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10 Quick Ways to Change Your Fire-less Fireplace from a Black Hole to a Worthy Focal Point

10 Quick Ways to Change Your Fire-less Fireplace from a Black Hole to a Worthy Focal Point by: Susan Penney Everyone loves a fireplace aglow with a roaring fire or flickering embers. But your fireplace need not be a gaping empty holelike a pictu...

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The Perfect Porch Swing

The Perfect Porch Swing by: Debbie Rodgers There is a magical quality to porch swings. In his summertime classic Dandelion Wine, Ray Bradbury describes the "ritual of the front-porch swing." "In the garage they found, dusted, and carried forth ...

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How To Be Handsomely Rewarded in These Times of Astounding and Radical Change

Do you want to be rich? It sounds ridiculous. Of course you’d like to be rich, wouldn’t everybody? But do you want to be really rich? Your words might say you do, but your thoughts and actions very often say something entirely different.If you ar...

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How Much Risk Is Too Much To Take?

How Much Risk Is Too Much To Take? by: Dave Carlson The ladder was braced against the railings going to the basement. I started climbing up. I had to get to the ceiling and this was my Rube Goldberg way of doing it without having to put up scaff...

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Get What You Want In 2005!

Get What You Want In 2005! by: JoAnna Carey Let’s talk about New Year’s Resolutions. Do you set the same resolutions over and over, year after year, with the same results? Do you procrastinate, avoid the issue, confess to being lazy or come ...

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Keeping Your New Years Resolutions

Keeping Your New Years Resolutions by: Melanie Mendelson New Year is the time when we usually look back on the events of the past year, see what we learned from it and what we achieved. Then we make resolutions for the upcoming year, all the thi...

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The Independent Woman and the Metrosexual Man

The Independent Woman and the Metrosexual Man by: Advice Diva A lot of people are starting to wonder why dating in the big city has suddenly become such a perplexing and complicated experience. And when, exactly, did this happen? The dating scen...

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How To Live Happily Ever After

How To Live Happily Ever After by: Maya Pinion In life, many of us simply plunge ahead, only to realize later that some of the things we did, we wish we hadn't, and some of the things we didn't do, we wish we had. How do you keep yours...

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Achievement and Happiness the 80/20 Way

Achievement and Happiness the 80/20 Way by: Rasheed ALi If there was ever a principle that was responsible for the most happiness and achievement in the world, it would be the 80/20 Principle. The 80/20 Principle or Pareto Principle was discove...

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Performance Anxiety

Performance Anxiety by: Margaret Paul, Ph.D.Beverly had suffered from anxiety most of her life. As a child, she slept poorly and often had nightmares. She bit her nails and would chew on the skin around her nails until they were raw and bleeding...

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