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Do You Have Your Best Life?

Do You Have Your Best Life? by: Angie Dixon 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 ...

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Say Adios to the Fear of Rejection!

Say Adios to the Fear of Rejection! by: Peter Murphy Do you ever get an uncomfortable feeling in your stomach when you have to approach someone? In situations like this does your mind go blank? This is not unusual. That feeling is often the fe...

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Petitioning for Your Needs

Petitioning for Your Needs by: Isaac Nwokogba Human beings are blessed with a unique gift: the gift of prayer or petition to the Infinite for our needs. A religious person would call it prayer; others may call it petition or meditation. There is...

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Case Closed

Case Closed by: Wayne and Tamara Direct Answers - Column for the week of October 27, 2003 I met my boyfriend on an online dating service four months ago. About a month ago I went to the dating service website to take my profile off. Out of curio...

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Impaired Judgment

ired Judgment  by: Wayne and Tamara Direct Answers - Column for the week of September 23, 2002 My husband has a twofold addiction problem, drinking and drugs. In the six years we have been married, he has had periods of sobriety, but they don&ap...

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Helping Your Child with History

Remember James Taylor’s 70’s song with the lyrics, “Don’ know much about history, don’t know much geography…”. If you really don’t know much about it, don’t pass those feelings on to your children. It’s not too late for you either...

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10 Easy Tips To Make Your New Year’s Resolutions Succeed

It is a New Year 2005 and I want to wish you good health, long life, success and happiness.During the New Year, most people make resolutions but often very few are able to keep them.Psychologists, Janet Polivy and Peter Herman, reported that 25% of n...

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Shake the Tree

How would you respond to this question posed by writer Logan Persall Smith?: “What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?” I believe that, in the context of weight management, the “p...

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Doing Favors versus Being Of Service

At the end of interviews, Oprah Winfrey asks people “what do you know for sure?” I know exactly what I will tell her when she asks me that question. One thing I know for sure is that the grandest changes in our lives come from subtle shifts in ou...

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I want to create...........

What would you like to create? A peaceful life, a successful life, a good life, a sculpture, a piece of art, a book? What is it that you would like to create? Whatever you want you can achieve it. All you have to do is follow your natural compass. Re...

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