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Choose Your Path…Take The Journey You Want!
Joyce Chapman,
You probably have heard many inspirational quotes, read articles and books about the notion that life is a journey.
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Attitude for Greatness
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What is attitude? It is what you think, believe, feel, expect, act, in relation to yourself, life, people, and your goals. Attitude can be positive or it can be negative; it can be limiting or it can be expanding; if you have a positive attitude, you feel alive, well, loved, happy, liked, confident,...you feel good; if you have a negative attitude, you feel angry, resentful, fearful, depressed, anxious, hopeless,... you feel bad. Your feelings are your thermometer to your attitude and, as we will see below, your life is the mirror to your attitude.
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Go Out and Do It!
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I’ve stumbled upon something that we’re all guilty of, especially myself, and thought I would bring up a few ways to encourage us all to go out and take action!
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From The Heart
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A couple of years ago I was reading the newspaper and I came across an article that interested me. What first caught my eye was a picture of knitted squares all with the Virginia Tech colors.
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A Different Kind of New Year's Resolution
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New Year Resolutions can work - if you work at them!
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The Human Consciousness
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Sometimes I wonder who it is I really am and where I belong. I know that I am not the only one out there who feels the same. I feel a little envious when I read about people who go on fantastic spiritual pilgrimages through Japan or India.
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Have a Home Made Christmas!
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The Christmas holiday season should be filled with joy. Not a time when people feel overwhelmed and disappointed, because they can not afford to give store bought gifts. A homemade gift is often a priceless treasure that may have people remembering for decades to come.
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New Year's Resolutions - Learn How to Accomplish your Dreams
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Get the guilties because you seldom accomplish those things you promise yourself to do in your New Year's resolutions? You're not alone.
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Bringing Back Quality Family Time With Christmas Stories
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As days go by, life is becoming more and more frenzied compared to the kind of life people lived with before. Families are frequently very busy doing something and family fun time is becoming rarer by the minute.
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Soul Choices and The Law of Attraction
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Wouldn't it make sense to believe that if there is an order in the universe, there is also an order to the events in our lives?
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5 Reasons Not to Give Up
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At various time in our lives we can feel if all the hard work we put in is not working. Nothing is going to plan, it gets too hard and we get tired of fighting. It’s easy to give up, walk away and forget all about it. But what about your dreams? What about desires, aspirations, and your goals? Are you really ready to give up on everything you have ever wanted?
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France Wants Happiness Included in Progress Measures by Lisa Bryant
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As countries begin emerging from the global financial crisis, France is proposing to measure progress in a new way - one that includes happiness and well being, as well as traditional economic benchmarks.
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Life Without Limits—There Are No Restrictions—Everything is Endless and Abundant by Cindy Herb
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How many people believe they have limits? On a physical level, perhaps that has been the case. However, are you really limited from achieving anything, despite what you may currently believe?
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Question - Why?
Jessica Farrington,
It is said that a picture is worth a 1,000 words.
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Be a Brazen Gal: Self Promote
Patricia Morgan,
"Take the basket off your head so we can see your light shine"
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Somebody Had to Do It. So I Did
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In rural areas of Honduras, women are so confined that some can't even go to church by themselves. But after land reform in the 1970s, cooperative organizations of campesinos sprang up and they had roles for women: taking notes, pouring coffee, sweeping up after the meetings. I was one of those women until the day the men decided to send a few women to the city, Tegucigalpa, to be trained in leadership and advocacy.
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Enlightenment at the metro
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Bodhisattva, in the Buddhist tradition, is somebody that promotes unity or harmony, and postpones their own enlightenment in order to help other people achieve theirs.
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My Life Has Turned into a Hopeful One - Chantal Nimugire
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I grew up and lived with my grandparent (0-6 years) and with my auntie (7-16 years) the whole of my childhood. My parents were living in other places. My mother was a single mother and I didn't know my father.
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Stress Reduction with Vision Mapping
Darlene Siddons, Author
Stress seems to be surrounding us from every angle these days and even thinking about and being aware of our stress, seems to stress us out.
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Retirement Hobbies - Remember the Joy of Lifelong Learning
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In September 2007 - at the age of 60 - I enrolled in a 20 week refresher course in Conversational Irish (Ghaeilge Labhartha) at University College Cork. Many of my generation were alienated towards the Irish language, because it was compulsory to learn it in school, where it was often taught in an ineffective and harsh manner.
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Is Stress at Work Only If You Lose Your Job?
