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Life 101 For the Young and Young at Heart! Book Excerpt

Lesson 1.CategoryWell BeingPlan to do this.Stop blaming others for your shortcomings and failings in life. Why should you do this?What ever happened in the past is not a prediction of what will happen in the future. Take control of you, your thoughts...

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Where Will You Be in 5 Years

Where will you be in 5 years? Have you thought about it? I’ve heard it said that in 5 years you will be the sum total of the books you read and the people you associate with. What books are you reading and what kind of people are you associating w...

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The Dignity of Labor

I love artists, because I’m a wordsmith and they say things I can never say. Here are two of my favorite paintings about work, both by Caillebotte: http://www.webstrategies.cc/caillebotte1.jpg ;http://www.webstrategies.cc/caillebotte2.jpg.My mother...

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EQfor the Agony and the Ecstasy

“The Agony and the Ecstasy” is the title of a novel about Michelangelo, by Irving Stone. When I encountered the title in middle school, I decided to read the book to find out what “agony” and “ecstasy” might be like, states of existence a...

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Racking up WINS in the NEW YEAR

Have you ever made a list of a lot of things that needed doing and actually COMPLETED that list? If you're anything like I am, it didn't happen very often - but when it did, do you remember the incredible feeling of satisfaction you got out...

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ARE YOU WILLING TO PROSPER

Are you willing to prosper in life?Many people have a feeling that prosperity and spiritualitycannot co-exist when, in fact, the two cannot truly existapart. Some think that, at some level, it is "more spiritual"to live in scarcity and lack, to sacri...

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Can You be an Optimistic Realist

One question you might have when you read this title is, “Why I want to be an optimist?” Or, even, “How could I be optimistic with life the way it is?” or “Who could be an optimist in today’s world? And “today’s world” may mean to y...

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Self improvement Turn Down the Rheostat

I woke up one morning with a terrible sore throat that got worse as the day went on, instead of better, as I had hoped. By the time I realized it was a true case of laryngitis, and all I could do was croak, it was too late to cancel the Cub Scouts wh...

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You Know How, But Do You Know Why

An unexamined life is not worth living – SocratesAll too often we get caught up in how we should go about achieving a specific goal. We decide that we need to make something definite happen and then focus our efforts on what is required toaccomplis...

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IF AT FIRST YOU DON'T SUCCEED!

It’s a little known fact that Thomas Edison - the inventor of the electric light bulb - made 10,000 prototypes before he got it right! At the time he said, "I haven’t failed, I’ve identified 10,000 ways that it doesn’t work." Some people woul...

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