10,129 articles on "improvement"

Nontoxic Pest Control for Your Home and Garden

Nontoxic Pest Control for Your Home and Garden by: TC Thorn Pesticides are toxic and, while often effective against pests, can be dangerous for your family and pets. Outdoors, sprayed pesticides might drift on a breeze and dust your vegetable ga...

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The Art of Forgiving

Have you ever sat down on a big rock by a flowing stream, hung your head and cried like a baby? Me neither but hey the days not over yet!Sometimes in life we get hit hard and fast. Maybe by a friend, a lover, spouse, neighbor or just a complete stra...

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GENNY GETS A LESSON IN POWER

Genny Lloyd watched open-mouthed as Glenn Holloway camebarreling through the room almost at a run, his face beet-red, his expensive jacket slung over his shoulder like anold sweatshirt, and clearly so furious he didn't even knowthe others were t...

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Getting Unstuck from Procrastination

Getting Unstuck from Procrastination by: Margaret Paul, Ph.D. Sherry was behind on many important things in her life. She had unpaid traffic tickets, the insurance on her car had lapsed, she had a stack of unpaid bills, and her apartment was a m...

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Ambits of a Family

Ambits of a Family by: Tushar Jain Family, like sex, is a mature word. And like sex, it is word for relations; not physical, but social. And like most social relations, it is reliant on compromises. A compromise forged between men who wish to re...

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The ‘Stand-Out’ Principle

The ‘Stand-Out’ Principle by: Paul Shearstone Think for a moment about all the people you know that Stand Out from their peers. Michael Jordan, Wayne Gretzky and Tiger Woods may come to mind. Singers like Madonna, Paul McCartney, Pavarotti, ...

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Busy Fish: Tips for Changing Your Day from Chaos to Calm

Busy Fish: Tips for Changing Your Day from Chaos to Calm by: Dr. Robert Eubanks Syndicated columnist Dale Dauten recently wrote, One of lifes great joys that weve lost is that of the empty day, a day given over to quiet, to reading and contempla...

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Don't Let the Boogeyman Steal Your Dreams

Don't Let the Boogeyman Steal Your Dreams by: Sulana Stone The boogeyman lurking in the closet scares the bejesus out of little kids. Big people know the imaginary monster from their childhood isn't real. Yet, adults freeze in their ...

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Unleash your creativity and think your way out of the box

Unleash your creativity and think your way out of the boxThe brain is a strange organ. It works in ways we don’t yet understand and manages to create everything we see. Working at odds with the rest of the body it performs best when we’re not con...

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Vegetable Gardens & Organic Matter

Organic matter improves soil as a growing medium for plants. It helps release nitrogen, minerals, and other nutrients for plant use when it decays. A mulch of partially rotted straw, compost, or undecomposed crop residue on the soil helps keep the so...

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