happiness

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9 Ways to Get More Happiness in Your Life

Go Toward Your Goals: Progress and building a sense of forward momentum builds confidence and lifts your spirit. Count Your Blessings: Listing

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We are Made for More than the Easy Road

“To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice your gift” and “The best we can be, we must be” are

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Choosing the World You Live In

Believe it or not, in large measure, you are choosing the world you experience. As has been said in many ways and

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Corrosive Myths, Insidious Fables

When it comes to relationships Perfection is a corrosive myth. A love that can withstand imperfections is worth the “hard time” it

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How to be Miserable… and the Antidote

Want to be miserable? Complain! Constantly! Construct a never-ending litany of things you deplore and fixate on them. Focus on all that

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What You Choose to Emphasize Sets the Course of Your Days

What you focus on expands; thoughts held in mind attract in kind and every thought has emotional consequences. When you wallow in

check under the hood

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Always Look Under the Hood

The literal meaning of “look under the hood” comes from the process of buying a used car and refers to the importance

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Some folks feel the rain. Others just get wet.

Life. Stuff happens. Some of it beyond bad, other stuff beyond a doubt awesomely wonderful. But most stuff lies in between those

goals

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It’s Your One and Only Life, Right? So Own Your Days. Totally.

Everything is connected. Every action you take, every thought you have, every word you speak has consequences. Individually small perhaps, but collectively

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Drama is for the Stage

Personal or relationship drama (i.e. non-literary) refers to a situation blown out of proportion, or one involving unnecessary emotional turbulence or even

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Are You Keeping Your Side of the Street Clean?

A common way in which we distract ourselves from doing our own internal work is focus on faults of others or how

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Powerful People Perpetually Prioritize Prioritization

“I don’t have time” is often a soothing self-lie; the hard truth is that it is not a priority: if it were,