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A Dream is Just a Dream ... or is it?
Some people dismiss dreams as nonsense, thought patterns running amuck as we sleep because we are not conscious and in a position to control them. Others believe that a dream is meant to serve a purp...
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A Dream is Just a Dream … Or Is It?
Some people dismiss dreams as nonsense, thought patterns running amuck as we sleep because we are not conscious and in a position to control them.
Others believe that a dream is meant to serve a purpose and provide information that our conscious mi...
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A Faux Pas Is A Mistake In A Tuxedo
Everyone who is anybody has a hobby or at least entertains the idea. Hobbies range from sports to crafts to reading and even traveling. Some hobbies don't make sense to me like collecting dead insect...
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A Few Simple Things You Must Do If You Want To Be Wealthy
Making money is easy when you move to cause rather than living out effects. Let me draw a simple analogy to clarify my point. Imagine standing before a huge waterfall. You’re thirsty and the water ...
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A Field of Multiple Opportunity
Opportunity is all around us and has many facets, but it’s not always obvious. It hides behind the same appearance that everyone else sees, but it reveals itself depending on who you are. Even though...
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A Find Way to Get Motivated
My coaching client, Jeff, had a goal to exercise three times per week. He said that when he works out he feels better, has more energy and feels more fulfilled throughout the day. The problem was that Jeff was not working out! His job as a financial plann...
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A Forty-Five-Second Meditation
Is Meditating Too Much Time And Trouble?
If you haven't meditated before, you might think it's too much trouble to learn. If you do meditate, you know it can be difficult to find the time to do it consistently. So is there really a medit...
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A Fresher Take on the World's Biggest Lies
Last month, I did a column about the world's biggest lies. Based on popular demand, I have decided to do a sequel. Here are ten more common, everyday fallacies that I am debunking. Actually, I've add...
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A Full Moon’s Coming. Use Your EQ and Don’t Turn Into a Werewolf!
The full moon due on the 25th (of March) was called the Maple Sugar Moon by the Chippewas because that’s when the sap flowed the freest. According to the Celts, it’s the Nuinne, whose purpose is The Weighing of Truth.
Our ancestors were vitally int...
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A Gift from the Heart of a Friend
She stares at me, and then closes her eyes. A tinge of early dawn plays on her cheek as it peeks through the glass curtains by my desk. I grow warmer, waiting in silence for her first uncertain word ...
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A Global Empathy Deficit- 2 Lessons
"...We've got a budget deficit that's important, we've got a trade deficit that's critical, but what I worry most is our empathy deficit.” – Interview in O Magazine with Barack Obama. Perhaps this is...
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A Goal for This Century
For the last few months I’ve been training to ride what we call a “century ride” – one hundred miles (yes, in one day!) Rather than riding my usual 30 or 35 miles each Saturday, I upped it to 60 or 6...
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A Goal Without A Schedule is Just a Dream
A Goal Without A Schedule is Just a Dream
By Barrett Niehus
http://www.freetrainer.com
There are many books, publications, speakers, and motivators that
make money preaching the steps to success. Some are right on the
mark, others...
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A Grand Conspiracy
A Surprise For Me -- A Symphony
Today I took a long walk. The wind was warm and wholehearted making me push energetically against it as I walked. To my great surprise, when I passed a towering pine tree, all the wind on the ground suddenly stilled....
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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 ...
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A Guide To Keeping New Year's Resolutions
The New Year is quickly creeping up on us. Do you have a New Year’s Resolution? Well, if you’re like most Americans (88 percent in 2001 according to a General Nutrition Centers poll), you have at lea...
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A Guitar Lesson to Help You Develop Your Vision.
Have you ever done any of the following?
1. Made excuses for not practicing because you "didn't have
time"?
2. Practiced the same licks and exercises that you did
last year?
3. Felt like you had hit a brick wall in your
prog...
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A Hand Up Coaching Helps Women Succeed
After downsizing wiped out her $80K salary, Jane was having trouble finding work. Just released from jail, 22-year old Marie didn't know how she was going to provide for her four kids. Frustrated and...
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A Happiness Poem
If a happiness poem could bring forth a smile, Then my face would always dress in style. If my ears could hear my computer screen, From one to another, they, too, would grin. My keyboard types fo...
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A Hobby As A Release
If you haven't done so already I highly recommend looking for
something you enjoy doing. Then start spending a little time each
week working on it. I'd like to point out that it doesn't have to
necessarily be a monumental undertaking. Nor d...
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A Jar Of Sauce Can Make You Bigger
A Jar Of Sauce Can Make You Bigger
Helaine Iris
(c) 2004
"We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are." Max Depree
It's funny how the seemingly simplest events in life can be doorways into profound moments of sel...
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A Jungian Approach to Mental Illness
All of us suffer from some form of emotional distress at some stage. Some forms of distress can last longer than they should and may significantly impair our everyday functioning. If this persists, w...
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A Kernel of Truth about Relationships: 4 Steps to Improvement
It's all about relationships! proclaimed my father during our recent holiday visit with my parents. Santa Claus coffee cup in one hand and a wagging finger toward my wife, Elizabeth, with the other. ...
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A Kernel of Truth about Relationships: 5 steps to improvement
“It’s all about relationships!” proclaimed my father during our recent holiday visit with my parents. Santa Claus coffee cup in one hand and a wagging finger toward my wife, Elizabeth, with the other...
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A Key In Hand Is Worth A Thousand On My Desk
A key fault I have, and I can only talk about one fault at a time, is the tendency to get busy. I often find myself chasing my own tail. What I will do with it when I catch it is beyond my understand...
