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3 Simple Secrets to Manage Stress
Author: Amy Scott Grant
Stress can be caused by a number of situational factors, but if you find you have constant stress in your life on a regular basis, it could be due to your own personality traits. Fortunately, these traits can be changed with three simple strategies to

How to Get Away From It All Without Going Anywhere
Author: Vivian Banta
So many people when they have returned from taking a trip say, I need a vacation from my vacation. This usually occurs if there is a lot of travel involved in the holiday or if people have over-scheduled their activities to take advantage of the

How To Win Back A Lost Love
Author: Katie Monroe
How to win back a lost love? Is it possible? Is it going to be easy? There are many reasons why you fall out of love...and the breakup could be painful. The worst case that can happen is when things seem great and then suddenly unravel, and you are out o

How to Turn an Exciting Goal into Discipline
Author: Tony Papajohn
Build the discipline that transforms a goal into an accomplishment by using your imagination to envision a clear image with vivid detail.

Attention! Thought Crossing! Or, The Secret of Whats Between Your Ears
Author: Inna Nirenburg
What are you thinking - right now? 'I'm reading your article!' you say. Well, take a little bit of a closer look. What's spinning in the back of your mind? Is it that big deadline that's looming at the end of the week? Or how you're going to deal

Attitude Adjustment 101: Nine Ways to Transform You From Mediocre to Magnificent
Author: Susan Young
Work on your career and youll make a living. Work on yourself and youll make a fortune. - Jim Rohn Regardless of the number of college credits or degrees you have, the truth is that much of your success is determined by your attitude. Education is

Build a Storehouse of Energy and Resiliency
Author: Steve Brunkhorst
Did you ever feel like your get-up-and-go got up and deserted you? Has a stressful situation left you feeling drained and unmotivated to perform the simplest tasks? Most of us have experienced times of stress followed by fatigue. The resiliency to

Creating A Winning Mindset by Clinical Hypnotherapist Steve G. Jones
Author: Steve G. Jones
Do you know anyone who always wins? Sure you know that person, everything just works out for them. They go into business and they are an instant success. They enter the dating scene and their phone rings off the hook. If they were in the Olympics, you

Creative Problem-Solving: Following Your Stream of Consciousness
Author: Patti Prague
Having trouble finding a solution to a nagging problem? Try a well-known journaling technique called stream of consciousness--you may be surprised at the creative messages you receive from your inner self. Take the case of Shana, an online journaler

Darkness of Winter Encourages Insights
Author: Carol McClelland, Ph.D.
The darkness of Winter has descended. For many the long stormy nights of Winter and the proverbial dark night of the soul are uncomfortable. In addition to being dark, times like these can feel cold, lonely and boring. Whether the dark makes you

Discovering Opportunity in Times of Challenge
Author: Dan Britt
You may be facing a type of disappointment, frustration, loss, or general sadness. It is in these times you can immediately begin to search for the counterbalancing positive to it. This is a flawless universal law: An opposite condition must emerge to

Do The Hardest Thing First And The Rest Will Be Easy
Author: Greg Reid
Have you ever noticed that in life we almost always choose the easy road, the path of least resistance when it comes to challenges in our way? I remember as a kid working in a warehouse, the foreman came up to me when I was complaining about the

Do You Suffer From The Chef Personality?
Author: John Flynn
As a chef I have a unique perspective on anger. In my time I have worked with the greatest in the finest kitchens of Europe. And I know what the pressure of the cooking kitchen is. I have seen the casualties and the conflicts - the ruined lives

Embracing Your Wildness
Author: Sibyl McLendon
As small children, we were all wild. Not unlike the wolf pup in the den, we ran when we felt like it, sniffed or tasted things to see what they were, yelled when the mood struck us and danced at the drop of a hat. We loved to dig in the earth, heave a

Extracting the Most from Your Time
Author: Mark Nemtsas
As we all know time is supposed to be the most precious resource in business. To help you be the most productive person you can be try the following tips to help squeeze out every last drop of your time. 1. The last thing you should do each work day

Falling up the Stairs
Author: Dr. Freddy Davis
There have been a lot of really good movies made over the last several years. There are a lot of bad ones too. And while I try to simply ignore the bad efforts, I like to take lessons from those which have profound messages to share. Among the more

First Aid For The Soul
Author: Clive Taylor
A Model of the dysfunctional, unconscious human psyche. A way through, from confusion to consciousness. Introduction Many people are lost and unhappy, with no clear sense of how to regain access to their true selves. Life seems too big,

Five Steps to Vocational Passion: A Disciplined Plan for Major Mid-life Changes
Author: Craig Nathanson
Theres a famous song lyric that asks: Is that all there is? Every seven seconds, an American turns 50 years old. So theres a good chance that song is running through some of their heads. The question captures the ennui that many people feel in

Following Through
Author: Wayne and Tamara
Direct Answers - Column for the week of March 24, 2003 My final divorce papers sit in front of me waiting for my signature. In fact, they've been sitting on my desk for five days now. It took me two days to even open the envelope and another full

o Rage
Author: David Leonhardt a.k.a. The Happy Guy
(text of a mini-keynote speech by David Leonhardt,, a.k.a. The Happy Guy which brought the house down in Gatineau, Quebec, April 21, 2002) Has anybody here ever been stuck in traffic for a frustratingly long time? Put up your hand if you have.