Empowered Living: How To Release Your True Potential

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Many people have seeds of greatness inside of them. These same people are often found upset and frustrated because there is something living on the inside of them that is greater than they appear right now. You may be packed with potential, but that’s not enough. The time has come to move out of potential [...]

Let’s Go There: How Bad Do You Want It?

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There are more than a dozen states that are considering legislation to make it illegal to discriminate against the unemployed. THE UNEMPLOYED!? According to the latest labor statistics, approximately 40% of the unemployed have been looking for a job longer than 6 months. This number has remained consistent since December of 2009. New Jersey was [...]

Frame of Reference: View Your Mistakes as Opportunities

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According to a growing body of clinical research, mistakes enrich learning if you adopt a positive mindset about your mistakes. Best of all, there are practical steps you can take to turn your errors into opportunities. Guiding Principles for Learning From Mistakes 1. Recognize that you can improve. People who understand that intelligence and skills [...]

Money Doesn’t Buy Happiness! Hold Up, Actually It Kinda Does…

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For years we’ve heard people attempt to rationalize the money doesn’t buy happiness battle. Regardless of where you stand on the matter one thing is for sure and that is money makes you more of what you already are. If you’re happy it makes you ecstatic. If you’re sad, it can make you miserable. Being [...]

Next Level Living: How To Stay Focused When You Feel Like Giving Up

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It seems like only a few weeks ago the world was gearing up and the stage was set for the Texas Rangers and the St. Louis Cardinals to take the field for the 2011 World Series. It had been a dramatic end to a season where both teams stepped up their game to make it [...]

Men Cry, You Just Don’t See Their Tears

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Crying is not always accompanied by tears. Crying can refer to reaching out for attention to address an inward hurt, loss or heartache. Crying can be an outward yell, noise, utterance or behavior that begs attention. Children are capable of crying, with or without tears, to display their inward unhappiness for any given reason. Crying [...]

Surviving the Life: Finding New Life During Divorce

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It’s hard getting over a relationship, especially if you have promised to be with each forever, but divorce can sometimes be a blessing. It’s okay to cry for a few days, but you have put yourself back together and move. Divorce is not the end of your life, it’s just the end of a relationship. [...]