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A Key In Hand Is Worth A Thousand On My Desk
A key fault I have, and I can only talk about one fault at a time, is the tendency to get busy. I often find myself chasing my own tail. What I will do with it when I catch it is beyond my understanding. However, this notwithstanding, I fall into the trap
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A Lasting Leadership Lesson: How One Leadership Talk By George Washington Saved The Revolution (And Our Fledgling Nation) From Catastrophe.
Leadership lessons come in many guises. One unforgettable lesson comes from George Washington and his contribution to the most important victory of the Revolutionary War. That victory occurred ne...
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A Leadership Lesson: Two Guys With Guns
Raymond Chandler author of the famous Philip Marlowe detective stories advised writers suffering from writers' block: "Whenever you get stuck, have two guys walk through the door with guns." Leadersh...
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A Leader’s Ultimate Goal – Connect to Engage!
Connect and Engage! Your People Are Your Power. It's been said many times that true leadership is measured by ones ability to motivate and influence others. Leaders must work hard at motivating peop...
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A Lesson From Stuffed Cabbage
A Lesson From Stuffed Cabbage
Helaine Iris
© 2003
“One pound of learning requires ten pounds of common sense to apply it”
Persian proverb
I just returned from a wonderful week of rejuvenating vacation that included a visit to my pa...
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A Lesson in Letting Go
Do you hear yourself saying? When I have enough money, I'll... When I go on vacation, I'll... As soon as I find the right partner, I'll... When the house is clean, I'll be able to... When I can affor...
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A Letter about Trust
The narcissistic condition emanates from a seismic breach of trust, a tectonic shift of what should have been a healthy relationship between the narcissist and his Primary Objects (parents or caregivers). Some of these bad feelings are the result of deepl...
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A Life of Purpose's Extraction
Purpose. What is purpose? Drinking coffee when you wake up and making a habit of drinking coffee only when you wake up? No. Trying to drink coffee when it’s hot and trying conscientiously to make it ...
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A Life Touched
Direct Answers - Column for the week of February 17, 2003 Back when I was in grammar school, every once and awhile I would meet up with a girl my age and talk. Lisa never was around much, but she wa...
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A Life-Changing One-Minute Audit
Article Title: A Life-Changing One-Minute Audit
Author Name: Doug C. Grant
Contact Email Address: doug @dougcgrant.com
Word Count: 859
Category: Motivational/Inspirational
Copyright Date: 2002
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A Live It
Real change happens only when it becomes part of our everyday life. When a change becomes a habit, it isn't something new we are trying, but becomes part of what we do as our routine. I was reading a...
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A Look at Meditation
I've counseled many people from every background and led workshops and lectures about self-empowering topics for about 25 years. Over that time, I saw a need. Everyone was searching. What they were l...
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A Look In The Mirror
That's all it takes to change the world. Take a long hard look in the mirror and really notice who you are. We're all screaming for peace right now - not just world peace - but peace in our cities, ...
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A lot Can Happen in a Year
We worked together for about a year via telephone. It
was a bit sad, but we both knew our work together was
complete - for now.
As I reflected on all the work she'd done and subsequent
progress she'd made over the past year, it made me r...
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A Lot of Excellence for a Little Price
Summary: We achieve excellence when we habitually do a little
more than required.
Do you want to be excellent?
This seems like a daunting task, but it really isn’t.
We admire one who is excellent.
We imagine that he or she m...
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A Magnificent Obsession Is The Best Medicine!
The idea I'm about to share with you can bring you the greatest hope. It can bring you happiness beyond anything you've ever dreamed. It can present to you the quality and quantity of life that may s...
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A Man of His Word
Suppose we make a promise that seems fully reasonable. Though later, circumstances arise in which we have to neglect someone in need in order to fulfill that promise.
Maybe, a person came to visit and was just leaving in time to fulfill the orig...
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A Mayonnaise Jar and Two Cups of Coffee
When things in your life seem almost too much to handle, when 24 hours in a day are not enough, remember this story about a mayonnaise jar and 2 cups of coffee...
A professor stood before his philosophy class and had some items in front of him. Whe...
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A Minute of Deliberate Attraction is better than None.
© Michael Losier 2004. You may include this article in your ezine or on your website or distribute it to others, provided you include the copyright statement and the bio information tag line found at the end of this article.
Before I explain why a min...
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A More Powerful Mind Through Writing
Have you ever noticed what happens to an idea once you express it? Just talking about it or writing it down causes you to clarify it in your own mind. How can you use this to increase your brain powe...
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A More Powerful Mind Through Writing
Have you ever noticed what happens to an idea once you express it? Just talking about it or writing it down causes you to clarify it in your own mind. How can you use this to increase your brain power? Start writing.
By putting thoughts into words
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A Motivating Factor
Growing up in an environment where non-church attendance isn't an option, much of one's beliefs may be based upon other's faith (wherein one either leans upon the faith of another or they were not considered mature enough to make those choices). Their...
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A Nature Meditation
A Nature Meditation
Robert Elias Najemy
You are sitting by a quietly flowing stream in the countryside. It is spring and life is green and moist? Sitting on a rock, the sights and sounds of the flowing water begin to work their mysterious wa...
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A Negative Thinking Person Cannot Succeed
Do you know that negative thinking can be self-fulfilling? When face with a very difficult problem, the person with a negative frame of mind will unlikely be able to cope with the problem as compare...
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A New Balance
As the balance of power in our society, on our planet, and within ourselves shifts from the male energy domination to a balance with the feminine, there is also a fundamental shift taking place withi...
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A New Beginning With The People At Work
There's a big opportunity here! The holidays bring a change in spirit in most folks. Even though they may be more tired than usual from all the demands of the season, they are filled with holiday c...
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A New Conversation About Dreams - Integrity: The Key to Getting What You Want
The most critical attribute for realizing our dreams is integrity. In a conversation about dreams, integrity is essential and can be summarized this way: Say what you mean and mean what you say. Honor your word and agreements and you will be living with i...
