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Get in touch with your inner warrior

  He Who Knows Others Is Wise. He  Who Knows Himself Is Enlightened. Tao Te Ching   Have you ever really wanted to do something, but your fear kept you from going for it? Or maybe you felt like you...

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5 Essential tips for making good decisions

  In  any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next  best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is  nothing. Theodore  Roosevelt   All decisions in...

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Find the courage to express your feelings. It’s important!

Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, “I will try again tomorrow.” Mary Anne Radmacher   Life is full of situations in which it can be...

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Use positive self-talk to reach your goals

  He who would be useful, strong, and happy must cease to be a passive receptacle for the negative, beggarly, and impure streams of thought; and as a wise householder commands his servants and invites...

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Help your child develop their creative thinking

  See the world anew and write down the bones of it.   A.D. Sams   Creativity is a sign of the real genius that lies within us all. Children tend to learn quickly, and figure out how to apply their...

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12 Steps to getting your power back, pt 1

  Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing.  Harriet Braiker Studies have found that finding that even high-level, high-achieving professional women are battling...

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12 Steps to getting your power back, pt 2

Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing.  Harriet Braiker   This is the second installment of a two-part series about regaining your “power.” Studies have found...

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Take initiative

Students must have initiative; they should not be mere imitators. They must learn to  think and act for themselves - and be free.  Cesar  Chavez   Think of something that you wish to accomplish that is...

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Linking your attitude with your altitude

  Our life is what our thoughts make it. Marcus Aurelius   Your attitude determines your altitude, in business, as well as in your everyday life. You cannot hope to change someone else’s attitude for...

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5 Tips for setting clear goals for success

Success isn’t a result of spontaneous combustion.  You must set yourself on fire.  Arnold H. Glasow Whether you want to set goals for your business or for your personal life, defining clear, concise...

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Small Business: The art of delegation, pt 1

  The first rule of management is delegation. Don’t try and do everything yourself because you can’t. Anthea Turner   You have recently made an amazing discovery. You have discovered that there is not...

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Small Business: The art of delegation, pt 2

    Don’t be a bottleneck. If a matter is not a decision for the President or you, delegate it. Force responsibility down and out. Find problem areas, add structure and delegate. The pressure is to do...

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Dealing With Social Anxiety Disorder

  I promise you nothing is as chaotic as it seems. Nothing is worth your health. Nothing is worth poisoning yourself into stress, anxiety, and fear. Steve Maraboli    Social Anxiety Disorder is a...

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Learning when to say, “No.”

Focus is about saying No.   Steve Jobs   Lots of people have trouble saying “no” or denying almost any favor asked of them. As a result, they often find themselves trapped in the middle of nowhere...

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Who is our neighbor?

  We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this...

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Calming your mind

  Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.  Mahatma Gandhi   Do you ever wake up in the middle of the night with frantic thoughts...

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9 Tips for getting back on the positive track

  No man can be ideally successful until he has found his place. Like a locomotive he is strong on the track, but weak anywhere else. Orison Swett Marden   We speak a lot about positive thinking, but...

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How to simplify your life in 6 simple ways

  The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak Hans Hofmann   When you are feeling stressed out and you cannot seem to find a moment of peace for yourself,...

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What is Self-Care and Why it is Important

  By your thoughts you are daily, even hourly, building your life; you are carving your destiny.  Ruth Barrick Golden Defining self-care is easy because it is broadly the opposite of self-sabotage or...

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Making your home a peaceful place again

 It isn’t enough to talk about peace, one must believe it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it, one must work for it. Eleanor Roosevelt Everyone deals with family stress periodically. The biggest...

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