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How to Stop Sweating and Shaking Over Those Big Business Decisions

Decisions are not a democratic thing. Trash the complicated charts with spider web diagrams. You’ll just fry your brain. The small stuff is easy, but those Goliath-sized choices... They can bring a...

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5 Unpopular Things that Can Make You More Creative

Do you ever secretly wish you were just a little more creative? Maybe inventing a life changing gadget is your unrealized childhood dream or perhaps you just want to hand in a more original essay for...

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The Power of Mind in Spiritual Meditation

The power of mind determines the mental strength of a person. Controlling one’s own mind is inevitable for achieving success in life. When the mind gets controlled then it is easy to concentrate in...

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The Ultimate 3 Point Plan to Overcoming ANY Negative Circumstances

You don’t want an ordinary life. Working a job you hate, putting up with a passionless relationship and having to compromise your individuality is not for you. To paraphrase Theodore Roosevelt, you...

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How To Live ‘The Hero’s Journey’ Without Leaving Your Own Backyard!

Some of us are familiar with “The Hero’s Journey” that Joseph Campbell describes in his 1949 work The Hero with a Thousand Faces as a pattern of narrative describing the typical adventure of the hero...

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5 Principles for Pummeling Procrastination

Welcome to the battle for progressive conscious awareness! Today’s fight is between the challenger – YOU, and the reigning champ -“Procrastination”! Alright you two, I want a clean and efficient...

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5 Ways To Standout and Get That Promotion

So you've been working in your job for years and finally that opportunity for promotion which you've been waiting for comes along but it's not going to be that simple is it? You see the rest of your...

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7 Destructive Habits to Get Rid of If You Want to Be Happy

Happiness can be seen as a state of mind. It’s how we perceive our lives and the world around us. But our inside thoughts can be radically shaped by our actions and behavior in the outside world. Just...

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5 Reasons Cooking is Actually Good Meditation in Disguise

You're lying in bed at night, trying to fall asleep.  As you start to doze off, you are overcome with an incredible feeling.  You can't quite put your finger on it.  Did you turn off the oven after...

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Being Different and Getting Over It: How To Accept and Improve

Everyone's different: we flock together and become friends mainly because we have common interests. For example, the only reason why we're close to our acquaintances is because we support the same...

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5 Ways Ego Interferes With Your Happiness

The word happiness is defined in most cases as a feeling of contentment, or as a feeling ranging from contentment to intense joy. Happiness is an innate desire of the human being, and indeed it is our...

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15 Tips Anyone Can Use to Conquer Shyness

“You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.” ― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and...

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3 Simple Ways To Use Your Inner Values To Finally Find Work That Lights You Up

You know the feeling you get when the ringing alarm jolts you out of your precious Monday morning sleep? The feeling that there is no point to getting out of bed because this week is just going to be...

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How To Create A Morning Routine That Changes Your Life

Through high school and the first years of college I always had problems sticking to habits and getting things done. I can still remember sleeping in and postponing or canceling all the stuff I knew...

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How to Become Luckier

We could all use a little more luck in our lives. On the surface, it seems like wishful thinking to imagine there’s anything we could do to enhance that. But most of us—the overscheduled masses—have...

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The 17 Marks of a Good and Happy Life

1) You have traveled to some different parts of the world Because traveling brings you out of your comfort zone and expands your horizon. You absorb different cultures and that allows you to be...

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How Ants Survive Rush Hour (and why putting your ego in check will change...

It’s everyone’s nightmare.  Rush hour.  Inching along interminably as too many cars navigate too few lanes, with too many merging in and too few turning off. Who would have imagined that King Solomon...

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7 Scientific Self Help Books That Will Transform Your Life

I’m one of those weirdos that prefers reading non-fiction books over fiction books any day of the week — especially when it comes to books about leadership, success and self-help. It’s just my thing....

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5 Simple Ways to Get Better at ANYTHING Fast!

I want it and I want it now!  We say this to ourselves every single time we demand instant gratification, quick results, or fast progress at something- even though we may sound like children.  There...

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The 4 Steps To Align Your Life With Your True Self

Mid-life brings about many transitions.  Children leaving home, aging parents, divorce, remarriage, and career changes can leave us asking the questions: Who am I?  What do I really want? How do I...

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