Questions for the Game of Life
Questions for the Game of Life "If you could eliminate one day from your past so that you never had to live through it, what day would you erase?"...
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Motivation
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Get Off Your Butt and Create Your Financial Future?Now!
Get Off Your Butt and Create Your Financial Future?Now! Most people have no idea where their money goes. They earn it and they spend it. That's fi...
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Know your Mission
Know your Mission One passage states "If you want to defeat them, distract them." Another reads "divide and conquer." In the game of life there is...
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The Top Ten Strategies to Employ When You Feel Like Quitting
The Top Ten Strategies to Employ When You Feel Like Quitting Ever feel like quitting? "Are you kidding?" you ask, "A better question would be, 'How...
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Universal Alignment
Universal Alignment When the Universe is aligned, all things are possible. Kismet, Karma, Synchronicity and Serendipity work together in unison to p...
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Did You Have A Tough Childhood?
Did You Have A Tough Childhood? Many claim intense childhood trauma "damages" a person in their adult years. But is this necessarily true? We all ...
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5 Keys to Maintaining Personal Change
5 Keys to Maintaining Personal Change I look out my window at daybreak as the sunrise creates tiny sparkles on sheets of frozen snow. Two mornings l...
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Do You have a Dream?
Do You have a Dream? Do you find yourself sitting at work longing to be somewhere else and doing something you have always wanted to do? We've all...
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How to Use the Power of Words to Your Benefit
How to Use the Power of Words to Your Benefit Someone I know maintains that "motivational words are great coming from philosophers, but that's becau...
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How to Use the Power of Words to Your Benefit - Part II
How to Use the Power of Words to Your Benefit - Part II A friend of mine read the article, How to Use the Power of Words to Your Benefit, and dryly ...
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Mountain-Moving Momentum
Mountain-Moving Momentum It can be challenging to think about going to the next level. Especially when you're completely overwhelmed by the thought ...
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To Boost Your Brain, Move That Body!
To Boost Your Brain, Move That Body! If you really want to be at your absolute peak mentally, if you want to have a dynamic and well functioning bra...
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Ten Tips to Create More Life for Your Life
Ten Tips to Create More Life for Your Life When people begin to investigate career change, often they don't want a new career at all. They love thei...
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Are You the Motivator
Are You the Motivator We're all aware of how important teamwork is and how an inspired team, working together toward a clearly defined goal, can acc...
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Employee Motivation - The 8 Basics
Employee Motivation - The 8 Basics Building a team of motivated people in your business is vital to get the very best results, but so many managers ...
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Selective Perspective
Selective Perspective Picture this: A mother and daughter are looking at the snowfall from the front widow of their home. The daughter thinks: "Grea...
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Assessing Your Self-Help Needs
Assessing Your Self-Help Needs Self Help is itself a broad category from which to choose resources for your personal benefit. It is wise to assess y...
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How to Become an Effective Self-Help User
How to Become an Effective Self-Help User "Know Yourself" That's what the big guy said way back when? Was it Aristotle, Plato or Socrates? Anyhow, t...
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Decide
Decide Where do you want to be in a year? In five years? In ten years? Is what you're doing now -- the way you're living, your friends, your habits,...
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Hold That Elevator!
Hold That Elevator! As Prince, or whatever his name is now put it in one of his songs, "When Life's elevator tries to bring you down go crazy, punch...
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Self-Limiting Beliefs: The Inner Enemies of Progress
Self-Limiting Beliefs: The Inner Enemies of Progress What are they? Self-limiting beliefs are those things you believe about yourself that place l...
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Problems or Opportunities?
Problems or Opportunities? As best I can tell hereâ??s how it breaks down. Some people see problems as opportunities. Understanding that getting t...
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212 Degrees
212 Degrees At 211 degrees, water is pretty darn hot. But at 212, it's boiling, and making steam. Only one degree, but there is quite a differen...
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Maintaining Your Motivation
Maintaining Your Motivation I recently spoke to a group of sales professionals at the end of their training conference. The attendees had participat...
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If It Feels Good, It Must Be Right
If It Feels Good, It Must Be Right Copyright © 2003 Priya Shah Is it possible to motivate yourself to do something you don't enjoy doing? Let me...
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Ten Major Causes of Failure
Ten Major Causes of Failure -Lack of a specific purpose in life. You can not hope to succeed in any field of your life if you don't have a central p...
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Stop Procrastination - Just do it!
Stop Procrastination - Just do it! What stops you from 'getting things done?' Have you ever started your day with good intentions of completing a ...
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Making Decisions
Making Decisions You lost your job. Your partner left you. Your car was re-possessed. You find your life barren like the desert. Your self-esteem ...
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How To Get Through A Bad Day
How To Get Through A Bad Day No matter how hard you try to make them otherwise, some days are just awful. They start off bad, they never get any bet...
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Gaining Wisdom
Gaining Wisdom Wisdom eludes me. The more I learn, the less I think I know. Maybe it's because when I learn something new I realize how much more t...
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Tips for Mastering Visualization Techniques
Tips for Mastering Visualization Techniques Visualization is creating a mental picture of something. Visualization is important because it makes the...
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Make Fear a Nine Day Wonder - Motivate Yourself with Fun!
Make Fear a Nine Day Wonder - Motivate Yourself with Fun! Have you heard something referred to as a "nine day wonder"? The phrase refers to somethin...
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Make It Happen Now!
Make It Happen Now! Most people think that when they have chosen a path that's it - that's the path to follow. This is far from the truth according ...
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Storytelling - The Great Motivator of People
Storytelling - The Great Motivator of People In a data-driven world, facts and figures are the order of the day in sales calls, employee meetings, b...
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Who Is Stuart Goldsmith?
Who Is Stuart Goldsmith? 'Stuart Goldsmith? Who is Stuart Goldsmith?' you may be asking. I met Stuart at his retirement seminar in London at the e...
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Passion and Purpose
Passion and Purpose Who are we, standing here on this planet, looking for a place to be? Are we the "forgotten ones" from a time gone by, a piece of...
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How to Get rid of the ?Overwhelm? Monster
How to Get rid of the ?Overwhelm? Monster If you wear many hats, manage a family and/or a business, it is easy to feel overwhelmed on a regular basi...
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Pride and Prejudice Can Be Healed and Melted Away
Pride and Prejudice Can Be Healed and Melted Away Several years ago, my husband introduced me to some potential clients of his at a summer picnic. ...
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What Makes a Champion?
What Makes a Champion? Imagine for a moment that you are a champion. You are the best in your town . No, you are the best in your country. How does ...
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5 Ways To Feel Super-Optimistic: Tips for Your Health, Wealth, & Career Success
5 Ways To Feel Super-Optimistic: Tips for Your Health, Wealth, & Career Success Optimism is the hidden key to your personal and business success. Op...
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Courage and Fear
Courage and Fear Mark Twain once said, "Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear not absence of fear." Feeling fear is normal but so many ar...
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Journaling - A Tool for Healing and Growth
Journaling - A Tool for Healing and Growth The word "journal" comes from the French. It dates back to the 14th century and means daily. As recently ...
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The Best Day Of My Life
The Best Day Of My Life Today, when I awoke, I suddenly realized that this is the best day of my life, ever! There were times when I wondered if I...
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I Should Be Doing... But...?
I Should Be Doing... But...? What a perfect fall Saturday morning, clear sunny blue sky, with a crisp breeze blowing. It's just the one I've been wa...
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Taking The Leap
Taking The Leap Every four years, February gives us a whole 24 hours of bonus footage to add to our year. Many people take this opportunity to "do s...
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Explanations?... or Excuses?
Explanations?... or Excuses? Which of the following "explanations" have you heard (or used!) in the past few weeks? * I need to reward myself for ...
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Spring! Time for Love and New Beginnings
Spring! Time for Love and New Beginnings Prepare, prepare, prepare! The horizon screams of spring and the budding trees, tulips poking their head ab...
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Keeping Your Eyes Wide Open: A Letter to a Grandson
Keeping Your Eyes Wide Open: A Letter to a Grandson One day, a young man was cleaning out his late grandfather's belongings when he came across a br...
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Nurturing Your Vision
Nurturing Your Vision There is a new television show, called Blind Justice that will be replacing NYPD Blue. The show follows a Detective who, at th...
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The Simple Life
The Simple Life When we talk about a Simple Life, we are not talking about Paris and Nicole. We are talking about a life that is in harmony with our...
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Realistic Dreams
Realistic Dreams The wish to have or be something, especially one that seems difficult to achieve is an innate desire in every one of us. The quest ...
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Success: Its Really Pretty Simple
Success: Its Really Pretty Simple From the 'What You Need to Succeed' Series Every once in awhile I stop and take a look at myself. No ? I don't m...
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Do you Live the Life you Desire?
Do you Live the Life you Desire? There comes a time in every person's life when you look at yourself and wonder what became of all your dreams and ...
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The Most Courageous People in the World
The Most Courageous People in the World Who are the most courageous people in the world? Armed services? Coastguards? Astronauts? Firepersons? Explo...
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The Top 10 Ways to Overcome Procrastination
The Top 10 Ways to Overcome Procrastination When a person is bored or uninterested, certain tasks and projects can seem like torture! This feeling u...
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Ten Sure-Fire Rules To Put Old On Hold By At Least 25 Years
Ten Sure-Fire Rules To Put Old On Hold By At Least 25 Years Would you like to feel and function like age 40 for an extra 25 years? Would you like to...
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The Power Of Rules - Petty, Petty, Petty Rules
The Power Of Rules - Petty, Petty, Petty Rules In 2004 a group of seven spoilt and often aggressive British teenagers were sent to a working ranch i...
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ABCs for High Achievers
ABCs for High Achievers A im for what you want by focusing clearly on priorities. B elieve in yourself and your goals, and then begin to strive fo...
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Can You Can Can? What You Can Do If You Really Go For It
Can You Can Can? What You Can Do If You Really Go For It One hundred years ago the laundry girls of Montmartre invented a street dance which became ...
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Three Simple Ways to Motivate Yourself Today!
Three Simple Ways to Motivate Yourself Today! Are you having a hard time getting things done? Are you making no steps toward achieving your goals an...
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Work, Action, Movement -You Cannot Get Anywhere Without It
Work, Action, Movement -You Cannot Get Anywhere Without It "You can't get anywhere in anything without work, action, movement..whatever you want to ...
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Wealth Building: Let The Wealth Building Secrets Of J. Paul Getty Inspire You To Great Achievement
Wealth Building: Let The Wealth Building Secrets Of J. Paul Getty Inspire You To Great Achievement One of the shortcuts to creating wealth is to lea...
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Personal Safety: How To Avoid Accidents And Live A Safe, Longer & Happy Life
Personal Safety: How To Avoid Accidents And Live A Safe, Longer & Happy Life Have you ever had an accident? Do you value your personal safety and ...
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The Story Of A King And Three Maidens ? Six Keys To A Successful Relationship
The Story Of A King And Three Maidens ? Six Keys To A Successful Relationship A King was trying to choose between three maidens to be his wife and q...
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Finding the Easy Way
Finding the Easy Way For the last hour I have been sweating over what I will write about in "Roy Bits." I have been laying in bed trying to conjure ...
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Keep the Channel Open
Keep the Channel Open Why do you do what you do? What is your real work in the world, and why is it important to know the answer? I'm an entrepren...
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Why Do We Need Our Addictions?
Why Do We Need Our Addictions? If money is considered to be the root of all evil, then what would we classify as our addictions? The psychology of...
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Whatever Happened to You?
Whatever Happened to You? Whatever happened to all the dreams? The wants, the desires, the hopes, the cravings, the appetite, the passion? The aspir...
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Get Negativity Out Of Your Life!
Get Negativity Out Of Your Life! They say that the way to have a positive attitude and a positive life is to surround yourself only with positive th...
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Starting Over
Starting Over I worked hard for the past 17 years. I felt I had to. I only finished high school. Without a certificate to flaunt and yet wanting to ...
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Courage
Courage "Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway." ? John Wayne "Courage is the cliché hallmark attributed to the hero. I say c...
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How To Win Over Your Fears
How To Win Over Your Fears If you really want to do something you will always find a way. But if you don't want to do it, you will almost always ...
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A Quick Observation of the Low Class
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 b...
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Overcoming the Fear of Getting Started
Overcoming the Fear of Getting Started Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit...
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Why Bother About Your Life?
Why Bother About Your Life? Have you failed to create the life you want, because you are afraid to take risks or leave your comfort zone? Have you...
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Procrastination Strategies: Boost Your Productivity by Getting On With It
Procrastination Strategies: Boost Your Productivity by Getting On With It We all suffer from procrastination from time to time but rather than fight...
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Creativity and Innovation Management - Motivation
Creativity and Innovation Management - Motivation Motivation in creativity and innovation is more important than personality traits. This is like po...
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Words Have Power
Words Have Power How many times have you heard or read that words have power? Maybe it was in the context of working 'magic' or 'positive affirmatio...
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7 Tips For Lasting Motivation And Greater Success
7 Tips For Lasting Motivation And Greater Success Lasting motivation is possible once you adopt an outlook that allows you to be more successful. He...
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A Tribute to Edna
A Tribute to Edna To the world you might be one person, but to one person you might be the world. ? Unknown This week I had a coaching session tha...
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How to Talk to Yourself When Nobody is Listening and You Want to
How to Talk to Yourself When Nobody is Listening and You Want to Do you ever pay attention to the thoughts inside your mind? And more importantly do...
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How to Give Yourself a Motivational Warm Up When You Wake Up
How to Give Yourself a Motivational Warm Up When You Wake Up Question: What is the worst thing you can do when you start your day? Answer: Wak...
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Succeed Like the Super-Successful
Succeed Like the Super-Successful Two undeniable traits of the super-successful are: their belief in self, and an uncompromising expectation that th...
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Discover The Spark That Motivates You In Business and Life
Discover The Spark That Motivates You In Business and Life Can There Be Any Other Business Like Your Own Business? "Whatever you persistently allo...
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A Surfing Lesson
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...
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Persistence
Persistence One of the keys to being successful in anything you do is persistence. Persistence & patience are two wheels. Whenever there is persiste...
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Tips To Get Motivated and Overcome Procrastination
Tips To Get Motivated and Overcome Procrastination Procrastination is a complicated behavior that affects all people to some degree. Some experience...
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Practice, Practice, Practice
Practice, Practice, Practice It may sound silly but the key to self-confidence and building more self-esteem is through practice. Practice what it i...
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5 Motivation Killers and How To Avoid Them
5 Motivation Killers and How To Avoid Them Motivation is an oft-discussed subject, particularly with regards to whether or not it is something that ...
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Motivation By An Audience
Motivation By An Audience Sooner or later, if you keep working hard in a focused way on a skill or project, you will have an audience even if it is ...
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Do I have What It takes?
Do I have What It takes? What am I made of? Do I have what it takes? I want to succeed, can I do it? Let us attempt to answer your question, if yo...
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Develop Guts to Achieve Glory
Develop Guts to Achieve Glory It is just amazing the amount of people who don't have the courage to go after their dreams.They sit around living a l...
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Do You Have Staying Power?
Do You Have Staying Power? "If you are going through hell , keep on going" - Sir Winston Churchill Staying Power.Some of you may know that record ...
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The Art Of Using Effectively A Motivational Quote
The Art Of Using Effectively A Motivational Quote -- Choose a motivational quote related to your goal. Don't have one? Visit http://motivationalcent...
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Practical Ways To Motivate Yourself To Learn A Skill
Practical Ways To Motivate Yourself To Learn A Skill One way to motivate yourself to work hard at anything is to risk wasting your money if you fail...
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Moving Past Your Comfort Zone
Moving Past Your Comfort Zone We all gravitate toward what we feel most comfortable doing. We avoid going to certain places or doing certain things,...
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How Are You Feeling? Its More Of A Brain Question Than You Think
How Are You Feeling? Its More Of A Brain Question Than You Think How you respond to How are You reveals a great deal about you. "Hi! How are you?"...
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Training Your Mind to Help You
Training Your Mind to Help You Our friend, singer and songwriter Chuck Pyle, likes to say, "The mind is like a bad neighborhood-you should never go ...
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The First Step
The First Step Today is an anniversary of sorts for me. Three years ago today, I publicly launched Tomorrow's Edge after years of getting ready, tal...
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Making Excuses
Making Excuses I edited and re-edited my article. I had to make sure it was just so. Then I procrastinated on writing the query letter to get my art...
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