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How to achieve your goals and maintain your sanity

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. C.S. Lewis   Do you find that you are having issues with your long-term projects because you get bogged down in your short-term...

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7 Tips for staying on task

  A person who aims at nothing is sure to hit it. Unknown Do you find that you are having a difficult time staying on task? If it seems as though you are spending a lot of your day just trying to get...

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What does success mean to you?

    To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded. Ralph Waldo Emerson   What is success? Some people choose to define success as having a lot of money,...

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How to gain more wisdom

    Whatever difficulty you face, there are time-tried ways you can listen your way through. Because listening is the doorway to everything that matters. It enlivens the heart the way breathing...

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Staying the course!

  Ability  is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude  determines how well you do it. Raymond Chandler     Do you feel that you have the motivation you need to get up...

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Dealing with your financial stress

      So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money? Ayn Rand   If you find yourself dealing with financial stress, you are hardly alone. It can be...

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How to get and stay motivated

  How soon ‘not now’ becomes ‘never’.  Martin Luther As thoughts turn to year’s end and beginning, everyone starts to focus on how to make next year better or at least different. It all starts with...

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How to keep your children motivated

  Blessed are the flexible, for they shall not be bent out of shape. Unknown   Our children are vessels into which we have the opportunity to pour the best of ourselves and the best that the world has...

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5 Tips for breaking your bad habits

  Your beliefs become your thoughts, Your thoughts become your words, Your words become your actions, Your actions become your habits, Your habits become your values, Your values become your destiny....

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Finding your public speaking voice

  There are three things to aim at in public speaking: first, to get into your subject, then to get your subject into yourself, and lastly, to get your subject into the heart of your audience....

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Making and using affirmations to re-discover joy

  Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion. Jim Rohn   Affirmations are simple statements that you can use to improve your self-esteem, help you reach a goal, break a bad habit, find...

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How can I maintain healthy eating habits?

  Did you make a resolution to yourself to eat healthier this year? Are you struggling to keep that resolution? Once you have set a goal to maintain healthy eating habits, how do you go about actually...

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4 Intentions Worth Setting

   To make 2013 (or any other)your year, keep it simple: 1) Count your blessings first 2) Whatever you did last year, Do it better 3) Go step by step, One day at a time. 4) Create/make your own...

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Encouragement: The Best Tool for Building Self-Confidence

  Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. Mark Twain   As a parent and grandparents,...

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6 Steps for Expanding your Comfort Zone

   The further you get away from yourself, the more challenging it is. Not to be in your comfort zone is great fun. Benedict Cumberbatch   Among all of the valuable skills you can acquire, learning to...

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How to Find more Personal time, even when You’re as busy as…

  There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar: I love not man the less, but Nature...

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Simplifying your Life

  Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. Confucius   If we make life complicated and fill it up with a bunch “junk,” how can we ever focus our minds on what matters most? Many...

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Making the Most of Your “Mistakes”

  Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes. Mahatma Gandhi   People who struggle to be successful frequently repeat the same mistakes over and over. The habit of...

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Taking Steps to Manage Yourself and Your Time

  Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another. Toni Morrison (Beloved) How you choose to use your time can truly make or break you. You can either get more done in...

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Celebrate Others Sincerely and Often

  A ritual becomes the match that lights the kindred celebration candle of sacred moments long ago… tantalizing these entombed spirits to surface again. Wes Adamson   Every time you make time to give...

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