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Emerge From Your Cocoon

EMERGE FROM YOUR COCOON - BE A BUTTERFLYWhat kind of picture did you just visualize from the title of thisarticle? Did you see the final product flying and alight upon aflower? Did you see the intricate pattern on the wings? Did you smileas you thoug...

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Two Sentences

Two sentences from 1977.The one single, specific memory I have from the ninth grade was during a math class. We were being introduced to Geometryfor the first time. The teacher whose name I can surprisinglynot remember, asked "What is intuition?"I ra...

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BLOW AWAY THE DEAD STUFF

Yesterday morning I was looking out of my office window at the trees inmy front yard. The trees were filled with brown, shriveled, deadleaves. These leaves were once healthy and green. They had turnedbrilliant colors under the fall sky. But now they ...

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Narcissism - Treatment Modalities and Therapies - Part I

Question:Is the Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) more amenable to Cognitive-Behavioural therapies or to Psychodynamic/Psychoanalytic ones?Answer:Narcissism pervades the entire personality. It is all-pervasive. Being a narcissist is akin to be...

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Do you work to live or Live to Work

Let’s be realistic here - hands up all of you who bounce out of bed every single morning, raring to get to work and enjoying yourself every minute of the day? If you didn’t put your hand up (even metaphorically), you’re not alone. There have be...

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Growing Up Backwards

It seems like I set out in this life to do things my own way and in my own time - no matter what was wise or prudent or tried, tested and true. And, regardless of the advice I give my own daughters, I continue to 'grow up backwards.'To my d...

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Patience A Better Way

I believe it! We receive the lessons we need to learn... and we keep receiving /em until we get it at least half-way right. At least, it seemed this way to me recently, when a trip from North Carolina to Oregon took a total of 50+ hours travel time, ...

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How To Master The Art of Conversation

The art of conversation is a skill shared by most successful people. Good conversation promotes an image of self-confidence, intelligence, and wittiness.People who always seem to rise to the top of their professions and are well respected by others w...

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Resolutions Try this!

Several articles and newsletters with the message that New Year’s resolutions are a worthless exercise and a poorly disguised setup for failure have passed across my desk this last week, and the year before, and the year before that. I do not belie...

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The Importance of Play

The Importance of PlayBy Michelle L. CastoIn the book, The Three Boxes of Life, Richard Bolles discusses the boxes of learning, working, and playing. He suggests that most people have pursued these dimensions in a linear sequence. First we learn, the...

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