Darlene Siddons, Author
Stress isn’t only if you are laid off or are let go, stress is in the work place no matter what. Getting laid off and/or your job being eliminated just adds to the stress of it all. Sort of like waiting for the other shoe to drop syndrome.
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The Power of Belief - by Desiree Jumchai
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Wise people say that adversity or crisis provides the best school for learning. Sometimes lessons hard-learned are best remembered.
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Law of Attraction Manifests Great With Vision Map Videos
Darlene Siddons, Author
Does the law of attraction really work? Does saying affirmations over and over again really work? Are you one of the people that feel like they just can’t get it to work for them?
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Vision Map Video is Like Life Staging for Empowerment
Darlene Siddons, Author
We stage our life the way we want it to look; how we want to see it and find a design in order for that to happen. Videos are great for mapping out how we want to see things, then when you add affirmations and music, that makes them even more effective as it taps into more of your senses and your whole body can be empowered into making your desires manifest.
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My Time
Tami Richards, Contributing Author
As time is a fact of reality which no sane person can deny, I am certain that it is something that we all consider at some point in our lives. There comes a point when one wonders about time and how we, as individuals, fit into it. A time when we wonder a little deeper than how long it takes to drive to work so we can set the alarm clock a few minutes later. When we wonder about more than how much longer until the kids go to bed. There comes a point when we wonder about something a little more involved than how long to cook pasta without overcooking it.
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Working Toward 'yes We Did' - Shana McLean Moore
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As a person who goes on record as a passionate advocate for community building, I’m nervous talking politics. I suppose I fear that anything I say on the topic will be as polarizing as inserting myself in the middle of a sibling squabble, with half my audience nodding its head in smug “Hah!-mom’s-on-my-side” superiority while the other rolls its eyes in “Whateverrrr” disgust.
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An Act of Kindness
Noeleen Kennedy,
I was on a coach tour through Europe in 2006 when, horror of horrors, my wallet was stolen by a pick-pocket in Switzerland.
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Law of Attraction with a Vision Board
Darlene Siddons, Author
Vision boards have been around for years, they have been used in classrooms for elementary students and churches for bible school for years as a fun and productive craft exercise.
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Support a Cause. Spread Awareness through Blogging - by Laura Jones
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I've recently returned from Houston where I spent three days attending the Mom 2.0 Summit, a gathering of marketers and (mostly) mom bloggers. Having been to many blogging conferences over the years, I have to say, this was one of the best for several reasons.
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The Crossing
Merle Brill,
As I sit and write this I don't know what tomorrow will bring, or even if it will come. None of us do. But today did. Was it the best day ever? No. Was it the worst day ever? No, but I was here for it, and for a change I was grateful.
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A Blessing in the Frozen Food Section
Meredith Morckel, ARCHIVED
With the book "God Stories" (2008), Editor Jennifer Skiff has compiled an anthology of first-hand accounts by people who have seen God, heard from God, or witnessed something miraculous that they attribute to God. It's a book that asks to be read slowly. I only got through two or three stories at a time before I had to put it down and digest what I'd read. The stories are powerful because they can't be explained by science or dismissed by coincidence. Like the parting of the Red Sea, like Lazarus rising from the dead, like Moses and the burning bush, they are miracles.
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Passions of a Romance Writer
Linda Cacaci,
When you read the success stories of people, you always notice that their passion for a certain field began when they were very young. So it is with me. I am no exception.
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Climb To The Top Of The Mountain
lorna darden,
It seems that no matter how much climbing we do it always seems there’s more climbing to do to get to the top. Today times are much harder then it was 20 or 30 years ago. Things were much cheaper, the towns were much safer and the kids were just kids. Now things are not so easy anymore. The richer get richer and the poorer get poorer.
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Injury
Kathlyn Fauchon,
In what way have you been injured? Think about a young child. How often does the little one fall and scrape the knees? Such a small injury but through it the child learns life isn’t always easy.
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Setting Boundaries To Maintain Your Sanity
Cookie Tuminello,
How to Get Through Stressful Times Without Losing It!
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Achieving Maximum Altitude
Adele Alfano,
Like most people, there are not many things I like about flying. Except for one thing! When I fly, I always choose the window seat and wait for the best part of the flight! I just love when the plane cuts through the clouds and soars above them.
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Those Who Wish to Sparkle Will Always Find the Glitter 5
Adele Alfano,
There is an ancient proverb that says "those who wish to sing, will always find a song". I decided that my motto is going to be "those who wish to sparkle...will always find the glitter"!
