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Happiness Versus Pleasure

Happiness Versus Pleasure by: Margaret Paul, Ph.D. We are a pleasure seeking society. Most of us spend our energy seeking pleasure and avoiding pain. We hope that by doing this, we will feel happy. Yet deep, abiding happiness and joy elude so ma...

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No Victors

No Victors by: Wayne and Tamara Direct Answers - Column for the week of September 6, 2004 Last Friday night I was caught with another woman by my girlfriend. When my longtime girlfriend came to my house, I told her I was going to bed early. She ...

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Skin Deep

Deep by: Wayne and Tamara Direct Answers - Column for the week of February 10, 2003 There is a guy on the train I am very attracted to, and he is attracted to me as well. We see each other at least once a week on the train going to work, but we ...

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Chewing On Mindfulness Gum Is Your Secret

My grandmother, a feisty and athletic woman in her younger years, was a gum-chewer. She was never without a pack or two of Wrigley's Doublemint gum. She wasn't a snapper or bubble-blowershe viewed that as highly uncivilized. Grandma kept he...

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Ordinary People Can Live with Significance

It’s holiday time—a time when our thoughts rise from our everyday living to higher ideals. Something lifts our sights above the everyday, and helps us focus on our relationships, on our neighbors, and on our fellowman.The Babe from Bethlehem chan...

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Humility, Humor, and Humanity

"Angels fly because they can take themselves lightly." G. K. ChestertonTALES OF TWO PAINTERSThe early years of the great painter Paul Cezanne were difficult and his career was, from the very start, troubled with frequent rejection and failure. His fa...

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Are You Speaking the Same Language in Your Office

The other day I was talking with a client who was looking for a partner and using one of the online dating services. She had requested someone who “liked traditional roles,” and was finding all sorts of surprises when she talked with the gentleme...

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Take Time to Create a Life Balance Sheet for Success

It’s important from time to time that we sit down and honestly assess our lives. Doing so allows us to make an honest determination about where we are now and where we want to be in the future. When we’re assessing our finances, we prepare a fina...

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The Art of Change

The Art of Change by: Martha Ruske The desire for change is a paradox. We know that it is important to accept ourselves and not be so self-critical, and yet at the same time we may have less-than-desirable habits we’d like to replace, traits w...

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I Heard It Through the Grapevine

Whitfield and Strong wrote it. Marvin Gaye sang it (and made it famous). Leaders everywhere deal with it - and worry about it all too often. If you know the song, hum along as we talk about how leaders can work with the grapevine and make gossip l...

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