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The Difference Between Compromise and Sacrifice
Last year I ended up in Urgent Care. I am fine but it taught me some valuable lessons. More on that in a moment… First please ponder these questions: What is the difference between compromise and...
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My Father’s Advice for Being Happier and Forming Habits
Here in the United States, Father’s Day is coming up on Sunday, June 17. I’m a big fan for using dates as milestones, as prompts for self-reflection or for action. People say Father’s and Mother’s Days...
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Don’t Wave Your White Flag. Wave Your Freak Flag.
Here’s the thing: there really are things about you, traits, mannerisms, a style, which are wholly “you.” Those idiosyncrasies, which are unique to you, possibly irksome to others, are what I call your...
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Honor Your Father and Mother
Straight out of the gate, I must share I never had an earthly father. I, therefore, have no clue or point of reference when it comes to a father-daughter relationship. It is something I ached for, for...
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Trusting That There’s a Light at the End of the Tunnel
Sometimes the most profound messages come in the simplest packages. My daughter brings home piles of paper every day, and I discovered this in the middle of one of those piles: And on the back was...
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It’s Not Easy Being Seen
In the world of dating, it can be frightening to be vulnerable and open. We all want to be loved and we want to be seen. But what happens when you’re also scared to be seen? Well, you often end up in a...
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No Reservations to Parts Unknown: Thank You, Anthony Bourdain
I wasn’t always an Anthony Bourdain fan. My first exposure to him came when I read a critical comment he’d made that didn’t sit right with me. But that was evidently just a passing remark, and I didn’t...
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The Most Motivating One-Liner Ever…
The choices you make today determine your autobiography tomorrow. So I gave up. I threw out all of my belongings. I didn’t sign any new leases. I didn’t officially live anywhere. I started moving...
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Be Flare Prepared: How to Make a Flare Kit for ‘Bad’ Days
That moment when you wake up and the pain hits you over the head with a hammer? Flare day. The time when you can’t sleep at.all because of pain/fever/anxiety/all of the above? Flare day. When the...
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[Light Work] the Service of Joy, Especially in These Times
I’ve spent a lot of New-Age-hokey-true-wisdom-searching-efforting trying to figure out what joy really is. Is it our true nature, our original essence, the stuff of our Soul? If joy is our true nature,...
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How to Clear Negative Energy & Negative Thoughts
Everything found in the universe is made up of energy. This goes for both physical and nonphysical objects. Basic physics and chemistry tells us that a physical object, such as a building, a tree, or...
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The Power of Words: How Writing Saved Me from Suicide
In 2003, my best friend and first love killed himself. He would have turned 39 on Flag Day. He did it because he wanted to see more of his newborn son and his ex wouldn’t let him, so he shot himself....
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10 Secrets Every Parent Needs to Know about Saying No
“Dr. Laura – I’m not one of those ‘Count to 3 and They Jump’ parents. I was raised that way and it always seems to involve threats and harshness. But I do want my kids to listen to me, and to take No...
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Six Steps to Bounce Back from Disappointment
Have you ever had an experience in your life where something happened that was extremely disappointing and you feel like it kicked off a domino effect of other bad things? If you’ve ever felt that way,...
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Why We Stay When We Know We Should Go
Fear often keeps us in situations that have long passed their expiration dates. We stay in jobs that we no longer enjoy because we are too scared of uncertainty. We stay in relationships that are...
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Fill in the Blank: “The Best Portion of a Good Man’s Life” Is His _______.
Wordsworth describes his response to remembering beautiful country landscapes when he’s in towns and cities: …[O]ft, in lonely rooms, and ‘mid the din Of towns and cities, I have owed to them, In hours...
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I Am Not What I Own
“Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation of all abundance.” – Eckhart Tolle I grew up in an Eastern-European middle-class family. After the Romanian revolution in...
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Finding Personal Freedom
“The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human can alter his life by altering his attitude.” — William James The world’s most influential people, that go far above and beyond the basic...
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Unmask the Thieves of Peace
Have you ever been in the midst of that peace called, “sitting in front of the TV with a nice pizza”? You know what happens next! The phone rings or a neighbor drops by and . . . Boom! One’s slice of...
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Stop Choking the F*Ck out of Abundance
This morning as I started my day… I saw the lake shining in its early morning luminosity. Waves pounding against the wooden boards placed just short of the shore, whitecaps soaring over the edges. The...
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