and swinger service. I unintentionally opened his e-mail, thinking the comp...

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Gossip: Destructive Conversation

Gossip: Destructive Conversation by: Chris Hall An occasional hour of gossip with the girls isn't so bad......or is it? The first thing to determine is the difference between gossip and healthy "girl" talk. Gossip involves repeating idle t...

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Quick! Throw Me A Line!

Quick! Throw Me A Line! by: Skye Thomas I was reminiscing with a friend recently about his ‘dark night of the soul’ that he’d just experienced. During his pain, he turned his back on God. Raised in a traditional Catholic family he found hi...

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On Stand-by

On Stand-by by: Wayne and Tamara Direct Answers - Column for the week of April 28, 2003 My wife of 35 years has fallen in love again with her old college boyfriend. I am 61, and she is 58. We have three grown children. Her boyfriend is 59, marri...

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