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A New Conversation About Dreams - Integrity: The Key to Getting What You Want
The most critical attribute for realizing our dreams is integrity. In a conversation about dreams, integrity is essential and can be summarized this way: Say what you mean and mean what you say. Hono...
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A New Conversation About Dreams - The Power of Intention
It’s time to change the way we think and speak about our dreams. Transforming a conversation, just like manifesting a dream, begins by setting an intention. Your intentions will assist you in taking greater control of your life.
A working definiti...
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A New Conversation About Dreams: Who’s Directing Your Life?
While aspects of you encourage, “Go for your dreams,” simultaneously other parts threaten, “Don’t you dare.” A cast of characters lives inside of you and at different times you may receive conflictin...
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A New Journey Begins: Anxious? Overwhelmed? Stressed? Don't Give Up!
September: the month of change. Kids start a new grade or embark on their university or college careers while new graduates seek their first full-time job and adults start a new job or project. Emoti...
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A New Language Means New Thoughts
Hablas Español? Do you speak any other languages? Maybe you've considered how good it would feel to be able to speak to people in another language, but did you know it also expands the range of your ...
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A New Language Means New Thoughts
Hablas Español?
Do you speak any other languages? Maybe you've considered how good it would feel to be able to speak to people in another language, but did you know it also expands the range of your possible thoughts? It's true. There are co
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A NEW LOOK AT AN OLD RULE
The pre-teen “cleaned up” real nice and looked good in his new haircut. In fact, I was plum proud of my work. But, he was totally under-whelmed. In an attempt to get a smile, I said, “You really don’t need to be quite so excited about this haircut.” His m...
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A New Perspective on Self Esteem
Fortunes have been made by so-called self help gurus on the topic of self esteem. Hundreds of books have been written and countless others touch on the subject in way or another. I have to admit, I...
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A New Strategy
Direct Answers - Column for the week of November 3, 2003 My mother-in-law drives me crazy! She is an antisocial, critical, know-it-all who can't find anything decent to say about anyone but herself....
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A New Way of Looking At Challenges
When we are born we are all authentic, spontenous and creative.Somewhere along the lines we lose it. We began to solve problems in ways that people before us solved them. Our education tends in this direction. Typically, we think on the basis of s...
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A One Word Tonic for Creating a Positive Change in Your Life
Article Title: A One Word Tonic for Creating
a Positive Change in Your Life
Author Name: Doug C. Grant
Contact Email Address: doug @dougcgrant.com
or dcgrant@horizonview.net
Available On-Line at:
www.dougcgrant.com/great.txt
Availabl...
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A Perverse Confidante
Direct Answers - Column for the week of July 15, 2002 Dad passed away years ago and Mom lives alone. She is still young and healthy, yet she always plays the victim. I am in my 30s and divorced. Ou...
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A Pickup Line
Direct Answers - Column for the week of November 11, 2002 I just started a wonderful new job. The atmosphere is laid-back, and the people alone make the place fantastic. The best of them all is my ...
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A PLAN IS A BEGINNING!
To accomplish something, you must plan to accomplish something.
That seems so very obvious, however, most folks in this world
get only so far as to plan to plan something! There is even a
saying about a road to an unpleasant destination being pav...
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A Plan Of Attack
Direct Answers - Column for the week of October 28, 2002 I feel I am at the breaking point. I work at a small school and run the office. I do all the financials, secretarial work, and reception dut...
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A Plausible Defense
Direct Answers - Column for the week of August 5, 2002 I just looked at your website and read "Wanting To Be Caught," and I truly think that is awful advice! You said and I quote, "You can't act as ...
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A Powerful Method for Healing Depression
The following article is offered for free use in your ezine,
print publication or on your web site, so long as the author resource box at the end is included. Notification of publication would be appreciated.
Title: A Powerful Method for Healin...
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A Powerful New Way to Use "Why" Questions
To start making dramatic changes in your life, transform
the way you use questions that begin with "why." IBM
Founder Thomas Watson, Sr. is quoted as saying "the
ability to ask the right question is more than half the
battle of finding the...
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A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO A BETTER MARRIAGE
A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO A BETTER MARRIAGE
A customer recently told me of a fellow whose wife told him she was leaving him for another man. The fellow’s response was, “Is there anything I can do?” The wife replied, “Sure, you can give me a couple of we...
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A Preexisting Condition
Direct Answers - Column for the week of December 2, 2002 I am 25 and have been married for two years. This past August I began an affair with my husband's younger brother. I feel just terrible and ...
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A Prison Cell?
Do you have a goal? A focus in life? Have you invested a great deal of time, effort, money to achieve and yet feel you haven’t made it yet? For all your effort do you still feel that there is something missing in your life? It is obviously very important ...
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A prison cell?
Do you have a goal? A focus in life? Have you invested a great deal of time, effort, money to achieve and yet feel you haven’t made it yet? For all your effort do you still feel that there is somethi...
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A Pyramid of Success
Have you ever wondered what the difference is between a self-employed individual who is just getting by and one who is making $100,000 per year or more? The answer is really simple. Those earning mo...
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A Quick Checklist for Improving Your Life
1. Learn About You If you don’t know who you are and why you think and act the way you do, it’s gonna be really difficult to make any positive changes in your life. Take a look first at your parents...
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A Quick Observation of the Low Class
We can all learn a valuable lesson about the types of behavior and attitudes to avoid like the plague, simply by observing the characteristics of people we all know are low class. Being low class is ...
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A Quick Tip for Delivering a Great Speech
Does speaking in public leave you tongue-tied? Do you stumble over your words? Do you want to learn how to speak more eloquently in front of a crowed? Here’s a simple tip for getting started: Talk ab...
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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, which le...
