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What Energy Are You Bringing?
In work (as in life), there are some people you enjoy being around and easily collaborate with. And then there are others…some who don’t inspire you but don’t annoy you, and some that really frustrate you and become the motivation for happy hour or the face you conjure up in kickboxing class. Unfortunately, you can’t…
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What Makes You Special?
Recently in on online discussion forum, a friend of mine shared an article on how up to 50% of women have the ability to see more color variation than the rest of us. Most of us have just three types of color-detecting cones, red, green and blue, each of which can detect 100 different colors.…
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Goals, Achievement and Failure
“What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.” ~ Zig Ziglar Do you set goals for yourself? Do you write them down or just know them in your mind or in your heart? Studies have shown it’s actually beneficial to write them down, and…
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Making Your Brain Work FOR You
“How you do anything is how you do everything.” ~ Derek Sivers, incredibly successful entrepreneur, author of Anything You Want I knew starting my own business would be challenging, and it has been. There are lots of unknowns, many things I had (and still have) to learn as I go. One of the most unexpected…
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The Secret to Happiness
“Happiness is not something the world owes you or can give you. It is not passive. It is not rest… Happiness is an activity of the soul in accord with excellence.” ~ Norman Melchert, philosopher, author, professor I’ve been taking a fascinating continuing education class on Positive Psychology. The field of psychology has been largely…
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The Power of Positive Thinking
“Understanding on a scientific level how cells respond to your thoughts and perceptions illuminates the path to personal empowerment. The insights we gain through this new biology unleash the power of consciousness, matter, and miracles.” – Bruce Lipton, PhD, The Biology of Belief I’m recently read Bruce Lipton’s book, The Biology of Belief. As a…
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Hope
“Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul…and sings the tune without words, and never stops…at all.” – Emily Dickinson During difficult times in our lives, when we lose loved ones or outgrow friendships or jobs, there are times of loneliness and hunger for connection. Martha Beck likens this to an empty…
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Facing your Fears
What are you most afraid of? What about it scares you? One of my fears is the fear of heights. Even watching a television show or movie where the actor is precariously perched on a high ledge or walking a tightrope makes my palms begin to sweat. (In fact, my palms just got a little…
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Faithful Friend
“The dark does not destroy the light; it defines it. It’s our fear of the dark that casts our joy into the shadows.” – Dr. Brené Brown The past month has been difficult for me, and I just couldn’t write about it before now. At the beginning of March, my 18-year-old cat Sabrina was euthanized. She…
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Right vs. Wrong
“When you have to make a choice and don’t make it, that is in itself a choice.” ~William James I’ve been thinking a lot lately about right and wrong. Not the big moral issues — I’m not planning a crime spree or scheming anything illegal — just the internal debates we have about right and…