10,129 articles on "improvement"

Keeping Love Alive

Keeping Love Alive by: Margaret Paul, Ph.D. When I was 24 years old I fell madly in love. I was madly in love for three weeks, and then spent the next 30 years struggling to regain and maintain that wonderful feeling. In the course of my long ma...

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A prison cell?

A prison cell?  by: Graham and Julie Do you have a goal? A focus in life? Have you invested a great deal of time, effort, money to achieve and yet feel you haven’t made it yet? For all your effort do you still feel that there is something mis...

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What Does it Take to Make Life Better?

What Does it Take to Make Life Better? by: Neil Millar What does it take for you to pay attention? You’ve probably heard this said, or said it yourself sometime, “I just realised how precious life is.” Maybe you heard it when a relative di...

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The Doomsday Device ... The Physical Brain In Action

The Doomsday Device... The Physical Brain In Action by: Edward B. Toupin, Ph.D. Our physical brains quickly and easily handle mundane sequences of operations, or "processes" without question. It repeats processes like a machine: A»B»C»...»ZÂ...

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Second Fiddle

Second Fiddle by: Wayne and Tamara Direct Answers - Column for the week of October 25, 2004 I have been seeing a married man for the past nine months. He is unhappy but says he is not ready to leave his kids. They have a teenage daughter and a g...

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Job Search "Blurts"

Job Search "Blurts" by: Marilyn J. Tellez, M.A. I coined this word to draw attention to the nervous and apprehensive way of saying something in the job search that makes you feel like a buffoon. A "blurt" is a catchy way of saing: Gaffe. When i...

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Your Pot of Gold: Waiting for the Rainbow’s End

Your Pot of Gold: Waiting for the Rainbow’s End by: Steve BrunkhorstAn old story tells of a country pastor who had created a very beautiful garden. He had removed the old decaying trees and replaced them with healthy young saplings. He had dug...

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How'd They Do That?

How'd They Do That? by: Keith Varnum "How'd they do that?" I asked myself time and time again in my youth. As a journalist and documentary filmmaker, I witnessed ordinary people performing extraordinary feats on countless occasions. I ...

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Stay Inspired

Stay Inspired by: Jay Monteer Two years ago I was in a wheelchair and told I would be paralyzed for life. Today I can jog on a treadmill. How did this happen? Well, I can't tell you how it happened exactly. My recovery truly was a miracle. ...

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The Rate of Change

The Rate of Change by: Ieuan Dolby There have been many discussions and grumblings in the Western world about the ever increasing pace of change and the ability of the brain to accept it. The Internet (something uninteresting that the American M...

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