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A Recipe for Alchemy
Grandma has a scrumptious, old-family recipe for chocolate pecan pie that melts in your mouth. Uncle Bert whips up a killer BBQ sauce for ribs (or grilled tofu). I’ve discovered a more direct route t...
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A Recovering Rager's Creed
A rager, or rageaholic, is a person who is addicted to the expression of anger. While many people feel better when they "let it all out" a rageaholic should totally and completely abstain from exp...
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A Review Of Techniques In Managing Your Depression
Some people have a difficult time in managing their depression. Sometimes, their depression and fears can get best of them. As a result, here is a short list of techniques that a person can use to he...
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A Rush Home to Rapture
Riding a rush, being juiced, flying high—this is the feeling we strive for every day. What’s the huge attraction to this heightened state? Many medical authorities would have us believe that the des...
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A safe place for your mind
Emotions tend to dominate our actions and reactions, even though we like to claim otherwise. Society often sees emotions as a sign of weakness, so we got used to putting them aside and try to focus on the rational aspects more and more. But no mat
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A Scary Thought For Some...
What could be a scary thought for some? How bout' this--The thought that as a Christian you can do whatever you want......scary? Consider this Bible verse: "All things are lawful for me, but not all...
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A Season of Sorrow and Joy
As the holiday week starts in full force many of us will skate between sorrow and joy, fear and hope concern and celebration. For some, it will be a particularly hard week. As a result of September 11th, they have lost someone they love and are not only a...
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A Secret and A Formula For Success
Are you looking for the secret or magical formula for
success? Do you think it’s a well-guarded,
password-protected valuable locked away in a private vault?
Good news! In this article I open the vault wide.
Here's The Secret...
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A Secret For Attracting Women Only The Pros Know...
Important Note: Read this newsletter in its entirety because you're going to learn an attraction secret that less than one percent of the world's male population knows about! The other day I was tal...
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A Simple but Powerful Guide to Meditation
You have permission to publish this article electronically or in
print, free of charge, as long as the bylines are included.
Copyright 2004 Rob Watson
robwatson@waytosuccess.net
http://www.waytosuccess.net
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A Simple Cure For Anxiety And Depression
Our innate desire is to be happy, and when we move away from it, we experience fear. This fear is actually millions of years old, for it arises from the biological programming of our species. While...
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A Simple Effective Tool To Get And Stay Organized
Often we are in overwhelm because we are holding too many things in our brain. We are trying to make everything a priority and get it done now. When really we can eliminate 60 % of those things get m...
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A Simple Effective tool to get and stay Organized
Often we are in overwhelm because we are holding too many things in our brain. We are trying to make everything a priority and get it done now. When really we can eliminate 60 % of those things get more accomplished and be more successful.
If you a...
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A Simple Idea from a Billionaire
It’s simple and powerful. The philosophy of successful people is often easy to understand. The more I look at how successful people got that way, the more I realize how straightforward they think. ...
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A Simple Little Holiday Plan
The Thanksgiving leftovers have all been eaten and the gift-buying season has shifted into high gear. Remain calm and prepare yourself for the most jam-packed month in the calendar year. There are a small percentage of you who may actually have completed ...
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A Simple Motivation Techniques For Massive Success
Want to hear about a simple & effective motivation technique?
It´ll help you get motivated and stay motivated.
Do you want to know the key to beating procrastination and
achieving much more?
Let me tell you how I discovered the sec...
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A Simple Thank You
A Simple Thank YouA taxi driver from Focsani in Romania found £2,500 and some passports in the back of his cab after taking two businessmen to a meeting. In Romania this is the equivalent of two and a half year’s wages for an average cabbie.The honest cab...
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A Simple Way To Meditate
Why Should You Meditate? What if you could close your eyes, then open them a few minutes later and be relaxed, alert, and able to think clearly? Meditation can do that for you, and it's easier than y...
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A Single 'MoM' Success Story
I cook and I clean. I get groceries and put out the garbage. Wash
dishes, do laundry, mow the lawn, run to doctor and dentist appointments
and pick up prescriptions. I also wonder about my daughters future
and stay awake some nights worrying a...
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A Small Piece Of Carpet
Have you ever noticed how the way you feel about yourself sometimes depends on whether or not you get confirmation of your value from others? When you enter into challenging situations with a positiv...
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A Strong mind has to have a strong body ...doesn't it?
A Strong mind has to have a strong body ...doesn't it?
Any African American parents or any parents for that matter, been in school and called an egghead? You think you are so smart! Everyone used to make the smart children feel bad because they c...
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A Student of Your Business
Are you a student of your business?
Whatever you do, you have to be a student of your business. You have to be constantly on the lookout for improvements.
Moreover, you have to be hungry for those little improvements, eager to find them, and...
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A Sure Way to Fight Stress
I usually put my children to sleep. Routinely, each one takes turn saying prayers before dozing off.
“Dear heavenly Father, thank you for my family and relatives and for all the blessings. Thank you for giving me only good dreams and good thoughts....
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A Surefire Way To Manage Your Fears While Leading A Happier, Healthier Life
Imagine discovering a way to get rid of your fears in a
quick and painless manner. In fact it can even become fun!
Did you know only two of all the fears you have are innate:
The fear of falling and the fear of loud noises. Most of
your fe...
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A Surfing Lesson
I've never surfed in my life. Sometimes people tell me I look like a surfer, but never once have I been on a board out in the water. It fascinates me though. It was about a year ago that I was standi...
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A Survey on Goals: Why Does Everyone In Your Office Want To Drive The Same Car?
What are your goals? Goals are something we put out in front of ourselves to reach one day. But who sets our goals. If someone else had set them for you to reach, should you attain them or another. ...
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A Sweep of Vanity: How To Burst Your Own Bubble
"Hoy-day! What a sweep of vanity comes this way!"
