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Best Way to Lose Weight: Go Natural

October 25, 2009
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WEIGHT LOSS CAN BE BENEFICIAL OR DANGEROUS, IF NOT DONE CORRECTLY. Choose a weight loss program that works and guarantees long-term results. The best way to lose weight is through natural means. It is a slow process, but results in permanent weight loss. It is very, very safe [...]

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Creative Visualization Techniques for Success and Good Luck

October 18, 2009

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HAVE YOU WONDERED WHY SOME PEOPLE ARE SO LUCKY? Does it not seem to you that those who need luck the most are not as blessed as those who do not? What do the lucky have that others don’t?
All people hope for good things to happen. However, the lucky ones choose to [...]

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How Do You Earn the Respect You Deserve?

October 4, 2009

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DO PEOPLE RESPECT YOU, BUT DO NOT LIKE YOU? Or, do they like you, but do not respect you? Most people actually like the people they respect. But sometimes being liked and being respected at the same time do not go together. If you have to choose one [...]

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Conversation Skills For Social and Business Success

September 20, 2009

DO YOU SOMETIMES FEEL SOME ANXIETIES IN CERTAIN SOCIAL SITUATIONS? Everyone, even the most outgoing person, does. Some even avoid social interactions altogether. Others merely hide their shyness. If you fall under any of these two extremes – or somewhere in between – making simple conversation can become quite a difficulty. [...]

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Work Smart, Not Hard: Do You Know How?

September 13, 2009

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OUR TRADITIONAL CULTURE HAS INCULCATED IN US THE VALUE OF HARD WORK. In school, our teachers nurture us with the idea that hard work breeds success. At work, employers recognize and reward their dedicated “hard” working employees.
If you are a hard working employee, you must have earned this honor, but suffered the [...]

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Don’t Let Fear of Failure Ruin Your Drive to Success

September 6, 2009

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MOST OF US EXPERIENCE FEAR OF FAILURE IN VARIOUS ASPECTS OF OUR DAILY LIVES. We are more contented with staying inside our comfort zones than venturing to experiment with the unexplored areas of our lives. We prefer to set aside opportunities than risk failure. As a result, although [...]

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Choosing Positive Work Attitudes Turns Drudgery into Play – Failure into Success

August 30, 2009

DO YOU FIND YOURSELF ENSNARED IN WORK YOU DON’T ENJOY? As a result, does your workmanship quality suffer? Are you always denied job promotions? If so, you may by now have developed poor self-esteem and self-confidence that give you a general sense of failure and negative work attitudes.
Negative work attitude may lessen [...]

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Simple Activities That Exercise Your Brain

August 25, 2009

Reading Is Great Brain Exercise.
WE ARE ALL FAMILIAR WITH BODY EXERCISES AND THEIR BENEFITS. What about brain exercises? Your brain needs exercise too, just like any other muscle in your body. If you exercise it, as well as nourish and rest it, it gets healthier and stronger. If you neglect it, [...]

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Simple Time Management Strategies for Busy People

August 10, 2009

OFTEN WE FEEL WE HAVE TOO MANY THINGS TO DO.  If we use this as excuse to delay work, then we are simply wasting our precious time. The more time we waste, the more our tasks will pile up.
If we only structure our lives to maximize our time and energy on what is most important, [...]

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Heal and Be Healed: Give Hugs to One Another

August 9, 2009

MANY OF US DO NOT REALIZE THAT LIFE ON EARTH IS A JUST BUNDLE OF ILLUSIONS. One such illusion is that we as individuals are separate entities from one another. The stark reality is that we are all one, parts of the same fabric of energy permeating this entire creation.
We are [...]

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Self-Administered Relaxation Techniques to Fight Off Daily Stress

August 7, 2009

IF YOU ARE FEELING STRESSED OUT, THE BEST THING TO DO IS TO RELAX. Some people just do not know how to conquer their tensions and relieve stress when attempting to relax. If you want to live well, the art of relaxation is one thing you need to learn. “Relaxation means releasing [...]

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Set Your Life Direction with Clearly Defined Goals

August 4, 2009

MOST PEOPLE LIVE THEIR LIVES WITHOUT PURPOSEFUL DIRECTION and as a result wonder why they are not as happy as they truly should be. They erroneously think that happiness is attained only through self-gratification, as they allow themselves to be tossed on the sea of fortuity by life’s constant vicissitudes. On the contrary, [...]

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How to Gain, Build, and Improve Your Self-Confidence

August 3, 2009

OF THE MANY REQUISITES TO SUCCESS, SELF-CONFIDENCE IS FOREMOST. And yet a number of individuals suffer from low self-esteem, which results to low self-confidence. If you suffer from low self-confidence, realize that more than anything else, it is your fears and doubts that undermine your self-esteem, and cause you to think negatively about [...]

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Improving Your Ability to Focus and Concentrate

July 31, 2009

BEING ABLE TO CONCENTRATE ON A GIVEN TASK is a necessary condition for its successful execution and accomplishment. Yet, many people find it very difficult to concentrate. You may find that you just couldn’t see through your work because of various factors. Any of the following could affect your ability to concentrate: [...]

