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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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Tips for coping with anxiety and stress

  The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another. William James   Women are especially susceptible to workplace stress and anxiety because of the many roles they...

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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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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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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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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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How to help your child cope with separation better

Language…  has created the word ‘loneliness’ to express the pain of being alone. And it has  created the word ‘solitude’ to express the glory of being  alone. Paul  Tillich By the time your baby...

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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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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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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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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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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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How to Overcome Your Fear of Rejection while Negotiating

  By fighting you never get enough, but by yielding you get more than you expected. Dale Carnegie  (How to Win Friends & Influence People) If you are terrified of getting the door slammed in your...

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Embracing Your Self-Confidence

  The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone. Ayn Rand  (The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism)   If you have challenges with self-confidence, much of life can...

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How to Boost Your Confidence

  You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I have lived through this horror. I can take the...

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Keys to Strengthening Your Relationships

  The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.  C.G. Jung   All relationships grow and change over time. So, even if...

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Build Better Relationships With Emotional Validation

  If self-validation were our most significant societal measure – we would give trophies to ourselves. Mary Anne Radmacher   Emotional validation is an important social skill that anyone can learn, or...

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