William Shakespeare, "The Life of Timon of Athens"
If there's one characteristic we hope we don't have,
it's vanity. We'd rather be considered aggressive,
driven, petty, even mea...
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A Sweep of Vanity: How To Burst Your Own Bubble
"Hoy-day! What a sweep of vanity comes this way!" --William Shakespeare, "The Life of Timon of Athens" If there's one characteristic we hope we don't have, it's vanity. We'd rather be considered aggr...
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A Tale of Two Lives
“A Tale of Only Two Lives”
It will take more then the hanging of the Ten Commandments in schools to acquire these virtues. As a matter of fact and please indulge me as I make this statement—radical as it is-- no politician whether Democrat or Repu...
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A TASTE OF ENCHANTMENT - Accessing Wonderful Memories
THE ENCHANTED SELF is about focusing on your memories, talents, and capacities for joy and happiness. You may not realize that one of your most precious gifts, in terms of accessing joy, is your capacity to utilize your memory in positive ways.
Al...
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A Teller Of Tales
Direct Answers - Column for the week of June 10, 2002 I told my daughter I didn't think my daughter-in-law paid enough attention to her oldest son, 8. He has attention deficit hyperactivity disorder...
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A Time for Every Season
There’s a time for every season,
Sorrowing when death gives its’ call;
A reality of living that
Eventually come to all.
But, unless one dies to themselves,
It’s a life never lived;
A life filled with selfishness,
A heart that neve...
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A Time of Self Healing, Hope and Reflection
In March of 2000, I was injured during a retail management career. Although I didn't know it at the time, this accident would change my life forever. Leaving work to go the hospital, I had lost use of my entire right side. My limbs were completely numb. ...
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A Timeless, Tried and True Formula for Achieving Big Results
A Timeless, Tried and True Formula for Achieving Big Results
by Gabriel Nijmeh
Reflect back on some of your greatest success and achievements.
How did you think? Act? How did you get there?
You started off with a dream or a vision th...
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A Tricky Supervision Challenge
Many managers believe that treating their team members as responsible adults will assure excellent results. The truth is that while this usually is effective, some people need much firmer limits than...
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A Turning Point
19 years ago, I was a young working mother at 28, independent and working for a prestigious company, until circumstances made me choose between family and career. After going through weighing my opti...
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A Very Special Gift
The month of October is a step closer to the year's feast of Holidays. There are so many things to do and places to go. There are gifts to buy for family and friends and...
A gift for yourself is sometimes an extravagance that many of us do no...
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A Way to Escape
Have you ever stumped your toe and the most fowl words hung on the tip of your tongue? Maybe, when a gorgeous babe walked by, you caught them checking you out. Perhaps, the dry cleaners ruined your outfit and a few choice words came to mind. Suppose a ch...
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A Word Fitly Spoken ~ Epiphany
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A Zen Look at Dating & Religious Beliefs
You’re dating and your religious beliefs are different. How much difference does this make?
The answer is: Another person’s religious beliefs are important to you to the degree they’re important to you.
This may sound like begging the quest...
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ABC's of Becoming an Effective Teen
A: Acquire a Strong and Positive Attitude
B: Break Out of Your Shell
C: Characterize Your Hero
D: Demand Respect For Your Standards, Yourself and Your Beliefs
E: Energize Yourself Everyday With a Goal of Making a Difference
F: Failure to Pl...
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ABCs for High Achievers
By Steve Brunkhorst
http://www.AchieveEzine.com
A im for what you want by focusing clearly on priorities.
B elieve in yourself and your goals, and then begin to strive for them.
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Abide in Me
“If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it shall be done for you.” --John 15: 7
Abide in me. The three words with which Jesus invited his disciples to place their faith in His love as they walked to the Garden of ...
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Abortion and the Right to Life - Part II
IE. The Right to have One's Life Saved
There is no such right as there is no corresponding moral obligation or duty to save a life. This "right" is a demonstration of the aforementioned muddle between the morally commendable, desirable and decen...
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Abortion and the Right to Life - Part III
Having reviewed the above arguments and counter-arguments, Don Marquis goes on (in "Why Abortion is Immoral", 1989) to offer a sharper and more comprehensive criterion: terminating a life is morally wrong because a person has a future filled with value ...
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About Happiness and Fulfillment
You want to be happy, but do you know how. Read further to understand why for social, spiritual creatures such as ourselves aquiring power, prestige and material possessions is never enough. Our emp...
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About That Dream...
About that Dream... Remember your very first job? That all-grown-up feeling! Your own money to buy things... That feeling of independence! Do you still have that excitement today? Do you jump out of...
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Absence Makes The Fear Go Yonder!
Emotions are controlled by a combination of reason and action. Man is the only member of the animal kingdom that can control the emotions he experiences on a day to day basis. But, in the negative an...
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ABU GHRAIB: Our Surprise is the only Surprise
As pictures and videos surface showing young American soldiers humiliating and dehumanizing Iraqi prisoners, we, as a society, recoil in disgust and disbelief. Friends and family of those charged with such crimes, shake their heads in bewilderment and as...
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Abundance And The Weather
There are times in our lives when our hopes and dreams come to a pinnacle and we get a glimpse of life that looks and feels exceedingly good. For a surfer, this moment is the ride on a perfect wave. ...
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Abundance Flourishes in an Atmosphere of INTEGRITY
The following story is an excerpt from Rebecca's upcoming book:
Law of Attraction For Business
by Rebecca Hanson
© 2003-2005 All rights reserved. Please ask permission to reproduce: rebecca@youcanhaveitall.com
There's no way to fake...
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Abundance Of Money - Abundance Of Love
How much happiness is there in a piece of paper with the word "happiness" printed upon it? It depends on the person who holds that piece of paper... How much value is there in a 100 dollar bill? Sam...
