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The Hero's Journey

I think I'm attached to being comfortable! Being comfortable: thinking I know what I'm doing, where I'm going and that it's all under control. My, how I can fool myself.This realization hit me again about 10 days ago while attendi...

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A REASON FOR LIVING in a nutshell.

In brief, my book A REASON FOR LIVING is the product of a sustained effort to answer in the most enlightening and inspiring way this single question: Why live? I started to ask myself that question about thirty years ago after my diving accident, whi...

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Why Now Is The Perfect Moment For You To Succeed

Want to learn an important success skill and how to become a procrastination beater?Let´s discover the importance of balancing preparation, timing and momentum. It´s critical if you want to finally beat procrastination.While timing is important ver...

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7 Essential Body Language Tips

The secrets of our body language have been around forever yet people constantly fail to recognize the importance of using body language to their advantage. Did you know that people only pay attention to 7% of what we say? Where does the rest of their...

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Be Self-centric - Work Harder on Yourself than on Anything Else!

You look at this magnificent car and you say to yourself: "This is too expensive!" This is a huge mistake, the most self-defeating mistake you could ever make.Instead of saying: "This is too expensive", say :" I can't afford it, at least for the...

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Do You Have Your Best Life

For many years I had a good life. My illness was reasonably under control, I had a nice relationship with my husband, I did work I didn’t hate. It was, as I said, a good life.But there’s a saying that the good is the enemy of the best. I finally ...

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Unemployment Blues Emotional Damage Control

Looking for work is a roller-coaster ride: high with elation when you think you’ve found a great position, low with discouragement when you realize that someone else was offered a job you wanted.Most of the time, you fall somewhere in between, you...

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Blogs aren’t just about expounding your ideas to others; they’re about getting to know yourself better.

I still consider myself to be a blog writing novice but as I’ve got a few entries under my belt I can tell you about an unexpected bonus of this journaling process. A lot of people think that blog writers are just people who are tooting their own h...

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A Gratitude Poem for Mattie Stepanek

The following poem came to me while thinking about Mattie and reading my Science of Mind magazine. Although the poem arrived after Mattie's transition, I'm confident he'll receive it.Thank You Mattie by Dave Czach Thank you for your wo...

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Life on the Front Burner

How many times in your life have you had to put something 'on the back burner', letting an idea or a project simmer in the background while you focused on something else? How often were the things that went on the back burner your personal ...

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