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Dreaming While you are Awake!
Adele Alfano,
The other day, flipping through the many magazines that I receive at home, I saw a travel ad that said, "You Dream More When Your Awake'! What caught my attention were not only the words, but the lovely pictures of the Taj Mahal in India and the Great Pyramids of Egypt. If you dream while you are awake, you are day dreaming!
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You're It
Meredith Morckel, ARCHIVED
In the northern mountains of Guatemala, there are Mayan villagers who have never seen Caucasians. They’re heard of them, the white people who relocated their ancestors, stole their land, murdered their people for bananas and coffee beans. But many adults, and most of the children, have never seen white skin. It’s alien, nightmarish.
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Let Go and Go With The Flow
Marie Barnes, ARCHIVED ILL HEALTH
Are you working your arse off and getting nowhere fast? If so, you are not alone.
Most of us are living our lives the wrong way round. We work, work, work, until we either burn ourselves out or die. I know that is a harsh thing to say, but it's true.
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Time May Change Me - But I Cant Trace Time
Adele Alfano,
"Time May Change Me...But I Can't Trace Time" are the famous words from the song "Changes" by David Bowie! Just turning 49 and knowing that 50 is around the corner, I cannot begin to trace where the time has gone. Time is passing at light speed at this age!
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The Road to Peace
Kathlyn Fauchon,
Everyone looks for peace. We just want a quiet space, a moment to escape the pressures and stresses in our lives. Peace can be found but not on our terms.
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Diligent Spider
Kathlyn Fauchon,
The leader rode his horse aside to a quiet place. He noticed a spider’s web. With his sword he cut it down. The spider started building his web all over again. The man watched. When the spider had finished he cut the second web down. The little spider began building its web all over again. It kept at its job even after a third destruction of its web.
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Riding The Rainbow of Life
Saundra Seward,
Navigating through life my sometimes cause bumps, bruises and heartache. The trick is to keep up the strength to continue on!
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A Leap of Faith
Linda Cacaci,
I was faced with a decision that would transform my life. should I stay where I am, in the city where I was born and raised, the only place I had every known or to I cut my roots and go to a place I was not familar with. My grandparents did the same when they left their native Italy. I, therefore, followed in their footsteps. It took all the courage that I had and then some.
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Strange Messenger
Kathlyn Fauchon,
Follow that bird! I speak of the two-legged feathered kind. I'm serious.
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Self Worth
Tara Liverios, Columnist
What happens when you get to a point in your life where you think you should be “settled” and ready for the rest of your life and life throws you a curve ball?
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Womens Anthem
Saundra Seward,
At what age does the confident women get her guts? The answer to this question lies within her head and beyond the depths of her heart. It's the age where fear meets conquest and at a time when you've had enough. Just when you feel like giving in, something in your gut takes over...and you find what you're really made of...
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She Touched the Face of God
Bev Murrill, Contributing Writer
She was not completely alone. She had her husband with her and those animals that shuffled and sighed heavily in the night. Even so, Mary felt lonely and vulnerable.
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Fearfully & Wonderfully Made.
Kathlyn Fauchon,
At the tender age of eleven years a remark made by my mother engraved itself into my memory. It concerned a girl some six or so years older than I. Her parents sent her to boarding school and there the school kept her in the sixth grade until she left probably at the age of fifteen. What damage did this do to her spirit? How humiliated she must have been. My heart aches for her even now.
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Your Goal…..Your GAIN!!!
Clare Hudd, Assistant Editor in Chief
A slice of paradise…………! Isn’t it what we all want…our own slice? Everything to work smoothly, run like clockwork and to pan out the way you envisioned it.
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Dealing with ‘Shrinking World’ Syndrome
Bev Murrill, Contributing Writer
Have you ever felt squeezed on every side? Do you dream of an island where you can retreat into your own little world, away from people and pressure?
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Jump! I Dare You!
Bev Murrill, Contributing Writer
It was December 2005 and we were in beautiful Jamaica. Two young friends of ours were getting married and we were asked to perform the wedding ceremony. What came with the package was a fantastic two-week holiday in an amazing resort; sun, sand and sea, all there on our doorstep and wonderful weather every single day!
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Inspiration
Linda Lycett, Editor-in-Chief
Whatever ‘Inspires’ you to create is a very important event. Inspiration comes from many avenues and when it hits us, it’s usually with a Bang! We jump straight in and go for it.
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