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Abundance Prosperity based on Wallace Wattles and Napoleon Hill
Short Article on Abundance & Prospriety based on Wattles BY: Dr. George Mentz, JD, MBA, CEC, ChFP, CWM, CMA Approx. Length 1600 words It is arguable that the definition of wealth is the free and unre...
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Abundance: Is This Sensible?
In Lesson Five of his book Prosperity, Charles Fillmore writes: “The sensing mind is filled with lacks and limitations; the spiritual mind knows only limitless abundance.” When I read this sentence, ...
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Accelerate the Learning Curve for More Success and Less Stress
Downsizing and technological advances put demands on us to learn more and learn it faster. As support staff and auxiliary positions disappear, job functions are consolidated, teamwork becomes the norm, and computer and other technologies keep proliferatin...
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Accelerate your Socio-Economidc Development : An Eccentric Bicircualr Model & Solution
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Accept Change With A Smile!
Do you like horror films?
I don’t.
Ooh, no no, too gory for my liking, give me ‘Sleepless in Seattle’ any day.
They are really popular though, the horrors, and I reckon I know how to
make them even scarier…
Just as the sweet in...
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Accept Life On It's Own Terms
Those living on the highest levels of life have learned to accept life on its own terms. There are some realities about life that we must accept. This is the key to living joyfully in communion with the heavenly while abiding here on earth.
Life, n...
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ACCEPT LIFE ON ITS OWN TERMS
Those living on the highest levels of life have learned to accept life on its own terms. There are some realities about life that we must accept. This is the key to living joyfully in communion with ...
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Acceptance is the Answer to All Our Problems
Many people today have lost jobs after decades of service; many others suffer within jobs they can see no way out of. In order to survive a painful job loss - indeed, any type of painful loss - we must come to some acceptance. How does one find acceptanc...
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Accepting A Life of Simplicity
Once we discover our purpose we then have to make a commitment to pursue that purpose. Often we discover that our lifestyles will be altered once that commitment is made. Perhaps we have to live with...
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Accepting Change
Well I've finally done it...I turned my heat on. After shouting at the kids that it's not cold and making them dress like they are outside, I turned on the heat in the house. I finally gave in when I...
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Accepting New Ideas
Much of the time when a new idea comes to us, we handle that idea and move on, without ever becoming consciously aware of the process. During the times when we are consciously aware of the process of handling a new idea, we often reject that idea without ...
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Accepting our Rejected Thoughts
Sometimes we are in a position to look into the lives of other people. It could be through a book, or a movie, or a story we hear, or occasionally it could be someone that we meet. Sometimes when this happens, we see qualities that we truly admire, and we...
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Accepting Ourselves and Others
Accepting Ourselves and Others
Part 2 of a 5 part series on creating a Positive Life Outlook
Robert Elias Najemy
Love is the ultimate healing energy.
We lack giving and receiving love.
Our feelings of isolation and loneline...
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Accepting Your Healing
Accepting Your Healing
by Martin Brofman, Ph.D.
Each type of illness is associated with a particular way of being. There is a personality type associated with heart disease, there is another associated with cancer, another with nearsightedness, ...
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Accessing Your Spiritual Guidance
For the last 35 years, I have been working with individuals, couples and families, as well as business relationships. I have 8 published books on relationships and healing, some of them best-sellers....
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Accomplish Your Dream of Becoming a Lawyer…with distance learning
The world is a wonderful place filled with all sorts of possibility.
In a day and age when opportunity abounds, I'm surprised to find
many people who give up on their dreams.
I'm here to tell you, as
a person who really has 'bee...
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Accredited Life Experience Degrees – Accelerate your Progress Online
Chances are you are pursuing an online degree to reap benefits in the workplace. For this reason, you may be interested in accelerating your progress to get your degree faster. This article will explain seven ways to finish your degree faster. Keep in min...
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Accurate Psychic Advice
Psychic readings can be an invaluable tool for obtaining answers to your most confusing questions. A psychic reading can help you gain insight regarding your love life, family, career, finances and m...
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Ace the Job Interview with Emotional Intelligence
A job interview is a stressful situation because the stakes are high. If you really want the job, or need the job, it’s important to put your best foot forward. Here are 10 ways to apply emotional intelligence to the situation for positive results.
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Achieve All Your Goals
Achieve All Your Goals
by Alan Tutt
http://www.KeysToPower.com
What do you want out of life? Most of the people I talk to want to make life easier. They don't really care about dominating the world, or even reaching the pinnacles of success....
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Achieve Anything, One Step at a Time
No matter how ambitious your goal, you CAN achieve it. You do it by taking one little step at a time. Here are a few tips to help you: 1. Visualize Your Goal: The first step is to create a mental pic...
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Achieve More Doing Less
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Achieve Your Desires By Scoring Goals
Do you have a desire? Silly question I know because everybody has desires, just not the same ones. Of course there are many that most of us share like those old clichés of health, wealth, and happine...
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Achieve Your Goal
Have you seen those ads that promise to make thousands and millions of dollars over night, they are just hype. You have to do whatever it takes to get where you want to be. Believe me there are no s...
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Achievement and Happiness the 80/20 Way
If there was ever a principle that was responsible for the most happiness and achievement in the world, it would be the 80/20 Principle. The 80/20 Principle or Pareto Principle was discovered in 189...
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Achieving Success in 5 Easy Steps
There are 5 essential steps or elements to achieving success in your personal and business life. Applying these 5 steps will guarantee the success that you are seeking. All 5 steps work together and are essential to achieving ultimate success. Just li...
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Achieving Your Goals
You may or may not have a set of written goals. If you do not, then I strongly urge you to make a written set of goals and clarify what you want to achieve. Whatever the case, you may be struggling w...
