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Patience A Better Way

I believe it! We receive the lessons we need to learn... and we keep receiving /em until we get it at least half-way right. At least, it seemed this way to me recently, when a trip from North Carolina to Oregon took a total of 50+ hours travel time, ...

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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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What's Simple

If you walk up to a stranger in the grocery store and ask them to define “simple,” as in “simple life,” they’ll probably say something like “having less stuff.” Or they might hit you with a frozen turkey. But probably they’ll associat...

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You Are What You THINK YOu Are

Think out of the box, they say. But what's a box?In the context of the discussion here the 'box' is the sub-conscious mind. More specifically box is the limitation imposed by sub-conscious mind.Sub-conscious mind is the repository of a...

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GET AN EARLY CURMUDGEON VACCINATION

GET AN EARLY CURMUDGEON VACCINATION“Have you ever heard of a curmudgeon?” the customer asked. To me it sounded like the season’s latest flu virus – the curmudgeon influenza. “I believe your last customer is a curmudgeon,” he said. “He d...

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Youe Can Find More Happiness Through Your Work

Our mantra is “if you keep doing what you’ve been doing, you’ll keep getting what you’ve been getting.” With that in mind, let’s talk about “happiness.”If you're into professional development, you've heard of Martin Seligman...

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Going for the Gold!

I ran across an interesting quote recently: "We worked in those mines, waiting for our golden years. Well, now it's our golden years, and it's done nothing but cost us gold. This is no way to live."Those powerful words came from Jack Beeson...

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Why Ray Williams is still my hero

We wouldn’t be able to do any of the stuff we do with kids if itwasn’t for the support we get from local business people in ourcommunity. This is not a shameless plug for our sponsors, justrecognition of the fact that whatever we’ve been able t...

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Getting Away from Mainstream Media and Finding the News That's Relevant

If you’re anything like me you are really getting tired of the mainstream media’s one-voice-to-many analysis of life on Earth. First of all, it’s just too negative! I read a survey recently that stated that fourteen out of fifteen newspaper and...

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People are using e-cards to propose Marriage

Are people using e-cards to say important things in life situations? The answer is yes, says things-to-say.com. things-to-say.com is a greeting card site that offers various things to say in life situations. The most popular category on this site is ...

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