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Forgive ... not Seven Times, but Seventy-Seven Times

Yes, it was a difficult weekend. I had houseguests, and one of them has truly been wronged. Not once, but many times. Not by strangers, but by his own family. Not long ago, but long ago and recently.It made me angry just to hear the stories, though h...

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Patience A Better Way

I believe it! We receive the lessons we need to learn... and we keep receiving /em until we get it at least half-way right. At least, it seemed this way to me recently, when a trip from North Carolina to Oregon took a total of 50+ hours travel time, ...

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One sentence you should commit to memory

“Wouldn’t it be nice if there was an Easy Button for life?” This question is the tag line to a TV commercial by the office supplies store, Staples. The ad depicts people in various predicaments, including a bewildered boy called on by his teach...

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Dysfunctional Family Christmas

The articles are starting to appear in print and on the Internet about how to cope with the holiday family get-togethers and the word “dysfunctional” will be bandied about. This article is about another way of looking at things I hope will be hel...

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Having It All Why Some People Make the Leapand Others Don't

Kids dream of a peaceful life where people are happy and healthy. Children can’t wait to grow up to be free to do whatever they want. Kids play in a world of unlimited opportunity where anything is possible. Children’s natural passion is to live ...

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Your Success Formula

Have you ever made great progress with your goals but then found yourself losing focus and getting side-tracked? Do you ever achieve significant gains but then get distracted and “fall off the wagon,” so to speak? As we all know, everyday life ca...

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Emotional Intelligence and the Gentle Art of Conversation

Having just returned from a cruise, where I was seated nightly with a table of 10 strangers, I was reminded of the many definitions of ^emotional intelligence.^When I ask laypeople what EQ means, they respond “common sense,” or “manners,” or ...

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Enhancing your Self-Esteem

Your self-esteem plays the biggest role in your life and influences your thoughts, ideas and decisions. You hear time and time again about how important having a high self-esteem is, yet most of us tend to find ways to lower it and keep it as low as ...

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Being Successful & Being Nice

"If you are successful, you may win false friends and true enemies. Succeed anyway." Mother TeresaI was surfing the Internet the other day, and since EQ (emotional intelligence) is my field, I was looking at an EQ site. The person, who was an aspiri...

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The Coach Approach

The Coach Approach by: Diana Kennedy, LMT When you use what you go through to grow through, you take the coach approach. I am suggesting that you hire your own counsel. After all, who else knows your dreams, goals, and intentions better than you...

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