Nearing the second half of lifeTo be married and have a family of my own was my ultimate dream. I was not built for a killer job in the corporate arena, although I have had a career that could have proved promising years before the wedding bells tolled.
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PUZZLE OF LIFEPeople say seeing is believable, but sometimes what you don’t see is actually there. You just have to think of a way to find and see it for yourself.
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Reflecting on My Life: The Past, The Present, The FutureThis was the year that formed me and started to shape me into the woman I’ve become. I did not know true pain and hurt until 2015. I was a senior in high school trying to find myself while navigating through an abusive relationship.
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It's All About MeIt has been my observation that people are not very good listeners and they are usually not interested in other people unless it has some direct bearing on their own lives.
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Hypnosis Helps You to Believe That You Can Change
The key to making changes in your life lies in believing that you can do so. First you have to want to change and then secondly you have to believe that you can change.
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Keep It SimpleI like the simple life. By simple I mean uncomplicated. I like it when things work the way they should and I like my path unobstructed and unencumbered.
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Performance Dissonance“The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.”- Rienhold Nieburh
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How To Generate Ideas For GreatnessHow do we generate ideas? This can be classified into two, the ordinary and the extraordinary process. But, first if you are going to get new ideas, it essential that you eradicate negative thinking from your mind.
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Wishing Your Life AwayWhen I was young, my mother used to tell me that I was wishing my life away because I always wanted to be older.
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Words To Live By?Watching the news the other day, it occurred to me that people who have "words to live by" often begin to attack and even kill others. I thought back to my own angry youth, when I could easily use words to justify violent thoughts which might have become violent actions.
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Have you found your purpose in life?Do you know what is driving you? Why are you working so hard and doing so much to get what you want? Do you know your purpose for being here?
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Three AmigosI feel rather foolish writing this letter, but I need help. I am a 67-year-old man living on social security. My wife and I divorced, but I never lost my love for her.
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Don't Just Stand There!Many people think that they have to accept whatever life throws at them. They'll say, "This is my fate, my destiny. I cannot change it."
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Dreams - What Life is Made OfDreams are by far my favorite. Dreams are what life is made of. I’m not talking of the dreams that happen when we sleep, but of the ones that we create in our awaken state: ideas, goals… just things we want to achieve. All of us at some point of our life had those kinds of dreams.
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Beach Living!!I was basically sitting on the beach in a bar with my fiancé watching the last of the surfers trying to catch the last waves of the day. The sun was going down directly in front of us, we were enjoying a beer or two.
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Have You Given Up On Yourself?Have you given up on yourself? Have you decided to take the easy road and coast for the rest of your life? Have you come to the decision that you have done all you could possibly be expected to do in your life now it is someone else's turn?
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LIFE CHANGE LESSONS : TOOLS THAT CAN CHANGE YOUR LIFEValentine's Day has come and gone. A valentine card may still hold a special corner on the desk, red heart balloons, once so full and expressive are now deflated and droopy (if they're around at all), magnificent floral bouquets given to loved ones...
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Balancing Acts: Keeping Work and Life in EquilibriumIn the fast-paced world that we live in today, it seems as though it's hard to find enough time to do everything that needs to be done. Days at work are long, but too often don't seem to be long enough…
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Stop Existing And Start Living!Are you still daydreaming about the goals you had set for yourself, but still have not achieved yet? So you start to daydream about what it would be like IF you really had achieved the goals you had hoped for.
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Life, The Greatest Ride of AllLife is the greatest roller coaster ride we will ever take. The ups and downs, the unexpected changes, the twists and turns, are all a part of living. The roller coaster ride of life can be miserable and uncomfortable or exciting and rewarding.
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Are You a Queen or Still a Princess?As a child, I never had the desire to be a princess or a Queen until recently. I didn’t value the very essence of what a Queen really meant. I was stuck in princess mode until everything changed.
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Be kind but not too kindBe kind to others by helping them finish the day at ease. Be kind to others by lending your ears when they want to share their stories with you. Be kind to others by showing respect of their identity. Be kind to others by treating them like they are the most precious person in the world. Be kind to others by being thankful and glad that they exist.
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5 Survival Tools for Thriving in Any Life StormIf you are conscious and honest with yourself, challenges occur in your life. Some of these challenges will be small. Others will seem to shake the very foundation of your life and make you wonder why you were ever born. It is at times like the latter that you need tools in your shed to help you weather the storm.
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I WANT TO ROCK!What do I mean I want rock? I must be showing my age, it was a heavy mental band from the eighties, Twisted Sister. Does this mean I think we all should bang are heads?
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Is It The Blues?Often we hear anger called a negative emotion. Like the creator made a mistake in the original design of humanity—the kind of mistake typical of humans. Maybe it was just a slip of the spoon when adding ingredients, or inadvertent reactiveness between two benign components (like barbiturates and alcohol).
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Why not live vicariously through Yourself?Reality programming still appears to be all the rage today. It started with shows like Survivor, Sex & the City, Desperate Housewives and The Amazing Race, et al. They’ve all been on all the major networks. It seems we can’t get enough of it. Why do you think that is?
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How To Choose Righteous FriendsBuilding a healthy friendship is important in your social life. Friends are the bodies that you need to be around in your life - who stand by your side in all circumstances - good or bad.
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Change Thought Change Life?What were the last words that you spoke to someone in an effort to influence their actions? Think carefully was it the words that influenced them or the thoughts in their mind that your words generated that influenced?
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Origin of Certain Thoughts
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Origin of Certain Thoughts
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Life Is About Making ChoicesYou make choices every day of your life. Some decisions are good, some are bad.
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To Change your Life, Change your Beliefs with EFTAll beliefs are inherited and negative ones can be identified and changed with correct understanding. Negative beliefs rule every aspect of our lives and will be sent down to our children and their children too whether we like it or not. Or so used to be the case.
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Mid-Life Perception: It’s Your View That CountsThis is the third in a ten-part series exploring the "Ten P" model developed by Craig Nathanson, The Vocational Coach, to help mid-life adults discover and do what they love.
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Some Thoughts About Thinking“A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.” - Thomas Paine
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PURSUE YOUR PURPOSE - SUPERCHARGE YOUR LIFEDo you ever feel that, as a Christian, you’ve lost that desire to pursue your purpose? You see people living out there dreams and knowing their purpose in life, but you can’t quite get there yourself.
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The Second Half of LifeI’m 56 years old. Really. It seems like yesterday I was bopping down the streets of Manhattan with my buddies and today I’m in bed by 10 pm.
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