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Warning: Avoid This!

Warning: Avoid This! by: Jonathan R Taylor Throughout life, we can expect to live around cynical individuals who are quick to criticize our ideas or tell us why our plans for success won’t work. This week, I met with a client who was feeling d...

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The Bill W Plant

If you are in recovery, you may have heard of, or seen a certain little green plant making its way around the rooms of your twelve step program. Maybe you have seen a little plant being given as a gift at a sobriety anniversary. Maybe your sponsor ha...

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Ten Time Management Myths

1. We can manage time. We cannot manage time. Nor can we save it. Time ticks away relentlessly in spite of our efforts to control it. We are provided with 24 hours of time each day to use as we like. The key is in how we use that time. We can use it ...

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Wig Wisdom - Understanding Hairpiece Types, Attachments, Costs, and care Techniques

Modern hairpieces or wigs have definitely evolved from the bulky, detectable toupees of yesteryear. Today’s wigs are lighter, fit better, and look and feel more natural. What materials are in a hairpiece?The best hairpieces are custom-made. They t...

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Journaling Why, When and How

Question for singles:What do you do with your occasional feelings of loneliness, frustration with dating, perhaps frustration with yourself and/or the opposite sex? Do these feelings and thoughts run around and around in your head, interfering with y...

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Discerning The Loving Heart

Discerning The Loving Heart by: Margaret Paul, Ph.D. How often have you had the experience of connecting with someone – a friend or a potential partner – who turns out to be an uncaring person? At first you think this is a really good person...

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Are You Controlling or Loving Yourself?

Are You Controlling or Loving Yourself? by: Margaret Paul, Ph.D. How often do you hear a parental voice in your head that says things like, “You’ve got to lose weight,” or “You should get up earlier every morning and exercise,” or “T...

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Hurry Up And Procrastinate

Hurry Up And Procrastinate by: David Leonhardt I've been meaning to write this column, but I keep putting it off. There always seems to be something better or more important or easier to write about. Everybody is rushing to enter the conte...

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Hippo Rage

o Rage by: David Leonhardt a.k.a. The Happy Guy (text of a mini-keynote speech by David Leonhardt,, a.k.a. The Happy Guy which brought the house down in Gatineau, Quebec, April 21, 2002) Has anybody here ever been stuck in traffic for a frustra...

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Hearing and Seeing Your Destiny

ing and Seeing Your Destiny by: Julie Jordan ScottAs a child, I read an autobiography of Annie Sullivan. She was the woman who brought Helen Keller out of her dark and silent world and into a place of understanding few of us in the hearing and s...

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