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9 Ways to Motivate Yourself When You Just Don't Feel Like It

Achieving the really big goals and dreams always involves breaking it down into do-able little steps. Assuming that you've picked a goal or dream that you really love working at, then most of the steps are a delight to take. No matter how much y...

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What Would You Do If You Knew You Could Not Fail

The next time you find yourself relaxing on the couch, having popped some corn and about to watch the “Sopranos”, instead, pose this $1,000,000 lottery question to yourself and see what flows. What would you do if you knew you could not fail? Wou...

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Envisioning Your Ideal Self

Envisioning Your Ideal SelfIn my work as a professional coach, I've had the opportunity to interact with hundreds of individuals.  I've found that people who are successful and fulfilled share common characteristics.They believe their succ...

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The Fable of the Elephant and the Woman Who Wasn't Blind

This isn’t the story about the four blind men and the elephant, this is the story of me looking at that 6 ton elephant in the zoo, tethered to that tiny stake, and wondering why on earth she doesn’t break loose. Instead she rocks back and forth w...

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All That Glitters Is Not Winning! For The Birds You Say

A big misconception about a person who seems to win all the time is that he always wins. In reality, if a person never fails, he is already sucking up to a rattlesnake as big as west Texas. A Blessing In Disguise!One thing that a big honcho will neve...

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Ten Ways to Beat the Heat

It's the dog days of summer (in the northern hemisphere) when the temperature goes up (and hasbeen up for a while) and tempers can flare. Learning to manage anger is an emotional intelligence competency and a process of personal awareness and gr...

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What Will You Do with the Rest of Today

Article Title: How to Turn Two Questions into a Life Changing ExperienceAuthor Name: Doug C. GrantContact Email Address: doug @dougcgrant.comWord Count: 631Category: Motivational/InspirationalCopyright Date: 2002~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~...

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Emerge From Your Cocoon

EMERGE FROM YOUR COCOON - BE A BUTTERFLYWhat kind of picture did you just visualize from the title of thisarticle? Did you see the final product flying and alight upon aflower? Did you see the intricate pattern on the wings? Did you smileas you thoug...

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Two Sentences

Two sentences from 1977.The one single, specific memory I have from the ninth grade was during a math class. We were being introduced to Geometryfor the first time. The teacher whose name I can surprisinglynot remember, asked "What is intuition?"I ra...

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BLOW AWAY THE DEAD STUFF

Yesterday morning I was looking out of my office window at the trees inmy front yard. The trees were filled with brown, shriveled, deadleaves. These leaves were once healthy and green. They had turnedbrilliant colors under the fall sky. But now they ...

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