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Achieving Your Vision of Abundance
By Steve Brunkhorst
http://www.AchieveEzine.com
How can we have more abundance in our lives? It begins by noticing the abundance that we already have.
We cannot experience abun...
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Acknowledging Emotions and Feelings
We’ll begin with a question: What is a moral? I'd say it's something you have an intense feeling or emotion about, generally so intense you would never cross its boundary. Agree? Have you ever crosse...
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Acknowledging the Existence of Your Soul
Talking about your “soul” and the deeper things in life is so frequently considered as spun out or weird in modern, take-away-eating, order-it-on-the-internet life, but if you are one of these people...
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ACLU is at it again
“ACLU—Again”
God help us, please! The ACLU is at it again. This time their secular agenda is targeting the Pentagon, having brought civil litigation against the United States military for their 50 year history of sponsoring the Boy Scouts of Ameri...
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Act Like You Want It
I heard a very intriguing quote the other day. It went something like this: "It is easier to act your way into new thinking than to think your way into new actions."
How very true is this? How many of us have said I'm going to be a happier perso...
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Act Your Way into a New Way of Thinking
© Copyright 2004 Rebecca Hanson
Please ask permission to reproduce this article. Rebecca@YouCanHaveItAll.com
Are you working at a job you can't stand? Would you like to quit, but are afraid you'll attract more of the same? Often people wri...
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ACTION is More Important than Knowledge!
It was Albert Einstein who stated that 'imagination is more important than knowledge'. Now if he had been addressing a room full of entrepreneurs, I hazard a guess that he might also have extended t...
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Action NOT Reaction
Do you feel you are in charge of your life do you really believe that you control your destiny? Or you are of those people who feel manipulated all the time, they are doing things and they dont know,...
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Activate Your Dream Power
Let’s have a look at a simple technique that will help you relax your mind and take more control over your ideals and goals. This technique can be used over and over, in most situations, and consists...
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Activities Where Your Introverted Child Can Win!
Parents can be fooled into thinking there’s something wrong with their child for being introverted, especially if they, themselves, are extroverts. Also many teachers, administrators and other relatives who are extroverts may not understand introverted ch...
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Acts of Kindness Benefit Everyone
Do you really want to be happy? Everyone says yes, but the gateway to happiness makes some of us frown. The gateway to happiness, is giving to others. Think about this: "If you want others to be happ...
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Acts of Love- http://actsoflove.net
Fernanders earliest experience with Spiritual music were written on his little not pad in crayon. His unique style was refined by his Heavenly Father into a sound personifying prolific, which is contained in Fernanders’ explosive debut album, Acts of Love...
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Acupressure
Developed in Asia over 5,000 years ago, acupressure is an ancient healing therapy that utilizes fingers to depress key locations on the skin's surface to prompt healing with...
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Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine
There are over 50 Acupuncture Schools in the United States. Acupuncture laws differ from state to state, therefore, each acupuncture school entails its ...
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Adages for the New Year
The old familiar adages just don't do it for me any more. For instance, consider "the early bird gets the worm." In this age of freelancing, premature ejaculation and peaking too early in one's caree...
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Adam as Jesus
Sometimes things will be given to me to know and I feel it is a new revelation just to find others had already received it from Spirit. Regardless, it is always exciting to receive deep mysteries fro...
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Adapting for flexible delivery; the team
For many years, the trainer or lecturer was seen as a largely autonomous person who was responsible for all aspects of training delivery. Within their job specification was:
- Identifying the training needs
- Setting the goals/objectives for traini...
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Adapting for online delivery: Is Online the best option?
Advocates of total online training solutions point to the following sorts of advantages for the learner:
-Learn anywhere at any time
-Fit learning around personal commitments
-Access a wide range of resources
And for the producer of learn...
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Adapting for online delivery; clarifying outcomes
When adapting existing course content, it's tempting to assume that there's nothing to do when it comes to the training outcomes. Just use the existing ones, right? Not necessarily. Changing the way you offer the programme can result in a whole raft of ...
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Adapting for online delivery; selecting the right technology
It goes without saying that whatever technolgies are used, they have to be effective training tools. Previous Updaters have detailed how to determine the profile of the learner and what the training is designed to achieve, you're now in a good position t...
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Add More Spark to a Chug-Along Life! (i-mail saga)
Article Title: Add Spark to a Chug-Along Life!
Author Name: Doug C. Grant
Contact Email Address: doug @dougcgrant.com
Word Count: 776
Category: Motivational/Humor
© Doug C. Grant, 2002
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Addicted To Her
Direct Answers - Column for the week of August 4, 2003 I dated a woman I work with for four years. In both our minds we were soul mates. A year and a half ago she broke it off. I never found out the ...
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Addiction to Blame
Allen consulted with me because his wife of 18 years had threatened to leave him if he didn’t stop blaming her all the time. He admitted to frequently blaming her in a variety of situations. He blame...
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Addiction to Clutter
Clutter is a big problem for many people. At a lecture that I gave, I asked for a show of hands regarding how many people had problems with clutter and disorganization. I was surprised to find that a...
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Addiction to Complaining
Complaining is a way of life for some people. It was certainly a way of life for my mother. I don’t remember a day going by without her complaining, endlessly. I don’t think I ever heard a word of gr...
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Addiction to Complaining
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Addiction to Perfection
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Addiction to Self-Judgment
“I’m such a jerk. How could I have said that?” “I’m a looser. I’ll never get anywhere.” “I’m so stupid. I should have learned this by now.” “I don’t fit in. I don’t belong with these people.” “I’ll n...
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Addiction to Self-Judgment
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Addiction to Spirituality
Lian had been meditating for many years before consulting with me for his depression. He had been part of a spiritual community that encouraged their members to turn to God through prayer and meditat...
