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Successful Beyond Measure

"I do not measure success by the quantity of what is in mycheckbook, but by the quality of what is in my heart... butquantity is a close second." Jo McNamaraI looked up the word "successful" in my thesaurus and someof the words listed were: happy, lu...

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Dealing with Difficult People the Alpha Male

The term comes from monkeydom - the dominant male in the hierarchy who basically runs things and gets what he wants. In the monkey troop, there’s only one and one of his privileges is he’s often the only one who gets to mate. In a nutshell they...

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How Much Dysfunction Should You Allow Into Your Life

What exactly is dysfunction? It is a word society,although probably overused, labels most anythingand everything. However, its true attribute can becharacterized as a negative that is mostly hurtful andcounterproductive. A parent who consistently tal...

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Four Proven Strategies for Keeping Your New Year's Resolutions

'Tis the season for making – and breaking – New Year's Resolutions…Are you one of the 40-50% of Americans who make a resolution each year? If you are, will you be part of the 20% who keeps them, or the 80% who breaks them?Fortunately,...

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Some Challenging Thoughts

Some Challenging Thoughts…What do you think about this?Jesus’ first miracle was to reveal the Glory of God. God’s Glory is so extreme in wonder and amazement that it has been called “profligate.” Wasteful you say? Well let us look again at...

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THANKS FOR NOTHING

We gathered at our daughter, Amanda’s, and her husband, Russell’s, for Thanksgiving at Rockwall (near Dallas). Our daughter, Jo Ellen, and her husband, Curt, came in from the Tampa area; and our son, Jon, and his wife, Priscilla, were there from ...

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We're Good at the Things We Like

Read that again. It doesn’t say “We like the things we’re good at,” though that’s true as well. No, it says we’re good at the things we like. That statement was made to me just today in reference to something I hate to do and am not very ...

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Got Attitude

Probably you do have attitude, but what is it? Jaded, self-protective? Frightened? Is "scared to death" too strong?What you want, a plan to get there, and an attitude to match is vital for partnering success. Think about it: if you are sure that what...

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10 Ways to Lose Your Common Sense

As someone said, there’s nothing common about common sense. Roughly equivalent to Emotional Intelligence, it can be lost, or can fail to be acquired in the following ways:1. Lose the common touch.Have more money than common sense (or taste). Use yo...

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Bolstering Beliefs

At some time in your life you have probably used affirmations or other positive self-talk to change an attitude, opinion or behavior. The more you have done this, the more you know that sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. What makes the...

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