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5 Ways to Help Kids to Cope with Mental Health Problems
When I was wondering why my child wouldn’t get out of bed or didn’t want to play, I always refrained from assuming that something was wrong with him. Only once this type of behavior became recurring, I...
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Connectivity May Just Save the World
Connectivity may just save the world. Growing up in New York State, there was this great, old New York Telephone jingle, “We’re all connected, New York Telephone!” I also loved the famous Coca-Cola...
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Overcoming Other’s Opinions
“I’m not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I am not dumb…and I also know I am not blonde.” – Dolly Parton We see life through our own unique lens and through this lens we form...
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Getting out of Your Head and into Your Body
A few years ago, I side-swiped a parked car while pulling into my driveway. I actually didn’t realize what I had done until I got out and saw the scratches on my three month old car. I thought to...
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Has a “Clean Slate” Ever Led to a Major Habit Change for You?
In Better Than Before, my book on habits — one of the most fascinating subjects ever — I explore the various strategies that we can use to shape our habits. Strategies such as Monitoring, Convenience,...
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A Love Letter to Your Healing Heart
This is a love letter from my healing heart to yours. Paper hearts and rose maroc, old stories and tears, shared along with heart-scars over cups of tea, it’s all here. We are, facing each other across...
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Take Your Best Swing
My son played baseball growing up. We were truly a baseball family, loving every minute of the dirt, the field, the excitement of spring season and the opportunity to watch him play. Being a parent is...
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Make Moments Matter
Have you ever looked around at your family and friends and wondered how many days you will get to share with them? I do this often — not in a negative way, but in an awe-filled way. Why do I do this? I...
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The More You Improve, the Harder It Gets
I always love a good quest. While flying Southwest Airlines recently (it’s a long story), I happened to pick up the in-flight magazine and read about a guy who’s trying to become a professional golfer....
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The Simple, Not-What-You’d-Expect, Time-Saving Hack I’ve Been Loving Lately
It happened again yesterday. All of the planned projects, plus unexpected curve-balls, were mounting as we ticked off the days toward the end of the year when our company takes a break – full stop –...
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9 Life-Saving Reasons You Shouldn’t Judge People
Is it OK to judge people? NO. One time someone wrote a lie about me. I hated this person. I judged them. Why did they lie about me? Why did they wrong me? I judged them as evil. This person pulled...
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The Importance of Naming Our Teachers
When I was 14 years old, I received my level 1 Reiki certification. Part of the tradition in Reiki is to name our teachers; I learned from my best friend’s mother, who was like my second mother growing...
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5 Q’s for a Luminous New Year in Business
Fire Starter, On Team D we think of September as the new January, so a few months ago we dove into business-related retrospection and visioning to get free & clear for 2019. Whenever you’re ready...
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Connecting Your Creative Visualization and Motivation
Some people, when they hear the word, “visualization,” think it means sitting around daydreaming. But that’s not at all what it is… Visualization is the practice of intentionally creating detailed...
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A Handmade Tale
Recently I learned to bake sourdough bread. If you have ever tried it, it is a time-intensive labor of love, taking days to create two loaves of bread. I felt immense pleasure creating something so...
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You Have to Stop Fixing What Cannot Be Fixed
It comes like a tsunami. It forces itself inside your house. With madness. You run out your front door. When the tsunami ends, your house is destroyed. Your things don’t look like your things anymore....
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Danger Ahead! 8 Dating Warning Signs You Should Not Ignore
Do you ever start seeing someone new and you get excited because they seem really great, only to realize a few dates in that they’re actually not that great after all? In fact…they’re kinda crappy?...
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Letting Go of Attachment
“Life is suffering. Attachment is the source of suffering. The end of attachment will bring the end of suffering.” Buddha I love this wisdom from Buddha because it reminds me that I am usually the...
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Struggling to Get Something Done? Set Up Outer Accountability (Especially if...
The “Four Tendencies” is a personality framework that I created that divides all of humanity into four categories — Upholder, Questioner, Obliger, and Rebel — you can read an explanation and take the...
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Choose You
Whose expectations should we satisfy? Can one person really empower another? (basically, be given permission to use what Is already ours). All the happiest people I know enjoy what they do. They have...
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