Although advice books have been around for centuries, it wasn’t until the 1980s that the “self-help” books phenomenon was launched, and we haven’t looked back. Everywhere we turn, we can find advice (from people like me) to think positive, to create affirmations that support what you want, to visualize the wish fulfilled in order to […]
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It seems that we all walk around with massive “To Do” lists and very tiny notes somewhere in the back of our mind that we should stop and smell the roses. Or whatever particular phrase catches your attention, meaning to enjoy life, to breathe in the incredible diversity of our planet and the adventures it
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We live in a digital age, where sharing is the norm. Or is it? We share photos and comments and videos on Facebook and Twitter and YouTube. We share with friends and their friends and even with “the public” a.k.a. strangers. We post our opinions on world issues and we share what’s on our mind. But
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I was thinking today about how often we make promises to ourselves that we break freely. We don’t start off with the intention of doing so, but all of a sudden it seems that something more important comes up and we can’t keep that promise to… go to the gym 3 times a week… be
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We don’t have a monopoly on multi-tasking in our busy lives, but somehow it’s not easy to imagine even modern people living in the pre-electricity era being as distracted each day as we are. We’re bombarded with noise. With requests for instant replies (texts! emails! voice mails!) And with the frantic sense that if we
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Most of us learned an upside down and backwards approach to life–we learned to look around us and pay attention to what everyone else is doing and saying, and then react to that. We are now learning a much better way of living, from an inside-outward perspective, but it takes a commitment to your own
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Have you ever wondered about the relationship between stress and popcorn? … No? I didn’t think so. I know I’m kind of a nerd, but I think all the time about why we get stressed out and what we can do about it. And there’s something cheap and easy that I’ve discovered: if you make popcorn in
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I heard an ad on TV the other day while my back was turned doing kitchen chores, and a man’s voice said “There’s nothing worse than a dead battery.” I glanced at the screen and was not surprised to see they were selling a product to jump start your car easily. But what lingered in
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Let me know how The 3-Minute Stress Buster exercise worked for you!
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Have you ever had a big goal, something really juicy that you wanted so much you could almost taste it? And yet, no matter how much you wished for different results, you kept ending up falling short of what you really desired?
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