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Alone In The Kitchen Stirring Up Mindfulness

Put on your apron! It's time to stir up a batch of mindfulness. Julia Child, the trilling television chef who taught millions of Americans how to prepare French food without being hoity-toity, died in her sleep at the age of 92 recently. In doze...

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Alice and the Journey of Life

Alice and Life's JourneyMay 2003 Letters on Life #8"I can't believe that!" said Alice. "Can't you?" the Queen said in a pitying tone. "Try again: draw a long breath, and shut your eyes."Alice laughed. "There's no use trying," she ...

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Maximizing Your Life's Landmark Experiences

Eric closed his eyes as he rubbed his temples for what seemed likethe twentieth time that hour. His life lately resembled an episodefrom a daytime soap opera rather than reality. A thought entered his crowded consciousness: "What is it about me that ...

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The Castaway

In the recent movie, "The Castaway," Tom Hanks playedthe role of a FedEx delivery man. His job was to fly all overthe world making sure that the packages were delivered on time.One fateful trip found his cargo plane flying through a nastystorm somewh...

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Three Tips to Forgiveness A Key Factor in Anger Management

Three Tips to Forgiveness: A Key Factor in Anger ManagermentElizabeth, 32, cried during anger management class as she told how one year ago - her 19-month-old girl was permanently brain-damaged as the result of a medical error at the hospital in whic...

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Who Is Wallace Wattles and Why Is He One of My Mentors and Heroes

Who is Wallace Wattles? Wallace D. Wattles died over 90 years ago so how can he be one of my mentors and heroes? I had been studying the works of some of the most famous self-improvement 'gurus' of recent times and several of them mentioned...

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Three Effective Ways to Reduce Stress

The American Institute of Stress reports that stress among Americans is significantly rising. About $300 billion a year is lost due to stress-related reduced productivity, absenteeism, insurance cost, health-related programs, and employee dissatisfac...

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Migration and Brain Drain - Part II

Politicians in some countries decry this trend and deride those emigrating. In a famous interview on state TV, the late prime minister of Israel, Yitzhak Rabin, described them as "a fallout of the jaded". But in many impoverished countries, local kle...

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e-Matchmaking Can a Computer Find Love For You

I logged on to a dating site the other day and was greeted by a large, flashing message. It promised that if I took the time to answer a series of questions that they would find a "perfect match" for me. Imagine that? All the work and worry of being ...

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Ron Sathoff's Speaker Tips

It seems like a lot of old public speaking books seem to believein the strategy of telling the audience a joke at the beginningof a speech in order to break the ice.That isn't a bad idea, but it won't work if you JUST tell a joke.Rather, ma...

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