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Living in Denial – Why We Love Being Lied To

Truth and Honesty V.S. Lies and Denial Why do we sometimes love those that lie to us and hate those that tell us the truth? My initial answer to this question was one of denial. “That’s stupid,” I said. “Nobody does that.” Fortunately, I couldn’t walk away from such a thought provoking matter without fully [...]

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The Secret of Dealing with Difficult People

People skills

I think it’s pretty safe to say that we’ve all had some experience dealing with difficult people. You know the ones—prone to outbursts, inconsiderate of others’ feelings, rude, negative or just plain mean as hell. We can’t always avoid encounters with difficult people, but we can determine how we deal with their difficult behavior. So, [...]

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How to Be Selfish…In a Good Way

Inspiration & Motivation

The Role of Selfishness in Self Improvement Selfishness. The word has a bad reputation. As it slips off my tongue, I get an image of a small child withholding his favorite toy from a playmate. At first thought, you may also regard selfishness in a negative light. But is it really that bad? Is it [...]

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How to Live Fearlessly: A Life Lesson on Overcoming Fear

Law of Attraction

A wonderful personal development blogger, Stephen Mills, wrote a blog post series titled, The Science of Fear. This resonated with me in a powerful way because I believe that fear is the most toxic element in our environment today. It destroys more lives than terrorists, chemical weapons, ozone gases, carcinogens, ultraviolet rays, fast food, wars, [...]

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Valuing Diversity for Self Development

People skills

Although I know we are all in different places along our self improvement journey, I’m almost ashamed to admit the conversation that I had with a friend last night. She called me and said, “They have a Spanish version of every commercial now. You know what that means?” When I asked what it meant, she [...]

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Self Improvement Journey from Zero Talent to Extraordinary Success

Inspiration & Motivation

I read about a very interesting concept called deliberate practice. The premise is that you may reach greatness at anything, devoid of talent, by deliberately putting approximately 10,000 hours of practice into it. I agree with this to an extent, but I want to discuss additional ways to achieve success without natural ability. Because Michael [...]

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Are You Helping or Interfering With Success?

People skills

4 Great Reasons to Mind Your Own Business When was the last time you saw someone doing something you disagreed with so strongly that you had to say something, even though their choices didn’t directly affect you? I’m sure there isn’t a person in the world who hasn’t been guilty of this. It is normal [...]

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Why You Shouldn’t Keep It Real: A Lesson on Unrealistic Living

Self Improvement Ideas

While reading a list of 50 tips from a fellow self improvement blogger, I found myself stuck on number one. Not because it was such an amazingly good or bad tip, but because it was so fundamentally different from everything that I believe. The tip: Be realistic. If I could offer only one piece of [...]

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What It Really Takes to Achieve the Impossible

Inspiration & Motivation

Have you ever wondered how some people manage to have amazing, almost miraculous success stories to share with the world? When smashed between a rock and a hard place, they somehow wind up on a cloud. It’s so amazing that you can’t help but feel inspired, and maybe even a little jealous. I gave this [...]

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6 Ways to Escape Your Regrets

Inspiration & Motivation

If you’ve made it to adulthood, chances are good that you have experienced the pain of living with regret. Chances are equally good that you’d love to go back in time to change some choices that you’ve made, to undo some action that you took, to take back some words that you wish you had [...]

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