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    Starting the day with good habits

    Of course, and thank you! Let's see, well, even though they say you shouldn't wish your life away, I do tend to count down towards the weekend when it gets to Wednesday or so. "Just two more days!" for example. I try to think of new components of what is on my mind, for example recently I have...
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    Being Too Future-Oriented

    Very good point. From a very early age what concept is beaten into our brains? It's all about the future! When you're a kid, they ask you what you want to be when you grow up. In middle school, you cannot wait to get to high school. In high school, you cannot wait for prom and graduation and...
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    Dealing with the toxic people in your life

    I cannot count how many times I have done that before, and remember, what you say and what you really truly feel can often times be two very different things! Like you said, if you start explaining why you disagree, that can lead to trouble, as people like this will often times get combative and...
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    Keeping Success in Perspective

    Success. That word is such a mouthful. While it can be a very motivational word that drives us towards success, it can also become overwhelming and intimidating, and at times we can obsess over it perhaps a little too much. What I have found has helped is to treat it as I would anything that is...
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    Starting the day with good habits

    Very well said! One trick I try to do is to think of something really positive and hold on to it throughout my morning routine, i.e. thinking about it during breakfast, in the shower, and on my way to work. Just something simple that I'm looking forward to, or maybe something "big" and special...
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    Dealing with the toxic people in your life

    I understand where you're coming from here, as I have two individuals fitting that description in my wife's family. As you said, when it comes to family, it is difficult to exclude them from your lives, and so people such as ourselves are forced with the dilemma of trying to make the most of an...
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    Keep pushing forward even if you have setbacks.

    So very true! One of the basic truths in life, and one of the very best components of it, is that regardless of what happened today, the sun will rise tomorrow and it will be a new day to take on the world and make the best of both life and of yourself! Resiliency is key, and it is human nature...
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    Turning a Negative into a Positive

    This can be both the single greatest challenge and yet the single greatest reward one can make in any given predicament. As important as finding the silver lining is, it's not always about merely finding a ray of hope on a cloudy day. The ability to flip a less than stellar situation into a...
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    Your "Faults" are not actually faults

    Another thing I would ask myself, is whether these "faults" are negative, or simply just personality traits. That makes a huge difference to me, being able to classify whether they are something we would honestly and earnestly like to change about ourselves, or whether they are just something...
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    Your "Faults" are not actually faults

    Great post! This reminds me of the film Good Will Hunting, when Robin Williams' character discusses the things we call "imperfections," and notes how in reality, that is the good stuff. As we all know, nobody is perfect, we're all human, and considering there are over six billion of us coming...
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    One Simple Method for Improving Sleep and Easing a Cluttered Mind

    Years ago, somebody provided me a bit of advice that I would like to share with the message board. She said how the bedroom is for sleep, and....well, a three letter word I shall leave to your imagination. Essentially, the point was that thoughts of work or other stresses should be kept out of...
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    Easy things you can do to "Escape"

    So often in life we feel the desire to just get away from it all, to tune everyone and everything out, to freeze time, so to speak. It is getting more difficult than ever to do so in this world where everyone is so intimately connected through the Internet. For me, my favorite escapes are not...
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    If you think you've blown God's plan...

    So very true, yet I hear this complaint all the time! Planning takes time, and yes, sometimes it is stressful and there are pitfalls. Such is true of God's plan for each of us. We need to stay resilient and patient in order to enjoy the benefits of our individual destiny!

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