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Addiction to Talking
There is an old joke about people who talk a lot: “Do you know the 12-Step program for people who talk a lot? On and On Anon!” The joke recognizes that fact that incessant talking is a common addicti...
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Addiction to Thinking
Randall sought my help because he was stuck being miserable and had no idea how to get out of his misery. In his life he had experienced moments of great joy and sense of oneness with all of life, bu...
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Addiction to Worry
Carole started counseling with me because she was depressed. She had been ill with chronic fatigue syndrome for a long time and believed her depression was due to this. In the course of our work toge...
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ADDISON'S Addison's disease
The Internet is full of "GOSH-JOURNALISM" articles about Addison's disease. Sometimes, these are written by somebody who declares himself to be a doctor, sometimes they are anonymous.
There is reputed to be a "CRAVING FOR SALT" - yet the truth...
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Addressing Alcoholism with Diet and Nutrition
Alcoholism is a very complex problem that is rampant in our society and has many variables that need to be addressed simultaneously.
The success rate with mainstream treatment options is poor at best. The nutrition and diet components are rarely addres...
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Adjust the Thermostat of the Mind
Summary: Our first impressions about money, work, and
relationships are lasting unless we choose to change them with
new information.
First impressions are lasting ones.
If those first impressions aren’t good ones, modify them with
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Adjust Your Attitude and Expect Success
If you’ve ever called me, you’ve heard my answering-machine message end with the words "Expect Success." There’s an important intent behind that. What if every time we made a phone call or personal request or met with a potential client, we expected we ...
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Adjust Your Internal Thermostat
First impressions really do make an impression.
They impress the mind with thoughts and feelings that last even
if they were formed in error.
Fortunately, if first impressions weren’t good ones, we can
modify them with new information....
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Adults building self confidence
If you’re a parent, you would have read about 1,001 articles and about a few dozen books on how important it is for kids today have confidence. Confidence says everything. When kids have confidence, ...
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Advance Your Enthusiasm and Determination for Success
Imagine being firmly committed to your deepest ambitions. Imagine feeling energetic and enthusiastic about your relationships, career, and all the things you want. Envision a future as bright and pro...
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Advantages and Advice About Online Degrees
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Adventuring-We All Need to Do it!
Even in times when we are being encouraged to be more careful there is a part of each of ourselves that needs adventure and daring. I certainly know that I have that part of me-it craved travel when I was young and nagged at me until I went to Europe ...
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Adversity Gives You Strength
How can you stay motivated in the midst of turbulent times and a sluggish economy? How do you persevere when many companies are reducing spending and customers seem to be holding on to every last penny in fear of an economic downturn? Every challenge you ...
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Adversity Prescription...Inhale Faith Regularly
Being a social scientist, I have been trained to find comfort in numbers, although I am equally dependent upon faith. In research, if we set a certain standard and can measure whether an idea or a re...
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Adversity to Victory
The following is a true story about a young friend who lives in St. Louis... Andy was born with a developmental disorder. The two sides of his brain were not joined normally with each other. The righ...
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Adversity, What Is It Good For
As I sat down to write this article, I was reflecting back over the last week – a week filled with adversity. We all go through it and it is during those times that we may often wonder what is it all for anyway? What is the point? What is it good for?
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Affecting Positive Results Through Affirmations
Last time we talked about how to begin building the mind's powerful framework for success. The lesson we needed to learn was that self-talk has a powerful affect on the results we achieve. We learned that the mind will manifest whatever we dwell on, be i...
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Affirm, Visualize, and Receive - Is Planning Really Necessary?
We are repeatedly told of the necessity to plan. "If you fail to plan, you plan to fail", "Plan your work, work your plan" etc. In terms of goalsetting and achieving goals, when people talk of plann...
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Affirm, Visualize, Receive - Is Planning Really Necessary?
We are repeatedly told of the necessity to plan. "If you fail
to plan, you plan to fail", "Plan your work, work your plan" etc.
In terms of goalsetting and achieving goals, when people
talk of planning, they generally mean:
<...
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Affirm-Actions ... Stop lying to your soul and make it real!
I hear of so many people using affirmations as the universal remedy for everything that ails them. They wake up in the morning and verbalize their affirmations. They go through their days verbalizi...
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Affirmations For Success + Music = POW!
Affirmations for success are powerful and effective in their own right, and when used together with music, it's a double whammy!
Music penetrates our mental barriers and influences the deepest areas of our mind. The right music, combined with the ...
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Affirmations to the Rescue!
INNER CRITIC UNVEILED! Part 2: AFFIRMATIONS TO THE RESCUE! "Almost everybody walks around with a vast burden of imaginary limitations inside his head. While the burden remains, personal succes...
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Afloat on A Sea of Abundance
In the days of the mighty sailing ships, when brave souls voyaged into the unknown, dependent on the winds and their as-yet incomplete knowledge of geography and navigation, one of the greatest and m...
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Afraid of dying? ... Afraid of living!
Over the years, I've heard many people voice their concerns of death and dying. It wasn't that they had any maladies that would cause them to die any time soon, but they were "afraid of their own immortality." The basic idea of death, or the potential...
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Afraid Of Dying? ... Afraid Of Living!
Over the years, I've heard many people voice their concerns of death and dying. It wasn't that they had any maladies that would cause them to die any time soon, but they were "afraid of their own im...
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African Americans: A Look in the Mirror, Part 1
“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” James Baldwin At present, African Americans stand at the crossroads of great hopes for wealth and freed...
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African Americans: A Look in the Mirror, Part 2
“For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner o...
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African Americans: Decide Your Destiny, Master Your Mind, Part 1
“If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.” Maya Angelou Our ability to exercise self-discipline is key to taking control of our destinies. It is the a...
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African Americans: