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Dealing With Negative Relatives During the Holidays

December 8th, 2010

Dealing With Negative Relatives During the Holidays

I heard a story that someone asked a Polish citizen living under the communist regime if he regarded his Russian comrades as friends or family. “ Family,” he quickly responded. “You can choose your friends.” Now with Thanksgiving around the corner, many of us will be face to fork with family and in-laws who may put us in a “fowl” mood (okay, okay, no more of bad turkey puns in this blog entry.)

So how does one face these challenges and keep an optimistic attitude? Read more...

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How to dream big

November 18th, 2010

HOW TO DREAM BIG

Dreaming big, is something we do most when we are children. Yet, when we hit the teen-aged years, our dreams have gotten so beat up that we start to ‘Dream Safely’ or not at all.

For me, growing up in the inner city with teen-aged parents, I was counted out before I even started. In order to persevere, I had to have a spirit for survival in order to catapult me to the person I am today. Most people, who knew me, would meet me and never grasp the struggles I had growing up. Truly, I didn’t grasp them because I always saw the glass as half full, yet it could get empty if I didn’t hustle to make something happen. Read more...

7 Steps to Creating Powerful and Inspirational Goals

September 2nd, 2010

7 Steps to Creating Powerful and Inspirational Goals by AnnaLaura Brown

Are your goals powerful and inspirational? Do they motivate you to truly succeed and to do the best that you can with your life?

Having goals that are powerful and inspirational will greatly increase the odds that you will actually achieve them. However, it can be more difficult to create goals that have these qualities than you might think.

Here are 7 ways you can make your goals power packed and full of inspiration and at the same time dramatically increase your motivation to make them a reality. Read more...

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Is your life out of control?

August 23rd, 2010

Is Your Life Out Of Control? Then Do Something About It!

by Maria Marsala

Summary: If you’re living a less-than-joyful life, the first step is to step back and discover where you are out of balance. Then you can take steps and find the help you need to build a joyful, satisfying life. Read more...

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Advice for the wicked

August 12th, 2010

ADVICE FOR THE WICKED by Carolyn Graham

Create harmless mischief whenever possible. Find a friend who likes to incite you and will share in some mischievous hilarity. If there are no friends available, use your best thinking and mentally engineer an event designed precisely to meet your needs.

If someone tells you your bread’s not baked, or you have a loose screw, or your elevator doesn’t go to the top, consider yourself highly complimented and extraordinarily gifted. You have probably shed some of the constricting and restricting bounds of convention. Read more...