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The importance of Thanksgiving every day

Thanksgiving is the most important holiday of the year.Oh, sure, Christmas is grand, and I know it has many, many fans. I'm not knocking Christmas, but The Thanksgiving story is more important. And Easter has its fans, too. Rebirth is a wonderfu...

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Hijacked!

The four airplane hijackings, which were part of the tragicevents of September 11, 2001 were not typical. These sickoswere not seeking escape from political persecution, nor werethey interested in money. They intended to die and to takeeveryone else ...

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3 Steps to Defining Success and Defining Your Future

3 Steps to Defining Success and Defining Your Future by: Dr. Robert Eubanks Q: Are you a success? A: Its all in how you define the word! An American investment banker was at the pier of a small coastal Mexican Village when a small boat with jus...

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Tips To Get Motivated and Overcome Procrastination

Tips To Get Motivated and Overcome Procrastination by: Arina Nikitina Procrastination is a complicated behavior that affects all people to some degree. Some experience only small problems with procrastination while with others, it is a major sou...

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The Red Ribbon

The Red Ribbon by: Staci StallingsEveryone wants a blue ribbon. Blue. First place. The best. Even kindergarteners want that blue ribbon. In sports, I was never a blue-ribbon person. In a race I was always last. In baseball I was as likely to get...

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Ever Find Yourself Struggling to Express Your Thoughts and Feelings?

Ever Find Yourself Struggling to Express Your Thoughts and Feelings? by: Pat MorganIt can be challenging to find the right words to express what we really want to say. We often think that good communication is only about being heard, but is it n...

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What?!? No Bananas?

What?!? No Bananas? by: David Leonhardt "Where are your bananas?" It seemed like a logical question to ask. For all of my forty trips around the sun, bananas were a key item to place in the grocery cart. For the first time I could recall, the ba...

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The Retail Cardiac Chain of Survival; or, How to Survive a Heart Attack at the Mall

What if your customer suddenly clutched his chest and passed out in front of you? Do you know what to do? The federal Cardiac Arrest Survival Act (CASA) states that "A successful chain of survival requires the first person on the scene to take rapid ...

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Stress Reactions in Introverts and Extroverts

One of the biggest differences between introverts and extroverts is how they react to stress.Some people don’t understand how introverts react to stress. Because of this, they think that all introverts are “neurotic” or mentally ill. Let me exp...

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LET OBSTACLES INSPIRE YOU Don't let adversity keep you from

At one time or another, each one of us will suffer from some kindof adversity. Especially in recent weeks, many of us who havealways felt invincible have seen evidence to the contrary. Manyof us have lost friends of loved ones, and all of us are feel...

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