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Strengthening Relationship with Your Friend

July 30, 2009

IN LIFE, ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT RELATIONSHIPS YOU WILL BUILD with your fellow human beings is friendship. Without friends, you would be lonely, rejected, and left out. Usually when you build true friendship, you limit it to only a handful of handpicked individuals. You want to emphasize quality over quantity of [...]

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Reawakening Your Inborn Happiness

July 26, 2009

YOU WERE BORN NATURALLY HAPPY. Happiness is already within you, as it is within each of us. But as you get older, you forget that happiness within you. Instead, you allow outside circumstances to determine your happiness. Unfortunately, when things go wrong you allow situations to affect your overall outlook of [...]

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How to Manage Work-Related Stress on Busy Days

July 23, 2009

EXCESSIVE WORK-RELATED STRESS COULD MAKE YOU PAY A PRICE in terms of personal and organizational consequences. Your reaction may at first be general (oversleeping, daydreaming), but may later turn more specific (absenteeism, migraine, poor decision-making, etc). You try to cope up with its unpleasantness by jogging, increased smoking, or job quitting. Your [...]

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Breaking the Smoking Habit

July 20, 2009

SMOKING IS A RISK FACTOR FOR ILLNESS AND A CAUSE OF PREMATURE DEATH. While the behavior can be modified and its morbid effects prevented, nicotine addiction makes this extremely difficult. Many smokers wish they had never started the habit. If first-time smoking produces unpleasant feelings, why do they continue to the point [...]

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How to Increase Your Intelligence

July 18, 2009

GENIUSES HAVE ALWAYS BEEN THE OBJECTS OF ADMIRATION AND ENVY OF MOST PEOPLE. They are born an intellectual ability that average persons are not blessed with. And yet average persons are resigned to their fate. They believe their intelligence could increase only by a small percentage through education and other intellectually challenging [...]

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Let Optimism and Positive Thinking Glide You Towards Success

July 17, 2009

MANY PEOPLE DO NOT HAVE ANY IDEA OF WHO THEIR WORST ENEMIES REALLY ARE. For them, it is always the other person. Little do they realize that as they allow negative feelings to creep in and block their way towards their goals, they turn themselves into their worst enemies.
Let us say someone is [...]

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Do You Kill Your Dreams with Negative Self-Talk?

July 16, 2009

LISTEN TO YOURSELF WHEN YOU SPEAK. What words and vocal expressions come out of your mouth? How do you respond to questions and react to situations? Do they sound positive or negative?
A Case Study
You must have met some people who tell you their dark stories, even if you did not ask. [...]

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Increase Personal Productivity through Systematic Task Management

July 15, 2009

HAVE YOU UNDERTAKEN A LARGE PROJECT AND GOTTEN OVERWHELMED at its considerable time and effort requirements? Large-scale project management can indeed be challenging, even for the seasoned who have had so much experience in it. What if you had three, four, or even five of these simultaneously in your hands, wouldn’t you consider [...]

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Consider Becoming a Life Coach

July 14, 2009

DO YOU ENJOY HELPING PEOPLE? Do you have an energetic and charismatic personality? Consider life coaching as a suitable vocation or avocation for you.
I am sure many of you have already received some form of help from a life coach. Your coach worked one-on-one with you either in person or by phone. [...]

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How to Breathe Properly in Times of Stress

July 13, 2009

DO YOU NOTICE THE WAY YOU BREATHE WHENEVER YOU FEEL STRESSED? You tend to breathe faster and shallowly. This manner of breathing causes constriction in your blood vessels, because it brings down the carbon dioxide level in the blood. In many cases, it results to hyperventilation, throwing your metabolism completely out of [...]

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Stress Management for Health and Happiness

July 12, 2009

DO YOU KNOW THAT UNREGULATED DAILY STRESSES CAN TAKE ITS TOLL on both your physical and mental health? The following manifestations are indicative of the adverse effects of stress that you experience at work, in your dealings with others, or out of the thoughts that you harbor about your own situation. They are [...]

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How Time Management Brings You Happiness

July 12, 2009

TO EXERCISE TIME MANAGEMENT, YOU SHOULD TAKE SOME TIME OUT FROM YOUR REGULAR DAILY ACTIVITIES to sit down and plan out how to spend time efficiently. Spending some time for this purpose is like spending money to make more money. This is called investment. So, you “waste” time, so to speak, [...]

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How We Should Love One Another

May 26, 2009

WHY DO PEOPLE WHO LOVE SOMETIMES FALL OUT OF LOVE? Is there really such a thing as falling out love? Yes. If one falls in love, he could fall out of love. No, if…
Impulsive and built on shaky foundations, love that one falls into faces the prospect of being short-lived and saddled with disappointments in [...]

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Why We Should Love One Another

April 25, 2009

IN THIS WORLD, SOME FORMS OF SOCIAL CONFLICT HAVE ALWAYS BEEN A NORMAL OCCURRENCE. Friends quarrel. Couples break up. Citizens rebel against their governments. Nations go to war. At its worst, loss of lives and destruction of properties result. Not a desirable situation in our lives. Why do these [...]

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How to Prepare for Your Retirement

April 7, 2009

HOW MANY PEOPLE DO YOU KNOW WHO HAVE RETIRED AND ARE NOT HAVING FUN FROM IT simply because he is either destitute or infirm? There are people, who during their productive years, worked too hard at the expense of their health and find themselves spending their lifetime fortunes for medicines and hospital bills upon [...]

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