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Rasputin

Rasputin was born in 1869, in Tyumen, a district of Siberia. He arrived in Saint Petersburg in 1911 and was a young guard. Even today, he is known as a shadowy and mysterious character. He apparently had weird personality traits. Doctor's and sk...

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April's Opportunity

April's OpportunityEvery season has its moods and flavors. Spring is a time of new optimism and in last month's letter, Planting Seeds of Spring, I wrote about planting seeds as a metaphor for possibilities. April has its unique challenges ...

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4 Quick, Easy Ways to Say No to People Who Take You for Granted

4 Quick, Easy Ways to Say No to People Who Take You for Granted by: Peter Murphy No matter how wonderful you are sometimes other people will try to take advantage of your good nature. They will push you, get you to do more than your fair share a...

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You Teach People How to Treat You

You Teach People How to Treat You by: Rhoberta Shaler, PhD So often we hear people ask the question, "Why does he/she/they treat me/us so badly?". The honest answer, in most cases, is "Because you let him, her or they!" If that seems too simple...

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NICE GUYS FINISH FIRST - REALLY

How can anyone with the brain of a cockroach make such a stupid statement?So rang out the scorn of a killer talk show host on a television station in Cleveland. When I was on tour in his city, John Kelly quoted Leo Derocher who said just the opposit...

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This Christmas, Don’t Take the Bait

You’re at a party talking with a man and it happens. He says something and you feel “sucked dry” after processing various emotions. Some of them might be He’s been hurt, I must help him; I’m good at cheering people up; I really don’t wan...

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Living In The Now

I hope you are sitting down as you read this! You cannot begin to work on this kind of subject without addressing the subject of time itself – and when was the last time you did that?There are three basic areas or modules of time that are most comm...

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So What Does Emotional Intelligence Look Like in Real Life

1.High IQ, Low EQ: A student.There’s a story going around the Chicago area about a student at the U. of Chicago last year. At that venerable high-IQ institution, it’s still a graduation requirement that each student pass a swimming test. A studen...

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5 Ways to Keep on Track

5 Ways to Keep on Track by: Ananga Sivyer Information overload is the new peril in daily project completion. It's easy to find yourself diverted, distracted, or simply bogged down with the tide of information that can arrive on your compute...

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How to Stick to Your New Year's Resolutions Simply and Easily

How are you doing on all those fantastic New Year's resolutions? Are you still sticking with it? Or have you fallen back into the same old routine, the same old rut, the same old habits as last year? Read on and learn how you can stick to your r...

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