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Look for the win, win!

I'm absolutely convinced that if we look hard enough at any given situation we can identify a win, win situation in it. "So what's the big deal about win, win" you ask? Admittedly, I know a lot of people (many are friends of mine) that go d...

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Will Your Life Mysteriously Change For The Better

If fear is your primary motivator in life, then you need to do something about it. It’s no use thinking,"next time I’ll do things differently" or "that will never happen to me again", while you continue to fill your mind with the same daily routi...

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How Distressing is Social Phobia

I remember a friend in college who would blush, sweat, and tremble when required by a teacher to speak in class. A few weeks before the presentation, he’d be anxious, agitated, and couldn’t sleep. Because I was still a student then, I didn’t ha...

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Accepting Ourselves and Others

Accepting Ourselves and OthersPart 2 of a 5 part series on creating a Positive Life OutlookRobert Elias NajemyLove is the ultimate healing energy.We lack giving and receiving love. Our feelings of isolation and loneliness breed mistrust, misunderstan...

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Overcoming Loneliness this Christmas

Christmas is one of those times when the social norm is to get together with our families even if you never see them during the year. For those people who are isolated from their families, or do not have a family, it can be a time of great loneliness...

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To our animal friends, have we gone too far

Animal and plant life existed on earth long before humans made their evolutionary appearance. As Man evolved from Hunter and Gatherer to a mass producing and slaughtering species, animals have endured immense suffering. Throughout history, animals h...

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The Many Faces of Multiculturalism

In this day and age, it is very common to see people from different cultural heritages living together in a single bounded territory. Since they live together, they happen to engage, collectively - either in a planned fashion or instinctively - in al...

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Addictions and the Cave of Truth

Once upon a time, there were a few friends that hung out together. Quite by accident, one of them found a tattered old map to a place called The Cave of Truth. A couple of them had heard a vague story about the cave before, but brushed the idea off, ...

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You Can't Predict, You Can Prepare

When opportunity knocks, can you open the door? When misfortune strikes, can you make it through unscathed? When you are faced with risk, uncertainty, and the unpredictable, your ability to deal with it is directly tied to your ability to absorb the ...

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The Four Pillars Of Destiny

The Four Pillars Of Destiny by: Jakob Jelling The four pillars of destiny is one of the main feng shui techniques used by some of its classical schools in order to learn useful information regarding people and their relationship with their envir...

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